I would also say that there is a certain "lag effect" in the electorate. People believe a lot of the propaganda and then when it doesn't turn out true they are turned off. Sometimes people on sub stack that "get the joke" earlier then the masses can't understand this, but there are people who only watch cable news or no news that are shocked in Summer 2024 to find out that Biden is literally demented, etc.
So the fact that 2022, a midterm with more "plugged in to the machine" voters didn't have a Red Wave doesn't mean quite as much to me, but I still like the article.
The incumbent backlash seemed to be muck greater percentage of us in USA and likely across West is a number of existential threats to persons and family from many sources;
1, The cumulative inflation. I live off a fixed pension and that was enough to pay my modest bills but food and supplies and I had just enough to usually get food and a few of those other things that are required - Toilet paper, soap, etc., but this last year I have had to a lot of shifting till next month, and if inflation increases much more without pension adjustment I will have to move of something.
Recall the inflation number reported is intentionally lower - the calculation does not include the 3 most rapid increasing staples; Fuel, Healthcare, housing costs. It is intentionally too low to reduce the cost-of-living adjustments SS and other Pensions must Justly add (Withholding or stealing wages, a Sin that cries to Heaven, when Vatican is silent) and corporations for same - cost of living increases are less then Just. We betrayed from both of them, sucking our just liberty and future life from us.
Last year the inflation adjustment was below zero net as the Internet provider basic monthly fee increased $30, but if gov served us they would be charging less than $30 per month. This failure of gov to protect us from monopoly is another sign that they serve offshore masters - not us.
2. Open genocide in Gaza fully supported by USA. Over 200,000 really dead and as more of us paid attention we understood the False Theater of pretending to do things while actively delaying any end so to kill more families. israel has showed itself are a danger to us all and themselves,
We are all Palestinians now, and have always been to them and to our elites.
People that are looking are realizing that We are the GreatSatan directed by others.
Possible WWIII with nukes threat in middleEast with us at war with Iran - another war for israel and more our men and recourses to our Master Race of Jewish Supremists.
Another possible WWIII with our constant pushing of Russia, more insane as not some psycho genociding insane religious nut-cases trying to start WWIII while genociding, it seems to be us trying to start a nuke war with a nation that has more nukes and hypersonic missiles we can not stop (because pissed in the faces of a generation of white men and still trying to kill us, instead of hiring us to create hypersonic defenses and everything else missing we should have. But the DEI and ladies will come-up with that real soon now.)
3. There are so many more, but I need to do something else, so look around and consider why we are sure our rulers Hate us and want us and all we love or could love suffering homeless on human crap covered streets until we die, for their kackling fun.
"U.S. Representative Albert Johnson, a eugenics advocate, and Senator David Reed were the two main architects of the act. They conceived the act as a bulwark against "a stream of alien blood"; it likewise found support among xenophobic and nativist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. However, some proponents, such as the American Federation of Labor (AFL), welcomed the act for reducing cheap immigrant labor that would compete with local workers. Both public and Congressional opposition was minimal. In the wake of intense lobbying, it passed with strong congressional support.[12] There were nine dissenting votes in the Senate[13] and a handful of opponents in the House of Representatives, the most vigorous of whom was freshman Brooklyn Representative Emanuel Celler, a Jewish American. Decades later, he pointed out the act's "startling discrimination against central, eastern and southern Europe."[14]'
There isn't any reason the U.S can't admit more unskilled labor again. Advances in robotics and automation means there will be a need for supervisory roles over automated construction machinery that builds new homes, power plants, and road paving. The sky is the limit.
Wow, this is amazing. Last week I took Scott Alexander's Human v AI art test and I was worse than hopeless. Simply randomly guessing would have given me a higher score. I think his conclusion was that, like me, most people can't tell the difference, instead guessing mainly by theme (robots and shapes = AI, quaint villages and impressionism = human). It did though seem like people who are expert in AI could often spot an AI creation by certain giveaway features, like pointless structures that go nowhere. Though I'd prefer great art to come out of a head rather than a computer, at least making people unsure about its providence might make them think twice about embarking on some pretentious guff about 'the artist's understanding of the human soul/light effects' etc.
I like this article.
I would also say that there is a certain "lag effect" in the electorate. People believe a lot of the propaganda and then when it doesn't turn out true they are turned off. Sometimes people on sub stack that "get the joke" earlier then the masses can't understand this, but there are people who only watch cable news or no news that are shocked in Summer 2024 to find out that Biden is literally demented, etc.
