kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I guess it's hard to be sure of the positive. I googled Jesse Singal, and it certainly appears he's using his real name. With names like "catturd" and "peepeesniffer", I'd say one can be pretty sure of the negative. 020
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Update: @jessesingal.com and @ducksfortheduckgod.bsky.social helped me see that I was wrong in calling anonymous posters cowardly. Fear of harassment or worse is justified, not cowardly. It's just not the world I want to live in. So, whether I'm brave or just foolish, here I am. Wish me luck. 2110
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Good post. I know you and Jesse have the facts and analysis right. Somehow, for me, there is something more at stake. I don't want to live in a world where good people have to hide behind pseudonyms to avoid being harassed by the trolls. I apologize if I called you cowardly. 010
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Haha I sure hope you aren't using your real name! 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Somehow, this true observation connects to the idea that people who fight for our country are "suckers and losers" because "what's in it for them?" Sometimes, the right thing to do is the right thing to do, and the risk/cost here is nothing compared to military service. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024If losing your power and career isn't enough to shut you up, then maybe the prospect of spending 10 years fighting malicious prosecution will do it, and who knows, with the number of bad judges we have, maybe there will even be a conviction. Juries aren't perfect. 020
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I don't expect the Cheneys to capitulate, but that's not the point. The point is to silence as many other prominent people as possible. 120
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Why? Don't you think making his prominent vocal critics' lives as difficult as he can will reduce public criticism by prominent people? Look what his willingness to harm the other business interests of media company owners is doing to the media. How does prosecuting Liz go wrong for him? 110
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I agree it's cowardly to hide behind a fake name. Using your real name makes you accountable for the things you say, raising the level of discourse, which otherwise seems to devolve to nonsense narrative, childish insults, and threats that manage to be simultaneously idiotic and menacing. 320
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I am very interested in finding an organization promoting high integrity candidates in primary elections in polarized states. Please DM me or reply if you know of any. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024We should be willing to pay almost any amount for good governance. Unfortunately, paying more will not get us that. "Total bans on most private investment" only make it marginally harder for the grifters to grift. Bad people will still want to get elected. No easy answers, I'm afraid. 110
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024We know they aren't serious, but the debt ceiling is, in fact, a bad mechanism. Could you please suspend it, ideally forever? If you want to cut spending, cut spending; authorizing spending and then failing to authorize the financing of that spending is just bad management. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 20/12/2024This graph nicely illustrates @kevinerdmann.bsky.social 's point that there was no overbuilding in 2006-8. The standard story is just wrong! We were simply maintaining existing stock. The construction collapse since 2008 has always been the actual problem. 140
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024One sad part of this is the idea that "the collective establishment losing their minds" is a plus. Where does this hate come from? Maybe, if a vast majority of people who know and care about our system agree something is a bad idea, that's because it's a bad idea. 010
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024It's so sad that our media is unable to serve the public interest --- not for lack of great people in the media, but from a fundamental disconnect between the mission and the business model. 010
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024"Mesmerizingly disastrous" captures it exactly. Four separate cases, each with mountains of evidence. And yet: only one conviction --- and zero sentences. How is this even possible? 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Of course Smoot-Hawley made things worse --- but the stock market behavior was a warning, not a cause, of the Great Depression. 020
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Good grief no, the Great Depression was caused by a money supply crunch (due to the dollar being pegged to gold, and gold being hoarded by other countries' central banks) along with sticky prices. How could financial asset market price swings possibly cause a depression? g.co/kgs/kSQyidyg.coThe Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression Scott Sumner - Google Search 140
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I know right? The president in the US actually has little influence on inflation even in the US, because inflation occurs when the money supply exceeds money demand, and the money supply is completely controlled by the Fed, and the Fed has independence from the chief executive. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024All I've read is some of Singal's Bluesky posts, and nothing I've seen seems objectionable. Are people calling for moderating him doing so purely based on what he's written elsewhere? Do they think that anyone who says anything objectionable anywhere should be silenced forever everywhere? 170
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Except you didn't even save 10 cents. You *wanted* to pay less for eggs, and ignored the fact that the president does not set the price of eggs. 2282
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024This is what needs to change. We need the media to do its job and tell us what's actually happening. If the Liz Cheney criminal referral is nonsense, they need to say so. To act like it's a valid referral is *not* "just the facts. It's complicity with lies. 040
Reposted by @kenduda.bsky.socialCommon Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming. 1109344169773
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Scott, please do something about CEQA. It contains good ideas but enforcement through private lawsuits is a disaster. Should be administrative not judicial. 000
