I'm not sure who is or isn't Antifa and what happens under that label. I have heard of protests where Antifa used violence to protect peaceful protesters from violent Nazis. But even there, not everybody on the left agrees with that. Even if it is, in large part, a response to violence from the right. You keep pretending that this is only a left-wing issue, but it's not. The vast majority of people on the left oppose violence, and strongly oppose initiating violence. Meanwhile, on the right, there are people actively preaching violence, and large crowds chanting violence.
You don't believe PP kills children ? Call them up and schedule an abortion for a child that's viable, no problem.
You can't abort a child. A child has already been born. Trying to paint a late term abortion in those terms is itself dishonest. Yeah, I don't think PP kills children, and you have given me nothing to doubt that, so I suggest we accept this as established.
As for late term abortions, they are legal by law, but also incredibly rare. Only 1.4% of all abortions in the US happen after 21 weeks, which is still well before a fetus is viable. And of that 1.4%, many are simply because of a lack of availability of abortion at an earlier stage (there are parts of the US where abortion clinics are rare and early abortions are strongly discouraged), or teen pregnancies, which tend to have much later abortions, and tend to be due to a lack of proper sex ed. If you want to prevent those late term abortions, fight for better sex ed and better accessibility of early abortions.
Try France Spain and Greece.
Try what with France or Greece? Live there? I've never been to Greece, but France is great.
Castro did his revolution 50 years ago tell me how that's relevant to people insisting the Cuban system is great today.
Who is insisting the Cuban system is great? Certainly nobody I know. The only thing I can imagine you might be referring to, is that Cuba, despite its poverty, has a better health care system than the US. Well, better, Cuba is very slightly behind the US in life expectancy (and both are far behind Europe), but it's free and accessible to everybody. But that's the only thing I know that anyone might consider good about the Cuban system. Everything else is pretty terrible.
Richard Spencer
You mean the guy who coined the term "alt-right"? Wasn't he at the "Unite the Right" march? In the US, Nazis are the modern right.
Face it, Nazis are right-wing, they call themselves right-wing, and in the US, they have been embraced by the right-wing. Your definition of right-wing is completely detached from the political reality in the real world.
If you want to find classical conservatives in the US, you actually have to look at the right-wing of the Democratic Party. Despite his campaign for change, Obama didn't change all that much about Bush's policies, and continued many of them. He's fairly conservative in the original sense of the word. The problem is that the Republican Party was so eager to hate him and paint him as extreme left, that they ran to the extreme right in response.
Also, look at at whose marches people chant things like "kill all Jews" or "Jews will not replace us". Look at which part of the political spectrum the Pittsburgh shooter came from.
I'm willing to grant you that anti-semitism is far too common in the US in general, but that doesn't help your position much, as the US is on the whole a very right-wing country compared to other wealthy industrialised nations.
I'd like to see the claim that Planned Parenthood killed any children at all supported by a source that doesn't sound like it's intentionally misrepresenting facts.
We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population
Anyone who wants to kill black people is not generally considered to be part of the left. From what I understand, this quote is from the 1930s, the tail end of the Jim Crow period. I don't know the circumstances of this quote or the political positions of the person who said it, but I do know that conservatives love to misrepresent issues from the Jim Crow period. The short of it is: the Democrats were once the conservative and racist party, while the Republicans started life as the progressive civil rights party. They switched positions over the course of the 20th century, with southern Democrats being still conservative and racist, while northern Democrats became increasingly progressive, until the party itself became a weird mix of progressive issues with still a big group of racists, while the Republicans were becoming increasingly conservative. In the 1950s, both parties supported social democratic policies, and both supported president Eisenhower. In the 1960s, when the Democrats finally officially embraced civil rights, the racists left that party and joined the now more conservative Republicans which welcomed them.
So both before and after the switch, the racists tended to be in the more conservative party. Only for a brief period from the 1930s to the 1950s, did they find themselves in a party that had become social democratic.
Yes they don't want to dictate the economy they just want to regulate every aspect of it
They want to regulate it in order to ensure it benefits everybody, and not just a small elite. And this is something that can work very well: consider Sweden, one of the countries in the world with the highest level of economic freedom, and yet very little poverty.
