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Wednesday, November 3. 2021

Wednesday morning links

Professor works to advance ‘fat justice’


 Did a NYT's OP-Ed Insinuate That the VA Girl Who Got Raped by Gender Fluid Kid Was Asking for It?


 GETTING MINDS RIGHT AT YALE: LEARNING FROM TRENT COLBERT


 The AMA jumps the Woke Shark, introduces Medspeak


 British government considers "psychological harm" punishment for online abuse


 Amazon To Open New Office In Jersey City After Being Chased Out Of NYC By AOC


 The Cost of Communism: 'Comrade de Blasio' Has Gutted the Big Apple


Poll: 71 Percent Say Country Headed in Wrong Direction Under Biden


 Glenn Youngkin's Win Officially Ends the Clinton Era in American Politics


 Bill Maher Continues His Anti-Democrat Streak, Wipes the Floor With the Woke Over Words

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Re Youngkin win - The election isn't over until the fat lawyer sings. I expect from here to Thanksgiving, and maybe beyond, a raft of legal challenges, recounts, suitcases of uncounted ballots that go 90% for McAuliffe and whatever else the Dems can manufacture. I also suspect the Justice Department is preparing a civil rights challenge as we speak. We just can't have the evil racist Republicans win one, can we.
#1 John Fisher on 2021-11-03 07:59 (Reply)
John Fisher: I expect from here to Thanksgiving, and maybe beyond, a raft of legal challenges, recounts, suitcases of uncounted ballots that go 90% for McAuliffe and whatever else the Dems can manufacture.

McAuliffe concedes
#1.1 Zachriel on 2021-11-03 10:45 (Reply)
What do you think of the theory that the dems purposely backed off on their fraud just to let us have a win where it really didn't effect the balance of power? ...just to throw us off guard for the 2022 elections. The Virginia legislature is solid democrat so there's not a lot the governor can do on his own. The fraud machine is still in place, so why didn't they use it?
#1.2 snopercod on 2021-11-03 10:46 (Reply)
snopercod: The Virginia legislature is solid democrat so there's not a lot the governor can do on his own.

The Virginia House of Delegates appears to have flipped to Republican control.
https://www.vpap.org/electionresults/20211102/house/

The Virginia Senate was not up for election and remains in Democratic control.
https://www.vpap.org/elections/senate/
#1.2.1 Zachriel on 2021-11-03 11:04 (Reply)
The margins weren't close enough to cheat and not look suspicious.
#1.2.2 Zachinoff on 2021-11-03 11:12 (Reply)
I suspect the cheating was done, it just wasn't enough.
#1.2.2.1 feeblemind on 2021-11-03 12:28 (Reply)
What you are suggesting is possible. It also may be that the powers that be decided Terry wasn't worth exposing their fraud machine for or that they woke up last night and realized they had to mobilize to keep NJ. Last possibility -

Q. Why did the Dems lose in Virginia?

A. The fake ballots were printed in China and they’re all still stuck on a ship waiting in LA harbor!
#1.2.3 John Fisher on 2021-11-03 12:57 (Reply)
I think with the AMA jumping the woke shark, the entire woke movement can be said to have jumped the shark. Like aging hippies still talking about "sticking it to The Man" without the self-awareness to recognize that they are now "The Man", they've become an embarrassing parody of themselves.
#2 Jerryskids on 2021-11-03 08:50 (Reply)
Now that the hippies have become The Man, "sticking it to the Man" sounds better and better. Like this:

Former Hippie, now card-carrying Blue Anon: "Stick it to the Man!"

Me, carnivorous veteran: "Dude! You ARE the Man. Where would you like me to stick it?"
#2.1 Michael Anderson (Link) on 2021-11-03 09:22 (Reply)
Key lessons from Virginia:

Make it local, keep it local. If Republicans (or any rational candidate) can make the election about local issues and get the squishy middlers excited and engaged about the local issues, election day turnout goes up.

Making it local ensures Democrat efforts to nationalize a race look ham-handed and insensitive ... and then piss off many of their so-called 'core constituencies'. These people will then vote the wrong way on election day. Key point is Democrats have evolved to an essentially national, top-down operation. This means they are usually out of their element when it comes to neighborhood dog catcher level issues. Hence, no bench, no leadership and almost Soviet style discipline down the organization (with plenty of unsavory elements in the shadows).

Election day turnout is, currently, about the only way to stop the stealing. The stealing is done by manufacturing registrations and ballots to counteract 'projected' returns of red votes ... It's done in Excel and then the Rock-the-Vote, People-for-the-American-Way, name your Soros or Clinton funded hack organizations, go to work to "produce" the excess needed to win. They WERE doing it again last night in Fairfax County, Richmond, etc. BUT they couldn't overwhelm the election day turnout results ... which (look at NBC election data) were overwhelming for Youngkin. The actuals beat the projected beyond any ability to steal the thing. (BTW, this happened in many red states back in November, like Ohio ... the steal was on but just couldn't breach the flood of Tuesday votes.)

