and other right wing outlets. They've been caught multiple times suggesting the shooter was an anti-Trump lefty. It's gas lighting. They've been called out on it (Geraldo even backed down) but the people they're speaking to are in a bubble and just hear what they say.
the decides who lives and who dies. 45,000 Americans die every year from treatable illnesses. 20 million folks die globally from hunger and thirst in a world where the only reason they have to die is logistics and getting people to pay for it. We're at war with 8 countries and have been at war for 94% of our life as a country.
Politics isn't a dumb sport, it's what defines ever aspect of your life from cradle to grave.
bunch of pro-establishment right wingers over there. Don't let the occasional bit of left wing social politics fool you. MSNBC is hard right on the stuff that matters (economics). CNN would cover it in a centrists milktoast way that doesn't matter worth a fuck. But the right wing media engine? They'd go ape shit.
the post above is what happens when a lefty rants with the kind of bitter rage usually reserved for the alt-right.
Speaking of rage: I'd be a lot less better if I didn't have so many family members who've had the shit kicked out of them by our crap healthcare system because folks won't stop voting for the GOP when they keep telling you they're gonna end Obamacare with it's protection for preexisting conditions. Jeez, I wish I knew how to reach the electorate. 26% of Americans still believe the GOP is gonna save them even after 60 votes to repeal and Mitch McConnell going around saying he's gonna end social security and Medicare.
shit right about now. Now, Fox & Co are propagandists, so I don't expect even a tiny bit of consistency from them. But I expect a little better from the right wing. There was zero outrage when Trump praised Chinese President Xi for seizing power for life and suggested he'd like to do the same. Again, imagine the shit storm if Obama had done that.
Somebody raised a very good point today. Trump pulled back the FBI from investigating right wing domestic terrorists. We just had a synagogue shot up and a pipe bomber. That is not a coinki-dink. The president responded to this by tweeting about baseball and saying he thought he might miss his rally.... because he was having a bad hair day. That's not "Trump being Trump". That's Trump signaling to the far right that violence is OK.
I'm not gonna try to speak to the alt-righters here because I'm not good enough at it to do anything but piss you off more than you already are. Go watch some Secular Talk or Aron Ra or Bad Mouse Productions on youtube
This message is for the Blacks, Jews and Mexicans who stayed home when it was time to vote for Bernie and did it again when it was time to vote for that bitch Hilary. And it's for the white guys who've got friends in those categories:
I get it. Taxes suck and you don't like being told what to do by smarthy liberals. But if you sit another election out Trump & company are gonna get some signaling themselves. They're gonna figure out that their strategy of riling up the violent alt-right is working. Those people are going to come for you. Because they've got problems. Big ones. And Trump can't solve them. He's not clever enough. To stay in power he's gonna wind them up and send them after you. It's a trick that's thousands of years old and it works.
They're coming for you and you're not going to be safe in your gated communities. Vote. And Vote for whoever has the best chance of taking down Trump and company. Or the violence is going to get worse. A lot worse.
and the last campaign was a little over $1 billion/each. You might get a better deal in the primary. Or you could try voting for people who don't accept bribes.
because they're a corporation. Even without the cord cutters they're going to max out growth, and without growth the CEOs get shit canned and Bain style "Vulture Capitalists" decend on them to gut the company for all it's worth. The solution is to pass laws that decouple CEO pay from Stock price so they're not always chasing short term bumps.
and better radios. That's the only thing that will get me to upgrade. And more speed is not what I want. I get 10 mbps when I get anything. I want a better signal that doesn't drop when I'm in a building or driving the 90 minutes to the next city over where my kid's in college.
In a compensation deal unique to the video-gaming industry, Sam and Dan Houser... will get the bulk of an expected $538 million in royalties Take-Two Interactive Software will pay to all employees for this year
but reading their SEC filings was a great way to tell how much TV & Internet really cost them. Last I check (which to be fair is probably going on 6 years ago) my $78/mo internet was $9/mo. In the interest of maintaining that sense of fairness I'm now paying $99/mo for the same service.
Anyway, anyone done it more recently? I doubt it's changed much.
we've already got the tech to replace coal with wind and solar. We know this because coal is in decline everywhere. If you're an American you know this because it was a major reason we elected Trump president.
It takes time to change the grid over, especially when so many people fight tooth and nail against the taxes that pay for infrastructure spending. Moreover 80% of us live paycheck to paycheck. Climate change is 20 years from now, rent's due tomorrow. I'm fed up with environmentalists who lecture me on global warming but are nowhere to be found when I want a pay raise to cover my increased electric bill. The merchant class has abandoned the working class and they're gonna pay for it.
and once it works people don't do the sane thing and say "Boy, that regulation sure did work" they say "Why did we need those job-killing regulations in the first place".
