Kinda wishing I’d bought up a bunch of extra UV-C bulbs before yesterday’s wordsaladbar; this would finally be my chance to fleece the MAGATs. (Though is it really fleecing if you’re selling them something that actually works?)
ETA: Just purchased the last 254nm Death Ray™ bulb from BulbAmerica.com’s inventory. At this rate, reselling those might be my new retirement plan.
Did “some experts” sound vaguely cautious about injecting disinfectant too? Because otherwise I might me tempted to rince out my eyes.
Eye bleach might be a common meme, but it’s definitely dangerous. You’re probably better off using ocular spoons.
Ocular spoons? Makes me think of King Lear. “Out, vile jelly!”
If I may quote that great and wise sage Tom Lehrer:
“And when he saw what he had done,
He plucked his eyes out, one by one.”
Given that the left is against the moneyed classes, what purpose would this serve? Oh, you mean Soros, don’t you.
Really? They aren’t lamenting not being able to get bread or enough food to feed their family. They are lamenting the temporary unavailability of gourmet mustard. It’s not a nuance, it’s a fundamental difference.
Hah. My wife is in "retention specialist hell’ even as we speak.
Except she’s not; that a bit of hyperbolic rhetoric at the end of the op-ed. The tweet does a twitter-typical job of mischaracterizing the op-ed, which is about how the current shortages – not only their existence, but the way they’re creeping up – has triggered her memories of the way shortages crept up in Cuba when she lived there. It is an interesting op-ed, not deserving of the scolding it got. She’s a good writer, and I’m now thinking of seeking out her books.
It is starting to feel a bit Soviet in the grocery stores: “Hmm, no butter today, but they have chicken again.”
So someone who fled Cuba in the Mariel boatlift is not permitted to point out that the current food shortages are reminding them of what they remember from their life in Cuba?
You are giving an overly generous interpretation of that “opinion” piece, and adding implications to my criticism that don’t exist.
They are allowed to say whatever they wish, and anyone else is allowed to be critical.
It drives home the point that we’re not facing anything close to food shortages. We’re thousands of miles away from food shortages. So comparing it to Cuba, or even the Soviet Union is seriously bad-faith bullshirt. She comes off as a spoiled New Yorker, whining about not being able to get a Katz’s pastrami sandwich and having to make do with Broadway Deli instead, regardless of her background.
Of course; anyone can sign up for Twitter and say whatever they want.
Nothing like that in her op-ed either. Maybe I’m reading the wrong article? Have a link?
Yes, and people can also say whatever they want in an article labeled by the paper as “opinion”.
Once they get the platform, sure.
?!? The baking chocolate from Minnesota?
Besides, it’s right in the title. “Waiting in line for food.” That’s disingenuous. She’s not waiting in line for food. She’s waiting in line (for plentiful food) so that the store doesn’t get crowded with people, infecting hundreds and killing dozens. She’s waiting in line to stay out of the ICU, not for food.
It’s a false equivalence that plays well to the Upper West Side and possibly even to the Brooklyn nouveau riche but falls flat when the reason she’s getting her Cuba flashback is to save her life not because of any lack of food.
That observation I can agree with.
It’s a good reminder that the people who left Cuba in 1980 really have no first-hand knowledge of what the last 50 years have been like there, which also helps explain why so many of them are (counter-intuitively) staunch Republicans.
