There was no Tesla fanboyism in that post. Tesla wasn't even the point. This is why you don't chug the Hatorade, it makes you fly off the handle and say shit that's just embarrassing.
As much as I dislike the Republican Party it is heads and shoulders above the Democrat Party as respects to individual rights.
Bhwahaha. Aside from the stuff the AC mentioned, which party was running around in 2004 trying to get gay marriage bans passed around the country? Which party has done far and away the most gerrymandering? The most to try and prevent people from voting? Who's the party of pecker checkers on kids using the "right" public bathroom? Muslim travel bans?
I could go on all day. Outside the tiny libertarian wing, the Republican party is an absolute freakshow on individual liberty.
Serious question here....just how much shit is packed between your ears? I just mentioned Tamir Rice and John Crawford by name, who weren't holding real guns, much less threatening cops with them, when they were gunned down on sight. But even if they were holding real guns, Ohio is an open-carry state and it would have been legal for them to do so. No charges for the cops that murdered them.
No charges for any of the cops that murdered these people minding their own business, some on their own property, and some in open carry states. There is no right to bear arms if using that right means you're subjected to an instant death sentence from cops who will suffer no consequences for murdering you.
This is more a sign that simplistic left/right analysis is an incomplete way of viewing things. You're falling into the trap of thinking every policy you disagree with is necessarily the right wing, even faced with evidence from the fact that blah blah blah blah blah
The Democratic Party is owned by the same corporate interests as the Republicans. So, yeah, they are right wing. As proven by Bill Clinton passing a host of legislation that Reagan/Bush could have only dreamed of. And again by Obama, who normalized Bushism while tripling the number of wars and trying to cut Social Security. Now most of the Democratic candidates for president are trying to walk the line of trying to get the base to vote for them while telling said base that it's still not the time for free-to-use higher education or health care. Because their donors don't want them to.
The Democrats themselves say that they want to take your guns...
Repeating a big lie doesn't make it true, it just makes you a more pathetic liar for repeating it. And pathetic you gun nuts are, as you DGAF about police shootings that rend the 2nd Amendment moot. If bearing a firearm in an open carry state is an automatic death sentence (or even not-firearms like the toys or BB guns held by Tamir Rice or John Crawford) then obviously you don't have a right to bear them. If you weren't full of shit, your first priority would be to get those killer cops sent to prison for murder.
Which is the party that at least mouths individual rights? And which is the party that glorifies state control?
Given your biases, you don't want to be asking that question anymore than an Obamabot wants to be asking who was the last president to increase the minimum wage.
Democrats want to own all your money and make you be a hippy.
On what planet is that? Democrats are nothing but the other party of corrupt right wing assholes, who are frequently to the right of their GOP opponents. Just to pick one example, Kamela Harris's Republican opponent for the position of CA AG ran to her left on marijuana legalization. To pick another, Trump ran to Hillary's left on corruption, trade, and foreign wars. That he's turned out to be largely full of shit on those campaign issues doesn't change the fact that he ran to her left.
I don't know about AZ specifically, but cops in some jurisdictions have crazy shit written into their contracts. Like having 24 hours to get their story straight before being questioned for a possible crime they committed. So if this fascist shit sandwich makes it through committee and into a signed bill, maybe the Fraternal Order of the Gestapo can use their power for good, for once, and fight it until it's repealed.
The NSA already taps calls and tracks cell phone location, so it's no big deal if they force everyone to buy an Amazon Echo to record every word spoken in your own home!!!
Much medical research is already publicly financed in the United States. Just do more of it and repeal the Bob Dole law allowing universities to get together with pharma to profit from public research.
Unions exist to protect workers from greed and exploitation
FTFY. Public sector unions exist because self-centered fools such as yourself expect professional services without having to pay professional wages - and you vote.
What you get with public employee unions is the unions paying for the election of legislators who then negotiate with said union. It's pure pay to play corruption.
Pure dumbfuckery. If that actually worked, the US would be a socialist utopia as more and more legislators supported those unions and public spending - but that hasn't happened even in the bluest of blue states. The only thing connecting the dots of public sector unions and them being inherently corrupt institutions is the crap between your ears.
