Indeed, it's virtually always wealthy people, usually on the older side. But they're sticking to this theory, and believe that if you disagree, the truth is just 2edgy4u bro.
I'll take a guess, it's something along the lines of "all of those people are borderline-unemployable undesirables and/or lazy fuckers with no ambition who deserve their lot in life. The system works!"
This is one of the silliest and most widespread self-delusions of capitalism apologists. That low-paying menial jobs are meant to be first jobs for teenagers, so it's OK that they suck. This helps them to whistle and look the other way from all the skilled thirtysomethings stuck in them.
This is a perfect recipe for assisted civilizational suicide by capitalism, with an elite class of workers at the switch. The ever-shrinking working class would at some point simply opt to effectively or explicitly kill the UBI program. Historically, similarly terrible decisions to reverse societal protections that were put in place for good reasons have happened within 50~60 years.
It's far more practically hazardous to be able to vote for society's collapse for personal gain than to be able to vote yourself other people's money.
This, I don't know why anyone would stick to a traditional RSS client when there are web-based readers around. I use G2Reader although Old Reader is good too.
Indeed, in the third world, the most important job skill by a wide margin is "being born to rich parents." If you live in the first world it's still quite valuable, and appreciating.
The cellphone lens has been the bottleneck of its photographic ability for a long time now, even 10MP is a generous estimate. Enlarge any part of a cell phone photo and you'll see a mosaic effect caused by the lens limiting detail long before the pixels do.
A much bigger problem with Brett Kavanaugh is that he's a shitty judge who has a frighteningly amateurish understanding of the US' legal system. One nervous-laughable misunderstanding in particular is very appealing to wannabe-dictator President Trump: Kavanaugh believes that the US president has a power similar to the collective power of the US supreme court, and can declare any law unconstitutional on a whim:
My point is that it's disingenuous to hide blanket opposition to practical legal immigration behind support for a legal immigration process that acts as a tarpit for legal immigration attempts.
The deplorables have long seen the Statue of Liberty as a symbolic trojan horse from France and would like it done away with - perhaps melted down and turned into a more up-to-date monument to America's attitude toward immigrants, the Mexiphobia wall.
That's fine, ICE probably tagged you as "that nutjob who calls in every single brown person" early on, and now puts your calls on speaker phone for everyone at the office to laugh at while miming funny actions. Your tying up of the phone lines is more likely preventing actually "helpful" information from coming in at this point.
This. Fighting irrational/illogical/counterfactual thinking is like fighting an outbreak of zombie virus: Trying to find a cure is a waste of time and may even be impossible, it's much more important to contain the spread - that means reducing new exposure. The authoritative videos are like a zombie proximity warning system. Won't help the zombies, but it will help to keep the uninfected but vulnerable from becoming infected.
People who want to spread ideologies that rely on irrational/illogical/counterfactual thinking know this, that's why deplorables flip the fuck out about no-platforming, because that shit works wonders. The "sunlight is the best disinfectant" argument is equivalent to arguing for spraying zombie virus on a crowd of people who have mostly been immunized...sure, most of them won't pick it up, but some will, and now there are more zombies than before. It's indistinguishable from clever, underhanded malevolence.
Exactly, and making perfect the enemy of good is just the tactic post-truth types love to use against fact-checking. Case in point: "Sometimes fresh news articles get corrected, therefore let's give batshit nutjobbery and Russian propaganda a head start (particularly on hot-button issues where I want to empower post-truth narratives) until things settle down."
Tightly regulated capitalism with sharply progressive taxation to redistribute income. Within the next few decades capitalism as we know it will have to be phased out entirely before post-scarcity effects and a lack of participation opportunity for workers due to automation force a hard crash of the system.
It's not a Galt's Gulch argument, it's an Elysium argument: Oh noes, the rich have no need for this planet and they're planning to run it into the ground and then move on from it like an old beater car, what shall we ever do?
The rich know damn well that Galt's Gulch would be hell for them: They'd have to actually do work rather than bathing in luxury while an army of underpaid workers does all the work for them, just like an average human, and they'd be easily and quickly replaced by a society that would be better off without them. How is that an improvement in any way from their perspective?
It's not so easy for us to move on when the planet is trashed and people are bludgeoning each other for the last remaining resources needed to survive after being systematically impoverished.
The other real danger, and the most immediate real danger, of mass migration is the far-right ideology it inspires, posing unnecessary threats to the global economy and raising the risk of war (and hate crimes/genocide/humanitarian crises, but the rich don't care about that stuff). For this reason mass migration is only sustainable in short, widely spaced doses, otherwise you get nazis.
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Indeed, it's virtually always wealthy people, usually on the older side. But they're sticking to this theory, and believe that if you disagree, the truth is just 2edgy4u bro.
And it's telling when the people who defend the defunding of education open with arguments against fictional problems.
Some form of criminal conspiracy. Educate yourself:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I'll take a guess, it's something along the lines of "all of those people are borderline-unemployable undesirables and/or lazy fuckers with no ambition who deserve their lot in life. The system works!"
