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No billionaires. “Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna’ be fooled again!”
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It's amazing to look back through history and discover that this was prophesized back in 1981.
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people will raise lincoln as an example of why it is important to compromise for the sake of electoral success and a future greater good, but do not forget that lincoln's willingness to compromise rested on a set of ironclad moral and political commitments.
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The presumption is that no one in power in this age of the US would ever heedlessly sentence millions of innocent people to death for no reason and even having crossed that threshold wouldn't lie about having done it. Totally preposterous assumptions in trump's america that will drag us all to hell
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/8 Servility is both a choice and a habit. Journalists who don’t ask obvious questions or poke patent lies get into the habit of servility towards the state. Look where that’s got us.
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Anyway, let it be known that the beliefs espoused by the American Enterprise Institute cannot survive even the briefest of contact with actual professionals with expertise in the stuff they talk about.
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the correlation between right-wingers and grifting gets stronger by the hour. and if we choose to act, we have perfectly legal ways to cut the umbilical cord that makes them rich and consequently makes them powerful.
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Tod Alcott with a failed “Enemies of Democracy” Kickstarter that is this. He promises to find a way to get these cards published.
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Cutting medical research to fund more tax cuts for the rich is the sort of thing that historians used to use terms like "decadence" and "moral degeneracy" for. We do genuinely have profligate and immoral elites that are ruining the country for their own sake.
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Yeah, like, North Vietnam shot down loads of SAC B-52s during Operation Rolling Thunder and nobody at the time seems to have been confused as to why.
Granted, the circumstances were a little different but still.
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Russia and Israel both want all of their neighbors to be non-sovereign and all of their neighbors would rather not be that so I think in the end these conflicts will continue until the primarily irrational actors are forced to abandon this.
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If you’ve gotten this far and still don’t get it…
It’s a friendly fire joke!
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The American university system, which I must note again and again, consists in the main of public state systems, not of the elite privates, is the envy of the world and one of the wonders of American 'civilization,' if you will permit the term.
Destroying it out of pique is insane.
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(Thinking of Cambodia’s Killing Fields as I wrote this)
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Other than other attempts to destroy learning/destroy the intelligentsia. At least this particular regime isn’t killing intellectuals (at least not yet) and imo is unlikely to do so except by means of promoting stochastic terrorism.
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The pyramids no doubt had their uses as displays of pharaonic power and have attracted tourists for millennia now. I think American universities are far MORE useful and their destruction so bad that it’s very hard to come up with even a hypothetical historical equivalent.
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Yes, it's different at the Ivies and a few others, but that is a small small slice of U.S. higher ed, even if that slice gets 99% of the NYT coverage.
You should read Times higher ed coverage they way you do their wedding announcements.