By a wide margin. He won because our system of government was set up to give wealthy rural landowners a disproportionate amount of voting power. So yeah, I can argue will o the people because America isn't really a Democracy, we just play one on TV.
Gawker reported on a bunch of his shadier business dealings. Gawker actually did a lot of real journalism and used the tabloid stuff to pay for it. Muck racking is a pretty vital part of a Democracy and we just lost one of the biggest rakes.
I know lots of DC fans and they let out a collective 'meh' on the movie and went back to watching the cartoon universe. I've yet to hear anyone who really got excited about it. Heck, the only thing they've really called out is the bad CGI photoshop on Superman's beard because they had to do reshoots after the actor was working on something else...
that the security issues in our election system are intentional, so any 'tips' are really just pissing in the wind. Our elections are rigged, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader on who and why. But ask yourself who's running our government and who as been for most of the last 30 years.
to remember swapping binaries over mIRC and the like? This is like that. It's a chat client and it looks like it lets you send binaries and folks were passing MP3s. What makes it odd is that the company making the app can ban channels. I would've thought it'd all be P2P.
in a mobile home are way, way down. Often they can't get full time work. We've lost millions of manufacturing jobs since NAFTA. Budget cuts to make way for tax cuts have decimated infrastructure spending and with them lots of blue collar jobs. The folks who lost all those jobs competed for a shrinking pool driving wages down and causing employers to higher lots of people and work them on an 'as needed' basis since they were desperate enough to put up with it. And all this is before we talk about the multi billion dollar wage theft going on (google it, it's more than every robbery in the country).
Inflation is a very different beast for the working poor than the middle class. When we say 'inflation' we mean economy wide, but we don't really factor in affordability and practical buying power.
saying this implies the cost of Mobile homes has gone up. Manufacturing costs are way, way down. The actual problem is that 30 years of wage stagnation has reduced the buying power of working class people. They can't afford basic shelter.
This is a classic example of an anti-worker wing narrative at work. The breakfast bar adds $200 to the cost of the home. The his and her sinks $500. The cost of the home goes up $10,000. Nobody talks about the $9,200 gap or why people can't afford it. The implication is that poor people are being frivolous with their money, which in turn implies they have low moral character which in turn gives the middle class and rich a reason to abandon them to their poverty because, after all, it's their fault for having low moral character. It's prosperity gospel without the tinge of religion.
you'd be amazed how little imagination most folks have. It's actually a fairly serious social problem. After the last round of mass shootings there were interviews folks there. Several of who changed their opinion of gun control based solely on personal experiences. I've had friends who fell on hard times after the economic crash of 2008 who's folks were doing pretty good actually and were no help because they just couldn't comprehend the idea of anyone not just being able to work themselves out of any jam because they've always managed to.
Basically there's a lot of folk who can't grok something they didn't personally experience. If you go back and read the book that word grok came from being able to reach those people was a major part of it.
if you're Union boss is no longer representing the Union replace them. Crazy, right?
Seriously, I keep seeing this argument. You're basically saying "Democracy can't ever work because people might use power to their advantage". No shit Sherlock. The question isn't are they better off because they're in power, it's "are _you_ better off because they're in power?".
And if you're just going to dismiss the basic premise of Democracy outright then why not just make me Emperor and be done with it. After all, it doesn't really matter who's in power right? You're doomed either way.
Now, before you go off on a tangent about how you just wouldn't have those power structures in the first place, well, welcome to Anarchism. Because as soon as you back pedal one inch you start building those power structures you tried to tear down. Face it, Governments are just plain too useful. It's like having a box of loaded guns sitting around. If you don't pick one up someone else will and they'll shoot you with it if you don't do what they say.
the really nice ones will clean up just about anything except the really big chunks. Give me a robot gardener instead. One that pulls my weeds and keeps the neighborhood association off my back.
in the primary, you vote Sanders, and bring your friends too. The DNC hasn't learned a damn thing because they're stuffed with corporate democrats who are just like republicans but don't want to oppress homosexuals and women (as much). On the economy they're the same bastards as the repubs.
