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Tuesday, October 12, 2021 7:01 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I don't put much value on money. I certainly don't go out of my way to acquire more than I need.

You seem really hung up on that. This sounds like a YOU problem.

Just like I said that I don't need to live off of $4500 per year, but I can, I'm also extremely far from lazy as well.

I do what I enjoy doing. Some days that is more or less nothing. Most days I'm investing by working on my house with stuff I've bought on sale (sometimes even lucking into damn-near-free), or working on my hobbies, or helping other people out. None of my activities are ever going to make me rich. Some will make me money down the road. Some plant obs on other people which will be paid back one day. A lot of it won't ever make me any money at all. But whatever it is that I'm doing (or not doing), I'm rarely found doing anything that I don't enjoy doing these days.

And probably most importantly, none of the money I make is from taking advantage of anybody else... whether that be from scamming people directly, or making money off the backs of other people's work via the stock market.


You sound like a bad guy right now, Second.

Just figured I'd fill you in on that since you're so clueless about yourself.
Maybe I will write a story called "River Tam and the Problem of Evil" which would be a retelling of "Indistinguishable From Magic" giving Kaylee a much bigger role -- http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=5185 In the story about Evil, there will be a contrast between the aimlessness of Mal and the highly directed goals of River and Kaylee, whose first goal is to save Wash and ultimate goal is to save humanity. The trick is that River and Kaylee never, never, never tell anybody what they are doing because either nobody would believe it, or nobody would be a help, or The Operative would stop them, since he is paying close attention to their projects yet doesn't know their goals. Most people will never know what River/Kaylee did because most people need to be told and shown over and over, like ads on TV, before they get an inkling. Let's be rude about this: most people in the last 300,000 years are as aimless as Mal and very few have ever been as focused as River and Kaylee and even the Operative. If Mal does some tiny thing, he lets everybody know, but mostly he struggles to keep flying and put food on the table. When River and Kaylee achieve something huge, they don't slap their name on it Trump Tower style. The billions of Mals and Trumps of the world pretty much accomplish nothing, but imagine they did a lot. It is very telling that most Americans think Mal and Trump are highly significant to the story, but River and Kaylee are actually doing much bigger things than a spaceship captain or a make believe president, both captain and president randomly killing people when the whim strikes them.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:37 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I don't put much value on money. I certainly don't go out of my way to acquire more than I need.

You seem really hung up on that. This sounds like a YOU problem.

Just like I said that I don't need to live off of $4500 per year, but I can, I'm also extremely far from lazy as well.

I do what I enjoy doing. Some days that is more or less nothing. Most days I'm investing by working on my house with stuff I've bought on sale (sometimes even lucking into damn-near-free), or working on my hobbies, or helping other people out. None of my activities are ever going to make me rich. Some will make me money down the road. Some plant obs on other people which will be paid back one day. A lot of it won't ever make me any money at all. But whatever it is that I'm doing (or not doing), I'm rarely found doing anything that I don't enjoy doing these days.

And probably most importantly, none of the money I make is from taking advantage of anybody else... whether that be from scamming people directly, or making money off the backs of other people's work via the stock market.


You sound like a bad guy right now, Second.

Just figured I'd fill you in on that since you're so clueless about yourself.
Maybe I will write a story called "River Tam and the Problem of Evil" which would be a retelling of "Indistinguishable From Magic" giving Kaylee a much bigger role -- http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=5185 In the story about Evil, there will be a contrast between the aimlessness of Mal and the highly directed goals of River and Kaylee, whose first goal is to save Wash and ultimate goal is to save humanity. The trick is that River and Kaylee never, never, never tell anybody what they are doing because either nobody would believe it, or nobody would be a help, or The Operative would stop them, since he is paying close attention to their projects yet doesn't know their goals. Most people will never know what River/Kaylee did because most people need to be told and shown over and over, like ads on TV, before they get an inkling. Let's be rude about this: most people in the last 300,000 years are as aimless as Mal and very few have ever been as focused as River and Kaylee and even the Operative. If Mal does some tiny thing, he lets everybody know, but mostly he struggles to keep flying and put food on the table. When River and Kaylee achieve something huge, they don't slap their name on it Trump Tower style. The billions of Mals and Trumps of the world pretty much accomplish nothing, but imagine they did a lot. It is very telling that most Americans think Mal and Trump are highly significant to the story, but River and Kaylee are actually doing much bigger things than a spaceship captain or a make believe president, both captain and president randomly killing people when the whim strikes them.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Your life is without purpose. That's why you're miserable.

But do go on and project what you wish you'd done with it now that you're too old to do anything with it into made up characters that most people never even heard of.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 7:08 AM

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The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture

In this book, to repeat for emphasis, I use “the 9.9 percent” to describe a form of life rather than a set of people identified by their supposed net worth. It is a way of thinking and a system of values that characterizes many people who are not and have no realistic prospect of joining the top 10 percent of the wealth distribution. Indeed, it matters most precisely insofar as it is shared by those who are not “paid-up” members of the 9.9 percent, as it were.

Even so, I do not intend in this way to diminish concern with the extreme concentration of wealth at the very top 0.1 percent of the economic spectrum. Quite to the contrary. The point rather is that Oligarchs have never controlled anything with their own bare hands. Their power, like all human power, resides in the minds of other human beings. To understand how our ruling class came to be, and why it gets richer and more powerful with every passing crisis and act of universal impoverishment, it is necessary to know something about the illusions that accumulate down below as inequality rises. The pillars of the system ultimately rest on a ground of assumptions that guide the lives of people who look a lot like you. . . .

It felt as if I had stepped out of that rocket ship to the future and found myself a few blocks down the road, stumbling around some alternate version of the past. We’ve been here before, I thought—only this time, I am part of the problem.

This uncanny feeling of deja vu, I think, will be familiar to many people who have very different family stories, not at all like my own. Really, it can happen to anyone who has tried to relax in recent years with a good history book. Time was when the chronicles of ancient Rome, China, or Mesopotamia would offer escape from the present. No more. The holiday from history is over. These days, you’ll get to the end of a learned tome on the rise of fascism and realize that several chapters remain to be written. You’ll read about the “lost cause” of the Confederacy and wonder when they will finally give up. You’ll consult George Orwell’s 1984, not to speculate about the future, but to analyze the latest pronouncements from on high. Or you’ll thumb through an old novel about the fading American dream, like The Great Gatsby, and wonder which one of the characters is you. The so-called arc of the moral universe seems to have acquired a dark sense of humor.

It’s usually best to imagine that we create our own circumstances in life. But it is often more accurate to say that our circumstances create us. In retrospect, the small dramas of my family story look like a spotty commentary on forces that remain mostly out of view. The same is true for the form of life that I aspired to join, or so I tend to think. The closest thing to a defining attribute of the way of thinking that now dominates American life is our lack of awareness of the causes that brought us to the present state and of the ancient patterns we thoughtlessly retrace in our lives. To an unexpected degree, we are living in the past. We just don’t know it.