Deaths are on the decline, but as someone prone to lung cancer (mom dead at 55 from it due to smoking, most men in my family dead of heart attacks in mid to late 50s, and no, I don't smoke and I'm not obese) I'm not focused on statistics, I'm focused on whether my environment is slowly killing me.
But seriously, air pollution sucks. My city had smog days 80% of the time over the summer. That's insane. My mom died of lung cancer from smoking. It's frustrating to think I might do the same even though I don't smoke.
to mean "right wing" is that it's disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst. You have people in favor of radical change using the word to get folks who just want stability under their tent. In the process those people lose the stability they seek when the radicals use the political power gained from those genuine conservatives.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a lefty and a progressive. I think our society should always be improving. But it's hard to get the conservatives to buy into that when the radical right have gotten so good at scaring the bejeebees out of them. If they recognized the radical right for what they are (radicals) worst case the real conservatives would push for stability (which, as a progressive I find preferable to regression; e.g. I voted for Hilary, the ultimate conservative) and it might make it easier to get them to agree to progress.
Seriously, what are you on about? The Unions "targeted" the factory owners demanding higher wages for the workers.
The rich didn't move money anywhere. There was no money, we blew it the fuck up. It took the world decades to recover. In the meantime if anything was getting built it was getting built in America. By American workers.
And that last comment? Now you're just trolling. I mean, couldn't you just end your post with "Freedom is Slavery" or something?
and just give it away. The rest could just go into the general fund. I mean, if we're gonna waste money let's do it the most efficient way. Of course if we did that then 10% of that $3 billion wouldn't have made it into Scott Walker's reelection fund.
the GP's argument is that the money wasn't owed since taxes aren't really "owed" in the sense that you paid for something. Taxes are, to a lot of people, the gov't saying "mine!" to your money.
This is of course bullshit. Foxconn wants roads, and educated workforce, hospitals to treat injuries so that workforce can work, police and fire, water, even food is basically managed by our gov't (folks have no idea how deeply embedded in our food supply the gov't is, we don't leave that up to the markets and haven't since the 30s).
Better to say it this way: Foxconn wants to belong to the nicest and most exclusive club in the world: Civilization. And they don't want to pay their dues. They want you and me to pay them. Fuck Foxconn. I pay, so can they.
and everyone knew it. There were klaxons going off day one. It was painfully obvious that Wisconsin was chosen because their gov't is bought off and hopelessly corrupt. It as a $4 billion dollar give away on a few hundred million in jobs. The other cities saw that and said "Hell No". Under Scott Walker though companies can get away with damn near anything.
we were the only country with a functioning manufacturing base after WWII and the cold war meant companies were scared that if they invested overseas their assets would get seized by the big bad communists. Nixon showed everyone that was bullshit, the middle east gave us a way to keep our endless war machine going and that meant it was open season on offshoring and outsourcing.
You need manufacturing to have a strong economy because you need lots of workers all working together in the same place with the same interests. In other words, Unions. What made the US middle class grow was Unions fought (and died) to pry money out of the hands of the working class. You can't do that at a WalMart, there's just not enough of a concentration. Also, the ruling class got this Union busting down pat.
The one thing that did _not_ make the US a powerhouse is corporate welfare. We had all that during the Robber Baron era and Gilded Age in spades. There was money, but it all belonged to our aristocracy.
This is the main problem I have with capitalism. Not enough information. My bro just took a job that was supposed to be a 12 month contract to hire sys admin job with an emphasis on writing automation scripts. Pay was good so he took it.
Turns out it's just a monitoring gig, 6 month contract that might get extended twice to 18 before they fire him because 18 months is the most you can keep a contractor before the state gov't starts asking questions about taxes. He left a stable job for it because he wanted something that would improve his career. The better pay made it look like it really was a sys admin+light programming job. Now he's gonna waste another 6-18 months in a go nowhere contract.
Now, at CEO level this probably isn't much of an issue. It's a nuisance at best. At my bro's level losing 6-18 months of career building is devastating.
We need more worker protections. The reason other countries make it hard to fire is it makes employees valuable. You put effort into your employees. Same for stopping this "Contract to Hire" bullshit. And we should give _everyone_ unemployment regardless of why they're fired. I don't care of the occasional surfer dude gets lazy and hangs out on unemployment. It's not like it pays much. But right now companies can outright lie to me and mine to get us to take jobs that we think are great but suck, and it's not that easy to just change jobs. It's not a bloody Twinkie.
