I know that sounds harsh, so here's somebody way more articulate than I am to explain why the verbiage is appropriate.
Trump & the GOP are testing us. This isn't about the wall, this about ruling by fiat by continuously threatening the security and stability of the United States. We can't let that stand. If we do we become a defacto dictatorship.
and you know it's not. There's no shortage of articles showing the wall is bullshit, that it was a memory trick to get Trump to remember to bang on about immigration, that walls can be tunneled under, climbed over and in the case of "beautify steel slats" cut open with a saw. You know all this. You're trolling.
Thing is, the GOP is trolling all of us. The timing of this shut down was just before the Democrats took over the House. They did this to damage the Democratic party. They're ready to risk the entire US Economy for a political stunt. We should all be mortified, but somehow 40% still think this is a good idea.
What have you got to lose? When the economy weakens your CEO is going to want his stock price to go back up (he takes a pay cut when it dips). That means stock buy backs. That means he needs cash. He's going to lay your ass off. If you're like most/.ers your in your 40s. Good luck finding a job after a layoff like that. The jobs will go to H1-Bs and Millennials. You'll end up in a shit job working graveyard 12s 4 days a week for enough money to pay your mortgage. That's what you've got to lose.
this massively impacts our lives. If this keeps up the economy will tank. Then we're gonna start seeing mass layoffs to boost stock prices.
Politics impact every aspect of your life. This is the "Stuff that matters" part of the tag line. There's a taboo on talking about them because our ruling class would like very much for you and me to leave all that icky government stuff up to them.
Delayed IPO? Great Depression 2.0
New Drug? Snake Oil.
Tax Payments? They already have your money, you won't get your refund.
Airport Security? 9/11 2.0
The FDA isn't inspecting food right now. If this keeps up sooner or later we're gonna have an outbreak. If you have small children they're going to die. Same if you're elderly.
Folks really, really underestimate how important and beneficial the government is. That's because most of the time you're dealing with Government in your personal life it's taxes, tickets or the DMV.
is it makes folks think about a recurring charge they might have forgotten about. I'm probably going to cancel my DVD plan as I barely use it and it's going up to $16/mo, but I'd more or less forgotten it because it was really there for the rest of my family. I checked, they're not using it either, so away it goes, but what prompted me to check it was the last price hike.
you've completely misread my point to make a straw man (e.g. you're attacking my supposed defense of people who support the equal pay movement when I've done the opposite, I've attack the movement as nonsensical).
Yes, there are some rubes on the left who have fell for the equal pay garbage. Even Bernie Sanders gets into it. People on my side can be wrong. You'll note that Bernie doesn't bang on about it much. It gets a passing mention. His main goal right now is and has been Medicare for All and a living wage. So he gets my vote.
Now, if you want to talk about folks using identity politics to divide and conquer, that's your "Clinton" Democrats or "New" Democrats (as they like to call themselves). That's your Pelosis and your Chuck Schumers. Those folks suck and can go to hell.
But I don't care that they're Democrats. That doesn't matter. What matters is always, always, _always_ policy. The Clinton Dems are on the right wing. Doesn't matter if they've got a D next to their name, they're pro-corporate, anti-worker right wingers. That's what matters. They oppose me and mine. I've got friends with medical conditions they woulda let die. I am not nor have I ever defended their policy views. I might swallow my bile to vote for one (I voted for Clinton herself) because I'm not a child and there really _is_ such a thing as the lessor of two evils, but that doesn't mean I support or defend them.
Stop putting words in my mouth and wake up. You're being used by the American ruling class governing from the right wing. They'll eat you alive. If you happen to die before they do they'll eat your friends and family. The only way to win with them is to be one of them (and if you're posting on/. you're probably not) or to die with no friends and no family left behind. That's not a life fit for anyone...
Americans are making 20% less than they used to (article says "Millennials" but I don't know about you but I took a paycut when the economy crashed in 2008).
Men and Women are now fighting among ourselves over 1-3% (a percentage that might just be due to men not taking time off for child rearing) while the ruling class is laughing all the way to the bank with that 20%.
