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atlantas commented on U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 6.52%, highest since mid-2008   reuters.com/markets/us/us... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
theandrewbailey · 3 years ago
People with adjustable or variable rate mortgages are probably full of regret right now.
atlantas · 3 years ago
RIP Canada. Over 50% of mortgages since 2021 are variable rate!

https://www.reuters.com/article/canada-banks-mortgage-rates-...

atlantas commented on Francis Fukuyama: Preparing for Defeat   americanpurpose.com/artic... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
atlantas · 4 years ago
> The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time.

Thankful for this, cooler heads prevailed. Despite relentless pressure coming from the news media and twitter demanding that we escalate.

atlantas commented on The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/jedwhite
QuercusMax · 4 years ago
Bigots. Those freaking about satanism and Harry Potter were bigots.

JK Rowling is an anti-trans bigot. She is the one freaking out about how trans women are going to rape children or something like that.

atlantas · 4 years ago
You are pushing the moral panic in question, and it will age even more poorly than the previous panic since it's targeting and smearing a woman instead of a story.
atlantas commented on The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/jedwhite
jaredandrews · 4 years ago
I remember in the early 2000s there was a similar reaction to Harry Potter. My family attended a rather extreme church at the time. One day the pastor started the sermon with: "We need to talk about Harry Potter". I thought "Ohhh nooooo, here we go".

He proceeded to berate the congregation, reminding every one that Harry Potter is a fictional children's book. Witches aren't real. Wizards aren't real. You know who is real? Satan and he's coming for ya, but not thru this fairytale book. Always thought that was pretty funny.

atlantas · 4 years ago
What is it about Harry Potter and moral panics?

Then "We need to talk about Harry Potter. The story is evil and will corrupt your kids!"

Today "We need to talk about Harry Potter. The author is evil and will corrupt your kids!"

atlantas commented on The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/jedwhite
spacemanmatt · 4 years ago
I'm not tracking a free speech panic in recent memory. Care to be more specific?
atlantas · 4 years ago
"master branch" and "grandfathered code" and "sanity check" are just a few of the terms suddenly deemed unacceptable.

Joe Rogan says dangerous things and must be silenced. Who is a Bernie supporter smeared as alt-right for saying unapproved things.

All kinds of campus panics about "unsafe" words and ideas. One example is a professor that said a word that sounds like another word during a lecture. It made some students uncomfortable and the professor was put on immediate leave.

People being cancelled for jokes they made a decade ago.

It just goes on and on.

atlantas commented on The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/jedwhite
unfocussed_mike · 4 years ago
> What are examples of moral panics on the "left" (American interpretation) end of the spectrum?

Centrism.

It is the universal moral panic of the far left in any democratic country. There's nothing that upsets the left more (I speak as someone largely on the centre-left; it's a reviled position)

atlantas · 4 years ago
Same, center left here too. It feels like a cult trying to purify itself. We're impure and must be cast out. I believe, however, that it's a very loud minority that is scaring the rest of us into silence. So it appears larger than it is.
atlantas commented on The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/jedwhite
spacemanmatt · 4 years ago
I am not that well-versed on moral panics. What are examples of moral panics on the "left" (American interpretation) end of the spectrum?
atlantas · 4 years ago
Free speech. Strangely that has somehow inverted in recent years. It wasn't long ago that censorship was the domain of the right who were in a panic about what's acceptable speech and actively trying to police it.
atlantas commented on DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”   twitter.com/yegg/status/1... · Posted by u/thallium205
PromKwing · 4 years ago
Yikes. Imagine replacing media outlets with a right-wing youtuber and thinking that's far more reliable.
atlantas · 4 years ago
Yikes. Imagine thinking Breaking Points is right-wing.

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