There Must Be A Surge Of Socialists Running For Office
By Mitch Berg
Their supporters – real and automated – are rutting:
We can test whether that’s true or not.
Experiment: Put a group of cute girls in tank tops with order pads in the middle of an open field.
If a “Hooters” magically springs up, you got yourself a theory.
July 10th, 2025 at 7:52 am
It is never about the truth, facts or logic. It is all about sloganeering and feelings. Always. Forever. And reliance on the echo chamber. And MN is full of dumbasses to fill those chambers since people with any common sense left are leaving for better climates, both figurative and literal. But I wish you luck and commend you for staying. Just don’t get cooked like the proverbial frog.
July 10th, 2025 at 9:12 am
I’m willing to help test the theory. Where’s the field?
July 10th, 2025 at 10:49 am
To draw another picture, how’s that “labor theory of value” working for all those starving artists?
July 10th, 2025 at 10:54 am
The Labor Theory of Capital. Somewhere Karl Marx is laughing.
July 10th, 2025 at 12:56 pm
Maybe, just maybe, in some domains Mr. Osland is 100% correct, I mean how much actual wealth has Laurene Powell Jobs or Alida Messinger created?
The biggest problem with inheritance is its long tail.
A very wise, very industrious person once told me that family businesses rarely survive the third generation – which is the natural order of things – but what about the forever trusts that produce generations of incompetent “activists”?