Iran is a give away to the Evangelicals. See here. He wins either way. He doesn't really care about the economic damage and a war would be good for his presidency (just like Iraq was, ultimately, good for the Bush presidency. Seriously, check his poll numbers during and after).
are you going to watch the vote and throw out anybody who votes 'nay'? If not, this is a waste of time. Heck, is there even anybody on this forum who is gonna change their voting behavior in response to Net Neutrality? And if not, what are the odds there's anybody anywhere who will?
It's like when burgers were 99 cents. There's a point where folks don't want to pay more. For videogames is $60 bucks. As more folks entered gaming that helped keep prices down. But let's not forget that a $60 copy of Street Fighter II in 1995 is around $100 bucks in today's money and needed fewer people to program it than Street Fighter V (which I paid $15 for on sale).
they were trying to do it in the 50s too when we overthrew their democratically elected government and put the Shah in. There are pictures from the 50s of girls in skirts dancing. If we'd just stop sticking our noses where they don't belong maybe they could make some progress.
And in case you hadn't noticed the United States is being run by a bunch of bat-shit insane religious zealots. Mike Pence is a True Believer. And we just moved our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem not to promote peace but to appease a bunch of ultra right wing religious zealots who are convinced that once the Jews take Jerusalem back the Apocalypse will come and sweep them all to heaven.
All the US administrations up to Obama pretty much screwed with Iran every chance they got largely for the same nationalistic, religious and empire building reasons. Obama's the first one to try and defuse the situation and bring them into secularism. Trump & Co just fucked that all up and did it on purpose. They're not stupid people. They're bad people. Motivated by greed, hate and religious fervor.
our military is the largest in the world bar none. We're the only country with a real, modern navy. Only China comes close and they can't feed their people without our granaries. We can literally just starve them out. This is precisely why the people in America can't afford to become belligerent warmongers. We have the potential to drag all of civilization back to the dark ages... or do the opposite and usher in a Star Trek style utopia. When you go to the polls in America that's the choice you're making.
they've been in the Fifa & NBA games for years. It wasn't a problem until Star Wars Battlefront because the hardcore gamers who play it were pretty vocal whereas the Fifa & NBA players just kind of accepted it (easier to do when you only play one or two games a year).
so is every country. Expect to see lots of these stories in the coming months. You're being prepped for war. They did the same thing leading up to Iraq and we fell for it then. Don't fall for it this time. Show up at your primaries and your Mid terms if you don't want to blow yet another $1 trillion dollars on a pointless war.
Trump and his party are itching for another war. It looks like NK is off the table. Syria's not gonna happen because nobody wants to tangle with Russia. Not that we couldn't win but it would be an actual war. What we want isn't a war but an occupation. Something with minimal casualties, lots of war profiteering and something to galvanize the American public behind Trump & Party so they can keep screwing us over. After all, once war ends folks expect things to start getting better.
We've been at war with Iraq for 17 years now. People are sick of it and want it to end. Isis is beaten. So is Al-Qaida. They can't move that goal post anymore. pretty soon they'll have to stop the wars and answer for them unless they can find a new one.
we're giving more and more money to a smaller and smaller group of people. Rather than "trickle down" they're using that money to buy out their competitors. They've got so much of it they can and will pay 2-3x what any sane person would. Then they can make their money back because they have a virtual monopoly. Years of weak anti-trust enforcement in the name of ending "job-killing regulations" lets them do it.
The people who are setting you up have been hard at work on it since Regan was in the Whitehouse. Obama was a minor bump in the road (very minor, he's still a Corporate Democrat) but they've bought out pretty much everything now. That last tax cut was overwhelmingly unpopular. A Tax Cut. Unpopular. Let that sink in. And It _still_ passed. The ruling class were going around saying if it didn't they'd cut the politicians off. We've got open bribery and nobody seems to care. Seriously, at this point I don't think you or me stand a chance...
the entire point of kicking them out was that Americans wanted those jobs, and that those jobs would pay better if there wasn't a supply of super cheap labor to drive down wages. Funny how supply and demand gets left out of the equation when it's time to talk about wages, isn't it?