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he owns everything the Pentagon does. That's what it means to be the Chief Executive.
and other right wing outlets. They've been caught multiple times suggesting the shooter was an anti-Trump lefty. It's gas lighting. They've been called out on it (Geraldo even backed down) but the people they're speaking to are in a bubble and just hear what they say.
the decides who lives and who dies. 45,000 Americans die every year from treatable illnesses. 20 million folks die globally from hunger and thirst in a world where the only reason they have to die is logistics and getting people to pay for it. We're at war with 8 countries and have been at war for 94% of our life as a country.
Politics isn't a dumb sport, it's what defines ever aspect of your life from cradle to grave.
bunch of pro-establishment right wingers over there. Don't let the occasional bit of left wing social politics fool you. MSNBC is hard right on the stuff that matters (economics). CNN would cover it in a centrists milktoast way that doesn't matter worth a fuck. But the right wing media engine? They'd go ape shit.
the post above is what happens when a lefty rants with the kind of bitter rage usually reserved for the alt-right.
Speaking of rage: I'd be a lot less better if I didn't have so many family members who've had the shit kicked out of them by our crap healthcare system because folks won't stop voting for the GOP when they keep telling you they're gonna end Obamacare with it's protection for preexisting conditions. Jeez, I wish I knew how to reach the electorate. 26% of Americans still believe the GOP is gonna save them even after 60 votes to repeal and Mitch McConnell going around saying he's gonna end social security and Medicare.
shit right about now. Now, Fox & Co are propagandists, so I don't expect even a tiny bit of consistency from them. But I expect a little better from the right wing. There was zero outrage when Trump praised Chinese President Xi for seizing power for life and suggested he'd like to do the same. Again, imagine the shit storm if Obama had done that.
Somebody raised a very good point today. Trump pulled back the FBI from investigating right wing domestic terrorists. We just had a synagogue shot up and a pipe bomber. That is not a coinki-dink. The president responded to this by tweeting about baseball and saying he thought he might miss his rally.... because he was having a bad hair day. That's not "Trump being Trump". That's Trump signaling to the far right that violence is OK.
I'm not gonna try to speak to the alt-righters here because I'm not good enough at it to do anything but piss you off more than you already are. Go watch some Secular Talk or Aron Ra or Bad Mouse Productions on youtube
This message is for the Blacks, Jews and Mexicans who stayed home when it was time to vote for Bernie and did it again when it was time to vote for that bitch Hilary. And it's for the white guys who've got friends in those categories:
I get it. Taxes suck and you don't like being told what to do by smarthy liberals. But if you sit another election out Trump & company are gonna get some signaling themselves. They're gonna figure out that their strategy of riling up the violent alt-right is working. Those people are going to come for you. Because they've got problems. Big ones. And Trump can't solve them. He's not clever enough. To stay in power he's gonna wind them up and send them after you. It's a trick that's thousands of years old and it works.
They're coming for you and you're not going to be safe in your gated communities. Vote. And Vote for whoever has the best chance of taking down Trump and company. Or the violence is going to get worse. A lot worse.
so that every ISP exists in a quantum state of crapiness that can be described as "Craptacular" or "Comcastic".
and the last campaign was a little over $1 billion/each. You might get a better deal in the primary. Or you could try voting for people who don't accept bribes.
because they're a corporation. Even without the cord cutters they're going to max out growth, and without growth the CEOs get shit canned and Bain style "Vulture Capitalists" decend on them to gut the company for all it's worth. The solution is to pass laws that decouple CEO pay from Stock price so they're not always chasing short term bumps.
and better radios. That's the only thing that will get me to upgrade. And more speed is not what I want. I get 10 mbps when I get anything. I want a better signal that doesn't drop when I'm in a building or driving the 90 minutes to the next city over where my kid's in college.
Video game makers need to unionize.
but reading their SEC filings was a great way to tell how much TV & Internet really cost them. Last I check (which to be fair is probably going on 6 years ago) my $78/mo internet was $9/mo. In the interest of maintaining that sense of fairness I'm now paying $99/mo for the same service.
Anyway, anyone done it more recently? I doubt it's changed much.
the Ninja Turtles are going to throw in with Mitch McConnell. What I want to know is where does the Shredder stand on today's issues?
For one thing you can't touch the pages. The filament tissue is too delicate.
we've already got the tech to replace coal with wind and solar. We know this because coal is in decline everywhere. If you're an American you know this because it was a major reason we elected Trump president.
It takes time to change the grid over, especially when so many people fight tooth and nail against the taxes that pay for infrastructure spending. Moreover 80% of us live paycheck to paycheck. Climate change is 20 years from now, rent's due tomorrow. I'm fed up with environmentalists who lecture me on global warming but are nowhere to be found when I want a pay raise to cover my increased electric bill. The merchant class has abandoned the working class and they're gonna pay for it.
and once it works people don't do the sane thing and say "Boy, that regulation sure did work" they say "Why did we need those job-killing regulations in the first place".
