It’s not really acting. They have been left behind.
But, while I like Sandy, this kind of thing continues to drive me crazy.
Oh, Sandy. Is there anyone out there who thinks it's at all important to end our dependence on Putin to get our astronauts into space? https://t.co/dv1IhziJQc
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 7, 2019
They’re not “the deplorables.” They’re the urban highly “educated” (scare quotes because they aren’t really educated, just credentialed) whites who deplore them. So I guess that’s the real white privilege.
They remain a disaster, that should have been abolished long ago.
As a report on education said almost four decades ago, if a foreign power had imposed on the U.S. the educational system we've imposed on ourselves, we would rightly consider it an act of war. https://t.co/rpg0ym3yEh
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 6, 2019
BTW, I highly recommend Quillette as a web site in general. Claire and others have a lot of smart, heterodox stuff there.
…has gone transgender nuts. I hope the father wins in the Supreme Court of Canada.
Is America already in one? In many ways, yes. It’s a Cold Civil War (for now), but one regardless.
Why the Left won’t win it.
Of course, part of the problem is that, as with climate change, they think there is no room for debate. Neither side does. But one side is right.
“We don’t understand climate.”
He’s not wrong.
[Update late morning]
Is climate change like an asteroid, or diabetes? I’d say neither, but to the limited degree that it’s an understood problem, diabetes is a much better analogy.
How it’s playing out in the Democrat Party. I wonder if AOC has even read it? Or if she has, if she understood the allegory, or just thought it was a strange story about farm animals?
[Update a while later]
How awful it must be to be a thinking person in a modern “university.”
What does one look like? It’s sure as hell not Radio Free Tom.
Why they can’t save the planet.
[Update a while later]
Requirements for a scalable approach to decarbonization.