The people to fear here are the Western Exceptionalist Five Eyes. They're the ones trying to tap every communication from every person on the planet, not the Russians.
Dems are shown to be a bunch of corrupt elitist assholes - and they deflect from that by blaming Russia with the same gravely serious tones they used to tell you about Saddam's WMD's.
that the left cares for equality of outcome than equality of opportunity
Repeating the empty slogan does not get the shit off the heel. Hint: if, on aggregate, you don't have equal outcomes, by definition that means you do not have equal opportunity. Medical school alone proves my point - it's an incredible gamble to risk a lifetime of student loan debt if your quest to become a doctor doesn't pan out - unless you have rich asshole parents to back you up.
If there was equality of opportunity, a black kid from Detroit has as much chance as a rich asshole kid from a rich asshole neighborhood of being your next doctor. But we both know that's not the case.
Even a "cheap smartphone" has much better h/w specs than an iPhone 4S
Uh, you would hope so, compared to a five year old device.
You can get an Android phone with similar hardware specs to a top end iPhone for nearly half the price.
Yes, just as you can buy a laptop "with similar specs" to a Macbook Pro for half as much money, as long as you're going to settle for three times the weight and pretend a spinning disk is equivalent to PCI-E based storage.
Apple taking part in a price war would destroy their brand.
And the basis for this tautology? And why would they care after they've destroyed other brands in a price war? Apple can cut their prices 20% and still make a tidy profit. Samsung cuts their prices 20%, and their balls are in the bandsaw.
Time will tell but unless they break some new ground with their product lineup they will run out of steam.
New Samsung phone snazzier than a year old (nearly) product from a competitor. This shocking, shocking development at 6.
Because Samsung's flagship S7 products aren't the only Android phones on the market.
Yes, Android it's also the operating system powering the dumb feature phone segment of the market. But that cheap crap is far from being in the same class as a new Galaxy or an iPhone.
Which is why iPhone only has 15% of the smartphone market share.
See above. It also helps sales when your devices are no longer updated after the first year.
Annnnnd, back in reality world, costs have *NOT* gone up and the percentage of people insured is at an all-time high.
That's not "reality world", that's shroomed up Obamabot fantasy. That costs aren't increasing at double digit rates every year doesn't mean they aren't still rising faster than inflation.
gone up and the percentage of people insured is at an all-time high.
You say that like it's a good thing. It's not. For-profit insurance isn't the solution, it's the problem. Y'alls need to go watch Sicko again, a movie made about how freakishly horrible people with insurance have it when it comes to getting health care.
Politics is the art of compromise. The only ones who refuse to compromise are dictators or useless blowhards.
That's all the people have done since Reagan - make compromise after compromise after compromise. And for every singe "victory", like SCHIP, has come with a dozen far more serious defeats, like NAFTA/DMCA/NDAA etc etc.
Sanders' could have insisted on all of his principles, refused to endorse Hillary, and possibly handed the election to Trump, undercutting virtually every policy objective he had.
The only two democratic constituencies to have gotten anything out of Obama during his presidency were the two who threatened to sit out his re-election in 2012: gays and latinos. You don't get the party to move by being a yes man, you get the party to move by threatening their election chances.
Or he could endorse Hillary, hope she'd win, and watch her do 95% of the same things he would have done.
Horseshit. That 93% nonsense is based on looking at their shared time in the Senate, where Hillary spent most of her time....naming post offices. With the exception of her Iraq War vote, Hillary's right-wing freakshow has taken place OUTSIDE of the Senate.
Calling black children super predators? Making BFF's with the world's worst dictators? Acting as an arms merchant to the same? Overthrowing democracies? Helping Obama start a war without Congressional authorization? Making the world safe for fracking? Pushing the TPP?
All done outside of the Senate, making the "they voted the same way 93% of the time" utter sophistry.
Hilary and Bernie vote the same only 93% of the time. Shame on him/her for exaggerating by an additional 2%. Unconscionable.
It's not unconscionable. It's sophistry.
