of pro-consumer rules (Net Neutrality, restrictions on pay day lenders, Dodd-Frank, and now this) that are being stripped clean. Is anyone on this forum in favor of all this? If not, is anyone going to change how they vote in the coming elections? Because if not it doesn't matter one wit.
our Senate and Electoral colleges were purpose built to protect the interests of a few wealthy landowners. The political parties are just natural outgrowths of that system. What's needed is a parliamentary system that gives everybody who gets x% of the vote some power. That and compulsory voting. If voting was mandatory people couldn't get away with voter suppression.
he promised to keep jobs here, provide medical care for all and huge tax cuts that would somehow be paid for by magic fairy dust. Meanwhile Hilary didn't promise jack (her campaign ads were almost completely devoid of policy) and you can see how that worked out.
People _want_ the government to step in and help them. What they do _not_ want is for the gov't to step in and help anyone else. It doesn't work like that. Either nobody gets left behind or everybody does.
if anything you need to encourage them. Once people hit a certain amount of wealth they're content to have 1-2 children. Of course, that only happens if you hit that wealth limit (and if you don't have the Elephant in the room, religion, forcing people to spit out kids. Can't tell you how many Catholics I know with their 3rd, 4th, 5th child in their 40s...)
It's about having the power of life or death by controlling access to food, shelter and medical care. It's about power, not things.
Yes, I know that's counter-intuitive. Lots of things are. It's difficult to think like a truly Rich person (e.g. a 1% or a.1%) when you're part of the working class.
they have machine guns now. And supply lines so that when your semi-autos run out of bullets theirs don't. Best case scenario you get a military junta and a change of masters.
Violence isn't going to work anymore. If you want freedom you have to take care of your working class _before_ they turn to a militant strong man. So far we are not doing a good job of that. Hopefully next election we turn things around and at least run somebody like this Andrew fellow who appears to belong to the populist left.
on Venezuela while we help the Saudi's bomb Yemen? I get that they're government is sketchy, but we support something like 80% of the world's dictatorships. If we're trying to take the high ground on Democracy that boat has sailed, circumnavigated the globe and returned laden with exotic spice (joke shamelessly stolen from Yatzee of Zero Punctuation fame)
it's "impolite" because we're told it's impolite. We're told that for a reason. It's yet another barrier to Unionizing and organized labor; the only two things that have ever made a widespread enough difference in the working classes quality of life to result in a 'middle class'.
it can be blinding. It's called "Monsoon" weather. If you've never driven in it it's hard to explain. You can't see 6-8 feet in front of you. Like a white out but with water. Not sure if that's what happened here. I've been stuck driving in Monsoon rain a few times. I pull over as soon as I can and wait it out. It can be hard to do that with all the nut jobs trying to power through it.
The woman was outside cross walks, so Uber will probably be in the right. Although IIRC you never have the right of way if it would cause an accident in Az.
applies to phone conversations. If a.com company is selling me a service that is supposed to be secured then I have the same expectation of privacy. Most states have pretty strict laws about wiretapping. Just because its "on the internet" doesn't make it anything else when you listen in on my private conversations without notice or perimission.
his chalkboard diagrams looked pretty amazing. That's some serious dedication to his students. Glad they got computers. There's so many old PCs getting trashed that often just need a new drive or a few caps replaced.
Back in my day (and yours too judging by your #) Greased up Yoda Dolls and Natalie Portman's Hot Grits would rule the top 1/3 of any discussion. These days even on topic trolls get modded into oblivion.
than explosives. A common argument is that if mass shooters couldn't get assault rifles they'd just use explosives. Believe it or not handling explosives is tricky. Even with access to the Internet and info on how to handle them you can still blow yourself to bits. Yeah, crock pot bombs are easy enough to make, but that mess in Boston had all of three victims. Compare that with the parkland shooting that killed 17 and injured the same.
losing to Trump hit her like a brick. At this point she's just a bitter angry old woman. Besides, the lawsuit would go on forever. She'd be suing other multi-millionaires. She'd die before anything came of it.
Yes, if she was less incompetent her firms wouldn't have fleeced her. If she'd had less baggage Trump couldn't have won. If nationalism hadn't grown so much she could have won. If the Russian's hadn't interfered she could have won. If she hadn't ignored the working class she could have won. There's a dozen or more ifs.
