Gruel New Deal
March 1, 2019 8:17 AM   Subscribe

“The details of Twist’s plan for supplementary gruel have never been made entirely clear ...Asking for more is really out of touch with basic economics.” An Unprecedented Twist, A plan for supplementary gruel must be rejected (Harper’s Blog)
posted by The Whelk (7 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite
 
Truly a modest proposal and equitable analysis in the Swiftian tradition...
posted by jim in austin at 8:37 AM on March 1, 2019 [3 favorites]


I love the dickens out of this.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:56 AM on March 1, 2019 [7 favorites]


It boggles my mind that this writer is also @getfiscal, one of the great weird-Catholic-left-twitter shitposters of our time.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 9:12 AM on March 1, 2019 [2 favorites]


This is brilliant.
posted by medusa at 9:59 AM on March 1, 2019


Spot-on satire. Also, horrifying.
posted by j_curiouser at 10:07 AM on March 1, 2019


This is amazing. I know that I’ll be mentally superimposing the “Teslas vs Twists” dichotomy onto brow-furrowing opinion pieces for a long time to come.
posted by chappell, ambrose at 10:34 AM on March 1, 2019


Every time a child gets mangled in a machine, they are quick to blame the machine.
Holy shit, paging Matthew Yglesias.
posted by chappell, ambrose at 10:41 AM on March 1, 2019 [4 favorites]


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