Vote in your primary and only vote for politicians who refuse corporate & PAC money. If you have to join a party to vote in primaries join the Democrats. They've got a wing that refused corporate/PAC money.
Until we can get voters to refuse politicians who've been bought of we're boned.
and everybody who runs as a Justice Democrat. They've all refused to accept corporate and PAC money. Why anyone would vote for a politician that won't pledge against corporate & PAC money is beyond me. I mean, in the General when it's too late, ok, but in your _primary_ and you're voting for politicians who openly admit to being bought? Why? Just Why?
At what point, did drilling an oil well in the middle east, pumping out that oil, putting the oil on a ship, sail that oil filled ship across the ocean, unloading the oil in America, piping it to a refinery, refining it into some form of plastic, trucking that plastic to a factory, forming that plastic into an object, boxing that object up, putting that box into another truck and trucking it to a warehouse, then from the warehouse to a store, from the store to your house, to be opened, used once, and then thrown away, ALL BECOME EASYER THAN WASHING THE FUCKING FORK.
When minimum wage was enacted. Not saying we should drop minimum wage. Europe's solution is to make people pay the entire cost of disposing of that plastic fork. That makes it cheaper to pay somebody to wash dishes.
but show up to your primary. Right wing pro corporatists need to be kicked out, but they can't if they're the only option. California especially had a ton of viable primary candidates who lost. Mother f'in' Nancy Pelosi is going to keep her seat for Pete's sake.
what if Peter's never worked a day in his life because his Dad left him a Trust Fund? And what if there's no useful work for Paul to do? No ditches to dig because we don't have people dig ditches any more than we pay them to add up numbers by hand anymore?
right now I have to live where the wages are high enough to afford a car, food and my child's tuition. It also means I pay $1300/mo for a crappy 3 bedroom apartment I share with my brother (Need the 3rd room in case the kid has to come back). I haven't bought a house because I can't afford one.
Give me basic income and I can move somewhere else where housing is cheaper because the wages pay less. Even if I don't other people can and will and that will lower housing prices. It also would mean I could take risks with employment (especially if we had single payer healthcare in America). That would also drive up wages and standards of living. What it would _not_ do is help mega corps bottom line. It would utterly decimate the political power of the 1%. They could no longer threaten the working class with death by starvation or lack of medical care to elicit obedience and fear.
means things are pretty different today then they were in the 60s. And we've got a massive, massive push for automation coming. Basic income doesn't make sense when you need everybody working. Those days are coming to and end. We can't all be Doctors and engineers. A lot of us just aren't smart enough. And we can't retrain everybody. Not everybody can learn a complex new job. Most can't past the age of 30.
then you're going to drop off the internet. Companies have tried this before. Google will pull them from search results and they'll cease to exist. Meanwhile I'll keep watching Youtube videos that report the facts in the articles (perfectly legal since they're facts) from guys like Secular Talk, the Young Turks and the BBC and get my news that way. This is a profoundly stupid thing to do.
And if newspapers want to be relevant to me how about covering issues that matter to me (like our screwed up healthcare, the ongoing wars that just won't end or the fact that we're at full employment but wages are declining) instead of banging on about the British royal family or some such. How about some good 'ole fashion Watergate style muck racking? Of course your corporate owners wouldn't like that...
for doing a job. I don't think there's many that would argue that we don't want and need some level of border security (there's a few extreme libertarians who do). If we're going to have that then _somebody_ is going to enforce that security.
We can argue that they should quit their jobs if they're asked to do something immoral, but a lot of them _aren't_ doing anything immoral. I'm going to Godwin this thread right now, not every German helped kill jews. There's boarder patrol agents who help people they find in the desert.
I understand wanting to do something to help Mexican and South American immigrants. But if that's our goal then there's a _lot_ more to do than immigration. We can start by legalizing drugs. The drug war fuels their violence. We can also stop meddling in their politics. "Banana Republic" has a sinister meaning and our CIA has helped run death squads in South America. Start voting for the kinds of politicians who oppose torture and unnecessary military build up. Drop food instead of Bombs, it's cheaper and more humane.
There's a lot we can do to stem the tide of illegal immigrants. But that said, we don't necessarily _want_ to do that. We're addicted to their cheap, cheap labor. Always have been.
and I'll grant the story, touching on Github as it does, has some potential validity. But what the hell is up with that headline? "Willfully Destroyed"? They didn't destroy anything. They took it off their servers. Probably because there's a lot of emotions running high and they're rightfully worried some nutjob is going to go off half cocked and hurt somebody.
