“‘Why are there so many people in line who need soup?’ The truth is, they need soup because they’re not paid enough…And so, you can scoop soup—or you can…pay people enough so they don’t fucking need to go to the soup kitchen to get their food.” https://t.co/PdqETk1nxk

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) December 25, 2020

I thought this was biting satire until I scrolled up a bit and saw a link to the story 😑 https://t.co/IQ1yUsugUG

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) August 30, 2020

Anyway, support ranked choice voting.https://t.co/A5ZI2Nr1Hp

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) March 8, 2020

The candidates didn’t have much space to say anything so most of ‘em said nothing at all (if they even responded). Which is why I appreciate that Michael Bennett started off his response with some actual things we can do. Otherwise this article would have been unremarkable.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) March 8, 2020

Problem: politics, big business, us vs them, people these days, meanies
Solution: be nice, work together, “me”

It’s platitudes all the way down.https://t.co/xWu7tQfT7L

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) March 8, 2020

It me: There’s an early Edith Wharton story where a character observes the constraints of speaking a foreign tongue: “Don’t you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time, not what one wants to, but what one can?” https://t.co/ghrvJALGAi

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) February 26, 2020

“be charitable toward others as a path to good living”https://t.co/EzZZdRtA4K

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) January 24, 2020

Skepticism has its place, but who are we to be skeptics when we are unable to understand the evidence before us.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) December 6, 2019

This is, truly, a philosophical ideal for our time. But I imagine it can also lead down a dangerous path for what evidence is truly sufficient in a world that has become so complex.

Believing Without Evidence Is Always Morally Wrong https://t.co/XY6BStDDGy

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) December 6, 2019

Meanwhile I blew off my daughter telling me she saw it get hit. Because mornings are crazy in this house. Good job me.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) December 3, 2019