fake it till you make it. There was a time not too long ago that their hate-based fantasies were reality. Many of them look back to a time when they had higher social status and several economic advantages. When people talk about white privilege that is what they mean.
Trump proves the clock can be turned back. It doesn't even take that much. All it took to put Trump and a whole bunch of alt-right into power was apathy on the part of Blacks and Latinos who couldn't get excited over Clinton like they did for Obama...
ok, I'll admit I'm a bit of a libtard troll. I make a bit of a game out of it. But I do actually believe everything I type, and I've noticed a libtard post that used to get me a guaranteed +5 insightful will shoot up and then get modded down to -1 troll.
I'll just come out and say it: I think we've got professional trolls (Russian? Doesn't matter really) pushing a right wing nationalist agenda to destabilize our country. If they were just targeting/. it'd be one thing but when you've got pros doing it full time they're canvassing the web./. is just one stop on their daily routine.
they're mostly looking to stop wars and shore up the economy. They'll still be lots of giveaways to the 1%, but Americans are mostly OK with that. What you'd mostly see out of a Democratic majority is Single payer health care, a smidge more immigration (Repubs are still very pro-immigration because they want that sweet, sweet cheap and pre-trained labor), legal abortion and (maybe) legal pot.
Basically they're going to run a right of center country with little bits of progress here and there. Exactly what you woulda got if Hillary had been elected.
but after that we can hamstring him with a Democratic congress (don't forget to vote in your primaries or you'll get Blue Dogs).
And barring a war he's a 1 term president with 8 years of democrats to follow. That'll stop the bleeding. If you want the damage undone then you'll need to give the Dems a super majority in the senate and probably some state legislatures.
that's what put Trump in the Whitehouse. Voter suppression + Shenanigans got us Trump. More, nothing less. Blacks are 6 times more likely to wait more than an hour to vote than whites (look it up). That's not an accident. It's also no accident that folks convicted of a crime can't vote even after paying their debt to society or that registering to Vote gets you Jury duty (a death sentence to 66% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck).
because when it doesn't happen (or it does and our free speech policies make it pretty obvious they're dumping chemicals into drinking water and air like they do in China) it'll blow up.
The only thing that scares me is this: without a war Trump is a one term president. And he's already lining up Syria and Iran...
the left need their own Fox News. If MSNBC was 1/3 what Fox was this would be on air and on their site non-stop for the next 4 years. That said I don't think Liberals can support a Fox News equivalent. Go watch Fox sometime, and watch the adverts the come on. Every single one is a scam of some kind or another. The left don't have a base that can support that kind of shenanigans.
to their will doesn't make it so. I'm really getting tired of liberals being dismissive of the power and organizational skills that regressives (I refuse to call them "Conservative", they're not. Spade a Spade).
Shit like this is how we got Brexit & Trump. Just keep looking down on them and don't make any attempt to understand why they do what they do. They'll continue to route around you and take over via the tyranny of the minority.
I'm not a "precious little snowflake". So go f' yourself. I have legitimate reasons to fear Trump, to wit:
1. Repeal ACA. I have friends who depend on the medicare expansion to live. One's a Type-1 diabetic who until Obamacare didn't have enough insulin. Almost died a few times. He's 8 years older now and probably gonna die the next time.
2. End of Roe v Wade. My daughter has several congenital problems that might some day necessitate an abortion. Mike Pence would rather see her flown into God's embrace than risk the sin that is Abortion. Yeah, I'm being flippant by putting it that way, but it doesn't make it less true.
3. Cash repatriation. Got a job? Got friends with jobs? Prepare for the biggest round of layoffs since the.com bust as companies bring trillions of dollars back to the USA in the wake of Trump tax cuts letting them off scott free and promptly embark on the biggest Merchants & Acquisitions buying spree in history. Oh, and look forward to prices skyrocketing as competition basically ends.
I could go on and on. Trump supporters who aren't millionaires are all fucked, and they've dragged me and my family and friends along for the ride. If you see a train coming your way and you can't get out of the way because of a gaggle of morons any sane person would react with fear.