That's it. That's all. That is the ONLY goal the Union has. Make. More. Money.
Which is a total sin in an organization where the CEO and the shareholders Want. To. Make. More. Money? You do know that union. operations. cost. money? Negotiating, recruiting and lobbying - same thing the company does with the profits you produce, but class traitors like yourself never have a problem with?
This is why our healthcare premiums keep increasing every year because the Union doesn't give a damn about how much their members have to pay out of pocket for health insurance. As long as they get their dues, everything is golden. No one seems to notice that their meager annual raise gets negated by the rising health care premiums.
You're so wrapped up in your anti-union Hatorade that you don't even notice that one of your main complaints is that the union doesn't have far more power to force more concessions out of the company.
That said, the other problem with Unionizing is mediocrity.
More bullshit. The "unions just protect the lazy" trope is dependent on the notion that you're happy to run over and do you job plus Steve's when Steve slacks off or doesn't know what he's doing. Human beings of course are not built that way.
The final insult is when the layoffs start. Once Unionized, your amazing Rockstar skills are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is Seniority. Whomever has been there the longest, will have the most Seniority. Layoffs start from the least Senior and work their way up to the top. So if you're a Rockstar who has been there for five years, but the Idiot has been there longer, guess who gets the axe first ?:|
The five year idiot who think's he's a rockstar but has just been sniffing his own farts the entire time.
I've yet to see a union advocate argue that one away either.
Could always ask one as its an easy one to answer. The "unions just protect the lazy" trope is built on the notion that Bill, union worker, is happy to run over and do his own job plus Steve's when Steve slacks off or doesn't know what he's doing. Or that Mary, 3rd grade teacher, is ecstatic to have to reteach math for some of her incoming students because their second grade teacher was incompetent at it.
But of course humans aren't built that way. Which makes this anti-union trope both obnoxious and facile.
...or freedom from studio contracts that kept actors chained to MGM et all. Unions did that. Remember the writers strike from a few years ago? Where studios used loopholes to not pay writers for content streamed online, that the studios were profiting from? The word begins with a u...
Apparently not much, as two of the five companies with the worst CEO to median worker pay ratio are film studios, and a third is a TV studio.
So another union-bashing post were one of the primary complaints is...that unions don't have vastly more power than they do now. So what would you have them do? Seize the means of production, comrade? Would it be enough to take the board of directors hostage until the cave to demands, or would you recommend breaking out the guillotines?
But, back to residuals. All those episodes of old TV shows on streaming services or broadcast TV? Writers and actors get a check for that. Small checks but they get them. When someone buys a bundle of old games on Steam, EA may get a check, but the original programmers don't.
You are blissfully unaware that "natural gas" is nearly worthless and is often literally just burned for no use at all. What makes natural gas expensive is transportation.
No. China and India do NOT get to pollute 7 times more than America.
Of course they do, when they have 7 times the population.
Neither have the economy that America has (china is approaching)
The only thing that matters is per-capita pollution - everything else is rationalization for western arrogance and entitlement. Moreso when most of the CO2 that has been pumped into the atmosphere over the past 150 years has come from western countries. And again, much of that pollution in China you're complaining about now is powering factories to make products for American shelves.
Nuke is not only viable, but probably the only real choice. This BS about heavily subsidizing AE (just wind and solar) so that it is cheaper than nukes and then declaring nukes too expensive is INSANE.
Nuclear power is never going to be cheaper. You can make all your wishful nuclear fanboy dreams come true on new vaporware, I mean new designs, and they will still be far more costly than wind and solar. Nuclear is always going to be more complex, you're always going to have issues with containment. You're aways going to have issues with security and disposal.
Nuclear power is completely and utterly unjustifiable.
Adding some sniveling dipshittery isn't improving the quality of the butthurt. And does nothing to change the fact that the Libertarian who actually falls on his free market sword when his free market BS blows up in his face is as rare as finding a Hobbit riding a unicorn. As a religion for extremely selfish, self-centered people, it's only natural that you'll fall in love with regulation as soon as it benefits you personally.