I don't think Trump voters are dumb enough to swallow that line. And judging by the silence at the rally after he said it I'm right. What I _do_ think is that the mainstream, pro-corporate right wing media won't cover it. Just because the media's a little left on social issues don't think they're not hard right on economics. Look who owns them. It ain't the working class, I'll tell you that. So Trump's approval ratings never go down because the sort of folks that voted for him aren't watching The Young Turks, Secular Talk and Bernie Sanders on Youtube. And if you weren't you wouldn't have heard about his back tracking.
and Saddam before that. We've already proven we're not to be trusted. NK is just buddying up with SK and China so we can't invade while there's a warhawk looking for a fight in the Whitehouse.
He's back down on virtually all his campaign promises (didn't punish Carrier for outsourcing jobs, hasn't done his tariffs, supports TPP, DACA and Guest Workers, and his cabinet is full of the same Goldman Sachs people as always). North Korea is playing nice so we don't invade, and it's working. As for Iran, it's entirely possible Hilary would have done the same. A lot of folks voted against her because she's a war hawk.
About the only thing he's done of consequence is that God Awful tax cut. That's going to be used to take Medicare & Social Security away from people under 55, and then the folks under 55 will demand it get taken away from the ones who still have it for fairness. That's a big deal, but OTOH it's not really a Trump thing. The Republican party has been gearing up for that for decades and only the surprise victory of Obama held it off.
in an economy with a "3.9% unemployment rate". That should tell you something if you're even paying a _little_ attention. That unemployment rate is bunk. People left the job market when they couldn't get jobs that paid enough to go to work. As the economy got worse they eventually ran out of money or relatives and had to do whatever. Hence the 'gig' economy and what not.
Yes, there was employment after the industrial revolution. It took about 80 years for new tech to catch up and replace the jobs lost. During that time there was mass unemployment, poverty and wars. Lots of wars. Two lost generations. But hey, the survivors will thank us, right?
you don't think that's stuff matters? And this has nothing to do with isolationism. It's the exact opposite. We're prepping for a war. How is that isolationist?
As for the Trade Deal, Trump already supports TPP and literally said he wants guest workers to do your jobs to a bunch of supporters at a rally (that went over about as well as you'd expect, but his approval rating still hasn't budged).
America is exactly what it's always been, a global empire by and for our ruling class. Trump didn't change that, but no, we don't want it. Trump I'll remind you didn't win the popular vote. We are not a Democracy
I'm I the only one who thinks something's off that we're spending all this electricity to make virtual currencies used mostly to purchase drugs (and mostly because drugs are heavily criminalized) and money launders? And now we've got this pack of hyenas best known for the bloodsucking that is High Frequency Trading entering the fray.
You're not even going to get to use Bitcoin to get away from fiat currencies. As predicted if it every got big enough to matter the established players would step in and take control. All we're left with is a rising electric bills. After all, supply and demand means if the bitcoin miners are using more supply there's more demand and prices go up.
I moved to a big city because that's where the jobs are. Even in the moderately sized city I came from there wasn't shit for work. And the cost of living wasn't much lower either.
these emails are going after people with borderline dementia (or full blown dementia). The reason the instances are ticking up is the boomers are getting older and their brains are going before their bodies. Science can keep their hearts from failing but it can't yet fix the brain.
as people get older their brains go. Not always, but there's plenty enough that do. A lot of these people have money from retirement earned before their minds went. The only thing you can do (besides curing age related cognitive decline) is try and keep the scammers away from them.
and it continues to filter out the semi-legitimate telemarketers. The kind that called you at 8pm to sell you insurance. This is an entirely new class of scammers likely made possible by changing tech (cheap voip, Google Voice, etc).
Things change. When they do regulations have to adapt. That's just the nature of the world. It's like complaining that rail road crossing are bunk because cars can run stop signs. New tech and new processes need new regulations.
Ticket Touting is called Scalping over here. I don't see who this will help. I _do_ see this helping outright counterfeit tickets. But at the end of the day this won't stop scalping. Also, over here we've got Ticket Master, who actively encourages scalping since it shifts the risk to the scalper (and screws over the bands, who often sell out and then play to empty venues where they can't sell t-shirts & CDs because nobody could get a ticket).
says Average wait times for surgery in Canada is around 9 weeks. e..g 2 1/4 months. Pretty bad. Same search for US says 12 weeks, e.g. 3 months. Worse.
Facts are overwhelmingly on the side of single payer healthcare. And this is not at all surprising. When in your life has a middle man been a good thing? Especially a middle man who is actively trying to keep you from using the service you paid for? You do understand that insurance companies make money when they collect premiums and don't pay claims?
