Hillary's slogan "I'm with Her" was really just a euphemism for "I want a female president, it's our turn!"
More women than men have voted in every election for over 20 years. If you all got together behind a person, like the black vote did with Obama, you would have had a string of female presidents by now. Hopefully they do better than the high profile female CEOs who as a group have been a disaster.
Ever since I wasted a couple hours of my life watching Manchester By The Sea. That movie was terrible and I was hoping the whole time that the ending would redeem it and make it worthwhile based on the super high rating that it had on Rotten Tomatoes. Instead it had the weakest ending I think I've ever seen.
I'd love to see that same decision enforced all over the world. It would really make people think twice before spreading all sorts of garbage. And if they didn't think twice, they'd be sued.
Anything that results in lawsuits whenever people get offended cannot be a good thing. You really should think this through.
The EU is about to find out how powerless it really is.
I think the Syrian masses already showed that. As did Greece. As did the current Ukraine situation. I'm perfectly content with the US pulling out of Europe, they weren't very grateful anyway.
Also, everything he described was infrastructure bought and paid for by tax dollars. Folks don't want to pay those taxes anymore and the infrastructure spending has more or less stopped. The build out of suburban America was financed by tax payers. They paid to pave the roads, run electricity, phone & internet, etc,etc. They're done. They don't want to pay anymore.
As near as I can tell my taxes haven't fallen much. What has changed is that taxes on the 1% have fallen dramatically due to tax cutting, shifting things to capital gains, tax shelters, and keeping money overseas. What has also changed is that a dramatic drop in the middle class has meant that less taxes are paid by many people as they simply make less. If a greater share of the total income was taxed at middle class rates it would be a windfall for government coffers.
You really think all the truckers in America are going to become coders or entrepreneurs?
Marc is probably hoping many do as the 1% loves nothing more than lots of workers to keep wages low and workers easily replaced. Supply and demand is one of the few parts of economics that is well understood.
Unsure what I missed on Section 8. I'd cancel it tomorrow if it were an option. The tenants are probably rightfully hated by their neighbors since they are getting a nearly free ride. I believe that we are put on this Earth to do more than nothing or to just satisfy ourselves. Not saying that you have to dedicate your life to a cause but do something - anything. As long as there is litter to be picked up, elderly shut ins to be kept company, or any number of other good deeds there is work to do. If we're going to pay people to sit around (ie welfare, disability, etc) then we should get something for it. I would add that I'm not anti rich per se, I just think that they should pay tax rates that are in line with the rest of us. Capital gains tax rates for example are a scam. As for trust funds, to me they only make sense for people who cannot take care of themselves like a down syndrome child. Any moderately capable adult shouldn't qualify. Make each generation have to earn their wealth instead of hording it and you'll see a renewed interest in opportunity.
Few things in life are as satisfying as having options that you are willing to take and seeing the look on their face when they think that you're bluffing but in fact you aren't.
I think you meant to say that section 8 is a common type of scam where the poor and rich both benefit while the middle class is left holding the bag. It benefits the poor because they get housing at a *huge* discount. Their neighbors of course don't get that deal. It benefits the rich because they get guaranteed rent checks from the government. While I generally find UBI to be unrealistic in terms of the cost I can understand the anger behind watching the poor get ever more, the rich get bailed out, and the middle class told to get used to 3rd world wages. I like the idea behind universal employment. I love the idea of a wealth tax. Trust fund babies should see their trust funds taxed out of existence.
The government breaks laws all the time - with complete impunity. Agents of the government break the law all the time with impunity. Sadly this is not news. News would be if someone was actually punished. Big news would be if someone other than a low level peon was punished.
2/4 of the Seinfeld main cast are jewish (and that's being generous -- George __Costanza__ is actually Italian). 5/6 of the Friends main cast are jewish
It's just so unfair and anti-semitic that people claim that Hollywood is run by jews. Clearly the facts don't support such hateful accusations. It's not like they are all Jewish after all, they let a few tokens in.
But you stick to your anecdata. That's the only proof a righteous paranoid needs!
It hardly seems a "righteous" request to speak the language of the country. As for paranoid, I've seen the destruction that mass immigration has caused. If anything I'm not paranoid enough. Fairly large sections of Southern California resemble Mexico in just about every way, from the language to the litter. That is not progress, that is reverting to a third world country. Anyone who would cheer that on is not living near it.
Marriage data is taking an unrealistically long view, certainly longer than my lifetime. I don't want to leave a worse off place for my kids in the hope that ~100 years later it will all work out.
I'll go ahead and see largely Spanish signs in California. I'll note the huge amounts of ESL for kids of illegals. Observation is undeniable and clearly shows that any jokes about Mexifornia are spot on.