Most of Hillary's greatest right wing hits were entirely out of her time in the Senate, except of course for her vote on Iraq. Calling black kids "super-predators", where was the vote on that? How about her supporting "regime change" in the democracies of Venezuela, Ukraine and Honduras? Turning Libya and Syria into another couple of Iraq's, and creating a continent-wide refugee crisis?
That is just dumb. What percentage of Democratic voters watched the debates? 5% if you are lucky?
You're dumb. Debates in 2008 were ratings hits for both parties, as were the 2016 GOP debates, since that race wasn't cleared for Jeb by the RNC. And look up Jesse Ventura - he was a joke celebrity candidate in Minnesota - until he he turned a great debate performance into a stint at the governors office.
That's why the Dems and the R's have colluded since the 80's to keep debates between themselves, to prevent a non-flacky Ross Perot from coming in and taking what is "rightfully" theirs.
though true, good luck getting someone to the left of Hillary elected. Obama was pretty center-right.
His campaign wasn't. Closing Gitmo, card check, public option, ENDA....a solidly progressive platform that won him the election. That he turned out to be a closet neoliberal neocon doesn't change the fact that he won on a platform far to the left of where she is now. You poll by issues rather than labels, and the "far left" position is generally the most popular one, even amongst Republican voters.
I'd take you more seriously if you even know how Senate seniority is counted. It isn't conferred separately on the whim of each Party, it is in the Senate rules and is based on the time serving in the committee.
You might want to have remedial knowledge of the subject before engaging in patronization, least you look like a pompous fool. You could have a hundred years of service in the Senate, and it doesn't mean dick if a party doesn't recognize your seniority.
You argue the point about if he's registered as a D or an I in the Senate, but you didn't look it up first. Tsk tsk. Go, look, read, learn... Bro.
Go read on who Sander's caucuses with, and on Vermont, where there is no party registration....Fool.
My advice, instead of handwaving and making up your own theory, just fact-check what I said.
My advice is to put down the shovel, and stop fornicating that chicken.
Yeah, this year we even have a Senator who remains registered in the Senate as an Independent, who is complaining that the Democratic Party doesn't consider him a real Democrat. Well, he did change his personal voting registration to Democrat within the past couple years; but to this day he's never changed his Senate registration
Canard. If Bernie wasn't a Democrat in all but name, they wouldn't give him seniority in the Senate, nor would they let him sit on committees. And of course he ran for president as a Democrat, and is closer to the party's traditional platform than almost all elected officials.
Furthermore, it's not like the same party that has spent 1.5 decades whining about Nader would have been happy with Sanders running for president as an independent.
Well, I guess it beats YACA....but these aren't players we're talking about here. But to go with a sports analogy*, imagine if the coaches of the Patriots, Colts and Steelers were among the least paid in the league, but the coaches of perennially shitty teams like the Vikings or Browns were paid over $100 million a year.
*Switched to football as I follow baseball as much as water polo
Offer a high reward for succeeding for drastically increasing a company's business (or saving it), not for just.....showing up. For example, Marisa Mayer has a golden parachute for $50 odd million dollars. Maybe she would have worked a little harder at turning around Yahoo if she had to move in with Liz Homes because she was going to out on her ass, like all the people she laid off?
Combine that with the fact that working stiffs are supposed to work their asses off for as little as eight bucks an hour...sounds a wee bit elitist.
I would protest against Wikileaks, except this time, the far left which has been feeding off Wikileaks for years, has finally been Leaked as being exactly what I always thought they were.
Hilarious, given the fact that Hillary is a right-wing freakshow who can out-neocon and out-neoliberal her GOP opponent any day of the week.
When did Republicans do it? For that matter when did Facebook or Twitter, remove information that made Republicans look bad?
What do you think they just did? The only way the GOP could out-neocon Hillary would be to nominate Kissinger, and the only way they could out-corrupt her would be to nominate Madoff.