Trump is such a monumental failure of our Democracy that no one thing could have made it happen. It took a complete breakdown of this countries institutions to put a shmuck like Trump in the Whitehouse.
for illegals. The reason they didn't want this is that if you could come here illegally and become a citizen everybody would. There's never be any incentive to come here legally. He then reneged on this promise. I don't know how I could make it any simpler.
And you have to start somewhere. Single payer healthcare is a good place. Regulating Wall Street to prevent another market crash is another. Just because good ideas won't pass doesn't mean you throw up your hands and give up. You've surrendered to easily. Our problems _can_ be solved without relying on the invisible hand to save us. Actions speak louder than words. Go out there and vote Bernie (and the Justice Democrats, google the phrase) and you'll see those actions.
You'd support Sanders & the Democrats (NOT the DNC, there's a difference) because unless you're independently wealthy you're a member of the working class and he (and his ilk) are the only ones who genuinely have your interests at heart. If you think you're some kind of mover and shaker who's going to make it in the world, well, you're shit-posting in response to a borderline libtard troll. That ship sailed my friend. Like it or not you're one of us, and Trump & co are going to fuck you royally.
Unless you're one of those Russians I keep hearing about. If so, carry on then.
You'd lose the views and the adverts sold on those things are bound to be profitable. If you're gullible enough to think the last two or three school shootings were false flag operations you're probably in the market for some expensive supplements, some gold, or a bucket of food for that shed you call a bunker.After all, there's a sucker born every minute.
The way you stop this is funding schools, especially the liberal arts. e.g. reading. Critical thinking is a skill and like any skill it can be taught. You're not going do do that with STEM. If you're bright enough for STEM you're usually bright enough to figure out critical thinking on your own. There's a reason the well to do always insist on a solid liberal arts education for their kids. It's how you teach dumb people to think.
a. Backed off on ending DACA and endorsed amnesty. Whatever your opinion (personally I think it'd be nuts to try and deport them at this point) of this it was core promise.
b. Gave Carrier millions in subsidies to keep jobs that they promptly sent to Mexico as soon as nobody was looking.
c. Expanding the number of H1-B & H2-B recipients, failed to repeal Obama's executive order allowing their spouses to work in this country.
d. Did a $1.5 trillion tax cut where 80% of the benefits are for the 1%, the remaining 20% expire in 10 years and his party is already talking about ending Medicare & SS to pay for them (without him saying a word to contradict them).
e. Backed down from Mexico paying for the wall, will have the American tax payer pay for it.
f. Promised to drain swamp, but the same Goldman Sachs guys in charge that everybody does.
I could go on and on, but these are the ones that stand out most. You can't even make the argument that he's just incompetent. He promised us he was the best. If he's a boob he lied about being smart. Trump lies. Realize it, switch the the Democratic party, vote in your primary and for fucks sake elect Bernie or another left winger this time. If you want a populist vote for a real one.
on 4 consultancy firms. I'm pretty sure she got Rhomey'd. e.g. the firms thought they had an easy win so they pocketed the money and didn't campaign. The folks on the ground in the swing states didn't have any support. One guy in an important and competitive district was on tape complaining he only got one short visit from Barney Frank and nobody was going around distributing signs. Meanwhile on election day I had a guy driving around in one of those trucks with advertisements on the back for Trump.
they voted for Trump because he ran as a populist. He promised them good jobs, healthcare and a future. Hilary promised them them nothing. At best slightly lower interest rates on their Student Loans.
There's a ton of really desperate folks in swing states. Hilary called them the Blue Firewall and ignored them. Trump listened to them and told them what they wanted to hear. It doesn't matter that he was lying. There was a chance, however small, that he wasn't. They had nothing to lose.
The real problem is America abandoned a significant portion of the working class to abject poverty. That's a terrible idea if you like stability. Large numbers of people (especially men) with nothing to lose are dangerous as hell.
All Hilary had to do was take him seriously and campaign properly (or at all) in the swing states. Instead she wasted time in states like Az where she didn't have a prayer in hell of winning. She thought she was gonna get some sorta Reaganesque style super victory. Funny thing is there were two things that I kept hearing people say they didn't like about her: Cold & Arrogant. And boy, did she prove that right.
Worst thing is the right wing corporate Dems haven't learned a damn thing and they're probably gonna run Hilary 2.0 (Kamala Harris). What they hell is the bloody point of voting for a Democrat who's gonna run things like a Republican?
