Paul Krugman

[jon-nyc]

Jesus fuck.

[Copper]

I see it in both posts Klaus & Rainman.

I saw it in Klaus' original post a while ago.

[Klaus]

I think this is some kind of timeout when the tweet doesn't load fast enough. I'll investigate later.

[Catseye3]

I'm not seeing it, either.

[jon-nyc]

I see it fine.

[Renauda]

I see nothing as well. Can someone provide a precis? Jon perhaps?

[Catseye3]

Okay, that's it. Ima do some painting on my street in big yellow letters:

TNCR Lives Matter

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

Yeah but what about all those conservative scientists and academics saying crazy racist murderous things on twitter? Why only cherry pick one progressive Nobel prize winner who says crazy racist murderous things?

[jon-nyc]

The more I think about it the more I realize it’s a specific reference to the guy from the Villages video (that Trump retweeted) who yelled ‘white power’ repeatedly.

[Doctor Phibes]

Yeah, it's clearly a reference to the 'white-power' guy, but it's still in very poor taste.

Personally, I feel the world would be a better place without Twitter. It brings out the absolute worst in people.

[Catseye3]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Paul Krugman:

Personally, I feel the world would be a better place without Twitter. It brings out the absolute worst in people.

[Nodding.] It cultivates the stupid.

What's disturbing is that even if you could do away with social media in one fell swoop tomorrow, you won't do away with their effects for a very long time, if ever. The alterations will have sunk in too deep to be gotten rid of in less than a generation, at least.

[jon-nyc]

@Renauda said in Paul Krugman:

I see nothing as well. Can someone provide a precis? Jon perhaps?

I posted it as a screen capture image but if you still can’t see it, Krugman tweeted out an article from Bloomberg about Florida seeing an uptick in cases in the 75+ crowd.

But he prefaced it with the comment “Reality is coming for white supremacists driving golf carts”

[Loki]

Nobel Prize winner reduced to Twitter rants. Hahahahaha

[Catseye3]

Maybe the Nobel Prize is like the Oscars; you can have a whole raft of lousy candidates and the least lousy is the winner, and Krugman was the least lousy that year.

[Horace]

@Loki said in Paul Krugman:

Nobel Prize winner reduced to Twitter rants. Hahahahaha

He's been maximizing his pop culture fame and approval for quite a while now. It's perfectly reasonable in his own emotional economy.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said in Paul Krugman:

@Renauda said in Paul Krugman:

I see nothing as well. Can someone provide a precis? Jon perhaps?

I posted it as a screen capture image but if you still can’t see it, Krugman tweeted out an article from Bloomberg about Florida seeing an uptick in cases in the 75+ crowd.

But he prefaced it with the comment “Reality is coming for white supremacists driving golf carts”

Yes, I see it now. Thanks.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Paul Krugman:

The more I think about it the more I realize it’s a specific reference to the guy from the Villages video (that Trump retweeted) who yelled ‘white power’ repeatedly.

I think the “white power” guy is getting a bad rap. It looked like the other guys were calling them racist and he was kind of mocking it.

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Paul Krugman:

@jon-nyc said in Paul Krugman:
I think the “white power” guy is getting a bad rap. It looked like the other guys were calling them racist and he was kind of mocking it.

Well, I didn’t accept that as an excuse with Sarah Jeong, I won’t do it with this guy either.

[LuFins Dad]

Sarah Jeong had a history of repeated tweets and quotes. With this guy you have 3 seconds of video with no context before or after.

In college, we had to attend something called Freshman Lab, where there would be a lecture and discussion period about relevant social issues that can affect college students. During the date rape lab, we had this feminazi come in and start the lab stating “Look around this room. There are eight men in here. One of them will rape somebody in college and 4 of the others will want to, but not have the balls to do it” then she went off into a litany of false claims and ridiculous stereotypes. (For context, this was a women’s college at the time. The only men allowed were fine arts majors. 4500 women, 43 men on campus...).

Well, this pissed off the guys as you can imagine, so we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening running around campus yelling things like “Oooh, she’s wearing pants! She’s asking for it!” and similar stupid crap. I could definitely see something like that in this case.