The short version is that he’s gutted public services in Florida and made life worse for nearly everyone there - while engaging in massive culture war bullshit to distract his base
Not to downplay that, it includes laws and discourse such as ‘Dont Say Gay’ and attacking school curriculums that are incredibly damaging. He’s the guy that flew refugees to Martha’s Vineyard to ‘make a point’
https://time.com/6266618/ron-desantis-florida-governance-essay/
The font and moster-zombie dude is Iron Maiden (Eddy). I dont know if its AI or not but its not a real album cover, just a meme
Pavlov’s dog is not notable for showing that dogs could be conditioned (bell = food time)
What it did was show that a conditional response (bell = food time) could cause a reflexive response (saliva)
Classical conditioning is not the same as associative learning.
Pavlov’s dog is not about associating Thing A with Thing B - that didn’t need a russian scientist to prove.
‘Cost’ is applicable, because this money is money that has factored into the budget and public soending every year. To make up for not having it, you would need to find or cut the same amount of money elsewhere.
For what its worth, the reason that Tories want to cut this is because it disproportionately taxes the wealthy, and specifically generational wealth. Assets under £375,000 (iirc) are not taxed on inheritance
Of course tax billionaires and business properly, but cutting inheritance tax will increase the wealth gap and cost the goverment money at a time when vital public services are still suffering from 13 ongoing years of austerity
I think partially its because evolutionarily speaking, high calorie foods like sugar and fats were rarer and useful. So the brain is like, ‘yes i need this to live, find more’
But now we live in a society that has all these resources and can exploit this, and we have to actively stop ourselves from over-indulging.
Ive heard - take it with a pinch of salt cos it might be bollocks - that thats why even as recently as a few centuries ago the western beauty standard was… plumper/chubbier. It signified wealth and prosperity, and i guess the ability to survive a lean winter
Just because you don’t highlight ‘all ages events’ doesn’t mean it’s not part of the quote
Yup! And all we get for it is healthcare, childcare, college tuition, pensions, sick leave, maternity leave…
They definitely didnt help, nor did the right wing media or the Labour Party centrists undermining him
But ultimately he lost because of Brexit.
In his first election, despite the pressure against him, he took the Tories to a hung parliament and forced them to make a deal with the DUP. Cos people were sick of Austerity and liked his domestic platform
But when managing Brexit became the main issue in 2019(?), Johnson had a really strong message of ‘oven-ready brexit’, ‘get it done’, and Labour didn’t have a coherent strategy. They didnt want to go full ‘reverse it’, cos lots of votes for Brexit came from Labour seats. They also didnt want to go full ‘get out deal or no deal’ because generally the left and progressive voters were anti-brexit.
Corbyn was elected to the leadership on the strength of his domestic and anti-austerity policies, and when the focus shifted to Brexit he was out of his comfort zone.
That’s my analysis anyway. I liked Corbyn’s foreign policy, but it wasn’t what built his popularity