I'm not opposed to advertising. Advertising can be a positive good. It can make people aware of things they never knew they wanted. But this wasn't advertising. This wasn't about convincing people they wanted Trump. And it certainly wasn't about Trump finding out what people wanted so he could give it to them. These people had long since decided on their political views and agenda and wanted to know how to get folks to go along with it, regardless of whether it benefited those people. This is the worst kind of politics.
Could you be a little less obvious about it. e.g. run with a title like "Moviepass slashes subscription fee on lower subscriber numbers" or something? This reads like the copy submitted by the company's marketing director, which is probably is.
even with mountains of training cops accidentally shoot people all the time. Throw somebody with little or no training outside of weekly target practice in an active shooter situation and they're probably going to screw up. I remember when Gabriel Giffords got shot. There was a 'good guy with a gun' on site but he didn't draw. When asked why he said he couldn't figure out who the shooter was and was afraid he'd shoot the wrong person or get shot himself by another "good guy with a gun".
One of the late night comedy hosts did a skit once (Colbert or Oliver, can't remember which) where they staged an active shooter scenario with regular people and pain bullets. The people in question knew what was going to happen and they still couldn't stop the shooter.
but I don't see any evidence that you won. I'm guessing you're either in Russia or one of the old Soviet Bloc countries. All of which are more or less run by dictators. I'm not saying my country, America, is any better. What I'm saying is violence won't work. At best you're going to trade one Junta for another. You won't win against a modern military. If you start to get in the way of the Mega corps I'm sad to say my country will send bombs and (if needed) troops to bring you in line. Like the GP said, the solution is education & birth control. You need people too smart and too few to oppress.
the Vietcong were North Vietnam's military. And they didn't win so much as we didn't have the stomach to wipe them out. As bad as the atrocities were in 'Nam they were nowhere near what was possible. Heck, media coverage of those atrocities were a big part of what got us out of Nam, and the Military Industrial Complex learned from that mistake and made sure nobody got to cover the crap we did in Iraq or are currently doing in Yemen.
The Taliban and Isis both lost. Every now and then they blow up somebody who doesn't matter. But the closest they came to killing somebody in charge was a low level general who was slumming it.
TL;DR. You don't stand a chance against a modern mechanized army with supply lines. Best case you'll get to kill a few dirt poor kids who joined the army for a job. But you'll never touch anyone who really matters. They don't get anywhere near a warzone.
for the music industry. I'm guessing this means people aren't buying music. We know CD sales our down and vinyl is a niche format for purists (or hipsters depending on your outlook). I'm guessing that it's not that CD/vinyl sales are up but that digital is down.
Then again if they're switching to subscription services then as long as those services are profitable it's good for them. Might suck for the bands though who often make money selling those CDs at concerts. I hear they don't make jack off the subscription services.
but they're not the ones that drive polls. Universal background checks have a 97% approval rating in this country yet we don't have them. That's because those sensible law enforcement officers don't show up to the polls to vote for background checks. They've got a dozen other issues (education, healthcare, their pensions, etc, etc).
The way our elections work getting 1-3% extra votes makes or breaks most elections. That gives single issue voters a disproportionate amount of power. That means a small group of highly motivated voters can and will swing elections.
And when the heck did I use ad hominem? Everything I wrote was carefully reasoned. I left this part out, but what I'd actually like to see happen is that we address those voter's core issue, which is a lack of community. I'm a nerd too. I'd like to live in a world without nerds. e.g. without a class of people that get shit on their whole lives. I find the root cause of nerddom is often poverty and a lack of medical care. Weak kids with few opportunities to socialize when they're young. Better schools and parents that have more time to be parents would solve a lot of that. But it costs money.
Still, just like seeing a Doctor it's better to treat causes than symptoms.
What I'm saying is that Putin doesn't respect us. And given the results of the last election it's getting harder to argue with the man. Literally as well as figuratively.
attacking one of our country's major political institutions? You can argue the DNC shouldn't be a major institution, but the fact is that they are. Yes, our political system needs work, but it's not going to get fixed by hostile foreign powers meddling in it.
