What if Batman and Spider-Man were my friends? What if they got in a fight and I had to pick a side? Would the other one stop inviting me to his birthday party? How do we move forward?
What if Trump comes out tonight with receipts proving 2020 was a stolen election? Would we not be in a Constitutional crisis? We would have at least three lligimate Senators, and one illigimate Supreme Court Justice plus numerous in the lower courts. How do we move forward?
Hmm ngl, the sweet barbecue scent of the wildfire smoke is actually quite pleasant. If this what #smoking feels like I might have to take up #smoking. #smoking
Driving to work today I saw an 18-wheeler with a Thin Blue Line Flag style bumper sticker, but for "transportation workers". We're really stretching the concept here guys
In a world where everyone - seniors, teachers, lower middle class, first responders - is demanding tax exemptions previously reserved only for the troops, we must conclude that medium-high income w2 renters are the real troops.
spoke to a new york city high income w2 renter in a mixed income building, just wanted to salute him and shake his hand for his contribution to the tax base
New development in the college app rat race: kids (i.e. their parents) are now "founding" "nonprofit organizations" whose only activity is....raising pitiful amounts of money for actual nonprofit charities
@sam_d_1995 I mean have you considered brooklyn bridge two brick buildings between old red brick see bridge? Cool bridge between buildings only need see?
Unfortunately I have been to this restaurant, one of maybe four buildings in Metamora Township, Michigan, and can report that the food absolutely slaps
Used to be your union, your church, your local Rotary Club etc. helped you process feeling alienated by a rapidly changing world. Sometimes healthily, sometimes not.
But now it's a far-right party paying someone in another country to show you this image 10,000 times
Orthogonal to this, but of the ways social media is imo net negative for society, it has made it easier for the right to propagandize around liberalism's failure to fulfill people's psychological needs - despite the right's lack of their own answer and liberalism's many successes
We mostly know what creates human happiness, or at least we know what tends to. Log GDP per capita, social support and community, health-years life expectancy, economic security and opportunity, freedom in important personal choices, low perceived corruption, high social trust, physical safety, employment and housing security, and work-life balance.
What's far less clear, in many cases, is *how to create these things.* And that's where I think critiques of liberalism have, basically without exception, fallen flat. Yes, it's all well and good to critique liberalism's failings. And there are failings. But no one, basically without exception, has ever figured out a superior system.
There have been many attempts! But none of the alternatives have demonstrated superiority. At best, you get a different set of tradeoffs, and mostly you get just an objectively worse outcome. The best countries in the most objective measures of happiness we have *are still the liberal democracies.*
This ad is absolutely insane. Marsha Blackburn crumbles a handful of fortune cookies while the narrator declares "Marsha Blackburn will hunt down every communist."