Zelenskyi announced that russia has kidnapped and forcibly moved there around 2 million Ukrainians. 2,000,000. Or ~5% of the country's population
— Olena Halushka (@OlenaHalushka) July 13, 2022
American liberals: They look white, so who gives a fuck!? Probably deserved it.
The only way to get a big push on climate will be to frame it as a way of bringing abundant cheap energy and transportation to American consumers, rather than as a mass national sacrifice in the face of overwhelming danger.
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 17, 2022
The lib tactic of lovingly cataloging everything they simply must take away from everyone will never NEVER work. It’s just moronic and it assures nothing useful will or can occur. I know they get off on this monasticism and enforcing it on others, but they must get over it.
Noah is dead on as to the correct approach.
Paper straws are such an incredible let-down, and frankly they simply don’t work.
I am reminded of how impressive plastic is and how transformative plastic consumer products must have been when first introduced every time I end up in a situation like this. pic.twitter.com/k7r6SntHj2
— Star Simpson (@starsandrobots) July 17, 2022
Paper straws are fucking terrible. I hate very fucking liberal idiot who had anything to do with that ever. Fuck you all.
There’s a reason I’ve called NPR the “Nice, Polite Republicans” for many years.
NPR this morning did the ultimate unforgivable “both sides” horse-race bs — they labeled people who support Roe v Wade as extremists and wondered if such extremism will cause the Democrats to lose in November.
An “extremist” to NPR types is someone who does not support the exact status quo at the moment. “NPR Voice” is worth hating alone. But even more, it’s worth all the loathing you can spare for their pusillanimity and just being craven lapdogs to power. Any power, doesn’t matter wielded by whom.
Gender stereotyping is supposed to be bad, but men are told they are evil and definitionally dangerous due to their gender all the time. And when we complain, we are told it must be this way — nothing else is possible.
Hmm.
LET’S BE VERY CLEAR: Republicans plan to take away Social Security and Medicare. pic.twitter.com/mGilkV7Zko
— PoliticsGirl (@IAmPoliticsGirl) July 16, 2022
Oh yeah, it’ll happen in my lifetime. I also said that way back in high school and once again I will be right. Anyone who isn’t making some plan to, first, get out of red states and, second, to leave the US if it all possible is insane.
Train is leaving 12 minutes late, it is quite full, and the only bathroom on board is out of order and locked.
And people wonder why more Americans don’t want to take mass transit to go places.
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) July 17, 2022
It was already happening before the pandemic, of course, but I just assume that nothing in this country will work correctly or operate as previously expected. The pandemic and its aftereffects worsened this, but was by no means the primary cause.
The decline is unstoppable and accelerating.
The Fat Acceptance/Fat Celebration movement should be investigated as a terrorist organization.
Yes, I am serious.
I’ve been hearing that demographics would save the Democrats for 35 years now. Hasn’t proved true and never will.
Why do people still believe this?
those "If Young People Don't Want To Come Back To The Office They'll Be Hurting Their Careers" pieces by CEOs just absolutely give the game away. You're not being judged by the quality of your work, you're being judged by the emotional service you provide to the people above you
— jd vance's "holler aunt" (@markpopham) July 15, 2022
I’ve been saying this for years. At least 80% of the reason MBA types want you in the office is so they can gaze out over their minions or impress other MBAs with how many minions they control. That’s it.
After spending 4 days in Vienna seeing old & new social housing, new planned communities, and the benefits of aggressive public regulation of private real estate, it’s a little jarring to return to a country where “let the market rip” counts as visionary “progressive” policy. pic.twitter.com/qOMHeeFsOh
— Daniel Aldana Cohen (@aldatweets) July 16, 2022
The US is the richest dystopia in the history of ever.
Millennials are the generation of dashed expectations. Gen Z are the generation who didn't have any expectations to dash.
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 16, 2022
True. I have a few Gen Z friends. They know they are completely screwed. The Millennials were promised better and that was yanked away from them, which made them bitter and paranoid; Boomers reaped all the gains and pulled up the ladder behind them, while hurling abuse at the Millennials below. Gen Z witnessed all this and realized they weren’t even going to receive Boomer scraps and are not bitter like the Millennials but rather resigned to their fate, with a wicked sense of humor about it all.
A Gen Z friend of mine said, “I’m just waiting to die in the water wars. My retirement plan is an early grave.” And she was not kidding.
I hate Celsius. Such a useless scale for temperature. Very inhuman. I mean, it was intended to be, so no surprise there.
For decades, greens in the West have urged poor nations to go organic and fully embrace ESG. Only Sri Lanka did. The result was catastrophic food shortages, a radical drop in tea production, and a financial crisis that has brought down the government.https://t.co/En6rbDrsYu
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) July 14, 2022
I knew Pollan was a fraud a decade ago. Where y’all been at? HUH?
holy fuck was the alien coming out of that dude improv pic.twitter.com/IZW3K71k3G
— T$E CHUN ➡️ GREMLINS @ SDCC (@thetzechun) July 16, 2022
Not improv in the traditional sense, but the cast did not know what was going to occur or exactly the effect that would be used. They were as shocked as all the viewers were the first time they saw the film. The director wanted to capture their actual reactions so, no, they did not know the chestburster was gonna do some chestburstin’.