DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
13d ago
Treating America as a store where you can “buy” jobs with your promise of labor, someplace where you can earn money to send home, may have some “capitalistic” feel to it, but even conservatives, libertarians, and capitalists like to have a Real Home For My People like anyone else. And to have the “customers” pushing us out is untenable.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
17d ago
Don’t forget “both sides” being egged on by their preferred media, social media, and private group chats and meetings. “Tomorrow we enter the Capitol!” “Drive, baby, drive!”
Don’t forget the policy wonks claiming “Defection!” on “both sides,” citing the constant denial and dismissal of court cases seeking to reexamine the 2020 vote totals, and the international law re refugees and immigrants from Somalia.
But also don’t forget Statuary Hall and the peaceful televised procession between velvet ropes. The chaos was mostly left outside.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
21d ago
The villains were based on the Communists ruining the Russia she grew up in and escaped. They’re not unrealistic because choices that absurd and worse happened, and are happening.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
21d ago
Her earlier novel, The Fountainhead, was what awoke me to the realization of how my codependency (that very specific people pleasing behavior) was crushing my soul. It was my first breath of fresh air in a long journey of recovery. Iron Man 1 was my second.
It’s that NPR/New Yorker slice of life tone. It’s part of the blue tribe sensemaking apparatus. If they were forced to describe things as the red tribe do, all action and import, they feel they’re betraying a vital part of themselves.
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