I must be imagining the mayor of Portland allowing Antifa to blockade federal offices in his city. I must have imagined all those college campuses doing nothing about the disruption of conservative events.
Alright, you're talking about a much broader definition of violence than I do. I don't consider protests to be violence and strongly support people's right to protest. At least, as long as they don't attack people. With violence, I mean either actual physical violence, threats of violence, or incitement to violence. Like Trump is doing, for example, or the people who act on it.
Really so all those people on the left that praised Chavez and Maduro in Venezuella
I was talking about Europe and the US. Clearly Venezuela is really fucked up. I don't see anyone there praise Maduro, but you're absolutely right that Chavez seemed to have the support of his people. That doesn't make him representative of the left outside Venezuela, though. Everybody in the EU and US is horrified by what's happening there.
wax poetic about cuba while wear Che Guevera shirts
I guess people love rebels. Don't forget that Guevara and Castro started out rebelling and overthrowing a pretty horrible dictator. That superficial story of standing up to the man appeals to a lot of people, as long as you ignore the reality on the ground of what they did, or the fact that Castro became just another dictator. Though it's worth noting that nobody is wearing Castro shirts. People on the left tend to like rebels, not dictators.
I'm not saying that all people on the left abhor all kinds of violence. Not everybody is a pacifist. Many do consider it legitimate to use violence in order to fight against oppression, for example. A few go overboard and end up supporting new oppression, but that's certainly not universal to the left, and neither is it
It's perfectly clear that when you say NAZI you mean anyone you dislike.
That's in your own head. Don't project it on me.
Are you aware all your arguments are straw men? The left does not think it's okay to kill children, does not consider eugenics acceptable, the vast majority of the people on the left don't want the state to dictate the economy, just regulate it (just like many people on the right are doing, by the way: see Trump's tariffs, corporate subsidies, artificial monopolies, etc), do not find violence against someone with an unpopular opinion acceptable, etc.
That stuff is just in your head. Communist Russia is not representative for the entire political left. If it was, then almost nobody in the US or Europe would be politically left.
Maybe you need to get your mind out of that one-dimensional mindset. I never said libertarians are nazis; those are your words. They are both right-wing in very different ways.
Of course that's how society at large views this issue. In reality, politics is not one-dimensional. If you were to plot them on a two-dimensional grid with economic equality vs inequality on one axis, and authoritarian vs libertarian on the other, libertarian capitalists would be in the right-wing libertarian corner, while Nazis would be in the right-wing authoritarian corner (and much more authoritarian than right-wing). Soviet-style communists would be in the authoritarian-left-wing corner, while libertarian socialists would be in the libertarian-left wing corner.
The vast, vast majority of politicians in the world are in the right-wing authoritarian corner, though obviously not remotely as authoritarian as Nazis, or as right-wing as libertarian capitalists.
But if you want, you can probably identify a lot more political axes than that: conservative vs progressive, monarchist/aristocratic vs republican/democratic, class based vs egalitarian. And there are many different views on what things like freedom or equality mean in practice, for what purposes things may be taxed, etc. That becomes harder to plot, though. And many of those tend to correlate strongly with one or both of those first two axes. But there are exceptions.
Only compared to the extreme right that's currently ruling the US. On its own, the EU is moderately right-wing due to its insistence on austerity, and moderately left-wing due to its insistence on human/civil rights. How you see the regulated free market with a very strong focus on competition, could go either way.
You cherry-pick one out of many definitions because it fits the story you want to sell. Some others are: left-wing: equality, right-wing: inequality; and left-wing: change, right-wing: order. There's a lot more to politics than just the economy.
Simple fact of the matter is that everybody considers Nazis right-wing, including the Nazis themselves. They allied with conservatives to gain power. And not just in Germany; they tend to ally with conservatives everywhere. In the US too: American Nazis support the Republicans, and many Republicans accept that.
And if you think their views on economy are the main defining feature of Nazis, you are willfully ignorant.
