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  1. Why orthodox economic theories fail: they pretend externalities do not exist,
  2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-08/us-inflation-is-actually-being-driven-by-higher-interest-rates-jpmorgan-says
  3. Indulge me with an answer. The Socratic Method can be illuminating for all (and may promote healthy cognitive plasticity)
  4. Let’s test your intelligence with this thought experiment. It is well understood that “intelligence IS cognitive flexibility,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9397005/ Demonstrate your cognitive flexibility by arguing why right wing conservative beliefs indicate less cognitive flexibility and lower intelligence. Take all the time you need. “I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over.”
  5. In the “no shit” category - lower IQ related to conservative beliefs: Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment Tobias Edwards, Alexandros Giannelis , Emily A. Willoughby , James J. Lee A B S T R A C T Intelligence has been found to be associated with a range of political beliefs including liberalism (Carl, 2014), anti-racism (Deary, Batty, & Gale, 2008), support for the EU and NATO (Oskarsson et al., 2014), free speech (De Keersmaecker, Bostyn, Van Hiel, & Roets, 2021), tolerance (Lasker & McNaughton, 2022) and anti-authoritarianism (Choma & Hanoch, 2017). Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs. This may suggest intelligence directly alters our political views. Alternatively, the association may be confounded or mediated by socioeconomic and environmental factors. We studied the effect of intelligence within a sample of over 300 biological and adoptive families, using both measured IQ and polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment. We found both IQ and polygenic scores significantly predicted all six of our political scales. Polygenic scores predicted social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within-families. Intelligence was able to significantly predict social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within families, even after controlling for socioeconomic variables. Our findings may provide the strongest causal inference to date of intelligence directly affecting political beliefs. Our results imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs.
  6. For those missing this one, here is the lineup for future opportunities:
  7. Bush league mistake by the DA. Stupid unforced error. Sloppy as fuck. Mediocrity will be the death of our experiment in democracy.
  8. Citizens United ensures elections can be rigged in this nation. Schiff is a blue dog Dem (Republican lite) who promoted a Republican candidates with no real campaign of his own to ensure he would not face eiter Barbara Lee or Katie Porter (traditional Democrats) in the general, Tech billionaires who loathe the reform-minded Porter spent $10 million in attack ads against Porter, as she threatened their continued domination of efforts to contain their power and control. Schiff’s pied-piper gambit in promoting Garvey is the inability for the Dems to take back the House of Reps. Blue Dogs have no problem with a divided Congress--it suits their wealthy benefactors. Frankly—Porter went too easy on Schiff, she should have been whiteboarding the fuck out of the Blue Dog scheme--and raising the specter of a 2016 when another Blue Dog deployed a pied-piper strategy. The chickens always come home to roost.
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