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23 May, 8 tweets, 1 min read
What the fuck, apparently Ryanair is cool with a passenger being kidnapped so long as they eventually get the plane back?
I know Ryanair’s signature is bad customer service but WTF
EU countries should revoke Ryanair’s operating license
If they’re going to put up with the literal kidnapping of a passenger, act like it’s okay, then fuck you, no access to European airports for you
Western governments are being extremely unserious about authoritarian influence on multinational corporations. Especially here — Belarus! We could crush Belarus like a bug if we felt like it!
But I guess when Russia shot 200 Dutch people out of the sky and the EU didn’t do shit, everyone knew what was up.
How many billions of dollars a year would it cost us to pay film studios to stop catering to the Chinese communist party? It would be worth it.
It wouldn’t have to involve some sort of government review board. It could just be, we will pay you $x not to release or distribute any content in China

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22 May
This study is total methodological garbage, but people will cite it because it favors a desired political narrative.
30% of the “incidents” with race data in this sample (“incidents” defined to include accusing the CCP of covering up a lab leak) are Donald Trump personally.
The political narratives being pushed here are that white supremacy is at the root of every social ill, and that fighting hate incidents does not conflict with de-policing proposals.
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19 May
The question is what is Pride (the organization and the march, not the broad concept) for? I think it's possible Pride has served all its integrationist and acceptance functions and doesn't need to try to speak for all LGBT people anymore. nytimes.com/2021/05/18/opi…
Like, "we are everywhere, we're in your organizations, we're part of every part of the community" was a very important message for the parade to send 20 years ago. But we've won that fight.
Which is to say, that if Pride organizationally adopts an agenda that speaks for only some LGBT people, that excludes in certain ways -- maybe that's fine? Not everything has to be an umbrella, and certainly not everything has to speak for me.
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15 May
On this week’s @LRCkcrw, I diagnose the unhinged response to @ebruenig’s Mother’s Day column as largely about people not wanting to own their choices. I don’t have or want kids, I’m at peace with that, I’m not threatened when other people do differently. kcrw.com/news/shows/lef…
Often, people with above-average incomes say they “can’t afford” to have children at a certain time or a certain number of children, when what they really mean is they want to make other consumption choices. It’s fine to make other consumption choices. Stop being so defensive!
There are a lot of people with degrees from highly selective colleges who think it’s “unaffordable” to have three children in the New York area on $400,000 a year.
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7 May
(the most prestigious brand in PANTS)
Give this man the Nobel prize for literature already
“Cheugy” is over already, yes?
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6 May
I’ve been making a new mint-orange-bourbon cocktail

2oz makers mark
1/2oz mint syrup
1/2oz Napa Valley Distillery Grand California (a great orange liqueur with strong orange flavor and a bitter note)

Stir with ice, strain into a Nick and Nora glass, garnish w/ a mint sprig.
To make enough mint syrup to nearly fill a wine bottle, just bring 1.5 cup of sugar and 1.5 cup of water to boil with about 5oz of mint (two supermarket packages), steep for 15 minutes and strain.
(By which I mean, turn the heat off right after it reaches the boil and leave the saucepan undisturbed 15 minutes.)
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4 May
You are rich if you make $500,000 a year, even if you don’t consider yourself rich. Still, Dems will have a hard time agreeing to raise taxes on the rich, since some congressional Dems want to tie it to a big tax cut for the rich — SALT. businessinsider.com/people-who-mak…
Low interest rates are also a barrier to tax hikes in 2021. The usual argument for raising taxes is “someone has to pay for this.” But does someone? The ease with which we can borrow makes spending easy and taxing hard. businessinsider.com/people-who-mak…
(One thing people forget on SALT is it’s not *just* a sop to rich Democrats in blue states — public employee unions care about restoring the deduction because it makes it easier for states to tax rich people and spend the proceeds. So the issue has more legs than you’d think.)
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