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"Fittingly, this takes place in Judea…" #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/what-do-i-mean-there-are-no-good-guys-in-the-middle-east/
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“What has Biden asked from Israel?” #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/what-has-biden-asked-from-israel/
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@SteveRoth #KevinDrum counts (correctly? reliably? i don't know) how many do get in, not just the number trying.
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a useful antidote to the broadbrush narrative that Israel is simply insisting Gaza starve.
i hope #KevinDrum's empirics and moderation are broadly right, but i have very little confidence, the information environment surrounding Israel/Palestine is too thick to cut through.
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Interchange (credit-card-swipe) "fees will go down from 2% to 1.96%. Booyah! In Europe swipe fees are capped at 0.3% and credit card companies have remained thriving and profitable. Draw your own conclusions." #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/credit-card-companies-agree-to-lower-swipe-fees-by-0-04/
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“Raw data: US suicide rates since 1900” by #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-us-suicide-rates-since-1900/
// see if you can pick out the emergence of postwar social democracy on the graph
EDITED to include correct link, thank you @trl
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When you think a person is extremely wrong, but the whole reason you do the things you do is in hopes you'll make some small difference so that people like him can look back and say they were right all along.
#KevinDrum on his historicostatistical pollyannaism. https://jabberwocking.com/just-how-bad-are-things-really/
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a pretty good distillation of where i am on israel/palestine too, from #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/israel-and-its-enemies/
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declare the (always right-wing) “vibe shift” and think about how we are going to accommodate ourselves to it might not, in fact, be the best way to do politics.
re #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-vibes-they-are-a-shiftin
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"When I first came to town, I was scandalized by the rumors of off-label prescription drug use on Air Force Force One during George W. Bush’s presidency, but it turns out every administration is like that — not just for POTUS but for senior staff as well — because it’s the only way to do the job."
// this is quite the aside from #MattYglesias, who does i think frequently talk to these people
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"When you have two peoples both insisting on moonshot strategies rather than trying to maximize their core interests, the result is violence and death." #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-failures-of-zionism-and-anti
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“The specific thing that has transfixed a global audience of idealistic young people is the concrete suffering of Palestinian civilians. That’s something that could be resolved far short of dissolving the State of Israel.” #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/what-israel-does-matters
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"every time I go to Maine I find myself thinking that they should charge a higher sales tax in the summer than during the off-season. Maine residents would be able to save money by timing durable goods purchases for the low season, while visitors would make a larger contribution to the state budget."
Clever, #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/tourism-is-good-actually
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“I’m mildly obsessed with the phrase “the exception that proves the rule,” which does not mean that the existence of an exception proves that a rule is true, but that examining the best exception to a proposed rule helps you define the limits of that rule.” #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/why-the-parties-cant-decide
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#MattYglesias makes an interesting point.
In the past, a two-state solution in Israel was undercut by Israeli security fears about a hostile, very intimate neighbor. But now, Yglesias argues, Israel and its Arab neighbors share a joint security interest in deterring Iran, but the Palestinian problem prevents full alliance and cooperation that would improve their mutual security. So security risks of a Palestinian state must be balanced against security benefits.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-two-state-solution-is-still-best
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Make a case for antitrust, but say it is a case for "deregulation" instead, because your master thesis is that the problem is "the left" is gumming up the works.
(To be fair, measured productivity can rise in a sclerotic monopolized economy as rents are scored in GDP and the weight of them on purses can lead to underemployment and a smaller denominator. But I don't think that's what Matt's after.)
from #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/its-not-just-biden
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So much for Ron Dezastris’ insistence on quick return to school saving Florida from education fallout. https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/11/08/act-scores-down-florid-college-testing ht #MattYglesias @Bwheatnyc