this is a far, far bigger scandal than anything Peltola did, and the fact that the media refuses to treat it as such is embarrassing but not surprising

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If the NYT is so interested in the Alaska Senate race they should ask Dan Sullivan, who in 2016 said he could not support Trump due to "reprehensible revelations" about him, what he thinks about the latest rape allegation against Trump. Oh right I forgot: The NYT hasn't reported the new allegation.

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We have created an epistemic environment in which suffering most, being treated most unfairly, being most aggrieved, is the most reliable way to harvest attention & care, & so everybody's being steadily seduced into thinking that *they* are suffering too (don't they deserve a slice?). The problem...

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... is that we have pretty good psychological & sociological & political evidence that when people enter this zero-sum, scarcity mindset, they become more conservative. Literally. They become less generous, draw clearer lines & higher walls between in-groups & out-groups, grown less trustful ...

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The problem with saying “affluent people are feeling squeezed too” is that it makes you into 2000s Republican. The obvious policy response is tax relief, which then undercuts the redistributive policies necessary to help the people who genuinely can’t afford things.

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