It started out as Predator, but then subverted it. I loved that. Dangerous alien predator is actually a loser who needs to cheat to win. It's an interesting subversion of a common trope.
The gran who died was sad, but also now inspires the other characters. She didn't just vanish. It wasn't a fridging either; she chose to do what needed to be done.
I guess the premise is that it had to be Rosa for it to have the impact it did. That's why the time traveller needed to prevent it.
You can certainly question the premise, but as premises for Doctor Why episodes go, it makes more sense than most, and everything beyond the premise was excellent.
I strongly disagree. I love this new season. Rosa seems universally praised and loved, but I also really like the other episodes (haven't seen this week's yet).
On the whole, the Doctor can't just barge in and explain who she is to chase aliens away anymore; she actually has to work at it. Puzzles and mysteries need actual solutions, and they make more sense than they ever did. The spiders had a few loose ends, but it still made more sense than most monster spider infestation stories.
She always looks a few steps beyond the obvious. I love being outsmarted by a TV show for a change. Too often people are either being stupid or the solution makes no sense at all. The new Doctor Who feels very different and I find it very refreshing.
Also, it seems to be moving closer to Classic Who, which I also like.
Weak? I love the new season. Rosa is universally praised, but other episodes also promise a much more interesting Doctor. None of this stuff where the Doctor's name alone is enough to strike fear in entire enemy battle fleets, but actual problems that need to be figured out, and make some sense once they have been figured out. Previous seasons relied far too much on Deus Ex Machina or incomprehensible solutions. This season seems a bit more grounded in reality and logic (despite the obvious fantasy of course), and this Doctor will actually have to work to succeed.
It's certainly a different take, but I find it very refreshing so far.
Dude, please read what you just posted. Imagine someone else wrote that. Is that really the person you want to be?
It looks to me like you've got some serious problems, and screaming at people on the Internet is not going to fix them. Please consider some form of counseling or therapy or something where you can get that hate out of your system.
It's fine if you don't like Marvel comics. Just ignore them. But don't let your dislike for something turn into such destructive hate. That's not healthy for you.
Stan Lee has always been on the forefront of the fight for social justice. Whenever Marvel was critical of the USA, it was because the US was shitting on justice.
Stan Lee was one of the good guys. (Unlike the army of trolls that's so eager to puke all over this thread.)
"Literally Hitler"? Are you really that kind of person?
I want justice done. Nobody believes that Trump is firing Sessions because of his horrible child separation policy, and Trump and many of his supporters have defended that policy. Trump has made it abundantly clear that he his firing Sessions for the one single good thing Sessions has done: allowing an independent investigation to continue. If you do not think that the next step is going to be the appointment of an AG who will help Trump in obstructing justice, you are a fool.
It took close to 8 years for Obama to repair the damage from the 2008 crash.
That damage includes
* the US federal debt, which has certainly not gone back to pre-2008 levels
Pre-2008 federal debt levels were already spiraling out of control. The 2008 crash has nothing to do with it. As long as the excessive tax cuts aren't reverted and the US doesn't stop waging stupid wars, the debt will continue to spiral out of control.
The US hasn't balanced a budget since the 1990s, and that was during the biggest economic boom in ages.
* the income inequality within US society, which hasn't been this high since the 1930s, and student loans, payday loans, and consumer debt are at near crisis levels. Much of a whole generation of americans have been left behind.
Again, not so much the 2008 crash, but the tax cuts, which are primarily for the rich.
You live in an alternate reality. Nazis are absolutely right-wing. They believe in inequality and they hate the left. They tend to work with right-wing parties, support them, or take them over. In the US, the political right-wing has embraced them. The only people in the world who claim Nazis are not right wing, are people who consider themselves right-wing but are uncomfortable about their political closeness to Nazis, and people who fear other people might be uncomfortable by that closeness.
So distance yourself from them. Join the fight against racism. Against sexism. Against their totalitarian ideology. And stop fighting the people who fight Nazis.
