Lauren Persoff
NYC, Gen X, frittering away my time reading about politics and watching clever videos made by zoomers
- I think the Very Online Leftist hatred of brunch is really about brunch being basic; in the same way that they want to insist that you are not protesting right. They're a particularly petty branch of hipster, basically.
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- Soon to be ex-gf I’d wager! So fun to be someone’s “pretty exhausting” gf!
- Future flight bookings between Canada & the US have collapsed. Comparing total bookings held at this point last year with those recorded this week for the upcoming summer season show bookings are down by *over 70%* in every month through to the end of September. www.oag.com/blog/canada-...
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- Good! Lots of Americans fully support Canadians boycotting this country for the duration of this regime. We wish we could become Canadian!
- RFK Jr. is not wrong. We are failing to keep our communities healthy. This message resonates with many. But I have serious concerns about his ability and expertise to lead such a sweeping overhaul of the HHS workforce. We need accountability, not just rhetoric.
- He’s not wrong?!?! He’s ending vaccine research, promoting crank theories, slashing HHS staff, yanking health funding from state health departments, and on and on! Do you even read the news??? It’s not just “rhetoric” — RFK Jr is actively destroying public health.
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- Why were the socialist governments that governed vast areas of the globe unable to prosper economically as the West did? Wasn’t Europe devastated by WWII as well? Wasn’t Japan? For all their drawbacks, markets are enormously productive and centralized state-controlled economies haven’t been
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- How did the US economy do before integration with China? During the 50 years from the end of WW 2 until 2000? And how did the USSR and China do economically in the same period of time?
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- Most voters don’t like foreign aid, don’t understand the purpose of the Dept of Education, & support deporting people; many *like* a strongman. They do not care about democracy. Democrats need a positive vision and “let’s remove the obstacles to building prosperity” is a good start.
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- You claim health is an area in which men have an advantage over women. I gave you data that refutes your blanket statement. You choose to believe that class is irrelevant to privilege or advantage. I would have thought an English person would be less class blind than Americans but I guess not!
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- Small instances? And you choose health as your example? Globally, in 2022, there were 200 deaths per 1,000 men between 15 and 60 years, and 133 per 1,000 women of the same age. Maybe things don’t break down as simplistically as men advantaged women disadvantaged?
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- You believe that straight white men are uniformly advantaged? That just isn’t true. I don’t believe that all straight white men are advantaged. I am a bisexual white woman with a PhD. I have more “privilege” than many men.
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- Of course racism exists. I’m not sure how that justifies blaming an entire group of people — working class men in this instance, of all colors — for falling behind educationally and economically. I shouldn’t have to explain intersectionality to you, right?
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- So if you are a straight white working class man you have only yourself to blame if you are falling behind straight working class women economically? But if you belong to any other group, you can claim to be victimized by the social structure?
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- I’m of the view that it’s unproductive to blame individuals for problems that are widely shared and with other members of their group. Observing that working class men of all races & ethnicities are falling behind everyone else is not the same thing as blaming women and minorities
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- I understand you enjoy arguing on social media but I have better things to do. Have a great day (or evening)
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- You are skimming in order to cherry pick and to have fun arguing on social media. Of course you did not read it carefully or you would have picked up that boys were doing “just fine” when a college education wasn’t as necessary for economic success.
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- Ok, I didn’t know that stats and an analysis of said stats comprise a “vague supposition”. Also — the discussion is an hour and a half long — you have already listened to it or read the transcript that fast? I’m impressed. Have a good day!
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- The answer is much longer than can be captured in a post. That’s why I gifted out a two hour detailed and well-sourced conversation
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- I realize this thread is about an article published in Britain but here’s a discussion of the problem in the American context: www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/o...
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- Surely it’s more complicated than that? Just as the reasons why 50 years ago women only earned 50 cents on the dollar relative to men were not because someone somewhere declared that women should not earn more
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- Sounds like blaming the victim to me!
- But I’ll help yoi
- Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/o...
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- The evidence is very readily available you have a little computer connected to the internet right there in your hand
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- The situation is very similar in the United States.
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- So basically you blame young men for not attending college and not graduating? Btw women have certainly been “allowed” to attend college for many decades. I think we understood that they did not because they were discouraged from it, not prohibited
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- So it’s young men’s fault that their educational and income attainments are lagging young women’s?
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- Except that is a fact on the United States that young men attend and graduate from college at significantly lower rates than young women and that this is a new phenomenon. I’m not “bitching” about this, it’s just a fact.
- I don’t know that the crisis language is warranted, but isn’t it a problem that men are less educated and earn less than women? It was a problem when the reverse was true and quite rightly people did stuff to change that.
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- He says that diversity means low social trust means an inadequate social safety net. Maybe, but racism helps a lot here. Reagan’s trope of “welfare queens” referred to Black women, not immigrants.
- He correlates high wage growth in the 50s and 60s with low immigration but leaves out the fact that most of the rest of the industrial world had been blown to bits during WWII, which enabled American economic dominance.
- This article is very interesting in having a better understanding of European politics but there are factual errors re the US. For example, he mischaracterizes the 2017 report on wage impacts to native born of immigration (they are zero except for high school drop outs)
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- I see you are a change the goal posts type of debater and just ignore the fact that it was the economy that sunk Harris with young voters. Have a nice day.
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- Sure just tell an entire age bracket to fuck right off that’s a surefire way to win elections
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- Oh please. Medicaid expansion was a huge improvement in the social safety net. Gay marriage became the law under Obama. Now you’re just being silly.
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- I think I was responding more to “fuck all centrists” than the question of bipartisanship. We need democrat candidates with heterodox views appropriate for their districts, not people who endorse every single left wing position out of fear of the “base”
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- Gay people voted hard for Obama even though he stated publicly that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. That was the smart thing to do because you don’t have any power if you don’t win.
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- This is exactly the opposite of what’s needed! Trump won in 2016 by significantly *moderating* the usual Republican position on Social Security and Medicare, and in 2024 in part because no one believes he’s anti-abortion
- The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.
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- My democratic NYC city council rep uses it in all her mailers to constituents
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- FAFSA is not “now” asking about national origins of white peoples. It seems this was asked last year. There’s enough to be upset about. This form should not be one of them.
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- The Weakerthans 💕 Sun in an Empty Room, what a great great song
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- Harris is responsible for her own campaign
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- I recommend this discussion of Jeanne Dielman: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
- Canada joins the US but not as a single state; instead, as 60 states each with the same population as North Dakota and therefore a total of 120 senators.
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- We will never know, but there was no opportunity for the Dem Party to spell out a compelling direction for the country, by means of a primary in which some effective & very popular governors would have run. Those governors could have credibly distanced themselves from the very unpopular incumbent.
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- Waving your hands about loopholes and appreciation doesn’t make this idea make any more sense. Also, the claim that there are a gazillion empty units is false and the internet will explain this to you if you look into it. youtu.be/3xZXdXxYBGU?...
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- But they don’t. This about it for just a minute. Like, think hard. Does this make any sense at all??
