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three paras in, already a seam of gold đź‘Ť
#government #media #NGO
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>Armed federal troops enforced [school bussing] The Little Rock Nine being escorted by the National Guard to
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>The doctrine requires that to qualify as constitutional, a law must:

>State explicitly what it mandates, and what is enforceable
>Potentially vague terms must be defined
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skewed incentives
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underappreciated:
a cottage industry of diversity consultants gave the system both permanence and a veneer of legitimacy
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historically, the same with "affirmative action": instituted ostensibly to help the african americans,

quickly co-opted by the women
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corporations love themselves some new moats of regulation
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by now there's a push underway to expand quotas to *individuals* in family planning
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#TIL

zampolit (plural zampolits)

(historical) A deputy commander for political affairs in the Soviet Union.
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supply creating its own demand
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>small departures from equality are allowed to be spoken
>but these departures narrow and become fewer
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the body is a mecha, a biosuit for the genes
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equalitarianism signalling is the new advertising
and nothing is too over the top
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an honest mistake:

the *lawyers* are one of the top dogs: both of the wokeism, and of the state. the state showers free money on victims - on their *counsels*, really - for the purpose of litigating the corporations - and *the state itself*
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authoritarianism: to protest you are required to acquiesce to the underlying narrative
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it's not clear whether a company stuffed full of "muh victims" will be *allowed* to fail.

perhaps "too victimized to fail" will be the new "too big to fail"? the large woke corps just *might* ride this one through.
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coupled with "work from home", this gives interesting dynamic:

a suburban wife, being paid out of her husband's productivity, to sit at home and gossip with friends, under the banner of "special projects".

the funny part of it is - this is sensible plan for b2c *marketing*

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5 Jan
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>THIS IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY

that's not the key.

let's compare with a historical precedent: the fall of the soviet union.
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the fall of the soviet union - theories abound:
- it was bankrupted by Star Wars
- it became too corrupt & incompetent to go on
- the people woke up and threw off the yoke of tyranny

bollocks.
it was the elites. Image
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early on in the soviet revolution they killed off nearly all of the elites - art, academia, military, science, management.

excepted were only the high-IQ, middle class "elites" at the extreme top of the bolshevik faction.

other than that, the USSR was bereft of the elites. Image
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when thinking about preparing rulebook:
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companies used to be in *hierarchical* identity structure; somewhere between family & village/city. ex: the guilds

advantage: natural cohesion.

however, /...

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however, this changed to companies being *orthogonal* to other identities. cohesion suffers.
(primordial intersectionalism?)

later on, the orthogonality has been enshrined in law:

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interesting thread, mostly solid, except the economic & political predictions.
2/
the political alignments aren't shifting, because the current ones did *exactly* what the established wanted: they kept the establishment in power; Reps as "spicy opposition"; DSA as "far left bogeyman"; Dems as "moderates in between".
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the economics point is a bit subtler:

- there is no need to *publicly* punish or shame anybody, because no group has been *officially* blamed for the economic meltdown

- no major economic players enter or leave the political scene (only the small & medium businesses)
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