Feel like this is less an issue with "the left" and more of a broader issue of the rejection of expertise, which is pervasive in our current right wing government as well.
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growing up on long island and watching the houses on dune road fall into the ocean over and over again i've been saying the government needs to tell people they aren't allowed to build in some places for decades. no one wants to tell the rich no though
aug 29, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
now it's the same problem in even more places and we still have no state willpower to tell people they aren't allowed to rebuild their home right where it was after a disaster strikes
aug 29, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
"Telling the truth about hard problems" is extremely disincentivized in our nation's political system! www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cheap-tric...
aug 29, 2025, 8:51 pm • 54 3 • view
I don’t know who that guy is talking about. I’m a lefty and I put a tremendous amount of nuance and research into my support of Luigi.
aug 29, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think it's so much about abolishing insurance as insurance actually doing what it's supposed to do and not automatically denying life saving treatment, payouts, preventative care, etc etc. When it's a for profit model it really isn't interested in helping people, just their own bottom line.
aug 30, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I know where the government can get $23.7 billion to go towards fixing the problem
aug 29, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
One of the things that really turned me off of circa-2016 very online socialism (TM) was its rejection of policy wonkery. The discourse has very much corrected itself, but man, at the time there was such hostility to people who thought about solutions
aug 30, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view