The MSM shat all over Hilary. Moreover without their consistent and favorable coverage of Trump he couldn't have won. By all accounts he got $6 billion of free advertising from them. If it wasn't for them supporting Trump to keep the horse race going she'd be in office.
Now, to be fair if she'd just campaigned in the bloody swing states and took Trump (and the populist sentiment he represents) seriously she'd have won too. America doesn't want the right wing anymore. They _want_ the government to step in and fix things like health care, trade, education and the job market. Trump ran on those things and won. Hilary ran a classic right wing conservative campaign and lost. Sad thing is Trump lied and we're gonna pay for it. But like he said, what da ya got to lose...
or Otaku. I know several gun nuts and it's a social circle for them that accepts them without preconditions. Shared passions are like that. Religion, MMOs, D&D, etc all fall into the same boat. A lot of times they've got various personality defects or are just plain bad at socializing. This isn't a knock on them, that's just what it means to be a nerd. But it means they're intensely defensive of their right to own and shoot guns. Try and take them away and you're cutting them off from their social circle.
I don't care much for Bill Clinton. His right wing economics got us into the mess we're in now, all so he could win the presidency with an alliance of social liberals and economic right wingers. But he was smart enough to leave the gun nuts alone. You can't win with them. They've got too much at stake. They're instant single issue voters who show up at the polls.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I like a world without mysteries. This encourages people to rely on and believe science and reason instead of magic and mysticism. That can't help but be a good thing.
I've seen the video. I think I would have hit her, but I also think I would have slammed on my breaks before I did. I might have hit her at 20 instead of 40. She might be alive.
I understand the desire to strike back, but do you have anything to support the notion that these specific actions are going to be beneficial? We're pretty tightly coupled with China. Most of our manufacturing is done there, especially all the dirty stuff nobody likes doing. Cheap Chinese goods have been the only thing keeping the American worker from noticing the last 40 years of wage stagnation (well, noticing it any more than they already have). Do you have hard numbers on how this will translate to higher wages? I'm not expecting a raft of new manufacturing jobs and neither should you. Even the Chinese are automating. So if there's no new jobs and no new demand for American workers how is this going to raise wages enough to account for the increase cost of consumer goods?
the jobs aren't coming back. Not very many anyway. Any factories built here will be run by robots. On the other hand we might end up bringing back the pollution.
The trouble with tariffs is they don't work as half measures. If you want to do isolationism like Brazil does that's fine. But get ready for $1500 Playstations and $3000 video cards. That's why you can still buy a Sega Megadrive in Brazil without irony.
Oh, one more thing. Any chance these tariffs will be passed on to me in the form of services like roads, schools or healthcare? Given the $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut we just did (83% of which went to the 1%) I'm guessing no. It's just like the lottery. They claim the money will go to services but then they shuffle it around and turn it into tax cuts for the rich.
and focused on the Adverts. It's now front and center and in the minds of regular people. There's also a sizable Anti-Trump faction in America (he did lose the popular vote after all) that is going to seize on this and keep it from going away. Facebook'll end up caught in the middle of a political fight. Worst case scenario a bunch of new privacy regulations get passed that make a significant portion of their business illegal.
Is it 1980? Because if not 2020 is 2 years away. That's not even a blip in an industry as large as cars. The headline shouldn't be "not viable until 2020" it should be "will be viable by 2020".
this could be a major political issue if it doesn't turn out they did the same for the other side. The Dems might make it a campaign issue with FB stuck in the middle. The one thing they've got to be afraid of most is regulation. After all, you are the product. It's not the adverts where they make all their money, it's selling all that sweet, sweet demographic data.
that's why. They thumbed their noses at global oligarchy by giving a lot of their oil money to the people at large. Chavez also seized land that was being left fallow for no reason (and did it in spectacular fashion, the well to do were declaring the land was worthless to avoid property taxes. He went to them and demanded they sell them the land at the value they'd declared or pay the back property taxes and fines from lying to the tax man).
Tl;DR: We're making an example out of them to support a political narrative.