The most effective way to reduce population growth, is education. In highly educated countries, women are more likely to work and less likely to have a lot of children. Good social security also reduces the need to have children in order to ensure you're taken care of when you're old. Prosperity and equality seem to be big factors in reducing the number of children people have.
This is not really a la carte. This is a couple of big buffets, with each combining a few real treats with a lot of stuff I don't care about.
I'd prefer a single service that carries Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, Stranger Things, Good Omens, The Expanse, and Game of Thrones. That would be a la carte.
I'd definitely prefer to have Disney movies on Netflix, but with Disney owning Star Wars, Marvel, the muppets, Pixar, and tons of other stuff, I might actually be willing to drop Netflix for them.
Although I also need to switch to Amazon for Good Omens. Yes, licensing would have been a lot better.
But as long as we have to wait until late 2019, can we please get Disney back of Netflix in the mean time?
Musk clearly has a talent for running innovative tech companies. He just needs someone to stop him from picking fights with the internet and investors, and get back to making more cars/rockets/solar panels.
That's horrible. Threats like these are completely indefensible and are (or should be) illegal and treated as such.
I find it hard to believe that Democrats would finance this, though. Do you have evidence for that?
But while Young Republicans might not do this, there are plenty of right-wing groups who do. Often egged on by Trump himself with his constant baseless accusations against the free press and his political opponents. Christine Ford is still receiving threats.
It's not an example that people on the left should be following, and I'm sad and angry to hear that some did. But it's deceitful to suggest it's something the left started.
Don't pretend the left likes Session. He's a horrible person. But at least he has just enough integrity not to interfere with the investigation. Whoever Trump is going to replace him with, is probably not going to have such scruples. The people aren't protesting the firing of a wannabe-Hitler, they're protesting the obstruction of justice that's certain to follow.
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Antifa are not peaceful protestors.
I'm not sure who is or isn't Antifa and what happens under that label. I have heard of protests where Antifa used violence to protect peaceful protesters from violent Nazis. But even there, not everybody on the left agrees with that. Even if it is, in large part, a response to violence from the right. You keep pretending that this is only a left-wing issue, but it's not. The vast majority of people on the left oppose violence, and strongly oppose initiating violence. Meanwhile, on the right, there are people actively preaching violence, and large crowds chanting violence.
You don't believe PP kills children ? Call them up and schedule an abortion for a child that's viable, no problem.
You can't abort a child. A child has already been born. Trying to paint a late term abortion in those terms is itself dishonest. Yeah, I don't think PP kills children, and you have given me nothing to doubt that, so I suggest we accept this as established.
As for late term abortions, they are legal by law, but also incredibly rare. Only 1.4% of all abortions in the US happen after 21 weeks, which is still well before a fetus is viable. And of that 1.4%, many are simply because of a lack of availability of abortion at an earlier stage (there are parts of the US where abortion clinics are rare and early abortions are strongly discouraged), or teen pregnancies, which tend to have much later abortions, and tend to be due to a lack of proper sex ed. If you want to prevent those late term abortions, fight for better sex ed and better accessibility of early abortions.
Try France Spain and Greece.
Try what with France or Greece? Live there? I've never been to Greece, but France is great.
Castro did his revolution 50 years ago tell me how that's relevant to people insisting the Cuban system is great today.
Who is insisting the Cuban system is great? Certainly nobody I know. The only thing I can imagine you might be referring to, is that Cuba, despite its poverty, has a better health care system than the US. Well, better, Cuba is very slightly behind the US in life expectancy (and both are far behind Europe), but it's free and accessible to everybody. But that's the only thing I know that anyone might consider good about the Cuban system. Everything else is pretty terrible.
Richard Spencer
You mean the guy who coined the term "alt-right"? Wasn't he at the "Unite the Right" march? In the US, Nazis are the modern right.
Face it, Nazis are right-wing, they call themselves right-wing, and in the US, they have been embraced by the right-wing. Your definition of right-wing is completely detached from the political reality in the real world.
If you want to find classical conservatives in the US, you actually have to look at the right-wing of the Democratic Party. Despite his campaign for change, Obama didn't change all that much about Bush's policies, and continued many of them. He's fairly conservative in the original sense of the word. The problem is that the Republican Party was so eager to hate him and paint him as extreme left, that they ran to the extreme right in response.