- Update - I read your article and it largely spoke about mixed marriages, and how people self identify for the Census. What I'm talking about is far more basic, such as could you respond to the census in English.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good SJW rant. They're still pushing that women make $.70 for every dollar a man makes and that engineering in general is full of bro's with nothing better to do than make women feel uncomfortable. The notion of fake news didn't arise in a vacuum. While Trump may have popularized the phrase "fake news" people have long since noticed that half truths and opinions are presented as "news" far more than actual, unbiased, both sides of the story facts.
More and more this seems to really be a thing with the immigrant diasporas in the West, and it's going to bring multi-culturalism down hard. Multiculturalists like to say "well the Italians integrated you racist!!" Well, yes they did, but I also know virtually no descendants of Italian immigrants that actually think they're Italian, speak Italian and frankly give a shit what happens in Italy. It is more "cultural flavor" and closer to white Southerners being proud of their heritage than a truly distinct claim on ethnicity.
The key difference is that in prior waves of immigration being assimilated in terms of language and culture was pushed - and surprise surprise they did indeed become Americans. This was the melting pot idea and it largely worked. Now we coddle them, don't expect them to learn the language, don't expect them to follow the law (yes illegal immigration is illegal), and really don't seem to care if they "melt in". We don't look after the people already in the country but we can't wait to let more in. And we wonder why there is a cultural breakdown. Donald Trump is a warning, it really can get much worse if the middle class continues to decline and inequality guarantees opportunities only for the 1%.
Yes, yes, we should be like you, in service to our new masters, the mighty Oligarchy.
I hate to break it to you but if you think Clinton wasn't a full time servant of the mighty Oligarchy then you weren't paying attention. Bernie might have been different but we'll never know sadly.
I have a theory that the punishment should be in proportion to the crime. When you are trying to fleecs 5M people an hour then you qualify for a Putin style polonium hit. It would really send a message and help reduce this type of thing.
Unfortunately they've overlooked the fact that the poor (except maybe the homeless) can't afford to move, it's the wealthy who are mobile.
This is a true point. It would actually make sense to fund bus tickets out of the area in a cynical way. Essentially saying we won't pay for the poor to stay but we will help them leave.
Plea bargaining is illegal in the UK. If you were offered a lenient sentence for pleading guilty that means that you are not getting a fair trial. You are saying that people should be punished for claiming to be innocent. That sounds like a police state.
To be fair I think that we're only Police State Lite, though moving in the direction of Police State Deluxe. BTW if you think it matters if you vote D or R with regards to halting the slide towards Police State Deluxe you're delusional and not paying attention. No major candidate in the past 20+ years has done anything to halt the slide, though Bernie might have.
Even intra-country immigration has all sorts of cultural problems. This is nothing new.
True on different regions of the country having different norms. However just because something is not new doesn't mean that it can be dismissed or ignored. Too much has changed in too short a period of time. The risk of a backlash grows. Between the cultural shifts and the mass inequality I expect that things will reach a breaking point in the next decade or two. The thing is when that breaking point is reached it will escalate very quickly since there is so much underlying tension.
People are basically the same and in a global society things would settle down to one best way of doing things.
In my travels I've found that different cultures are most definitely a real thing and that while aspects of people are the same (ie we all eat and sleep) different areas most definitely have a different feel. On the plus side this makes the world a more interesting place.
On the down side, one of the friction points with the mass immigration to the US of people from South of the border are cultural differences. While the simplistic narrative is that all white people just hate brown people a more accurate description is that language separates people as well as cultural norms. When a large group moves in but doesn't want to adopt the language or local customs then friction inevitably results. Keep it up long enough and the US will break up just like the USSR did.
Nope thats not how international business works. Union Carbide broke Indian safety laws and caused a gas leak which killed more people than Saddam ever did in his Chemical Weapons campaigns. Instead of standing trial the US embassy spirited out the Union Carbide execs in the middle of the night on a plane chartered for the embassy. Govts. support their multinationals even when they play hardball overseas.
What you mean is that elites look out for their own. I doubt the average citizen would care if a high level executive responsible for criminal level neglect was punished. The elite on the other hand do care and will bend the rules to protect their own no matter what. The sooner we get past arguing about social issues of little consequence the sooner we can get to the things of huge consequence - like a declining middle class and almost unparalleled inequality. This is why I consider SJWs the useful idiots of the 1%.
Some of you are under the illusion that Trump is working for you. When it is clear that he is working for himself and couldn't give two hoots about you.
Help me understand how that is any different than any president in the last 50 years. Damn the Democrats for rigging the primaries. Given the choice between two highly toxic candidates a protest vote is not unreasonable.
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Hillary's slogan "I'm with Her" was really just a euphemism for "I want a female president, it's our turn!"
