“Fighting” is often conflated with what fighting for, but they are subtly different. “Fighting for” is not zero-sum. A fight for equality concedes some amount of inequality, which perversely makes some amount of inequality acceptable. Fighting inequality says up front that no amount of inequality is acceptable.
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I really wish Google News moved opinion pieces out of “Headlines” into a clearly labelled “Opinions” section.
And with that, I am now a fan of the Touch Bar.
(I work measuring video ads. Some of our logging can be fairly noisy so I wrote a service in Automator to quickly extract, filter, and format video info. This service automagically became a button in the Touch Bar.)
This hits upon another reckon. Republicans are afraid of the likes of Warren and @AOC because progressive politicians challenge their near sole control of the Overton window in a way Dems haven’t in a long, long time.
I mean really, their one criticism seemed to be that some ultra millionaires don’t like the idea of being taxed more. Duh.
Listening to NPR talk about Warren’s plan to tax ultra millionaires was surreal. I’ve never heard a dismissive tone with phrases like “very popular” and “detailed”. It was like being recommended against going to a particular restaurant for being too delicious and affordable.
Do I hate the keyboards with butterfly switches? No, but I love the Magic Keyboards so this new MacBook Pro gives me something to look forward to.
Daily reckon:
1950s-1980s: Cities are dirty and gross so let’s build office parks. 1990s-present: Cities are cool! Office parks drool! 2010s-present: Cities, while still cool, are so oppressively expensive that I sometimes secretly wish for an office park.
To that end, “ok boomer” isn’t a phrase I would use to dismiss or villianize an entire generation. If that’s what it ultimately comes to mean, then I’ll figure out some other phrase.
To me “ok boomer” is a dismissive to boomers’ assumption that the economics, safety nets, and social norms that helped them are still available to millennials, and that millennials are inexplicably ungrateful and/or incompetent.