Former business school professor, current software engineer. Writes at ordinary-times.com
Vikram Bath
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"respect our troops" they said
Pew: “Who has done the best job as president over the past 40 years?”
- Obama: 36%
- Reagan: 21%
- Trump: 19%
- Clinton: 11%
- W. Bush: 4%
- H.W. Bush: 3%
- Biden: 2% (ouch!)
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Want to lift this up a bit because it highlights how the conversation around masculinity is centered around a lot of racialized assumptions as well.
This went on for a while at a philosophical level until someone asked “hey, was this person actually one of our top candidates anyway?” and of course he wasn’t. People just want to have the philosophical debate.
Anyway, this reminds me of a Senate candidate
I think I’ve made it clear to everyone that I wouldn’t bring up with my wife any of the stuff I talk with y’all about unless I was threatened with bodily harm
Someone argued (somewhat stridently!) that this was information that was not part of the interview or job qualifications and thus couldn’t be considered 2/
There was a job search where they had trouble contacting one of the candidates they had interviewed. They called around and eventually discovered that he had gotten drunk and went to a strip club 1/
About four-in-ten Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (41%) say Reagan has done the best job as president over the past 40 years, compared with 37% who say Trump.
If this were TV, he’d be a problematic genius raising the question of how much could be tolerated to get all the good performance, but in real life the problematic person might not actually have any countervailing merits
Vikram Bath
ellie lockhart (she/they)
Google has decided that some small fraction of the web is legitimate and everything else outside of those sites are junk to never be linked to regardless of how relevant it is to the user’s search string
5000 words on why “that’s what he said” doesn’t work as a joke
