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jacremes

  1. @exileinflyville @sarahljaffe Suffice to say I'm not mollified. As @SarahM said, this isn't a competition of his different policies.
  2. @exileinflyville @sarahljaffe "leave my drinks alone" rhetoric I keep seeing.
  3. @exileinflyville @sarahljaffe Yes. Of course. There's a very ugly class component. I'M NOT DEFENDING BLOOMBERG. I'm just responding to the
  4. @SarahM Agreed entirely.
  5. Marina Keegan, a leader in Yale's Don't-Work-for-Wall-Street movement has died, six days after her graduation. yalealumnimagazine.com/blog/?p=14793
  6. Good news from @masseydaniel: the Sotheby's lockout, a big OWS target, is finally over. crainsnewyork.com/article/201205… via @mikeelk
  7. @sarahljaffe I know.
  8. @sarahljaffe Not either/or.
  9. @sarahljaffe best or most efficient way to fix this social problem. But the rhetoric I'm seeing over my twitter misses the social context.
  10. @sarahljaffe Sure. Bloomberg's an asshole. It's absurd that he thinks this is ok but a living wage law is communism. And this isn't the
  11. @sarahljaffe ...water.)
  12. @sarahljaffe ...what's offered to me. (Although there is a difference between the relatively whole foods I ate and corn syrup suspended in
  13. @sarahljaffe Yes, sure. If it hadn't been on the menu, I'd never have ordered it. My choices are also not made outside of the context of...
  14. @sarahljaffe Nobody is talking about restricting individuals' consumption of anything.
  15. forces are more hidden and most people buy into a "personal responsibility" ethos for food and health.
  16. that road and you end up in Lochner-era freedom of contract territory. I fail to see how this is different, other than that the social...
  17. Most regulations impinge individual freedom. What about my "right" to work in unsafe conditions? Or to drive an unsafe car? Go too far down
  18. Regulation of what can and cannot be sold is a key way we address social problems.