In this book, I argue that those forces which have set us rowing backward into the past can be explained mostly in terms of a single fact: the rapid rise in economic inequality over the past half century. At the same time, I contend that language in which we talk about this fact has come to obscure the reality. In particular, we systematically overlook the way in which inequality reaches into our own thoughts and desires and so involves us all. In this chapter—spoiler alert—I lay out all of the main lines of the argument in the book. The evidence in support of that argument will have to wait for subsequent chapters. My aim here is to supply some of the intuitions out of which the argument evolved. The family memories are idiosyncratic, I grant, but the experiences they represent are now close to universal, or so I believe.

From first chapter at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08VJNPMWM/

America’s semi-rich: America’s upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22673605/upper-middle-class-meritocracy-
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 7:49 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


They are the beneficiaries of Zipf's law.

The only way you're breaking that is if you refuse the establishment and play by your own rules.

Take JO's alternate language Nooalf, for instance...

There's not a single page on his campaign website that adheres to Zipf's law when it comes to word frequency.


In my case, I've broken the law by living outside the box. With my income, I should be among the most miserable of us living today. But I've figured out a way not only to make ends meet on nearly nothing, but to thrive on it and live a fulfilling life full of doing things that I enjoy doing.

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Their power, like all human power, resides in the minds of other human beings.


When you don't place a value on money other than just enough money to pay the bare essentials and to acquire the things that you need to achieve that fulfillment, you have no respect, envy or jealousy of those who have more than you do. Only then do you find no sense of fulfillment in acquiring more fiat currency then you need, truly making so a useless endeavor.

I got off the bus. Who's coming with me?

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9:25 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
They are the beneficiaries of Zipf's law.

The only way you're breaking that is if you refuse the establishment and play by your own rules. . . .

I got off the bus. Who's coming with me?
What you are suggesting is to become a hippie. Whatever happened to them? Now I remember! Hippies vanished, along with their dreams of a better world. They were so inwardly focused on their own bliss that the external world made no changes for the better. Then even the Hippies got bored with the small time life they lived. Hippies quit being Hippies.

It is NOT Zipf's law if you become a doctor with a strategy to extract large sums of money from Medicare. Typical American doctors are in it for the money or otherwise they'd be working half the time at Doctors Without Borders, making a better world for someone other than themselves (Don't forget how selfish the Hippies were).

On a smaller scale than doctors, veterinaries do it for money, too, extracting from dog and cat owners. If it wasn't about maximizing money, there are plenty of stray dogs to treat for free.

As a matter of fact, most of Americans in the top 10 percent of wealth spend nearly all their money on themselves and their children. The lower 90 percent of Americans get their pay cut and their prices raised by the top 10% so that the 10% can have a little more money to spend on their children.

For me, one of the most distressing statistics is that the richer people get, the less they believe in publicly supported child care. It’s not that they don’t want their taxes to go to pay for child care, it’s that they’ve internalized this idea that everyone can do this, everyone can raise their own child or just hire a nanny. “Let them hire a nanny” is the new “let them eat cake.” It just shows how this super-well-educated class becomes oblivious to the basis of its own existence.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9:53 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
They are the beneficiaries of Zipf's law.

The only way you're breaking that is if you refuse the establishment and play by your own rules. . . .

I got off the bus. Who's coming with me?
What you are suggesting is to become a hippie. Whatever happened to them? Now I remember! Hippies vanished, along with their dreams of a better world. They were so inwardly focused on their own bliss that the external world made no changes for the better. Then even the Hippies got bored with the small time life they lived. Hippies quit being Hippies.


They didn't vanish. The ones that didn't die of drug overdoses or STDs sold out and are the Boomers that are running our country and big businesses. They were trash. They are trash.

The only exceptions to that rule are the ones that are still living that life. They do exist, but you don't ever hear about them. Why would you? They're not on social media, and we live in a society that would never promote such an anti-consumerism lifestyle.

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It is NOT Zipf's law if you become a doctor with a strategy to extract large sums of money from Medicare. Typical American doctors are in it for the money or otherwise they'd be working half the time at Doctors Without Borders, making a better world for someone other than themselves (Don't forget how selfish the Hippies were).

On a smaller scale than doctors, veterinaries do it for money, too, extracting from dog and cat owners. If it wasn't about maximizing money, there are plenty of stray dogs to treat for free.

As a matter of fact, most of Americans in the top 10 percent of wealth spend nearly all their money on themselves and their children. The lower 90 percent of Americans get their pay cut and their prices raised by the top 10% so that the 10% can have a little more money to spend on their children.

For me, one of the most distressing statistics is that the richer people get, the less they believe in publicly supported child care. It’s not that they don’t want their taxes to go to pay for child care, it’s that they’ve internalized this idea that everyone can do this, everyone can raise their own child or just hire a nanny. “Let them hire a nanny” is the new “let them eat cake.” It just shows how this super-well-educated class becomes oblivious to the basis of its own existence.


Yup. Rich people suck.

The thing about the addiction to money is once you have enough money you can never have enough money.


Maybe as a survivor of alcoholism, I have some insight here that you couldn't have. I shouldn't just assume that of you though. Everything you've ever said about yourself here is a lie, and I don't' really know the real you. Maybe you have struggled with an addiction other than money and you can understand it.

Chances are pretty good that you have. I think it's pretty rare for a human to live on this planet without having a constant inner-battle with one demon or another.

Some of them are just easier to hide from people than others are.

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Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:10 AM

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In the 1990s, economists began exploiting “natural experiments” — situations in which the vagaries of history deliver something close to the kind of controlled trial researchers might want to conduct but can’t.

The most famous example is the research that Card conducted along with the late Alan Krueger on the effects of minimum wages. Most economists used to believe that raising the minimum wage reduces employment. But is this true? In 1992 the state of New Jersey increased its minimum wage while neighboring Pennsylvania didn’t. Card and Krueger realized that they could assess the effect of this policy change by comparing employment growth in the two states after the wage hike, essentially using Pennsylvania as the control for New Jersey’s experiment.

What they found was that the increased minimum wage had very little if any negative effect on the number of jobs, a result since confirmed by looking at many other instances. These results make the case not just for higher minimum wages, but for more aggressive attempts to reduce inequality in general.

Another example: How can we assess the effects of safety net programs that aid children? Researchers have taken advantage of natural experiments created by, among other examples, the gradual rollout of food stamps in the 1960s and 1970s and several discrete jumps in Medicaid’s availability in the 1980s. These studies show that children who received aid became much healthier, more productive adults than nonrecipients.

And such studies make a strong case for the Biden administration’s Build Back Better initiative, which emphasizes investment in children as well as in conventional infrastructure.

Finally, big changes in unemployment insurance over the course of the pandemic — a huge increase in generosity, then a sudden cutoff, then a partial restoration, then another cutoff, with some states cutting benefits sooner than others — provide several natural experiments letting us test whether, as conservatives always insist, unemployment insurance deters the unemployed from seeking new jobs.

Well, the data provide a clear answer: While there may be some disincentive effects from unemployment benefits, they’re small.

Overall, then, modern data-driven economics tends to support more activist economic policies: Raising wages, helping children and aiding the unemployed are all better ideas than many politicians seem to believe. But why do the facts seem to support a progressive agenda?

The main answer, I’d argue, is that in the past many influential people seized on economic arguments that could be used to justify high inequality. We can’t raise the minimum wage, because that would kill jobs; we can’t help the unemployed, because that would hurt their incentives to work; and so on. In other words, the political use of economic theory has tended to have a right-wing bias.

