Lauren Persoff
@laurenpersoff.bsky.social
NYC, Gen X, frittering away my time reading about politics and watching clever videos made by zoomers
Polls say a majority of Black voters support Cuomo
June 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Polls say a majority of Black voters support Cuomo
Lander Myrie Stringer A Adams, and Mamdani in 5th — only because Cuomo would be even worse. I think Mamdani would be a disaster just like Johnson in Chicago but maybe that would finally cure many of the people who vote in Dem primaries of their delusions
June 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Lander Myrie Stringer A Adams, and Mamdani in 5th — only because Cuomo would be even worse. I think Mamdani would be a disaster just like Johnson in Chicago but maybe that would finally cure many of the people who vote in Dem primaries of their delusions
Haha yes I once drove the entire triangle from Scranton to Stroudsberg to Wilkes-Barre PA trying to get to NYC
June 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Haha yes I once drove the entire triangle from Scranton to Stroudsberg to Wilkes-Barre PA trying to get to NYC
The map app is the thing I love most about my smartphone and I will never ever give it up. Road maps were an incredible pain in the ass, so hard to fold, so easy to get lost so matter how carefully you consulted it ahead of time. Any loss of my mental map of my town is a small price to pay
June 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The map app is the thing I love most about my smartphone and I will never ever give it up. Road maps were an incredible pain in the ass, so hard to fold, so easy to get lost so matter how carefully you consulted it ahead of time. Any loss of my mental map of my town is a small price to pay
Soon to be ex-gf I’d wager! So fun to be someone’s “pretty exhausting” gf!
April 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Soon to be ex-gf I’d wager! So fun to be someone’s “pretty exhausting” gf!
Good! Lots of Americans fully support Canadians boycotting this country for the duration of this regime. We wish we could become Canadian!
March 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Good! Lots of Americans fully support Canadians boycotting this country for the duration of this regime. We wish we could become Canadian!
He’s not wrong?!?! He’s ending vaccine research, promoting crank theories, slashing HHS staff, yanking health funding from state health departments, and on and on! Do you even read the news??? It’s not just “rhetoric” — RFK Jr is actively destroying public health.
March 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
He’s not wrong?!?! He’s ending vaccine research, promoting crank theories, slashing HHS staff, yanking health funding from state health departments, and on and on! Do you even read the news??? It’s not just “rhetoric” — RFK Jr is actively destroying public health.
Why were the socialist governments that governed vast areas of the globe unable to prosper economically as the West did? Wasn’t Europe devastated by WWII as well? Wasn’t Japan? For all their drawbacks, markets are enormously productive and centralized state-controlled economies haven’t been
March 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Why were the socialist governments that governed vast areas of the globe unable to prosper economically as the West did? Wasn’t Europe devastated by WWII as well? Wasn’t Japan? For all their drawbacks, markets are enormously productive and centralized state-controlled economies haven’t been
How did the US economy do before integration with China? During the 50 years from the end of WW 2 until 2000? And how did the USSR and China do economically in the same period of time?
March 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
How did the US economy do before integration with China? During the 50 years from the end of WW 2 until 2000? And how did the USSR and China do economically in the same period of time?
Most voters don’t like foreign aid, don’t understand the purpose of the Dept of Education, & support deporting people; many *like* a strongman. They do not care about democracy. Democrats need a positive vision and “let’s remove the obstacles to building prosperity” is a good start.
March 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Most voters don’t like foreign aid, don’t understand the purpose of the Dept of Education, & support deporting people; many *like* a strongman. They do not care about democracy. Democrats need a positive vision and “let’s remove the obstacles to building prosperity” is a good start.
You claim health is an area in which men have an advantage over women. I gave you data that refutes your blanket statement. You choose to believe that class is irrelevant to privilege or advantage. I would have thought an English person would be less class blind than Americans but I guess not!
March 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
You claim health is an area in which men have an advantage over women. I gave you data that refutes your blanket statement. You choose to believe that class is irrelevant to privilege or advantage. I would have thought an English person would be less class blind than Americans but I guess not!
Small instances? And you choose health as your example? Globally, in 2022, there were 200 deaths per 1,000 men between 15 and 60 years, and 133 per 1,000 women of the same age. Maybe things don’t break down as simplistically as men advantaged women disadvantaged?
March 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Small instances? And you choose health as your example? Globally, in 2022, there were 200 deaths per 1,000 men between 15 and 60 years, and 133 per 1,000 women of the same age. Maybe things don’t break down as simplistically as men advantaged women disadvantaged?
You believe that straight white men are uniformly advantaged? That just isn’t true. I don’t believe that all straight white men are advantaged. I am a bisexual white woman with a PhD. I have more “privilege” than many men.
March 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
You believe that straight white men are uniformly advantaged? That just isn’t true. I don’t believe that all straight white men are advantaged. I am a bisexual white woman with a PhD. I have more “privilege” than many men.
Of course racism exists. I’m not sure how that justifies blaming an entire group of people — working class men in this instance, of all colors — for falling behind educationally and economically. I shouldn’t have to explain intersectionality to you, right?
March 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Of course racism exists. I’m not sure how that justifies blaming an entire group of people — working class men in this instance, of all colors — for falling behind educationally and economically. I shouldn’t have to explain intersectionality to you, right?