This has been modus operandi for centuries: wedge issues. You find something to divide the working class into manageable chunks. Race, creed, sex. Hell, when the Japanese couldn't do it with race because they were all Japanese they made up classes based on jobs and kept books of them by name.
Don't fall for it. Demand better pay for all workers. Support the push for higher minimum wage. Vote in your primary for pro-Union, pro-worker candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. Demand all workers get healthcare that isn't tied to your job so you can switch jobs at will.
We've got bigger fish to fry than this. Don't get into the trenches with your fellow workers fighting while the rich laugh at you
you can't get away with a lot of the crap you used to. 50 years ago the fires wouldn't have been so bad and they would have gotten away with it. The next company that replaces them (probably the same folks just reincorporated, hooray) will have to actually maintain that infrastructure, which is an added expense.
The thing about climate change is it's changing how we live and work in lot of way. Mostly though it's just adding expense and making life more difficult. Plus the global economy's already pretty crap for the working class, so it's not like it'd take much to push it over the edge into permanent recession.
that's where the real power is. What the politicians and when they get scared. There's only one thing that frightens them: being primaried. AOC shows us it can work, but you've got to be there.
Also, and I keep saying this when voting comes up (or I'm just pissed at politics): vote for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. Right now that means Democrats, because these guys are the only ones I know of who make it a point to refuse corporate PAC money. I don't know any equivalent on the GOP side.
Finally, I think we're pretty much stuck with left wing politics if we want to solve these problems. At a minimum Universal Healthcare and Universal College. We need a healthy, well educated population, and to be blunt right now the right wing (whether they call themselves Dems or GOPpers) opposes those things.
and sifting through crap you and I would find abhorrent for the sake of reporting and chronicling things is what she does for a living? She might, for example, be searching for a point in all that hate.
I've been trying to figure out why folks are so obsessed with SJWism lately. It's treated as a major crisis online on par with our economy, education, global warming and the US Healthcare system. A few angry feminists with little or no political power doesn't seem to be a good focal point for a movement when 45,000 Americans will die this year from preventable illness and by all accounts our economy is on it's way to a recession. Nevermind that we've been at war with Afghanistan for almost as long as my kid's been alive.
If you want to understand something you're going to have to dig into it. A lot of what I get out of the Incel crowd is pretty abhorrent, but I'd like to think there's something to their frustrations & misplaced rage than simply being nasty, mean spirited people. And to get anywhere you have to listen to them. Yes. there have been cases of men abused by feminazis. Based on the stats I think there's about 10,000 false rape accusations a year, which is scary (it might be scarier that there's somewhere in the ballpark of 800,000 rapes per year of that 10,000 # is accurate....).
If you're going to try and fix somebody's complaint you have to try to understand it. Few go through life full of rage because they want to. If we can get a bead on why and tackle root causes in a way that's beneficial for all that's the right thing to do.
If you're a journalist or writer you're on the front lines of that. What you're hearing from her is the journalists equivalent of a solider complaining about war. Nothing wrong with that.
and our Military. And our CIA. And our ruling class. This has been going on that I know of since the early 1900s with a big push in the 80s under Reagan. Even Obama looked the other way while we did it terrible thing around the globe to secure cheap oil and general corporate interests. Meanwhile we all look the other way.
What pisses me off the most is we go down south, destabilize the region, a bunch of actual refugees fleeing violence come up here not "seeking a better life" but seeking to escape the violence we caused and then they're used as a political prop by the same folks who caused the violence in the first place.
This shouldn't work. It shouldn't be this easy to cow an entire population. We should be pissed at what our ruling class is doing and we should be at the polls stopping them. But in all my life we haven't done jack shit.
Seriously? I know the anti-SJWism is strong on this forum, but no, nobody outside of a few YouTuber's looking for the next big controversy to rile their fanbase up with and solicit Patreon donations with even noticed they got a heart throb to play Aquaman (which is the extent of the "marketing" towards women).