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of pro-consumer rules (Net Neutrality, restrictions on pay day lenders, Dodd-Frank, and now this) that are being stripped clean. Is anyone on this forum in favor of all this? If not, is anyone going to change how they vote in the coming elections? Because if not it doesn't matter one wit.
and look what it got us.
our Senate and Electoral colleges were purpose built to protect the interests of a few wealthy landowners. The political parties are just natural outgrowths of that system. What's needed is a parliamentary system that gives everybody who gets x% of the vote some power. That and compulsory voting. If voting was mandatory people couldn't get away with voter suppression.
he promised to keep jobs here, provide medical care for all and huge tax cuts that would somehow be paid for by magic fairy dust. Meanwhile Hilary didn't promise jack (her campaign ads were almost completely devoid of policy) and you can see how that worked out.
People _want_ the government to step in and help them. What they do _not_ want is for the gov't to step in and help anyone else. It doesn't work like that. Either nobody gets left behind or everybody does.
if anything you need to encourage them. Once people hit a certain amount of wealth they're content to have 1-2 children. Of course, that only happens if you hit that wealth limit (and if you don't have the Elephant in the room, religion, forcing people to spit out kids. Can't tell you how many Catholics I know with their 3rd, 4th, 5th child in their 40s...)
It's about having the power of life or death by controlling access to food, shelter and medical care. It's about power, not things.
.1%) when you're part of the working class.
Yes, I know that's counter-intuitive. Lots of things are. It's difficult to think like a truly Rich person (e.g. a 1% or a
they have machine guns now. And supply lines so that when your semi-autos run out of bullets theirs don't. Best case scenario you get a military junta and a change of masters.
Violence isn't going to work anymore. If you want freedom you have to take care of your working class _before_ they turn to a militant strong man. So far we are not doing a good job of that. Hopefully next election we turn things around and at least run somebody like this Andrew fellow who appears to belong to the populist left.
on Venezuela while we help the Saudi's bomb Yemen? I get that they're government is sketchy, but we support something like 80% of the world's dictatorships. If we're trying to take the high ground on Democracy that boat has sailed, circumnavigated the globe and returned laden with exotic spice (joke shamelessly stolen from Yatzee of Zero Punctuation fame)
it's "impolite" because we're told it's impolite. We're told that for a reason. It's yet another barrier to Unionizing and organized labor; the only two things that have ever made a widespread enough difference in the working classes quality of life to result in a 'middle class'.
right here, so all else being equal he gets my (primary) vote in favor of anyone else who doesn't.
I'd rather see him stumping on Medicare for All than basic income though.
it can be blinding. It's called "Monsoon" weather. If you've never driven in it it's hard to explain. You can't see 6-8 feet in front of you. Like a white out but with water. Not sure if that's what happened here. I've been stuck driving in Monsoon rain a few times. I pull over as soon as I can and wait it out. It can be hard to do that with all the nut jobs trying to power through it.
The woman was outside cross walks, so Uber will probably be in the right. Although IIRC you never have the right of way if it would cause an accident in Az.
in the good 'ole days. Especially the good 'ole days before computers made it easy to track things.
and how gun culture pertains to it. But we've got laws against that here in the States.
applies to phone conversations. If a .com company is selling me a service that is supposed to be secured then I have the same expectation of privacy. Most states have pretty strict laws about wiretapping. Just because its "on the internet" doesn't make it anything else when you listen in on my private conversations without notice or perimission.
his chalkboard diagrams looked pretty amazing. That's some serious dedication to his students. Glad they got computers. There's so many old PCs getting trashed that often just need a new drive or a few caps replaced.
Back in my day (and yours too judging by your #) Greased up Yoda Dolls and Natalie Portman's Hot Grits would rule the top 1/3 of any discussion. These days even on topic trolls get modded into oblivion.
than explosives. A common argument is that if mass shooters couldn't get assault rifles they'd just use explosives. Believe it or not handling explosives is tricky. Even with access to the Internet and info on how to handle them you can still blow yourself to bits. Yeah, crock pot bombs are easy enough to make, but that mess in Boston had all of three victims. Compare that with the parkland shooting that killed 17 and injured the same.
losing to Trump hit her like a brick. At this point she's just a bitter angry old woman. Besides, the lawsuit would go on forever. She'd be suing other multi-millionaires. She'd die before anything came of it.
Yes, if she was less incompetent her firms wouldn't have fleeced her. If she'd had less baggage Trump couldn't have won. If nationalism hadn't grown so much she could have won. If the Russian's hadn't interfered she could have won. If she hadn't ignored the working class she could have won. There's a dozen or more ifs.
