Geeks don't have the same craving for power that a Generalissimo has. They also lack the Charisma to get any support, and one geek on his own can't maintain an army of kill bots. At least not yet.
and so far his approval rating hasn't budged. What killed Nixon was the voters turned on him and would have ended the Republicans if he wasn't impeached.
Trump's got a cult of personality. It doesn't matter what he does or even what he says. It's how he says it. His mannerisms fill people with hope and confidence. They love him.
Look for politicians who don't take corporate PAC money and who, when interviewed, talk about specific policies and not fluffy nonsense like "Make America Great Again".
So that working men and women don't have time to vote. The point is chaos at the polls among the lower working class. It's cheating. They win by cheating, and we keep pretending that makes us a democracy.
he won after all. And his party held onto the Senate, paving the way fro Trump to fire Sessions. This is what winning at any cost means.
My question is will the voters keep going along with it. So far it looks like the answer is yes. If that's the case I'm hoping to die before we go full on authoritarian and that my kid gets to move to Canada. I'm not being hyperbolic anymore. This timeline sucks.
the purpose of Daylight savings was to give people more shopping hours. Retailers like it because folks shop less when the sun goes down. We've basically massively inconvenienced ourselves so that sales don't dip a bit in the winter.
automated kill bots would be my #1 priority. Throughout history the one thing that has consistently challenged my rule has been the military I use to keep power. Specifically charismatic leaders I needed to whip the troops into the kind of frenzy they need to die for me.
Kill bots let me do away that problem. Now all I need is a couple of geeky engineers to run my military and oppress everybody else. Mix in automated factories for making my stuff and I don't even need consumers. I can just own everything and use the ownership to decide who lives and who dies, giving me ultimate power.
And as a member of the ruling class, what else is there for me?
we've had Genocides for thousands of years. Every holy book you care to name is full of them. Every history has a few. They're common.
What leads to genocide is poverty. People turn to genocide to cull the herd. The Nazis were the most obvious example. Here's a good video describing Nazi ideology and it's practical applications. The TL;DR is that while it was expensive to exterminate the Jews it was advantages because they got to pocket their wealth (Close to $300 billion in today's money) and they could divert food resources to feed their soldiers. The Russians did the same. And Human Sacrifice was much the same thing too.
If you want to stop genocide the solution is to keep everyone fed and economically secure. People turn on each other out of desperation and the leadership allow it to maintain order by reducing surplus population. Poverty causes genocide. Not technology.
it's a constant battle to keep the aristocracy from taking everything for themselves. They never get tired and they never run out of greed. It's not about money, it's about power. The last thing the ruling class wants is a working class that has plenty of food, shelter and medicine. They use the threat of losing those things to control us. Keep us at each other's throats. In the process we do everything they want and give them everything they want. They live like God's among men.
LAHSA also found, but did not publish, that the percentage of homeless people who were housed in Los Angeles County when they became homeless increased to 84 percent
You can find plenty more to disprove that myth on google.
That's the problem with reality, it doesn't work the way people think.
Basically, it's an excuse for the cops to pull you over and ask questions when you're not doing anything wrong. Heck, if anything it's a good sign that the Chinese are resorting to this kind of mumbo jumbo. It shows their people are starting to become conscience of the notion of civil rights.
to consumers as price increases is just that, a myth. It's a common right wing talking point used to discourage employees from asking for a raise. If it was true we'd never made it out of the Gilded Age or progressed at all as a civilization.
As long as productivity per work (measured by raw goods produced, not by dollars, be careful there or paper money will make it look like your productivity is worse than it really is) you can raise rages without price increases. Automation in the last 20 years has massively boosted productivity. America produces twice as much manufacturing output with 1/3 less employees. But all of that went to the top 1%. They then used that increased wealth to buy out all their competitors. Not only did this let them raise prices (less competition) but lower wages (if 7 companies own everything that means they also employee everyone.)
America is becoming the larges company store in human history.
those catalogs are expensive but with how much history they have they'll know exactly who to mail it to. And with Sears and Toys-R-Us dead they'll clean up this year. Walmart barely even has toys these days. There's one small isle for boys, one for girls and one for the little kids.
If everyone has enough money to buy food, housing, transportation that wouldn't make your wealth any less valuable.
OTOH it would diminish your power. For example, when you show up at a strip club with a wad of $20 dollar bills those girls aren't glomping on to you for your good looks for winning personality. Give those girls UBI and a lot of them wouldn't bother becoming strippers; and they'd never give you the time of day.
Anyway nursing homes are only for the elderly, and even then the ones that don't cost $5k+/mo are underfunded. Don't count on one if you get dementia.
The rest of those institutions will only house you if you're an active danger to yourself or people around you. You know that joke about "I cut myself to feel alive"? It comes from mentally ill people cutting themselves to show self harm so that they can be admitted to a loony bin long enough for an attack to safely pass. When I say "active danger" I don't mean suicidal thoughts, I mean you have to be actively trying to kill yourself. Until then you're on your own.
most of them are mentally ill, assuming you're not going to shove them into ovens (I noticed you used "Soylent Green" instead of the oven solution). The problems they cause cost more than just taking care of them. It's cheaper to feed them in shelters than prisons.
