Favorite Rejects 2022-07-13

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Also, banning AC would make Social Security and Medicare easier to sustain, by causing mass death of old people

EMK🌻 @EKEBIKES

Unpopular take: Air conditioning is bad and contributes to climate change. It’s changed how we build, where we live, and how we commute. We talk about how/why car dependency is bad, but rarely AC dependency. Yes, I live in the south where it has been nearly 100° all week.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

TIL the first company that Henry Wells and William Fargo co-founded, along with a guy named Butterfield, was American Express. They did Wells Fargo later because Butterfield objected to their idea of expanding to California. Both companies initially did shipping not finance.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

We should define class in terms of people's relationship to the means of production.

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

it's always funny when people say "you can't define class solely by income" and then their expanded definition of class is basically just income + wealth. it's like, ok, great, thank you.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In America, most people own their home and most people own stock so they're at least a little bit capitalists. Most people work as employees so they have labor interests. But a very large bloc are retired, and some people are self-employed.

Idrees Ahmad @im_PULSE

This was literally the reply Chomsky gave to a Syrian friend who spoke about Assad's brutality.

Mike Duncan @mikeduncan

Am working on the final set of episodes. With wide open eyes I know I am voluntarily choosing to spend the rest of my life fighting a losing battle to get people to listen to this one before yelling at me about it.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is how we keep the volcano god appeased

The Hill @thehill

U.S. tourist tumbles into Mount Vesuvius after trying to snap selfie https://t.co/86V1bOEFYY https://t.co/H2aYZuPT44

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Joe Biden got Mexico to pay for the wall.

abcnews.go.comFirst on ABC: Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security and processing, source saysThe collaboration on the border signifies something of a reset between Mexico and the U.S.

Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア) @OliverJia1014

Socialists are always against imperialism until it’s imperialism they deem acceptable done by Russia or China. https://t.co/sVGBq0KaEE

DSA International Committee 🌹 @DSA_Intl_Comm

🧵 5 months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has no seeming end in sight. The US has mainly focused on fueling conflict with nearly $35B in military aid. With looming global economic crises and conflict, people demand change. Contact Congress: https://t.co/joJUKcQBTQ https://t.co/ATNNVnZH9S