I'm grateful to Github for nipping this in the bud. Crap like this is exactly the sort of response that our countries current extreme immigration policies are meant to solicit. We're being trolled; probably as a point of distraction from economic issues that otherwise would dominate the mid-term elections (the economy's doing crap with poor wage growth despite full employment). Now is the time to calm the heck down and apply appropriate and legal pressure. Not dox a bunch of poorly paid gov't employees who most likely took the job out of desperation (and yes, I know folks who work in some of the less upstanding law enforcement jobs and believe me, it's not by choice).
this makes me wonder about working conditions. e.g. heat & cold. Also safety. I'd also wonder about environmental concerns. There's a lot you can get away with fume wise in an open air design. I've read somewhere (ars?) that they've got a 10 month limit on the structure's use.
convincing me this guy isn't mentally ill. Seriously, there's something wrong here. Should we really be locking this guy up for several years as opposed to diverting him to the care of a facility. Hell, thanks to private prisons it would probably be cheaper.
you mean the children of the politicians they bribed to get this approved I can't argue.
Seriously, we need to get people to stop voting for any politician who accepts money from corporations and/or PACs. It should be a litmus test. Why the hell would you vote for somebody who admits to bribes?
think of how many call center employees just answer simple questions out of a database. That's what this is for. Parts of India & the Philippians are genuinely worried about the job loses.
what you're referring to is the right wing leadership of the Democratic party (Pelosi, Schumer & Manchin). These are economically right wing "Democrats" who road Bill Clinton's coatails into office and stayed there by selling out the American people to their corporate and big money masters. Same as the Republicans do.
The actual left is the Bernie Sanders and Justice Democrat wing of the party. They've been hammering away at Medicare for All, Living Wages, a New New Deal (google it) and ending the wars. You know, sound economic policy. The Corporate Democrats make pointless attacks on Trump & co because they can't attack Trump on issues or they'd lose their paychecks.
Leftism has nothing to do with hatred. But then neither does the right. It's _always_ about money. Even racism is just an excuse to look the other way from slavery.
seriously, no one cares about Russia. Not anyone that matters anyway. Not the voters in the swing states who put Trump in the Whitehouse. The right wing corporate Dems seem to be pining their hopes on Russia for the Mid-Term elections so they don't have to give the working class any economic concessions to the working class. That's not gonna fly except in the districts they always win. Of course the people running those districts (Pelosi, Schumer, Manchin, etc) run the party, so they aren't worried. So long as the checks cash and they can bury their primary challengers in money.
I was hoping to see more movement on the primaries, but so far the corporate Dems won all the important races. Folks just don't show up to primaries. Or if they do they're right wingers anyway.
I've pointed this out before but it bears repeating (preventive meme): Steve Bannon is an absolute bastard but he said something clever once, which is that if the Dems keep ignoring the working class and running on bullshit nobody cares about instead of the f'ing economy then the Republicans were going to be in power for a 1000 years. A bunch of Dems complained about the Nazi reference; but it was bait for the SJWs. The ran off on a tangent while his party kept hammering the economy to victory. In the end they're selling us down the river, but at least they _say_ they're gonna do something. That's more than I could say for Hilary "Supported TPP until Bernie made her stop" Clinton.
unless they do that then this is just political posturing so that reps in vulnerable districts don't take flak for saving Chinese jobs while American ones go overseas.
siding against Apple on this one. Not after Gorsuch got appointed. He's got a long history of siding with corporations over consumers. The argument will be that you can just get an Android and side load so no monopoly here. Heck, that might even be a valid legal argument.
about China. It's his usual shtick, but it dovetails into this nicely. China's expanding their reach economically. That's not necessarily a good thing. Towards the end of that video they make the point that European governments have stopped talking about the Chinese government's human rights abuses. Not that my government are saint's either. But at least they're getting called out on it without reprisal threats (that I know of to be fair).
he also formally recognized Kim Jun Un's dictatorship as the legitimate ruler of N. Korea (something they'd been trying to get America to do for decades going back to when his dad was in charge) and made comments (largely ignored by the press) that he wants to see Americans stand in attention just like N. Koreans do for Kim; moving the Overton window substantially towards Authoritarianism in America.
He didn't return things to the previous level. He left them much, much worse.
because Solar and Wind are replacing them without the risks involved in nuclear. That was my implied point, but I'll state it bluntly if need be. China's moving to wind and solar as fast as they can. It's a country of over a billion people. It's going to take a while. They're moving faster than we are.
As for why it has to be "backstopped" by coal & gas, that's because of politics. There are people who's jobs and livelihoods depend on overvaluing natural gas and coal deposits. Those people are in swing states and disproportionately affect the outcome of the American presidential election. If we had proper systems to social welfare and training programs it wouldn't be an issue. It's an artifact of our screwed up political system.
