personally I think the "party unity problem" is driven more by the fact that The Party just used every resource at their disposal to crush the hopes of an entire generation of young people who they treated with sneering contempt the entire time pic.twitter.com/cViGSkoxAZ
— Rob (@robrousseau) April 8, 2020
Pretty much. And the young are going to have it far worse due to Great Depression II caused by the Covid-19 economic destruction.
The truth is that the majority of people who would have turned out for Bernie and who now won't turn out at all aren't even on Twitter, they are in neighborhoods and cities around the country that have been abandoned by Democrats and the people yelling at me won't go there either
— Anna K*renina (@PrettyBadLefty) April 9, 2020
Yeah. Bernie probably would’ve been able to beat Trump in the general, if he turned away from identity bullshit and back to his old self.
Biden has no shot — maybe not even if the economy is still tanking. What a cataclysmically terrible nominee. Of course, that assumes the Dems actually want to win and care about governing. They do not for either.
A notable shift downward in projected deaths from coronavirus is already being spun as "experts were wrong!!" instead of "hey, the thing experts said would drive down deaths might be driving down deaths."https://t.co/HpUPAyc5tx pic.twitter.com/XLPD39dQfF
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 9, 2020
Yes. Knew it would happen, is happening, and is just as fucking stupid as I thought it’d be. People always surprise me with how goddamn moronic they can be. Just unbelievable.
No one alive plays the cigar box guitar like Samantha Fish. Very glad I got to see her live once. She also tunes her guitar mid-song without missing anything. Lord. We are not worthy.
Somehow, I’d never seen this video before though I like the song. All about vulnerability, connection, and meaning, of course. The cinematographer, gaffer, and makeup artist did just an amazing job, didn’t they? Wish there were an HD version.
Ima roll up to the Fed discount window and see if they’ll front me a few billion. Why not? Shoddier institutions than my bad self do it every day.
“What bank you with?” they’ll ask.
“Bank of Mike,” I’ll answer, hitting the button to drop the top on my teal ’64 convertible Cadillac Eldorado. “Just put the money in the back seat. I’ll see it gets to the right place.”
“Where’s the right place?” the discount window attendant will ask.
“My fat-ass bank account,” I’ll answer and then pull away, “Moneytalks” by AC/DC blasting on the stereo. Isn’t that how the discount window works? No? Ok, here’s how it really works. They do not accept 1964 Cadillac Eldorados for deposits, not even sweet teal ones. Damn.
The most consequential moment for Bernie in 2020 was his choice to vote for the multi-trillion dollar corporate bailout. I don't like saying this but Bernie's campaign in 2020, like that of Elizabeth Warren, was a moral failure, not just an electoral one.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 8, 2020
Agreed with Matt. All of our ideologies, institutions, and leaders are failing — even ones that I like. Just because I like them doesn’t prevent me from seeing that. It’s just glaringly obvious.
One reason I can notice is that I am on no one’s team. I am not a team player. Never have been and never will be, so I just do not have that cognitive bias that prevents people from comprehending what’s right there in front of them because they are on some bullshit team.
I’m already seeing people assert that because the actions we undertook to contain and constrain the spread of Covid-19 worked, we should not have done those things.
How do people think so very poorly? And I’ve also seen the claim that deaths are over-reported. Far more likely, though, is that Covid-19 deaths are under-reported. Why do people have so much trouble thinking about how systems work? It just doesn’t seem difficult to me, but perhaps that’s because I practice a lot. I don’t know.
The economy has a chance of not utterly imploding if we can lift some restrictions soon. It’ll be tight…but maybe.
I always trip on how working at McDonald's is seen as something shameful and degrading in America. Because it pays a living wage in Australia it's seen as a respectable career path young people can pursue if they're not sure where else they fit in, like the military is in the US. https://t.co/c3ghfYB7s4
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 8, 2020
Same in most other civilized countries. Working at a gas station or convenience store in Germany isn’t seen as disgraceful as it is by the “educated” here. I wonder about the causality of it all, though.
I mean, I don’t think it worked quite in the way Caitlin is talking about, but the result was the same: the “educated” spurred by neoliberal capitalists found it acceptable to derogate less educated workers, even referring to them as “unskilled,” thus justifying the wish to pay them far less.
To be clear, I will never vote for Trump. But I will also never vote for Biden. Why participate in the con because some centrists like the below demand it? Look at where listening to those numpties has gotten us: nowhere.
Not gonna do it.
I don’t have a lot of patience for really privileged people saying they can’t vote for Biden. People with a lot more at stake then you in the deep south chose Biden. If you can’t stand with them and do this minor thing, I question your commitment to progressive values
— Angie Schmitt 🚶♀️🚴♀️ 🚌 (@schmangee) April 8, 2020
And I don’t have any patience at all for useless wankers who tell me I have to accept evil because some other evil might be, arguably, somewhat more evil.
Fuck you and everything you stand for.
Non-essential workers trying to work from home.
So good. So accurate.
All ‘global problems‘ – pandemics, international crime, climate change, cyber security, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, financial crises, etc – actually DEPEND on having strong states that are able to control the movement of goods, people, and money, NOT ‘removing boundaries’.
— scientism (@mr_scientism) April 8, 2020
Exactly. Some people have watched too much Star Trek. A borderless, global government might be a nice fantasy and if it’s possible, it might happen in 500 to 1,000 years (I have my doubts).
However — and this is a big however — that’s not the world we live in right now. We are nowhere adjacent to that place. It’s not some minor or non-traumatic transition. As in Star Trek, it’d probably take a catastrophe far larger than Covid-19 to get to any such world. (In the ST world it was massive, civilization-shattering nuclear wars.)
Right now we are stuck with nations. Without them, capital sloshes around the world with no restrictions and no loyalty in addition to a lot of other bad things mentioned in the tweet. Nations are the tool we have to work with. Is it the best? No. Does throwing a fit that we don’t have the unicorn space laser tool that we really wish we had help? Also no.
It’s nations or nothing for the moment. Get used to it.
Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1 Billion Financing Announced Monday.
Oh, that’s great. Dead company walking. Anyone who bought into that deal is a chump.