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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Critics on the left and right warn of an emerging "MAGA Maoism" -- a movement that demands ideological purity, glorifies economic sacrifice, and embraces state power as a means to reshape society. read more


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Monday, May 05, 2025

Trump and his billionaire toadies like Howard Lutnik and Scott Bessent are peddling a dangerous lie to working-class Americans.

They're strutting around claiming their tariffs will bring back "good paying jobs" with "great benefits," while actively undermining the very thing that made manufacturing jobs valuable to working people in the first place: unions.


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Looking at historic economic data can sometimes be a bit ... bleak ... Over the last 5 decades wages have been left behind by economic productivity, houses have gone from an essential good to a coveted investment, we are saving less money than ever before, prices for everyday goods have outpaced earnings,

The financial industry has become the largest sector in the economy, debt around the world has spiked to unsustainable levels, and inequality has broken new records ...


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"How Nazi's Defense of "Just Following Orders" Plays Out in the Mind

Modern-day Milgram experiment shows that people obeying commands feel less responsible for their actions"

www.scientificamerican.com

One of my psych profs in the 70's, the one with the long hair who told us acid experimenters that one day, in 30 or so years, it was going to crystalize in our brains... he ran a Milgram-ish experiment using a bucket of ice water rather than a gas chamber.

Which can be painful. But we were amazed to learn at what length others would go when they were told that someone above them was responsible.... we hadn't known about Milgram, of course.

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