On this day:
1794
U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1942
World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1947
Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that prehistoric peoples could have traveled from South America.
1964
Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1998
The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, kill approximately 212 people.
2007
Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron’s record by hitting his 756th home run.
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This weekend, Jen Pawol will make history by becoming the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game. She's set to work the series between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.
1794
U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1942
World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1947
Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that prehistoric peoples could have traveled from South America.
1964
Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1998
The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, kill approximately 212 people.
2007
Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron’s record by hitting his 756th home run.
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This weekend, Jen Pawol will make history by becoming the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game. She's set to work the series between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.
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In 2024, Nancy Pelosi made more money on investments than any large hedge fund in the United States.
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The Indian and Philippine navies have conducted their first joint drills in the South China Sea, the same day the Philippine president arrived in India on a state visit.
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Grownups with nukes: Seoul has started removing border loudspeakers in a bid to ease tensions with the autocratic North. The South resumed blasting K-pop and pro-democracy propaganda last summer in response to the North’s trash balloons, which were in turn a response to the South’s activists floating leaflets, cash, and Bibles over the border.
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Who Are These People?
According to Corey Robin, professor of political science at Brooklyn College, "the socialist argument against capitalism isn’t that it makes us poor. It’s that it makes us unfree. When my well-being depends upon your whim, when the basic needs of life compel submission to the market and subjugation at work, we live not in freedom but in domination. Socialists want to end that domination: to establish freedom from rule by the boss, from the need to smile for the sake of a sale, from the obligation to sell for the sake of survival." He continues, “The socialist believes that making things free makes people free.”
Freedom "from the need to smile for the sake of a sale?" From the unexplained bodega closing? The freedom to be rude? Impolite? Disinterested? Unmotivated?
And, more importantly, who is making these free things and why?
You can’t have socialism with a scarce good or service, especially among strangers, without the dreaded word unheard in socialism: allocation. Scarce goods and services must be allocated. Allocated. By someone. Not by the market, but by some person based on some uncertain criterion.
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Who Are These People?
According to Corey Robin, professor of political science at Brooklyn College, "the socialist argument against capitalism isn’t that it makes us poor. It’s that it makes us unfree. When my well-being depends upon your whim, when the basic needs of life compel submission to the market and subjugation at work, we live not in freedom but in domination. Socialists want to end that domination: to establish freedom from rule by the boss, from the need to smile for the sake of a sale, from the obligation to sell for the sake of survival." He continues, “The socialist believes that making things free makes people free.”
Freedom "from the need to smile for the sake of a sale?" From the unexplained bodega closing? The freedom to be rude? Impolite? Disinterested? Unmotivated?
And, more importantly, who is making these free things and why?
You can’t have socialism with a scarce good or service, especially among strangers, without the dreaded word unheard in socialism: allocation. Scarce goods and services must be allocated. Allocated. By someone. Not by the market, but by some person based on some uncertain criterion.
Who are the allocators? What will be the criterion?
This is a professor at a university, and this is simply not serious thinking.
This is a professor at a university, and this is simply not serious thinking.
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