Your primary vote matters. Yes, the scales were tipped, but there are limits to how far you can tip them and in a primary with so few people voting your vote counts for a lot more. Multiple right wing Dems just got primaried recently. It can work. But not if folks like yourself throw up your hands and give up at the first sign of trouble.
in a desperate attempt to find a way to get what you want without accepting the consequences. Trying to eat your cake and have it to. I've got a buddy who's a type-1 diabetic with right wing parents he idolizes who does the same thing. He desperately needs socialism because his illness means he can't hold a job. At the very least he need socialized medicine or he plain dies. He knows this, he's smart. But he's emotional, and doesn't want to go against those right wing parents of his (who kinda turn a blind eye to the whole 'socialized medicine is keeping our son alive' thing). So if you press him on his solution to health care he says he wants to force the insurance companies to sell him it at a price he can afford even if it's at a loss, and the government will make up the difference. Basically socialism by way of a private company getting 20% of the gross cost for literally no reason. I've pointed this out to him a few times and he conceded the point but didn't change his politics. That's your problem in a nutshell. Either we take care of everybody or we take care of nobody. When it comes to basic services, utilities and rights there can be no half measures. Anything less just gets picked apart over a few decades by greedy assholes.
the House, the Senate, etc. There were a couple votes away from a constitutional convention and don't think they didn't notice that.
We're a two party system. And there are lots of folks in the other party who are basically Republicans with a 'D' next to their name (Dianne Feinstein, Joe Manchin & Chuck Schumer come to mind). So yeah, they control everything. They figured this shit out in the 60s when they started making Abortion & Gun Control into wedge issues to isolate the working class.
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By a wide margin. He won because our system of government was set up to give wealthy rural landowners a disproportionate amount of voting power. So yeah, I can argue will o the people because America isn't really a Democracy, we just play one on TV.
Checks and balances you know.
or the other side wins. You need a message. Half the reason Trump won is 'Make America Great Again' is way better than "I'm with her".
We're about to get a very, very pro corporate Supreme Court. This is yet another consequence of the 2017 election.
You forgot one: They want to hire an h-1b and they're putting artificial requirement in place to make that happen.
Gawker reported on a bunch of his shadier business dealings. Gawker actually did a lot of real journalism and used the tabloid stuff to pay for it. Muck racking is a pretty vital part of a Democracy and we just lost one of the biggest rakes.
I know lots of DC fans and they let out a collective 'meh' on the movie and went back to watching the cartoon universe. I've yet to hear anyone who really got excited about it. Heck, the only thing they've really called out is the bad CGI photoshop on Superman's beard because they had to do reshoots after the actor was working on something else...
that the security issues in our election system are intentional, so any 'tips' are really just pissing in the wind. Our elections are rigged, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader on who and why. But ask yourself who's running our government and who as been for most of the last 30 years.
to remember swapping binaries over mIRC and the like? This is like that. It's a chat client and it looks like it lets you send binaries and folks were passing MP3s. What makes it odd is that the company making the app can ban channels. I would've thought it'd all be P2P.
Officially licensed.
That was what you were looking for wasn't it?
and use this to their advantage. Sort of a reverse of what Amazon's doing right now with their 2nd headquarters.
it's a good thing for a single person to command that much wealth. A democracy can't survive that kind of power imbalance. Something's got to give.
in a mobile home are way, way down. Often they can't get full time work. We've lost millions of manufacturing jobs since NAFTA. Budget cuts to make way for tax cuts have decimated infrastructure spending and with them lots of blue collar jobs. The folks who lost all those jobs competed for a shrinking pool driving wages down and causing employers to higher lots of people and work them on an 'as needed' basis since they were desperate enough to put up with it. And all this is before we talk about the multi billion dollar wage theft going on (google it, it's more than every robbery in the country).
Inflation is a very different beast for the working poor than the middle class. When we say 'inflation' we mean economy wide, but we don't really factor in affordability and practical buying power.
saying this implies the cost of Mobile homes has gone up. Manufacturing costs are way, way down. The actual problem is that 30 years of wage stagnation has reduced the buying power of working class people. They can't afford basic shelter.
