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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Ok, but I’m also not sure that’s the right question. I get the rule of thumb, but I think people think too much about what percentage of their investable assets should be allocated to bonds, and not nearly enough about what the bonds are for- what function do they serve in the portfolio and whether “bonds” are the best way to deliver results.
  2. Mavs just got flexed out of a couple of nationally televised games. good job Nico
  3. One of my favorite Rick Pitino moments was the press conference where he discussed apologizing to his family for his affair with a waitress, and described his family as “solid fundamentally.”
  4. We’ll never know, but it wouldn’t be the first time the Austin police got the wrong guy.
  5. That’s very sad. I had forgotten about him and didn’t know he passed. is Robert Joseph still alive?
  6. These are both good books. Also recommend this
  7. He’s not going to be the national party leader but he’s been very good at his job, which is holding his caucus in line.
  8. He’s a clown but that’s terrible. Diabetes or?
  9. Et tu, Texags?
  10. It’s like we’ve talked about. What I always say is that I’m not a Christian but I hope to be one someday.
  11. I know there have been articles along these lines, but pastors are really struggling with this. They try to teach from the bible or preach a sermon about the gospel and their congregants will tell them that they are wrong, or when pressed that Christ's direct instruction "doesn't apply anymore" because of some pretzel of Leviticus and a few snippets of letters from Paul. It's not just the protestants, either. Recently I was interacting with an old friend, one of my high school teachers who was also our neighbor across the street through my entire childhood. He is a devout catholic. I sent him the Pope's excellent letter to American bishops that essentially rebuked and rejected the interpretation of the principal of Ordo Amoris advanced by some American Catholics including JD Vance in a recent interview. My friend's response was that the Pope is not infallible, and and he would need his parish priest to weigh in, but that in any case we can't just "surrender our national sovereignty." In other words, on a matter of doctrine, he's taking JD Vance and the parish priest over the Bishop of Rome and St. Augustine himself.
  12. Fucking A man. It’s the dismal tide.
  13. I have been a regular reader of the New Yorker for most of my adult life, going back to high school, and I did not ever imagine the Dallas Mavericks would do something so stupid that the “The Sporting Scene” would take notice.
  14. Personally I was much more appalled that trans people were blamed for these things, but I also think forcing this horrific crime into that framework is at best premature and also dehumanizing to the victim, because those thoughts are not mutually exclusive.
  15. That counts, considering how much of the Reagan coalition he peeled out, especially in 96.
  16. Meanwhile on Twitter
  17. Some were, but working class people in high crime neighborhoods were broadly in favor of it. The bill was a disaster, but that and DADT were more in line with legacy Democrat coalition social politics than NAFTA or the repeal of Glass Steagall.
  18. I agree with the impact of the policy, but thats completely different from how he was perceived at the time. Second, however, I think we agree fundamentally that Bill (and Hillary) Clinton were fundamentally oriented to serve corporate interests and affluent college grads, and to the extent that they were interested in the middle class non-college graduate skilled labor force, it was in the form of expanded government services and job training.
  19. Relative to the coalition that elected him? Absolutely. And his wife even more so. and for what it’s worth- you’re looking at the crime bill from the perspective of a white progressive in 2025, not the resident of a high crime neighborhood in 1994.
  20. I generally agree with you, save 3 points: 1) first, I realize I’m in a minority here, but Im very skeptical about the salience of ideologies as a motivator for voting behaviors. 2) I don’t see Clinton era “triangulation”in terms of ideological shift but a reordering of who was important to the Democratic Party. College graduates and professionals became more important, and non-college skilled labor became much less important. 3) College graduates and professionals are generally progressive on social issues, as were the Clintons by 1992 standards, and gradually that posture became the center of the party. But that’s my whole point about the progressive reordering of Democratic Party priorities. The Democratic Party was successful when it was a coalition built around protecting the class interests of middle class and working class families, and included a majority of those who also wanted to advance various social justice causes. But the social issues weren’t litmus tests or at the center of coalition building. From 1992 to the present moment, that order gradually reversed- the Democratic Party is now a coalition orbiting around a grab bag of required social issue positions, and also includes the class interests of working people as long as they aren’t problematic and don’t try to run for office or go to the wrong college or work in the wrong industry or …
  21. What on earth? I didn’t say anything about the *white* working class or BLM. They abandoned the entire American working class, which is to say that Democrats have abandoned the class interests of minorities disproportionately. That’s quite a projection, though- curious how to got there. Anyway, do you disagree with the point that progressives have essentially substituted social issues for the working class economic interests that used to be at the center of the party coalition?
  22. Really? I thought it was it was because progressives sacrificed the well being of 2 generations of working class families for the benefit of affluent boomers in thriving cities, and used representational issues and language policing to acquire the moral license to do it.
  23. It’s 2025 and Progressives still think they can be picky
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