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Clearly an expert in American politics.
We now go live to an interview with American conservatism:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
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Mean! :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
I liked how it was practically a template piece for a Marxist. The military-industrial complex out to push a country into foreign adventurism, the coming authoritarian and autocratic crackdown on labor unions while simultaneously saying unions are one of the community measures which will be protect it from the approaching anarchy, the insistence that only worker wages and their spending is "the real economy". . .Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
The writer may be right about the potential for collapse and is certainly correct about a number of signs being congruent with a collapsing society (also congruent with troubled but non-collapsing societies, of course). But they could not resist adding the required generic Marxist talking points which just kills any chance to take him seriously.
Yeah, the part about the military jumped out at me immediately. Maybe journalists should stick to reporting the news rather than coming up with half-baked analysis (unless they do their research, which this guy clearly did not).Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
Banana republic:
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Wild West "conservatism". Ride it like a cowboy! Yee haw! :donkey:
This is the type of dictator lewk wants. Nothing else matters as long as he gets to own the libs with unqualified judges.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...install-judges
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...ncies-n1184886
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Pray tell, do the CEOs keep this country running or is it ... the worker? It's almost funny if it weren't so tragic how the same underpaid people are now the ones keeping the show running. But hey, it's a-okay if your EMTs don't have health insurance themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
And that you guys begin a new war at the drop of a hat is nothing new either.
Okay but mate come on that was a really dodgy rant. It was neither well-written nor well-reasoned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
It actually fares rather well in the face of other developments in the US: Increasing inequalities and their insistence on unfettered capitalism, aka competition. There's a number of studies on the latter and the resulting lack of empathy (aka: "Fuck you, I got mine!") Increased tribalism and antagonism do not bode well for the coherence of a nation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Trump was not elected in a vacuum. He's a symptom.
The obvious answer is both. The worker has no job without the CEO. And none of this is relevant to the half-baked analysis which is based on numerous seriously flawed assumptions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
*11th century Loki*Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
You see, the serf has no land to work without his lord, so both are necessary.
Go see how many burgers you can flip without the burger-flipping equipment or a salary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
Gen Z is marked by its entrepreneurial attitude that it's honed from their parents. I mean shit, we (and them) would rather work out of the back of a trailer slinging burgers than be under a CEO.
Been doing a lot of generational work these past few weeks while home.
*11th century Loki*Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Go see how much wheat you can harvest with no land to plant it in.
Well, I work in a field that requires tens of millions of dollars of investment just to get a product to market. Literally this week I received/purchased equipment and services worth northwards of $300k. So it's kinda hard to do that out of your garage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
The reality is that technological innovation has allowed certain enterprises to scale with demand, allowing for minimal capital requirements (though of course they do need a whole lot of third part corporate behemoths to provide the capacity). But many jobs still require a whole lot of capital to become viable businesses, and that doesn't grow on trees.
There's also simply not enough demand for everyone to be an entrepreneur. And places where nearly everyone works for themselves (think slums) aren't exactly economic paradises.
*nodding*Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
Yes, capital is summoned fully formed from the earth by the intrepid genius of plucky investors.
My point is that someone (actually a consortium of angel investors, corporate VC arms, and VCs) needed to put up the money. I can't just hang out my own shingle unless I'm already quite wealthy.
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Beyond creepy. These people are absolutely fucking gone in the head.
In case it wasn't obvious what Trump meant by needing to liberate Democratic states.
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Ingraham is probably the Fox host who comes closest to an almost perfect 1:1 ratio of mind-numbing stupidity and stomach-turning repugnance.
In the good old days (4 years ago), this would have been fire-worthy, even at Fox. Today, I doubt it even raises an eyebrow.
Well, it can and does happen. For instance, there was a large-scale fraud incident in North Carolina in the mid-term elections. Of course, it was on behalf of and paid for by the GOP incumbent Representative. . .Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
The GOP ended up holding onto the seat in the subsequent special election by the way.
Classical projection. They know they'd cheat if they could get away with it so they assume the Democrats must be cheating now.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
I take it as a given that there's always some low-level cheating going on with absentees. One active voter in a household with an inactive spouse and doing an absentee "on their behalf" for instance. But large-scale/organized fraud? I dunno, maybe in the cities it's easier to get away with it (the GOP would certainly have us believe that) but certainly in the rest of the country the County Clerk's office, Election Boards, etc. who are in charge of organizing and administering the apparatus notice it and they report it and take action against it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
There have been studies of places that already do voting by mail (e.g. Oregon), and they found that as long as the right protections are in place, the amount of fraud is minimal. I'm more concerned about the kind of fraud the N. Carolina GOP ended up getting away with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
And you can't do your work without the "ancillary services" others people provide: child care providers, delivery services, truckers, farmers, grocery store clerks, janitors, trash collectors, etc. And none of that can be done without the necessary infrastructure of roads, water/sewer, a power grid, even high-speed internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
The reality is that those third party corporate behemoths aren't paying their fair share in taxes....but the "essential workers" (who help maintain your high-tech, high income lifestyle) are seen as "expendable". :(
Please enjoy this utterly delectable morsel:
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The Confederates did try to leave it, so technically, he's not wrong.
He eats too much.
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Embarrassing.
Official merch:
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Nazi imagery and a pro-facist slogan. Sounds about right.
Be careful, I was hit with an infraction for posting about such merchandise. Randblade :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
:D
American conservatives are... morons:
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But also, the Confederate flag is great!
It's a huge problem. Huge swathe's of Americans celebrate Hitler's birthday too. All over social media April 20 is celebrated, now granted like in this above image they aren't celebrating it because it is related to Hitler but the logic is the same. So please, let's start shaming people who enjoy the 4/20 date for consistency purposes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Like I've said before, you're a stupid man and nobody respects you.