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#315: February 17-18, 2013

Knowledge Fight

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What's the Business Cycle?

The expression, Mola and La Bay had been popular among right wing militia types for a while at the point when Alex made his shirt. He's clearly ripping off something that was cool in a subterranean world of extremists and trying to sell it to the mainstream. Stuart Rhodes didn't make his mole on La Bay pledge until after Alex released this shirt and it became a best seller. I think what you have here is an interesting glimpse at a business cycle. In many ways, that's kind of a perfect analogy for what he does with his rhetoric.

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