... "Corporations are woke, meaning left wing on social issues relative to the general population, because institutions are woke. So the question becomes why are institutions woke?"
... "... how bad people want something to happen ..." is a nice Gnon-slip.
... Rightists tend to have a religion, whilst Leftism is a religion?
... "Imagine a pyramid with voters at the bottom and full-time activists on top, and as you move up the pyramid it gets much narrower and more left-wing. Multiple strands of evidence indicate this would basically be an accurate representation of society."
... "The discussion here makes it hard to suggest reforms for conservatives. Do you want to give government more power over corporations? None of the regulators will be on your side. Leave corporations alone? Then you leave power to Woke Capital ..."
... "Conservatives may tell themselves that they are the normal people party, too satisfied and content to expend much time or energy on changing the world. But in the end, the world they live in will ultimately reflect the preferences and values of their enemies."
Hanania's First Law of Politics: The lunatics are always going to take over the asylum and there's probably nothing anyone can do to stop them.
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"Tessica Brown hired an attorney and is weighing litigation against Gorilla Glue, because while the product’s label warns against using on eyes, skin or clothing – it does not mention hair ..." nypost.com/2021/02/08/wom…
... Apologies for sharing this, but I had to know what "Gorilla Glue Hair Horror" was, so then you had to.
... The disparate impact of commercially available functional adhesives is an under-reported social crisis.
The foundational principle of Macro since its inception is that no deflationary currency should be permitted to exist.
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... Economics is going to be the professional discipline with the greatest anger management issues over the next few years. Krugman is the avatar of this. ...
... They'll recommend Bitcoin being crushed by government action, which would convert it from a comparatively docile exit option into a planetary war of secession. ...
... Macro-nationalism has always been the back door to socialism -- or even the front door -- and it will be again, once the Left gets its shit together. ...
... Just as the left took over neoliberalism, it will take over the nationalist revival (within a decade), so circuit-breakers have to be built in from the start. ...
1) ... "[New England] sent Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Bernie Sanders of Vermont back to the U.S. Senate; its House delegations are nearly all Democratic. ..." ...
2) ... "... However, Republicans carried governorships in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts; Bay State voters were willing to pick Warren while keeping Republican Gov. Charlie Baker by an even larger margin." ...