Trump is such a monumental failure of our Democracy that no one thing could have made it happen. It took a complete breakdown of this countries institutions to put a shmuck like Trump in the Whitehouse.
for illegals. The reason they didn't want this is that if you could come here illegally and become a citizen everybody would. There's never be any incentive to come here legally. He then reneged on this promise. I don't know how I could make it any simpler.
And you have to start somewhere. Single payer healthcare is a good place. Regulating Wall Street to prevent another market crash is another. Just because good ideas won't pass doesn't mean you throw up your hands and give up. You've surrendered to easily. Our problems _can_ be solved without relying on the invisible hand to save us. Actions speak louder than words. Go out there and vote Bernie (and the Justice Democrats, google the phrase) and you'll see those actions.
all over the place. DACA _is_ amnesty.
You'd support Sanders & the Democrats (NOT the DNC, there's a difference) because unless you're independently wealthy you're a member of the working class and he (and his ilk) are the only ones who genuinely have your interests at heart. If you think you're some kind of mover and shaker who's going to make it in the world, well, you're shit-posting in response to a borderline libtard troll. That ship sailed my friend. Like it or not you're one of us, and Trump & co are going to fuck you royally.
Unless you're one of those Russians I keep hearing about. If so, carry on then.
You'd lose the views and the adverts sold on those things are bound to be profitable. If you're gullible enough to think the last two or three school shootings were false flag operations you're probably in the market for some expensive supplements, some gold, or a bucket of food for that shed you call a bunker.After all, there's a sucker born every minute.
The way you stop this is funding schools, especially the liberal arts. e.g. reading. Critical thinking is a skill and like any skill it can be taught. You're not going do do that with STEM. If you're bright enough for STEM you're usually bright enough to figure out critical thinking on your own. There's a reason the well to do always insist on a solid liberal arts education for their kids. It's how you teach dumb people to think.
Let's see:
a. Backed off on ending DACA and endorsed amnesty. Whatever your opinion (personally I think it'd be nuts to try and deport them at this point) of this it was core promise.
b. Gave Carrier millions in subsidies to keep jobs that they promptly sent to Mexico as soon as nobody was looking.
c. Expanding the number of H1-B & H2-B recipients, failed to repeal Obama's executive order allowing their spouses to work in this country.
d. Did a $1.5 trillion tax cut where 80% of the benefits are for the 1%, the remaining 20% expire in 10 years and his party is already talking about ending Medicare & SS to pay for them (without him saying a word to contradict them).
e. Backed down from Mexico paying for the wall, will have the American tax payer pay for it.
f. Promised to drain swamp, but the same Goldman Sachs guys in charge that everybody does.
I could go on and on, but these are the ones that stand out most. You can't even make the argument that he's just incompetent. He promised us he was the best. If he's a boob he lied about being smart. Trump lies. Realize it, switch the the Democratic party, vote in your primary and for fucks sake elect Bernie or another left winger this time. If you want a populist vote for a real one.
on 4 consultancy firms. I'm pretty sure she got Rhomey'd. e.g. the firms thought they had an easy win so they pocketed the money and didn't campaign. The folks on the ground in the swing states didn't have any support. One guy in an important and competitive district was on tape complaining he only got one short visit from Barney Frank and nobody was going around distributing signs. Meanwhile on election day I had a guy driving around in one of those trucks with advertisements on the back for Trump.
they voted for Trump because he ran as a populist. He promised them good jobs, healthcare and a future. Hilary promised them them nothing. At best slightly lower interest rates on their Student Loans.
There's a ton of really desperate folks in swing states. Hilary called them the Blue Firewall and ignored them. Trump listened to them and told them what they wanted to hear. It doesn't matter that he was lying. There was a chance, however small, that he wasn't. They had nothing to lose.
The real problem is America abandoned a significant portion of the working class to abject poverty. That's a terrible idea if you like stability. Large numbers of people (especially men) with nothing to lose are dangerous as hell.
All Hilary had to do was take him seriously and campaign properly (or at all) in the swing states. Instead she wasted time in states like Az where she didn't have a prayer in hell of winning. She thought she was gonna get some sorta Reaganesque style super victory. Funny thing is there were two things that I kept hearing people say they didn't like about her: Cold & Arrogant. And boy, did she prove that right.
Worst thing is the right wing corporate Dems haven't learned a damn thing and they're probably gonna run Hilary 2.0 (Kamala Harris). What they hell is the bloody point of voting for a Democrat who's gonna run things like a Republican?