LimesTheif
2yr ago
The electoral problem for the pro-AA side is that this doesn’t cut neatly across two-party divisions. White and Asian-Americans are both over represented relative to the general population in college admissions, and don’t want their kids’ chances dinged because of their census categorization. A lot of Asian Americans who were Clinton/Biden voters strongly oppose any quotas that will impact their kids.
Do women or black people control the NFL? No. It’s owned by old white guys. But Jon Gruden isn’t coaching anymore.
Did Jewish people just start working in the entertainment industry? Ice Cube appearing on the cover of the Nation of Islam’s rabidly anti-semitic newspaper ‘The Final Call’, years after his previous controversy surrounding his lyrics, didn’t keep him from being cast in family comedies.
I sincerely think you would like Farrakhan’s book where he cherry picks which Jewish bankers helped finance the slave trade, ignoring all the gentiles that did as well, and everyone else involved, and paints it as a coordinated “Jewish” effort.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
Maybe Netflix is more fun than in-person social activities.
I guess this is subjective, but as someone with an active, meat-space social life, it takes time, money and effort to maintain. You can substitute time and effort for money (pasta, red sauce and a screw-top Barbera can go a long way). I know we Americans tend to informally socially segregate by class, but at least my social life bridges that pretty easily. I host a large BBQ with white and blue collar guests every year. It’s amazing what breaking bread together does to bridge divides.
I haven’t found online socializing to be more than a simulacrum for meat-space socializing. Nearly all my friends are current and former teammates from rec sports leagues, current and former coworkers, people I met in young-professionals arts organizations, the bar I used to be a regular at, a book club, etc.
My GF and I are having folks over for dinner, tonight. That involved a more thorough cleaning of the house than we normally do on Saturday morning, a bigger grocery bill to account for the extra food and wine, and starting work in the kitchen at 9:00 this morning to sear the roast and get the slow cooker going.
And, it’s not that we don’t subscribe to multiple streaming services and couldn’t just pop something on tonight and put our feet up. But as others have said, here, it’s instant gratification versus long-term payoff. And, Netflix can be like weed, where you can put a pause on thinking about why you might not be satisfied with how you’re spending your evening.
But hugs, handshakes, smiles, eye contact, laughs, etc. land much differently, in person. As do frank discussions requiring sympathy or empathy.
We try, as much as our schedule, energy levels, and finances allow, to make plans, get people together, host dinner parties, etc. And, while we have not gotten a 1:1 return, the more often we make an effort to be social, the more others do in our direction, as well. And it’s encouraging, how often when we set something up, how many people say, “This was great. We need to do this more often.” You also over time figure out who will reciprocate, socially, and can prioritize spending time with them.
I think so many of us get into a rut once out of school, and there’s nothing making socializing more of a default you have to opt out of.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
Kanye is as much a genuine Nazi as Manson was a genuine satanist.
Not everyone who is anti-semitic is a Nazi. Kanye is getting his talking points from the Nation of Islam and Black Israelites. That strain of black thought is deeply anti-semitic (and also believes some hilariously-improbable conspiracy theories). But he is also a bipolar guy off his meds, who is building conspiracies in his head surrounding his divorce, and is really mad at some Jewish lawyers that represented his wife, among a whole bunch of other things.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
But perhaps such indiscretions are expected of '60s and '70s rock stars and aren't held against them.
These lists change as generations of critics do, and today’s critics would surely ding them for this, but their reputations were made prior to this stuff being a significant concern.
Bowie’s fascist-sympathizing period has not really dinged his rep. He was on heroin, then, don’t you know, and besides, he explored gender fluidity and took MTV to task for not featuring black artists.
As a tangent, the Abe assassination was really interesting in that his assassin actually achieved change in the direction of his goals, with the Japanese government becoming less friendly to the Moonies.
Marin County is an antivax stronghold, yo. There is more than one kind of Democratic voter.
It’s where RFK, Jr. holds luncheons about autism at wineries.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
I remember all the claims of Jared Lee Loughner‘s motivation being tied to Republican campaign rhetoric that turned out to be nonsense. And that hot, hot take came out first, then the dig for corroborating evidence, however tangential (did he listen to talk radio?!) served up a nothingburger.
At least in the case of Pelosi’s attacker, his Facebook history includes a lot of Mike Lindell election-truther videos. There is some basis for suspecting a political motive that could be articulated.
Now, I’m sure there will be some overreaching op-eds that follow. But that CNN piece is fairly tame.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
My sister has radiant heat for in the winter and mini splits for the summer. She loves that in the fall, she can use her mini splits to heat her house on the days it’s needed, and wait to fire the boiler up until winter has fully arrived.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
No scores is ace. I don’t mind reading comments, and don’t care for popularity contests. Feels chill, which is really nice.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
One of the really nutty things about the Cotton op-ed tantrum was where some of the internal pushback came from at the Times via Slack, Twitter, etc. The op-ed page weighing the concerns of the company’s tech workers was a big departure from the past.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
Bluesky is interesting. Twitter was already working on it as a protocol, under which, users could choose from different algorithms to populate their feed.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
Did those people understand the board of a publicly traded company has a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, whatever any employees may think, and Musk offered above share price, waived due diligence (legally-irrelevant public tantrum about bots aside) and assumed responsibility for clearing any objections from regulators?
A board would have to be able to sell shareholders on its stock being significantly undervalued to turn that down.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
I’m a sucker for world building.
Proud of myself for not buying cheap Miskatonic University swag off Etsy.
LimesTheif
2yr ago
Chester Himes’ Harlem Detective series. Really enjoying it, particularly the grim bits of humor, like a dead body’s head banging around after sliding out of a coffin while a hearse is being used in a car chase. Currently working on ‘All Shot Up’, which is the fifth of nine books in the series.
A couple (?) film adaptations have been attempted. There was a blacksploitation version of ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’ and Bill Duke of ‘Predator’ and ‘Commando’ fame directed an adaptation of ‘A Rage in Harlem’. I found the former a bit hokey and the latter a bit tame.
That’s what I’m pointing at. Asians are firmly in the Democrat camp, but many in that camp break orthodoxy on affirmative action. It’s an issue Republicans can use as a wedge.
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