Favorite Rejects 2023-05-29

https://twitter.com/robinsonmeyer/status/1662972430262910978

– We still have no real electrical transmission permitting bill, which is a bummer, because one was on the table a year ago and progressives shot it down.

https://twitter.com/jojjeols/status/1663053275296591873

– Chinese media org runs a twitter poll, should Japan have a Nato office, poll didn't go their way, deleted.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1663136954265763840

– Natural disaster deaths are down!

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1663233001877127180

– It's bad for large countries to invade their neighbors

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1663241334402973700

– Still theoretically possible for republicans to make the bill not pass

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1663251156372684807

– George Orwell on tankies and almost-tankies: "But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism." ... "the French pacifists, faced by a real choice which their English colleagues have not had to make, mostly went over to the Nazis,"

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1663264283537596416

– Multipolar world is fine, as long as the poles are democracies. This is why we should elevate India/Brazil, even though they'll often disagree with the US.