Also, look at at whose marches people chant things like "kill all Jews" or "Jews will not replace us". Look at which part of the political spectrum the Pittsburgh shooter came from.
I'm willing to grant you that anti-semitism is far too common in the US in general, but that doesn't help your position much, as the US is on the whole a very right-wing country compared to other wealthy industrialised nations.
7.6 million dead from just planned parenthood
I'd like to see the claim that Planned Parenthood killed any children at all supported by a source that doesn't sound like it's intentionally misrepresenting facts.
We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population
Anyone who wants to kill black people is not generally considered to be part of the left. From what I understand, this quote is from the 1930s, the tail end of the Jim Crow period. I don't know the circumstances of this quote or the political positions of the person who said it, but I do know that conservatives love to misrepresent issues from the Jim Crow period. The short of it is: the Democrats were once the conservative and racist party, while the Republicans started life as the progressive civil rights party. They switched positions over the course of the 20th century, with southern Democrats being still conservative and racist, while northern Democrats became increasingly progressive, until the party itself became a weird mix of progressive issues with still a big group of racists, while the Republicans were becoming increasingly conservative. In the 1950s, both parties supported social democratic policies, and both supported president Eisenhower. In the 1960s, when the Democrats finally officially embraced civil rights, the racists left that party and joined the now more conservative Republicans which welcomed them.
So both before and after the switch, the racists tended to be in the more conservative party. Only for a brief period from the 1930s to the 1950s, did they find themselves in a party that had become social democratic.
Yes they don't want to dictate the economy they just want to regulate every aspect of it
They want to regulate it in order to ensure it benefits everybody, and not just a small elite. And this is something that can work very well: consider Sweden, one of the countries in the world with the highest level of economic freedom, and yet very little poverty.
I must be imagining the mayor of Portland allowing Antifa to blockade federal offices in his city. I must have imagined all those college campuses doing nothing about the disruption of conservative events.
Alright, you're talking about a much broader definition of violence than I do. I don't consider protests to be violence and strongly support people's right to protest. At least, as long as they don't attack people. With violence, I mean either actual physical violence, threats of violence, or incitement to violence. Like Trump is doing, for example, or the people who act on it.
Really so all those people on the left that praised Chavez and Maduro in Venezuella
I was talking about Europe and the US. Clearly Venezuela is really fucked up. I don't see anyone there praise Maduro, but you're absolutely right that Chavez seemed to have the support of his people. That doesn't make him representative of the left outside Venezuela, though. Everybody in the EU and US is horrified by what's happening there.
wax poetic about cuba while wear Che Guevera shirts
I guess people love rebels. Don't forget that Guevara and Castro started out rebelling and overthrowing a pretty horrible dictator. That superficial story of standing up to the man appeals to a lot of people, as long as you ignore the reality on the ground of what they did, or the fact that Castro became just another dictator. Though it's worth noting that nobody is wearing Castro shirts. People on the left tend to like rebels, not dictators.
I'm not saying that all people on the left abhor all kinds of violence. Not everybody is a pacifist. Many do consider it legitimate to use violence in order to fight against oppression, for example. A few go overboard and end up supporting new oppression, but that's certainly not universal to the left, and neither is it
It's perfectly clear that when you say NAZI you mean anyone you dislike.
That's in your own head. Don't project it on me.
Are you aware all your arguments are straw men? The left does not think it's okay to kill children, does not consider eugenics acceptable, the vast majority of the people on the left don't want the state to dictate the economy, just regulate it (just like many people on the right are doing, by the way: see Trump's tariffs, corporate subsidies, artificial monopolies, etc), do not find violence against someone with an unpopular opinion acceptable, etc.
That stuff is just in your head. Communist Russia is not representative for the entire political left. If it was, then almost nobody in the US or Europe would be politically left.
Maybe you need to get your mind out of that one-dimensional mindset. I never said libertarians are nazis; those are your words. They are both right-wing in very different ways.
