Just finished up Pluribus. I really liked Better Call Saul and think Gillian is a good director and story teller. He really has a knack of filming characters doing something utterly mundane, but zoom out or put that into a larger context and you see the true horror of it all. Pluribus does this, but seems to not be saying anything yet. I have a couple of themes I think they are trying to develop, but by the end of the first season, one of them should at least be clear.

So it was a relief when I went back to watch Palm Royale. Its a goofy, soapy show about over the top socialites with a bit of campy musical theater thrown into a mystery show. Despite a number of stars in the show, they always come back to the important characters and conflicts. And I’m super happy to see Allison Janey get quite a bit of the spotlight. She’s really a solid actor.

Sweet corn is a mutation that was only really cultivated in the late 1700s. Before that dent and flint corn were the norm. These corns require nixtamalization to soft the corn and then need boiling, grinding, and cooking to make something like tortillas.

I can’t tell if this is in jest or ignorance.

I think his observation still stands when we swap out Nazi for fascist.

Frankly, I think it gets a bit confusing when we lump every horrible authoritarian into the ‘Nazi’ bucket.

There are non-fascist authoritarians. I agree that it might be confusing, but in terms of initial political resistence, I think the first steps are the same.

That makes sense. The use of violence here is to control the workers and the rest of society. It gets everyone back in line during a crisis reminding people that they have the power, not only to exploit them, but to also kill, imprison, and immiserate. Get in line and you’ll be better off. Work for us help get people in line and you’ll be better off than them.

How is the slave owner using a slave driver to whip slaves different from the slaves organizing and killing the slavers?

Both the articles were written in January 2024, ten months before the election. They weren’t analyzing the 2024 elections. There is no possibiliy of mentioning elderly white folks ev

They never mention whiteness anywhere in either article and the FT article is explicitly a global take mentioning Germany, UK, South Korea, Tunisia, and China.

There is nothing in the FT article implicitly or explicitly blaming “young white boys”. It is saying that when there is an ideological gap between young men and women, it has sociological implications.

I agree that the larger media narrative blames young white men’s regressive turn for the Trump presidential win and not elderly white folks or white Gen X women, but this is not that article.

What they are explicitly saying, and not implying at all is, “Korea’s is an extreme situation, but it serves as a warning to other countries of what can happen when young men and women part ways. Its society is riven in two.”

They are not implying the specifics of how the election unfolded in South Korea bears clear resemblance to the US like you stated.

This is a silly discussion because you did read the FT article, speculated wildly, and now are defending your bad take with a vague and baffling two sentence defense. Construct an actual argument.

The Washington Post page is paywalled. Here’s the same article on MSN.

The argument seems poorly constructed and hard to pull out from the article. But it boils down to, “Business won’t do it unless they have to. Lowering prices means demand has dropped and they need to boost demand. They will also cut jobs since they gave pay raises recenlty. Cutting jobs could result in a recession.”

I’m still a bit iffy if that’s the actual argument, but that’s my read right now.

This quote comes from the graph’s source article from the FT. They are talking about South Korea and not the US.

From the article:

The #MeToo movement was the key trigger, giving rise to fiercely feminist values among young women who felt empowered to speak out against long-running injustices. That spark found especially dry tinder in South Korea, where gender inequality remains stark, and outright misogyny is common.

In the country’s 2022 presidential election, while older men and women voted in lockstep, young men swung heavily behind the right-wing People Power party, and young women backed the liberal Democratic party in almost equal and opposite numbers.

Korea’s is an extreme situation, but it serves as a warning to other countries of what can happen when young men and women part ways. Its society is riven in two. Its marriage rate has plummeted, and birth rate has fallen precipitously, dropping to 0.78 births per woman in 2022, the lowest of any country in the world.

Seven years on from the initial #MeToo explosion, the gender divergence in attitudes has become self-sustaining. Survey data show that in many countries the ideological differences now extend beyond this issue. The clear progressive-vs-conservative divide on sexual harassment appears to have caused — or at least is part of — a broader realignment of young men and women into conservative and liberal camps respectively on other issues.

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Here’s a link to the Erya.

All states want you to be in the right lane if you’re moving slower than traffic. You were wrong. You didn’t read the PDF you posted. This isn’t up for discussion.

That’s from the pdf you posted.

You should read it. You’re wrong. Most say if you’re going slower than the flow of traffic, keep right. Only a couple say you have to yield to approaching traffic (Florida and Georgia).

You’re wrong.

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In the most US states, the middle lane is a traveling lane. This comic is a US comic.