Like the other hand waiving responses, James Gandolfini was never a "sex symbol". And if his success (tied to a single TV show) means there aren't unrealistic expectations for men, Roseanne being the biggest show on TV must also mean there aren't any unrealistic or age related expectations of women.
You seem to think that an all powerful government is good and that corporations are by design bad.
You seem to be a fan of straw men.
Being for small government does not mean that one is for Somalia type anarchy
Depends on what you mean by "small". Typically, that means that the government does exactly what selfish, self-centered, shortsighted Libertarians think it should do for them, and not one iota more.
You'll tell us they didn't do Socialism correctly. Somehow with all the price controls, nationalizing industries, taking over private property, goon squads intimidating the population, that toilet paper, gasoline (even with gigantic natural resources to produce it), and bread are in short supply causing a miserable existence for the starving population (excepting those in the government elite of course).
Oh, blow it out your ass, capitalist gaslighter. There are overt regime change efforts from the State Department and covert efforts from the CIA. And Venezuela's economy is better on all fronts after Chavez than it was before it.
When asian imports became available consumers flocked to them because they were CHEAP.
And because Wal-Mart would throw your American ass out the door if your product was a nickle more than the Chinese import.
Remind me again who will choose the cheaper option without any other considerations.
Remind me again when consumers developed a hive mind, and can change market forces through sheer force of will. If your friend works retail, it means your friend doesn't make much money. Expecting people without much money to sacrifice out of some airs of moral superiority you've pushed on to them is snobby elitism.
Prolific troll is prolific. Do you give lead painted toys, asbestos mittens and DDT spray bottles to kids as Christmas stocking stuffers, to stick it to those librul scientists who are just making shit up? If not, why not?
Ah, the "scientists were wrong before, therefore they could be wrong against vaccines now" wankery. Problem; the ideas about spontaneous generation et cetera were replaced by superior ideas backed up by research and testing. Not the hand waving bullllshit employed by anti-vaxxers.
They're union executives. They get paid whether the workers get what they need or not, and it's difficult to remove them because most workers expect to be fucked over and are apathetic.
Except: you can vote to replace that union executive. How are you, as an employee of XYZ company, going to replace the CEO or other top management at the company. If you don't like union leadership, you must be itching to break out the torches and pitchforks on company headquarters.
But the bigger problem with the existence of unions is that unions don't care enough about the minimum wage, or about national health, because their wages are above the minimum wage, and because they have health care.
Except: "a rising tide lifts all boats", and unions have traded compensation in return for reduced rates on health insurance. A higher minimum wage forces up wages for other workers, including unions, and nationalized health care would mean (lots) more money in union worker's paychecks, because it wouldn't be going to premiums and deductibles.
So, any union executive arguing against either is likely to be a corporatist plant, and in need of replacement.
I would also add that I favor strong restrictions on capitalists being able to pool their capital,
Awesome! Probably means the FBI has a file on you, though.
Ooh, now we're getting into accusations of being a class traitor. Always fun to insist that people have to think exactly like you or they're traitors/not real people.
Just more willful obtuseness. A worker being opposed to unions on principle is as asinine as a woman being opposed to the right to vote or being able to own property, a black person opposed to the repeal of Jim Crow, or a wheelchair-bound person being opposed to equal-access laws. Of course, it's near impossible to find women, blacks or disabled people engaged in such levels of willful dumbfuckery, as opposed to corporatist bootlickers who hate unions ignoring corporate failures & corruption while handing 90% of their output over to the boss.
I also love how in most of your comments here, you seem to think that because people don't support some current unions, they think unions should be banned. Newsflash: saying a specific union (like the UAW) has done some bad things, or that you don't want to join it, doesn't mean you want all unions everywhere to be illegal.
Newsflash: that's just more dumbfuckery. If you've been paying attention to my posts, all of them have been in response to mindless anti-union FUD. If the posts were saying the UAW shouldn't be allowed into Tesla because they were instrumental in Volkswagen's emissions cheating or GM killing 100+ people with faulty ignitions (in some other universe where that happened) I wouldn't have commented. But of course that's not the case. It's all the same "unions only protect the lazy derp derp" and vague handwaving "my brother's girlfriends cousins uncle said blah" bullshit.
So, yeah, if you work for someone else and hate unions on principle, you are a traitor to your class and are a fucking idiot. Like I said the first time.