I mean, the first Thor movie was pretty crap and there were't any death threats there. And don't you tell me it's anti male because there's a strong female lead in it. Go read the bloody comics. Aquaman's wife is a fucking bad ass and has been since the late 70s (not sure before then, didn't follow that era). You wanna piss off Aquaman fans (both of us)? Go make a male power fantasy where his wife needs a savin'.
to indicate he could be trusted with a by the book movie. He just doesn't have enough experience directing large projects. It's weird. Abrams I get. He had a ton of big, successful movies under his belt (that I hated, but that's just me).
but for the vast majority of us it just didn't matter.
Rey didn't make those actions scenes a confused, laughable mess where people throw out attacks for no good reason, Rian Johnson did. The same goes for making Luke a depressed, whinny old goat.
Of course they want the old fans. The movie is chock full of fan service, so much that it crowds out the story. Rey is trying so hard to be Luke and Luke to be Obi-wan. That's not virtue signalling, that's bad story telling.
SJWism is annoying, but it's not the world ending event folks make it out to be. Take the couple of SJWish things out of the movie and you've still got a bad movie. Not because the people involved were busy virtue signaling, but because they're just not very good at making movies.
from other movies. It's basically Lensmen, the 7 Samurai with a bit of WWII dogfighting thrown in. And the Last Jedi Still cleared $1.3 _billion_ on a $300 million dollar budge. Even if they spent twice that promoting it they still made $600 million.
The reports of it's death are greatly exaggerated.
it was just plain a bad movie. The character motivations didn't make sense, the fight scenes were poorly choreographed and there was no character arc like in originals or even the prequels. It was just bad film making.
No idea why they gave it to Johnson. Is he Hollywood Royalty or something? His filmography is sparse. I can't imagine him being handed the keys to the kingdom on one of the largest franchises ever with Looper under his belt and damn near nothing else.
It's pretty clear what happened to. They started doing the Solo kids story, Johnson decided he wanted it to be "his" thing and not just an existing story so he changed it all at the last moment and didn't have time to make it work with his limited skillset.
with a good tape. There were a ton of advanced tape technologies at the end of it's life cycle, see here for a Youtube Channel that covers a lot of them.
Poorly mastered CDs sound flat and dull, especially for Rock music & Metal. That's less and less a problem, but I could see why some audiophiles would want tape. It's a different sound. Kinda like bands that play on shit instruments (especially guitars) because better stuff doesn't sound right.
Reminds me of one of my favorite music jokes (forgive me, I heard this second hand as my bro's a musician, so I'm gonna screw it up a bit): a bunch of guitar manufacturers were at a round table for a guitar convention. They were all talking about the fancy woods they use and one of them (I think Danelectro) came up and said "We only use the finest old growth Masonite!".:).
If they've gotten the kinks with their automation processes worked out yeah, that'll work. It's 7%, so it wouldn't surprise me either. That's a small enough (and specific enough) number that I could believe they fixed one of their broken automation processes.
We should probably start figuring out what we're gonna do with all the folks laid off. Assuming this works out then if Tesla can do it the other car companies can. Oh well, guess all those laid off blue collar guys can go be HVAC & Welders...
See here. US' healthcare system is crazy bad. It's rife with inefficiencies. Google the phrase "Wallet Biopsy" sometime too while you're at it.
Other countries send everyone to college just fine. If anything we could use a few people hitting the economy later.
The Green New Deal is _supposed_ to be a money sink. The New Deal was a jobs program. The fact that we get clean air and maybe less climate change is just a cherry on the cake.
The tax system can't be simplified. As soon as you try there are loop holes, so you write laws to close the loop holes and it gets complicated fast. Making the ruling class pay for the civilization they enjoy is just a complicated process, there's no getting around it. Flat taxes just become regressive. They're a dodge by the rich to avoid paying. Don't fall for it.
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I know that sounds harsh, so here's somebody way more articulate than I am to explain why the verbiage is appropriate.
Trump & the GOP are testing us. This isn't about the wall, this about ruling by fiat by continuously threatening the security and stability of the United States. We can't let that stand. If we do we become a defacto dictatorship.
and you know it's not. There's no shortage of articles showing the wall is bullshit, that it was a memory trick to get Trump to remember to bang on about immigration, that walls can be tunneled under, climbed over and in the case of "beautify steel slats" cut open with a saw. You know all this. You're trolling.
