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7 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
True freedom is being a worker with no alternative than to risk your life at a shit job for your employer!

640k dead is just a cost of doing business in America…
These right-winger/libertarian types are such fucking babies.

Australia has had 1,100 COVID deaths? We’ve had minimum 640k?

Like, fuck you and your infantile fantasies about being an island.
Also this.
The U.S. isn't in any position to critique other countries for their handling of COVID.

We completely bungled the response in the name of business.

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9 Sep
The New Zealand model works and we should adopt it.
Arguments of scale aren’t impressive. They get trotted out any time another country does something better than we do—namely health care-related things.
The "but my freedom" arguments are even worse. This is a genuine public health emergency. In terms of death toll, on the low end are the official numbers (>650K).

That requires strong federal intervention. Our Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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8 Sep
I understand the frustration with people willfully deciding not to get vaccinated, but this misses the mark in a monstrous way.

Yes, the willfully unvaccinated put the whole country at risk, but they are only able to do so because our federal COVID strategy is so inadequate.
Stop blaming policy failures on individual behavior.

There are no OSHA standards for most workplaces.

Our fed government is pushing to reopen schools without systemic overhaul of safety and with kids unvaxxed.

We aren’t doing paid lockdowns.

We’re not doing vaccine passports
And, of course, there are systemic failures as well: Many unvaccinated haven’t gotten the jab because they’re afraid of missing work. We don’t federally guarantee paid time off. Others are concerned about the cost of getting the vaccines. Some insurers have been wrongly charging.
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29 Aug
At first, proponents of school reopening said kids don’t spread the virus.

When it became clear that kids did spread the virus, they argued kids don’t get seriously ill from it.

As children’s ICUs filled up tho, they argue not ENOUGH kids will suffer…

It’s crazy.
What’s really bananas to me is how credulous major media has been while these people make their evolving policy case for mass spread of a mutating virus.

How do any of these people have any credibility? Ffs Emily Oster told parents to consider their kids like a vaccinated elder
And yes, we can say Delta is a different animal, but there was evidence kids were spreading the virus in March and suffering lingering symptoms. Epidemiologists I interviewed then warned that the virus was mutating and a deadlier strain was possible.

Sure enough…
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14 Aug
Obama fell asleep, got blown out in state races in a census year midterm, costing Dems Congress until 2018 due to GOP gerrymandering.

His VP cost Dems the state races in a census year election, setting GOP up to gerrymander again. As POTUS, he didn’t act to ban gerrymandering.
Don’t blame the left for Democrats losing elections.

Blame the centrists, who think small and do little, constantly triangulate and fight like hell to keep progressives out of office. All they do is allow Republicans to ratfuck our system and pull politics to the right.
8 months.

There’s no excuse for not passing a gerrymandering ban with 8 fucking months and control of Washington.

We know what’s coming.

So the choices are: complicit, stupid, incompetent, or some combination.

They just fucked the planet and the most vulnerable for a decade
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13 Aug
Tell me you don’t understand gerrymandering without saying “I don’t understand gerrymandering.”

Demographics have favored Democrats for a decade now. But 4 million more votes in 2020 only gave them a 5-seat congressional majority based on the old gerrymandered maps.

Strap in.
PA was gerrymandered in 2011. The following year, Democrats won 51% of the vote statewide. That translated to 5/18 congressional seats.

That map was eventually struck down by a court, which allowed Democrats to win back the House in 2018.

But now it happens again.
There is no out-organizing a gerrymander. Democrats had to enact legislation in the 8 months before the census data was released and the map-drawing began.

But they didn’t. Biden clung to the filibuster as voting rights advocates begged him to join their fight.

It’s over.
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13 Aug
Okay, this is my second thread on this.

But watching @TheOrville is infuriating.

I love the show. It proves that it's possible to make a good, modern Star Trek.

I just cannot get over how weak Discovery is by comparison.

It's like they didn't even try to make Trek.
Critics loved Discovery. They even called it innovative.

But Trek is a show about a post-scarcity socialist utopia in space. Episodes are moral parables. Turning that into a gritty/hyperreal serial about war and survival isn't innovative.

It's robbing it of its fundamentals
Worse, it's making it indistinguishable from other, arguably better sci-fi shows.

The best part about Discovery is that they really improved in terms of representation. But otherwise, it's just hard to watch -- joyless with forgettable characters.
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