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30 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
We’re looking forward to the Veggie Tales reboot where Larry explains the costs of neoliberal globalization. Image
This is an important point, in all seriousness: trade can and does brings benefits, but we need to look at the costs for all those cheap consumer products that don’t get rung up at the cash register.
Since we’re talking about socks, Fort Payne, Alabama was the sock capital of the world until the 1990’s. One small town literally made 1 in 8 socks on the planet, and the factories employed more than half the town.

Most of that’s gone now.
At least one company in Fort Payne is still doing it, we’re happy to say:

zkano.com
We realize we didn’t actually quote the part where Phil was talking about socks:

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1 Apr
We are thrilled to announce that, after much deliberation, a suitable site has been chosen for our first in-person National convention: Beautiful Utqiagvik, Alaska! Image
This historic and close-knit burg lies just a few miles from Point Barrow on the idyllic Beaufort Sea. As it turns out, meeting space comes at a real discount in Utqiagvik, particularly during the off-season in late January. Image
This will also be an invaluable opportunity to bring our whole-life message to an area where ASP organizing has been relatively sparse. Image
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24 Mar
The thing about mass shootings is that they are a meme–in the original sense of the word, that is. They are a cultural template for a certain way people behave that has been propagated overtime (like a gene in biology).
That is, for a certain subset of isolated, angry, unstable men (usually it’s men), lashing out at the world with a gun has become a recognizable pattern that they can emulate to deal (if you can call it that) with their inner rage. One commentator called it a “slow-motion riot.”
Unhappiness and mental/emotional struggles exist in every society. But this particular deadly meme has only really come to the forefront in ours during the last several decades.
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23 Mar
One of the distasteful aspects of our national mass-shooting ritual is the part where we all speculate about the motives and identity of the shooter before we know anything about them, just to make sure we can get a dunk in on our ideological opponents.
We're not saying "don't politicize this," because there often are real social and political issues at play. What we *are* saying is that people should question their kneejerk reactions when those reactions are always to blame groups of people they are already inclined to dislike.
On that note: tragedies like this are just as worthy of our attention as the more dramatic Columbine-style mass shootings are (maybe more so, as they're distressingly common). But it's rare that they're discussed except as rhetorical point-scoring.

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23 Mar
Watch these guys unironically post something immediately afterward about the vital importance of Judeo-Christian values to our civilization.
As the guys at PragerU should know, one the better takes on Ayn Rand remains that of Whittaker Chambers, a long-time Soviet spy who recanted, then became a political conservative and a writer for National Review.

He wrote this in 1957. It's still true.

whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/bi…
From Chambers' review of Atlas Shrugged:

"The news about this book seems to me to be that any ordinarily sensible head could possibly take it seriously, and that, apparently, a good many do. Somebody has called it: “Excruciatingly awful.” I find it a remarkably silly book."
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22 Mar
Uh...is this a bad thing, Senator?
There are legitimate ways to criticize the Biden administration's immigration policy (including in ways it fails to live up to those "humane treatment" claims).

"Actually we should be crueler" is not it, though.
You would think immigration hawks would be invested in thinking that border enforcement and humane treatment are not incompatible (which most people agree with, broadly speaking).

Instead the attitude we often get is:

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18 Feb
Looks like PragerU didn't catch our thread yesterday.

It's kinda weird, though, that a group that praises Judeo-Christian values so much is also pushing this sort of content, which equates morality with pure liberalism, in the classical sense of the word.
Then again this is the same group that made a video with Jesus helping a homeless guy become an entrepreneur, so we probably shouldn't be surprised.
Markets are useful things. We like markets.

The fact that market transaction takes place without physical force or fraud doesn't make its results *good*, though.
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