When you gaslight people and tell them their experiences of empty grocery store shelves aren't real, what they hear is "we are just as bad as Republicans, who will say anything, no matter how untrue, for political gain." You end up sowing the cynicism that fuels fascism.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) January 13, 2022

That is weird and bad. Many shelves are empty where I live, too.

Nothing more galling than some rich NYT fucker saying there are no shortages, and claiming Snopes has debunked this, but when I go to the damn supermarket the shelves are half-empty.

Dems gonna lose, lose, lose.

The tweets below of Angie’s (and the one she retweeted) really destroy the lib “virtue” model of the pandemic’s spread:

Love how clear-eyed she’s being about the issues involved and that she understands trade-offs, which most libs can’t even think about at all.

I now see why women 35-50 get so angry about age gap relationships.

It’s because if you’re an attractive, fit, successful man 40-50, young women 20-28 are in fact very drawn to you. Of course women older than that want to make it immoral! Those younger women are huge competition for them, especially if they’ve allowed themselves to get very obese (most of them), unattractive, and with zero libido. In other words, it has nothing to do with protection from harm and everything to do with protection from competition.

When I’m out in public without my partner these days, hoo boy, I’d be spoiled for choice if I cared. And it’s not usually older women making eyes at me; it’s invariably women 20-28 or so. (Sometimes younger, but I don’t pay them any attention at all.)

So, nothing to do with morality and everything to do with it sucks to be an older woman who has completely let herself go, and you’ve got younger hotties nipping at your heels and wanting your husband.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. https://t.co/p3cOFN37q0

— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) January 14, 2022

Mostly agreed with this. The ways liberals want to hurt me supposedly for my own good is pushing me to be much more libertarian again. No, not alt-right or capital “L” Libertarian. Those people are loonies and don’t understand economics, sociology or really anything.

However, I’m far more worried about those who want to harm me to “help” me than those who just want to harm me. The latter I can fight and win. With the former, that is much harder to do.

Come on people, this aint like coal. Plant-based meat market that was roaring ahead in 2020 has plateaued. https://t.co/c6sPvaLQuM pic.twitter.com/DxsUklkXDW

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) January 13, 2022

After people realized plant-based meat tastes like a slimy garbage can, hard to grow much after that.