Favorite Rejects 2022-08-30

Nat Bullard @NatBullard

@Noahpinion I added in wind power as well, on request

Jake Gotta @jake_gotta

AB257 would create the Fast Food Council and introduce sectoral bargaining in California - for @LongBeachPost #ab257

G. Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris

Some important polling simulations here: If you believe Senate polls today have no national bias toward the Democrats, then they are ~80% to hold the majority (based only on polls, not fundamentals) If you think polls will be as biased as in 2020, they are slight underdogs 1/2

Steven Pinker @sapinker

I'm often asked, "If we've made progress, why are suicide rates spiking?" The answer is they're not: Worldwide, the death rate from suicides fell almost 40% in 3 decades. In the US, it's drifted up & down & at last count was a bit lower than in 1990. ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicid…

The Wokest Numbersmuncher @NumbersMuncher

This Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial is what historians will someday say marked the real end of the cold war and is a masterpiece.

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

RBOB (gasoline) futures now lower than they were pre-invasion

Shashank Joshi @shashj

Gorbachev “was neither a dissident nor a revolutionary. He intended to reform the Soviet Union, not destroy it. But his aversion to violence and his belief in the Enlightenment were enough to finish a system held together by repression and lies.”

economist.comMikhail Gorbachev has diedThe last leader of the Soviet Union was also the architect of its dissolution

The Spectator World @TheSpectator

"Gorbachev’s greatest virtue was arguably his capacity to fail productively, to fail yet to learn. Unlike so many leaders, he evolved," writes @MarkGaleotti

trib.alGorbachev was no saint. But he was a kind of heroThe last and best encomium to Mikhail Gorbachev is perhaps precisely that Vladimir Putin seems to have loathed him

max seddon @maxseddon

"Lauded in the west as a hero, he was condemned by many in Russia for wrecking its economy and putting paid to its superpower status. In reality, he attempted to reform a system in terminal decline, and thereby triggered a revolution he could not control"

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Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan

Forgotten in the West, ignored in the East, reviled in Russia. And yet he was too good a man to be a politician.

branko2f7.substack.comA politician who did not want to ruleAn assessment of Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Was this an accurate translation? Because this is one of the Trumpiest things I've ever heard Xi say.

Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn

Xi Jinping in 2012 : "Finally, Gorbachev announced the disbandment of the Soviet Communist Party in a blithe statement. A big Party was gone just like that. Proportionally, the Soviet Communist Party had more members than we do, but nobody was man enough to stand up and resist.”

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

What has Xi done that could be considered "great"?

TOI World News @TOIWorld

China set to crown President Xi Xinping as 'Great Leader', 1st since Mao https://t.co/8lqElS5olS