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𝘏𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘰, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦⁣ 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 ⁣ 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯 - Rice, Mann, & Weil; professional pirates all. "Redeem Yourself" pictured in the banner by Rodney White.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

Reminds me of Canadian Oil & Gas sector. They tout all the jobs, jobs, JOBS! It's now an article of faith in Alberta that O&G employ everyone. Not any more. Oil is largely automated. And what did we get in return? Petro Provinces and climate change. Sold our soul for conservative magic beans.

Illustration of a giant beanstalk leading up to the sky with a young boy smiling with the text, "Golden Magic Beans" and a picture of a gold bean.

Murdoch has left a trail of conservative (read: oligarch) destruction everywhere he has influence. I believe he personally is responsible for more misery and death than most dictators. This will soon include the deaths and casualties of the coming climate apocalypse.

Albertans need to understand that trickledown economics is the main UPC economic policy The UCP doesn't tax corporations & gives them handouts We're told this will trickledown to us in the form of job creation Governments have been doing this for 50 yrs It has never trickled down #ableg #abpoli

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.

For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.

Well, I mean, the framers of the Constitution didn’t /say/ that compressing the sum of human culture into high-dimensional vector space wasn’t fair use, so…

The provincial government didn’t explain or justify the thing because it can’t be justified. This expansion was driven by lobbying from JP Morgan and vibes. Doug Ford is not a YIMBY. He’s done nearly nothing on housing reform but has wasted huge sums on destructive crony capitalist nonsense.

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Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index