Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Sun April 12, 2020 4:00 pm
surprised bloomy hasnt bought a ventilator factory and donated it to NYC
We've got a Xi Xinping apologist over hereverb_to_trust wrote:What difference does it even make at this point?
Why worry about Pooh Bear now though?The Argonaut wrote:We've got a Xi Xinping apologist over hereverb_to_trust wrote:What difference does it even make at this point?
With capitalism!Mickey wrote:No, we need to bomb China.
The article Jammer posted is a bit out there, to put it mildly. And I wouldn't hold my breathing waiting for big changes in that direction in America. But I wouldn't doubt that a few experiments in that general direction take place in some places.The Town wrote:Nothing against that piece but it's sparked a counter-idea for me:Jammer XCI wrote:https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0
Fucking truth.
That piece has a really strong emotional appeal but doesn't highlight any meaningful actions underway, and pure emotional appeal doesn't overcome my pessimism for U.S. society's appetite to quickly get back to its pre-covid, resource intensive lifestyle.
This is the time to reflect, and an opportunity to take action that can shape new social norms and public policy.
But who's leading the efforts to take action?
And are there sufficient pressures on society to cause lasting positive individual and societal behavioral and lifestyle changes?
It's going to take collective action to shape American society to have less sever inequality, to increase human rights, to be more humane, to increase individual privacy, and so many other things.
Lately I've been down thinking about the downsides to our individualistic society in the U.S. How Americans value the environment for the resources that can be extracted (we're plugged into the resource intensive system) and are so shortsighted about exploring and preserving the other aspects (the other true values) of the natural world.
edit: for clarity.
Thanks for posting that. That was quite a read.digster wrote:I think for a lot of people, this week felt like you were looking down the barrel of the gun, and I realized until I read this article I really have not been thinking about this more than a month or two ahead. I hadn't really conceived how this could just be the start of a very long upending of pretty much everything.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/maga ... ticleShare
Yeah, I basically want to kill myself nowRob wrote:Thanks for posting that. That was quite a read.digster wrote:I think for a lot of people, this week felt like you were looking down the barrel of the gun, and I realized until I read this article I really have not been thinking about this more than a month or two ahead. I hadn't really conceived how this could just be the start of a very long upending of pretty much everything.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/maga ... ticleShare
What Amsterdam is doing is really interesting! That's an interesting articleRob wrote:The article Jammer posted is a bit out there, to put it mildly. And I wouldn't hold my breathing waiting for big changes in that direction in America. But I wouldn't doubt that a few experiments in that general direction take place in some places.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... us-economy
I don't think anyone could argue the UK government handled this situation well. I certainly haven't. By any measure, they've handled it very poorly.dimejinky99 wrote:Thread worth a read Spenno
I think UK voters are ultimately responsible for the destruction of Corbyn, not some shadowy billionaires; ditto with Brexit.dimejinky99 wrote:Also important to remember the tiny cabal of billionaires that own all British media, how they brought about brexit destroyed Corbyn and now this