Sharon McMahon
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324 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 25 Feb
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If they could just like, oh, they lowered gas prices. Right. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
You obviously don't know how gas is priced.
I live near an oil refinery that gets its crude oil from a pipeline from Canada and they refine it and then put it on trains and trucks put all over the world. And gas is like 285 near my house, right? And we don't have $4 in state taxes, but neither do we have 35 million people trying to occupy a very small area of environmentally fragile land. It's complicated. It's very complicated.
Anybody who tries to reduce the economy into the words a president speaks into a microphone or a telephone either does not have an understanding of how the economy actually works and thus we shouldn't be listening to you. Or they do understand how it works and they're lying, in which case we shouldn't listen to you. Yes.
So that person should be regarded with suspicion if they're like, well, such and such had low gas prices. Why? Explain the mechanism by which gas prices were low under their presidency then.
I think it's really easy to feel like on the internet criticizing people, it creates this heightened emotional state. A great example of this is Hurricane Helene. Absolutely devastating to people in North Carolina in particular, Florida, Georgia, six states that have been affected by this hurricane. So many people have lost everything.
And people look around and they see what they view as an inadequate female response, federal government emergency response to this natural disaster. And they feel like if I am mad about it, And I'm posting about how mad I am about it, or I'm posting about how they're not doing enough. But that is in some way activism. That being mad on the internet is activism.
They feel like it is because they feel a heightened emotional response. They feel like by criticizing the federal government or criticizing the governor of such and such, blah, blah, blah, that they're doing something. I think it's worth remembering that there's nobody in our history book who went down as somebody who really changed the world.
And that person was somebody who just wrote mean tweets or somebody who just wrote letters being like, your response is terrible. I don't approve of anything you've done. The people who history smiles kindly upon are the people who actually did stuff. They're the doers. I think it's important for us to realize that, like, did anybody get clean drinking water because of my post on X today?
Does anybody go to bed with food tonight because I've left some mean comments on Facebook? Probably not. Nothing has changed.
I can see what you're saying that there's enough social media outrage about something that can influence what's covered by the news.
That doesn't change anything even though they're talking about it.
Right now, just using the Helene response as another example, the news is spending an inordinate amount of time debunking lies on social media about how FEMA works and about what the actual response is. And that actually makes it so that resources are diverted. away from people who actually need help.
If these organizations, instead of publicizing ways to get help, ways that FEMA can help you, where to go to apply for assistance, how to contact your homeowners insurance, et cetera, if they are spending all of their time being like, no, the hurricane wasn't man-made to try to win the election for Kamala Harris, that's literally what the New York Times is spending its time doing. Yeah.
That's a waste of resources.
That's a waste of effing time. Let's focus on helping people who actually need it. There's a difference between raising awareness of something like these people really need our help. Over the last few days, I have personally raised a half a million dollars for people who are impacted by Hurricane Helene.
I can simultaneously talk about, yeah, Congress doesn't fund FEMA well enough to actually help all these people. I can say that thing as a true thing. It's my belief that Congress needs to get their rear in gear and stop spending time arguing on TV cameras and actually do something on behalf of the American people.
I can simultaneously hold that as true while also actually not just spending all my time running my mouth. And actually move my hands and feet to do something to help. Can I do everything? No. Can I do something? Yes. I can leverage my platform to do something instead of just criticizing. I think we just feel like if we're angry, that will change things.
And ultimately, running your mouth doesn't produce the kind of change that you think it should.
Yeah, the dopamine hate of as soon as I'm like, you know who is the worst? Females. Yeah, I hate them too. Like you get this like validation of like we both hate the same thing. And then we feel like we're on the same team and it produces this feedback loop in our brains. You feel like you're making a difference because other people agree with you.
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