Other uses for the US stock market chart
You probably haven’t heard anything about the stock market lately. But if you take a look, the line that represents all our money is kind of, um, going down. The chart is hard to look at. So we’re offering some other uses for it. Hope these help.
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“For anyone who is of an age to be a member of the US military today, there has never been a higher risk that you will be placed in a situation in which you will be ordered to do things that will make you a villain.”
Burn Down the House, a conversation with Katherine Stewart
“Christian nationalism is indispensable to the modern American form of authoritarianism. It explains the largest part of the movement’s popular support. That said, Christian nationalism doesn’t explain all of the movement, and it certainly doesn’t predict where the movement is going. To a significant degree, the Christian nationalist base is simply being exploited by wealthy oligarchs. And the end state that we are looking at isn’t a theocracy or a Christian nation exactly. It’s a nation ruled by a clique of corrupt cronies and power brokers who derive their money and influence from the corrupt individuals at the top and who impose a certain type of religion on everyone else in order to try to keep them in line.”