Deaths are on the decline, but as someone prone to lung cancer (mom dead at 55 from it due to smoking, most men in my family dead of heart attacks in mid to late 50s, and no, I don't smoke and I'm not obese) I'm not focused on statistics, I'm focused on whether my environment is slowly killing me.
bottled at the source
But seriously, air pollution sucks. My city had smog days 80% of the time over the summer. That's insane. My mom died of lung cancer from smoking. It's frustrating to think I might do the same even though I don't smoke.
seems a bit high even for Apple. And it's probably a laptop chip version of the i3 based on the form factor...
to mean "right wing" is that it's disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst. You have people in favor of radical change using the word to get folks who just want stability under their tent. In the process those people lose the stability they seek when the radicals use the political power gained from those genuine conservatives.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a lefty and a progressive. I think our society should always be improving. But it's hard to get the conservatives to buy into that when the radical right have gotten so good at scaring the bejeebees out of them. If they recognized the radical right for what they are (radicals) worst case the real conservatives would push for stability (which, as a progressive I find preferable to regression; e.g. I voted for Hilary, the ultimate conservative) and it might make it easier to get them to agree to progress.
Seriously, what are you on about? The Unions "targeted" the factory owners demanding higher wages for the workers.
The rich didn't move money anywhere. There was no money, we blew it the fuck up. It took the world decades to recover. In the meantime if anything was getting built it was getting built in America. By American workers.
And that last comment? Now you're just trolling. I mean, couldn't you just end your post with "Freedom is Slavery" or something?
and just give it away. The rest could just go into the general fund. I mean, if we're gonna waste money let's do it the most efficient way. Of course if we did that then 10% of that $3 billion wouldn't have made it into Scott Walker's reelection fund.
the GP's argument is that the money wasn't owed since taxes aren't really "owed" in the sense that you paid for something. Taxes are, to a lot of people, the gov't saying "mine!" to your money.
This is of course bullshit. Foxconn wants roads, and educated workforce, hospitals to treat injuries so that workforce can work, police and fire, water, even food is basically managed by our gov't (folks have no idea how deeply embedded in our food supply the gov't is, we don't leave that up to the markets and haven't since the 30s).
Better to say it this way: Foxconn wants to belong to the nicest and most exclusive club in the world: Civilization. And they don't want to pay their dues. They want you and me to pay them. Fuck Foxconn. I pay, so can they.
and everyone knew it. There were klaxons going off day one. It was painfully obvious that Wisconsin was chosen because their gov't is bought off and hopelessly corrupt. It as a $4 billion dollar give away on a few hundred million in jobs. The other cities saw that and said "Hell No". Under Scott Walker though companies can get away with damn near anything.
we were the only country with a functioning manufacturing base after WWII and the cold war meant companies were scared that if they invested overseas their assets would get seized by the big bad communists. Nixon showed everyone that was bullshit, the middle east gave us a way to keep our endless war machine going and that meant it was open season on offshoring and outsourcing.
You need manufacturing to have a strong economy because you need lots of workers all working together in the same place with the same interests. In other words, Unions. What made the US middle class grow was Unions fought (and died) to pry money out of the hands of the working class. You can't do that at a WalMart, there's just not enough of a concentration. Also, the ruling class got this Union busting down pat.
The one thing that did _not_ make the US a powerhouse is corporate welfare. We had all that during the Robber Baron era and Gilded Age in spades. There was money, but it all belonged to our aristocracy.
This is the main problem I have with capitalism. Not enough information. My bro just took a job that was supposed to be a 12 month contract to hire sys admin job with an emphasis on writing automation scripts. Pay was good so he took it.
Turns out it's just a monitoring gig, 6 month contract that might get extended twice to 18 before they fire him because 18 months is the most you can keep a contractor before the state gov't starts asking questions about taxes. He left a stable job for it because he wanted something that would improve his career. The better pay made it look like it really was a sys admin+light programming job. Now he's gonna waste another 6-18 months in a go nowhere contract.
Now, at CEO level this probably isn't much of an issue. It's a nuisance at best. At my bro's level losing 6-18 months of career building is devastating.
We need more worker protections. The reason other countries make it hard to fire is it makes employees valuable. You put effort into your employees. Same for stopping this "Contract to Hire" bullshit. And we should give _everyone_ unemployment regardless of why they're fired. I don't care of the occasional surfer dude gets lazy and hangs out on unemployment. It's not like it pays much. But right now companies can outright lie to me and mine to get us to take jobs that we think are great but suck, and it's not that easy to just change jobs. It's not a bloody Twinkie.