Of course that's how society at large views this issue. In reality, politics is not one-dimensional. If you were to plot them on a two-dimensional grid with economic equality vs inequality on one axis, and authoritarian vs libertarian on the other, libertarian capitalists would be in the right-wing libertarian corner, while Nazis would be in the right-wing authoritarian corner (and much more authoritarian than right-wing). Soviet-style communists would be in the authoritarian-left-wing corner, while libertarian socialists would be in the libertarian-left wing corner.
The vast, vast majority of politicians in the world are in the right-wing authoritarian corner, though obviously not remotely as authoritarian as Nazis, or as right-wing as libertarian capitalists.
But if you want, you can probably identify a lot more political axes than that: conservative vs progressive, monarchist/aristocratic vs republican/democratic, class based vs egalitarian. And there are many different views on what things like freedom or equality mean in practice, for what purposes things may be taxed, etc. That becomes harder to plot, though. And many of those tend to correlate strongly with one or both of those first two axes. But there are exceptions.
Only compared to the extreme right that's currently ruling the US. On its own, the EU is moderately right-wing due to its insistence on austerity, and moderately left-wing due to its insistence on human/civil rights. How you see the regulated free market with a very strong focus on competition, could go either way.
It's not EU leftists who did this; many Greens oppose it, whereas most right-wing parties supported it.
I'm unable to find a complete breakdown of who supported it and who didn't though. Support for this was appallingly broad.
You cherry-pick one out of many definitions because it fits the story you want to sell. Some others are: left-wing: equality, right-wing: inequality; and left-wing: change, right-wing: order. There's a lot more to politics than just the economy.
Simple fact of the matter is that everybody considers Nazis right-wing, including the Nazis themselves. They allied with conservatives to gain power. And not just in Germany; they tend to ally with conservatives everywhere. In the US too: American Nazis support the Republicans, and many Republicans accept that.
And if you think their views on economy are the main defining feature of Nazis, you are willfully ignorant.
Yeah, it seems like they intend to stick with Tom Holland for a while.
And honestly, I think Disney is doing an excellent job taking care of the MCU. I had no idea there even were people who disagreed.
It started out as Predator, but then subverted it. I loved that. Dangerous alien predator is actually a loser who needs to cheat to win. It's an interesting subversion of a common trope.
The gran who died was sad, but also now inspires the other characters. She didn't just vanish. It wasn't a fridging either; she chose to do what needed to be done.
I guess the premise is that it had to be Rosa for it to have the impact it did. That's why the time traveller needed to prevent it.
You can certainly question the premise, but as premises for Doctor Why episodes go, it makes more sense than most, and everything beyond the premise was excellent.
I strongly disagree. I love this new season. Rosa seems universally praised and loved, but I also really like the other episodes (haven't seen this week's yet).
On the whole, the Doctor can't just barge in and explain who she is to chase aliens away anymore; she actually has to work at it. Puzzles and mysteries need actual solutions, and they make more sense than they ever did. The spiders had a few loose ends, but it still made more sense than most monster spider infestation stories.
She always looks a few steps beyond the obvious. I love being outsmarted by a TV show for a change. Too often people are either being stupid or the solution makes no sense at all. The new Doctor Who feels very different and I find it very refreshing.
Also, it seems to be moving closer to Classic Who, which I also like.
Weak? I love the new season. Rosa is universally praised, but other episodes also promise a much more interesting Doctor. None of this stuff where the Doctor's name alone is enough to strike fear in entire enemy battle fleets, but actual problems that need to be figured out, and make some sense once they have been figured out. Previous seasons relied far too much on Deus Ex Machina or incomprehensible solutions. This season seems a bit more grounded in reality and logic (despite the obvious fantasy of course), and this Doctor will actually have to work to succeed.
It's certainly a different take, but I find it very refreshing so far.
Dude, please read what you just posted. Imagine someone else wrote that. Is that really the person you want to be?
It looks to me like you've got some serious problems, and screaming at people on the Internet is not going to fix them. Please consider some form of counseling or therapy or something where you can get that hate out of your system.
