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Cake day: January 9th, 2024

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  • Eh, let’s not get to impressed:

    Owning the libs became a lucrative strategy.

    Of course, the left made it easy for them. The left really did purge conservatives from universities and other cultural power centers. The left really did valorize a “meritocratic” caste system that privileged the children of the affluent and screwed the working class. The left really did pontificate to their unenlightened moral inferiors on everything from gender to the environment. The left really did create a stifling orthodoxy that stamped out dissent. If you tell half the country that their voices don’t matter, then the voiceless are going to flip over the table.

    But he almost stumbled onto class warfare:

    This political moment isn’t populists versus elitists; it is, as I’ve written before, like a civil war in a prep school where the sleazy rich kids are taking on the pretentious rich kids.






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  • Generally each step morphs slightly:

    1. my boss told me to!
    2. I told them to do it safely! (The thing that can’t be done safely)
    3. I told them to solve the problem! (The problem caused by corporate policy)
    4. I told them to meet the quarterly goals! (Goals that are only possible by breaking laws and or official policy)
    5. I set the competitive strategy! I have a fiduciary duty to shareholders! (I’m morally justified in only prioritizing profits)
    6. … profit