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23 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
New piece from our sister project @CommonsAmerican that will appeal to your inner Luddite.

theamericancommons.com/2021/06/19/lab…
"Labor saving technologies are good, new building materials are good, the idea of technological progress is largely good. However, they come with costs and ignoring those costs leads to terrible problems."
In this piece you will learn why the shingles on your house are cheap but are still, in many ways, a bad deal.

That's right, shingles.

You know you want to click.
Follow @CommonsAmerican while you're at. They're producing some great work.

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23 Jun
There are basically two meanings of the word “moderate.” One of them is good and one is, well, iffy.
Moderate (1) : You practice the virtue of moderation in your politics, which means you temper your own political enthusiasms and prejudices, consider nuances and competing goods, and recognize your own “team” is flawed and that your opponents have insights.
Moderate (2): You habitually split the difference between whatever the two sides of a polarized debate are saying and assume that’s where truth and justice is.
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7 Jun
Text of the prayer from FDR’s radio address, June 6, 1944:

“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity...
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.
For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
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6 Jun
We’ve said this before, but one of our problems with doctrinaire laissez-faire economics is that it often amounts to a form of moral relativism.

A pretty obvious way to see that is with a subject lots of people can relate to: housing. 🏡🏡🏡
In many metros around the country, rising housing prices are caused in large part by speculation rather than ordinary buyers looking for a place to live. In many cases the “investors” don’t improve the property, or even rent it out, but just sit on it and wait to sell.
Now if you care about is protecting property rights and contracts, then buying a house as a speculative asset is just as legitimate as living in it.

But it’s a problem if you think a house sitting empty is inherently less socially valuable than one providing a home for a family.
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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!
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.
This will also be an invaluable opportunity to bring our whole-life message to an area where ASP organizing has been relatively sparse.
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30 Mar
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.
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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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