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Grievance Progressivism

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1235636073356824581


Andrew now has 54 inches
I am pleased to announce that I am Trump’s new Chief of Staff





PragerU quizzes

https://www.prageru.com/video/israel-the-worlds-most-moral-army/
Kernal Kemp
https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/jNkBoNaHsc8QEG2CmUoGq/e10f30b87a515bc859328af1012bd1f6/kemp-israel_the_worlds_most_moral_army-studyguide.pdf


She’ll Inc.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/03/06/shell-gas-station-san-dimas-international-womens-day/
Womens Day Corporate Logos by Brad Troemel


The Types of Leftists

Dirtbag
Anarcho food shelter squatters
[insert clever name for current affairs dorks who’re whimsical and maybe naive here] AKA Robinsons
canadians
reformed chav jihadists
Indiginous Rappers
Maoist Zoomers
Breadtube
Professors who don’t use the internet
Permaculturalists who aren’t libertarians
Smol but Sturdy Bolivians



Blony Tair

https://twitter.com/aezyb/status/1230431494193238017
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This apartment building looks like a borg cube

The apartment building of the future is here, and it looks like a giant battery - Inga Saffron


Most Livable Cities lists are a scam

Most livable,,,,, for who?
The Problem With Vienna’s Lofty Livability Ranking - CityLab
The Best and Worst Cities for Black Women - CityLab







Chlimate Clange

Escape To The Country (from impending eco facism or socialist revolution)

Don’t bother to solve any problems, just run away!
Homesteading: there are problems, folks



Cheap housing, deep unease and intense resilience - all forces that are driving a clutch of Americans to swap city life for a fresh start off grid and far from civilisation. Some are survivalists, among them high fliers who fear a looming, urban catastrophe and the mayhem that might follow. Others want a greener, gentler life untainted by the malign forces of capitalism and uncertainty of mainstream politics.


Whichever camp, realtors say the new dropouts are not “crackpots” and often include affluent professionals whose run for the hills has boosted rural land values and started to change their property market.

“I’ve had hedge-fund managers and billionaires that have made purchases, and they all have concerns about the direction of the economy and social stability,” said John E. Haynes, president of Retreat Realty in North Carolina.

“We’re on that upward trend,” he said. “Inventory of that land on the market is tighter.”

Haynes has worked in real estate for decades.

About four years ago, he rebranded his company to pitch property to a new and growing breed of buyer - those motivated by “concerns about social stability”.

He had a record year in 2019, and was busy in the run-up to the 2016 election, when Donald Trump came to power.

“I’m sensing that again,” he said. “People get uncertain, and they start making decisions on the political environment and what they anticipate.

“So I think 2020 will be a good year for my business.”

Homesteaders, catastrophists run for the hills to flee U.S. …

This Cigarette Machine Now Sells Nicorette Patches: A Parable of Decarbonization

Shell Has a Plan to Profit From Climate Change - NY Magazine

Democracy is actually the problem, not capitalism /s


“We think democracy is better,” said the jet-fuel salesperson. “But is it? In terms of outcomes?”


In a conference room overlooking the gray Thames, a group of young corporate types tried to imagine how the world could save itself, how the international community could balance the need for growth with our precarious ecological situation. For the purposes of our speculative scenarios, everything except for carbon was supposed to be up in the air, and democracy’s track record is mixed.

A graph from Chinese social media showing how many trees the country is planting — a patriotic retort to the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg — had a real effect on the room. Combine that with the Chinese state-led investment in clean-energy technology and infrastructure and everyone admired how the world’s largest source of fossil-fuel emissions was going about transition. That’s what the salesperson meant by “outcomes”: decarbonization.

Regional experts from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East–North Africa also entertained the democracy question, pointing to Iraqi disillusionment with voting and economic growth in Rwanda under Paul Kagame (“He’s technically a dictator, but it’s working”). The China expert said the average regional Communist Party official is probably more accountable for his or her performance than the average U.K. member of Parliament, a claim no one in the room full of Brits seemed to find objectionable. The moderator didn’t pose the question to me, the American expert, presumably because our national sense of democratic entitlement is inviolable.

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