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  • Public support for liberal policymaking at 60-year high, survey says

    06/09/2019 3:36:46 AM PDT · by Libloather · 29 replies
    The Hill ^ | 6/08/19 | RACHEL FRAZIN
    Americans' support for liberal policymaking has reached a 60-year high, according to a new survey. Vox reported that public support for more regulation, higher taxes and more social services reached the highest level on record in the latest edition of Policy Mood, an aggregate overview of American opinion based on a range of polls on a variety of issues. According to Vox, the finding was first reported by James Stimson, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina who has published numerous books on public opinion research. “The annual estimate for 2018 is the most liberal ever recorded in...
  • The Rise of Progressive Occultism

    06/08/2019 3:39:37 AM PDT · by C19fan · 29 replies
    American Interest ^ | June 8, 2019 | Tara Isabella Burton
    Back in March 2019, an elected government representative shared something personal about her spiritual identity. Not a preferred Bible verse or a conversion story. Rather, progressive New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared her birth-time with a self-described psychic and astrologer, Arthur Lipp-Bonewits, who in turn shared her entire birth chart with what can only be described as Astrology Twitter. Astrology Twitter went wild. So did the mainstream media, with outlets from Vox to The Cut to Allure speculating about what Ocasio-Cortez’s astrological chart could tell us about her fitness for political office. “AOC’s Aries Moon indicates that she’s emotionally fed...
  • Vox's Scorched Earth Plan Worked, Youtube Demonetized Steven Crowder And Others

    06/05/2019 8:52:04 PM PDT · by OddLane · 16 replies
    Youtube ^ | June 5, 2019 | Tim Pool
    Tim Pool's thoughts on Vox Media's censorship campaign and the latest AdPocalypse.
  • Vox: Daenerys Was Right To Burn King’s Landing To Establish A Strong Central Government

    05/28/2019 6:09:44 AM PDT · by C19fan · 20 replies
    Hot Air ^ | May 27, 2019 | John Sexton
    There’s a well-worn saying on the right: Scratch a progressive, find a fascist. Usually, that’s a bit of hyperbole to point toward the tendency of progressives to embrace top-down, big government solutions to every problem. But in this case, it’s almost literally true, though the real progressive is embracing a fictional fascist from the show Game of Thrones. Vox’s Matt Yglesias published a piece yesterday at Vox arguing that Daenerys was right to burn people alive in the city of King’s Landing because she needed to convince the entire kingdom not to question the dictates of a powerful central government.
  • Marvel fans, what are your 3 favorite and 3 least favorite marvel movies?

    05/07/2019 9:28:03 PM PDT · by MNDude · 31 replies
    Vox recently rated the 22 marvel movies 1 to 22. They put Black Panther as the best (although that is my least favorite). Don't know why they didn't include Xmen. Those would be among my first. https://www.vox.com/2019/4/30/18518196/best-marvel-movies-rankings-avengers-endgame So, what would put as your top and bottom 3?
  • Flight attendants know the real job killer isn’t the Green New Deal. It’s climate change.

    04/22/2019 4:59:29 PM PDT · by Libloather · 90 replies
    Vox ^ | 4/17/19 | Sara Nelson
    **SNIP** In my 23 years as a flight attendant and president of our union representing 50,000 others, I know firsthand the threat climate change poses to our safety and our jobs. But flight attendants and airline workers have been told by some pundits that the Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey’s environmental proposal, will ground all air travel. That’s absurd. It’s not the solutions to climate change that kills jobs. Climate change itself is the job killer. Severe turbulence is becoming more frequent and intense due in part to climate change. Research indicates that rising CO2...
  • The best $20,000 I ever spent: Starbucks every day of my adult life (millennial barf alert)

