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2024-05-25 Home Front: Politix
The Growing Menace of the 'Non-Profit' Sector
From a Grom comment that I feel deserves its own posting.
[Pipeline] There’s a joke going around that it must be maddening to be a "direct action" climate-change protestor setting out in the morning to block a highway or deface a museum piece before gluing yourself in place, only to arrive and find the pro-Hamas protestors got up earlier and are already blocking the highway.

Of course this problem was quickly solved by fusing the two issues, which is easy for the left since the issue is never the issue—it’s only the revolution that counts. It only took days after October 7 for banners to appear at pro-Hamas marches declaring that saving Gaza necessarily involved "climate justice," while The Nation magazine, apparently with a straight face, announced that "The Single Most Important Thing President Biden Can Do for the Climate Is Enforce an Immediate Cease-Fire in Gaza." Just to make sure no one missed the linkage, St. Greta Thunberg ratified the marriage of the two issues by turning up to protest the Israeli contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest decked out in a large keffiyeh scarf, which totally isn’t a cultural appropriation when someone of the left does it.

Beyond the all-too-easy and predictable union of the left’s two main current obsessions is how massive the lavishly funded "non-profit sector" has become to the overall project of the left. It is important to understand the playbook, because the left’s grand strategy goes beyond private philanthropy to radical causes, and now includes direct taxpayer support (in the form of federal grants and legal fee reimbursements) as well as buying off corporate support with tax breaks and subsidies. Universities are always the main hub for these efforts, but the spokes now radiate out deep into the corporate world and the halls of government.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-25 06:39|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Universities are always the main hub for these efforts, but the spokes now radiate out deep into the corporate world and the halls of government.

Meanwhile, the actual funders and agents of power (and change) can remain comfortably anonymous.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-25 06:47||   2024-05-25 06:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Over 40 Mayors Plead with Biden to Create Jobs Program -- for Migrants

Prob a good start on the 'Inflate-a-Crowd' initiative.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-25 07:53||   2024-05-25 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Nobody makes a profit but everyone has an inflated salary and ego.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-25 18:46||   2024-05-25 18:46|| Front Page Top

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