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Iran is a give away to the Evangelicals. See here. He wins either way. He doesn't really care about the economic damage and a war would be good for his presidency (just like Iraq was, ultimately, good for the Bush presidency. Seriously, check his poll numbers during and after).
are you going to watch the vote and throw out anybody who votes 'nay'? If not, this is a waste of time. Heck, is there even anybody on this forum who is gonna change their voting behavior in response to Net Neutrality? And if not, what are the odds there's anybody anywhere who will?
It's like when burgers were 99 cents. There's a point where folks don't want to pay more. For videogames is $60 bucks. As more folks entered gaming that helped keep prices down. But let's not forget that a $60 copy of Street Fighter II in 1995 is around $100 bucks in today's money and needed fewer people to program it than Street Fighter V (which I paid $15 for on sale).
they were trying to do it in the 50s too when we overthrew their democratically elected government and put the Shah in. There are pictures from the 50s of girls in skirts dancing. If we'd just stop sticking our noses where they don't belong maybe they could make some progress.
And in case you hadn't noticed the United States is being run by a bunch of bat-shit insane religious zealots. Mike Pence is a True Believer. And we just moved our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem not to promote peace but to appease a bunch of ultra right wing religious zealots who are convinced that once the Jews take Jerusalem back the Apocalypse will come and sweep them all to heaven.
All the US administrations up to Obama pretty much screwed with Iran every chance they got largely for the same nationalistic, religious and empire building reasons. Obama's the first one to try and defuse the situation and bring them into secularism. Trump & Co just fucked that all up and did it on purpose. They're not stupid people. They're bad people. Motivated by greed, hate and religious fervor.
our military is the largest in the world bar none. We're the only country with a real, modern navy. Only China comes close and they can't feed their people without our granaries. We can literally just starve them out. This is precisely why the people in America can't afford to become belligerent warmongers. We have the potential to drag all of civilization back to the dark ages... or do the opposite and usher in a Star Trek style utopia. When you go to the polls in America that's the choice you're making.
they've been in the Fifa & NBA games for years. It wasn't a problem until Star Wars Battlefront because the hardcore gamers who play it were pretty vocal whereas the Fifa & NBA players just kind of accepted it (easier to do when you only play one or two games a year).
so is every country. Expect to see lots of these stories in the coming months. You're being prepped for war. They did the same thing leading up to Iraq and we fell for it then. Don't fall for it this time. Show up at your primaries and your Mid terms if you don't want to blow yet another $1 trillion dollars on a pointless war.
Trump and his party are itching for another war. It looks like NK is off the table. Syria's not gonna happen because nobody wants to tangle with Russia. Not that we couldn't win but it would be an actual war. What we want isn't a war but an occupation. Something with minimal casualties, lots of war profiteering and something to galvanize the American public behind Trump & Party so they can keep screwing us over. After all, once war ends folks expect things to start getting better.
We've been at war with Iraq for 17 years now. People are sick of it and want it to end. Isis is beaten. So is Al-Qaida. They can't move that goal post anymore. pretty soon they'll have to stop the wars and answer for them unless they can find a new one.
we're giving more and more money to a smaller and smaller group of people. Rather than "trickle down" they're using that money to buy out their competitors. They've got so much of it they can and will pay 2-3x what any sane person would. Then they can make their money back because they have a virtual monopoly. Years of weak anti-trust enforcement in the name of ending "job-killing regulations" lets them do it.
The people who are setting you up have been hard at work on it since Regan was in the Whitehouse. Obama was a minor bump in the road (very minor, he's still a Corporate Democrat) but they've bought out pretty much everything now. That last tax cut was overwhelmingly unpopular. A Tax Cut. Unpopular. Let that sink in. And It _still_ passed. The ruling class were going around saying if it didn't they'd cut the politicians off. We've got open bribery and nobody seems to care. Seriously, at this point I don't think you or me stand a chance...
the entire point of kicking them out was that Americans wanted those jobs, and that those jobs would pay better if there wasn't a supply of super cheap labor to drive down wages. Funny how supply and demand gets left out of the equation when it's time to talk about wages, isn't it?
I don't think Trump voters are dumb enough to swallow that line. And judging by the silence at the rally after he said it I'm right. What I _do_ think is that the mainstream, pro-corporate right wing media won't cover it. Just because the media's a little left on social issues don't think they're not hard right on economics. Look who owns them. It ain't the working class, I'll tell you that. So Trump's approval ratings never go down because the sort of folks that voted for him aren't watching The Young Turks, Secular Talk and Bernie Sanders on Youtube. And if you weren't you wouldn't have heard about his back tracking.
and Saddam before that. We've already proven we're not to be trusted. NK is just buddying up with SK and China so we can't invade while there's a warhawk looking for a fight in the Whitehouse.