But now we have evidence that can be used to check these arguments, and some don’t hold up. So the empirical revolution in economics undermines the right-leaning conventional wisdom that had dominated discourse. In that sense, evidence turns out to have a liberal bias.

Again, the research honored by this Nobel isn’t political, but it has important political implications. And most of those implications favor a policy move to the left.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211012140932/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/10/11/opinion/nobel-prize-economics.html

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Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:21 AM

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Jewel Staite @JewelStaite
Charlie went to put one of our outdoor plants in the garage and I said, “What are you doing?! It’ll die!” And he said, "... It’s fake. It’s a fake plant. Wait. Have you been watering this?” For three years. It was the only plant I was successfully keeping alive.
10:23 AM · Oct 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/JewelStaite/status/1445409431802421250

Is our kid a mannequin?

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Thursday, October 14, 2021 9:12 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Wages did go up, after a year of the highest unemployment benefits we've ever paid out.

Look at the prices.

You're going to have to raise minimum wage a shit ton more, and consistantly forever, if you're going to ever have any chances of fighting inequality.

The only way to do it is to raise the minimum wage every single year at double whatever inflation is the previous year.

I wonder how the "health experts" are going to feel when they're making just as much money as the guy cleaning toilets at Costco.

At least the guy cleaning toilets at Costco is providing a legitimate service.

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Thursday, October 14, 2021 2:25 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wages did go up, after a year of the highest unemployment benefits we've ever paid out.

Look at the prices.

You're going to have to raise minimum wage a shit ton more, and consistantly forever, if you're going to ever have any chances of fighting inequality.

The only way to do it is to raise the minimum wage every single year at double whatever inflation is the previous year.

I wonder how the "health experts" are going to feel when they're making just as much money as the guy cleaning toilets at Costco.

At least the guy cleaning toilets at Costco is providing a legitimate service.
More than half of Americans spend as much as they make each month, or more. Nearly the same percentage say they have favorable financial circumstances, which may just mean some of them are too frightened to admit they don’t. Or perhaps they are just too financially illiterate to understand their predicament.

I think we are finally getting it that the average American brain does not work around money naturally.

I suspect the average American's sense of impotence in the face of financial difficulty is not only a source of disillusionment, but also a source of the anger that now infects our national politics, an anger that gets displaced onto undocumented immigrants or Chinese trade precisely because we are unable or unwilling to articulate its true source.

“Financial impotence” has many of the characteristics of sexual impotence, not least of which is the desperate need to mask it and pretend everything is going swimmingly. It may be more embarrassing than sexual impotence. You are more likely to hear from your buddy that he is on Viagra than that he has credit-card problems. Much more likely.

America is a country, as Donald Trump has reminded us, of winners and losers, alphas and weaklings. To struggle financially is a source of shame, a daily humiliation — even a form of social suicide. Silence is the only protection. That, and noisily supporting Donald Trump.

https://bestmoneymoves.com/blog/2018/10/03/what-percentage-of-american
s-spend-more-than-they-earn/

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Thursday, October 14, 2021 8:00 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wages did go up, after a year of the highest unemployment benefits we've ever paid out.

Look at the prices.

You're going to have to raise minimum wage a shit ton more, and consistantly forever, if you're going to ever have any chances of fighting inequality.

The only way to do it is to raise the minimum wage every single year at double whatever inflation is the previous year.

I wonder how the "health experts" are going to feel when they're making just as much money as the guy cleaning toilets at Costco.

At least the guy cleaning toilets at Costco is providing a legitimate service.
More than half of Americans spend as much as they make each month, or more. Nearly the same percentage say they have favorable financial circumstances, which may just mean some of them are too frightened to admit they don’t. Or perhaps they are just too financially illiterate to understand their predicament.

I think we are finally getting it that the average American brain does not work around money naturally.

I suspect the average American's sense of impotence in the face of financial difficulty is not only a source of disillusionment, but also a source of the anger that now infects our national politics, an anger that gets displaced onto undocumented immigrants or Chinese trade precisely because we are unable or unwilling to articulate its true source.

“Financial impotence” has many of the characteristics of sexual impotence, not least of which is the desperate need to mask it and pretend everything is going swimmingly. It may be more embarrassing than sexual impotence. You are more likely to hear from your buddy that he is on Viagra than that he has credit-card problems. Much more likely.

America is a country, as Donald Trump has reminded us, of winners and losers, alphas and weaklings. To struggle financially is a source of shame, a daily humiliation — even a form of social suicide. Silence is the only protection. That, and noisily supporting Donald Trump.

https://bestmoneymoves.com/blog/2018/10/03/what-percentage-of-american
s-spend-more-than-they-earn/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


It's all good thoughts, until you have to bring up Trump because of your brain disease.


This is 100% to be blamed on our Public Education. For 12 years they have our kids and not one of them learns a single thing about budgeting, balancing a checkbook, or doing their own taxes and understanding how their money is taxed.

This is intentional. Mindless consumerism is wholly dependent on churning out mindless consumerists.


Of course people are going to deny they have money problems to strangers. Most of them are denying it to themselves everyday.



I just had a bit of an argument with my old man about this today. About a week ago he had a fall while going upstairs while my step mom was vaccumming and somehow he screwed the vacuum up during the fall. I let him borrow my 4" long Torx set to try to open it, but they're too wide to fit. Now she's using a jagged up vacuum cleaner that cost $300 and is going to buy another $300 vacuum cleaner.

This is just stupid.

You can, and I have, bought a completely brand new looking refurbished Shark vacuum from Amazon that comes with a full warranty that you'd get on a new one. Two different models, in fact. Total cost to me was less than $160 for $620 worth of vacuum cleaners, and they're amazing.

She turns her nose up at that though and would never buy one that wasn't new.


I told him about some jagoff I knew who bought a $300 pair of sunglasses and ruined his day when he sat on them when he got into his car. I do dumb shit with my sunglasses all the time. That's why I buy them at the dollar store and just throw them out without a care when it happens.

And then I came around full circle and gave him shit about the new Dell computer that he just bought 3 months ago that hangs up and screeches loud noises into his headphones while he's playing Solitaire and listening to music. Two super low burden activities that a brand new computer should never have problems handling. And I just bought 3 excellent PCs that not only outpace his in most specs, but run without any problems at all and combined cost $150 less than he paid for that bright shiny new one.

And my Dad is smart when it comes to money. But you're never going to tell your working wife what to spend her money on, and you're never going to teach an old man how to build his own computers or install operating systems and drivers on a retired business computer when they can just buy one online that's ready to go.


People are stupid when it comes to money. At the very least, they're ignorant.

And unfortunately, simply just giving them more money for nothing isn't going to fix any problems because more money will just equal more stupid decisions for a vast majority of us.

Education is key. Until the people are educated, they will never live better lives.

With all the worthless shit that kids are taught in school, I'm sure that we can replace that with at least a few things that will help them live better lives as adults. Because the only two things that they learn today that will help (basic arithmetic and reading/writing) we're failing at miserably.

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Friday, October 15, 2021 12:12 AM

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. . . People are stupid when it comes to money. At the very least, they're ignorant.

And unfortunately, simply just giving them more money for nothing isn't going to fix any problems because more money will just equal more stupid decisions for a vast majority of us.

