Because economics is not a science; it’s a philosophy. He’s telling rich people exactly what they want to hear, and that is a grift that will never run out.

That, or he just learned how to do a PITT maneuver and was dying to try it out.

Normally I’d agree with you, but the fuckup here is that the police department specifically instructs drivers to do a thing (turn on flashers, drive to a safe area) and the cop rammed her car when she did that exact thing. It’s a bit hard for police officers to argue QI when they’re doing the opposite of what they…

It’s weird that you can’t even imagine doing so when the police department to which this officer belongs not only can imagine doing so, but specifically tells drivers to do exactly what this woman did.

“look what you made me do to you”

Bagless vacuums also don’t require spending money on replacement bags - and there is zero reason to buy anything other than a HEPA-compliant bag if one has allergies.

That’s extremely strange - most employment law firms in the US don’t charge precisely because the people who most need their help don’t have overflowing bank accounts (and anyway they make money off contingency fees). Have you checked with your state or county bar association? Often they have programs where you can be…

Wow, it’s awfully dusty in my office this morning.

You know that joke about the drunk who loses his keys in a dark alley, but looks for it under the streetlamp because ‘the light is better here’? That’s Johnson and the other lads pretending they want to stop sexual violence. They don’t want to look at their own complicity and acceptance, they don’t want to change…

Don’t forget that Vincent Chin’s family won a lawsuit against these racist fucksticks, who then moved out of state and have been dodging the judgment against them ever since. For decades they were unrepentant, and now that the Internet is making it hard to fade into the background, Ebens has made some vaguely sorry…

If it helps, one reason he ‘gets through life’ is that people like your FB friend smooth the way for him. I’m not saying you should ditch your friend, but she can enable her dumbfuck husband without your help.

Every generation complains that some other generation is coddled and thinks it’s special so nah.

Just block him. You’re never going to get through to him, and he enjoys the attention.

Oh yes, the “provocateur” who is shocked to discover that when they provoke people, sometimes those people will react in ways they don’t like.

It’s nothing new. Standard cognitive dissonance, based around a fragile core identity. When your whole self-image is sunk into being the smart, unique individual who sees things the sheeple can’t, you reject any pesky thoughts that conflict with that self-image. 

So, again, those are criticisms that could have been raised thoughtfully in an entirely separate conversation that didn’t happen. This wasn’t that. It was somebody shitposting a popular Insta for attention. “Texas Bee Lady supports Trump!!!” had nothing to do with saving pollinators, bees getting tangled in one’s…

When you decide as a matter of principle that it’s impossible for you to be wrong or do anything wrong, it’s very easy to simply dismiss any thoughts that conflict with that hypothesis.

This is correct. Beekeeping does not directly ‘save the bees’ any more than keeping chickens helps protect endangered birds. Of course, it does ‘save the bees’ indirectly, in that people like honey and like the crops that honey bees pollinate, and those positive feelings wash over into a desire to protect the…

Losing a few bees to stings is not going to be a catastrophe for pollinators as a whole. I appreciate the effort you put into making this stretch, but truly, this isn’t someone offering reasonable criticism of Instagram Beekeeping Lady, it’s the tired old bullshit where someone with fewer followers tries to pull clout…

Yeah, I imagine she spends a lot of time after those shoots combing propolis and bee poop out of her hair.