This is not to say they're a bunch of knights in shining armor. As usual it's more complex than that. Venezuela is rife with corruption. But an unusually high amount of money made it to their working class. But their biggest problem was the price of oil collapsed before they could build an economy that isn't dependent on it. That and a drought that rendered their hydo electric plant useless. That's another thing, folks forget that Venezuela is only about 20 million people. It's small enough that one hydoelectric plant going down is a major economic issue. Add to that international sanctions that kept them from re-financing debt and they're screwed.
when they're actively exposing your flank. At least in America we've been putting right wing pro-corporate politicians in charge since Reagan. At the moment one party controls all branches of government except a few state legislatures and that party has deregulation and free competition as a central plank of the party. Like it or not age discrimination is a regulation.
If you buy into the theory that regulation stifles business and kills jobs then it follows that age discrimination is both harmful and unnecessary. It's unnecessary because if the businesses without that experienced staff should under perform the ones that do. It's harmful because the market decides best who should be in each job and optimizes for efficiency. Meaning older, experienced workers would naturally end up in the jobs best suited for them.
Long story short, 40 years of this narrative and politics means IBM and most tech companies can discriminate with impunity. If you want regulations to protect you you need to support regulations that protect everybody else. Once worker solidarity breaks down everything goes south.
the point is they're coming here competing for scarce jobs in a country where your entire quality of life depends on your job. That said, racism is also a factor. But it's foolish to ignore the impact on jobs & wages they have. The flood of cheap blue collar workers is no different than the flood of cheap H1-Bs. Heck, it's worse. We not only have the H2-B visa but a ton of illegals taking jobs. Yes, it's good for the economy for them to be here, but that hardly matters if you're stuck working at Walmart for $7.50/hr and 30 hours a week.
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has been revealed to be B.S.. It's not about giving people what they want, it's about manipulating them into doing as told. The CEO got caught on tape saying as much..
I'm not opposed to advertising. Advertising can be a positive good. It can make people aware of things they never knew they wanted. But this wasn't advertising. This wasn't about convincing people they wanted Trump. And it certainly wasn't about Trump finding out what people wanted so he could give it to them. These people had long since decided on their political views and agenda and wanted to know how to get folks to go along with it, regardless of whether it benefited those people. This is the worst kind of politics.
Could you be a little less obvious about it. e.g. run with a title like "Moviepass slashes subscription fee on lower subscriber numbers" or something? This reads like the copy submitted by the company's marketing director, which is probably is.
it would be a lot harder to press men and women into that kind of 'service' if they had their basic living expenses taken care of.
even with mountains of training cops accidentally shoot people all the time. Throw somebody with little or no training outside of weekly target practice in an active shooter situation and they're probably going to screw up. I remember when Gabriel Giffords got shot. There was a 'good guy with a gun' on site but he didn't draw. When asked why he said he couldn't figure out who the shooter was and was afraid he'd shoot the wrong person or get shot himself by another "good guy with a gun".
One of the late night comedy hosts did a skit once (Colbert or Oliver, can't remember which) where they staged an active shooter scenario with regular people and pain bullets. The people in question knew what was going to happen and they still couldn't stop the shooter.
but I don't see any evidence that you won. I'm guessing you're either in Russia or one of the old Soviet Bloc countries. All of which are more or less run by dictators. I'm not saying my country, America, is any better. What I'm saying is violence won't work. At best you're going to trade one Junta for another. You won't win against a modern military. If you start to get in the way of the Mega corps I'm sad to say my country will send bombs and (if needed) troops to bring you in line. Like the GP said, the solution is education & birth control. You need people too smart and too few to oppress.
the Vietcong were North Vietnam's military. And they didn't win so much as we didn't have the stomach to wipe them out. As bad as the atrocities were in 'Nam they were nowhere near what was possible. Heck, media coverage of those atrocities were a big part of what got us out of Nam, and the Military Industrial Complex learned from that mistake and made sure nobody got to cover the crap we did in Iraq or are currently doing in Yemen.