    04/11/2019 9:35:32 AM PDT · by simpson96 · 86 replies
    Vox ^ | 4/9/2019 | Mae Rice
    "Paying for a tiny dose of luxury doesn’t make me an irresponsible millennial." I’m in Starbucks right now, drinking what I always get: a venti iced coffee with hazelnut, soy, and caramel drizzle. It’s a case study in dribbly brown, a drink both Elle Woods and Dr. Evil would order, but it tastes great and costs less than $5 in the Twin Cities, unless you’re at the airport. I order it every day, except when the temperature falls below zero, or if I’ve earned a free drink on Starbucks’s rewards app. With a reward, I get the latte version of...
  • Billionaires are storing hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art on superyachts

    02/04/2019 2:54:08 PM PST · by Jyotishi · 70 replies
    Vox ^ | Monday, February 4, 2019 | Gaby Del Valle
    An article about the practice sparked outrage over income inequality. Luxury yachts in St. Tropez. Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images People who own yachts have lots of things to worry about. Is a yacht a good financial investment? (Usually not.) Will a group of class-warfare-waging rascals untie the boat from its dock, causing thousands of dollars in damage? (If you're Betsy DeVos, yes.) And then there's the latest concern plaguing superyacht owners: Is a yacht really a good place to store an art collection, which is worth more than the yacht itself? A growing number of billionaires -- at least...
  • The State Department is running on fumes.

    01/12/2019 7:22:03 PM PST · by 11th_VA · 69 replies
    VOX ^ | By Alex Ward on January 12, 2019 1:49 pm
    As the partial government shutdown stretches on with no clear end in sight, it’s affecting US embassy staff around the world — and making it harder for the US to conduct diplomacy abroad. Many of the State Department’s roughly 75,000 employees — 50,000 are employed locally in US embassies abroad — have found trouble progressing with their work and even, in some cases, struggling to put food on the table while they wait for the White House and Congress to strike a deal. That’s a big problem, since the State Department is America’s leading foreign relations agency. It now means...
  • It’s ridiculous that it’s unconstitutional for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president

    12/12/2018 2:48:21 PM PST · by C19fan · 80 replies
    Vox ^ | December 12, 2018 | Matthew Yglesias
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the biggest star in the Democratic Party, and she has been ever since she unseated Rep. Joe Crowley in a surprise primary upset in May. That her win didn’t, in the final analysis, launch a wave of leftist primary victories only goes to show what a phenomenon she personally is. Not everyone shares her brand of politics, of course, but her constituency has exploded beyond the initial set of ideologues who powered the challenge to Crowley because of her incredible wit, charisma, social media savvy, and basic political smarts. In a year when moderate incumbents generally didn’t...
  • 'Creep shot': Firestorm over photo of Ocasio-Cortez posted on Twitter

    11/16/2018 5:38:36 AM PST · by Libloather · 62 replies
    NBC News ^ | 11/15/18 | Allan Smith
    **SNIP** Twitter users proceeded to blast Scarry for the tweet. "Holy s---." wrote New York Post reporter Joe Tacopino. "She's wearing clothes." "A skirt AND shoes?!?" wrote TV director Miles Kahn. "Get a load of Marie-Antoinette over here." As of 6 p.m. ET, the tweet had more than 5,000 replies compared to roughly 50 retweets and 200 likes, creating what is known online as a "ratio" of more replies than retweets and likes. "Very curious how she speaks of struggling to afford an apartment in dc while also living rent-free in so many people's heads," wrote Josh Billinson of the...
  • Cory Booker’s plan to fight wealth inequality: give poor kids money

    10/22/2018 6:05:38 PM PDT · by EinNYC · 56 replies
    Vox.com ^ | October 22, 2018 | Sarah Kliffsarah
    America has a massive, growing racial wealth gap. The median white family today holds nearly 10 times the wealth of the median black family. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is introducing a bill aimed at closing that gap. His idea is to give lower-income kids a sizable nest egg (nearly $50,000 in some cases) that they could use for wealth-building purchases, like a down payment on a house or college tuition. These “opportunity accounts” would, theoretically, make sure all children have significant assets when they enter adulthood, rather than just those who grow up in wealthier homes. “It would be a...