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  1. 9 hours ago, F250 said:

    Didn't he run on an anti-NATO platform? Basically argued against intervention in Ukraine up until the election then backed off.

    He also has a weird habit of making antisemitic statements.

    Said that the Jews killed Jesus and often refers to a certain community pushing an international bankers globalization agenda.

    Nah, that isn't concerning at all.

     

     

    Yup. Wants France to pull out of both the EU and NATO. He's an old school socialist (I'd personally label him a Marxist) who thinks that "American Imperialism" is the greatest threat to the world. 

    He's also a big fan of Maduro in Venezuela and has had to walk back some of his support for that regime: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-fans-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-corbyn-tsipras-podemos-melenchon-pope-francis-5star/

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    The leader of far-left party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), who has called a big demonstration against President Emmanuel Macron on September 23, makes no secret of his admiration for the Bolivarian revolution and its leaders. In 2013, after the death of Chávez, he wrote in the communist newspaper L’Humanité that “the Bolivarian revolution is for us a source of inspiration.” He then hailed Maduro’s appointment as president in a tweet saying “we welcome Maduro’s victory.” However, Mélenchon said in a French radio interview in April, when questioned about his support for the government in Caracas: “I don’t support any dictatorship, I’ve never supported any dictatorship anywhere in the world.”

     

  2. 7 hours ago, bolverk said:

    Exit poll of Mélenchon supporters about the question for their motivations to vote for Macron.

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    Interesting that while everyone wrings their hands over Le Pen they are glossing over the fact that Mélenchon is also pretty bad news. 

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Hell, you ought to be asking whether these are "false flag" attacks by Russia itself, just like its attack on a Moscow apartment building to justify brutal action in Chechnya.  That's a real possibility.

    I was wondering this myself but even if it is then it's the stupidest false flag ever (and false flag ops are stupid to begin with). 

    "Let's blow up our ability to make war in order to justify this war."

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  4. 21 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    I think, maybe not specific to Austin but at least generally, the housing crisis is temporary.  The 2 major factors (not enough new houses being built anywhere and not enough houses in cities as people migrate from rural to urban) are temporary.  First, as boomers die off (or get too old to live on their own), millions of homes will become available regardless of what interest rates are doing.  Second, the trend of urbanization will ebb as remote work becomes an established norm (short term) and as population decline sets in (long term).  So we should really be talking about a patch solution for the next 10-15 years.  By 2035 we may have the opposite problem (too many empty homes and rapidly falling property values decimating the wealth of the middle class).

    I agree with most of this - I think the part about remote work is a structural change that hasn't fully been accounted for so good catch.

    I don't agree that the opposite problem will start in 2035 - it will occur but probably a bit later. It all depends on how much building we see in the next 5-10 years. The demand side will still be pretty high/stable due to the size of the Millennial and Generation Z generations:

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    It's going to get really bad once the Millennials start wanting to sell their houses unless they and Gen Z start fucking and having kids like crazy. 

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  5. 6 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

    I really don't like taking on cancers that get kicked off a team but maybe, just maybe it is all about a clean slate for this kid after his drop in the national championship game. Although I must say I am not impressed by his commit tweet. Calling himself the "sheriff" after what Xavier Worthy did as a freshman shows little respect for his new teammate. Hope he gets it together here because he is very talented.

     

    This is where I'm at. I'm not a fan of this take at all. 

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