One thing that has really struck me I’ve the past 2+ weeks in Japan is how active and fit older people are here. I’ve seen countless people age 70+ using cycles for transportation, running to catch trains, catch a light, etc. you just don’t see that as much in the US.

— Sarah Goodyear (@buttermilk1) July 16, 2019

That’s because the corporations and the Fat Acceptance movement have destroyed any possibility of this. There is no safe place to exercise in our built environment, and it is actively discouraged in other ways. According to the FA movement, if you exercise and care about feeling good and having a decent body, you have body dysmorphia — never mind their own severe mental illness and harming their own children.

Weird how Obama came into power with a commanding popular mandate and changed virtually nothing, while Trump was swept into power with a 3-million-vote loss and is actively restructuring state structures in ways that may prove irreversible.

— Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) July 16, 2019

The conventional wisdom (echoed by many, all morons) is that Obama was just a tiny little baby, who had no power at all as president, and that he could do nothing, that he was as a helpless little duckling lost on a vast sea of impossibility, constrained at every turn, hemmed in by a vast and implacable wall of political recalcitrance.

In reality, Obama just didn’t want to do the things that would’ve truly bettered the country. He didn’t want to oppose the banksters, or the Republicans. He didn’t want to help homeowners or the poor. Or at least he didn’t want it more than he cared about getting obscenely rich after leaving office.

And that’s the real truth of it right there.

Had my first exerience with paper straws in a DC bar today. Couldn’t believe it was real. Consequences were predictable and absurd. We suck the dregs of our civilization’s sanity through these mushy tubes

— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) July 16, 2019

Going to research the decay rate of various plastics and perhaps buy a few thousand more plastic straws and other plastic utensils.

Can’t insulate against all liberal stupidity, but against some, sure.