And given the percentage of Americans who identify as Christian I'd assume we'd have all these problems knocked out by the Churches.
Yeah, I'm being an ass. Nobody likes to be reminded that people aren't really charitable. This is one of the reasons I'm a socialist. You can't have a functioning civilization based on people's niceness. It's too easily for a few assholes to put us all at each others throats. You can't give people the option to support decent human civilization. They'll trade it all in for a nice pool in their back yard and maybe a manservant or two.
my kid uses it as an always on instant social network with her friends. It's what keeps her on the iPhone. She wanted a Galaxy S7 last time she got a new phone but iMessage kept her on the iTredmill. Vendor lock-in for the win.
jokes aside that Karl Rove process of accusing somebody of stuff you yourself do has been something the Dems have never learned to deal with let alone use to their own advantage.
We've known for years that the Republicans cheat during elections. It's easy because they had the money to take over the state and local legislatures where that sort of thing is done. Just search/. for any one of the dozens of stories about Diebold voting machines.
Dems have to win elections by such wide margins that the right wing shenanigans get drowned out. This is why the Republicans shout the loudest about voter fraud. Hilary didn't just win the popular vote, she won it by 1.7 million votes and counting. It's extremely likely Trump, like Bush jr before him, lost this election.
As someone utterly terrified by a Trump presidency and the damage it's going to do I say she goes for it. The point isn't to win, it's to bog down the Trump administration to limit the damage he can do. The Repubs did it to Obama (though I'd argue Obama was actually trying to Govern where Trump is just the world's largest scam). As the saying goes, this is how the sausage is made.
but Computer Science is basically just applied mathematics. There were lots of textbooks to follow. Now that said, both of these women were much, much smarter than me:).
you'll fall behind. You're forgetting that employees have a shelf life, and that with declining wages you need to be moving up or you're moving down. This isn't the post WWII 1950s job market (for white males). Stuffs changed. Nobody gives a damn about your life experience. They'll look at the 10 years you spent trying to get through college and pass you by for promotions. Meanwhile you won't be able to afford to buy a house, which is how the working class build wealth in this country. You're pretty much boned.
Kids are trapped right now. Unless somebody like Bernie steps in they're going to get crushed under the load. Same as most do in China and India and most of the world. It's a nasty race to the bottom.
Something I wish we could get folks to understand. The best law in the world is useless without enforcement. Here in Arizona we've got labor laws but the dept of labor is unstaffed (not understaffed, it's just not staffed). The right wing long since learned that trick, pity nobody else did...
and they used a massive, decades (centuries?) long campaign of voter suppression to do it (did you know voting increases your odds of Jury duty? Every poor person I've ever met does).
by increases in foreign students. Many of these aren't actually students. They're here working full time jobs and with companies using student visas an paid internships as backdoors to get around visa limitations.
Moreover, college has a 60 % drop out rate (Citation). Kids can make it through the first year or two by working full time, borrowing money and hitting up mom or dad (that's an 'or' for most of them, bad economies break families up). But not a lot of them can keep up with that. Most college counselors will tell you to take a hike if they find out you're working even part time after year two. There's not enough spots in the 300+ level courses. They don't want to spend time on a kid they know isn't going to make it, and nobody wants to spend their tax dollars on those lazy little buggers anyway.
The education system isn't failing these kids. It's just taking a measure of how society as a whole abandoned them to their (very miserable) fate. It was always like this. There was no 'golden age' where this wasn't the reality. The difference is we're testing these kids now up through year 2 college and as a result we can not longer pretend that we as a society are not failing them...
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and extract Tribute like we did from Iraq. The people that starve won't be the folks that put Trump in power...
fake it till you make it. There was a time not too long ago that their hate-based fantasies were reality. Many of them look back to a time when they had higher social status and several economic advantages. When people talk about white privilege that is what they mean.
