It is my belief that President Obama almost became a Supreme Court justice. This is because that if Hillary Clinton had become President 3 years ago, he would have been the most obvious pick to replace a resignation during Hillary Clinton’s term. It is likely RBG would have retired by now given that she is …
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Conservative mindset
Might makes right. If someone isn’t doing well, then it is inherently their fault. Social redistribution is counter to both of these ideas. Military spending backs up the idea of might makes right. If my actions impact someone else, that means I was more mighty, hence in the right. Civil rights are contrary to the …
Absentee Voting and Voting Machines
Blue means everyone uses Absentee voting Green means everyone has the option to use absentee voting Yellow means you need an excuse to use absentee voting and there is a paper trail Red means you need an excuse to use absentee voting and there is no paper trail To put this in more perspective: 61.4% …
75 years of peace
As of last month, Western Europe has been at peace for 75 years. I wrote a piece on my previous blog which looked at a list of wars involving France on my previous blog before I made my switch to WordPress. What this blog fails to analyze is how all of these wars are related, …
How to not create a democracy
Three things connect the Reign of Terror, Third Reich, Great Purge, and Great Leap Forward: 1. The people in power claimed they were helping the working class by targeting the “bourgeois”. 2. Their claim of who they were targeting was absolutely bullshit. Most of the people killed in these 4 events were impoverished. 3. Not …
Tara Reade case
Here are some notes about the Tara Reade case which I have pulled together. I studied game theory in college, so I am extensively using it in this article. I went back and forth on whether I should publish it, but I believe this is important to give a game theory analysis based on the …
Why We Aren’t Getting Any Stimulus
America’s retirement system is woefully inadequate for the majority of Americans. After paying 12.4% of their income into Social Security, the average American doesn’t have any money left over to save in an index fund. This means the majority of Americans both struggle in retirement and have no rainy day fund for if they lose …
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I am moving over to WordPress. To see continued political economy, political theory, climate action, and musings on the news, please visit stidmatt.com. I require version control, general flexibility on my website, and WordPress gives me the flexibility I need.
Why we aren’t getting any stimulus
America’s retirement system is woefully inadequate for the majority of Americans. After paying 13.4% of their income into Social Security, the average American doesn’t have any money left over to save in an index fund. This means the majority of Americans both struggle in retirement and have no rainy day fund for if they lose …
General Lee was no hero
Ike was wrong about General Lee. Lee was a slaveholder and had no loyalty to these United States. As soon as Virginia seceded from the Union, Lee saw nothing wrong with being the leading general in the war which killed more American soldiers than any other war. He was a veteran of the Mexian American …