This is a classic example of an anti-worker wing narrative at work. The breakfast bar adds $200 to the cost of the home. The his and her sinks $500. The cost of the home goes up $10,000. Nobody talks about the $9,200 gap or why people can't afford it. The implication is that poor people are being frivolous with their money, which in turn implies they have low moral character which in turn gives the middle class and rich a reason to abandon them to their poverty because, after all, it's their fault for having low moral character. It's prosperity gospel without the tinge of religion.
you'd be amazed how little imagination most folks have. It's actually a fairly serious social problem. After the last round of mass shootings there were interviews folks there. Several of who changed their opinion of gun control based solely on personal experiences. I've had friends who fell on hard times after the economic crash of 2008 who's folks were doing pretty good actually and were no help because they just couldn't comprehend the idea of anyone not just being able to work themselves out of any jam because they've always managed to.
Basically there's a lot of folk who can't grok something they didn't personally experience. If you go back and read the book that word grok came from being able to reach those people was a major part of it.
if you're Union boss is no longer representing the Union replace them. Crazy, right?
Seriously, I keep seeing this argument. You're basically saying "Democracy can't ever work because people might use power to their advantage". No shit Sherlock. The question isn't are they better off because they're in power, it's "are _you_ better off because they're in power?".
And if you're just going to dismiss the basic premise of Democracy outright then why not just make me Emperor and be done with it. After all, it doesn't really matter who's in power right? You're doomed either way.
Now, before you go off on a tangent about how you just wouldn't have those power structures in the first place, well, welcome to Anarchism. Because as soon as you back pedal one inch you start building those power structures you tried to tear down. Face it, Governments are just plain too useful. It's like having a box of loaded guns sitting around. If you don't pick one up someone else will and they'll shoot you with it if you don't do what they say.
the really nice ones will clean up just about anything except the really big chunks. Give me a robot gardener instead. One that pulls my weeds and keeps the neighborhood association off my back.
they haven't busted their Unions like they have over here in the States. Unions are basically dead here. How did Europe pull that off?
in the primary, you vote Sanders, and bring your friends too. The DNC hasn't learned a damn thing because they're stuffed with corporate democrats who are just like republicans but don't want to oppress homosexuals and women (as much). On the economy they're the same bastards as the repubs.
Your primary vote matters. Yes, the scales were tipped, but there are limits to how far you can tip them and in a primary with so few people voting your vote counts for a lot more. Multiple right wing Dems just got primaried recently. It can work. But not if folks like yourself throw up your hands and give up at the first sign of trouble.
there's still stuff like this. 11 years and counting.
I've been waiting years for somebody to put a stop to Pew di Pie. At last, our long national nightmare is over...
in a desperate attempt to find a way to get what you want without accepting the consequences. Trying to eat your cake and have it to. I've got a buddy who's a type-1 diabetic with right wing parents he idolizes who does the same thing. He desperately needs socialism because his illness means he can't hold a job. At the very least he need socialized medicine or he plain dies. He knows this, he's smart. But he's emotional, and doesn't want to go against those right wing parents of his (who kinda turn a blind eye to the whole 'socialized medicine is keeping our son alive' thing). So if you press him on his solution to health care he says he wants to force the insurance companies to sell him it at a price he can afford even if it's at a loss, and the government will make up the difference. Basically socialism by way of a private company getting 20% of the gross cost for literally no reason. I've pointed this out to him a few times and he conceded the point but didn't change his politics. That's your problem in a nutshell. Either we take care of everybody or we take care of nobody. When it comes to basic services, utilities and rights there can be no half measures. Anything less just gets picked apart over a few decades by greedy assholes.
the House, the Senate, etc. There were a couple votes away from a constitutional convention and don't think they didn't notice that.
We're a two party system. And there are lots of folks in the other party who are basically Republicans with a 'D' next to their name (Dianne Feinstein, Joe Manchin & Chuck Schumer come to mind). So yeah, they control everything. They figured this shit out in the 60s when they started making Abortion & Gun Control into wedge issues to isolate the working class.
but Trump still won. He won because people came out for him.
In the primary? If not you screwed up. I don't care what your reasons were, you done screwed up.