The Taliban and Isis both lost. Every now and then they blow up somebody who doesn't matter. But the closest they came to killing somebody in charge was a low level general who was slumming it.
TL;DR. You don't stand a chance against a modern mechanized army with supply lines. Best case you'll get to kill a few dirt poor kids who joined the army for a job. But you'll never touch anyone who really matters. They don't get anywhere near a warzone.
for the music industry. I'm guessing this means people aren't buying music. We know CD sales our down and vinyl is a niche format for purists (or hipsters depending on your outlook). I'm guessing that it's not that CD/vinyl sales are up but that digital is down.
Then again if they're switching to subscription services then as long as those services are profitable it's good for them. Might suck for the bands though who often make money selling those CDs at concerts. I hear they don't make jack off the subscription services.
but they're not the ones that drive polls. Universal background checks have a 97% approval rating in this country yet we don't have them. That's because those sensible law enforcement officers don't show up to the polls to vote for background checks. They've got a dozen other issues (education, healthcare, their pensions, etc, etc).
The way our elections work getting 1-3% extra votes makes or breaks most elections. That gives single issue voters a disproportionate amount of power. That means a small group of highly motivated voters can and will swing elections.
And when the heck did I use ad hominem? Everything I wrote was carefully reasoned. I left this part out, but what I'd actually like to see happen is that we address those voter's core issue, which is a lack of community. I'm a nerd too. I'd like to live in a world without nerds. e.g. without a class of people that get shit on their whole lives. I find the root cause of nerddom is often poverty and a lack of medical care. Weak kids with few opportunities to socialize when they're young. Better schools and parents that have more time to be parents would solve a lot of that. But it costs money.
Still, just like seeing a Doctor it's better to treat causes than symptoms.
Russia has a long history of telegraphing their intentions.
What I'm saying is that Putin doesn't respect us. And given the results of the last election it's getting harder to argue with the man. Literally as well as figuratively.
attacking one of our country's major political institutions? You can argue the DNC shouldn't be a major institution, but the fact is that they are. Yes, our political system needs work, but it's not going to get fixed by hostile foreign powers meddling in it.
No cursing in the post. If it's a quote fine. But it makes what's already a questionable blog post read like, well, a random comment on /..
The MSM shat all over Hilary. Moreover without their consistent and favorable coverage of Trump he couldn't have won. By all accounts he got $6 billion of free advertising from them. If it wasn't for them supporting Trump to keep the horse race going she'd be in office.
Now, to be fair if she'd just campaigned in the bloody swing states and took Trump (and the populist sentiment he represents) seriously she'd have won too. America doesn't want the right wing anymore. They _want_ the government to step in and fix things like health care, trade, education and the job market. Trump ran on those things and won. Hilary ran a classic right wing conservative campaign and lost. Sad thing is Trump lied and we're gonna pay for it. But like he said, what da ya got to lose...
or Otaku. I know several gun nuts and it's a social circle for them that accepts them without preconditions. Shared passions are like that. Religion, MMOs, D&D, etc all fall into the same boat. A lot of times they've got various personality defects or are just plain bad at socializing. This isn't a knock on them, that's just what it means to be a nerd. But it means they're intensely defensive of their right to own and shoot guns. Try and take them away and you're cutting them off from their social circle.
I don't care much for Bill Clinton. His right wing economics got us into the mess we're in now, all so he could win the presidency with an alliance of social liberals and economic right wingers. But he was smart enough to leave the gun nuts alone. You can't win with them. They've got too much at stake. They're instant single issue voters who show up at the polls.
making these calls? Not that the outcome would be any different given who we put in charge, but still.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I like a world without mysteries. This encourages people to rely on and believe science and reason instead of magic and mysticism. That can't help but be a good thing.
I've seen the video. I think I would have hit her, but I also think I would have slammed on my breaks before I did. I might have hit her at 20 instead of 40. She might be alive.
a tariff tied to environmental and worker conditions (and by environmental I mean clean air and water, not "Save the Whales" environmental).