It's fine if you don't like Marvel comics. Just ignore them. But don't let your dislike for something turn into such destructive hate. That's not healthy for you.
Stan Lee has always been on the forefront of the fight for social justice. Whenever Marvel was critical of the USA, it was because the US was shitting on justice.
Stan Lee was one of the good guys. (Unlike the army of trolls that's so eager to puke all over this thread.)
"Literally Hitler"? Are you really that kind of person?
I want justice done. Nobody believes that Trump is firing Sessions because of his horrible child separation policy, and Trump and many of his supporters have defended that policy. Trump has made it abundantly clear that he his firing Sessions for the one single good thing Sessions has done: allowing an independent investigation to continue. If you do not think that the next step is going to be the appointment of an AG who will help Trump in obstructing justice, you are a fool.
It took close to 8 years for Obama to repair the damage from the 2008 crash.
That damage includes
* the US federal debt, which has certainly not gone back to pre-2008 levels
Pre-2008 federal debt levels were already spiraling out of control. The 2008 crash has nothing to do with it. As long as the excessive tax cuts aren't reverted and the US doesn't stop waging stupid wars, the debt will continue to spiral out of control.
The US hasn't balanced a budget since the 1990s, and that was during the biggest economic boom in ages.
* the income inequality within US society, which hasn't been this high since the 1930s, and student loans, payday loans, and consumer debt are at near crisis levels. Much of a whole generation of americans have been left behind.
Again, not so much the 2008 crash, but the tax cuts, which are primarily for the rich.
You live in an alternate reality. Nazis are absolutely right-wing. They believe in inequality and they hate the left. They tend to work with right-wing parties, support them, or take them over. In the US, the political right-wing has embraced them. The only people in the world who claim Nazis are not right wing, are people who consider themselves right-wing but are uncomfortable about their political closeness to Nazis, and people who fear other people might be uncomfortable by that closeness.
So distance yourself from them. Join the fight against racism. Against sexism. Against their totalitarian ideology. And stop fighting the people who fight Nazis.
The most effective way to reduce population growth, is education. In highly educated countries, women are more likely to work and less likely to have a lot of children. Good social security also reduces the need to have children in order to ensure you're taken care of when you're old. Prosperity and equality seem to be big factors in reducing the number of children people have.
This is not really a la carte. This is a couple of big buffets, with each combining a few real treats with a lot of stuff I don't care about.
I'd prefer a single service that carries Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, Stranger Things, Good Omens, The Expanse, and Game of Thrones. That would be a la carte.
I'd definitely prefer to have Disney movies on Netflix, but with Disney owning Star Wars, Marvel, the muppets, Pixar, and tons of other stuff, I might actually be willing to drop Netflix for them.
Although I also need to switch to Amazon for Good Omens. Yes, licensing would have been a lot better.
But as long as we have to wait until late 2019, can we please get Disney back of Netflix in the mean time?
Musk clearly has a talent for running innovative tech companies. He just needs someone to stop him from picking fights with the internet and investors, and get back to making more cars/rockets/solar panels.
I think this is a positive development.
Telsa
Did you mean Telstra or Tesla? This could get really confusing.
That's horrible. Threats like these are completely indefensible and are (or should be) illegal and treated as such.
I find it hard to believe that Democrats would finance this, though. Do you have evidence for that?
But while Young Republicans might not do this, there are plenty of right-wing groups who do. Often egged on by Trump himself with his constant baseless accusations against the free press and his political opponents. Christine Ford is still receiving threats.
It's not an example that people on the left should be following, and I'm sad and angry to hear that some did. But it's deceitful to suggest it's something the left started.
I'm "Hitler-like" for wanting justice done? You make no sense.
I want all these fascists out. Replacing one with another isn't going to fix anything.
Don't pretend the left likes Session. He's a horrible person. But at least he has just enough integrity not to interfere with the investigation. Whoever Trump is going to replace him with, is probably not going to have such scruples. The people aren't protesting the firing of a wannabe-Hitler, they're protesting the obstruction of justice that's certain to follow.