2rafa
26d ago
They have easy app food delivery even in countries without mass immigration, and (get this) they also have it in countries with mass immigration where that immigration is temporary, limited, of economic value and NEVER leads to even the hope of any pathway to citizenship (like the gulf countries).
2rafa
28d ago
The relative proportion of translators in the Afghan population is challenged only by the proportion of journalists in the Gazan population.
2rafa
28d ago
I’m not really talking about actual welfare like medicare, food stamps and social security, which most federally elected Republicans have essentially accepted since the Great Society / their implementation; even libertarians like Massie are only halfheartedly lukewarm on them. Machine politics is a mix but again Republicans have embraced it at various times before if never quite to the extent of the most famous Democratic cases. The general popularity is kind of vibes based though, and I think the triumphalism around the vibe is somewhat overwrought. The credit cycle will end at some point (it has every time in the 350 year history of capitalism), times will get tough, an economic populist message will hit and the left have one pre-made. The right can rehash the Tea Party ideology but it’s very far removed from the large scale deficit spending of the Trump admin.
2rafa
29d ago
I think Trump is holding the Republican coalition together. I do think that a lot of the recent obsession (Dreher etc) with the “groypers” is somewhat overdone - which isn’t to say they aren’t a major force - but there are divisions. There was a lot of triumphalism on the right this year, some of it overestimates the hatred for the entire left platform, which was more about the total cavalcade of woke stuff than every individual point. A lot of the particular rightist beliefs taken for granted even on regular trad (not dissident right) twitter are not hugely popular or widespread among many groups who vote Republican. Violent crime rates are also falling in many places, and suddenly rising crime rates from 2020-2023 was a very real and powerful driver of Republican gain in vote share among all demographics.
Almost all modern gastronomy (I’m not just talking about Michelin starred fine dining, but like basic techniques) is downstream of French cooking, including the techniques a 21st century upper-middle tier restaurant in Indianapolis or Salt Lake City might use.
In 1959, what a normal PMC American today would consider “good [western] restaurant food” (again, with no pretensions to ‘fine dining’, just the kind of thing you get in the decent restaurant of a four star hotel), existed in maybe 20 restaurants in NYC and a dozen each in Los Angeles, DC and Chicago. A few others scattered around the country in various other cities, maybe a few in Boston, that kind of thing. The food that The Four Seasons in NYC, probably at that time the best restaurant in the country (and which itself only opened in 1959), was on a level below what you could find at thousands, probably tens of thousands, of restaurants across America today.
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