The organising by Lula's voters in Brazil right now is astonishing. They still might not win but they've put millions on the street and they have shifted the polls back to a tie -despite, in a friend's words, fighting "everyone -Trump, Meta, legacy media, the rich, betting companies, evangelicals".

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"Well, it means 27 of us pay our mortgages"

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Gene Roddenberry won't tell you this but Section 31's actual mission is to hunt down & disappear anyone who tries to scam the happy denizens of the Federation's post-scarcity utopia with the most rock-brained scams in the galaxy

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"When a basket includes cheap consumer electronics, toys, that pushes CPI down despite, say, child care doubling." The basket is weighted by expenditures. "Cheap consumer electronics" do not make a big shift on CPI because they are a small fraction of expenditures. (Housing is 40% of CPI)

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The aggressive pushback I get from friends on left if I say that the people who’re voting for Farage aren’t doing so because “everything’s collapsing”

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