They're still around, we call them trust fund babies now.
This is one of the silliest and most widespread self-delusions of capitalism apologists. That low-paying menial jobs are meant to be first jobs for teenagers, so it's OK that they suck. This helps them to whistle and look the other way from all the skilled thirtysomethings stuck in them.
This is a perfect recipe for assisted civilizational suicide by capitalism, with an elite class of workers at the switch. The ever-shrinking working class would at some point simply opt to effectively or explicitly kill the UBI program. Historically, similarly terrible decisions to reverse societal protections that were put in place for good reasons have happened within 50~60 years.
It's far more practically hazardous to be able to vote for society's collapse for personal gain than to be able to vote yourself other people's money.
Well, you see, when he said "shithole" he was actually referring to a lack of indoor plumbing... :D
This, I don't know why anyone would stick to a traditional RSS client when there are web-based readers around. I use G2Reader although Old Reader is good too.
Indeed, in the third world, the most important job skill by a wide margin is "being born to rich parents." If you live in the first world it's still quite valuable, and appreciating.
I also have an uncle who lives in the GTA and needed a triple bypass, he got it within a week, at no meaningful expense to himself.
American pathological individualism is the only thing protecting Canada from a refugee crisis.
The cellphone lens has been the bottleneck of its photographic ability for a long time now, even 10MP is a generous estimate. Enlarge any part of a cell phone photo and you'll see a mosaic effect caused by the lens limiting detail long before the pixels do.
And now the circle is complete...
A much bigger problem with Brett Kavanaugh is that he's a shitty judge who has a frighteningly amateurish understanding of the US' legal system. One nervous-laughable misunderstanding in particular is very appealing to wannabe-dictator President Trump: Kavanaugh believes that the US president has a power similar to the collective power of the US supreme court, and can declare any law unconstitutional on a whim:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and...
My point is that it's disingenuous to hide blanket opposition to practical legal immigration behind support for a legal immigration process that acts as a tarpit for legal immigration attempts.
You make it sound as easy as getting a learner's permit at the DMV. It's actually a decades-long byzantine process:
https://www.americanimmigratio...
The deplorables have long seen the Statue of Liberty as a symbolic trojan horse from France and would like it done away with - perhaps melted down and turned into a more up-to-date monument to America's attitude toward immigrants, the Mexiphobia wall.
The trouble is that these traits are what define "greatness" to about a quarter to a third of Americans.
That's fine, ICE probably tagged you as "that nutjob who calls in every single brown person" early on, and now puts your calls on speaker phone for everyone at the office to laugh at while miming funny actions. Your tying up of the phone lines is more likely preventing actually "helpful" information from coming in at this point.
Since a Bond DB5 license plate is not a feasible solution,
You know, e-ink displays are getting cheap these days...
This. Fighting irrational/illogical/counterfactual thinking is like fighting an outbreak of zombie virus: Trying to find a cure is a waste of time and may even be impossible, it's much more important to contain the spread - that means reducing new exposure. The authoritative videos are like a zombie proximity warning system. Won't help the zombies, but it will help to keep the uninfected but vulnerable from becoming infected.
People who want to spread ideologies that rely on irrational/illogical/counterfactual thinking know this, that's why deplorables flip the fuck out about no-platforming, because that shit works wonders. The "sunlight is the best disinfectant" argument is equivalent to arguing for spraying zombie virus on a crowd of people who have mostly been immunized...sure, most of them won't pick it up, but some will, and now there are more zombies than before. It's indistinguishable from clever, underhanded malevolence.
Exactly, and making perfect the enemy of good is just the tactic post-truth types love to use against fact-checking. Case in point: "Sometimes fresh news articles get corrected, therefore let's give batshit nutjobbery and Russian propaganda a head start (particularly on hot-button issues where I want to empower post-truth narratives) until things settle down."
Tightly regulated capitalism with sharply progressive taxation to redistribute income. Within the next few decades capitalism as we know it will have to be phased out entirely before post-scarcity effects and a lack of participation opportunity for workers due to automation force a hard crash of the system.
It's not a Galt's Gulch argument, it's an Elysium argument: Oh noes, the rich have no need for this planet and they're planning to run it into the ground and then move on from it like an old beater car, what shall we ever do?
The rich know damn well that Galt's Gulch would be hell for them: They'd have to actually do work rather than bathing in luxury while an army of underpaid workers does all the work for them, just like an average human, and they'd be easily and quickly replaced by a society that would be better off without them. How is that an improvement in any way from their perspective?
It's not so easy for us to move on when the planet is trashed and people are bludgeoning each other for the last remaining resources needed to survive after being systematically impoverished.
The other real danger, and the most immediate real danger, of mass migration is the far-right ideology it inspires, posing unnecessary threats to the global economy and raising the risk of war (and hate crimes/genocide/humanitarian crises, but the rich don't care about that stuff). For this reason mass migration is only sustainable in short, widely spaced doses, otherwise you get nazis.