If you think this was an actual coup you should look up the kind that doesn't end in selfies
It's fucking stupid behavior but really, come on
Oh my god, some of you actually think this was a revolution. π
You want this *so* bad. My god.
He had an iPhone, a plastic straw, twenty-seven cents and a look of pure evil, we nearly lost the nation today
For what it's worth, I do think all of these people should be arrested and tried for the crimes they actually committed, which no doubt include a laundry list of misdemeanors and felonies but β dare I say it β probably not capital treason.
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If you wanted to make sure that rapidly expiring vaccines distributed in 10-dose vials end up in the trash, this is how you'd do it
Reminder that this guy is somehow getting a gd COVID Emmy
Based on this tweet's favs/RTs it seems the one thing uniting every faction on America's roiling political spectrum is our shared conviction that Andrew Cuomo is the fucking worst. You love to see it
If you've never spent an extended period working a job after which your feet hurt so badly you had to be careful peeling your socks off, I'm not sure you should be a politician or journalist
It's a massive % of the workforce, and they don't show up at your donor dinners or subscribe to your overpriced news rags so unless you've limped a mile in their shoes it's unsurprising that you don't care about them except insofar as they're a useful cudgel against other elites
If you can't comprehend why the working poor are often more skeptical about/frustrated by welfare "cheaters" than even the rich, the way to resolve your confusion is to try paying your rent by waitressing at a Waffle House full-time for 6 months
Thank you for sharing this, @rlj_law! I hope homeschooling works out well for your family, and I hope that the benefits of self-directed learning with adult aid and guidance become manifest in COVID learning bubbles everywhere. π
Quick recap: kids are curious; they direct their attention to what interests them and develop models to explain what they see, what happens when they act. They become confused when new information is incompatible with those models. They're driven to explore to achieve coherence.
This is actually how all learning occurs for both adults and children. There are strategies for forcing statements of fact and basic procedures into memory for recall, but subsequent untaught insight requires models that develop via confusion/curiosity + exploration of answers
tbh nothing prepared me better for 2020 than the ~2 years I spent periodically evading psychological capture by various new age cults due to my proximity to another high-dollar target
HBO & Starz *both* have new series on the NXIVM cult, and I recommend watching either of them and periodically reminding yourself that this would've still been going on at a healthy clip if nobody had had the bright idea to start hot-iron branding women
A lot of the same themes and ideas recur in successful spiritual and philosophical cults, because they're generally useful concepts and they speak to confusing and aversive desires that a lot of people feel unable to explore on their own. That's not the problem
"The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, weβd rather not do it."
"Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer."
"Look whatβs happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. β¦ Look whatβs happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition."