https://sarah-k-mock.medium.com/no-your-great-grandfather-did-not-know-how-to-fix-our-food-system-83775d4f1852

Really good post.

«When it comes to small family farms for white people, we’ve always got to “go back” or “restore” something.»

….

«“During the pandemic, the wealthy among us decided we finally had time to practice the super-Instagrammable conscious consumerism we’d been meaning to get around to,” would have been a more honest opening to this paragraph.

In this pandemic, tens of millions of people lost their jobs. Adults, children, whole families, are literally going hungry. People are praying that eviction moratoriums never end, because they have months and months and months of unpaid rent and their home is the only thing they really have left.

The audacity of suggesting that “many people” were able to “plant victory gardens” or buy and store quarter-cows is incredible. How out of touch can you be.»

This is from a few years ago, but: it me! (and my wife and neighbors.)

https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/03/26/what-does-georgias-new-voting-law-sb-202-do

The full rundown.

https://twitter.com/CaulfieldTim/status/1375801125174083584?s=20

Timothy Caulfield (@CaulfieldTim) Tweeted: “Just 12 anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms.” https://t.co/KaSAp721sb The “Disinformation Dozen” DO deserve more reg attention. But also need to nudge people not to share the BS! #ScienceUpFirst https://t.co/5ygniBcGzZ

Huh.

«A big brain is expensive to run. Our own brains typically make up 2 percent of our body weight but use up 20 percent of the energy we consume.»

Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris.

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1375285309634568196?s=20

I don’t think anybody was ever really fooled by libertarians.

Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) Tweeted: A lot of ostensible libertarians on this website who will invade your mentions if you defend an environmental regulation or gun safety law are silent about Georgia Republicans’ appalling new attack on Black voters. We all know why, but it’s still fairly extraordinary to witness.

It’s so easy to slide into systemic racism, even when (you think) you’re not intending to.

Karl Smith (@karlbykarlsmith) Tweeted: You gotta step back from the ledge here, bruh. Riots are to a 1st approximation *bad* for insurers

The Galaxy Brain take that: No, a more risk adverse environment drives up overall demand for insurance & that’s why they support BLM, is a few steps past Lex Luther level insanity.

https://twitter.com/karlbykarlsmith/status/1375002476450091011?s=20

(Replying to:)

«J.D. Vance @JDVance1

Read this story:

Insurance companies promote BLM.

BLM riots drive up insurance premiums.

Businesses and family wealth get destroyed. Insurance companies get rich.

Identity politics makes the multiracial working class poor and the ruling class rich.»

(See https://herereadthis.blog/2021/03/21/more-republicans-think-white-people-are-discriminated-against-than-any-other-group/.)

Small list of New Testament passages calling for us not to be racist. Caused so much “controversy” they took it down: https://t.co/GQBqz97ecP?amp=1

“We’ve got your back” aftermath: https://timothyisaiahcho.medium.com/leaveloud-from-white-horse-inn-d9ca006165be

Snowpiercer!

«Silver, savagery, and slavery bought the West “a third-class seat on the Asian economic train,” as Frank put it, but still more needed to happen before the West could “displace Asians from the locomotive.”»

Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris.

Ouch:

«The British poet and politician Hilaire Belloc summed it up nicely in 1898:

Whatever happens we have got
The Maxim Gun, and they have not.»

Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris.