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Inside: The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/27/for-the-little-people/

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Don't let the "tax sharks" scare you away. This is a good progressive read. Here's more of the flavor to entice you:

"If conservatives think there's a natural order in which the few dominate the many, progressivism is a belief in pluralism and inclusion, the idea that disparate perspectives and experiences all have something to contribute to society."

  • Cory Doctorow

Vote for Democracy! (I might add. So I did.)

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soc_i_ety ,
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Reading this piece explains for me one of the many motives behind the NeoCons thrust into municipal politics.

A progressive local politician can be a significant barrier to the Conservative sharks and an impediment to the totalitarian Conservative agenda.

Vote for Democracy!

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@soc_i_ety @pluralistic I do think that "hierarchies are the natural and proper order" is a significant part of conservative thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs

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@BoydStephenSmithJr @soc_i_ety @pluralistic

that conservatism is about maintaining hierarchies is a big part of George Lakoff's political theories, where he enumerates that, how it contrasts with liberalism, and the consequences of those in public political communication in his books "Don't Think of an Elephant" and "Moral Politics." Moral Politics I haven't gotten around to reading yet, but DTofE is quite an enjoyable read and meant for a mass audience.

cass_m ,
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@pluralistic @soc_i_ety @BoydStephenSmithJr It also explainsv how Modi and Netanyahu are following the conservative agenda for their prospective countries.

mechtheist ,

@pluralistic Robin's ideas remind me of Jonathon Haidt's moral foundations theories that the conservative mindset is authoritarian, Manichean-can't stand ambiguity, abhor uncertainty, very suspect of the new and different-tribal/group think, and highly sensitive to sanctity/purity. That's a bit oversimplified but he's done a lot of research and found a global fairly clear dichotomy wrt to liberal mindsets. That's a near-perfect recipe for delusional thinking and why they're far more religious.

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The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home: Like picking pennies off a dead man’s eyes.

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Hey look at this

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Home Office official offered advice and “comfort” to Phorm spyware vendor https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021661.stm

Geoengineering wishful thinking is the new climate denialism https://web.archive.org/web/20090430135547/www.worldchanging.com/archives/009784.html

Bruce Sterling explains swine flu https://web.archive.org/web/20090512004141/https://www.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/practical-tips.html

Unboxing a Makie doll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnT9lMR3ATg

Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030 https://web.archive.org/web/20090701065309/http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/singularity-101-vernor-vinge

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US refuses to let jet into its airspace because it is carrying a journalist who criticizes US foreign policy https://gadling.com/2009/04/26/air-france-jet-diverts-after-being-told-to-stay-clear-of-us-airs/

Canadian music pirates of 1897 https://web.archive.org/web/20090426193240/http://www.bestactever.com/2009/04/26/the-long-war-music-piracy-in-1897-nytimes/

Economy will get a lot worse — The Economist https://web.archive.org/web/20090426052838/http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=13527685

RIAA to blame for impoverishment of artists it’s using as human shield in anti-streaming lobbying https://www.techdirt.com/2014/04/25/riaa-claims-that-it-is-standing-up-older-musicians-that-it-actually-left-to-rot/

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Haunted Mansion castmembers built a shrine to “Grandma Joyce,” whose urn was found in the gardens https://web.archive.org/web/20140430022606/https://disneylandguru.tumblr.com/post/73135614034

Hacking the hospital: medical devices have terrible default security https://www.wired.com/2014/04/hospital-equipment-vulnerable/

UKIP candidate tells Lenny Henry to move to a “Black country”; party says reporting this is a “smear campaign” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27176803

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The DCCC is sabotaging Marie Newman’s primary challenge to Dan Lipiniski, a hereditary, anti-choice, anti-minimum-wage, homophobic “Democrat” https://theintercept.com/2019/04/26/dccc-blacklist-marie-newman-dan-lipinski/

Lawyer for kid whose parents paid $1.2m bribe to get into Yale says the high price shows grifters’ anti-Chinese bias https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/college-admissions-scandal.html

Pepsi is suing four Indian farmers for growing a proprietary “Lays” potato, seeking $150,000 each in damages https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/business/pepsico-india-potato-farmer-lawsuit/index.html

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Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

Convicted monopolist prevented from re-offending https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/27/convicted-monopolist/#microsquish

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Thursday's threads: Antitrust is a labor issue; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112332135908661622

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An ominous long institutional corridor. At the far end of it is a collection of workers with their upraised fists merging into a single giant fist. In the foreground is a guillotine manned by a pair of revolutionary French executioners who labor over a prone, doomed aristocrat.
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