Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

Matt Zerella posted:

I found out Crowley "lives" 12 blocks from me

Office Pig posted:

egg his housePO Box

neoliberalism.txt posted:

It's very plausible that one reason American workplaces have gotten safer over the decades is that we now tend to outsource a lot of factory-explosion-risk to places like Bangladesh where 87 people just died in a building collapse.* This kind of consideration leads Erik Loomis to the conclusion that we need a unified global standard for safety, by which he does not mean that Bangladeshi levels of workplace safety should be implemented in the United States.

I think that's wrong. Bangladesh may or may not need tougher workplace safety rules, but it's entirely appropriate for Bangladesh to have different—and, indeed, lower—workplace safety standards than the United States.

The reason is that while having a safe job is good, money is also good. Jobs that are unusually dangerous—in the contemporary United States that's primarily fishing, logging, and trucking—pay a premium over other working-class occupations precisely because people are reluctant to risk death or maiming at work. And in a free society it's good that different people are able to make different choices on the risk–reward spectrum. There are also some good reasons to want to avoid a world of unlimited choice and see this as a sphere in which collective action is appropriate (I'll gesture at arguments offered in Robert Frank's The Darwin Economy and Tom Slee's No One Makes You Shop At Walmart if you're interested), but that still leaves us with the question of "which collective" should make the collective choice.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

Nikita Khrushchev posted:

It's kind of sad that Crowley expected AOC to just put up with his ratfucking and part of his floundering now is because she ruined it by tweeting about it

Nonsense posted:

What bad vote has Manchin cast that was the deciding vote? It doesn't loving matter if he was the 53rd yes.

lol

sorrynotsorry.txt posted:

It seems like the entire Internet has registered its objections to this piece I wrote on the Bangladesh factory disaster. And I have to say that my overwhelming personal response, as a writer and as a human being, is to be annoyed by the responses that I'm getting. But let me try to be mature about it instead and say—what happened in Bangladesh is a tragedy and a human disaster, and to the best of my knowledge it's also quite literally a criminal disaster under the existing laws of Bangladesh. The perpetrators ought to be punished. More broadly: Bangladesh ought to enforce its laws. Even more broadly than that: Bangladesh's citizens deserve honest and uncorrupt government rather than government that's excessively under the sway of the interests of apparel factory owners. Dylan Matthews has an informative interview with Kimberly Ann Elliott of the Center for Global Development in which she—a person who has relevant detailed knowledge of the situation—outlines a variety of modest measures that could improve the situation, and you should read it.

Here's what I did. I read a guy who pivoted from the tragedy to a call for the U.S. government or U.S. consumers to try to impose U.S. safety standards on all U.S.-supplying factories around the world. I did not have detailed information about the situation in Bangladesh, but I did—and continue to—have good reason to believe that this call was mistaken. So I wrote a post trying to outline why I think it's appropriate for rich countries to have more stringent standards than poor ones, and I absolutely stand by that conclusion.

Nonsense posted:

What bad vote has Manchin cast that was the deciding vote? It doesn't loving matter if he was the 53rd yes.

lol

Rated PG-34 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11k

lol piers morgan is such a twat

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

https://twitter.com/NYWFP/status/1017474588027088896

having a normal one

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

https://twitter.com/NYWFP/status/1017474588027088896

having a normal one

loquacius posted:

Replies are way more chuds than baddems unfortunately

papa horny michael posted:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1017460734035447811

anime was right posted:

dems are not used to being stood up to

papa horny michael posted:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1017460734035447811

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

https://twitter.com/nywfp/status/1017475534023004161?s=21

Shear Modulus posted:

lol i originally thought crowley was just stupid and didnt think to take his name off the ballot but it looks like he actually planned to try and lieberman ratfuck the election and didnt think anyone would notice or care which is even dumber

Condiv posted:

it's so interesting how a group that supposedly is allied with leftists shows over and over again how they really would like to be allied with the right and have nothing but contempt for the left-wing they depend on to win elections

just look how centrists behave when they have to resist fascism. they refuse to bend any rules or norms and desire to take the high road at all costs!

and just look how they behave when resisting lefism. the aforementioned rules and norms are torn to shreds instantly and they turn into slithering reptiles undermining us in any way they can. their charter, their "lesser of two evils" screed, all of it can be abandoned when it comes to resisting the left

it's quite obvious that centrists only respect the fasicsts, for all of their bluster about wanting to fight back against fascism. cause at the end of the day, the only side they fight "honorably" against is the insane, fascist right wing party. and the only group they fight tooth and nail is the left

Shear Modulus posted:

lol i originally thought crowley was just stupid and didnt think to take his name off the ballot but it looks like he actually planned to try and lieberman ratfuck the election and didnt think anyone would notice or care which is even dumber

Agean90 posted:

lol if uve never had a mixed drink from a Batman forever glasd Micky D's made in the mid 90's

Ytlaya posted:

I have this glass.

Joementum posted:

this is..... not gonna end well

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1017394155268575232

Ruzihm posted:

https://twitter.com/YannisTrittas/status/1017493204583768064

Concerned Citizen posted:

there was literally a bernie/johnson voter in this very thread. johnson "took" (in the sense that they are more dem-leaning voters) more clinton votes than trump votes - you can look at the polling, clinton consistently did worse when johnson was included.