More women than men have voted in every election for over 20 years. If you all got together behind a person, like the black vote did with Obama, you would have had a string of female presidents by now. Hopefully they do better than the high profile female CEOs who as a group have been a disaster.
Ever since I wasted a couple hours of my life watching Manchester By The Sea. That movie was terrible and I was hoping the whole time that the ending would redeem it and make it worthwhile based on the super high rating that it had on Rotten Tomatoes. Instead it had the weakest ending I think I've ever seen.
I'd love to see that same decision enforced all over the world. It would really make people think twice before spreading all sorts of garbage. And if they didn't think twice, they'd be sued.
Anything that results in lawsuits whenever people get offended cannot be a good thing. You really should think this through.
The EU is about to find out how powerless it really is.
I think the Syrian masses already showed that. As did Greece. As did the current Ukraine situation. I'm perfectly content with the US pulling out of Europe, they weren't very grateful anyway.
Please cite something. Based on first hand experiences the locals don't even crap their pants let alone the rest of the EU.
You mean like citing the time Spain caved to terrorism?
http://www.heritage.org/europe...
Also, everything he described was infrastructure bought and paid for by tax dollars. Folks don't want to pay those taxes anymore and the infrastructure spending has more or less stopped. The build out of suburban America was financed by tax payers. They paid to pave the roads, run electricity, phone & internet, etc ,etc. They're done. They don't want to pay anymore.
As near as I can tell my taxes haven't fallen much. What has changed is that taxes on the 1% have fallen dramatically due to tax cutting, shifting things to capital gains, tax shelters, and keeping money overseas. What has also changed is that a dramatic drop in the middle class has meant that less taxes are paid by many people as they simply make less. If a greater share of the total income was taxed at middle class rates it would be a windfall for government coffers.
You really think all the truckers in America are going to become coders or entrepreneurs?
Marc is probably hoping many do as the 1% loves nothing more than lots of workers to keep wages low and workers easily replaced. Supply and demand is one of the few parts of economics that is well understood.
Unsure what I missed on Section 8. I'd cancel it tomorrow if it were an option. The tenants are probably rightfully hated by their neighbors since they are getting a nearly free ride. I believe that we are put on this Earth to do more than nothing or to just satisfy ourselves. Not saying that you have to dedicate your life to a cause but do something - anything. As long as there is litter to be picked up, elderly shut ins to be kept company, or any number of other good deeds there is work to do. If we're going to pay people to sit around (ie welfare, disability, etc) then we should get something for it. I would add that I'm not anti rich per se, I just think that they should pay tax rates that are in line with the rest of us. Capital gains tax rates for example are a scam. As for trust funds, to me they only make sense for people who cannot take care of themselves like a down syndrome child. Any moderately capable adult shouldn't qualify. Make each generation have to earn their wealth instead of hording it and you'll see a renewed interest in opportunity.
Few things in life are as satisfying as having options that you are willing to take and seeing the look on their face when they think that you're bluffing but in fact you aren't.
I think you meant to say that section 8 is a common type of scam where the poor and rich both benefit while the middle class is left holding the bag. It benefits the poor because they get housing at a *huge* discount. Their neighbors of course don't get that deal. It benefits the rich because they get guaranteed rent checks from the government. While I generally find UBI to be unrealistic in terms of the cost I can understand the anger behind watching the poor get ever more, the rich get bailed out, and the middle class told to get used to 3rd world wages. I like the idea behind universal employment. I love the idea of a wealth tax. Trust fund babies should see their trust funds taxed out of existence.
The government breaks laws all the time - with complete impunity. Agents of the government break the law all the time with impunity. Sadly this is not news. News would be if someone was actually punished. Big news would be if someone other than a low level peon was punished.
2/4 of the Seinfeld main cast are jewish (and that's being generous -- George __Costanza__ is actually Italian). 5/6 of the Friends main cast are jewish
It's just so unfair and anti-semitic that people claim that Hollywood is run by jews. Clearly the facts don't support such hateful accusations. It's not like they are all Jewish after all, they let a few tokens in.
But you stick to your anecdata. That's the only proof a righteous paranoid needs!
It hardly seems a "righteous" request to speak the language of the country. As for paranoid, I've seen the destruction that mass immigration has caused. If anything I'm not paranoid enough. Fairly large sections of Southern California resemble Mexico in just about every way, from the language to the litter. That is not progress, that is reverting to a third world country. Anyone who would cheer that on is not living near it.
Marriage data is taking an unrealistically long view, certainly longer than my lifetime. I don't want to leave a worse off place for my kids in the hope that ~100 years later it will all work out.