This is good news relative to John Fisher's comment (number 1) ... if there are challenges, the ballots have to be looked at and the in-person results will be good, the mail-ins maybe not so much. Net, I doubt there will be much of a challenge in Virginia. New Jersey on the other hand will turn on how much stomach the Republican challenger has and whether he had any ground organization in place to monitor the cheating. New Jersey will probably go the way of November ... the facts will come out long after the newspapers are done wrapping fish.
#3 Nat Brooks on 2021-11-03 09:28 (Reply)
"....we explore the philosophical bounds of fat activism and fat resistance and through citing examples of Black women engaged in resistance to body-oppressive structures, we highlight the ways fat people and their accomplices (nonfat and non-fat identifying people) contribute to the collective effort for fat justice,” the abstract states."

The first thing TJ Stewart needs is a word diet.
#4 Aggie on 2021-11-03 10:16 (Reply)
I sympathize with those who are fat but that doesn't translate into others being the bad guy because they don't find "fat" to be attractive. I sympathize with those who are ugly, have bad personalities, are too short/tall, skinny, or just unattractive. But that doesn't change the reality and blaming someone else for the reality simply isn't a good look!
#4.1 MeToo on 2021-11-03 10:30 (Reply)
I got nuthin. Nuthin grabbed me. I'm off my feed.
#5 Sam L. on 2021-11-03 11:07 (Reply)
I also listened to Razib's interview with Colbert and was impressed. There is a secondary point he made a couple of times that is worth noting, that his main opposition came from those slightly older than him. He sees a clear cultural line of the "only partly" online personality just a few years older. This is very similar to the spot that Haidt and Lukianoff identified, of the highschool graduating class of 2014 being significantly different on several measures - none of them encouraging.
#6 Assistant Village Idiot on 2021-11-03 11:24 (Reply)
How BlackRock Endangers U.S. Prosperity And National Security

QUOTE:
Despite BlackRock passively investing for most clients, it wields immense power — both over the companies whose shares it holds, and through them over the American economy. This is because, even though BlackRock is not the ultimate owner of the shares it manages, it can vote in regards those shares on behalf of its clients.

That tremendous voting power enables BlackRock to exert extraordinary influence over corporate management and policy. Those corporations are themselves often behemoths like Exxon and Microsoft. Moreover, BlackRock functions in an intensely oligopolistic environment. Only three other asset managers — Fidelity, Vanguard, and State Street — begin to compare with it in size and heft, and it is the biggest of them all.

BlackRock is a major cause of corporate leftism in America, using its power to push for left-wing political priorities. In the just-completed third quarter of 2021 alone, BlackRock opposed the reelection of 800 company directors. In just one example, because of BlackRock’s leverage, big American oil company Exxon is considering dropping several drilling projects due to BlackRock removing board members and installing new members — despite the globe objectively being underinvested in energy production. If your gas costs more, think BlackRock.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/03/how-the-massive-money-manager-blackrock-endangers-u-s-prosperity-and-national-security/
#7 feeblemind on 2021-11-03 12:34 (Reply)
Serfing the planet

QUOTE:
Many of those in Glasgow at the moment pray at the altar of ‘de-growth’. They want to limit the consumption of the working and middle classes, undermine their jobs, raise their energy bills, and inhibit their ability to buy property or travel.

. . . The lockdowns may seem tragic to operators on Main Street, but some greens see them as providing the basis for a bureaucratically controlled future where credentialed mandarins determine the minutiae of daily life. This includes policies designed to change how people live. Already climate-oriented policies have underpinned efforts to block affordable homes being built on the periphery and force ever more density on urban areas. This has had the effect of raising prices, resulting in declines in homeownership, particularly among the young, notably in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia.

.. . . All this fits what the Davos crowd calls the ‘great reset’, a top-down effort at refashioning capitalism and daily life along green lines. The goal is not just to turn potential owners into tenants but also to reduce all consumption in general, as part of a move to a ‘net zero’ future where cars will become rarer, miles will be taxed and only expensive electric cars will remain, largely only for the rich.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/01/serfing-the-planet/#.YYECem4Sgil.twitter
#8 feeblemind on 2021-11-03 14:57 (Reply)
My humble suggestion for demi-professor TJ's next work of fiction:
"....we explore the philosophical bounds of lower extremity amputations following circulatory compromise resulting from complications of Type II Diabetes and through citing examples of Black women engaged in eating themselves to blindness resulting from diabetic retinopathy and premature death from cardiac complications, we highlight the ways fat people and their accomplices (nonfat and non-fat identifying people) contribute to the collective effort for justice and failing to attain anything like a normal life expectancy,” the abstract states."
#9 Steve on 2021-11-04 06:21 (Reply)

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