He's back down on virtually all his campaign promises (didn't punish Carrier for outsourcing jobs, hasn't done his tariffs, supports TPP, DACA and Guest Workers, and his cabinet is full of the same Goldman Sachs people as always). North Korea is playing nice so we don't invade, and it's working. As for Iran, it's entirely possible Hilary would have done the same. A lot of folks voted against her because she's a war hawk.
About the only thing he's done of consequence is that God Awful tax cut. That's going to be used to take Medicare & Social Security away from people under 55, and then the folks under 55 will demand it get taken away from the ones who still have it for fairness. That's a big deal, but OTOH it's not really a Trump thing. The Republican party has been gearing up for that for decades and only the surprise victory of Obama held it off.
I can make a pizza that's about 250 calories a slice. When I go out to eat it's easy to forget that most pizzas are 600+ calories a slice.
in an economy with a "3.9% unemployment rate". That should tell you something if you're even paying a _little_ attention. That unemployment rate is bunk. People left the job market when they couldn't get jobs that paid enough to go to work. As the economy got worse they eventually ran out of money or relatives and had to do whatever. Hence the 'gig' economy and what not.
Yes, there was employment after the industrial revolution. It took about 80 years for new tech to catch up and replace the jobs lost. During that time there was mass unemployment, poverty and wars. Lots of wars. Two lost generations. But hey, the survivors will thank us, right?
you don't think that's stuff matters? And this has nothing to do with isolationism. It's the exact opposite. We're prepping for a war. How is that isolationist?
As for the Trade Deal, Trump already supports TPP and literally said he wants guest workers to do your jobs to a bunch of supporters at a rally (that went over about as well as you'd expect, but his approval rating still hasn't budged).
America is exactly what it's always been, a global empire by and for our ruling class. Trump didn't change that, but no, we don't want it. Trump I'll remind you didn't win the popular vote. We are not a Democracy
I'm I the only one who thinks something's off that we're spending all this electricity to make virtual currencies used mostly to purchase drugs (and mostly because drugs are heavily criminalized) and money launders? And now we've got this pack of hyenas best known for the bloodsucking that is High Frequency Trading entering the fray.
You're not even going to get to use Bitcoin to get away from fiat currencies. As predicted if it every got big enough to matter the established players would step in and take control. All we're left with is a rising electric bills. After all, supply and demand means if the bitcoin miners are using more supply there's more demand and prices go up.
I moved to a big city because that's where the jobs are. Even in the moderately sized city I came from there wasn't shit for work. And the cost of living wasn't much lower either.
these emails are going after people with borderline dementia (or full blown dementia). The reason the instances are ticking up is the boomers are getting older and their brains are going before their bodies. Science can keep their hearts from failing but it can't yet fix the brain.
but still being used for the same purpose: to justify an illegal fishing expedition.
There's all sorts of laws
as people get older their brains go. Not always, but there's plenty enough that do. A lot of these people have money from retirement earned before their minds went. The only thing you can do (besides curing age related cognitive decline) is try and keep the scammers away from them.
and it continues to filter out the semi-legitimate telemarketers. The kind that called you at 8pm to sell you insurance. This is an entirely new class of scammers likely made possible by changing tech (cheap voip, Google Voice, etc).
Things change. When they do regulations have to adapt. That's just the nature of the world. It's like complaining that rail road crossing are bunk because cars can run stop signs. New tech and new processes need new regulations.
Ticket Touting is called Scalping over here. I don't see who this will help. I _do_ see this helping outright counterfeit tickets. But at the end of the day this won't stop scalping. Also, over here we've got Ticket Master, who actively encourages scalping since it shifts the risk to the scalper (and screws over the bands, who often sell out and then play to empty venues where they can't sell t-shirts & CDs because nobody could get a ticket).
says Average wait times for surgery in Canada is around 9 weeks. e..g 2 1/4 months. Pretty bad. Same search for US says 12 weeks, e.g. 3 months. Worse.
Facts are overwhelmingly on the side of single payer healthcare. And this is not at all surprising. When in your life has a middle man been a good thing? Especially a middle man who is actively trying to keep you from using the service you paid for? You do understand that insurance companies make money when they collect premiums and don't pay claims?