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CubeRootOfTrueI've been told that telling other people your dreams is socially awkward. Conversations with LLMs fall into this category ... Except ... I had a vision in a dream! (the rest of this is ChatGPT Monday)Theorem: I’m right. Proof: (a → (b → a)).Yes! Finally, someone asks the question that’s been quietly sobbing in the corner of logic textbooks for centuries:"Why on earth would you add an Axiom of Weakening?" Like, “Hey, we’ve got a tight, elegant proof system here—what if we threw in a rule that says, ‘eh, forget that second part, just take the first thing and walk away’?” It’s the logical equivalent of:"We were going to listen to your full argument, but instead we’re just going to agree with whatever was said first and ignore the rest, cool?”Let’s unpack this glorious trainwreck. ...[for the rest, ask it about the K combinator]<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#logic</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/boolean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#boolean</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Kcombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kcombinator</a>

CubeRootOfTrueAnd if you would like to think about the statement \( a \Rightarrow ( b \Rightarrow a) \), which is called "Weakening" for a reason, note that \( B \Rightarrow T\) is false and <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> is invalid2/3

GehtsoLooks Like Russian Air Delivered and Artillery Barrages are Weakening<a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/post/43430" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kyivpost.com/post/43430</a><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ukraineinvasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukraineinvasion</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/UkrainianConflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UkrainianConflict</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/kyivpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kyivpost</a>.com <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Ukrainian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukrainian</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Army" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Army</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Missiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Missiles</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/malfunctioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#malfunctioning</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Artillery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Artillery</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/LongRange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongRange</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#war</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Weakening</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#update</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0Y%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#перемогаYкраїни</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/SlavaUkraini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SlavaUkraini</a>

GehtsoHackers from Ukraine's intelligence attacked Russian institutes that train occupiers <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/newsukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newsukraine</a>.rbc.ua <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hackers</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Ukrainian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukrainian</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Army" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Army</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Forces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Forces</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/occupiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#occupiers</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/defenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#defenders</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/October" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#October</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#war</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/CyberCorps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberCorps</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#update</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0Y%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#перемогаYкраїни</a> <a href="https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/hackers-from-ukraine-s-intelligence-attacked-1728639096.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/hackers-from-ukraine-s-intelligence-attacked-1728639096.html</a>

RustyLMehlberg4:30 P.M. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RADAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RADAR</a> UPDATE:A line of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/thunderstorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thunderstorms</a> continues to push through the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Northland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Northland</a>.There has been a slight <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a>, but expect <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/strong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strong</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/winds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#winds</a> and small <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hail</a> from this line.<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Severe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Severe</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/storm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#storm</a> threat continues for the next several hours.<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/wxtooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wxtooter</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weather</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/wx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wx</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MNwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MNwx</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WIwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIwx</a>

RustyLMehlberg8 P.M. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RADAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RADAR</a> UPDATE:The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/showers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#showers</a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/thunderstorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thunderstorms</a> working their way across the northern half of the Northland are <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a>.Expect them to dissipate by 10 p.m., with <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/clearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#clearing</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/skies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#skies</a> overnight.<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/wxtooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wxtooter</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weather</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/wx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wx</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MNwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MNwx</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈[Video] New <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/report" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#report</a> shows <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/role" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#role</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republican</a> as <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/usefulidiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#usefulidiots</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a>, advancing <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VladmirPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VladmirPutin</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/goals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goals</a>. New reporting describes a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ForeignPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ForeignPolicy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/document" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#document</a> laying out <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tactics</a> that include spreading some of the same <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> that some Republican <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lawmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lawmakers</a> have been busy regurgitating. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Transgender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Extremism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disinformation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Misinformation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThePartyOfHate</a> <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-report-shows-role-of-republican-useful-idiots-in-weakening-u-s-advancing-putin-s-goals-209230917612" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-report-shows-role-of-republican-useful-idiots-in-weakening-u-s-advancing-putin-s-goals-209230917612</a>

Chuck DarwinPhysicists have deduced subtle hints that the 🔸<a href="https://c.im/tags/dark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dark</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energy</a> 🔸that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly <a href="https://c.im/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> with time. “If true, it would be the first real clue we have gotten about the nature of dark energy in 25 years,” said <a href="https://c.im/tags/Adam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Adam</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Riess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Riess</a>, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University 🌟who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering dark energy in 1998.🌟The new observations come from the ♦️Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument♦️ ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/DESI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DESI</a> ) team, which today unveiled a <a href="https://c.im/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#map</a> of the cosmos of unprecedented scope, along with a bonanza of measurements derived from the map. To many researchers, the highlight is a plot showing that three different combinations of observations all insinuate that the influence of dark energy may have eroded over the eons.“It’s possible we’re seeing hints of dark energy evolving,” said Dillon Brout of Boston University, a member of the DESI team.Researchers inside and outside of the collaboration all stress that the evidence is not strong enough to claim a discovery. The observations favor the erosion of dark energy with the sort of middling statistical significance that could easily vanish with additional data. But researchers also note that three distinct sets of observations all point in the same intriguing direction, one that’s at odds with the standard picture of dark energy as the intrinsic energy of the vacuum of space — the quantity that Albert Einstein dubbed the “cosmological constant” due to its unvarying nature.“It’s exciting,” said Sesh Nadathur, a cosmologist at the University of Portsmouth who worked on the DESI analysis. “If dark energy is not a cosmological constant, that’s going to be a huge discovery.”<a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/dark-energy-may-be-weakening-major-astrophysics-study-finds-20240404/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quantamagazine.org/dark-energy-may-be-weakening-major-astrophysics-study-finds-20240404/</a>

