They may have called themselves socialist for the sake of expediency during their early rise
The National Socialist German Workers' Party actually did have socialists in in during its early rise. It wasn't just expediency. Of course, the socialists were murdered in the 30s, so at that point it became a matter of keeping the propaganda consistent.
Fascists adopt ideology from both the political left and right. For example they coopt both the workers and the industrialists
The Nazis used their lying Socialist propaganda and unsustainable (except by conquest) economic policies to appeal to workers. They actually did get cozy with the industrialists. Industrialists typically don't care about politics as long as the government gives them free reign.
Hitler had a lot of regard for the German race, and talked about the Volk and such things, and didn't seem to care about individual Germans. I consider that to be a mystical sort of collectivism. I'm not sure about Italian Fascists or Spanish Nationalists, but they always had a strong emphasis on the nationality and/or race.
All this action could possibly do is drive up the cost of H1B workers.
Mission accomplished. The main abuse of the H-1B program is to get cheap labor into the country and drive down salaries. If it's expensive, that doesn't work. The originally stated purpose of the H-1B program is to bring in people from outside the country to do valuable things that US citizens and legal residents can't do, and those people are worth extra expense.
Look, this is the one thing Trump's done that I actually like. Let me have at least one positive thought about the man.
Ah, you got out of tulip bulbs before the bubble burst. Assuming, of course, that you have cashed out and have an actual $90K rather than BTC that might possibly be worth $90K that you're going to hold on to.
Ponzi schemes can be rewarding investments if you get in on the ground floor.
And most of the time, the banks are about the only control over their mortgage feeding frenzy.
When banks issued a mortgage and intended to keep it and collect the payments for the duration, they had incentive to issue only reasonably safe mortgages. What happened during the housing bubble was that the mortgage originator could sell any mortgage, no matter how stupid, for real money. Other people would buy the worst mortgages, put them in a bundle, and sell shares of them called "tranches" for real money. (The first money going into the bundle is the first tranche, the stuff left over goes into the second, etc. Some people thought many of the tranches, typically not the last one, were sound investments.)
The lending institutions expected to have some foreclosures. However, if someone gets a $100K mortgage for a house that's worth $120K at the time of foreclosure, the bank gets its money and the owner is not left holding the bag. Housing costs were projected to keep going up.
If anyone bothered to look at the system as a whole, they saw that issuing NINJA (No INcome, Job, or Assets) or liar's loans could not contribute to a sound financial system. If anyone looked at the individual details, they'd see that NINJA loans could be sold at a profit, that the buyer could package them and sell tranches at a profit, and so on. The people running the system typically saw their little detail, and paid little attention to the system as a whole, because they were making lots of money.
It's foolish to rely on the average person to have good money-management skills. People will take out stupid loans to buy stuff. That's not going to change. Typically, we don't consider this a problem because typically it's not a good idea to make a loan that won't be paid back, so out of self-interest lending institutions will make only loans that look like good bets. (There will always be mortgages foreclosed on for a variety of reasons, but if the rate is low the banks still come out ahead.)
FWIW, I went to my son's math club once when he was in middle school. Lots of girls there. They seem to drop out sometime after that, for a large variety of possible reasons.
Which is not to say that all feminists are Nazis. But some most definitely are.
Feminists aren't Nazis. Either you're sadly mistaken about feminists or Nazis, or you're trivializing "Nazi". Given the resurgent of real Nazis, I don't like that being done.
There's PLENTY of data behind those models, much of which you're free to peruse. If Spencer is the one with the Truth, why hasn't he convinced lots of people in the field?
And we're back to Roy Spencer, whom your advanced telepathic powers have determined is the only honest scientist in the field? And we should disregard what almost all smart people who have studied the topic thoroughly think?
The sea level rise is not going to be the big thing, it is going to be so slow, we can adjust for it. At the end of ice age sea levels rose 300 meters, 900 feet. In about 2000 years.
