You know that anybody can find 'an economist' that will tell them anything. It's part of why the field is such a bad joke.
Mugabe has economists.
Saying ('Some economists believe ' + random bullshit you just make up + '!') is completely safe. If none believed it before, some surely will, after reading your words. If they don't, a little grant money will fix it.
Because much of the debt and currency is held by foreigners aka chumps (In fact not chumps, their domestic investments would have been even worse.). Duh. If it was only the SS trust fund your analysis would be on point.
There is no conspiracy. US tax law enforcement just require them to be behind another proxy.
There are no doubt US assets in the pile, but they will never know because the US tax dodger has a corporation in Monaco that owns the corporation in Panama.
The people with money directly in this pile are from nations that aren't really trying to catch tax cheats or honest people (maybe one in the lot, maybe). Take that for what it's worth if many people from your nation are on the list.
The recent openness of Swiss accounts is exaggerated. It only applies to accounts opened after about 1950, the Kennedy, Bush, Rockefeller and all other 'old money' numbered accounts remain secret and open for business. I'm sure they backdated the Clinton and Obama ones too. Just professional courtesy.
There are million different ways that study could generate the results they wanted.
The default for any work done by sociologists etc is that it's bullshit. This is based on their track record.
Ask yourself, who go busted for pot 50 years ago (race)? What 'putative risk factor for violence' would sociologists ignore because it's so god damn politically incorrect (race)?
By not sticking their neck out and risking being called racists, they get the results they want.
Next time make the reported results so preposterous it's obvious that shenanigans are involved.
Make 'Vermin Supreme' get 110% of the votes. Give the mainstream candidates large enough negative vote counts to give the national popular vote to 'Vermin Supreme'.
Until someone does this, to a system directly feeding data to the news networks, the system will continue to be reported as 'secure and working as designed'.
More than a few. They are an echo chamber. 'Solar power, pot grown under electric lights, evil republican bankers, feel the bern, the workers control the means of production...'
Fun at parties, but not their parties...All the same lame band on the stereo, all the time.
At this point the USA doesn't have a choice. It's print money or default. The numbers needed to keep SS solvent over the next 20 years can't be made through revenue.
We are clearly on course to 'print our way out'. It's not the radical position, it's the default 'do nothing radical' position.
The only thing that can save us is another major currency becoming obvious toilet paper first and capitol flight saves our ass. I'm looking at you Euro, though I have hopes for the Yuan/Renminbi too.
I think of it as three way hot potato. All the currencies are crap, but the first to go will at least temporarily hold up the other two.
Alternatively a small player like the British pound could go tits up first. They really have set the standard for financial mismanagement.
IIRC carbide is the second hardest substance known. Fuck yes it's scratch resistant.
Titanium is about 30+ (Rockwell), which isn't hardened steal, but isn't gold ether.
Titanium is a bitch because it's strong (so you have to take shallow cuts, usually by spinning fast), abrasive (which dulls tools) and can catch fire if the tool goes dull and the machine tries to keep cutting.
Carbide is also a powder, to make it into a tool or ring it's usually held in a Cobalt matrix. About 5% of the population reacts very badly to Cobalt. Nobody should get Carbide powder (like from grinding a custom carbide tool) in their lungs. For 5% of the population, just a tiny bit will kill them, slow and painful. There is no test.
I think gold is a nice metal, but as I've noted on/. before: Caustic sweat is my superpower. Cheap metal watches fear me. If I was locked up, I would sweat on the bars and escape.
Conservative and Liberal have lost all meaning, everywhere, but particularly in the USA.
Conservative once meant: 'Go slow with changes, it takes decades to see how things are going.'
Liberal once meant: 'In favor of Liberty.'
Nether is true today. Conservatives seam to want to build a still more (corporate/Jesus theme park) world. Liberals are reactionary and want 1930s socialism, along with all it's government control.
Nobody will agree with my definitions. But honest people have to admit the original ones are even more false.
Do you see the 'party of the earth' people? Same thing, different drummer (or drummers, dead head).
'we think we are more holy than thou'
I wouldn't trust a christian who spent the number of hours listening to 'church music' the average dead head does. Talk about brain washed populations.
You know why the CIA likes acid? It makes people gullible as fuck, they will believe anything they hear from someone they trust while tripping. To some degree, internalize it and wake up believing it without thought, depending on how preposterous.
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You are thinking of the 'Red Guards'.
Kids really are gullible and easy to turn fanatic.
Don't forget the 'Hitler Youth'. Every cult of personality uses the kids for their own ends.
When the Clintons do it, it's called triangulation. Granting they use proxies to float ideas and get poll results.
You know that anybody can find 'an economist' that will tell them anything. It's part of why the field is such a bad joke.
Mugabe has economists.
Saying ('Some economists believe ' + random bullshit you just make up + '!') is completely safe. If none believed it before, some surely will, after reading your words. If they don't, a little grant money will fix it.
Because much of the debt and currency is held by foreigners aka chumps (In fact not chumps, their domestic investments would have been even worse.). Duh. If it was only the SS trust fund your analysis would be on point.
There is no conspiracy. US tax law enforcement just require them to be behind another proxy.
There are no doubt US assets in the pile, but they will never know because the US tax dodger has a corporation in Monaco that owns the corporation in Panama.