Education is key. Until the people are educated, they will never live better lives.

With all the worthless shit that kids are taught in school, I'm sure that we can replace that with at least a few things that will help them live better lives as adults. Because the only two things that they learn today that will help (basic arithmetic and reading/writing) we're failing at miserably. . . .
Does anyone need to go to school to learn the lesson taught in the next 4 paragraphs from a book review about When a Factory Relocates to Mexico, What Happens to Its American Workers?

For Shannon, Wally and John, making bearings is a means of climbing the economic ladder. Wages at the plant — $25 an hour — are above the U.S. average for manufacturing ($20 in 2016, $24 today). These workers become homeowners, make down payments on cars and consider sending their kids to college.

But 40-somethings belong to a generation for whom the number of jobs like this have disappeared. Manufacturing employment peaked in the summer of 1979 at around 19.6 million, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 1980s and ’90s were tough, with nearly two million jobs lost, but the aughts were dreadful: About six million jobs vanished. The trend is not confined to the United States; in Britain, a quarter of manufacturing jobs disappeared in the 1980s, and nearly as many again in the 1990s.

John’s arrival at Link-Belt is a sign of the relentless cost-cutting that will ultimately kill the plant. A prior employer, another Indianapolis factory, had paid him $28 an hour. But then it moved its business to Alabama, where unions are weaker and workers accepted $18 an hour. Another warning bell pings when Link-Belt workers begin to assemble bearings from Chinese-made parts. The workers are reduced to finishing and checking, as the supply chain lengthens and the factory is quietly gutted. “Made in America” had become a slogan, no longer an economic truth. Taking repeated trips to Indianapolis over the course of three years, Stockman captures the sense of impending doom.

The climax of the book is its penultimate section, “Shutting Down,” about the factory’s final days. As closure looms, Rexnord announces that the Mexican workers will need mentors to teach them how to operate the furnaces, mills and lathes. Their American counterparts refuse, drawing a line in the union’s battle to save the plant. But a grimly predictable economic reality plays out: Wages are far lower at the new Monterrey plant (in Mexico, manufacturing pay starts at less than $5 an hour), so it makes sense for the bosses to offer American employees cash bonuses until they buckle. The Link-Belt workers are coerced by cash into passing on their skills to the people who will make them redundant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/books/review/american-made-farah-st
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I'm not saying that there aren't external problems. Of course there are.

Don't try changing the subject.

There ARE things that every one of us could be doing to make our situations better, but nobody is taught that in school and everyone ends up being a lost little lamb.

Some people figure it out. Most don't. That's how mindless consumerism continues, and that's how most of us end up being wage slaves and putting up with heinous shit because the alternative is simply worse.

If I never learned any lessons from when I was young and dumb, I'd be one of the people who's only options were getting the jab or starving to death. That's the position they want all of us in all the time.


Asses up. Wagging in the air. Begging to be fucked.

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Don't try changing the subject.
The subject is the false mental models used by most Americans to explain to themselves how America works. Those factory workers in the book about a ball bearing factory in Indiana? Their mental model was: "I will work at the crappy factory for the rest of my days and hope for the best and never plan for the worst since planning makes me anxious and interferes with my TV watching, game playing, overeating, and getting high." It is no surprise that the factory workers lost the factory. The factory never was for creating jobs for them. It was always only creating ball bearings for sale. That was its only purpose. The factory workers never seem to remember for more than an hour or two that the owner has no loftier purpose than selling ball bearings. The Federal government could force the owner to have a bigger purpose, but Americans, including the factory workers, do NOT support a bigger purpose. Since government will not be changing the owner's motivation, the owner will keep all focus on selling, not creating high paying jobs for Americans. Instead, low paying jobs in Mexico are created because that will sell ball bearings.

That is one false mental model for working Americans. There are false mental models for spending money, which go something like: "Spend all your money because America's bosses owe you a good paying job." Americans cannot wrap their brains around the fact that their bosses owe them nothing unless government forces the bosses.

The government gets slightly involved here by allowing unions to force bosses, and bankruptcy courts to protect workers from the bosses' greed and Social Security for workers who spent everything and laws forbidding usury, but government doesn't try to stop people from spending away their future. Government could stop people from living like natural born fools who never will understand how Capitalism works, but Government won't because of other false mental models that Americans should be totally free to be the biggest, most obnoxious failures they want to be.

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Don't try changing the subject.
The subject is the false mental models used by most Americans to explain to themselves how America works.


Yeah. My point exactly.

Read a fucking book.

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Don't try changing the subject.
The subject is the false mental models used by most Americans to explain to themselves how America works.


Yeah. My point exactly.

Read a fucking book.
6ix, you pretty much are living Mal's life after Serenity -- attempt to keep off the government's list, while despising government, and reusing old junk rather than buy new. If the Firefly comics are a guide to where things will end for Mal, or even the history of Hippies who have given up most of their ideals from long ago, following Mal's path leads to isolation. The most recent comics have Mal sitting on his front porch, with a shotgun across his knees, on a lonely planet, at least until Kaylee shows up to drag him away to new adventures. He is reluctant to change his daily habits, but persuadable. Life gets pretty boring for Mal when all his time is spent avoiding paying taxes and shirking responsibility. A little violent adventure will seem a nice change of pace for Mal.

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Don't care.

Let's go Brandon!



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Liberals need to pass a solid spending bill and take the Win!

The current line from the left about the Build Back Better bill is that centrists are forcing them to make an impossible choice. Who do we throw under the bus? The elderly? Parents? Kids? Students? The future of the planet?

This is so stupid it makes me want to bang my head against the wall. When President Obama pushed through Obamacare, did that mean he was disparaging every other liberal priority? Of course not.

The only difference now is that somebody has written down a list of those other priorities. That's it. The only question, as always, is which programs you think are best to pass. Then you pass them—or try to. This says exactly zero about the dozens of other programs that you haven't passed yet.

For my money, here are the ones to pass:

1 Long-term care
2 Increased Obamacare subsidies
3 Childcare
4 Pre-K

These are all great programs and, critically, they're political winners. This is what Democrats need right now and this is what they should concentrate on.

Apparently a lot of people would feel betrayed and heartbroken if the final bill ended up like this. That's beyond insane. It wouldn't just be a win for the liberal project, it would be a massive, unprecedented win. And it would be a massive, unprecedented win even though we barely have a majority in Congress. If Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are willing to vote for something like this, we should grab the chance and then celebrate for a month after Joe Biden signs it into law. And then it should be the backbone of the 2022 midterm campaign.

This is reality. And if it can be done, reality will be pretty damn good.

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No. We don't want that bullshit either.




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Malcolm Turnbull on Murdoch, lies and the climate crisis: 'The same forces that enabled Trump are at work in Australia'

Systematic partisan lying and misinformation from the media, both mainstream and social, has done enormous damage to liberal democracies, the former PM writes

Biden is leading a more traditional and rational administration. The friends and allies Trump had outraged around the world are breathing a sigh of relief. The US has rejoined the Paris agreement on climate change and Biden is seeking to lead the world with deeper, faster cuts to emissions.