Depending on exactly what happens with Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, really. Are we sure they'll just gently melt and not slide into the sea?
To some of us, the point of cutting carbon is to reduce the amount of CO2 that gets put into the atmosphere. Carbon taxes are good for this, since they use market forces to reduce CO2 emissions.
I've been wondering if a post-industrial economy might lead to people wanting less stuff eventually. If I can always get X for a reasonable price, then I don't have to get X until I actually want it. Of course, to maintain this attitude, we'd probably have to nuke Hasbro and any other toy companies that still exist.
Reminds me of Halsey's order to his fighter pilots during the Japanese surrender. The Japanese are not our enemies. If a Japanese plane looks threatening, shoot it down in a friendly sort of way.
It may be that some people don't consider high-functioning autism an illness, but it seems to me I could have done better in some respects without it. Without it, I might have actually been able to figure out how to date in high school, and maybe picked up a girlfriend. I might be able to read people's emotions better, and be better able to say what I mean in a positive manner. I might be able to follow a conversation in a noisy environment better. I've seen people with HFA get special classes they needed to learn how to socialize.
We seem to diabolize Stalin as much as Hitler, and Stalin won.
People in Germany did expect him to lose. In the conference that dismembered Czechoslovakia, there was a plot among Army generals to overthrow him if he went to war over the Sudetenland. I don't know how effective the plot would have been, but it does suggest that the generals expected defeat. After the initial declarations of war, there was a lot of pessimism going around Germany about the war. That was largely dispelled by the fall of France, at least for a while.
I don't care about the heat death of the Universe. I'm not going to be around for it anyway. Heck, I won't be around for the Sun's increasing brightness boiling off all the water on Earth, so I'm not going to sweat that either.
The relevant question here isn't whether he was correct, but whether he tried. It read to me like he got a lot of things wrong, but was making a slightly inept attempt at writing a good essay. For purposes of the furor around this, how true his essay was is irrelevant.
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The National Socialist German Workers' Party actually did have socialists in in during its early rise. It wasn't just expediency. Of course, the socialists were murdered in the 30s, so at that point it became a matter of keeping the propaganda consistent.
The Nazis used their lying Socialist propaganda and unsustainable (except by conquest) economic policies to appeal to workers. They actually did get cozy with the industrialists. Industrialists typically don't care about politics as long as the government gives them free reign.
Hitler had a lot of regard for the German race, and talked about the Volk and such things, and didn't seem to care about individual Germans. I consider that to be a mystical sort of collectivism. I'm not sure about Italian Fascists or Spanish Nationalists, but they always had a strong emphasis on the nationality and/or race.
No, it isn't gravity. It's intelligent falling, done by His Noodly Appendages. Sheesh. Try to keep up.
Mission accomplished. The main abuse of the H-1B program is to get cheap labor into the country and drive down salaries. If it's expensive, that doesn't work. The originally stated purpose of the H-1B program is to bring in people from outside the country to do valuable things that US citizens and legal residents can't do, and those people are worth extra expense.
Look, this is the one thing Trump's done that I actually like. Let me have at least one positive thought about the man.
Ah, you got out of tulip bulbs before the bubble burst. Assuming, of course, that you have cashed out and have an actual $90K rather than BTC that might possibly be worth $90K that you're going to hold on to.
Ponzi schemes can be rewarding investments if you get in on the ground floor.
When banks issued a mortgage and intended to keep it and collect the payments for the duration, they had incentive to issue only reasonably safe mortgages. What happened during the housing bubble was that the mortgage originator could sell any mortgage, no matter how stupid, for real money. Other people would buy the worst mortgages, put them in a bundle, and sell shares of them called "tranches" for real money. (The first money going into the bundle is the first tranche, the stuff left over goes into the second, etc. Some people thought many of the tranches, typically not the last one, were sound investments.)
