Hilary won the popular vote. By a pretty big margin. It's only our screwy political system (designed to keep slavery intact, I might remind you) that caused her to win. And honestly, if she had just campaigned back east and lied about the coal jobs going away she'd have won. Her biggest problems were arrogance and honesty.
This seems like an open and shut free speech case to me. Unless he gets a crap jury. I'd like to see us do away with those
The occasional legit jury nullification isn't worth all the people wrongly convicted because they're not personable enough to stand in front of a jury
They break the last vestiges of the social contract between the Capitalists and Workers. Take that away and what's left of the system will break. I don't expect any good to come of that though, it didn't in China and the USSR.
You wouldn't have been able to use the Phrase if there wasn't. Nice Straw Man though. You managed to completely ignore the real issue, which is that America isn't really a democracy and that our entire system was built from the ground up by wealthy oligarchs watching out for themselves. I mean, look at who wrote the Constitution. I mean _all_ of them. Not just the ones from 5th grade. They were a bunch of Rich assholes.
was a) Hilary didn't campaign in the eastern swing states. I mean that. Not at all. And b) Trump advocated for solutions to people's problems while Hilary had nothing but platitudes and insults. Nobody believes Trump, but like he said: What have you got to lose? For the 60-70% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, not a whole lot.
Eat Bananas? Drink Coke? Then yeah, you kinda did. America uses it's military and CIA to maintain an empire that lets you do those things for a price you can afford at a profit margin tolerable to mega-Corprations. Or do you actually believe we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and meddled in South American politics for freedom's sake? You're complicit in it. Probably more so given your vehement denial of it.
I'm not saying the weight of the world needs to be on your shoulders alone. But I am saying you had a hand in it going to shit. Want to get rid of that guilt that made you speak up on a random internet forum? Push for public transportation and renewables. Demand an end to drone strikes. Demand the government take real action on poverty, disease and ignorance. Or don't, and keep deflecting that guilt on forums. It's worked for this long.
so much. Whatever else you think about Gorsuch's politics (and unless you own a large corporation they're awful) it's a fact the Republicans just stole that seat. It really angers me to see them doing so much wrong and getting away with it again and again...
show me your #s. I'm waiting... It's pretty easy to prove the point that they spend more on marketing than R&D with a google search. So show me a single, low user drug with 2.5 billion invested in it where the money came from the drug companies pockets.
Oh, and I've got family with cancer. The drugs that kept them alive were invented in Europe by the European governments because not a single US company would spend a dime on it.
they're not doing the expensive part of that 2.5 billion. You are. With your Tax Payer dollars. Anyone who says they're spending that kind of money is just using clever accounting. Kinda like how Return of the Jedi lost money at the box office.
I've seen multiple stories about how a small number of Americans are responsible for most of the healthcare costs in the last week or two. These weren't part of the general healthcare debate leading up to the failed Obamacare re-write (I refuse to call it a repeal, they didn't have the guts to do that). They started springing up about a week or two ago.
Yeah, these stories might be true and all, but what I find disturbing is how they keep showing up all of the sudden. Coincidentally right around the time Bernie & co have a bill on the Senate floor for Medicare for All. It's pretty obvious if you're looking that somebody is firing propaganda shots off. But if you're not a news hound like me with a google feed full of politics you probably wouldn't have noticed. I'm guessing it's the insurance companies buying stories to shut down single payer, since single payer should shut them down...
Anyway, I'd like everyone ehre to realize there's a difference between Bernie trying to talk you into single payer and somebody pushing a pro-insurance narrative on the sly. Whatever your opinion on the merits of single payer vs paid insurance just know that your actively being manipulated.
for someone's medicine? I said "Force" there. Because if you're getting into single pay with taxes funding health care then you are effectively forcing me and everyone else to pay for their medicine. Maybe I want to, but shouldn't that be my choice? Shouldn't I decide if I'm going to give that money to a charity or not? What if I oppose the medicine being give (like the "Morning After Pill")?
I'm asking loaded questions here. I'm in favor of single payer because it's part of civilization. And I'm in favor of forcing people to join civilization for the same reason I'm in favor of vaccinations. But I've yet to hear a compelling argument for all of this. I've yet to hear anyone give an answer to the age old "Tax and Spend Liberals". Maybe "Slash and Burn Conservative"? But even that's not as catchy or "Truthy"...
The industry doesn't do much research. Not the expensive kind. They do a few clinical trials after the government has done the really expensive stuff (what's called "Basic Research", IIRC).
Also, what you're seeing here with these rare disease drugs is the style of capitalism popularized by Bane Capital: Find something undervalued and buy it up then extract the value for yourself. Usually this takes the form of liquidating the company. But in these cases they're selling life saving medicine. It's literally a matter of life or death (or a life worse than death). These are small markets with a high barrier to entry where the customers depend on the product to live. This is exactly the sort of thing no decent society would leave in the hands of unregulated capitalism. American on the other hand...
As the saying goes, elections have consequences. That said, is the current administration would send the H1-b abuses packing I'm not sure I'd care. That also said I don't have a lot of hope for that.
they're being accused of giving different information to the Driver & Rider to manipulate the drivers into working more for less.
