Also known as the Wal-Mart business model.
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But what I rarely see is people studying it and trying to understand both the draw and the origins of this deadly attraction.
Take a look at Bob Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians", available for free at https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book/
He's a psychologist who has studied the right-wing authoritarian personality type. Here, 'right-wing" is a term in psychology, and doesn't mean "American political conservative in the 2020s", though there's a considerable amount of overlap.
There's a lot of grim reading in this book, and some of his attempts at comic relief are a bit dad-jokey, but on the whole, I heartily recommend this to anyone who's wondered what makes a fascist tick, and whether Trump supporters have anything in common with actual fascists (as opposed to just namecalling on the Internet).
The "no rebels or insurrectionists in office" clause? That only takes effect of he's actually convicted. And then, of course, he'll ignore the court ruling, whine about persecution, appeal the case, and continue doing whatever the duck he wants until he's physically restrained.
Not before dinner and a movie.
For some reason, that one didn’t annoy me as much. Maybe I saw that season only after it came out on DVD, and thought “yeah, this is dated, but I see how it landed when it was still fresh. This season, I’m watching the episodes within a day or two of them coming out, so it feels like getting stale bread at the bakery.
I didn’t find the hidden story, but I did see Emmett Nervend three times (let’s see who gets that reference).
So they name this episode Parasites Regained.
Not sure if everyone here knows that Paradise Regained is Milton's sequel to his earlier Paradise Lost.
A big part of why this season feels stale is that its topical references are several years old. Like Dune and Ivermectin, in this episode. Was this season written two years ago and is only being released now?
Well, maybe not the cringey humor.
Exactly. The song glorifies extrajudicial violence in response to protected but unpopular behavior, but according to Aldean's press statement, it's not about lynching.
"No, your honor, I didn't steal anything from John. All I did was take some of his stuff without him knowing."
The Electoral College did give the slave states more power, by way of the three-fifths compromise: the number of Electors depends on the number of Representatives, which depends on the census of inhabitants, not vote-eligible citizens, including, at the time, 3/5 of the slave population. So a state like Virginia, with more slaves than free people, got a boost compared to a state with only free residents.
DYM contemporaneous?