Before I answer I'll just test whether this account has been shadowbanned like my previous accounts. It is a sad thing that I have to test for this but I'm not putting time in answering interesting questions for my…
There could be many ways but it doesn't really matter that much which of them was used this time. The real solution is twofold: - Block ads. All ads. No advertising allowed, ban it, rigorously. - To do that effectively…
That is a good question to which I do not have a sensible answer other than a vague "both, probably". I suspect empires follow more or less the same trajectory as many family fortunes do: the founders build a base upon…
I do not "blame" the rise of identity politics on anyone, I merely point out that it has been taken up by many people who consider themselves to be "progressive" and that it, in combination with the adoption of critical…
The adoption of critical theory as a base for policy directions ("woke politics") is not what caused infrastructure to crumble. Infrastructure crumbles because it costs money to maintain while it does not return profit…
The problem here is the definition of the term "progressive". If you take it to mean "forward-looking" then yes, being progressive is a sure strategy for success in the long run, even if such success may come at a price…
> The slope is in reality only slippery in one direction. OK, how about: - first they came after the white men but I did not speak up for I am not a white man, - then they came after the heterosexual men but I did not…
Neither SPLC nor Wikipedia are authoritative sources, it is quite possible that the article on the latter is written and (to use a term which has become popular recently) "colonised" by people associated with the…
Before I answer I'll just test whether this account has been shadowbanned like my previous accounts. It is a sad thing that I have to test for this but I'm not putting time in answering interesting questions for my…
There could be many ways but it doesn't really matter that much which of them was used this time. The real solution is twofold: - Block ads. All ads. No advertising allowed, ban it, rigorously. - To do that effectively…
That is a good question to which I do not have a sensible answer other than a vague "both, probably". I suspect empires follow more or less the same trajectory as many family fortunes do: the founders build a base upon…
I do not "blame" the rise of identity politics on anyone, I merely point out that it has been taken up by many people who consider themselves to be "progressive" and that it, in combination with the adoption of critical…
The adoption of critical theory as a base for policy directions ("woke politics") is not what caused infrastructure to crumble. Infrastructure crumbles because it costs money to maintain while it does not return profit…
The problem here is the definition of the term "progressive". If you take it to mean "forward-looking" then yes, being progressive is a sure strategy for success in the long run, even if such success may come at a price…
> The slope is in reality only slippery in one direction. OK, how about: - first they came after the white men but I did not speak up for I am not a white man, - then they came after the heterosexual men but I did not…
Neither SPLC nor Wikipedia are authoritative sources, it is quite possible that the article on the latter is written and (to use a term which has become popular recently) "colonised" by people associated with the…