Another Civil War? The Math Is Scary

The battle between Democrats and Republicans is heating up.

A recent study published by the University of Chicago’s Project on Security & Threats reports a steep rise in the percentage of each group that is comfortable with using violence to achieve its political objectives. According to the report, about 18 million Republicans (7% of the US population) believe that force may be necessary to “reinstate Donald Trump to the presidency.” That’s an increase of 6 million over those that held that opinion at the end of Trump’s term. Even scarier, 44 million Democrats (17% of the population) are comfortable with using violence to compel Congress to do what they consider to be “the right thing.”

That’s a total of 62 million Americans that are willing to use violence to accomplish their political objectives. A whole lot of potential warriors. (The total number of Americans that fought in the US Civil War was 3 million.)

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The Female Pickup Artists 

TheWizardLiz: Her YouTube video “How to receive princess treatment” has a million views 

A new group of influencers is peddling an old strategy, says Kat Rosenfield, writing in The Free Press. But with a difference. The old strategy (made famous in the 1995 bestseller The Rules) was about snaring an old-fashioned “good” man and having an old-fashioned “good” marriage. The new strategy has different goals, because it is based on a very different view of male-female relationships – one that is more transactional. Sort of like prostitution.

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Big Companies Losing Faith in Remote Work 

On Aug. 11, I reported that Zoom (ironically) now requires most of their employees to be in the office, in person, at least 2.5 days a week. And now Meta is threatening termination for employees who do not show up in person at least three days a week.

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