RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2020

February 2020
Democracy Now held a debate between Paul Krugman, a standard Keynesian economist, and, a Marxian economist, about the Bernie Sanders movement and American socialism. You can read the transcript here Bernie Sanders and the Socialist ethic: what it means for the Democratic Party to nominate a Sanders-style socialist The hysteria over Sinn Féin entering government is about power, not the past Climate change denialists, like the Heartland Institute have now started to push a 19-year-old German young lady Naomi Seibt as their "anti-Greta"... aaaaaand in a plot twist that will surprise absolutely nobody, it turns out that she's also a white nationalist and virulent anti-Semite. the 100 year life What would a second Trump term look like? Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots that are amplifying denialism To tackle inequality, we need to challenge the Thatcherite narrative about where wealth comes from The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? In the aftermath of the Iowa fiasco, here are 5 key takeaways. Homemaking for women has been reinvented for alt-right generation, as #tradwife. 'If China valued free speech, there would be no coronavirus crisis' - Country could have contained the spread of disease if only it had learned lessons from Sars outbreak How fears of the coronavirus led to a heavy wave of anti-Asian racism. UPDATE: Here is another source. Pete Buttigieg's ties to the national security elite of the US revealed and explored in depth. Why does Mayo Pete, whom was previously an obscure mayor of a third rate Indiana city, have so many endorsements from coup hit-men and mercenary companies? This expose goes over exactly that. Why facemasks won't protect you against coronavirus: there's little evidence on how to prevent disease spread through the air, and masks are subject to little regulation and most aren't very effective (with gaps around the side).