But the same forces that amplified and enabled Trump are still at work in the US and here in Australia. In April the Murdoch press bullied the New South Wales government into reversing its decision to appoint me chairman of a committee to advise on the transition to a net zero emission economy. My “crime” was to not support the continued, unconstrained expansion of open-cut coalmining in the Hunter Valley. In the crazed, rightwing media echo chamber so influential with many Liberal and National party members, the primary qualification to advise on net zero emissions is, apparently, unqualified support for coalmining.

As though we hadn’t had enough demonstration of the Murdochs’ vendetta tactics, right on cue on 2 May Sky News Australia broadcast a “documentary” designed to disparage me and Rudd as being, in effect, political twins separated at birth. As a job, I am told it gave hatchets a bad name. But the message was clear to anyone inclined to hold Murdoch to account: step out of line and you will be next.

And while politicians are accountable, the Murdochs are not. Their abuse of power has been so shameful that James Murdoch has resigned from the company. His brother, Lachlan, however, is thoroughly in charge and apparently more rightwing than his father. Yet he has chosen to move back to Australia with his family, fleeing the hatreds and divisions of America that he and his father have done so much to exacerbate.

More at https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/18/malcolm-turnbul
l-on-murdoch-lies-and-the-climate-crisis-the-same-forces-that-enabled-trump-are-at-work-in-australia

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Malcolm Turnbull on Murdoch, lies and the climate crisis: 'The same forces that enabled Trump are at work in Australia'

Systematic partisan lying and misinformation from the media, both mainstream and social, has done enormous damage to liberal democracies, the former PM writes

Biden is leading a more traditional and rational administration. The friends and allies Trump had outraged around the world are breathing a sigh of relief. The US has rejoined the Paris agreement on climate change and Biden is seeking to lead the world with deeper, faster cuts to emissions.

But the same forces that amplified and enabled Trump are still at work in the US and here in Australia. In April the Murdoch press bullied the New South Wales government into reversing its decision to appoint me chairman of a committee to advise on the transition to a net zero emission economy. My “crime” was to not support the continued, unconstrained expansion of open-cut coalmining in the Hunter Valley. In the crazed, rightwing media echo chamber so influential with many Liberal and National party members, the primary qualification to advise on net zero emissions is, apparently, unqualified support for coalmining.

As though we hadn’t had enough demonstration of the Murdochs’ vendetta tactics, right on cue on 2 May Sky News Australia broadcast a “documentary” designed to disparage me and Rudd as being, in effect, political twins separated at birth. As a job, I am told it gave hatchets a bad name. But the message was clear to anyone inclined to hold Murdoch to account: step out of line and you will be next.

And while politicians are accountable, the Murdochs are not. Their abuse of power has been so shameful that James Murdoch has resigned from the company. His brother, Lachlan, however, is thoroughly in charge and apparently more rightwing than his father. Yet he has chosen to move back to Australia with his family, fleeing the hatreds and divisions of America that he and his father have done so much to exacerbate.

More at https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/18/malcolm-turnbul
l-on-murdoch-lies-and-the-climate-crisis-the-same-forces-that-enabled-trump-are-at-work-in-australia

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lol

Zuckerborg bought 2020 for Democrats.

You're an idiot.

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lol

Zuckerborg bought 2020 for Democrats.

You're an idiot.
The guy who has always been right about who wins the Presidential elections, Allan Lichtman, said that nothing on social media makes any difference. It comes down to 13 key questions with true/false answers about the two candidates. Lichtman predicted Trump would win in 2016 and lose in 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_to_the_White_House

It is too soon for 2024, since the 13 key questions have to be answered in 2024, but Lichtman says Joe Biden will have significant advantages if he runs again.

“With the sitting president running again, you’re not going to have a big internal party fight, that’s a major key, and you’re unlikely to have a big third-party movement.”

“It doesn’t look like the Republicans have anyone who fulfills the ‘challenge charisma key’, the once-in-a-generation inspirational candidate, like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan,” Lichtman said, pointing to the potential for a power vacuum in the party.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/the-americas/what-is-allan-licht
man-s-prediction-for-the-2024-us-presidential-election-1.1109868

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lol

We'll see.

If I were him, I wouldn't go jeopardizing the winning streak by speaking out of turn with 3 years left to go.

Joe Biden*'s America sucks, and there's no indications that things are ever going to get better with him sleeping in the chair.



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lol

We'll see.

If I were him, I wouldn't go jeopardizing the winning streak by speaking out of turn with 3 years left to go.

Joe Biden*'s America sucks, and there's no indications that things are ever going to get better with him sleeping in the chair.
Trump bragged about the Dow-Jones Average (but despite Trump predicting a crash without him, America carried on with him gone.)



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The deep state start to turn against Sleepy President Biden...announced an investigation into the jihads of Asskcrackistan getting billion in US Weapons?

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/18/state-ig-investigations-afgha
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The deep state start to turn against Sleepy President Biden...announced an investigation into the jihads of Asskcrackistan getting billion in US Weapons?
Not about weapons. Instead, The Pentagon's inspector general said its three reviews involve: an evaluation of the botched drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians instead of the Islamic State target; a review of DoD's screening process for displaced Afghans; and an audit of DoD support for the relocation of Afghan nationals.

Lawmakers have taken a particular interest in the State Department’s SIV program, which was launched in 2009 to provide a pathway to immigrate to the U.S. for Afghan interpreters, their families and others who worked for the U.S. government throughout the 20-year war. The program has been plagued by bureaucratic challenges and delays since its inception. Before the August evacuation, there were some 18,000 applications stuck in the pipeline.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/18/state-ig-investigations-afgha
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As Afghanistan sinks into destitution, some sell children to survive

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/the-wall-street-journal/as-a
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I can't read this article because I'm not an Australian subscriber, but I can read for free the same article at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10101305/Destitute-Afghan-fam
ilies-selling-CHILDREN-make-ends-meet-amid-collapsing-economy.html

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August, the country's economy is on the brink of collapse.

That has seen the value of its currency collapse even though hard notes are in short supply, while prices for basic goods have soared due to shortages, with the UN warning that food could run dangerously low soon.

It has led to the chief of the UN this week to warn that Afghanistan is facing a 'make-or-break moment' as he urgently appealed to countries to inject cash back into the Afghan economy, which before the Taliban takeover in August was dependent on international aid that accounted for 75% of state spending.

Afghanistan is grappling with a liquidity crisis as assets remain frozen in the U.S. and other countries, and disbursements from international organizations have been put on hold.

The effects of the economic collapse could prove lethal for the country where a third of the population survives on less than $2 per day.

For Saleha, she now must somehow find enough money to pay off her debt - or lose her three-year-old daughter. Her husband, who is much older, does not work.

Saleha and her family had been working on a farm in Badghis but were forced to flee to Herat as a result of fighting and drought. They were forced to borrow money to feed themselves.

The situation has become overwhelming - as prices for basic food items such as flour and oil have doubled since the Taliban took over.

'If life continues to be this awful, I will kill my children and myself,' Saleh told the WSJ from her small two-room home. 'I don't even know what we will eat tonight.'

'I will try to find money to save my daughter's life,' added Saleha's husband Abdul Wahab.

The lender, Khalid Ahmad, confirmed to the newspaper he had said he would write off the family's debts in exchange for their three-year-old daughter.

