Favorite Rejects 2022-11-13

Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch

New @GeopolDecanted episode is out. My conversation with @HoansSolo about the surprising findings from his recent trip to Ukraine and the lessons that Taiwan (and US) need to draw from this conflict Listen on your favorite pod platform

َ wakanda forever oscar manager @ungodlywests

me leaving the theater

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Something to this but it’s also true that inflation makes alleviating supply side constraints to growth more pressing. So I’ll take the win.

stephen judkins @stephenjudkins

That California liberalized zoning *right* before interest rates and inflation made housing construction incredibly expensive and impractical is sure something. Amazing how much wealth and human welfare has been destroyed because they didn't do it in 2008

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My take on the conservative movement is not remotely cynical — I think the most idealistic, most achingly sincere people on earth sincerely believe they are serving humanity by running a series of scams designed to keep taxes on capital low to promote economic growth. https://t.co/RKQ22omxG5

AnothaDolla @AnothaDolla

@mattyglesias You have a very cynical take on “the conservative movement”. Sure, some members have those views. Why not name them specifically? A similarly cynical take of the liberal movement is not hard to make.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content.

Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma

Elizabeth Warren is right: “lowering housing costs by increasing supply” is “the unfinished business of the Biden agenda and the way to help families and win elections.”

Iikka Korhonen @IikkaKorhonen

China's share in Russian imports now clearly more than one third. Russia now probably world's most China-dependent economy, says @LSolanko #ASEEES22

Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs

It would be a fitting irony if the first teacher to lose their job for violating SB 3, Texas’s anti-CRT law, was a white supremacist. https://t.co/g6rUVCl0bq

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

A teacher in Texas is on administrative leave after telling students “deep down in my heart, I am ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the superior one” https://t.co/gBPu96uYB4 https://t.co/FLXgEwVsXk

Nehru's Rose 🇺🇦 @americakaran

Exaggerated, but a grain of truth. End of history is real. Normie lib orthodoxy is stacking wins. Each element of our polycrisis is helping us win at another element as @Noahpinion put it. US expanded it's share of world economy in last decade and will continue it's reign.

Anatoly Karlin 🐘 @powerfultakes

USG Ws in 2022: * Russia: Cratered. * Iran: Color revolutioned. * EU: Cucked. * China: Cuckpodded. * MAGA: Canceled. * Ethereum (!): Captured. All these potential challengers to the GAE world order undercut or as with China at least weakened by proxy.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Dark Brandon is just Francis Fukuyama in a Joe Biden glowy-eyes Halloween costume from 2012

Law Boy, Esq. @The_Law_Boy

incredible that the "how dare you ask RBG to retire" people were so thoroughly and viscerally proven wrong and learned absolutely nothing.

Imani Gandied Yams🍂 @angryblacklady@mstdn.social @AngryBlackLady

Y’all really want to push two of the three women off the bench rather than focusing energy on expanding the Court. democrats control the Senate so let’s expand the court > democrats control the Senate so let’s force the first Latina woman judge to retire