Reality Tunnel Vision

 Last night was the first debate in the 2024 cycle between presumptive nominees Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It was not a good night for Biden. If we're being honest if anyone else had been on that stage with Trump and given the same answers Biden did we'd be talking about how handily they won the debate. As it is many of us are worried that this is the choice of candidates we have. The most unfortunate aspect is that Biden's performance has the focus all on him, and no one is paying attention to the stream of lies that came from Trump. But even more than the lies, there were more telling moments of accidental truth that came out last night that flew under the radar thanks to Biden's mumbling and thousand yard stares. The first came when Trump was talking about abortion. He said he would not make abortion medication illegal. He was talking about  the difference in opinion about limits, and he stated, that "we have to get elected". I have seen no one comment on ...

  I recently had what I felt was an odd exchange on Reddit. Someone was saying that a story posted was untrue because the poster said something about $45 for a steak being expensive. They said that $45 for a steak was in fact very cheap. I pointed out that while that may be true for the area where they live, some things have different costs in different parts of the country. In my area, for example, a $45 steak is pretty expensive. I was met with a rather bewildering rage for this idea that things do not cost the same amount of money in every town and city in the country. One commenter insisted that he travelled for work and had definitely eaten where I live and that $45 steak was cheap. He went on to say that my ignorance of the cost of steak where I live must be attributable to my terrible taste in food. All because I pointed out that someone else's experience might be different than their own. The same day on a later thread I saw people claiming that basically all white people a...