The people with money directly in this pile are from nations that aren't really trying to catch tax cheats or honest people (maybe one in the lot, maybe). Take that for what it's worth if many people from your nation are on the list.
The recent openness of Swiss accounts is exaggerated. It only applies to accounts opened after about 1950, the Kennedy, Bush, Rockefeller and all other 'old money' numbered accounts remain secret and open for business. I'm sure they backdated the Clinton and Obama ones too. Just professional courtesy.
By that definition, there are no liberals in politics.
It's usually cutting and collecting raw opium that's a crime.
All poppies have some opium in them. Opium poppies are just the strong ones.
I cleaned my garage on Trainwreck.
Which has a lot of Thai genetics. Made a Vietnam vet cry, reminded him of the stuff they smoked there.
Skunk is usually a coma inducing Afghani strain. YMMV.
I demand satisfaction.
Have you second contact my second to arrange time and select weapons for the duel.
You should give up smoking.
There are million different ways that study could generate the results they wanted.
The default for any work done by sociologists etc is that it's bullshit. This is based on their track record.
Ask yourself, who go busted for pot 50 years ago (race)? What 'putative risk factor for violence' would sociologists ignore because it's so god damn politically incorrect (race)?
By not sticking their neck out and risking being called racists, they get the results they want.
Hillary is a very typical liberal. Not doing what they say is a defining trait.
But the point remains, GP is fine with what the NY Times does. Just not when they do it to his guy.
Next time make the reported results so preposterous it's obvious that shenanigans are involved.
Make 'Vermin Supreme' get 110% of the votes. Give the mainstream candidates large enough negative vote counts to give the national popular vote to 'Vermin Supreme'.
Until someone does this, to a system directly feeding data to the news networks, the system will continue to be reported as 'secure and working as designed'.
More than a few. They are an echo chamber. 'Solar power, pot grown under electric lights, evil republican bankers, feel the bern, the workers control the means of production...'
Fun at parties, but not their parties...All the same lame band on the stereo, all the time.
No true Scotsman.
They were industry expropriating, banker hating, nanny state socialists with a big old streak of nationalism. Kind of like Chavez.
But having never achieved the workers paradise, they remain 'not socialists', just like all the others.
I see gridlock anyway we turn. So yes, it's all good.
Vote gridlock.
At this point the USA doesn't have a choice. It's print money or default. The numbers needed to keep SS solvent over the next 20 years can't be made through revenue.
We are clearly on course to 'print our way out'. It's not the radical position, it's the default 'do nothing radical' position.
The only thing that can save us is another major currency becoming obvious toilet paper first and capitol flight saves our ass. I'm looking at you Euro, though I have hopes for the Yuan/Renminbi too.
I think of it as three way hot potato. All the currencies are crap, but the first to go will at least temporarily hold up the other two.
Alternatively a small player like the British pound could go tits up first. They really have set the standard for financial mismanagement.
Pot is not a left/right issue. It's a freedom issue.
The left had their chance to make this theirs, they passed.
IIRC carbide is the second hardest substance known. Fuck yes it's scratch resistant.
Titanium is about 30+ (Rockwell), which isn't hardened steal, but isn't gold ether.
Titanium is a bitch because it's strong (so you have to take shallow cuts, usually by spinning fast), abrasive (which dulls tools) and can catch fire if the tool goes dull and the machine tries to keep cutting.
Carbide is also a powder, to make it into a tool or ring it's usually held in a Cobalt matrix. About 5% of the population reacts very badly to Cobalt. Nobody should get Carbide powder (like from grinding a custom carbide tool) in their lungs. For 5% of the population, just a tiny bit will kill them, slow and painful. There is no test.
I think gold is a nice metal, but as I've noted on /. before: Caustic sweat is my superpower. Cheap metal watches fear me. If I was locked up, I would sweat on the bars and escape.
Conservative and Liberal have lost all meaning, everywhere, but particularly in the USA.
Conservative once meant: 'Go slow with changes, it takes decades to see how things are going.'
Liberal once meant: 'In favor of Liberty.'
Nether is true today. Conservatives seam to want to build a still more (corporate/Jesus theme park) world. Liberals are reactionary and want 1930s socialism, along with all it's government control.
Nobody will agree with my definitions. But honest people have to admit the original ones are even more false.
I see them.
Do you see the 'party of the earth' people? Same thing, different drummer (or drummers, dead head).
'we think we are more holy than thou'
I wouldn't trust a christian who spent the number of hours listening to 'church music' the average dead head does. Talk about brain washed populations.
You know why the CIA likes acid? It makes people gullible as fuck, they will believe anything they hear from someone they trust while tripping. To some degree, internalize it and wake up believing it without thought, depending on how preposterous.
Became indefensible?
The NY times have been DNC owned and operated for a long, long time.
Your post tells me you thought they were defensible when they did the exact same thing to conservatives.
Grow up. It's not OK when your side does it. MSNBC is not defensible. 'Democracy Now' is not defensible.
It's a 'Royal Research ship'...close enough.
How high is the freeboard on the stern? Think I could change the name from a canoe? When will they be in the SF bay area?
Facebook continues to remain just like AOL of old.
Walled gardens are for children...wear a write protect tab.
I for one loved AOL and love Facebook. Never used ether.