Spring has sprung…
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Oz workplace politics:
(for the unfamiliar, Industrial Manslaughter laws allow bosses to be criminally charged when a worker is killed due to unsafe work conditions)
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Snark, but illustrative:
The marketplace of ideas does not work. The debate-based liberal approach to politics is useless against the right.
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Incidentally, the “marketplace of ideas” phrase comes from the same USSC case that gave us “fire in a crowded theatre”.
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It seems like a lot of Americans still view the Cold War as “nasty USSR threatening innocent America”.
However…
Who is menacing who there? Who is surrounded, who is outgunned?
More on bomber gap / missile gap nonsense here:
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Weren’t white-supremacist South Africa and Southern Rhodesia “reliable Cold War allies” like Fascist Spain, sado-monarchist Iran, etc.? Shouldn’t they be in blue?
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I was thinking that myself, but there may have been some period of non-aligned status or something. Or just a stuffup by the mapmaker.
The images are from:
(still animation, nothing too flashy I think)
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The fact that Zephyr Teachout was
(a) endorsed by the NYT, and
(b) appears to be drawing support from prominent wealthy centrists (Amy Schumer etc)
…is making me severely suspicious of Zephyr. Looks like a possible Trojan horse candidate.
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