So the fact that 2022, a midterm with more "plugged in to the machine" voters didn't have a Red Wave doesn't mean quite as much to me, but I still like the article.
Well presented. Well argued.
The incumbent backlash seemed to be muck greater percentage of us in USA and likely across West is a number of existential threats to persons and family from many sources;
1, The cumulative inflation. I live off a fixed pension and that was enough to pay my modest bills but food and supplies and I had just enough to usually get food and a few of those other things that are required - Toilet paper, soap, etc., but this last year I have had to a lot of shifting till next month, and if inflation increases much more without pension adjustment I will have to move of something.
Recall the inflation number reported is intentionally lower - the calculation does not include the 3 most rapid increasing staples; Fuel, Healthcare, housing costs. It is intentionally too low to reduce the cost-of-living adjustments SS and other Pensions must Justly add (Withholding or stealing wages, a Sin that cries to Heaven, when Vatican is silent) and corporations for same - cost of living increases are less then Just. We betrayed from both of them, sucking our just liberty and future life from us.
Last year the inflation adjustment was below zero net as the Internet provider basic monthly fee increased $30, but if gov served us they would be charging less than $30 per month. This failure of gov to protect us from monopoly is another sign that they serve offshore masters - not us.
2. Open genocide in Gaza fully supported by USA. Over 200,000 really dead and as more of us paid attention we understood the False Theater of pretending to do things while actively delaying any end so to kill more families. israel has showed itself are a danger to us all and themselves,
We are all Palestinians now, and have always been to them and to our elites.
People that are looking are realizing that We are the GreatSatan directed by others.
Possible WWIII with nukes threat in middleEast with us at war with Iran - another war for israel and more our men and recourses to our Master Race of Jewish Supremists.
Another possible WWIII with our constant pushing of Russia, more insane as not some psycho genociding insane religious nut-cases trying to start WWIII while genociding, it seems to be us trying to start a nuke war with a nation that has more nukes and hypersonic missiles we can not stop (because pissed in the faces of a generation of white men and still trying to kill us, instead of hiring us to create hypersonic defenses and everything else missing we should have. But the DEI and ladies will come-up with that real soon now.)
3. There are so many more, but I need to do something else, so look around and consider why we are sure our rulers Hate us and want us and all we love or could love suffering homeless on human crap covered streets until we die, for their kackling fun.
God Bless., Steve
The late 1880s and early 1900s had plenty of immigration but once the roads and bridges were built they closed off most immigration in 1924. Source:
https://www.leshp.org/blog/no-chinatown-did-not-take-over-little-italy/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 the bill was authored by:
"U.S. Representative Albert Johnson, a eugenics advocate, and Senator David Reed were the two main architects of the act. They conceived the act as a bulwark against "a stream of alien blood"; it likewise found support among xenophobic and nativist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. However, some proponents, such as the American Federation of Labor (AFL), welcomed the act for reducing cheap immigrant labor that would compete with local workers. Both public and Congressional opposition was minimal. In the wake of intense lobbying, it passed with strong congressional support.[12] There were nine dissenting votes in the Senate[13] and a handful of opponents in the House of Representatives, the most vigorous of whom was freshman Brooklyn Representative Emanuel Celler, a Jewish American. Decades later, he pointed out the act's "startling discrimination against central, eastern and southern Europe."[14]'
There isn't any reason the U.S can't admit more unskilled labor again. Advances in robotics and automation means there will be a need for supervisory roles over automated construction machinery that builds new homes, power plants, and road paving. The sky is the limit.
These jobs might be easier, and more appealing, since the more of the heavy lifting will be done by robots: https://www.constructionbriefing.com/news/can-robots-solve-the-us-construction-worker-shortage/8036593.article
I love the painting at the top of the page. What is it and who is it by?
It's AI, I'm afraid.
–NC
Wow, this is amazing. Last week I took Scott Alexander's Human v AI art test and I was worse than hopeless. Simply randomly guessing would have given me a higher score. I think his conclusion was that, like me, most people can't tell the difference, instead guessing mainly by theme (robots and shapes = AI, quaint villages and impressionism = human). It did though seem like people who are expert in AI could often spot an AI creation by certain giveaway features, like pointless structures that go nowhere. Though I'd prefer great art to come out of a head rather than a computer, at least making people unsure about its providence might make them think twice about embarking on some pretentious guff about 'the artist's understanding of the human soul/light effects' etc.