JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
1d ago
It's not only the GOP as such. Any person who would be lauded as "representing" if he toed the party line, instantly loses the shine if they veer off the message. The Representation is only good when it serves the real goal - which is increasing the power of the Party. Be it political power, cultural power, financial power or any other power - but never diminishing any of it.
JarJarJedi
1d ago
Is Representation a primary goal of the progressive project?
No, it's the means to an end. The goal is power, by means of eroding and destroying the current structure of society and replacing it with one that has them (who are "them" is debatable, though each individual participant naturally sees oneself as part of "them", nobody goes to a gulag voluntarily) on top. For the more cynical, this is the ultimate goal. For the more romantically minded, this is an intermediate goal, in the quest to establish a more just, more moral and more optimal (by whatever criteria) society - which is, obviously, impossible when the wrong people have the levers of power in the wrongly structured society.
By itself, more diverse workforce is not bad. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is neutral. But the progressive project has nothing to do with it - DEI, which they promote as a vehicle to achieve representation, is not aimed at that, it's aimed at capturing power and rerouting it to progressive goals. If you want evidence for that, count how much the progressives celebrate minority representatives that do not subscribe to progressive views. Does US left love Clarence Thomas? Did they support Vivek Ramaswamy? Is Tim Scott their darling? Do they see Rubio, Cruz, DeSantis, Raul Labrador and others like them as role models and trailblazers? Do we see any pattern here going all across backgrounds and jobs?
JarJarJedi
1d ago
That's probably for Europeans to decide. How much do they want the access to US technology? Lately, they are big on "digital sovereignty", just as the Russians are, so maybe eventually they'd decide to wall themselves off, like Russians (and Chinese before) are doing. I guess it may be concerning for those US companies who want to sell services to Europe. For others, I don't see a reason to care.
JarJarJedi
5d ago
If that were true, in countries with free or near-free higher education and/or with nationalized healthcare the youth would be significantly less leftist than in America. I don't think this is the case though? Are European students much more right-wing than US students?
Also, young people do not have a lot of exposure to the healthcare system, especially the most problematic parts - expensive, long-term, multi-faceted health problems that require dealing with the shitshow bureaucracy in all its glory. They may have heard from someone it's a problem, but they have not experienced the problem by themselves.
JarJarJedi
15d ago
Not all financial companies report to all agencies, though usually big companies do, but if it's a niche card I guess it's possible TU does not know about it. 57 point hit due to one card is a lot though... That sucks, but if the system indeed screwed up and they didn't get the report, I am not sure you can do much about it except keeping paying your bills and the score will go up in time. Usually actively used card is reported to the agencies each month at least, so if was an one-time mess up, it will show up. If it's something deeper, likely nobody allowed to speak to customers knows how to fix it anyway, or cares enough to find how to contact somebody who does, so I'm not sure you have a lot of options here. If it really hurts you, you may try to ask whoever is pulling your credit to use a different agency, depending on how much they want your business they may be more or less flexible on that.
JarJarJedi
18d ago
I have never heard about any serious application of this rule, at least recently. Maybe it did happen, but if so, it was of little consequence. I can't remember any RF broadcast outlet that would have been on any consequence in the last decades on the political scene, except for NPR, which as always been left-biased without any consequences as far as I remember. So practically this rule seems to be effectively non-existent.
JarJarJedi
27d ago
I have some small Bitcoin account which I DCA for a while. It's not really a part of my investment strategy, just a FOMO hedge. Staying away from shitcoins since I don't have the time or patience to play it properly.
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
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