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1. 31.▲
   by tic_tac 7y ago

   That hasn't been my impression. While they may not be business owners, I think many of the yellow vests could be considered working middle class.
2. 32.▲
   by tic_tac 7y ago

   While I have not read the Hayek work you mention, it is probably drawn from the same philosophical waters as a work that I recommend to anyone with an interest in this sort of thinking: "The Opium of the Intellectuals" by Raymond
3. 33.▲
   by tic_tac 7y ago

   You are assuming the "yeomanry" mainly consists of the old, but I think that's an overly narrow and basically false assumption. The participants in the yellow vest protests in France - largely members of "yeomanry"
4. 34.▲
   by tic_tac 7y ago

   "Exceedingly unsavory" as determined by whom? People have been kicked off for far vaguer reasons than openly talking about a "final solution". Many conservative e-personalities have been kicked off for ambiguous and yet
5. 35.▲
   by tic_tac 7y ago

   Isn't anyone who opposes secret surveillance with minimal oversight "helping themselves"?
6. 36.▲
   Lee Jussim Is Right to Be Skeptical about ‘Stereotype Threat’(quillette.com)

   16 points by tic_tac 7y ago|8 comments
7. 37.▲
   by tic_tac 7y ago

   At https://www.hb11.energy/our-technology they list a number of papers they've published supporting their approach. On ignoring the H B-11 reaction with high intensity lasers: https://www.nature.com/art