They could charge whatever they want, but that's not what they're doing. They're effectively telling a Rider the fee is $20 bucks, telling the Driver it'll be $18 and pocketing that $2. Assuming this is true (and it's easy to prove) They're lying to the Driver and almost certainly committing fraud by doing so.
is why they even bother? I don't have a lot of faith that any of this is a serious attempt to reign Uber in. They're blatantly flaunting laws about employment. If anyone really cared they'd have shut down Uber a long time ago.
My only question is: I've watched about a dozen of these "Gig Economy" companies get shut down because they were obviously employers. Uber's doing the exact same thing. How are they surviving? Are the CEOs/Investors just that much better connected?
so long as you've got enough replacements everybody except a few rare geniuses is replaceable. Well, everybody that is except the ruling class. Don't spill the blood of kings and all that rot.
on all those rides. That's why this works. So long as they can leverage Uber's loses to their gains this is going to be a good deal. The real question is will Uber burrow in like a tick when the prices start rising and screw everyone over.
that's what they're expecting. All of the folks you just described will get a pass if they come from Christian countries. At least, that's the plan. Whether it'll hold up in court or not is another matter. We used to have lots of laws/rules about this sort of discrimination where everybody's doing it but it's OK because they do it with a wink and a node and a dog whistle. But we've been chipping away at those protections for about 10 years now.
to cover the defaults. You're basically unemployable without a degree these days thanks to all the oursourcing, H1-Bs, etc. They know this. If you're in the middle of a desert selling water you can bloody damn well charge what you want.
the colleges haven't raised their costs. We pulled the federal funds they were using to subsidize tuition. All you'll see if you let those loans discharge in bankruptcy is raising interest rates. The kids'll still pay them too because these days without a college degree or a lot of luck/connections you're spending the rest of your life at Walmart.
back in the late 90s we cut the massive Federal subsidies they were getting. Federal grant money was what made public universities affordable. When that got cut they shot up in price. There's an article on 538 I've linked to elsewhere to prove this.
Keep in mind none of this is true for private for profit Universities. Those guys were and always will be a bunch of crooks taking advantage of desperate kids who couldn't make the cut into public school. That's what makes the lie that rising costs are due to evil schools so insidious. It's a lie with just a little itty bit of truth as long as you ignore the public schools that are actually teaching kids. And as we all know the best kind of lie is one with a little bit of truth mixed in somewheres.
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Hilary won the popular vote. By a pretty big margin. It's only our screwy political system (designed to keep slavery intact, I might remind you) that caused her to win. And honestly, if she had just campaigned back east and lied about the coal jobs going away she'd have won. Her biggest problems were arrogance and honesty.
Suspects include a Mr Ben Erdryl and C. Tomas Irizine
This seems like an open and shut free speech case to me. Unless he gets a crap jury. I'd like to see us do away with those The occasional legit jury nullification isn't worth all the people wrongly convicted because they're not personable enough to stand in front of a jury
for my kid in college. Take that away and I wouldn't bother keeping it. For the occasional anime I watch on it it's not worth it.
to the convenience and stability of the big CC companies. You'd be amazed just how much they do for business and consumer alike.
They break the last vestiges of the social contract between the Capitalists and Workers. Take that away and what's left of the system will break. I don't expect any good to come of that though, it didn't in China and the USSR.
You wouldn't have been able to use the Phrase if there wasn't. Nice Straw Man though. You managed to completely ignore the real issue, which is that America isn't really a democracy and that our entire system was built from the ground up by wealthy oligarchs watching out for themselves. I mean, look at who wrote the Constitution. I mean _all_ of them. Not just the ones from 5th grade. They were a bunch of Rich assholes.
was a) Hilary didn't campaign in the eastern swing states. I mean that. Not at all. And b) Trump advocated for solutions to people's problems while Hilary had nothing but platitudes and insults. Nobody believes Trump, but like he said: What have you got to lose? For the 60-70% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, not a whole lot.
Eat Bananas? Drink Coke? Then yeah, you kinda did. America uses it's military and CIA to maintain an empire that lets you do those things for a price you can afford at a profit margin tolerable to mega-Corprations. Or do you actually believe we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and meddled in South American politics for freedom's sake? You're complicit in it. Probably more so given your vehement denial of it.
I'm not saying the weight of the world needs to be on your shoulders alone. But I am saying you had a hand in it going to shit. Want to get rid of that guilt that made you speak up on a random internet forum? Push for public transportation and renewables. Demand an end to drone strikes. Demand the government take real action on poverty, disease and ignorance. Or don't, and keep deflecting that guilt on forums. It's worked for this long.
and not President. But nice Strawman there.
so much. Whatever else you think about Gorsuch's politics (and unless you own a large corporation they're awful) it's a fact the Republicans just stole that seat. It really angers me to see them doing so much wrong and getting away with it again and again...
show me your #s. I'm waiting... It's pretty easy to prove the point that they spend more on marketing than R&D with a google search. So show me a single, low user drug with 2.5 billion invested in it where the money came from the drug companies pockets.
