Current state of politics in general, especially the DNC.
Step 1) Ape something old and well known (MEMBER MEAN JOE GREENE EVERYONE?!)
Step 2) Ensure appropriate diversity points
Step 3) Say nothing about policies or what you plan to do, just portray yourself as Nice Average Guy (tm)
Step 4) DRUMPF BAD! ORANGE MAN BAD! DON'T YOU HATE ORANGE MAN!!!
This. What Vinay doesn't seem to get is that
We have to totally destroy it, and try to build a new institution that actually uses science to guide policy, and realizes that You can never follow the science. Science can just articulate trade-offs, but all trade-offs must be decided by citizens.
basically can never exist. Even if it truly starts off that way, within one bureaucratic generation (for lack of a better word) it will start moving back to what we have today. The state always just ends up working to empower the state.
Ah, yes. Let us overthrow Capitalism for the sake of the environment. I'm sure the commies will treat it better. After all, they would never do things like ignite a natural gas field that has been burning for half a century, or have cities with air pollution so bad it is literally off the scale that Western countries use, or called claims of nearly undrinkable tap water right-wing propaganda and fear mongering.
No, all commie societies must be beautiful places of natural wonder and peace, because that's what Twitter tells me.
ok, sort of update on the Zeldin thing for you Imp - when I said the Zeldin signs were all over the place I meant it literally. It's a 10-15 minute drive for me to go from home to work, and on the trip in this morning there were a minimum of 16 Zeldin signs I passed.
Honestly, I'm not sure and would put it at a coin flip right now. Where I'm at, there's Zeldin signs all over the place, but then in my house district it's been solidly (15 pts or more) red for over a decade so that's not too surprising.
Of course, the big question (as always) just comes down to the NYC vote which pretty much always goes very heavily D. I think Hochul may be incompetent and stuck up enough to scare enough people away (or even just make them stay home) to let Zeldin squeak it out though.
As someone in upstate NY, the Zeldin/Hochul one is probably the one I care about the most.
The other one I'm watching, is Mike Lee vs Egg McMuffin Evan McMullin in Utah. Lee is among the better senators out there IMO, and McMullin is pretty close to the ultimate Neocon and is basically running on a Democrat bankroll.
I also note that NY is not on the list. After all, Hochul needs to be able to copy Cuomo's work of having prisoners make ridiculously foul-smelling hand sanitizer for pennies and then trying to accuse companies of price-gouging when they can't match his labor-free prices.
Suddenly, the notion dawned on Augustine, whose 6-year-old trans daughter, Isa, is a skilled swimmer, that she might have to leave her native state.
No, groomer. You don't have a 6-year-old trans daughter. You have a 6-year-old son you're abusing.
From one of the replies:
we are real-time watching replication of the Stanford Prison Experiment here on twitter dot com
Actually, we just hit the end-game of it. We've had years of the Prison Experiment going on, and the guards (blue checks and Twitter employees) becoming increasingly deranged, power hungry and flat-out malevolent. Now, we'll get to see how much the new chief warden relaxes things and what type of reaction comes from the inmates.
Obama's Arab Spring was what I was about to bring up. At the time, it was portrayed as such a great thing, and I even saw some college textbooks touting it as an example of how social media can be used to help improve society.
Now that the dust has settled, though, it was obviously a horrible thing. Even ignoring the Muslim Migration Crisis it helped trip off (which is terrible in and of itself, though many on the left tout it as a good thing), just look at the results in the Arab countries:
It spawned ISIS - enough said there.
Syrian civil war has been going on for over a decade now
Yemen still has a civil war ongoing too, with the US sill actively providing support to the Saudis intervening in it
Egypt had a military coup, and has been having Islamic groups launching occasional terror attacks to this day
In Libya, they kicked out Qaddafi (which, I'm increasingly convinced was the whole reason Obama and Killary instigated the Arab Spring), then had a half decade of civil war and still have violent protests going on
And probably more bad stuff in other countries. By any sane metric, the Arab Spring was a huge mistake.
The real test is this. Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite as bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, "Thank God, even they aren't quite as bad as all that," or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step on a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally, we shall insist on seeing everything - God and our friends and ourselves included - as bad, and not be able to stop doing it; we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
Most people in the original twitter comments need to stop and think about that, but they may well be too far gone already.
I choose option #2. Supposedly this person fears retaliation. However, we're told this individual was employed by Ye around 2018 (to know about the supposed album name plans), and left after a harassment lawsuit. I doubt there are that many people who fit that criteria, so retaliation should be quite possible just from Ye's employment records and the info in the article.
If this is just whining, don't care
If this is the prelude/justification to pivot and say "well, if you wokies are going to rant regardless of what I do or don't do, I'll just let anybody on", then that's a good thing.
Will see which it is going forward