Trump proves the clock can be turned back. It doesn't even take that much. All it took to put Trump and a whole bunch of alt-right into power was apathy on the part of Blacks and Latinos who couldn't get excited over Clinton like they did for Obama...
China's not slowing down, and baring a miracle Trump will put the US back into coal in a big way.
answered the question "why not both". Because then you couldn't pull this kind of shenanigans...
she won the popular vote by ~2 million, right? You also know what voter suppression is and that only 50% turned out, right?
Check what your house is made of (glass) before throwing stones please.
ok, I'll admit I'm a bit of a libtard troll. I make a bit of a game out of it. But I do actually believe everything I type, and I've noticed a libtard post that used to get me a guaranteed +5 insightful will shoot up and then get modded down to -1 troll.
/. it'd be one thing but when you've got pros doing it full time they're canvassing the web. /. is just one stop on their daily routine.
I'll just come out and say it: I think we've got professional trolls (Russian? Doesn't matter really) pushing a right wing nationalist agenda to destabilize our country. If they were just targeting
and challenges the election. Trump looks like Bush jr x 100 to me. Here's hoping we learned our lesson and fight this time...
they're mostly looking to stop wars and shore up the economy. They'll still be lots of giveaways to the 1%, but Americans are mostly OK with that. What you'd mostly see out of a Democratic majority is Single payer health care, a smidge more immigration (Repubs are still very pro-immigration because they want that sweet, sweet cheap and pre-trained labor), legal abortion and (maybe) legal pot.
Basically they're going to run a right of center country with little bits of progress here and there. Exactly what you woulda got if Hillary had been elected.
but after that we can hamstring him with a Democratic congress (don't forget to vote in your primaries or you'll get Blue Dogs).
And barring a war he's a 1 term president with 8 years of democrats to follow. That'll stop the bleeding. If you want the damage undone then you'll need to give the Dems a super majority in the senate and probably some state legislatures.
that's what put Trump in the Whitehouse. Voter suppression + Shenanigans got us Trump. More, nothing less. Blacks are 6 times more likely to wait more than an hour to vote than whites (look it up). That's not an accident. It's also no accident that folks convicted of a crime can't vote even after paying their debt to society or that registering to Vote gets you Jury duty (a death sentence to 66% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck).
because when it doesn't happen (or it does and our free speech policies make it pretty obvious they're dumping chemicals into drinking water and air like they do in China) it'll blow up.
The only thing that scares me is this: without a war Trump is a one term president. And he's already lining up Syria and Iran...
the left need their own Fox News. If MSNBC was 1/3 what Fox was this would be on air and on their site non-stop for the next 4 years. That said I don't think Liberals can support a Fox News equivalent. Go watch Fox sometime, and watch the adverts the come on. Every single one is a scam of some kind or another. The left don't have a base that can support that kind of shenanigans.
to their will doesn't make it so. I'm really getting tired of liberals being dismissive of the power and organizational skills that regressives (I refuse to call them "Conservative", they're not. Spade a Spade).
Shit like this is how we got Brexit & Trump. Just keep looking down on them and don't make any attempt to understand why they do what they do. They'll continue to route around you and take over via the tyranny of the minority.
I'm not a "precious little snowflake". So go f' yourself. I have legitimate reasons to fear Trump, to wit:
.com bust as companies bring trillions of dollars back to the USA in the wake of Trump tax cuts letting them off scott free and promptly embark on the biggest Merchants & Acquisitions buying spree in history. Oh, and look forward to prices skyrocketing as competition basically ends.
1. Repeal ACA. I have friends who depend on the medicare expansion to live. One's a Type-1 diabetic who until Obamacare didn't have enough insulin. Almost died a few times. He's 8 years older now and probably gonna die the next time.
2. End of Roe v Wade. My daughter has several congenital problems that might some day necessitate an abortion. Mike Pence would rather see her flown into God's embrace than risk the sin that is Abortion. Yeah, I'm being flippant by putting it that way, but it doesn't make it less true.