/.ers your in your 40s. Good luck finding a job after a layoff like that. The jobs will go to H1-Bs and Millennials. You'll end up in a shit job working graveyard 12s 4 days a week for enough money to pay your mortgage. That's what you've got to lose.
Thing is, the GOP is trolling all of us. The timing of this shut down was just before the Democrats took over the House. They did this to damage the Democratic party. They're ready to risk the entire US Economy for a political stunt. We should all be mortified, but somehow 40% still think this is a good idea.
What have you got to lose? When the economy weakens your CEO is going to want his stock price to go back up (he takes a pay cut when it dips). That means stock buy backs. That means he needs cash. He's going to lay your ass off. If you're like most
this massively impacts our lives. If this keeps up the economy will tank. Then we're gonna start seeing mass layoffs to boost stock prices.
Politics impact every aspect of your life. This is the "Stuff that matters" part of the tag line. There's a taboo on talking about them because our ruling class would like very much for you and me to leave all that icky government stuff up to them.
and you won't like the results.
Delayed IPO? Great Depression 2.0 New Drug? Snake Oil. Tax Payments? They already have your money, you won't get your refund. Airport Security? 9/11 2.0
The FDA isn't inspecting food right now. If this keeps up sooner or later we're gonna have an outbreak. If you have small children they're going to die. Same if you're elderly.
Folks really, really underestimate how important and beneficial the government is. That's because most of the time you're dealing with Government in your personal life it's taxes, tickets or the DMV.
is it makes folks think about a recurring charge they might have forgotten about. I'm probably going to cancel my DVD plan as I barely use it and it's going up to $16/mo, but I'd more or less forgotten it because it was really there for the rest of my family. I checked, they're not using it either, so away it goes, but what prompted me to check it was the last price hike.
you've completely misread my point to make a straw man (e.g. you're attacking my supposed defense of people who support the equal pay movement when I've done the opposite, I've attack the movement as nonsensical).
/. you're probably not) or to die with no friends and no family left behind. That's not a life fit for anyone...
Yes, there are some rubes on the left who have fell for the equal pay garbage. Even Bernie Sanders gets into it. People on my side can be wrong. You'll note that Bernie doesn't bang on about it much. It gets a passing mention. His main goal right now is and has been Medicare for All and a living wage. So he gets my vote.
Now, if you want to talk about folks using identity politics to divide and conquer, that's your "Clinton" Democrats or "New" Democrats (as they like to call themselves). That's your Pelosis and your Chuck Schumers. Those folks suck and can go to hell.
But I don't care that they're Democrats. That doesn't matter. What matters is always, always, _always_ policy. The Clinton Dems are on the right wing. Doesn't matter if they've got a D next to their name, they're pro-corporate, anti-worker right wingers. That's what matters. They oppose me and mine. I've got friends with medical conditions they woulda let die. I am not nor have I ever defended their policy views. I might swallow my bile to vote for one (I voted for Clinton herself) because I'm not a child and there really _is_ such a thing as the lessor of two evils, but that doesn't mean I support or defend them.
Stop putting words in my mouth and wake up. You're being used by the American ruling class governing from the right wing. They'll eat you alive. If you happen to die before they do they'll eat your friends and family. The only way to win with them is to be one of them (and if you're posting on
Americans are making 20% less than they used to (article says "Millennials" but I don't know about you but I took a paycut when the economy crashed in 2008).
Men and Women are now fighting among ourselves over 1-3% (a percentage that might just be due to men not taking time off for child rearing) while the ruling class is laughing all the way to the bank with that 20%.
This has been modus operandi for centuries: wedge issues. You find something to divide the working class into manageable chunks. Race, creed, sex. Hell, when the Japanese couldn't do it with race because they were all Japanese they made up classes based on jobs and kept books of them by name.