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Vote in your primary and only vote for politicians who refuse corporate & PAC money. If you have to join a party to vote in primaries join the Democrats. They've got a wing that refused corporate/PAC money.
Until we can get voters to refuse politicians who've been bought of we're boned.
and everybody who runs as a Justice Democrat. They've all refused to accept corporate and PAC money. Why anyone would vote for a politician that won't pledge against corporate & PAC money is beyond me. I mean, in the General when it's too late, ok, but in your _primary_ and you're voting for politicians who openly admit to being bought? Why? Just Why?
When minimum wage was enacted. Not saying we should drop minimum wage. Europe's solution is to make people pay the entire cost of disposing of that plastic fork. That makes it cheaper to pay somebody to wash dishes.
not a chemist, but it doesn't sound particularly safe. Don't most plastics have additives in them?
but show up to your primary. Right wing pro corporatists need to be kicked out, but they can't if they're the only option. California especially had a ton of viable primary candidates who lost. Mother f'in' Nancy Pelosi is going to keep her seat for Pete's sake.
what if Peter's never worked a day in his life because his Dad left him a Trust Fund? And what if there's no useful work for Paul to do? No ditches to dig because we don't have people dig ditches any more than we pay them to add up numbers by hand anymore?
right now I have to live where the wages are high enough to afford a car, food and my child's tuition. It also means I pay $1300/mo for a crappy 3 bedroom apartment I share with my brother (Need the 3rd room in case the kid has to come back). I haven't bought a house because I can't afford one.
Give me basic income and I can move somewhere else where housing is cheaper because the wages pay less. Even if I don't other people can and will and that will lower housing prices. It also would mean I could take risks with employment (especially if we had single payer healthcare in America). That would also drive up wages and standards of living. What it would _not_ do is help mega corps bottom line. It would utterly decimate the political power of the 1%. They could no longer threaten the working class with death by starvation or lack of medical care to elicit obedience and fear.
means things are pretty different today then they were in the 60s. And we've got a massive, massive push for automation coming. Basic income doesn't make sense when you need everybody working. Those days are coming to and end. We can't all be Doctors and engineers. A lot of us just aren't smart enough. And we can't retrain everybody. Not everybody can learn a complex new job. Most can't past the age of 30.
then you're going to drop off the internet. Companies have tried this before. Google will pull them from search results and they'll cease to exist. Meanwhile I'll keep watching Youtube videos that report the facts in the articles (perfectly legal since they're facts) from guys like Secular Talk, the Young Turks and the BBC and get my news that way. This is a profoundly stupid thing to do.
And if newspapers want to be relevant to me how about covering issues that matter to me (like our screwed up healthcare, the ongoing wars that just won't end or the fact that we're at full employment but wages are declining) instead of banging on about the British royal family or some such. How about some good 'ole fashion Watergate style muck racking? Of course your corporate owners wouldn't like that...
This is absolutely going to kill my 1% lows in Tuxracer.
for doing a job. I don't think there's many that would argue that we don't want and need some level of border security (there's a few extreme libertarians who do). If we're going to have that then _somebody_ is going to enforce that security.
We can argue that they should quit their jobs if they're asked to do something immoral, but a lot of them _aren't_ doing anything immoral. I'm going to Godwin this thread right now, not every German helped kill jews. There's boarder patrol agents who help people they find in the desert.
I understand wanting to do something to help Mexican and South American immigrants. But if that's our goal then there's a _lot_ more to do than immigration. We can start by legalizing drugs. The drug war fuels their violence. We can also stop meddling in their politics. "Banana Republic" has a sinister meaning and our CIA has helped run death squads in South America. Start voting for the kinds of politicians who oppose torture and unnecessary military build up. Drop food instead of Bombs, it's cheaper and more humane.
There's a lot we can do to stem the tide of illegal immigrants. But that said, we don't necessarily _want_ to do that. We're addicted to their cheap, cheap labor. Always have been.
and I'll grant the story, touching on Github as it does, has some potential validity. But what the hell is up with that headline? "Willfully Destroyed"? They didn't destroy anything. They took it off their servers. Probably because there's a lot of emotions running high and they're rightfully worried some nutjob is going to go off half cocked and hurt somebody.
