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3 months agoSmart choice, even if a bit slow to come. :)
Smart choice, even if a bit slow to come. :)
Trying to figure out whether he was genuinely Republican, using some kind of logic.
It seems fairly certain basing on this photo that he did not use an optical sight, at least not anything sizable. Attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate under Secret Service protection with iron sights on your gun…
…no, this guy wasn’t a planner. So his registration as a Republican likely wasn’t an elaborate plan either.
Unfortunately I don’t know.
To correlate the effect with social processes, one would have to plot the same graph for multiple countries and see what processes occur in each history at the time of the lines forking apart (assuming they do so).
Some guesses: automation, perhaps globalization of supply chains, something related to the effectiveness of employees at bargaining with employers?