Don't fall for it. Demand better pay for all workers. Support the push for higher minimum wage. Vote in your primary for pro-Union, pro-worker candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. Demand all workers get healthcare that isn't tied to your job so you can switch jobs at will.
We've got bigger fish to fry than this. Don't get into the trenches with your fellow workers fighting while the rich laugh at you
universal services.
you can't get away with a lot of the crap you used to. 50 years ago the fires wouldn't have been so bad and they would have gotten away with it. The next company that replaces them (probably the same folks just reincorporated, hooray) will have to actually maintain that infrastructure, which is an added expense.
The thing about climate change is it's changing how we live and work in lot of way. Mostly though it's just adding expense and making life more difficult. Plus the global economy's already pretty crap for the working class, so it's not like it'd take much to push it over the edge into permanent recession.
because he was just competent enough to finish the film on time and he didn't ask for much money? Now _that_ would kill a franchise alright...
that's where the real power is. What the politicians and when they get scared. There's only one thing that frightens them: being primaried. AOC shows us it can work, but you've got to be there.
Also, and I keep saying this when voting comes up (or I'm just pissed at politics): vote for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. Right now that means Democrats, because these guys are the only ones I know of who make it a point to refuse corporate PAC money. I don't know any equivalent on the GOP side.
Finally, I think we're pretty much stuck with left wing politics if we want to solve these problems. At a minimum Universal Healthcare and Universal College. We need a healthy, well educated population, and to be blunt right now the right wing (whether they call themselves Dems or GOPpers) opposes those things.
and sifting through crap you and I would find abhorrent for the sake of reporting and chronicling things is what she does for a living? She might, for example, be searching for a point in all that hate.
I've been trying to figure out why folks are so obsessed with SJWism lately. It's treated as a major crisis online on par with our economy, education, global warming and the US Healthcare system. A few angry feminists with little or no political power doesn't seem to be a good focal point for a movement when 45,000 Americans will die this year from preventable illness and by all accounts our economy is on it's way to a recession. Nevermind that we've been at war with Afghanistan for almost as long as my kid's been alive.
If you want to understand something you're going to have to dig into it. A lot of what I get out of the Incel crowd is pretty abhorrent, but I'd like to think there's something to their frustrations & misplaced rage than simply being nasty, mean spirited people. And to get anywhere you have to listen to them. Yes. there have been cases of men abused by feminazis. Based on the stats I think there's about 10,000 false rape accusations a year, which is scary (it might be scarier that there's somewhere in the ballpark of 800,000 rapes per year of that 10,000 # is accurate....).
If you're going to try and fix somebody's complaint you have to try to understand it. Few go through life full of rage because they want to. If we can get a bead on why and tackle root causes in a way that's beneficial for all that's the right thing to do.
If you're a journalist or writer you're on the front lines of that. What you're hearing from her is the journalists equivalent of a solider complaining about war. Nothing wrong with that.
and our Military. And our CIA. And our ruling class. This has been going on that I know of since the early 1900s with a big push in the 80s under Reagan. Even Obama looked the other way while we did it terrible thing around the globe to secure cheap oil and general corporate interests. Meanwhile we all look the other way.
What pisses me off the most is we go down south, destabilize the region, a bunch of actual refugees fleeing violence come up here not "seeking a better life" but seeking to escape the violence we caused and then they're used as a political prop by the same folks who caused the violence in the first place.
This shouldn't work. It shouldn't be this easy to cow an entire population. We should be pissed at what our ruling class is doing and we should be at the polls stopping them. But in all my life we haven't done jack shit.
Seriously? I know the anti-SJWism is strong on this forum, but no, nobody outside of a few YouTuber's looking for the next big controversy to rile their fanbase up with and solicit Patreon donations with even noticed they got a heart throb to play Aquaman (which is the extent of the "marketing" towards women).
I mean, the first Thor movie was pretty crap and there were't any death threats there. And don't you tell me it's anti male because there's a strong female lead in it. Go read the bloody comics. Aquaman's wife is a fucking bad ass and has been since the late 70s (not sure before then, didn't follow that era). You wanna piss off Aquaman fans (both of us)? Go make a male power fantasy where his wife needs a savin'.
to indicate he could be trusted with a by the book movie. He just doesn't have enough experience directing large projects. It's weird. Abrams I get. He had a ton of big, successful movies under his belt (that I hated, but that's just me).
but for the vast majority of us it just didn't matter.