3. Cash repatriation. Got a job? Got friends with jobs? Prepare for the biggest round of layoffs since the
I could go on and on. Trump supporters who aren't millionaires are all fucked, and they've dragged me and my family and friends along for the ride. If you see a train coming your way and you can't get out of the way because of a gaggle of morons any sane person would react with fear.
And given the percentage of Americans who identify as Christian I'd assume we'd have all these problems knocked out by the Churches.
Yeah, I'm being an ass. Nobody likes to be reminded that people aren't really charitable. This is one of the reasons I'm a socialist. You can't have a functioning civilization based on people's niceness. It's too easily for a few assholes to put us all at each others throats. You can't give people the option to support decent human civilization. They'll trade it all in for a nice pool in their back yard and maybe a manservant or two.
my kid uses it as an always on instant social network with her friends. It's what keeps her on the iPhone. She wanted a Galaxy S7 last time she got a new phone but iMessage kept her on the iTredmill. Vendor lock-in for the win.
jokes aside that Karl Rove process of accusing somebody of stuff you yourself do has been something the Dems have never learned to deal with let alone use to their own advantage.
/. for any one of the dozens of stories about Diebold voting machines.
We've known for years that the Republicans cheat during elections. It's easy because they had the money to take over the state and local legislatures where that sort of thing is done. Just search
Dems have to win elections by such wide margins that the right wing shenanigans get drowned out. This is why the Republicans shout the loudest about voter fraud. Hilary didn't just win the popular vote, she won it by 1.7 million votes and counting. It's extremely likely Trump, like Bush jr before him, lost this election.
As someone utterly terrified by a Trump presidency and the damage it's going to do I say she goes for it. The point isn't to win, it's to bog down the Trump administration to limit the damage he can do. The Repubs did it to Obama (though I'd argue Obama was actually trying to Govern where Trump is just the world's largest scam). As the saying goes, this is how the sausage is made.
but Computer Science is basically just applied mathematics. There were lots of textbooks to follow. Now that said, both of these women were much, much smarter than me :).
minus the ACA that was keeping my type-1 diabetic friend alive. Thanks America.
you'll fall behind. You're forgetting that employees have a shelf life, and that with declining wages you need to be moving up or you're moving down. This isn't the post WWII 1950s job market (for white males). Stuffs changed. Nobody gives a damn about your life experience. They'll look at the 10 years you spent trying to get through college and pass you by for promotions. Meanwhile you won't be able to afford to buy a house, which is how the working class build wealth in this country. You're pretty much boned.
Kids are trapped right now. Unless somebody like Bernie steps in they're going to get crushed under the load. Same as most do in China and India and most of the world. It's a nasty race to the bottom.
Something I wish we could get folks to understand. The best law in the world is useless without enforcement. Here in Arizona we've got labor laws but the dept of labor is unstaffed (not understaffed, it's just not staffed). The right wing long since learned that trick, pity nobody else did...
and they used a massive, decades (centuries?) long campaign of voter suppression to do it (did you know voting increases your odds of Jury duty? Every poor person I've ever met does).
Mod them up so f'n hard. Where are my Mod points when I need 'em.
by increases in foreign students. Many of these aren't actually students. They're here working full time jobs and with companies using student visas an paid internships as backdoors to get around visa limitations.
Moreover, college has a 60 % drop out rate (Citation). Kids can make it through the first year or two by working full time, borrowing money and hitting up mom or dad (that's an 'or' for most of them, bad economies break families up). But not a lot of them can keep up with that. Most college counselors will tell you to take a hike if they find out you're working even part time after year two. There's not enough spots in the 300+ level courses. They don't want to spend time on a kid they know isn't going to make it, and nobody wants to spend their tax dollars on those lazy little buggers anyway.
The education system isn't failing these kids. It's just taking a measure of how society as a whole abandoned them to their (very miserable) fate. It was always like this. There was no 'golden age' where this wasn't the reality. The difference is we're testing these kids now up through year 2 college and as a result we can not longer pretend that we as a society are not failing them...