'I also don't have money. They haven't paid me back,' said Mr Ahmad, from Badghis. 'So there is no option but taking the daughter.'

More at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10101305/Destitute-Afghan-fam
ilies-selling-CHILDREN-make-ends-meet-amid-collapsing-economy.html

A nonchalant Taliban official said, 'We suffered for 20 years fighting jihad, we lost members of our families, we didn't have proper food, and in the end, we were rewarded with this government. If people have to struggle for a few months, so what? Popularity is not important for the Taliban.'
I'm making a prediction: the struggle will be much longer than 'a few months'.

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How long until people are selling their children in Biden*'s America to pay their bills?

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How long until people are selling their children in Biden*'s America to pay their bills?
A new poll shows 94% of Republicans think the country is worse off than a year ago. Isn't this kind of crazy? A year ago we were in the middle of a massive pandemic. Thousands of people were dying every day. The economy was at a standstill. Millions of people had been laid off or furloughed. Travel was virtually shut down. Schools were shut.

Today, the pandemic is under control. Anyone who wants to be vaccinated has been. The economy is strong and jobs are available to anyone who wants to work. Schools are mostly back in session and airlines are flying again.

In any concrete sense, what could possibly be viewed as worse than a year ago? Beats me. The only thing I can think of is pure politics.

https://jabberwocking.com/is-the-country-worse-off-than-a-year-ago-don
t-be-ridiculous/

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I’m not one of those liberals who believe that corporate greed is the root of all evil. It’s the root of only some evil; there are other dark forces, especially white nationalism, stalking the U.S. body politic.

But corporate money is surely the villain behind the latest roadblock to President Biden’s agenda: Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to any rollback to Donald Trump’s big 2017 corporate tax cut. Until recently, Sinema was FOR rollback.

After all, Sinema, who was in the House of Representatives at the time, voted against that tax cut. And she attacked the tax cut the next year during her run for the Senate. Given that raising taxes on corporations has overwhelming public support, it’s hard to see any reason for her flip other than the corporate lobbying blitz against Build Back Better.

It’s a distressing story. But here’s what you need to know: While the Trump tax cut was bad and should be reversed, reclaiming the lost revenue isn’t essential right now. If the key elements of the Biden agenda — investing in children and in protecting the planet against climate change — have to be paid for in part by borrowing, that’s OK. It would certainly be better than not making those investments at all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/opinion/corporate-taxes-deficit-spe
nding.html

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Shut up, idiot.

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
By Richard Hofstadtert
Harper’s Magazine, November 1964, pp. 77-86.

Perhaps the central situation conducive to the diffusion of the paranoid tendency is a confrontation of opposed interests which are (or are felt to be) totally irreconcilable, and thus by nature not susceptible to the normal political processes of bargain and compromise. The situation becomes worse when the representatives of a particular social interest—perhaps because of the very unrealistic and unrealizable nature of its demands—are shut out of the political process. Having no access to political bargaining or the making of decisions, they find their original conception that the world of power is sinister and malicious fully confirmed. They see only the consequences of power—and this through distorting lenses—and have no chance to observe its actual machinery. A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen. It is precisely this kind of awareness that the paranoid fails to develop. He has a special resistance of his own, of course, to developing such awareness, but circumstances often deprive him of exposure to events that might enlighten him—and in any case he resists enlightenment.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

More at https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-pol
itics/

The Paranoid Style in American Politics Is Back
By Thomas B. Edsall
Sept. 8, 2016

Seth Masket, a political scientist at the University of Denver, emailed me his thoughts:

A narrow Trump loss could be problematic in that some significant percentage of Republican activists would believe Trump’s claims that the electoral system was rigged against him.

“This is a potentially dangerous outcome for the country,” Masket added.

Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute warned that if the outcome is a close win for Hillary Clinton:

It will reinforce the view among Trump populists that the election was stolen and he was stabbed in the back, which will make the task of party leaders that much harder, while creating further delegitimization of the process.

At a rally in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 1, Trump told the crowd, “I’m afraid the election’s gonna be rigged, I have to be honest.” Honest?

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210513165837/https://www.nytimes.com/201
6/09/08/opinion/campaign-stops/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics-is-back.html

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Mail-in fraud election was fraud.

Funny... I don't see you calling out McAuliffe or Abrams right now, twat.




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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. was once known as Wall Street Chuck. But thanks to small donors, he now serves as Senate majority leader. Schumer’s donors are now rank-and-file Democratic activists throwing in $27 at a time.

Schumer knows that raising corporate money is not actually that efficient, because each one of these lobbyists or rich people requires coddling, demands intimate access, wants internships for their kids, wants a dinner and a speech and photo, and on and on. Small donors just want you to win and then deliver what you promised. They don’t expect to ever meet you unless they’re volunteering at a headquarters where you happen to stop by.

Over the summer, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema D-AZ showed just how much work it is. For the past few months, we were treated to endless stories about Sinema skipping important events in Washington to be at this or that fundraiser and even leaving the country to go to Paris to raise money. For all that trouble, Sinema reported $1.1 million in fundraising in third quarter. Back in the third quarter of 2018, when Democratic voters thought she was a progressive and wanted to help her flip a Republican seat — she raised almost $7 million.

Kyrsten Sinema might be on the young side for a senator — less than half the age of some of her colleagues — but she represents the Democratic Party’s past. Think of her and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as the dead hands reaching out of the grave, grabbing at the party as it tries to move on from them. They managed to claw back spending on the Build Back Better Act, but the reality that their time has passed is clear. And the way you can measure this most directly is in terms of dollars.

For Sinema in particular, her approach to the negotiations — to push against social spending and tax hikes on the rich and corporations — has cost her badly in the polls at home and hasn’t had much of an upside when it comes to campaign cash.

More at https://theintercept.com/2021/10/22/kyrsten-sinema-corporate-democrats/

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Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama

A lot of today’s populist backlash is due to this neoliberal economic world, where if you could squeeze the slightest couple of cents out of the supply chain by moving your production out of North America into some Asian country, you would immediately do it. And if you could squeeze your workers, you could insist that they not join a union, and then you could nibble away at their benefits and so forth. You were justified in doing this because there were economists who said, “Well, that's what makes capitalism efficient.”

That was one of the versions of neoliberalism, and I think it has made a lot of young people really dislike capitalism. Today, they associate capitalism with this extremely ruthless and competitive version of neoliberalism, and that has had a lot of dire political consequences for all of us.

So if one way in which liberalism has become misshapen over the last decades is economic—with the rise of neoliberalism—the other is more cultural: A doubling-down on an emphasis on autonomy. Individualism, which is core to the liberal tradition, is undermining itself in a way. What does that mean?

More at https://www.persuasion.community/p/fukuyama?r=17uk7

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So if one way in which liberalism has become misshapen over the last decades is economic—with the rise of neoliberalism—the other is more cultural: A doubling-down on an emphasis on autonomy. Individualism, which is core to the liberal tradition, is undermining itself in a way. What does that mean?


What it means is that the Democrat Party has become the party of the rich and the party that the multi-national corporations back.

Not coincidentally, it has also become the party of censorship and the party of actively stifling free speech whenever and wherever it can, and enabling, emboldening and celebrating others who do so where it can't (yet).

