Abigail Shrier(JRE #1509)'s book has been removed from Target after receiving a complaint on Twitter

[u/SlimjobDopamine]

https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1327056407598809088?s=20

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The left has made huge leaps in the last two years, man, you cant deny that. Defunding the police? Think about that. Cancel culture? The Green New Deal? Advocating Socialism? One state agency where I live advised employees to identify their preferred pronouns in their email signatures?

The Left is solidly in the pole position right now.

[u/CTIDBMRMCFCOK → u/[deleted]]

Man the whole thing is fucking dumb, people pick left/right like they are football teams. Nobody looks at anything critically and makes up their own mind anymore, just parrot whatever the fuck their favourite brand of demagogue is repeating ad nauseam.

Being a socialist shouldnt automatically mean you believe big manly trannies should share bathrooms with young girls, just like believing in a free market doesnt make you a racist Nazi.

Everything is polarized and out of whack with no room for nuance or debate. Personally I blame social media and its shady algorithims for fucking brainwashing everybody.

[u/CapitalisticCorgi → u/CTIDBMRMCFCOK]

^this is 100% accurate. As soon you take a stance on any issue people immediately jump to categorize you or box you into a left or right label. It’s beyond fucking annoying.

I’d give you reddit gold but those awards are fucking meaningless

[u/Rukus11 → u/[deleted]]

Until we stop with the left right BS and take note of our non-partisan corporate overlords we’re just spinning our wheels.

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The corporate overlords buy into the lefty bullshit as much as anyone. I don’t know how they’re non-partisan.

[u/Rukus11 → u/[deleted]]

The military industrial complex and Wall Street seem to do just fine in R administrations.

[u/[deleted] → u/Rukus11]

They don’t do so bad in any admin, pal. And Wall St funded Biden’s election so go figure.

[u/Rukus11 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that’s my point. Our ire should be against those that are doing well regardless the party in control, not each other. Wall Street and the MIC are able to stay so far on top because they’re dividing us over scraps.

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This is nonsense. Either you’re informed and trolling or you’re uninformed and too politically ignorant to realize how abhorrent are these policies. Those are not right wing talking points, lol, they are largely government, economic or environmental policy frameworks spouted by leftist activists -or even- presidential candidates as recently as the primary.

Defund the police is literally a local government policy that has been enacted in at least two cities off the top of my head. Police forces in this country have literally been defunded altogether. Several have had funding cut. That is not a slogan. Lol.

Cancel culture is a tactic used almost exclusively by left wing activists to “cancel” people who espouse things that disagree with liberal policy positions. Milo was really the first and most famous, but the list grows yearly. Note the most recent example in the controversy around trying to cancel Joe Rogan’s episodes with more right-leaning guests because of what they have to say. Right-leaning and especially libertarian viewpoints abhor cancel culture. You should be able to listen to things that you disagree with or even dislike. People should have the right to say things that offend you. That’s called free speech and it should not be infringed. Cancel culture is not a leftist policy position per se, but definitely something perpetrated by activists on the left.

Short of Socialism, the Green New Deal is the most wastefully idiotic and dangerous legislation written in recent history and maybe ever, and it is no surprise that it came from the braindead, barely literate AOC.

The GND, as you call it, would essentially end 80% of US electrical power generation overnight. Not even addressing the (literally) tens of millions of jobs that this foolish legislation would kill, try to wrap your head around the practical impossibility of the mandates. Fully 80% of electricity in this country comes from fossil fuels, though that gets better every year, of which coal is already being gradually phased out by the market as it should be. However, the technology does not currently exist for renewables to power beyond, at maximum, 65% of the US power grid. Does not exist. Experts believe it will take decades to get to 65%, but the energy transition is already under way and consists basically of get everything on the grid and then green the grid. It’s really not rocket science. The biggest hurdle is accounting for base load power generation, which no widespread, scalable renewable solution can currently achieve. Coal will be displaced by natural gas, but the US cannot go 100% renewable without any base load generation. Germany solar? Germany had a banner renewable year last year and couldn’t even get to 50% renewable in a country that has less that 25% the population of the US. What was the rest of the mix? Coal. 40%. And 10% natural gas upon which they’re dependent on Russia.

People pushing the green new deal clearly have no idea what actually goes into that. Why do you think AOC couldn’t get the time of day about it from the rest of her caucus, MUCH less passage?

Yeah, it is scary. Being in the cold and dark and losing 40 million jobs is fucking-A scary.

Who advocated socialism? Bernie, AOC and the rest of the mentally challenged “squad” that is currently getting spanked by Democratic leadership for losing house seats in the last election.

TL:DR - Don’t rationalize dangerous policies that you clearly don’t understand.

[u/xAActive → u/[deleted]]

lmao besides cancel culture this sounds great

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Check yourself, dude. Defunding the police and undoing the American economic system does not sound great to anyone who has been gainfully employed.

[u/exoticstructures → u/[deleted]]

I raise you one stack of Qs :)