Just Another Opium Prescription
Feb. 9th, 2022 08:42 amInteresting analysis:
Truckers, construction workers, carpenters, builders, electricians, cops, mechanics, and maintenance employees were most likely to donate to Trump in the 2020 election.
Teachers, professors, therapists, lawyers, HR department staff, finance professionals, and bankers were most likely to donate to Biden.
On the basis of this analysis, it’s hard not to conclude that the Republican Party is now the party of the working class.
Take the Freedom Convoy currently occuping Ottawa, Canada’s capital. I’m sure it’s a royal pain in the ass for the residents of Ottawa—and yet… Is this not a Marxist wetdream come true? A literal example of the workers of the world uniting?
But the progressive left is not racing to embrace it.
Are the truckers behaving any more badly than, say, participants in the various Black Lives Matters protests that burned buildings, and ruined dozens of small, minority-owned businesses?
I ask because I don’t actually know, not because I’m attempting to prove some rhetorical point.
I don’t actually have a dog in this fight. Labels like “left” and “right”, “Republican” and “Democrat”, even “working class” and “white collar” are absolutely irrelevant to me. They’re just characterizations used to propel more-or-less meaningless narratives that I don’t subscribe to.
Though I'm fairly certain Marx would have characterized "identity politics" as just another opium prescription.
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Meanwhile, the fabulous![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
asakiyume and I are embarking upon a larky little project—maybe.
We want to create a little generator that will allow people to determine where they rank on the list of The Worst People in the World!
All in fun, of course!
You type in your birthday or some other personal identifying triva—no social security or credit card numbers—and voila! the generator spits up a randomly generated number between 10 and 7.9 billion.
The generator also has spider functionality so that the top ten slots of the app on any given day are populated by people in the new or Twitter trends whose names are coupled with words like “crime,” “charges,” “corruption” etc.
The only problem is that neitherasakiyume nor I have programming skills, so we have to track down a coder who would be interested in working with us on the project—for no pay until we manage to sell the thing to The New York Times for a price in the low seven figures. (Move over, Wordle!)
Anyway, if you would like to play withasakiyume and me on this, give a holler.
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Nothing much else to report.
Long, cold day TaxBwana-ing at the Poughkeepsie Galleria awaits.
I am not looking forward to it.
Truckers, construction workers, carpenters, builders, electricians, cops, mechanics, and maintenance employees were most likely to donate to Trump in the 2020 election.
Teachers, professors, therapists, lawyers, HR department staff, finance professionals, and bankers were most likely to donate to Biden.
On the basis of this analysis, it’s hard not to conclude that the Republican Party is now the party of the working class.
Take the Freedom Convoy currently occuping Ottawa, Canada’s capital. I’m sure it’s a royal pain in the ass for the residents of Ottawa—and yet… Is this not a Marxist wetdream come true? A literal example of the workers of the world uniting?
But the progressive left is not racing to embrace it.
Are the truckers behaving any more badly than, say, participants in the various Black Lives Matters protests that burned buildings, and ruined dozens of small, minority-owned businesses?
I ask because I don’t actually know, not because I’m attempting to prove some rhetorical point.
I don’t actually have a dog in this fight. Labels like “left” and “right”, “Republican” and “Democrat”, even “working class” and “white collar” are absolutely irrelevant to me. They’re just characterizations used to propel more-or-less meaningless narratives that I don’t subscribe to.
Though I'm fairly certain Marx would have characterized "identity politics" as just another opium prescription.
###
Meanwhile, the fabulous
asakiyume and I are embarking upon a larky little project—maybe.We want to create a little generator that will allow people to determine where they rank on the list of The Worst People in the World!
All in fun, of course!
You type in your birthday or some other personal identifying triva—no social security or credit card numbers—and voila! the generator spits up a randomly generated number between 10 and 7.9 billion.
The generator also has spider functionality so that the top ten slots of the app on any given day are populated by people in the new or Twitter trends whose names are coupled with words like “crime,” “charges,” “corruption” etc.
The only problem is that neither
asakiyume nor I have programming skills, so we have to track down a coder who would be interested in working with us on the project—for no pay until we manage to sell the thing to The New York Times for a price in the low seven figures. (Move over, Wordle!)Anyway, if you would like to play with
asakiyume and me on this, give a holler.###
Nothing much else to report.
Long, cold day TaxBwana-ing at the Poughkeepsie Galleria awaits.
I am not looking forward to it.