Rey didn't make those actions scenes a confused, laughable mess where people throw out attacks for no good reason, Rian Johnson did. The same goes for making Luke a depressed, whinny old goat.
Of course they want the old fans. The movie is chock full of fan service, so much that it crowds out the story. Rey is trying so hard to be Luke and Luke to be Obi-wan. That's not virtue signalling, that's bad story telling.
SJWism is annoying, but it's not the world ending event folks make it out to be. Take the couple of SJWish things out of the movie and you've still got a bad movie. Not because the people involved were busy virtue signaling, but because they're just not very good at making movies.
from other movies. It's basically Lensmen, the 7 Samurai with a bit of WWII dogfighting thrown in. And the Last Jedi Still cleared $1.3 _billion_ on a $300 million dollar budge. Even if they spent twice that promoting it they still made $600 million.
The reports of it's death are greatly exaggerated.
it was just plain a bad movie. The character motivations didn't make sense, the fight scenes were poorly choreographed and there was no character arc like in originals or even the prequels. It was just bad film making.
No idea why they gave it to Johnson. Is he Hollywood Royalty or something? His filmography is sparse. I can't imagine him being handed the keys to the kingdom on one of the largest franchises ever with Looper under his belt and damn near nothing else.
It's pretty clear what happened to. They started doing the Solo kids story, Johnson decided he wanted it to be "his" thing and not just an existing story so he changed it all at the last moment and didn't have time to make it work with his limited skillset.
nothing more, nothing less. American corporate interests were tired of paying American Union wages.
they're a Kleptocracy at best. Their "president" just gave himself more or less unlimited power. You can't really ask them what they want.
Thing is the world's turned a blind eye to China abusing it's people for the sake of cheap consumer goods since Nixon. Not sure why we care now.
with a good tape. There were a ton of advanced tape technologies at the end of it's life cycle, see here for a Youtube Channel that covers a lot of them.
:).
Poorly mastered CDs sound flat and dull, especially for Rock music & Metal. That's less and less a problem, but I could see why some audiophiles would want tape. It's a different sound. Kinda like bands that play on shit instruments (especially guitars) because better stuff doesn't sound right.
Reminds me of one of my favorite music jokes (forgive me, I heard this second hand as my bro's a musician, so I'm gonna screw it up a bit): a bunch of guitar manufacturers were at a round table for a guitar convention. They were all talking about the fancy woods they use and one of them (I think Danelectro) came up and said "We only use the finest old growth Masonite!".
and boost production?
If they've gotten the kinks with their automation processes worked out yeah, that'll work. It's 7%, so it wouldn't surprise me either. That's a small enough (and specific enough) number that I could believe they fixed one of their broken automation processes.
We should probably start figuring out what we're gonna do with all the folks laid off. Assuming this works out then if Tesla can do it the other car companies can. Oh well, guess all those laid off blue collar guys can go be HVAC & Welders...
See here. US' healthcare system is crazy bad. It's rife with inefficiencies. Google the phrase "Wallet Biopsy" sometime too while you're at it.
Other countries send everyone to college just fine. If anything we could use a few people hitting the economy later.
The Green New Deal is _supposed_ to be a money sink. The New Deal was a jobs program. The fact that we get clean air and maybe less climate change is just a cherry on the cake.
The tax system can't be simplified. As soon as you try there are loop holes, so you write laws to close the loop holes and it gets complicated fast. Making the ruling class pay for the civilization they enjoy is just a complicated process, there's no getting around it. Flat taxes just become regressive. They're a dodge by the rich to avoid paying. Don't fall for it.
from buying houses for just this reason. Not sure how well it'll work (I could see them using shill companies) but it's a good first step.
they are well aware of biases and the like and have detailed methods for weighting them and accounting for them. They were pretty spot on in general.