The lending institutions expected to have some foreclosures. However, if someone gets a $100K mortgage for a house that's worth $120K at the time of foreclosure, the bank gets its money and the owner is not left holding the bag. Housing costs were projected to keep going up.
If anyone bothered to look at the system as a whole, they saw that issuing NINJA (No INcome, Job, or Assets) or liar's loans could not contribute to a sound financial system. If anyone looked at the individual details, they'd see that NINJA loans could be sold at a profit, that the buyer could package them and sell tranches at a profit, and so on. The people running the system typically saw their little detail, and paid little attention to the system as a whole, because they were making lots of money.
It's foolish to rely on the average person to have good money-management skills. People will take out stupid loans to buy stuff. That's not going to change. Typically, we don't consider this a problem because typically it's not a good idea to make a loan that won't be paid back, so out of self-interest lending institutions will make only loans that look like good bets. (There will always be mortgages foreclosed on for a variety of reasons, but if the rate is low the banks still come out ahead.)
FWIW, I went to my son's math club once when he was in middle school. Lots of girls there. They seem to drop out sometime after that, for a large variety of possible reasons.
Thanks.
Feminists aren't Nazis. Either you're sadly mistaken about feminists or Nazis, or you're trivializing "Nazi". Given the resurgent of real Nazis, I don't like that being done.
There's PLENTY of data behind those models, much of which you're free to peruse. If Spencer is the one with the Truth, why hasn't he convinced lots of people in the field?
And you know that his data is correct and nobody else's is - how?
And we're back to Roy Spencer, whom your advanced telepathic powers have determined is the only honest scientist in the field? And we should disregard what almost all smart people who have studied the topic thoroughly think?
You say that, unless the world does just what you think it should do, it's not a problem?
That's cute. There are other approaches.
So if you can find one person who's not for nuclear power, you won't believe in AGW?
I'm not quite as concerned about whether life will prevail as whether civilization will prevail.
Depending on exactly what happens with Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, really. Are we sure they'll just gently melt and not slide into the sea?
To some of us, the point of cutting carbon is to reduce the amount of CO2 that gets put into the atmosphere. Carbon taxes are good for this, since they use market forces to reduce CO2 emissions.
I've been wondering if a post-industrial economy might lead to people wanting less stuff eventually. If I can always get X for a reasonable price, then I don't have to get X until I actually want it. Of course, to maintain this attitude, we'd probably have to nuke Hasbro and any other toy companies that still exist.
Decades is long enough to be bad, and each methane molecule will make one carbon dioxide molecule.
Reminds me of Halsey's order to his fighter pilots during the Japanese surrender. The Japanese are not our enemies. If a Japanese plane looks threatening, shoot it down in a friendly sort of way.
Are you aware of the Nazi attitude towards women? Feminists would not stand for it.
I walk on water every winter.
It may be that some people don't consider high-functioning autism an illness, but it seems to me I could have done better in some respects without it. Without it, I might have actually been able to figure out how to date in high school, and maybe picked up a girlfriend. I might be able to read people's emotions better, and be better able to say what I mean in a positive manner. I might be able to follow a conversation in a noisy environment better. I've seen people with HFA get special classes they needed to learn how to socialize.
We seem to diabolize Stalin as much as Hitler, and Stalin won.
People in Germany did expect him to lose. In the conference that dismembered Czechoslovakia, there was a plot among Army generals to overthrow him if he went to war over the Sudetenland. I don't know how effective the plot would have been, but it does suggest that the generals expected defeat. After the initial declarations of war, there was a lot of pessimism going around Germany about the war. That was largely dispelled by the fall of France, at least for a while.
I don't care about the heat death of the Universe. I'm not going to be around for it anyway. Heck, I won't be around for the Sun's increasing brightness boiling off all the water on Earth, so I'm not going to sweat that either.
The relevant question here isn't whether he was correct, but whether he tried. It read to me like he got a lot of things wrong, but was making a slightly inept attempt at writing a good essay. For purposes of the furor around this, how true his essay was is irrelevant.