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Friday 26th of April 2024

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Capitalists When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract. Attributed to Vladimir Lenin © 2021 Kwiple.com
Cyber warfare In a cyberwar, an ‘attack surface’ is the set of points in a computer program that allow hackers access. If the target of a cyberwar is not a computer program but a society, then the attack surface is something broader; software that allows the attacker contact with the mind of the enemy. Timothy Snyder The Road to Unfreedom © 2021 Kwiple.com
Elections The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out. Vyacheslav Molotov, 1954 [Often attributed to Leonid Brezhnev] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Evolution I don't believe in evolution. I don't believe in that type of so-called science. I don't believe in evolution. I believe in God. Marjorie Taylor Greene © 2021 Kwiple.com
Inheritance The average inheritance in 2019 was $212,854, up 45% from an inflation- adjusted $146,844 in 1998, according to an analysis of Fed data by ecnomists at a unit of Capital One Financial Corp. Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2021 —————   2019 median family wealth of   families headed by someone $464,000 with a graduate degree $310,000 with at least a bachelor's degree $243,000 with a bachelor's degree $102,000 with an associate's degree $79,000 who is a high school graduate with perhaps some college $18,000 with a GED or high school dropout [According to St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Israel It's like the difference between Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola An elderly Palestinian quoted in the New York Times, June 15, 2021, on the difference between Netanyahu's government and the coalition government including leftist and Arab members that replaced it but nevertheless permitted far-right Jews to march through Palestianian areas in Jerusalem over the objections of the leftist and Arab parties in the coaltion © 2021 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Count votes in Congress by: 1. Calculating a Member's Proportional Vote (MPV) for each member, as follows: MPV = SPNP / NLRS where: SPNP = State's Percentage of the National Population NLRS = Number of Legislators Representing the State (in that legislature) 2. Totaling “yes” MPVs and “no” MPVs 3. Passing if total MPV is more than 50 OTHERWISE Abolish the Senate © 2019 Kwiple.com
London London is to billionaires what the jungles of Sumatra are to the orang-utan. It's their natural habitat. Boris Johnson © 2021 Kwiple.com
Palestinians  Crimes of the past, when left unaddressed, do not remain in the past. That's also the lesson of the evictions that have set Israel-Palestine aflame.  More than seven decades ago, Palestinians were expelled to create a Jewish state. Now they are being expelled to make Jerusalem a Jewish city. By refusing to face the Nakba of 1948, the Israeli government and its American Jewish allies ensures that the Nakba continues. Peter Beinart, New York Times, May 12, 2021 [Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians during Israel's founding] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Politics What Trump has done is take this human impulse toward cruelty, and elevate it to a political virtue. Adam Serwer © 2021 Kwiple.com
Post-2020 Senate shituation 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2020 population: 40,085,414 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,336,180 people — 1 state (California) 2020 population: 39,368,075 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,684,037 people 19,684,037 / 1,336,180 = 14.7, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth nearly 15 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth less than 7% of an average 15er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2020 population = 582,328, therefore: 1 Senator per 291,164 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 68 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Productivity First, the losses suffered by labour relative to capital are even more extreme than previously thought. While productivity gains since the mid-1990s amounted to 25 per cent  in real terms, wages grew only 11 per cent. Meanwhile, capital income  increased by two-thirds.  If there is any doubt that the link between  productivity and wages has broken down, this should put it to rest. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, May 30, 2021, on lessons learned from a new report from McKinsey Global Institute © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I really didn’t say everything I said. Yogi Berra © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't think I'm gonna be really understood until maybe 100 years from now. Bob Dylan, 1984 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Separation of church and state Whenever the church gets in bed with politics, the church gets pregnant. And the offspring does not look like God the Father. J. D. Greear, June 15, 2021, outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She's got the hammer and all she sees are nails. Lina Khan portrayed by a policy researcher in the June 18, 2021, Financial Times, shortly after she was appointed as head of the Federal Trade Commission, which monitors competition © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Republican Party is the frog carrying the scorpion of Grover Norquist across the river. Grover Norquist portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A ruthless little bastard. Donald Rumsfeld portrayed by Richard Nixon © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In a city of egos, he stood out as someone who was so confident that he would never accept blame. Donald Rumsfeld portrayed by Demetri Sevastopulo © 2021 Kwiple.com
State of the union America's chronic failure to turn its economic strength into social progress is a huge drag on American influence. Europeans may envy America's corporate dynamism but can comfort themselves that they are doing a much better job on a host of social outcomes, from education to health to the environment. Rivals like China may see the fraying of America's social fabric as a sign of strategic weakness. Emerging economies, whose citizens are starting to enjoy quality of life ever closer to that of Americans, may be less willing to take lectures from the U.S. government. Michael Green, CEO of Social Progress Index © 2021 Kwiple.com
State of the union Greeks have higher high school graduation rates. CHileans live longer. Fifteen-year-olds in Russia, Poland, Latvia and many other countries are better at math than their American counterparts — perhaps a metric for where nations will stand in a generation or two. As for reading, one-fifth of American 15-year-olds can't read at the level expected of a 10-year-old. How are those millions of Americans going to compete in a globalized economy? As I see it, the greatest threat to America's future is less a surging China or a rogue Russia than it is our underperformance at home. Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, 2021/06/23 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Time You have all the clocks, we have all the time.  Taliban adage © 2021 Kwiple.com
Torture I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours? Donald Rumsfeld, who used a standing desk, approving torture at Guantanamo Bay © 2021 Kwiple.com
Visions A big vision without a plan is just a fantasy. Exciting, but little more than a wisp that eventually blows away. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Voting rights If a single statute represents the best of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. It marries two great ideals: democracy and racial equality. … If a single statute reminds of us of the worst of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. Because it was — and remains — so necessary. Elena Kagan, dissent in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee © 2021 Kwiple.com
Voting rights The mere fact there is some disparity in impact does not necessarily mean that a system is not equally open or that it does not give everyone an equal opportunity to vote. Samuel Alito, writing for the Supreme Court's Republicans — Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas — a.k.a. “The Sellout Six” in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Voting rights Whenever it can, the majority gives a cramped reading to broad language. And then it uses that reading to uphold two election laws from Arizona that discriminate against minority voters. I could say—and will in the following pages—that this is not how the Court is supposed to interpret and apply statutes. But that ordinary critique woefully under- sells the problem. What is tragic here is that the Court has (yet again) rewritten —in order to weaken—a statute that stands as a monument to American greatness, and protects against its basest impulses. Elena Kagan, dissent in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee © 2021 Kwiple.com