Like the invading Han Chinese? Or the invading Persians?
Like how many of those were running around New Hampshire? You know, the state you were talking about.
Our history books may focus on the conflict between settled peoples but the primary change was whenever agricultural peoples came across lands held by semi-nomadic people. The agricultural (civilized) peoples considered this to be unsettled, unclaimed land.
A very Europcentric view of history. Most of the planet was just fine until Europeans invented the greatest crime against humanity, colonialism. Western Europeans, specifically.
Oh, thanks for that wingnut piece that insulted the intelligence of anyone who read it. GND means massive investment in wind and solar, which will create a huge jobs boom, not just banning coal.
Same reason Bernie Madoff went to jail - he stole from the rich. If he had just done what Wells Fargo or Steve Mnuchin did and stole from working stiffs, he'd probably have a job at the White House - under either a Dem or GOP administration.
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There was no Tesla fanboyism in that post. Tesla wasn't even the point. This is why you don't chug the Hatorade, it makes you fly off the handle and say shit that's just embarrassing.
I see your Hatorade, but not any response to what Rei actually wrote.
Bhwahaha. Aside from the stuff the AC mentioned, which party was running around in 2004 trying to get gay marriage bans passed around the country? Which party has done far and away the most gerrymandering? The most to try and prevent people from voting? Who's the party of pecker checkers on kids using the "right" public bathroom? Muslim travel bans?
I could go on all day. Outside the tiny libertarian wing, the Republican party is an absolute freakshow on individual liberty.
Serious question here....just how much shit is packed between your ears? I just mentioned Tamir Rice and John Crawford by name, who weren't holding real guns, much less threatening cops with them, when they were gunned down on sight. But even if they were holding real guns, Ohio is an open-carry state and it would have been legal for them to do so. No charges for the cops that murdered them.
There's also Philandro Castile and Emantic Bradford just off the top of my head. Hell, cops have even gunned down people holding fucking garden nozzles on their own fucking property.
No charges for any of the cops that murdered these people minding their own business, some on their own property, and some in open carry states. There is no right to bear arms if using that right means you're subjected to an instant death sentence from cops who will suffer no consequences for murdering you.
The Democratic Party is owned by the same corporate interests as the Republicans. So, yeah, they are right wing. As proven by Bill Clinton passing a host of legislation that Reagan/Bush could have only dreamed of. And again by Obama, who normalized Bushism while tripling the number of wars and trying to cut Social Security. Now most of the Democratic candidates for president are trying to walk the line of trying to get the base to vote for them while telling said base that it's still not the time for free-to-use higher education or health care. Because their donors don't want them to.
A very impressive rebuttal. I especially liked the 4th and 7th citations, though I disagreed with the one after that.
Repeating a big lie doesn't make it true, it just makes you a more pathetic liar for repeating it. And pathetic you gun nuts are, as you DGAF about police shootings that rend the 2nd Amendment moot. If bearing a firearm in an open carry state is an automatic death sentence (or even not-firearms like the toys or BB guns held by Tamir Rice or John Crawford) then obviously you don't have a right to bear them. If you weren't full of shit, your first priority would be to get those killer cops sent to prison for murder.
Or your projection.
Given your biases, you don't want to be asking that question anymore than an Obamabot wants to be asking who was the last president to increase the minimum wage.
On what planet is that? Democrats are nothing but the other party of corrupt right wing assholes, who are frequently to the right of their GOP opponents. Just to pick one example, Kamela Harris's Republican opponent for the position of CA AG ran to her left on marijuana legalization. To pick another, Trump ran to Hillary's left on corruption, trade, and foreign wars. That he's turned out to be largely full of shit on those campaign issues doesn't change the fact that he ran to her left.
I don't know about AZ specifically, but cops in some jurisdictions have crazy shit written into their contracts. Like having 24 hours to get their story straight before being questioned for a possible crime they committed. So if this fascist shit sandwich makes it through committee and into a signed bill, maybe the Fraternal Order of the Gestapo can use their power for good, for once, and fight it until it's repealed.
The NSA already taps calls and tracks cell phone location, so it's no big deal if they force everyone to buy an Amazon Echo to record every word spoken in your own home!!!