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West Virginia - the historic roadblock to US climate policy

The clean electricity program that Senator Joe Manchin (WV) has turned against is the cornerstone of the Biden climate program. Driving first coal and then gas out of the US electricity system, combined with a big push on EV, were the twin mechanisms through which the administration hoped to meet its objective of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 50 relative to 2005 levels by 2030. It was always feared that Manchin might dig in on gas. It now seems that his position has hardened to one of outright opposition to any form of clean energy provision in the spending package. Without the clean electricity program it is hard to see how the United States can make good on its climate promises. Unless Manchin flips, America will go to the global climate talks at COP26 at Glasgow with nothing to offer.

Manchin is the senior senator for West Virginia, commonly described as “coal country”. He is a Democrat in a massively Trump-voting state. As the NYT reported, West Virginia’s other senator, the Republican Shelley Moore Capito, “said she was “vehemently opposed” to the clean electricity program because it is “designed to ultimately eliminate coal and natural gas from our electricity mix, and would be absolutely devastating for my state.””

The power that West Virginia’s two Senators wield is astonishing considering that the state has a total population of 1.79 million - as compared, for instance, with the New York borough of Brooklyn which numbers 2.89 million inhabitants. West Virginia’s swing votes in the Senate are another demonstration of the warped constitution that the 21st-century United States has inherited from the eighteenth century.

By way of their influence in Washington, West Virginian politicians have repeatedly stymied not just American, but global climate policy. As Lee Harris reminds us in a timely piece in American Prospect, in 1997 it was West Virginian Democrat Robert Byrd who, along with Chuck Hagel, blocked American ratification of the Kyoto climate protocol negotiated by the Clinton administration.

West Virginia’s identity is deeply tied up with coal. So too is Joe Manchin’s personal fortune. . . .

Democrats make a fatal mistake in taking on policy choices that appeal to liberal educated voters at the expense of working-class voters. As Klein reports:

Shor showed me, as an example, a set of environmental talking points he’d tested, in which the ones that mentioned climate change performed worst. “Very liberal white people care way more about climate change than anyone else,” he said. “So when you talk about climate change, you sound like a weird, very liberal white person. This is why policy issues matter more than people realize. It’s not that voters have these very specific policy preferences. It’s that the policies you choose to talk about paints a picture of what kind of person you are.” . . .

. . . what is at stake in Manchin’s stand, is less the economics of fossil fuels or the costs and benefits of decarbonization for West Virginia, but the trajectory of party political and class realignment. It is that history that persuades Manchin to cling to the totems of coal and gas, whilst rejecting billions in investment. As the senior representative of one of the poorest states in the Union, he declares himself to be the last bastion against a new culture of entitlement. As Jamelle Bouie concludes it is a “dispute over values as much as — or even more than — a dispute over policy.” Ironically, what an enquiry into the West Virginia roadblock exposes is less the defining importance of actual producer interests - insofar as we can measure them - than the perverse grip of conservative “producerist” ideology over American politics.

Charts, graphs and much more to "explain" why West Virginia is a roadblock at https://web.archive.org/web/20211023182308/https://adamtooze.substack.
com/p/chartbook-46-west-virginia-the-historic

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If you have five minutes, watch it all.

Otherwise, just the last 90 seconds, addressing her Republican colleagues.



Transcript: Bannon’s Actions Suggest Trump was “Personally Involved” in Capitol Riot
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/liz-cheney-transcript-bannons-act
ions-suggest-trump-was-personally-involved-in-capitol-riot

Rep. Cheney: (00:00)
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. On January 6th, a mob breached the security perimeter of our capitol, assaulted and injured more than 140 police officers, engaged in hand-to-hand violence over an extended period, and invaded and occupied the United States Capitol building, all in an effort to halt the lawful counting of electoral votes and reverse the results of the 2020 election. The day before this all occurred, on January 5th, Mr. Bannon publicly professed knowledge that quote, “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” end quote. He forecast that the day would be quote, “extraordinarily different than what most Americans expected.” He said to his listeners and his viewers quote, “So many people said if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington. Well,” he said, “this is your time in history.” Based on the committee’s investigation, it appears that Mr. Bannon had substantial advanced knowledge of the plans for January 6th, and likely had an important role in formulating those plans.

Rep. Cheney: (01:19)
Mr. Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on January 6th. He also appears to have detailed knowledge regarding the president’s efforts to sell millions of Americans the fraud that the election was stolen. In the words of many who participated in the January 6th attack, the violence that day was in direct response to President Trump’s repeated claims from election night through January 6th that he had won the election. The American people are entitled to Mr. Bannon’s firsthand testimony about all of these relevant facts, but as the chairman noted, Mr. Bannon is refusing to provide it. Preserving our Constitution and the rule of law is a central purpose of this investigation. The plain fact here is that Mr. Bannon has no legal right to ignore the committee’s lawful subpoena. So far, Mr. Bannon’s excuse is that former President Trump wishes to invoke some form of executive privilege for a subset of the relevant topics, President Trump’s direct communications with Mr. Bannon regarding the planning for January 6th.

Rep. Cheney: (02:39)
This information should not be subject to any privilege at all, and certainly there is no basis for absolute or unqualified privilege for presidential communications. More important now, there is no conceivably applicable privilege that could shield Mr. Bannon from testimony on all of the many other topics identified in this committee’s subpoena. Because he has categorically refused to appear, we have no choice but to seek consequences for Mr. Bannon’s failure to comply. Those consequences are not just important for this investigation, they are important for all congressional investigations. Mr. Bannon’s and Mr. Trump’s privilege arguments do however appear to reveal one thing. They suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th, and this committee will get to the bottom of that.

Rep. Cheney: (03:44)
Let me add one further thought, principally from my Republican colleagues. We all agree that America is the greatest nation on the face of God’s earth. Truth, justice, and our Constitution have made America great. Almost every one of my colleagues knows in your hearts that what happened on January 6th was profoundly wrong. You all know that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud sufficient to have changed the results of the election. You all know that the Dominion voting machines were not corrupted by a foreign power. You know these claims are false, yet former President Trump repeats them almost daily, and he has now urged Republicans not to vote in 2022 and 2024. This is a prescription for national self-destruction. I ask my colleagues please consider the fundamental questions of right and wrong here. The American people must know what happened. They must know the truth. All of us who are elected officials must do our duty to prevent the dismantling of the rule of law and to ensure that nothing like that dark day in January ever happens again. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.

More at https://january6th.house.gov/news/press-releases/thompson-cheney-openi
ng-statements-select-committee-business-meeting

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Why does the US Military lose war after war after war?

“The Spoils of War”: How Profits Rather Than Empire Define Success for the Pentagon

In the introduction to “The Spoils of War,” an extraordinary new book by Andrew Cockburn, he makes a straightforward assertion about the U.S. military. “War-fighting efficiency has a low priority,” he writes, “by comparison with considerations of personal and internal bureaucracies. … The military are generally not interested in war, save as a means to budget enhancement.”

Cockburn aptly quotes one Pentagon weapons designer in the 1960s telling new hires that they would be making “weapons that don’t work to meet threats that don’t exist.”

