Have been following this excellent SubStack for a while now. Yesterday’s, which I read today (day off work) is a real cracker. The “consensus” emerging in HE in the USA is a key theme, and this twist of the narrative will no doubt be emerging elsewhere very soon.
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Hi @KarenEliot , nice aroma but what does “kooky socialist ideas” mean here:
“ The Florida Senate passed SB 620 late last week. The bill is called the “Local Business Protection Act,” and would allow local businesses to sue local governments if they pass any regulations reducing business profits by more than 15%. It offers various protections to local governments, such as limiting the recovery of lost profits to only 7 years, and giving local governments a three-month window to “undo” the regulation after being notified of a claim.
This would be a HUGE boost for small businesses if it passes in the House. I think it is mostly aimed at cruise ship restrictions in places like Key West, but it would also limit all kinds of other kooky socialist ideas like massively-expensive requirements for landlords to install “climate-change” features. Just think about what a law like this would have meant back when local governments were shutting down “non-essential” businesses back in 2020 and ordering restaurants to close indoor dining, or making them space their tables out, and all that other nonsense that accomplished exactly nothing.”
cheers
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You have to remember, CJ, that, in Illiterate-USAmerican-English, the words ‘socialist’ and ‘communist’ have quite different, mickeymouse meanings to their meanings in Literate-European-English. Average USAnians seem to have no notion of the dictionary definitions, and appear to imagine that both words are interchangeable, and mean - well - anything to the ‘left’ of the authoritarian neo-feudal arrangements that the gics prefer. Anything at all which has the slightest smack of social provision/equality about it.
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That would have been my response although the term has been debased beyond all recognition.
Not a new phenomenon though, nor exclusive to our friends in the colonies.
Many many years ago as a schoolchild in apartheid South Africa I had the joy of attending Veld School. For a week one got to sleep under the stars in the back of beyond while being taught handy skills such as building fires, navigating by compass, singing songs about packing up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile smile smiling. And recognising the dangers of Communism.
Wearing clothes with a logo of a piece of fruit with a chunk bitten out was a giveaway, apparently. This symbolised lost virginity and general corruption of innocent youth, exactly like what those Commies have always planned.
Coming to a Scout Hall near you?
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Oh god! The Boys Brigade of my youth: The Scottish-fascist version of all that…
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