"Guys, please stop acting like declining life expectancy in working class US communities is such a big deal."
This is your brain on neoliberal economics. pic.twitter.com/FPx2LoD27E
— Jeff Vandrew Jr (@vandrewattycpa) November 14, 2019
The so-called richest country in the world, here’s where life expectancy should be declining: nowhere.
Here’s where Noah Smith is a putz: everywhere.
You’d probably only understand this if you’d ever been a paratrooper (airborne), but oh lord this is so very accurate:
— Mike Nelson (@mikenelson586) November 18, 2019
I looked at it like two minutes ago and I am still chuckling.
Was reading this article today and noticed this.
It happened on Nov. 1 on the Pinellas Trail. A white Chevrolet sedan is seen striking a bicyclist as he was crossing 49th St. on the trail (in the 600 block of 49th St. S.)
The sedan in the video is definitely not a Chevrolet. It’s a 2012 or so Chrysler 200. Chevy has never made a car with a front grille even vaguely like that, and that wheel style is characteristically Chrysler of that era. Looks nothing like a Chevy.
"Even Nobodies Have Fans" is an amazing sentiment that, at its core, expresses terror that one's dominance over culture is waning because people enjoy things you've never even heard of, let alone anointed. True NYT editorial terror in guise of smug dismissiveness.
— Jason Snell (@jsnell) November 17, 2019
I was even more confused for a second because for some reason I read it as, “Even Noodles Have Fans.” And yeah, I don’t know what was going on in my brain.
We live in a place where we can look at our large sliding glass doors and see water, trees, birds flitting and wading. It’s not a large space — about an acre — but it adds so much to our lives. Sometimes bobcats wander through our yard. A raccoon visits and explores every stray leaf and flower pot for a possible meal.
When I read about how progressives want to cram us all into pods in dense cities, with nature at most an afterthought if it’s considered at all, this is why I rebel: we are happier here with our little bit of nature, with the view out the doors, and we’d be very unhappy indeed stacked like cargo in a dense city, surrounded by bustling masses of screeching humans and noisy dogs. Our quality of life would be vastly worse. I’d pay nearly any price to avoid that fate.
These sorts of progressives don’t have much power now. If they ever get some, though, it’ll be a personal and societal disaster.
What’s so insane and pathetic about this NYT hit piece is that it’s criticizing Sanders’ plan for being too ambitious when the reality is that even his plan isn’t nearly ambitious enough. NYT is spreading yet more climate denial https://t.co/pb3d9a4MDw https://t.co/8ihb8PygGj
— Samuel Miller McDonald (@sjmmcd) November 16, 2019
True. It’s barely a start. People have no idea — because they don’t want to know — what we’re facing. Nearly everyone alive is a climate change denialist.
And if you think that’s expensive, just wait till you get a load of the alternative!
I haven’t changed much intellectually in the last 10 years, but I think I’ve gotten far better at recognizing propaganda, and noticing it for what it is earlier than most.
Realizing how pervasive and effective propaganda is was very dispiriting, but at least I have some immunity to it now.