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Economist, pragmatic liberal β€” Interested in: economics, politics, political philosophy, climate change, πŸŠπŸš΄πŸƒ

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i truly do think that like 70% of cost of living discussions come down to the fact that a lot of people think "roughly 50% of Americans cannot afford the median American lifestyle" is an indictment of the economy instead of just like, math

24.11.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 3
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It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel Limiting trade, travel and freezing foreign reserves would show the EU is willing to act independently of the US

πŸ‘‰ About EU, Gaza and Ukraine, by @martinsandbu.ft.com: "There is no need ... to deem the two wars in any way equivalent to judge that sanctions may be justified in both. And that is why it is time for Europe to clarify specifically how it might place sanctions on Israel."
www.ft.com/content/8a82...

02.06.2025 07:31 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

He’s absolutely not innocent that it came to this, but props to him for finally drawing a moral line at what’s going on. Not what I would’ve expected actually.

03.04.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

VΓΆllig unmΓΆglich ist es nicht damit auf Unternehmen Druck zu machen, aber der einfachste Weg ist es nicht grad. Und Trump war bisher ja sehr offen damit was er nutzt um Druck zu machen. Vielleicht macht er das hier auch noch, aber bisher sehe ich davon nichts.

03.04.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Klar denkt er dass es seine Machtbasis sichert, aber weil er glaubt dass das der US Wirtschaft hilft und dass es US Industrieproduktion ankurbelt, was ihm helfen wΓΌrde, nicht weil er glaubt es crasht sie.

03.04.2025 16:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Weil die tariffs je Land erhoben werden, nicht spezifisch fΓΌr ein Unternehmen oder selbst eine Branche. Das ist zB bei den federal grants fΓΌr die Unis ganz anders (hervorragend fΓΌr pressure) und die law Firma hat er einfach ad hoc angegriffen

03.04.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Entweder er glaubt das ist toll für die US Wirtschaft oder er glaubt es crasht sie, schließt sich ja aus. Sein ganzer Orbit denkt dass wÀre super und würde manufacturing Jobs in die USA zurück bringen. Das meinen die schon todernst.

03.04.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, der Chris Murphy take ist wirklich Quatsch. Das ist keine intentional self-immolation. Trump glaubt wirklich dass das gut ist, hat er auch schon immer. Gibt 30J alte Videos von ihm wo er behauptet mit Tariffs wird man reich. Und β€œbusiness by business” kann man die auch nicht aufheben.

03.04.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At least on THIS topic, I don’t think we vastly disagree what’s a good take and what is funny. On other stuff, yeah, probably. πŸ₯²

03.04.2025 13:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

😐

03.04.2025 12:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nailed it.

03.04.2025 12:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he saidβ€”on history, economics and the technicalities of tradeβ€”was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

03.04.2025 09:19 πŸ‘ 12220 πŸ” 5372 πŸ’¬ 487 πŸ“Œ 753
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Ok @rodmckay.bsky.social recommend a handful of accounts you thought had some good takes on this. My TL here isn’t really great, but I haven’t given up yet and willing to build it out. (Fwiw, I had no trouble seeing good takes on twitter, but ymmv ofc)

03.04.2025 10:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

schraube:
lefty loosey, righty tighty!

06.03.2025 22:28 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Nachvollziehbar

10.03.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wir stehen zur Verantwortung fΓΌr unser Land, aber nicht zur VerfΓΌgung, um die Wahlgeschenke von CDU und SPD ΓΌber Schulden zu finanzieren. 1/2

10.03.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 2322 πŸ” 369 πŸ’¬ 120 πŸ“Œ 22

Eine Übersicht aller MdBs im 21. Deutschen Bundestag, die auf Bluesky sind, findet ihr auf unserem Profil!

Entweder einfach die Accounts angucken, denen wir folgen oder unter "Starter-Packs" nach Fraktionen sortiert anschauen.

Bitte weiterverbreiten!

10.03.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

If you propose to get rid of female sports there would, there would not be any woman in Olympic track & field, swimming or cycling events. Sticking up for protecting this is indeed necessary for equality, not ignoring the biological *in*equality that exists.

23.02.2025 12:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For different reasons, but otherwise in a similar way males also outperform females in running or cycling. There are ~2500 men that have run faster marathon times than the woman’s world record.

23.02.2025 12:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why are you wilfully trying to misunderstand this? The data is very clear and that is what I was talking about: at the highest levels males far outperform females in chess. That’s a simple statement of fact.

23.02.2025 12:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes it’s beyond obvious that males are better at chess. It’s also not really that surprising, as there are several well-established factors that explain this:

- IQ tails
- spatial reasoning
- interest in β€˜things’ vs β€˜people’
- competitiveness
- autism rate

22.02.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A transgender chess master of course is not β€œcheating”. But if he is born male he should not and cannot participate in the separate female category. It doesn’t really impact his game in the β€œnormal” category at all though.

22.02.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Chess doesn’t have a β€œmale” category, they only have a category that is open for all and in which males and females compete and then a *separate* female category. Precisely because there is such an enormous sex gap in very high level chess.

22.02.2025 17:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The old UCI policy wasn’t really fit to address this issue. Testosterone thresholds don’t really remove all of the male advantage.

22.02.2025 17:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That doesn’t resolve the issue of fairness though, and from basically all of the science on the topic we have we know that they do retain at least some male advantage.

22.02.2025 17:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t vouch for anyone else’s brainworms but I do not believe anyone is or was β€œplotting” anything nefarious. It’s an entirely legitimate wish to participate in female sports as a transwoman.

22.02.2025 17:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that’s also something I found very odd. Smacks of deliberatey targeting two different audiences.

22.02.2025 16:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage - PubMed Males enjoy physical performance advantages over females within competitive sport. The sex-based segregation into male and female sporting categories does not account for transgender persons who exper...

The main reason right wing haters and bigots have jumped on this topic is the completely out of touch and unscientific position of much of the left on this. The actual science is pretty clear. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289906/

22.02.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chess has one of the most lopsided sex differences among sports. FIDEβ€˜s decision on this is if anything *even more* defensible than the UCIβ€˜s, as HRT actually does impact physical ability, but there isn’t much reason to believe it diminishes any of the reasons for male outperformance in chess.

22.02.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0