Reposted by @kenduda.bsky.social California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Guess which ‘one’ hasn’t figured it out yet?! 👇 Just one guess. 🇺🇸 948409088514
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 18/12/2024This is so brutal. And "legitimately assaulted" and "we'll decide whether or not it's credible" are Graham's own words. Disgusting. 050
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Haha he literally tells us. He has campaign "debt", i.e., his rich friends would like your money in their pockets, if you wouldn't mind! 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Yes for sure, a robust safety net is essential. There's also a longer term issue about the shape of the distribution curve, and if that's unjust, what to do about it. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 15/12/2024No. This is always the oligarch dream: seems I can buy anything I want, maybe I can buy the populist. It never works. It seems to be working until the populist decides he doesn't need you any more and suddenly things are going very badly for you, like long walk short pier badly. 110
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Elie, all of those comments attempt to justify murder. They are all bad the same way rejoicing the murder is bad. Calling denial of a medical claim "murder" is also bad. The doctors' refusal to treat for free also led to the same deaths. I hope we won't kill the doctors too. 210
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I saw lots of rejoicing, "they had it coming", "what did you expect", "denying a medical claim is literal murder." All of this implies that killing CEO's is a valid reaction to a deeply flawed health care system. Our system is flawed, but killing CEOs is still wrong, immoral, and uncivilized. 210
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Corporate taxes feel good because you're sticking it to the capitalists. Except you're not. The economics is clear. Corporate taxes do hit shareholders, but also pass through to suppliers, customers and employees, essentially a flat tax. Progressive income and consumption taxes are much better. 040
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 14/12/2024There are two problems with this message. 1. It is hateful. 2. It is incorrect where it says "you can no longer falsely blame others." I guarantee MAGA will continue to falsely blame others, and would do so even if Trump were dictator of the world. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The point of automation is not cost savings. The point is productivity. Machines that make sweaters make a lot more sweaters than you can make by hand. That means there are more sweaters for us to wear. We are collectively better off. We can (and did) find other things for weavers to do. 220
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 14/12/2024To all the people complaining about Ro and DOGE, please re-read Ro's post, because to me, it seemed obvious he is just calling their bluff. "Give me a call if you DOGE folks ever actually become serious about improving government efficiency." You are all attacking an ally here. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I know, right? Ro calls DOGE's bluff, and so many people here completely miss the point. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Can gene editing be used to treat genetic syndromes where the mutation is known? In that case, at least, we should be able to measure the outcome easily. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I like to copy-paste whole posts into ChatGPT for it to explain. ChatGPT did great for me with this one. Highly recommended :-) 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Presumably, some of these "sources" could have become sources _after_ the events of Jan 6, meaning even if the FBI had sources at the insurrection, that doesn't mean the FBI planted them, or encouraged them to be there etc. They may have just been MAGAs who voluntarily cooperated afterwards. 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I love this. Don't succumb to the authoritarian, don't succumb to nihilism, and don't fight just for the sake of fighting. Life is worth living. Live it. Be your authentic self. If the authoritarians come after you, so be it. (paywalled, sorry) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...theatlantic.comA Mindset for the Trump EraWith authoritarianism rising everywhere, don’t forget about what the dissidents have to teach us. 050
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Yes, and it's also bad to celebrate murder. The glee I've seen on this site related to the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is really discouraging. Who wants to live in a world where we resolve our differences with firearms? 2260
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Obviously if a candidate is unopposed in the primary there's nothing we can do, but if we can help a high integrity candidate win a primary in a safe R district, that seems like a net win 100
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I haven't read everything you've written but I love so much of what I have. Please keep it up! 000
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Oh my. I like ChatGPT's take: "From the context, it seems difficult to determine whether Trump's remark was meant to belittle Canada or if it stemmed from genuine confusion. ... Ultimately, whether intentional or not, such a statement undermines the seriousness of diplomatic communication." 020
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Many districts are safe R. We may as well do the best we can. 100
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I came to the replies looking for details. All I found was rude snark. Why would anyone do this? 030
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Does anyone know of an organization that identifies and supports high integrity candidates in Republican primaries? I feel that could be a cost-effective way to resist our slide into authoritarian populism. 130
kenduda.bsky.social @kenduda.bsky.social · 12/12/2024It was a mistake to grant presidents emergency powers, because of abuse by unscrupulous presidents trumping up fake "emergencies" or "invasions". We should repeal/revoke them. In true emergencies, the president can do what is needed, and ask questions about legal authority later. 020
Reposted by @kenduda.bsky.socialMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 12/12/2024If you want people to obtain more health care services you can’t just mess around with financing, you need to address the barriers to supply. www.slowboring.com/p/end-the-me... 61068
