this was just articulated better by @adamkotsko but the enraging thing about this and Pelosi's insane statement is that there's no whiff of regret or attempt at apology from people with actual power in the system that killed Floyd.
George Floyd was not a martyred activist. He was a guy trying to live his life and it was snuffed out for no good reason. He doesn't deserve gratitude he deserves shame and contrition from the powerful.
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i was taking notes to add to this thread while and after watching the most audience-insulting two-parter I can remember from any Trek franchise (I didn't watch much "Enterprise") and it ended at 1,700 words
"Terra Firma Part 2" concludes with the crew of Discovery holding an Irish Wake for the Mirror Universe's Caesar of the Terran Empire, who notoriously enslaved *and ate* members of the race of Discovery's current captain.
If a liberal rich person wanted to recreate the messaging success of the right AND save journalism, they'd buy some papers and lose money on them at the rate the Falun Gong loses money on the Epoch Times, instead of introducing new Business Models and giving up after a year
they'd buy papers in bad straits and invest in them, send free print copies to every household in key regions, and also open the money hose for heavily promoted digital content. how the right does this is not a trade secret, they just consider it a different kind of investment
the thing is, rich donors don't want to do this! or else they'd be doing it!
i guess i need to write a third piece about how do-gooding rich people should just buy newspapers while the left figures out how to actually create proper left mass media again
again and again I think about poor Stringer carefully cultivating the local elections online left, remaining a renter his entire career, only to lose to a guy who is running for mayor of the city that is not his primary residence
The actual gist of this story is that there is strong (and readily available) evidence that presymptomatic and asymptomatic people are driving the spread of the virus but U.S. officials are effectively denying this for some reason. cnn.com/2020/03/14/hea…
Left: the CDC website's list of symptoms. Right: WHO's. One seems designed to flag only the most serious cases, the other to try to catch everyone who might have it.
and this, like the Good Friday Accords was nearly a quarter-century ago, but those are the two answers that explain the otherwise inexplicable self-confidence of our liberal foreign policy establishment