List of charges against Andrew Yang in open letter by a group of progressive Asian activists includes "you’ve called for increased funding for the NYPD hate crimes task force instead of community-based alternatives."
"Asians Against Yang" is an inherently funny name for a URL, credit where due
Of course a robust majority of Asian New Yorkers support Yang because, say it again kids in unison, kids, "progressive activists do not represent the people they claim to represent...:
So interesting that a major scholar must describe "one of the most robust findings" in criminology -- that "more police officers in the street leads to less violent crime" -- as one of its "most uncomfortable findings."
I mean, it *is* uncomfortable to have fifty DSA members in your mentions yelling at you that police don't prevent crime but in most other settings the idea that this "uncomfortable finding" could possibly not be true hasn't even occurred to most people.
You see the way he's trying to "pace and lead" an audience of presumed "defund" enthusiasts back to reality here...not sure if the WaPo really consists of such enthusiasts...make it does?
I met a guy in SF in 2018 who said he had dropped out of college in order to work for a startup to earn money to buy Bitcoin. Bitcoin was at $20K then. I asked if it wasn't at its peak. He said "the right time to buy Bitcoin is always now."
The price collapsed soon afterward.
But it's nearly $70K now.
People that bought Bitcoin early feel like they have escaped the matrix, transcended society, and live among us without being of us
A teacher at a Manhattan private school who questioned whether "individualism" and a "right to comfort" were "characteristics of white supremacy" was accused by the head of school of causing "neurological disturbance in students' beings and systems." nypost.com/2021/04/13/nyc…
This really should not be a hard call.
It's extremely tedious to keep having to say "the insane thing is insane."
I think a lot of polarized online politics are presaged by punk/hardcore/post-punk youth subcultures of the 1980’s and 1990’s
Straightedge, skinhead, riot grrl etc
This essay by Aaron Lake Smith discusses the origins of call out culture in the anarchist/punk subculture and seeing it go mainstream oldwaysways.com/tryhard-lateco…
Remind me who was running the WH when Reagan was incapacitated by dementia in his second term?
Now would be a great time to film an amusing picaresque about Reagan’s second term....
The guy was out to lunch and defeated global communism. Does America continue to benefit from the special providence that god reserves for fools, dunks and the United States of America?