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Opinion: How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | The Observer
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Even dickheads love their dogs. Find a way to connect to those you disagree with. “The obvious mistakes of those who find themselves in opposition are to break off relations with those who disagree with you,” texts Vera Krichevskaya, the co-founder of TV Rain, Russia’s last independent TV station. “You cannot allow anger and narrow your circle.”
Pay in cash. Ask yourself what an international drug trafficker would do, and do that.
He’s thinking about flying a SpaceX rocket to Mars and raping and pillaging its rare earth minerals before anyone else can get there. We need a 30-year road map out of this.
- Take the piss. Humour is a weapon. Any man who feels the need to build a rocket is not overconfident about his masculinity. Work with that.
the last time trumps incompetence as president caused a million americans to die in the span of one year due to an inept and purposefully sandbagged federal global viral pandemic response. he's going to beat that number this time.
There’s a 3 part series on the Reveal podcast about how the numbers were tracked. It wasn’t the CDC. It wasn’t anything federal trump established. It was 2 guys at The Atlantic collating data of each state individually and putting it together. They had rotating volunteer helpers. That was it.
And the federal government, and everyone else, received the data from them.
So you're saying it was much, much worse than a million, and the federal government took it because it made them look better?
Who knows? The larger takeaway is collating data on a pandemic isn’t even what the CDC does. It’s something left to the individual states, such that, without a body of data collectors there is NO national picture of the numbers.
Two enterprising young men from the Atlantic made it happen, with a bunch of people like you and me who were committed to being the helpers Mr Rogers talked about, insofar as they were able.
So for me, Trumps failure was