Venezuela is economically crippled because it is sill saddled with capitalism, and capitalists who collude overtly with the State Department and covertly with the CIA when they couldn't win at the ballot box
Their economy is in the tank because they have an economic monoculture and the oil price has tanked
Because the Saudi's have been overproducing for years in a price war. Which has been great as far as undermining their oil producing rivals like Venezuela, Iran and Russia, but they can't keep it up forever.
Other problems though are a direct result of artificial shortages and other US-backed manipulations
Fixed that up a bit. Even Obama couldn't keep a straight face when he announced sanctions against Venezuela, as the country is hardly a threat to the United States.
A ridiculous exaggeration. The Left's ablity to block progress is much stronger than their ability to ensure positive outcomes. They're SUPER GOOD at being society-hating shitheads who don't want anyone to succeed, but not that great at actually improving people's lives. Just look at black people, they were safer under the rule of lynch mobs than they are today. Fewer blacks died back then, today they die all the time. (And it's not at the hands of the police like you might think.) If black peoples' lives got any better, they wouldn't need the Left any more and that would be a great tragedy.
This is why you never go Full Libertarian...it makes you batshit and racist. The left wasn't able to stop nuclear power plants from being built in the first place, wasn't able to stop Vietnam, wasn't able to stop NAFTA or Iraq or telecom deregulation or Obomneycare. I could go on all day.
If the left were remotely capable of blocking "progress" as you claim, the world would be a much better place.
Dems would love to axe military spending, provide alternative jobs training, allow Gov't to negotiate drug and medical service costs
Whatever you're smoking, did you bring enough for everyone? Democrats blocked medical negotiations and went right on spending over a trillion each of Obama's years in office.
And Dems would also be fine with economic incentives and/or gov't programs to encourage/force sterilization to overpopulation.
Eugenics, seriously? I see you moved from a nice fatty to some combination of meth and shrooms.
It's threatening your workers if they get too uppity in wanting compensation for their labor, so distinction without a difference. And the H1B workers he mentioned can be imported to any state.
Yes they did, but then a lot of them went insane. I have a family member (the only one that I know of being in one) that HATES his union, they take hundreds of dollars out of his paycheck but when the employees ask for help in contract negotiations they shrug and say "you should just accept the contract you're given because we charge $[insane amount] per hour to send someone down".
Every anti-union pile of bullshit starts with "my brother's girlfriend's grandpa didn't like his union". And why don't you toolbags apply this same standard of purity to for profit businesses - all banks are bad because of Goldman Sachs, all oil companies are bad because of Enron, and so on.
Unions are a counterbalance to corporate greed. Has corporate greed ended? No, it hasn't. Do you also say that needing food and drug regulations are the a thing of the past, for the same reasons? If not, why not? How about car safety regulations, the FCC regulating the broadcast spectrum so big players aren't free to overpower the competition's radio waves....
Unions are a counterbalance to corporate greed. Has corporate greed ended? No, it hasn't. Do you also say that needing food and drug regulations are the a thing of the past, for the same reasons? If not, why not?
Anti-union dumbfuckery. Unions weren't responsible for the management decisions that drove the big three into the ground - unreliable gas guzzlers when gas prices were at all time highs - management was.
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In some universe where he was a sex symbol, as opposed to someone paid to have sex?
Maybe because you had to reach back to the Paleozoic era for your counter-examples.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/non%20sequitur
Like the other hand waiving responses, James Gandolfini was never a "sex symbol". And if his success (tied to a single TV show) means there aren't unrealistic expectations for men, Roseanne being the biggest show on TV must also mean there aren't any unrealistic or age related expectations of women.
Not as sex symbols, they haven't. They're all comedic actors who generally play buffoons, too.
You seem to be a fan of straw men.
Depends on what you mean by "small". Typically, that means that the government does exactly what selfish, self-centered, shortsighted Libertarians think it should do for them, and not one iota more.
Oh, blow it out your ass, capitalist gaslighter. There are overt regime change efforts from the State Department and covert efforts from the CIA. And Venezuela's economy is better on all fronts after Chavez than it was before it.
What about them.
And because Wal-Mart would throw your American ass out the door if your product was a nickle more than the Chinese import.
Remind me again when consumers developed a hive mind, and can change market forces through sheer force of will. If your friend works retail, it means your friend doesn't make much money. Expecting people without much money to sacrifice out of some airs of moral superiority you've pushed on to them is snobby elitism.
In a news magzine. Not a science magazine, much less peer-reviewed journals.
So, FUD & bullshit. Just like I said the first time.
