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About Elon's Nazi salute, I'll again post this video, which shows Elon's salute side by side with the salute as…
The only thing a beggar provides you with is a blessing/karma, which has no economic value, although I would still…
Well, clearly at least one does. God knows Musk doesn’t have to work another day in his life and hasn’t…
"People are afraid that if they give a beggar money they’ll use it to buy drugs or booze." Yep, people…
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Category Archives: Class, poverty, labor, & related issues
Happy Labor Day
Via Unequally Yoked. (Why yes, that is Batman.)
Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, crossposted on TADA
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Political cartoon: How Democracy Works
[spoiler]The cartoon has three panels. Each panel shows a crowd of milling citizens, who vary in sex, race, and age, yelling up to a giant white man wearing a suit and tie. The giant’s head is far distant from the … Continue reading →
Fair is fair: Kindergarten and the American Dream
Kindergarten showcases many basic principles which most of us learn there or at our parents’ knees: take turns, share the toys, fair is fair, and so on. Later on, “fair is fair” gets refined in many ways, one of which … Continue reading →
Unexpectedly, Grace
Amp has very kindly granted me permission to guest-blog at Alas!. This is daunting: the signal-to-noise ratio here is astonishingly high, even though the topics are often fraught. I asked Amp delicately for guidance. He cheerfully told me to write … Continue reading →
Once Again, Bernard-Henri Lévy Defends Rape
You’re a rich white man, and you’ve raped someone less important and more female than you are. And now the authorities are daring to treat you — yes, you! — as if you were some sort of common, middle-class rapist. … Continue reading →
A Messed-Up Libertarianism
A quote from libertarian Jim Henley, via LOOG: Most libertarians would agree that it’s a messed-up state that: * Creates a massive crime problem in poor minority neighborhoods with a futile, vicious and every more far-reaching attempt to prevent commerce … Continue reading →
The Least of These
You know, I’m awfully hard on Republicans, but maybe I shouldn’t be. After all, they’re coming up with some unbelievably creative, out-of-the-box solutions to the many problems we face. Take government waste. Decadent coastal liberals like me like to point … Continue reading →
Deconstructing Sheri Tepper’s 2008 Interview with Strange Horizons
So, someone asked me what was so offensive about Tepper’s interview. After reading her comments, I’m convinced that it might actually be helpful to some people if I did a deconstruction. I don’t usually fisk things because it’s a format … Continue reading →
Why Sentence Diagramming Does Not Make You Superior, An Argument In Support of Those Kids Today
I have been ranting today on the subject of grammar. It’s all Ann Leckie’s fault. Or possibly Jacqueline Howett’s. For those of you who have not followed the blog explosion, self-published author Jacqueline Howett has been busy imploding in the … Continue reading →
It’s Not a Crime to be Poor. Yet.
You’ve gotta feel bad for the Minnesota Republican Party. Flip just 5,000 votes in the last gubernatorial election, and they’d be the ones gleefully dismantling civil society piece by piece. But no. Tom Emmer had to lose, and now Wisconsin … Continue reading →
When you're defending nazi salutes, you're telling me that you're a nazi.