On a related note, when I do talk politics with white folks in my area (generally reactionary), their first reaction is often confusion. Because I am a very Kevin-ass looking white boy, they just have a baseline assumption in their brains that I must be a reactionary like them.
CleverOleg
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Yeah, OK. Good.
This seems worse than what even the worst US states (like Texas) are doing.
The senate was designed specifically for the wealthy, it was seen as a sort of House of Lords for the US and was seen as the superior to whatever house of legislature had more democratic representation.
- Take a group of Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
- Allow them to develop a form of Judaism on their own that prioritizes their own wants, needs, and outlook
- Let it cook for 300 years
Just imagine how deranged that form of Judaism would be. But in some ways that would be unfair to say the primary problem is religion when all that religion did was facilitate the racism and white supremacy that was existent, and was fueled by their material interests. That’s basically the story of White Evangelical Christianity in America, but I’m using the settler example to show how it originates and grows.
I’m not even a fan of any form of Christianity, but the reality is that the form of White Evangelical Christianity that makes up ~25% of the US population is just part of the superstructure built on settler colonialism and white supremacy.
I said the same thing in Trump’s first term when he was threatening to nuke the DPRK. Liberals were all up in arms that Trump would possibly do that, but NONE of them even questioned if the executive should have that kind of power in the first place.
That said, I’m currently reading Charles Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. And it’s clear to me that the men who wrote that dogshit constitution clearly thought the executive and the judiciary should have a ton of power. Those rich assholes hated the poor and yeoman farmers, and so much of what they put in the final document was basically just “we can never let anyone challenge the sacred rights of property”, and saw the executive as the final check on democracy. The whole idea of the electoral college was that they couldn’t trust people to make that decision (and “people” here just means propertied white men anyway) so they would nominate aristocrats to make the real decision. They saw a powerful judiciary and executive as the real source of power. Really, this all is just a return to form.
This place objectively sucks. I suppose the Grand Canyon is something you can’t see anywhere else and while I’ve seen it and it is spectacular, I wouldn’t base an entire intercontinental trip over it.
This analysis makes a lot of sense to me.
Safe travels!
Lunch time in New York and the S&P 500 has already lost about half its gains from yesterday.
Oh yeah, me too. If you’re an American (and you probably are, as YEC seems to be a predominantly American thing) I cannot recommend highly enough that you go to Chicago sometime and check out their Natural History Museum; specifically their exhibit on the history of earth. I spent hours in it - the point my gf at the time was like “alright you stay here I’m gonna go walk around Michigan Ave till you’re done”. You start billions of years ago and literally walk through the history of how life on earth evolved. I was completely mesmerized.
In manufacturing, orders are more relevant than sales. A “sale” is recognized when you deliver the product. Most manufacturing has lead time, and usually it’s weeks if not months. So sales are a lagging indicator. But orders tell you about the here and now.