I'm grateful to Github for nipping this in the bud. Crap like this is exactly the sort of response that our countries current extreme immigration policies are meant to solicit. We're being trolled; probably as a point of distraction from economic issues that otherwise would dominate the mid-term elections (the economy's doing crap with poor wage growth despite full employment). Now is the time to calm the heck down and apply appropriate and legal pressure. Not dox a bunch of poorly paid gov't employees who most likely took the job out of desperation (and yes, I know folks who work in some of the less upstanding law enforcement jobs and believe me, it's not by choice).
this makes me wonder about working conditions. e.g. heat & cold. Also safety. I'd also wonder about environmental concerns. There's a lot you can get away with fume wise in an open air design. I've read somewhere (ars?) that they've got a 10 month limit on the structure's use.
convincing me this guy isn't mentally ill. Seriously, there's something wrong here. Should we really be locking this guy up for several years as opposed to diverting him to the care of a facility. Hell, thanks to private prisons it would probably be cheaper.
is 'skipped', not 'neglected'.
you mean the children of the politicians they bribed to get this approved I can't argue.
Seriously, we need to get people to stop voting for any politician who accepts money from corporations and/or PACs. It should be a litmus test. Why the hell would you vote for somebody who admits to bribes?
think of how many call center employees just answer simple questions out of a database. That's what this is for. Parts of India & the Philippians are genuinely worried about the job loses.
what you're referring to is the right wing leadership of the Democratic party (Pelosi, Schumer & Manchin). These are economically right wing "Democrats" who road Bill Clinton's coatails into office and stayed there by selling out the American people to their corporate and big money masters. Same as the Republicans do.
The actual left is the Bernie Sanders and Justice Democrat wing of the party. They've been hammering away at Medicare for All, Living Wages, a New New Deal (google it) and ending the wars. You know, sound economic policy. The Corporate Democrats make pointless attacks on Trump & co because they can't attack Trump on issues or they'd lose their paychecks.
Leftism has nothing to do with hatred. But then neither does the right. It's _always_ about money. Even racism is just an excuse to look the other way from slavery.
seriously, no one cares about Russia. Not anyone that matters anyway. Not the voters in the swing states who put Trump in the Whitehouse. The right wing corporate Dems seem to be pining their hopes on Russia for the Mid-Term elections so they don't have to give the working class any economic concessions to the working class. That's not gonna fly except in the districts they always win. Of course the people running those districts (Pelosi, Schumer, Manchin, etc) run the party, so they aren't worried. So long as the checks cash and they can bury their primary challengers in money.
I was hoping to see more movement on the primaries, but so far the corporate Dems won all the important races. Folks just don't show up to primaries. Or if they do they're right wingers anyway.
I've pointed this out before but it bears repeating (preventive meme): Steve Bannon is an absolute bastard but he said something clever once, which is that if the Dems keep ignoring the working class and running on bullshit nobody cares about instead of the f'ing economy then the Republicans were going to be in power for a 1000 years. A bunch of Dems complained about the Nazi reference; but it was bait for the SJWs. The ran off on a tangent while his party kept hammering the economy to victory. In the end they're selling us down the river, but at least they _say_ they're gonna do something. That's more than I could say for Hilary "Supported TPP until Bernie made her stop" Clinton.
unless they do that then this is just political posturing so that reps in vulnerable districts don't take flak for saving Chinese jobs while American ones go overseas.
siding against Apple on this one. Not after Gorsuch got appointed. He's got a long history of siding with corporations over consumers. The argument will be that you can just get an Android and side load so no monopoly here. Heck, that might even be a valid legal argument.
about China. It's his usual shtick, but it dovetails into this nicely. China's expanding their reach economically. That's not necessarily a good thing. Towards the end of that video they make the point that European governments have stopped talking about the Chinese government's human rights abuses. Not that my government are saint's either. But at least they're getting called out on it without reprisal threats (that I know of to be fair).
We can have services to help addicts _and_ fully legal substances.
he also formally recognized Kim Jun Un's dictatorship as the legitimate ruler of N. Korea (something they'd been trying to get America to do for decades going back to when his dad was in charge) and made comments (largely ignored by the press) that he wants to see Americans stand in attention just like N. Koreans do for Kim; moving the Overton window substantially towards Authoritarianism in America.
He didn't return things to the previous level. He left them much, much worse.
because Solar and Wind are replacing them without the risks involved in nuclear. That was my implied point, but I'll state it bluntly if need be. China's moving to wind and solar as fast as they can. It's a country of over a billion people. It's going to take a while. They're moving faster than we are.
As for why it has to be "backstopped" by coal & gas, that's because of politics. There are people who's jobs and livelihoods depend on overvaluing natural gas and coal deposits. Those people are in swing states and disproportionately affect the outcome of the American presidential election. If we had proper systems to social welfare and training programs it wouldn't be an issue. It's an artifact of our screwed up political system.