You mean given Western Exceptionalist Bullshit? For every drop of western blood spilled by "isliamic terrorists", entire swimming pools are filled with the blood of muslims, from predator drones and imperialist wars. The same month as the attack on Nice, a single U.S. attack slaughtered 85 innocent people in Syria.
If the rest of the world responded to western imperialism the same way western imperalists respond to their own blowback, the United States, France and the UK would be radioactive craters carved deep into bedrock.
Leave people alone? Are you delusional? Liberals believe in the power of government to affect people's lives. They want you to have a "relationship with your government", like it's a girlfriend or something. They expand, expand, expand the power of government because they believe it to be positive and NOT subject to corruption or any of those yucky things. If We The People were left to our own choices, we'd just choose wrong! Look at Brexit! The people were presented with a clearly correct choice and a clearly wrong choice, and they screwed it up! How can you trust people like that?
The neat thing here is that everything you just whined about doesn't describe liberalism, at at all.
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The people to fear here are the Western Exceptionalist Five Eyes. They're the ones trying to tap every communication from every person on the planet, not the Russians.
Dems are shown to be a bunch of corrupt elitist assholes - and they deflect from that by blaming Russia with the same gravely serious tones they used to tell you about Saddam's WMD's.
Repeating the empty slogan does not get the shit off the heel. Hint: if, on aggregate, you don't have equal outcomes, by definition that means you do not have equal opportunity. Medical school alone proves my point - it's an incredible gamble to risk a lifetime of student loan debt if your quest to become a doctor doesn't pan out - unless you have rich asshole parents to back you up.
If there was equality of opportunity, a black kid from Detroit has as much chance as a rich asshole kid from a rich asshole neighborhood of being your next doctor. But we both know that's not the case.
Uh, you would hope so, compared to a five year old device.
Yes, just as you can buy a laptop "with similar specs" to a Macbook Pro for half as much money, as long as you're going to settle for three times the weight and pretend a spinning disk is equivalent to PCI-E based storage.
And the basis for this tautology? And why would they care after they've destroyed other brands in a price war? Apple can cut their prices 20% and still make a tidy profit. Samsung cuts their prices 20%, and their balls are in the bandsaw.
New Samsung phone snazzier than a year old (nearly) product from a competitor. This shocking, shocking development at 6.
Yes, Android it's also the operating system powering the dumb feature phone segment of the market. But that cheap crap is far from being in the same class as a new Galaxy or an iPhone.
See above. It also helps sales when your devices are no longer updated after the first year.
Only for Fandroids.
That's not "reality world", that's shroomed up Obamabot fantasy. That costs aren't increasing at double digit rates every year doesn't mean they aren't still rising faster than inflation.
You say that like it's a good thing. It's not. For-profit insurance isn't the solution, it's the problem. Y'alls need to go watch Sicko again, a movie made about how freakishly horrible people with insurance have it when it comes to getting health care.
That's all the people have done since Reagan - make compromise after compromise after compromise. And for every singe "victory", like SCHIP, has come with a dozen far more serious defeats, like NAFTA/DMCA/NDAA etc etc.
The only two democratic constituencies to have gotten anything out of Obama during his presidency were the two who threatened to sit out his re-election in 2012: gays and latinos. You don't get the party to move by being a yes man, you get the party to move by threatening their election chances.
Horseshit. That 93% nonsense is based on looking at their shared time in the Senate, where Hillary spent most of her time....naming post offices. With the exception of her Iraq War vote, Hillary's right-wing freakshow has taken place OUTSIDE of the Senate.
Calling black children super predators?
Making BFF's with the world's worst dictators?
Acting as an arms merchant to the same?
Overthrowing democracies?
Helping Obama start a war without Congressional authorization?
Making the world safe for fracking?
Pushing the TPP?
All done outside of the Senate, making the "they voted the same way 93% of the time" utter sophistry.
It's not unconscionable. It's sophistry.
Most of Hillary's greatest right wing hits were entirely out of her time in the Senate, except of course for her vote on Iraq. Calling black kids "super-predators", where was the vote on that? How about her supporting "regime change" in the democracies of Venezuela, Ukraine and Honduras? Turning Libya and Syria into another couple of Iraq's, and creating a continent-wide refugee crisis?
