Throughout the interaction, El-Sayed was ready with a response no matter what his interlocutor gave him. It's part debate team skillset, part improv / standup. You can teach candidates a lot of these skills, but the desire and confidence to engage like this has to be innate.

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I heard cranks complain about property taxes all my life, then I finally bought a house (in a place with property taxes much higher than the national average), and saw firsthand that they are practically nothing compared to the mortgage and other expenses.

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The fact that they never speak this way about Trumps extremely well documented and extensive misogyny gives away the game that they dont actually care about this at all and instead saw an opening to try and help boost one of their Republican besties who looks like theyre gonna lose

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yes, in the immediate term, it's a problem that Meta banned an account but the real problem is that Meta owns too much of the market

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beyond not understanding that you retain a benefit — growing equity — that justifies continued taxation, what is happening is that these people don’t understand that their mortgage payment included a property tax payment that went into escrow. that, and simple selfishness, is what’s happening here.

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