They have drug problems because in the absence of medical care they turn to illegal drugs to cope with their illness. You don't have to worry about them all heading to California. The ones that are sane enough already have because the lack of shelter makes it hard to live back east where winter can and will kill you.
Also, I know we shouldn't complain about the Mods, but come on here. Are we really so far gone as a country that somebody advocating, with no hint of irony, that we should kill large numbers of "useless" people while taking a dig against a city trying to help them? Seriously, that's some fucked up shit right there...
the wealthy give to charity because it's cheaper than the tax raises we would impose on them if they didn't distract us with the occasional charitable donation.
And he doesn't need more gov't employees. He can raise the fees charged for his existing corporate welfare. That's how corporate welfare works. Socialism for the rich and dog eat dog capitalism for you and me. You're never gonna take away his socialism. He's too good at getting it. How's about you start asking for some yourself? Maybe start with guaranteed healthcare and college?
I think these are a bigger eye sore than the homeless.
For the record the big uptick in homelessness started under Reagan. He closed the insane asylums. It was part of a libertarian movement that said it was wrong to keep these folks locked up. Of course we didn't provide them any alternative housing or mental healthcare services (since in addition to "freedom" the idea was sold as a way to save money) and, well, predictable results.
California was without power for weeks due to an Earthquake. The Wildfires were the only major disaster they had, and even that was relatively limited in scope. Still sucked, but if you live in a major city it's a non issue. Los Angeles hasn't burned down recently:)
Mega corps have been using Dutch Sandwiches and Irish loop holes to avoid paying their fair share of taxes while enjoying the benefits of a well educated workforce, our police and military protecting them and our infrastructure making them rich (roads, telecom, stock trade, etc).
California has it especially bad. They pay more into the federal coffers than they get out. Meanwhile those mega corps manipulate elections in other states to get special privileges. I see this as a way for California to claw back some of the money they've been paying out.
human beings are very, very inefficient. We're just not very good at doing stuff. We make up for it by banding together as a society to get stuff done. OTOH if you keep chasing the phantom of "efficiency" you'll never get anywhere.
As the saying goes, never let perfect be the enemy of good.
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Geeks don't have the same craving for power that a Generalissimo has. They also lack the Charisma to get any support, and one geek on his own can't maintain an army of kill bots. At least not yet.
and so far his approval rating hasn't budged. What killed Nixon was the voters turned on him and would have ended the Republicans if he wasn't impeached.
Trump's got a cult of personality. It doesn't matter what he does or even what he says. It's how he says it. His mannerisms fill people with hope and confidence. They love him.
here's a bunch of them.
Look for politicians who don't take corporate PAC money and who, when interviewed, talk about specific policies and not fluffy nonsense like "Make America Great Again".
So that working men and women don't have time to vote. The point is chaos at the polls among the lower working class. It's cheating. They win by cheating, and we keep pretending that makes us a democracy.
he won after all. And his party held onto the Senate, paving the way fro Trump to fire Sessions. This is what winning at any cost means.
My question is will the voters keep going along with it. So far it looks like the answer is yes. If that's the case I'm hoping to die before we go full on authoritarian and that my kid gets to move to Canada. I'm not being hyperbolic anymore. This timeline sucks.
the purpose of Daylight savings was to give people more shopping hours. Retailers like it because folks shop less when the sun goes down. We've basically massively inconvenienced ourselves so that sales don't dip a bit in the winter.
automated kill bots would be my #1 priority. Throughout history the one thing that has consistently challenged my rule has been the military I use to keep power. Specifically charismatic leaders I needed to whip the troops into the kind of frenzy they need to die for me.
Kill bots let me do away that problem. Now all I need is a couple of geeky engineers to run my military and oppress everybody else. Mix in automated factories for making my stuff and I don't even need consumers. I can just own everything and use the ownership to decide who lives and who dies, giving me ultimate power.
And as a member of the ruling class, what else is there for me?
we've had Genocides for thousands of years. Every holy book you care to name is full of them. Every history has a few. They're common.
What leads to genocide is poverty. People turn to genocide to cull the herd. The Nazis were the most obvious example. Here's a good video describing Nazi ideology and it's practical applications. The TL;DR is that while it was expensive to exterminate the Jews it was advantages because they got to pocket their wealth (Close to $300 billion in today's money) and they could divert food resources to feed their soldiers. The Russians did the same. And Human Sacrifice was much the same thing too.
If you want to stop genocide the solution is to keep everyone fed and economically secure. People turn on each other out of desperation and the leadership allow it to maintain order by reducing surplus population. Poverty causes genocide. Not technology.
it's a constant battle to keep the aristocracy from taking everything for themselves. They never get tired and they never run out of greed. It's not about money, it's about power. The last thing the ruling class wants is a working class that has plenty of food, shelter and medicine. They use the threat of losing those things to control us. Keep us at each other's throats. In the process we do everything they want and give them everything they want. They live like God's among men.