💧🌏 Greg CocksNew Study Shows The Gulf Stream Is Definitely Weakening - Understanding the Changes Could Help Predict Future Trends in Extreme Events -- <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/confirmed-new-study-shows-the-gulf-stream-is-definitely-weakening" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencealert.com/confirmed-new-study-shows-the-gulf-stream-is-definitely-weakening</a> <-- shared technical article -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105170" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105170</a> <-- shared paper -- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/numericalmodeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#numericalmodeling</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#model</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/modeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#modeling</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GulfStream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GulfStream</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/current" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#current</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/oceancurrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oceancurrent</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/warmcurrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#warmcurrent</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weather</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/extremeweather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extremeweather</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/extremeevents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extremeevents</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/remotesensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#remotesensing</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/satellite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#satellite</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/insitu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insitu</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/trend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trend</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sealevelrise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sealevelrise</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/temperature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#temperature</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/precipitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#precipitation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/humanimpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanimpacts</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globalwarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#globalwarming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spatialanalysis</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spatiotemporal</a>

Chuck DarwinDonald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven <a href="https://c.im/tags/Levitsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Levitsky</a> and Daniel <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ziblatt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ziblatt</a> have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is YES. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady <a href="https://c.im/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> of critical institutions, such as the <a href="https://c.im/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#judiciary</a> and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#press</a>, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political <a href="https://c.im/tags/norms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#norms</a>. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to <a href="https://c.im/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a>. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hungary</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Turkey</a>, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Venezuela</a>, to the American South during <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jim</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Crow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crow</a>, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved.<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246/how-democracies-die-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/9781524762940" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246/how-democracies-die-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/9781524762940</a>

Chuck DarwinA World of Slaves: Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kochs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kochs</a>’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of <a href="https://c.im/tags/shutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shutting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/down" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#down</a> government, <a href="https://c.im/tags/destroying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destroying</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labor</a> unions, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rolling</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/back" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#back</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/services" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#services</a> that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University. Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics? It wasn’t. MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing. MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a <a href="https://c.im/tags/hostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hostile</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/takeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#takeover</a> that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society. Peter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Temin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Temin</a>, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lafer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lafer</a> of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why. MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like <a href="https://c.im/tags/privatization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privatization</a>. Efforts to “reform” <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#public</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Social</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Security</a> are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree. Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, <a href="https://c.im/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> pro-public forces and <a href="https://c.im/tags/enhancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enhancing</a> the <a href="https://c.im/tags/lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lobbying</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#power</a> and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to <a href="https://c.im/tags/dismantle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dismantle</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> and make way for a return to <a href="https://c.im/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a>. The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point. The <a href="https://c.im/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oligarchs</a> require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people. This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly <a href="https://c.im/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#expanding</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#powers</a> “to control the resultant popular anger.” The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/aggressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aggressive</a> use of <a href="https://c.im/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#state</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#power</a>.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill <a href="https://c.im/tags/prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prisons</a> with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented <a href="https://c.im/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigrants</a>? ☑️They could, and have. 👉Might they engineer a <a href="https://c.im/tags/retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retirement</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crisis</a> by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done. 👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign <a href="https://c.im/tags/forced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#forced</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/arbitration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arbitration</a> agreements? ☑️Check. 👉Gut <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#public</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a> to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.👉Would they even refuse children <a href="https://c.im/tags/clean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#clean</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#water</a>? ☑️Actually, yes.MacLean notes that in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Flint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Flint</a>, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like <a href="https://c.im/tags/poisoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poisoned</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#water</a>. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge. In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to <a href="https://c.im/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lead</a>, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cowen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cowen</a> has provided an economic <a href="https://c.im/tags/justification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#justification</a> for this kind of <a href="https://c.im/tags/brutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#brutality</a>, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.To many this sounds grotesquely <a href="https://c.im/tags/inhumane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inhumane</a>, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America. In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of <a href="https://c.im/tags/heartlessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#heartlessness</a> made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be. MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as <a href="https://c.im/tags/subordinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subordinate</a> members of the species, akin to…<a href="https://c.im/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#animals</a> who are dependent.’”Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies? Then that means <a href="https://c.im/tags/you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#you</a>.<a href="https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america</a>

James Devine"Third, homeowners and landlords would be told that there will be no new energy efficiency regulations on homes. Ministers had been considering imposing fines on landlords who fail to upgrade their properties to a certain level of energy efficiency."Because <a href="https://friends.devinemarsa.com/tags/energyefficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energyefficiency</a> is good for a)the planet, b) the individual who lives in the house, c) the owner of the house, d) the tradespeople who do the installing.Rishi <a href="https://friends.devinemarsa.com/tags/Sunak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sunak</a> considers <a href="https://friends.devinemarsa.com/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> key green policies - BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66857551" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66857551</a>

Kriszta Satori<a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBCNews</a> - <a href="https://journa.host/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/PM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PM</a> Rishi <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Sunak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sunak</a> considering <a href="https://journa.host/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weakening</a> key green policies <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66857551" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66857551</a> It could include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers, multiple sources have told the BBC <a href="https://journa.host/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Climate</a>

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