Prolific troll is prolific. Do you give lead painted toys, asbestos mittens and DDT spray bottles to kids as Christmas stocking stuffers, to stick it to those librul scientists who are just making shit up? If not, why not?
Same old pile of denialist hand waiving, FUD, and gaslighting. Different day.
Ah, the "scientists were wrong before, therefore they could be wrong against vaccines now" wankery. Problem; the ideas about spontaneous generation et cetera were replaced by superior ideas backed up by research and testing. Not the hand waving bullllshit employed by anti-vaxxers.
When was the last time you jumped off a cliff or skyscraper to test the theory of gravity?
No, it wasn't. Stop parroting memes based on FUD & bullshit.
So you're an elitist then. How cool and edgy. You advocating for a return to only property owners being able to vote, while you're at it?
Except: you can vote to replace that union executive. How are you, as an employee of XYZ company, going to replace the CEO or other top management at the company. If you don't like union leadership, you must be itching to break out the torches and pitchforks on company headquarters.
Except: "a rising tide lifts all boats", and unions have traded compensation in return for reduced rates on health insurance. A higher minimum wage forces up wages for other workers, including unions, and nationalized health care would mean (lots) more money in union worker's paychecks, because it wouldn't be going to premiums and deductibles.
So, any union executive arguing against either is likely to be a corporatist plant, and in need of replacement.
Awesome! Probably means the FBI has a file on you, though.
Just more willful obtuseness. A worker being opposed to unions on principle is as asinine as a woman being opposed to the right to vote or being able to own property, a black person opposed to the repeal of Jim Crow, or a wheelchair-bound person being opposed to equal-access laws. Of course, it's near impossible to find women, blacks or disabled people engaged in such levels of willful dumbfuckery, as opposed to corporatist bootlickers who hate unions ignoring corporate failures & corruption while handing 90% of their output over to the boss.
Newsflash: that's just more dumbfuckery. If you've been paying attention to my posts, all of them have been in response to mindless anti-union FUD. If the posts were saying the UAW shouldn't be allowed into Tesla because they were instrumental in Volkswagen's emissions cheating or GM killing 100+ people with faulty ignitions (in some other universe where that happened) I wouldn't have commented. But of course that's not the case. It's all the same "unions only protect the lazy derp derp" and vague handwaving "my brother's girlfriends cousins uncle said blah" bullshit.
So, yeah, if you work for someone else and hate unions on principle, you are a traitor to your class and are a fucking idiot. Like I said the first time.
FTFY
Because the Saudi's have been overproducing for years in a price war. Which has been great as far as undermining their oil producing rivals like Venezuela, Iran and Russia, but they can't keep it up forever.
Fixed that up a bit. Even Obama couldn't keep a straight face when he announced sanctions against Venezuela, as the country is hardly a threat to the United States.
This is why you never go Full Libertarian...it makes you batshit and racist. The left wasn't able to stop nuclear power plants from being built in the first place, wasn't able to stop Vietnam, wasn't able to stop NAFTA or Iraq or telecom deregulation or Obomneycare. I could go on all day.
If the left were remotely capable of blocking "progress" as you claim, the world would be a much better place.
Whatever you're smoking, did you bring enough for everyone? Democrats blocked medical negotiations and went right on spending over a trillion each of Obama's years in office.
Eugenics, seriously? I see you moved from a nice fatty to some combination of meth and shrooms.
It's threatening your workers if they get too uppity in wanting compensation for their labor, so distinction without a difference. And the H1B workers he mentioned can be imported to any state.
Every anti-union pile of bullshit starts with "my brother's girlfriend's grandpa didn't like his union". And why don't you toolbags apply this same standard of purity to for profit businesses - all banks are bad because of Goldman Sachs, all oil companies are bad because of Enron, and so on.
Morons.
Unions are a counterbalance to corporate greed. Has corporate greed ended? No, it hasn't. Do you also say that needing food and drug regulations are the a thing of the past, for the same reasons? If not, why not? How about car safety regulations, the FCC regulating the broadcast spectrum so big players aren't free to overpower the competition's radio waves....
Unions are a counterbalance to corporate greed. Has corporate greed ended? No, it hasn't. Do you also say that needing food and drug regulations are the a thing of the past, for the same reasons? If not, why not?
Anti-union dumbfuckery. Unions weren't responsible for the management decisions that drove the big three into the ground - unreliable gas guzzlers when gas prices were at all time highs - management was.