Much medical research is already publicly financed in the United States. Just do more of it and repeal the Bob Dole law allowing universities to get together with pharma to profit from public research.
FTFY. Public sector unions exist because self-centered fools such as yourself expect professional services without having to pay professional wages - and you vote.
Pure dumbfuckery. If that actually worked, the US would be a socialist utopia as more and more legislators supported those unions and public spending - but that hasn't happened even in the bluest of blue states. The only thing connecting the dots of public sector unions and them being inherently corrupt institutions is the crap between your ears.
Which is a total sin in an organization where the CEO and the shareholders Want. To. Make. More. Money? You do know that union. operations. cost. money? Negotiating, recruiting and lobbying - same thing the company does with the profits you produce, but class traitors like yourself never have a problem with?
You're so wrapped up in your anti-union Hatorade that you don't even notice that one of your main complaints is that the union doesn't have far more power to force more concessions out of the company.
More bullshit. The "unions just protect the lazy" trope is dependent on the notion that you're happy to run over and do you job plus Steve's when Steve slacks off or doesn't know what he's doing. Human beings of course are not built that way.
The five year idiot who think's he's a rockstar but has just been sniffing his own farts the entire time.
I've yet to see a union advocate argue that one away either.
Could always ask one as its an easy one to answer. The "unions just protect the lazy" trope is built on the notion that Bill, union worker, is happy to run over and do his own job plus Steve's when Steve slacks off or doesn't know what he's doing. Or that Mary, 3rd grade teacher, is ecstatic to have to reteach math for some of her incoming students because their second grade teacher was incompetent at it.
But of course humans aren't built that way. Which makes this anti-union trope both obnoxious and facile.
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...or freedom from studio contracts that kept actors chained to MGM et all. Unions did that. Remember the writers strike from a few years ago? Where studios used loopholes to not pay writers for content streamed online, that the studios were profiting from? The word begins with a u...
So another union-bashing post were one of the primary complaints is...that unions don't have vastly more power than they do now. So what would you have them do? Seize the means of production, comrade? Would it be enough to take the board of directors hostage until the cave to demands, or would you recommend breaking out the guillotines?
But, back to residuals. All those episodes of old TV shows on streaming services or broadcast TV? Writers and actors get a check for that. Small checks but they get them. When someone buys a bundle of old games on Steam, EA may get a check, but the original programmers don't.
Distinction without a difference.
Of course they do, when they have 7 times the population.
The only thing that matters is per-capita pollution - everything else is rationalization for western arrogance and entitlement. Moreso when most of the CO2 that has been pumped into the atmosphere over the past 150 years has come from western countries. And again, much of that pollution in China you're complaining about now is powering factories to make products for American shelves.
Nuclear power is never going to be cheaper. You can make all your wishful nuclear fanboy dreams come true on new vaporware, I mean new designs, and they will still be far more costly than wind and solar. Nuclear is always going to be more complex, you're always going to have issues with containment. You're aways going to have issues with security and disposal.
Nuclear power is completely and utterly unjustifiable.
Adding some sniveling dipshittery isn't improving the quality of the butthurt. And does nothing to change the fact that the Libertarian who actually falls on his free market sword when his free market BS blows up in his face is as rare as finding a Hobbit riding a unicorn. As a religion for extremely selfish, self-centered people, it's only natural that you'll fall in love with regulation as soon as it benefits you personally.
Like how many of those were running around New Hampshire? You know, the state you were talking about.
A very Europcentric view of history. Most of the planet was just fine until Europeans invented the greatest crime against humanity, colonialism. Western Europeans, specifically.
Probably not too challenging when the native forests were clear cut by invading colonists in the few centuries before that.
Oh, thanks for that wingnut piece that insulted the intelligence of anyone who read it. GND means massive investment in wind and solar, which will create a huge jobs boom, not just banning coal.
Same reason Bernie Madoff went to jail - he stole from the rich. If he had just done what Wells Fargo or Steve Mnuchin did and stole from working stiffs, he'd probably have a job at the White House - under either a Dem or GOP administration.