Anyone repeating the 93% nonsense is a shitheel.
You're dumb. Debates in 2008 were ratings hits for both parties, as were the 2016 GOP debates, since that race wasn't cleared for Jeb by the RNC. And look up Jesse Ventura - he was a joke celebrity candidate in Minnesota - until he he turned a great debate performance into a stint at the governors office.
That's why the Dems and the R's have colluded since the 80's to keep debates between themselves, to prevent a non-flacky Ross Perot from coming in and taking what is "rightfully" theirs.
His campaign wasn't. Closing Gitmo, card check, public option, ENDA....a solidly progressive platform that won him the election. That he turned out to be a closet neoliberal neocon doesn't change the fact that he won on a platform far to the left of where she is now. You poll by issues rather than labels, and the "far left" position is generally the most popular one, even amongst Republican voters.
You might want to have remedial knowledge of the subject before engaging in patronization, least you look like a pompous fool. You could have a hundred years of service in the Senate, and it doesn't mean dick if a party doesn't recognize your seniority.
Go read on who Sander's caucuses with, and on Vermont, where there is no party registration....Fool.
My advice is to put down the shovel, and stop fornicating that chicken.
Canard. If Bernie wasn't a Democrat in all but name, they wouldn't give him seniority in the Senate, nor would they let him sit on committees. And of course he ran for president as a Democrat, and is closer to the party's traditional platform than almost all elected officials.
Furthermore, it's not like the same party that has spent 1.5 decades whining about Nader would have been happy with Sanders running for president as an independent.
How is that relevant to iOS vs Android, when a Samsung device costs just as much as an iPhone?
Which also means that Apple has more room to engage in a price war, if it comes down to that.
That's what he said.
Is the DNC a government agency? This day in simple answers for simple questions...
Well, I guess it beats YACA....but these aren't players we're talking about here. But to go with a sports analogy*, imagine if the coaches of the Patriots, Colts and Steelers were among the least paid in the league, but the coaches of perennially shitty teams like the Vikings or Browns were paid over $100 million a year.
*Switched to football as I follow baseball as much as water polo
Offer a high reward for succeeding for drastically increasing a company's business (or saving it), not for just.....showing up. For example, Marisa Mayer has a golden parachute for $50 odd million dollars. Maybe she would have worked a little harder at turning around Yahoo if she had to move in with Liz Homes because she was going to out on her ass, like all the people she laid off?
Combine that with the fact that working stiffs are supposed to work their asses off for as little as eight bucks an hour...sounds a wee bit elitist.
Hilarious, given the fact that Hillary is a right-wing freakshow who can out-neocon and out-neoliberal her GOP opponent any day of the week.
What do you think they just did? The only way the GOP could out-neocon Hillary would be to nominate Kissinger, and the only way they could out-corrupt her would be to nominate Madoff.
You mean given Western Exceptionalist Bullshit? For every drop of western blood spilled by "isliamic terrorists", entire swimming pools are filled with the blood of muslims, from predator drones and imperialist wars. The same month as the attack on Nice, a single U.S. attack slaughtered 85 innocent people in Syria.
If the rest of the world responded to western imperialism the same way western imperalists respond to their own blowback, the United States, France and the UK would be radioactive craters carved deep into bedrock.
Horseshit sophistry. Kaine has voted for the Hyde Amendment, who's purpose is to deny the use of public funds for abortion.
The neat thing here is that everything you just whined about doesn't describe liberalism, at at all.
You're talking about capitalism, money and power.
The "reasonable" guy is the one who wrote the Birth of a Nation for middle eastern peoples?
So is the world's worst living war criminal.
Solidly pro-life, which will undercut demagoguery from Stepford Democrats that ermagurd you must vote D to protect a woman's right to choose.
The virtue of having his lips sewn to the sphincter of Goldman Sachs? He wants more deregulation of the banks, and (like Hillary) is pro-TPP.