I have a nearly bezeless phone and it's a major pain. I'm constantly clicking things with the palm of my hand, especially youtube video links.
You can find plenty more to disprove that myth on google.
That's the problem with reality, it doesn't work the way people think.
as Drug sniffing dogs and this gem.
Basically, it's an excuse for the cops to pull you over and ask questions when you're not doing anything wrong. Heck, if anything it's a good sign that the Chinese are resorting to this kind of mumbo jumbo. It shows their people are starting to become conscience of the notion of civil rights.
to consumers as price increases is just that, a myth. It's a common right wing talking point used to discourage employees from asking for a raise. If it was true we'd never made it out of the Gilded Age or progressed at all as a civilization.
As long as productivity per work (measured by raw goods produced, not by dollars, be careful there or paper money will make it look like your productivity is worse than it really is) you can raise rages without price increases. Automation in the last 20 years has massively boosted productivity. America produces twice as much manufacturing output with 1/3 less employees. But all of that went to the top 1%. They then used that increased wealth to buy out all their competitors. Not only did this let them raise prices (less competition) but lower wages (if 7 companies own everything that means they also employee everyone.)
America is becoming the larges company store in human history.
Destiny 2's base game is free until 11/18/18.
those catalogs are expensive but with how much history they have they'll know exactly who to mail it to. And with Sears and Toys-R-Us dead they'll clean up this year. Walmart barely even has toys these days. There's one small isle for boys, one for girls and one for the little kids.
That's not how this works. that's not how any of this works
If everyone has enough money to buy food, housing, transportation that wouldn't make your wealth any less valuable.
OTOH it would diminish your power. For example, when you show up at a strip club with a wad of $20 dollar bills those girls aren't glomping on to you for your good looks for winning personality. Give those girls UBI and a lot of them wouldn't bother becoming strippers; and they'd never give you the time of day.
[insert your own joke about /. here]
Anyway nursing homes are only for the elderly, and even then the ones that don't cost $5k+/mo are underfunded. Don't count on one if you get dementia.
The rest of those institutions will only house you if you're an active danger to yourself or people around you. You know that joke about "I cut myself to feel alive"? It comes from mentally ill people cutting themselves to show self harm so that they can be admitted to a loony bin long enough for an attack to safely pass. When I say "active danger" I don't mean suicidal thoughts, I mean you have to be actively trying to kill yourself. Until then you're on your own.
most of them are mentally ill, assuming you're not going to shove them into ovens (I noticed you used "Soylent Green" instead of the oven solution). The problems they cause cost more than just taking care of them. It's cheaper to feed them in shelters than prisons.
They have drug problems because in the absence of medical care they turn to illegal drugs to cope with their illness. You don't have to worry about them all heading to California. The ones that are sane enough already have because the lack of shelter makes it hard to live back east where winter can and will kill you.
Also, I know we shouldn't complain about the Mods, but come on here. Are we really so far gone as a country that somebody advocating, with no hint of irony, that we should kill large numbers of "useless" people while taking a dig against a city trying to help them? Seriously, that's some fucked up shit right there...
we should deport them?
the wealthy give to charity because it's cheaper than the tax raises we would impose on them if they didn't distract us with the occasional charitable donation.
And he doesn't need more gov't employees. He can raise the fees charged for his existing corporate welfare. That's how corporate welfare works. Socialism for the rich and dog eat dog capitalism for you and me. You're never gonna take away his socialism. He's too good at getting it. How's about you start asking for some yourself? Maybe start with guaranteed healthcare and college?
I think these are a bigger eye sore than the homeless.
For the record the big uptick in homelessness started under Reagan. He closed the insane asylums. It was part of a libertarian movement that said it was wrong to keep these folks locked up. Of course we didn't provide them any alternative housing or mental healthcare services (since in addition to "freedom" the idea was sold as a way to save money) and, well, predictable results.
California was without power for weeks due to an Earthquake. The Wildfires were the only major disaster they had, and even that was relatively limited in scope. Still sucked, but if you live in a major city it's a non issue. Los Angeles hasn't burned down recently :)
and don't do nearly as much damage as what Florida sees every 5-10 years.
Mega corps have been using Dutch Sandwiches and Irish loop holes to avoid paying their fair share of taxes while enjoying the benefits of a well educated workforce, our police and military protecting them and our infrastructure making them rich (roads, telecom, stock trade, etc).
California has it especially bad. They pay more into the federal coffers than they get out. Meanwhile those mega corps manipulate elections in other states to get special privileges. I see this as a way for California to claw back some of the money they've been paying out.
human beings are very, very inefficient. We're just not very good at doing stuff. We make up for it by banding together as a society to get stuff done. OTOH if you keep chasing the phantom of "efficiency" you'll never get anywhere.
As the saying goes, never let perfect be the enemy of good.