I'll go ahead and see largely Spanish signs in California. I'll note the huge amounts of ESL for kids of illegals. Observation is undeniable and clearly shows that any jokes about Mexifornia are spot on. - Update - I read your article and it largely spoke about mixed marriages, and how people self identify for the Census. What I'm talking about is far more basic, such as could you respond to the census in English.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good SJW rant. They're still pushing that women make $.70 for every dollar a man makes and that engineering in general is full of bro's with nothing better to do than make women feel uncomfortable. The notion of fake news didn't arise in a vacuum. While Trump may have popularized the phrase "fake news" people have long since noticed that half truths and opinions are presented as "news" far more than actual, unbiased, both sides of the story facts.
More and more this seems to really be a thing with the immigrant diasporas in the West, and it's going to bring multi-culturalism down hard. Multiculturalists like to say "well the Italians integrated you racist!!" Well, yes they did, but I also know virtually no descendants of Italian immigrants that actually think they're Italian, speak Italian and frankly give a shit what happens in Italy. It is more "cultural flavor" and closer to white Southerners being proud of their heritage than a truly distinct claim on ethnicity.
The key difference is that in prior waves of immigration being assimilated in terms of language and culture was pushed - and surprise surprise they did indeed become Americans. This was the melting pot idea and it largely worked. Now we coddle them, don't expect them to learn the language, don't expect them to follow the law (yes illegal immigration is illegal), and really don't seem to care if they "melt in". We don't look after the people already in the country but we can't wait to let more in. And we wonder why there is a cultural breakdown. Donald Trump is a warning, it really can get much worse if the middle class continues to decline and inequality guarantees opportunities only for the 1%.
Yes, yes, we should be like you, in service to our new masters, the mighty Oligarchy.
I hate to break it to you but if you think Clinton wasn't a full time servant of the mighty Oligarchy then you weren't paying attention. Bernie might have been different but we'll never know sadly.
Clinton was just another politician. She wasn't especially corrupt...
I can only guess at your definition of corrupt.
I have a theory that the punishment should be in proportion to the crime. When you are trying to fleecs 5M people an hour then you qualify for a Putin style polonium hit. It would really send a message and help reduce this type of thing.
Unfortunately they've overlooked the fact that the poor (except maybe the homeless) can't afford to move, it's the wealthy who are mobile.
This is a true point. It would actually make sense to fund bus tickets out of the area in a cynical way. Essentially saying we won't pay for the poor to stay but we will help them leave.
Plea bargaining is illegal in the UK. If you were offered a lenient sentence for pleading guilty that means that you are not getting a fair trial. You are saying that people should be punished for claiming to be innocent. That sounds like a police state.
To be fair I think that we're only Police State Lite, though moving in the direction of Police State Deluxe. BTW if you think it matters if you vote D or R with regards to halting the slide towards Police State Deluxe you're delusional and not paying attention. No major candidate in the past 20+ years has done anything to halt the slide, though Bernie might have.
Even intra-country immigration has all sorts of cultural problems. This is nothing new.
True on different regions of the country having different norms. However just because something is not new doesn't mean that it can be dismissed or ignored. Too much has changed in too short a period of time. The risk of a backlash grows. Between the cultural shifts and the mass inequality I expect that things will reach a breaking point in the next decade or two. The thing is when that breaking point is reached it will escalate very quickly since there is so much underlying tension.
People are basically the same and in a global society things would settle down to one best way of doing things.
In my travels I've found that different cultures are most definitely a real thing and that while aspects of people are the same (ie we all eat and sleep) different areas most definitely have a different feel. On the plus side this makes the world a more interesting place.
On the down side, one of the friction points with the mass immigration to the US of people from South of the border are cultural differences. While the simplistic narrative is that all white people just hate brown people a more accurate description is that language separates people as well as cultural norms. When a large group moves in but doesn't want to adopt the language or local customs then friction inevitably results. Keep it up long enough and the US will break up just like the USSR did.
Nope thats not how international business works. Union Carbide broke Indian safety laws and caused a gas leak which killed more people than Saddam ever did in his Chemical Weapons campaigns. Instead of standing trial the US embassy spirited out the Union Carbide execs in the middle of the night on a plane chartered for the embassy. Govts. support their multinationals even when they play hardball overseas.
What you mean is that elites look out for their own. I doubt the average citizen would care if a high level executive responsible for criminal level neglect was punished. The elite on the other hand do care and will bend the rules to protect their own no matter what. The sooner we get past arguing about social issues of little consequence the sooner we can get to the things of huge consequence - like a declining middle class and almost unparalleled inequality. This is why I consider SJWs the useful idiots of the 1%.
Some of you are under the illusion that Trump is working for you. When it is clear that he is working for himself and couldn't give two hoots about you.
Help me understand how that is any different than any president in the last 50 years. Damn the Democrats for rigging the primaries. Given the choice between two highly toxic candidates a protest vote is not unreasonable.