The Guardian had an editorial this week making a similar point. People got to experience life with an actual social safety net for a while, realized how much easier it made life even in the midst of a global pandemic, and now they're pissed that it's gone.
BodyBySisyphus
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The trolley problem and its consequences have been a disaster for mankind.
They're a smidge too early for climate change to bring a tropical climate to the Carolinas, but if they hang in there long enough...
I went a few rounds on Reddit before the election asking what I should do given that I didn't feel like Biden delivered on the issues I care about the most (Gaza and the climate), and he eventually threw up his hands and said "fine, vote for Trump, stay home, I don't care."
People don't really feel like their party listens to them, get repeatedly told that there's only two options, and then get surprised when this sort of incoherence manifests. Sure, some people are dumb and don't actively seek to educate themselves, but folks are also beaten down by a system that constantly condescends, discourages participation other than voting, and mounts militarized responses to protests. I can understand why you'd give up and just do what punishes the incumbent even if it leads to a worse outcome overall. I didn't make that choice myself, but I can understand it.
Funny how quickly you discover the limits of utilitarianism from the "vote blue b/c trolley problem" crowd.
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Noooo Biden needs to do the funniest possible thing before he can step down.
and a workforce in search of deeper meaning and joy in their careers.
Also how the hell did our soulless society poison the word joy? The Dadaists continue to be right about everything.
~~Livestock manure isn't supposed to enter municipal wastewater. It typically gets composted or tossed in an anaerobic digester.~~
Never mind, according to the CDC the source could be milk from infected animals.
It doesn't matter what she said or what she put on her website; she never tried to create a coherent vision of who she was.
Kamala: I believe climate change is an existential threat and am also completely pro fracking.
The Libs: See, she said climate change is an existential threat.
Kamala: We should have a ceasefire and my support for Israel is unconditional.
The Libs: See, she called for a ceasefire.
Not that this is a particularly new phenomenon among politicians. Heck, it worked fantastically for Trump despite the fact that his speech is essentially gasses escaping from the fermenting porridge that is his brain. The question folks should be asking is why it didn't work for her. Her lack of charisma? The fact that dems seem constitutionally incapable of not sounding condescending? The fact that no one reads candidate websites any more and the campaign's messaging was mostly "Wow the Cheneys like us now 😍"?
There's also random.org which uses noise in meteorological measurements.