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PeraclesPlease — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 08:32:37 +0000

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Thoughts sparked by this great post from @freyaindiaa https://t.co/swrE67GrZg
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) January 2, 2024

Fear of hooking up (or having

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 08:07:00 +0000

In reply to College conundrum & other shifts

Fear of hooking up (or having a longer relationship)?

Or simply laziness and convenience of "good enough" substitutes?

Some inmate contradictions, such as "the world is overpopulated" (but not the 1st world developed portions). Or "white male privilege", on-the-job sexy talk and other socially scolded "inappropriate" behavior is shut down (so traditional young male idiot testosterone-fueled come-ons and variants are funneled into doom scrolling and video games?). Or social media simply takes away enough of the bite of loneliness I felt as a kid so that nothing has to be done to counter it?

Young humans are awkward. Twitter shows us even older humans are awkward. So the idealism of how these "Love Truly" Hugh Grant/Julia Roberts romances is farther and farther from daily life.

Whatever the case, breeding and mating and long-term bonding opportunities have gone way down. 45% of 18-25 year-old boys have never approached a girl? Something's odd.

Thoughts sparked by this great post from @freyaindiaa https://t.co/swrE67GrZg
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) January 2, 2024

My guess is people still underreport meeting online—there’s some lingering stigma—so the real figure is likely even higher.

For same-sex couples, 70%+ meet online (though that figure is outdated)

via Prof Rosenfeld at @Stanford
— Rex Woodbury (@rex_woodbury) March 22, 2023

https://goat.com.au/relationships/this-graph-showing-how-couples-meet-is...

Claudine Gay scandal deepens

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:16:00 +0000

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Claudine Gay scandal deepens - Harvard tries to play hardball, blows up in collective face.

How does this reflect on the bigger "woke" picture and those Democratic bastions of liberalism on campus? Will there be blowback or at least some evolutionary reform? What do students think anyway, since I haven't seen much non-campus paper response?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1741981079056052273.html

Ugh, the students' response is mostly hijacked over the antisemitism question. Of course "speking out for genocide" can take various levels from vague weasel words to an outrageous support or encouragement - which level triggers suspension, expulsion or other sanctions? Her response seems careful, but didn't ignore the problem. But the plagiarism is pretty outrageous.

For my entire adult life, I

artappraiser — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 05:13:51 +0000

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For my entire adult life, I liked the Democratic Party and hated the GOP. Then, a few years ago, I started hating the Democratic Party even more than I hated the GOP. That was pretty consistent, until this week. I once again hate the GOP as much as I hate the Democratic Party.
— Ben Appel (@benappel) October 5, 2023

BLM and other woke defund-and

artappraiser — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:36:46 +0000

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BLM and other woke defund-and-abolish types need to say hello to the GOP and Trump on this front:

House Republicans defunding the police pic.twitter.com/CR84yipXQP
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 30, 2023

There’s a bunch of guys who’ve convinced themselves that the federal law enforcement agencies the Republican Party is defunding don’t address crimes like murder and theft. pic.twitter.com/y0FKUXvLvI
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 30, 2023

Gang murders, bank robbers, drug cartels — I promise you that federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors have a lot of work to do. pic.twitter.com/4xWm80a249
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 30, 2023

Meanwhile every Trump budget (and the current House GOP proposal) also cuts money from local police. https://t.co/6J32l0X390 pic.twitter.com/utVB0ORnl3
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 30, 2023

The problem in terms of crime and Republicans is that (a) they are in hock to plutocracy over everything else (b) they benefit politically from crime being in the news and so don’t really care about figuring out how to reduce it beyond position-taking.https://t.co/aGBRhBeV4M
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 30, 2023

^ POLITICAL PARTISANS ARE

artappraiser — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:05:41 +0000

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^ POLITICAL PARTISANS ARE TRULY THE BLIND, THEY CANNOT SEE THE PROBLEM!

Turns out George Washington is right as never before:

AND FURTHERMORE, THIS IS NOT AS DIFFICULT TO SOLVE AS PARTISANS FREQUENTLY ARGUE:

RANKED CHOICE VOTING

Record number of Americans

artappraiser — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:49:31 +0000

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Record number of Americans say they're politically independent

By Mike Allen @ Axios.com, April 17, 2023

Share of U.S. adults who identify with select political affiliations

We spend our days captivated by people with the most power and the biggest mouths. But it turns out a rising number of Americans want something else — political independence.

Driving the news: Gallup polling last month found that a record 49% of Americans see themselves as politically independent — the same as the two major parties put together.

By far the dominant U.S. party isn't Democrats or Republicans. It's: "I'll shop around, thank you."

Why it matters: This trend means rising future challenges to the might and money of the two traditional parties, and helps explain how volatile and evenly split our politics are. There's no sign either will ebb any time soon.

What's happening: Gallup analyst Jeff Jones says a big reason for this change is driven by younger generation.

"It was never unusual for younger adults to have higher percentages of independents than older adults," Jones said. "What is unusual is that as Gen X and millennials get older, they are staying independent rather than picking a party, as older generations tended to do."

The big picture: Jones also points to a megatrend — "the disillusionment with the political system, U.S. institutions and the two parties, which are seen as ineffectual, too political and too extreme."

Fun fact: Every election since 2004 — except 2012 — has seen the White House, Senate or House flip control. Antsy, unsatisfied independent voters are the reason.

EDITORIAL: Open primaries in

artappraiser — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:31:33 +0000

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EDITORIAL: Open primaries in Pennsylvania would mean more than 1 million registered independents and third-party voters would no longer be shut out of elections their taxes help fund. https://t.co/QpNqQ7E0R5 pic.twitter.com/5P536BIMHY
— Open Primaries (@OpenPrimaryUSA) September 28, 2023

Education and political

artappraiser — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:28:54 +0000

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Education and political partisanship do not synch:

In Arizona, @12News politics and democracy reporter @BrahmResnick chronicles thousands of Arizonans organically registered for the state’s No Labels Party. Notes:
✅ half are under 35
most were independents or unregistered
large clusters in districts home to @ASU pic.twitter.com/ZIOcniggF0
— No Labels (@NoLabelsOrg) September 23, 2023

Stereotype busters at work:

artappraiser — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:10:28 +0000

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Stereotype busters at work:

Moms with college degrees work more hours per week than working class moms. They also earn more and are more likely to be married. Nevertheless, they *also* spend more time in intensive child care and educational activities with their kids. https://t.co/5wNUL8x3mR pic.twitter.com/px3Vom9Cj3
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 28, 2023