Favorite Rejects 2021-08-04
Incredible thread on stars of stage and screen who had guest and bit parts in Miami Vice
Daniel Holland🎗 @DannyDutch
I do have a lot of sane, normal opinions.
More people should try it!
nic carter @nic__carter
This guy has totally lost his shit because I expressed some confusion about crypto enthusiasts’ talking points.
Early this week people were furious that I said America has higher living standards than Hungary.
Everyone please try to be more normal.
nic carter @nic__carter
Trump, because he’s a racist, said he didn’t want immigrants from “shithole countries.”
Immigrant-haters love Hungary because it’s homogenous.
I love America because it’s where Hungarian-born people move to accomplish big important things.
vespertine @istanidla
we need to get over the smug reliance on experts. covid19 is dark waters for everyone. we need to rely on experts, but not be smug and totally assured
look at @nytimes reporting on UK vaccine spacing jan 1 nytimes.com/2021/01/01/wor…
now:
Tight labor markets can be a helpful tailwind in taming the higher ed behemoth
Sam🔔 @sam_a_bell
I feel like leftists' emphasis on Israel as a policy issue gets them lots of engagement on Twitter, but relatively few actual votes. And it just seems to draw the ire of pro-Israel groups like the one that helped sink Nina Turner.
The fact that the CDC needs to be rebuilt from the ground up did not change when Trump stopped being President.
Derek Thompson @DKThomp
Hamilton’s stated motives in the musical for endorsing Jefferson over Burr don’t make a lot of sense to me.
Jefferson: Wrong about everything but at least he’s fanatical about it.
Burr: A pragmatic dealmaker who knows how to get things done.
And from a few days ago:
I feel like we should all talk more about how conservatives' dream is to make America more like this much poorer, rinky-dink little country in Central Europe.
Hungary's GDP per capita is closer to Mexico than France, less than half of the United States.
Like how much do you have to hate immigrants to envy this? Paprika's not that great.
I’m just like a regular, non-sniveling neoliberal who thinks USA > Hungary.
Antonio García Martínez @antoniogm
Also not clear to me how restricting immigration would get us Budapest’s architectural legacy — like Italy is lovely to visit but I wouldn’t recommend copying their public policy.
I'm a little confused as to what motte-and-bailey means in this context.
My view is that US conservatives who hate immigrants so much that they've developed envy for the much poorer backwater nation of Hungary are making a serious error of judgment and we should reject them.
Antonio García Martínez @antoniogm