This goes to show that Obama had more means at his disposal to help you, and punish the malefactors that hurt you, than he or any other Democrat let on https://t.co/nMlYqWsyk0
— Alexander The Meh (@Alexand3rTheMeh) March 18, 2020
Exactly. So fuck all the sniveling liberal dipshits who spent eight years lamenting that poor little Obama barely had any power at all, that he couldn’t even buckle his belt without Paul Ryan helping him out.
Fuck each and every one of you.
China really sussed out American's weakness of being "dumb as shit" and "unable to follow simple directions" with this virus.
— Xan Jones (@PrettyBadLefty) March 18, 2020
I can find no lie here.
If the government sends me any checks, I am donating all of it and more to food banks and other worthy causes.
I do not need the money, though I do agree that the government should indiscriminately spray out cash due to the requirement for haste.
Unpopular opinion, but I do wonder exactly where is the inflection point wherein allowing the economy to melt down kills more people over a five-year period (mostly low-income) vs. restarting the economy and accepting some extra immediate deaths.
I say unpopular because most people will interpret me as advocating for the immediate deaths, but I think it’s a genuine question. Where is that inflection point — because there definitely is one — and how do we estimate that?
It’s important to think about, I feel, even if people despise the question. Just because a death happens 3-5 years from now doesn’t make it less important.
I would like to rediscuss the idea that expanding already high levels of immigration & transnational interdependence is *obviously* *always* a good thing, and that that the *only* reasons not to do so are xenophobia, racism, stupidity and selfishness.
Now would be a fine time.
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) March 18, 2020
I (and others) have been attempting to discuss that for years. But supposedly we’re all racist cretins who just want to slam shut the borders because we don’t like someone’s skin color.
What we don’t like, though, is our economies and nations being gutted by vulture capitalists, leaving us exposed to the current fragility we are experiencing. That’s the objection and just because neoliberals screech “racism” does not make it less relevant.
Long way from the sentiment that not shaking hands is racist and that Covid-19 is nothing compared to the flu, isn’t it?
Though most will learn nothing, there are lessons here that could in principle be learned: lessons about how complex systems function and then rupture, and about how the measured linearity stressed in education is the least relevant because it leaves you completely unprepared when it truly matters.
Oh, of course no one will allow themselves any edification out of this. They’ll just retrench and then erase it all from memory. But my point is that they could. Enlightenment is available; most just do not want it.
Convincing Boomer Parents to Take the Coronavirus Seriously.
What the fuck is wrong with Boomers? I know, not all Boomers, yada yada, but as a generation they are a total fail train on the way to Failtown. Why?
My guess is that it’s because they’ve largely spent their lives getting nearly everything they wanted and needed — free or nearly-free college, with politicians always catering to their desires, rarely being told “no” or that their yearnings weren’t realistic. They simply cannot conceive of a world that doesn’t revolve around them because they have never experienced it.
So even though Covid-19 is a virus, they just have this idea in the back (and the front, for that matter) of their minds that it’ll also — as all else has — bend to their wills. It doesn’t have to make sense, and it does not. But that is I think what’s going on here.