Swap "the left" for Disney. Or pre-Musk Twitter. I put "the left" in quotes because as you say, it is not actually a monolith, it has a self-limited strategic culture, and its prescriptions are frequently half-baked individual ego trips. The point is that they have done this across the economy and culture through DEI and ESG as well, with similar results. The art museum terrorists call it "degrowth."
Equating Joe Rogan with Andrew Tate is insane. Congratulations for waking up a bit. But if you're saying Joe Rogan who is basically a nice guy with fairly centrist views and a good father to his daughter is some kind of deplorable, then you're still in the matrix.
Too little too late. There were, believe it or not, plenty of quite moderate Americans who opposed covid lockdowns, the defunding of police and the excesses of intersectionality. Where were all the newly minted heterodox lefties when the rest of us were getting banned from twitter for the same shit they’re only now discovering? Thanks for the sincere post. There are plenty hoping this whole sorry episode will just blow over.
Congestion pricing is a policy with almost no downsides. Concern trolling like "the potential for traffic snarling neighborhoods outside the tolled zone and the real possibility the MTA will “squander the money” is just that. I can guarantee that overall traffic would drop if it gets enacted, including neighborhoods outside of toll zones. It is definitely not like bail reform in that popularity for congestion pricing is the lowest before implementation. The problem is Kathy Hochul and other incompetent government figures: Eric Adams, etc. They are just bad and they should go.
It appears to me that the progressive mentality is incapable of envisioning the connections and knock-on effects of their desired policies. Its not just progressives, of course. It's True Believers of any sort. They seem to think that they can simply will their utopia into being.
One of the few positive outcomes of the post-pandemic era is that it has clearly exposed which members of the Democratic Party’s left flank are actually serious about building and maintaining a durable governing coalition (Fetterman, Jones, AOC mostly) and which members are interested in little beyond performative grandstanding stunt nonsense (Bowman, Bush, Tlaib).
Hopefully, this reduces the chances of the party following the latter into electoral hell. We already have one party that just wants to break shit; we do *not* need two.
Swap "the left" for Disney. Or pre-Musk Twitter. I put "the left" in quotes because as you say, it is not actually a monolith, it has a self-limited strategic culture, and its prescriptions are frequently half-baked individual ego trips. The point is that they have done this across the economy and culture through DEI and ESG as well, with similar results. The art museum terrorists call it "degrowth."
Equating Joe Rogan with Andrew Tate is insane. Congratulations for waking up a bit. But if you're saying Joe Rogan who is basically a nice guy with fairly centrist views and a good father to his daughter is some kind of deplorable, then you're still in the matrix.
I’ve met Rogan back when I was involved with UFC. Top 5 douchebgas I’ve ever met. Andrew Tate doesn’t exist without Rogan paving the way.
Still though, Joe Rogan isn't out there saying it's gay to fuck the same girl more than once.
Too little too late. There were, believe it or not, plenty of quite moderate Americans who opposed covid lockdowns, the defunding of police and the excesses of intersectionality. Where were all the newly minted heterodox lefties when the rest of us were getting banned from twitter for the same shit they’re only now discovering? Thanks for the sincere post. There are plenty hoping this whole sorry episode will just blow over.
Congestion pricing is a policy with almost no downsides. Concern trolling like "the potential for traffic snarling neighborhoods outside the tolled zone and the real possibility the MTA will “squander the money” is just that. I can guarantee that overall traffic would drop if it gets enacted, including neighborhoods outside of toll zones. It is definitely not like bail reform in that popularity for congestion pricing is the lowest before implementation. The problem is Kathy Hochul and other incompetent government figures: Eric Adams, etc. They are just bad and they should go.
It appears to me that the progressive mentality is incapable of envisioning the connections and knock-on effects of their desired policies. Its not just progressives, of course. It's True Believers of any sort. They seem to think that they can simply will their utopia into being.
One of the few positive outcomes of the post-pandemic era is that it has clearly exposed which members of the Democratic Party’s left flank are actually serious about building and maintaining a durable governing coalition (Fetterman, Jones, AOC mostly) and which members are interested in little beyond performative grandstanding stunt nonsense (Bowman, Bush, Tlaib).
Hopefully, this reduces the chances of the party following the latter into electoral hell. We already have one party that just wants to break shit; we do *not* need two.
Excellent post 👏👏