Oh, and I've got family with cancer. The drugs that kept them alive were invented in Europe by the European governments because not a single US company would spend a dime on it.
they're not doing the expensive part of that 2.5 billion. You are. With your Tax Payer dollars. Anyone who says they're spending that kind of money is just using clever accounting. Kinda like how Return of the Jedi lost money at the box office.
I've seen multiple stories about how a small number of Americans are responsible for most of the healthcare costs in the last week or two. These weren't part of the general healthcare debate leading up to the failed Obamacare re-write (I refuse to call it a repeal, they didn't have the guts to do that). They started springing up about a week or two ago.
Yeah, these stories might be true and all, but what I find disturbing is how they keep showing up all of the sudden. Coincidentally right around the time Bernie & co have a bill on the Senate floor for Medicare for All. It's pretty obvious if you're looking that somebody is firing propaganda shots off. But if you're not a news hound like me with a google feed full of politics you probably wouldn't have noticed. I'm guessing it's the insurance companies buying stories to shut down single payer, since single payer should shut them down...
Anyway, I'd like everyone ehre to realize there's a difference between Bernie trying to talk you into single payer and somebody pushing a pro-insurance narrative on the sly. Whatever your opinion on the merits of single payer vs paid insurance just know that your actively being manipulated.
for someone's medicine? I said "Force" there. Because if you're getting into single pay with taxes funding health care then you are effectively forcing me and everyone else to pay for their medicine. Maybe I want to, but shouldn't that be my choice? Shouldn't I decide if I'm going to give that money to a charity or not? What if I oppose the medicine being give (like the "Morning After Pill")?
I'm asking loaded questions here. I'm in favor of single payer because it's part of civilization. And I'm in favor of forcing people to join civilization for the same reason I'm in favor of vaccinations. But I've yet to hear a compelling argument for all of this. I've yet to hear anyone give an answer to the age old "Tax and Spend Liberals". Maybe "Slash and Burn Conservative"? But even that's not as catchy or "Truthy"...
The industry doesn't do much research. Not the expensive kind. They do a few clinical trials after the government has done the really expensive stuff (what's called "Basic Research", IIRC).
Also, what you're seeing here with these rare disease drugs is the style of capitalism popularized by Bane Capital: Find something undervalued and buy it up then extract the value for yourself. Usually this takes the form of liquidating the company. But in these cases they're selling life saving medicine. It's literally a matter of life or death (or a life worse than death). These are small markets with a high barrier to entry where the customers depend on the product to live. This is exactly the sort of thing no decent society would leave in the hands of unregulated capitalism. American on the other hand...
As the saying goes, elections have consequences. That said, is the current administration would send the H1-b abuses packing I'm not sure I'd care. That also said I don't have a lot of hope for that.
they're being accused of giving different information to the Driver & Rider to manipulate the drivers into working more for less.
They could charge whatever they want, but that's not what they're doing. They're effectively telling a Rider the fee is $20 bucks, telling the Driver it'll be $18 and pocketing that $2. Assuming this is true (and it's easy to prove) They're lying to the Driver and almost certainly committing fraud by doing so.
is why they even bother? I don't have a lot of faith that any of this is a serious attempt to reign Uber in. They're blatantly flaunting laws about employment. If anyone really cared they'd have shut down Uber a long time ago.
My only question is: I've watched about a dozen of these "Gig Economy" companies get shut down because they were obviously employers. Uber's doing the exact same thing. How are they surviving? Are the CEOs/Investors just that much better connected?
so long as you've got enough replacements everybody except a few rare geniuses is replaceable. Well, everybody that is except the ruling class. Don't spill the blood of kings and all that rot.
on all those rides. That's why this works. So long as they can leverage Uber's loses to their gains this is going to be a good deal. The real question is will Uber burrow in like a tick when the prices start rising and screw everyone over.
that's what they're expecting. All of the folks you just described will get a pass if they come from Christian countries. At least, that's the plan. Whether it'll hold up in court or not is another matter. We used to have lots of laws/rules about this sort of discrimination where everybody's doing it but it's OK because they do it with a wink and a node and a dog whistle. But we've been chipping away at those protections for about 10 years now.
to cover the defaults. You're basically unemployable without a degree these days thanks to all the oursourcing, H1-Bs, etc. They know this. If you're in the middle of a desert selling water you can bloody damn well charge what you want.
the colleges haven't raised their costs. We pulled the federal funds they were using to subsidize tuition. All you'll see if you let those loans discharge in bankruptcy is raising interest rates. The kids'll still pay them too because these days without a college degree or a lot of luck/connections you're spending the rest of your life at Walmart.
back in the late 90s we cut the massive Federal subsidies they were getting. Federal grant money was what made public universities affordable. When that got cut they shot up in price. There's an article on 538 I've linked to elsewhere to prove this.
Keep in mind none of this is true for private for profit Universities. Those guys were and always will be a bunch of crooks taking advantage of desperate kids who couldn't make the cut into public school. That's what makes the lie that rising costs are due to evil schools so insidious. It's a lie with just a little itty bit of truth as long as you ignore the public schools that are actually teaching kids. And as we all know the best kind of lie is one with a little bit of truth mixed in somewheres.