I understand the desire to strike back, but do you have anything to support the notion that these specific actions are going to be beneficial? We're pretty tightly coupled with China. Most of our manufacturing is done there, especially all the dirty stuff nobody likes doing. Cheap Chinese goods have been the only thing keeping the American worker from noticing the last 40 years of wage stagnation (well, noticing it any more than they already have). Do you have hard numbers on how this will translate to higher wages? I'm not expecting a raft of new manufacturing jobs and neither should you. Even the Chinese are automating. So if there's no new jobs and no new demand for American workers how is this going to raise wages enough to account for the increase cost of consumer goods?
the jobs aren't coming back. Not very many anyway. Any factories built here will be run by robots. On the other hand we might end up bringing back the pollution.
The trouble with tariffs is they don't work as half measures. If you want to do isolationism like Brazil does that's fine. But get ready for $1500 Playstations and $3000 video cards. That's why you can still buy a Sega Megadrive in Brazil without irony.
Oh, one more thing. Any chance these tariffs will be passed on to me in the form of services like roads, schools or healthcare? Given the $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut we just did (83% of which went to the 1%) I'm guessing no. It's just like the lottery. They claim the money will go to services but then they shuffle it around and turn it into tax cuts for the rich.
and focused on the Adverts. It's now front and center and in the minds of regular people. There's also a sizable Anti-Trump faction in America (he did lose the popular vote after all) that is going to seize on this and keep it from going away. Facebook'll end up caught in the middle of a political fight. Worst case scenario a bunch of new privacy regulations get passed that make a significant portion of their business illegal.
Is it 1980? Because if not 2020 is 2 years away. That's not even a blip in an industry as large as cars. The headline shouldn't be "not viable until 2020" it should be "will be viable by 2020".
this could be a major political issue if it doesn't turn out they did the same for the other side. The Dems might make it a campaign issue with FB stuck in the middle. The one thing they've got to be afraid of most is regulation. After all, you are the product. It's not the adverts where they make all their money, it's selling all that sweet, sweet demographic data.
that's why. They thumbed their noses at global oligarchy by giving a lot of their oil money to the people at large. Chavez also seized land that was being left fallow for no reason (and did it in spectacular fashion, the well to do were declaring the land was worthless to avoid property taxes. He went to them and demanded they sell them the land at the value they'd declared or pay the back property taxes and fines from lying to the tax man).
Tl;DR: We're making an example out of them to support a political narrative.
This is not to say they're a bunch of knights in shining armor. As usual it's more complex than that. Venezuela is rife with corruption. But an unusually high amount of money made it to their working class. But their biggest problem was the price of oil collapsed before they could build an economy that isn't dependent on it. That and a drought that rendered their hydo electric plant useless. That's another thing, folks forget that Venezuela is only about 20 million people. It's small enough that one hydoelectric plant going down is a major economic issue. Add to that international sanctions that kept them from re-financing debt and they're screwed.
when they're actively exposing your flank. At least in America we've been putting right wing pro-corporate politicians in charge since Reagan. At the moment one party controls all branches of government except a few state legislatures and that party has deregulation and free competition as a central plank of the party. Like it or not age discrimination is a regulation.
If you buy into the theory that regulation stifles business and kills jobs then it follows that age discrimination is both harmful and unnecessary. It's unnecessary because if the businesses without that experienced staff should under perform the ones that do. It's harmful because the market decides best who should be in each job and optimizes for efficiency. Meaning older, experienced workers would naturally end up in the jobs best suited for them.
Long story short, 40 years of this narrative and politics means IBM and most tech companies can discriminate with impunity. If you want regulations to protect you you need to support regulations that protect everybody else. Once worker solidarity breaks down everything goes south.
the point is they're coming here competing for scarce jobs in a country where your entire quality of life depends on your job. That said, racism is also a factor. But it's foolish to ignore the impact on jobs & wages they have. The flood of cheap blue collar workers is no different than the flood of cheap H1-Bs. Heck, it's worse. We not only have the H2-B visa but a ton of illegals taking jobs. Yes, it's good for the economy for them to be here, but that hardly matters if you're stuck working at Walmart for $7.50/hr and 30 hours a week.