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David Roberts

@drvolts

22 Dec

You're aware that meat is bad (congrats -- tons of people On Here remain in denial) but you don't have the wherewithal to go full vegetarian, much less vegan. Here's a helpful guide from Vox on how to eat *less* meat. Love this practical approach: vox.com/pages/meat-les…

Cue the predictable responses:

"Actually, I only eat elk that have been raised in the wild & hand-fed organic acorns their entire lives. I kill them myself, with crude knives I've hewed from found wood."

"Actually, my unique physiology requires meat & you're ableist."

Hm ... I guess that would be "hewn."

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David Roberts

@drvolts

20 Dec

The spread of wind power in the US, absolutely central to climate policy, is being slowed & impeded by local communities who are having their heads filled full of ludicrous disinformation on the internet. buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…

Read this and weep, forever.

By the way, though I was thoroughly mocked earlier this year for saying that people's experience of inflation is mediated, the above 👆 is further evidence for my point that *everything* is mediated. Even your physiological response to a wind turbine!

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David Roberts

@drvolts

20 Dec

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1473004688652083202

The vain old white man's vain old white man. He can change his demands on a whim for months, tell all 49 of his colleagues to fuck off, spread demonstrable bullshit about inflation & debt, crater his party's electoral chances ... but call him out for it? Whine, whine, whine.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1473004688652083202

I'm sure some savvy types will draw from this the lesson that Biden & Dems should have just kept kissing Manchin's ass forever. The lesson I draw is that *Manchin is extremely sensitive to how he's viewed* & maybe making him a hero for being obstructionist was the wrong move.

It's too bad, of course, that the US political media lionized Manchin for months, cast his every whimsical new demand in the best light, & refused to call out his utter bullshit on inflation. Ideally, telling the truth about Manchin wouldn't be left to Biden. But here we are.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

19 Dec

We've reached that familiar stage of things where the left intellectual class descends to explain why failure was inevitable & why it never could have been otherwise. Why Manchin's actually the sensible one & progressives were always wrong. Why trying was always silly.

If you want to be part of the savvy class, the prime imperative is that you never evince any shock or surprise, & you certainly never reveal that you're hurt or upset. Nothing less savvy than that. You saw this coming; it had to be this way; only partisans didn't know this.

For my part, I'm shocked Manchin took his idiocy & bad faith this far. I'm hurt, because millions of people poured their heart into making change & are now being fucked over by our dysfunctional gov't. I'm upset, because the failure of BBB means untold avoidable suffering ...

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David Roberts

@drvolts

17 Dec

Just sitting here thinking about what would happen if Republicans had the House, the presidency, & 50 senators, & one senator -- literally one guy -- was standing in the way of their entire agenda. I invite you to imagine the full-spectrum, 360° hurricane of shit ...

... that would descend on said senator. The RW billionaires that would call & bully him, buy ads against him, & hire private investigators to dig into his private life. The biz CEOs & lobbying firms that would pledge never to do business with him. The media ...

... that would coordinate -- across radio, cable news, local news, & social media -- to ravage him. The RW candidates that would immediately arise to challenge him in his next primary. And above all, the grassroots fury (also coordinated by billionaires) that would haunt him ...

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