The array of panjandrums in Cockburn’s compendium of avarice and folly at the top of the military world therefore appear like an expanded, hyperviolent version of the Roy family on the HBO show “Succession” — that is, they spend 98 percent of their time jockeying for wealth and power within the organization, and at most a residual 2 percent attempting to do what the organization purportedly exists to accomplish.

Even the most wised-up cynic might rebel at this worldview. Can it possibly be true that the U.S. military — which converts wedding parties in Pakistan into scraps of wet red flesh with drones piloted from 8,000 miles away and possesses the ability to end human civilization in 30 minutes — is simultaneously this venal and preposterous? But Cockburn relentlessly piles fact upon fact until readers have no option but to admit that the answer is yes.

Here are a few of the many, many examples that Cockburn provides:

During the first winter of the Korean War in 1950-51, half of American casualties were caused by frostbite. Incredibly enough, U.S soldiers hadn’t been equipped with warm boots and were forced to raid North Korean positions to steal their functional footwear. U.S. military spending had jumped following the beginning of hostilities, but much of the increase went to things that had nothing to do with the war, such as B-47 strategic nuclear bombers, a Boeing product far more profitable product than boring old boots.

. . .

Cockburn, currently the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine, has been covering the Pentagon for decades, and it shows. He possesses a uniquely detailed knowledge of the arcane, lucrative machinations of this world, as well as a deep historical understanding of the forces that built it. And while the specifics change, the stories he tells all have the same shocking moral. “People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy,” he quotes a former Air Force colonel as saying. “They are wrong. The Pentagon does have a strategy. It is: ‘Don’t interrupt the money flow.’”

If you’re still not convinced, the proof of this unpalatable pudding is in the eating. Consider America’s just-concluded 20-year war in Afghanistan. As the Taliban took over the country in days, it might have seemed that the whole thing was a colossal failure. But if you check your portfolio of defense contractor stocks, and visit the enormous mansions in the northern Virginia suburbs surrounding the Pentagon, you’ll see that, in fact, it was an incredible success.

More at https://theintercept.com/2021/10/27/pentagon-budget-book-spoils-war-an
drew-cockburn/

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If you have five minutes, watch it all.


I did. Thanks.

The problem iz she makes sens. GoPs dont do sensible any more. Its been out uv fashion for them sins at least Bush jr. and Trump led them even further down the road to madness.

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Quote:
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If you have five minutes, watch it all.


I did. Thanks.

The problem iz she makes sens. GoPs dont do sensible any more. Its been out uv fashion for them sins at least Bush jr. and Trump led them even further down the road to madness.
The GOP Congressmen are NOT crazy. They know for a certainty that if they do their duty, their voters will abandon them, drive them from office, and maybe even burn down their houses. Liz Chaney has asked the GOP Congressmen to destroy their careers: "I ask my colleagues please consider the fundamental questions of right and wrong here. The American people must know what happened. They must know the truth. All of us who are elected officials must do our duty to prevent the dismantling of the rule of law and to ensure that nothing like that dark day in January ever happens again."

Only a very few GOP politicians, Marjorie Taylor Greene for one example, are as crazy as the people who vote for Republicans. The rest of the GOP politicians are sane enough to know what terrible things will happen to them if they don't pander to their mentally unsound and emotionally fragile voters. Let's get a little distance by looking at Governor Sam Houston of Texas. He would NOT agree to Texas joining the Confederacy because the idea was crazy and would end with a bloody military defeat. To Houston it was as obvious as the sun rises that the Confederacy would fall. He was removed from office within days of letting the voters know. Careful and intelligent speeches that Houston gave changed few minds about rebelling. Not many GOP politicians today are as brave as Sam Houston was. Most will follow along with the passions of their voters, hoping that the worst possible doesn't happen, another Civil War.

Who is the Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/06/who-is-marjorie-taylor
-greene-republican-qanon

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I did. Thanks.

The problem iz she makes sens. GoPs dont do sensible any more. Its been out uv fashion for them sins at least Bush jr. and Trump led them even further down the road to madness.


I don't even know how we're living on the same planet dude.

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"I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." – Jimmy Carter

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/jimmy-carter-russia-investig
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"I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." – Jimmy Carter

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LOL. Jimmy Carter.

He's getting jealous that Biden* is taking his record for Worst President from him.

Sorry Jimmy. Speedrunning wasn't a thing back in your day. Joe* is a Pro.

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LOL. Jimmy Carter.

He's getting jealous that Biden* is taking his record for Worst President from him.
In 2016 and through the early part of Trump’s presidency, there was often an edge of Friars Club comedy to Trump’s rally performances: not very nice comedy, a little out of style in tone and sensibility, but comedy all the same. Not in 2021. Now it’s all dark and bitter.

Here’s video from a Georgia television station of the entirety of Trump’s Perry rally. Trump’s own speech starts at 1:37:38. Tell me if you detect even a moment of humor, Friars Club or otherwise. The most quoted bit — Trump’s quasi-endorsement of the Democrat Stacey Abrams as a better governor for Georgia than the Republican Brian Kemp — is not any kind of joke. It’s a deliberately delivered challenge, lower jaw jutting beyond the upper teeth, eyes slitted with anger.

That’s the guy who wants to return as the 47th president.

In Trump’s first term, the country was protected to some degree by his ignorance and ineptitude. He kept trying to do bad things, but it took him a while to figure out how the controls operated, where the kill-switches were located. By the time of his attempt to extort the Ukrainian president, in 2019, Trump had achieved a higher degree of mastery. But by then it was too late. Then the pandemic struck, and Trump bumped into a new wall of failure. In a second Trump presidency, however, the burglars will arrive already knowing how to bypass the alarms and disable the locks. He’ll understand that it’s not enough to install an ally as attorney general—he must control the secondary and tertiary ranks of the Justice Department too. He won’t allow himself to be talked into another chief of staff with an independent sense of duty, such as John Kelly, who averted much harm from the middle of 2017 to the beginning of 2019. It’ll be Mark Meadows types from day one to day last. And he’ll bring with them a new generation of Republican officeholders whose top priority will be rearranging their states’ election laws so that Republicans do not lose power even if they lose the vote.

That’s the future Trump is preparing.

Be ready.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/trump-running-presid
ent-2024-election/620502/

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Can't wait.

This shitshow only has 1 more year of steam in it, then we have to sit through 2 years of nothing getting done.

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Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

Scholars have long been aware that Hitler’s regime expressed admiration for American race law, but they have tended to see this as a public-relations strategy — an “everybody does it” justification for Nazi policies. Whitman, however, points out that if these comparisons had been intended solely for a foreign audience they would not have been buried in hefty tomes in Fraktur type. “Race Law in the United States,” a 1936 study by the German lawyer Heinrich Krieger, attempts to sort out inconsistencies in the legal status of nonwhite Americans. Krieger concludes that the entire apparatus is hopelessly opaque, concealing racist aims behind contorted justifications. Why not simply say what one means? This was a major difference between American and German racism.

American eugenicists made no secret of their racist objectives, and their views were prevalent enough that F. Scott Fitzgerald featured them in “The Great Gatsby.” (The cloddish Tom Buchanan, having evidently read Lothrop Stoddard’s 1920 tract “The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy,” says, “The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged.”) California’s sterilization program directly inspired the Nazi sterilization law of 1934. There are also sinister, if mostly coincidental, similarities between American and German technologies of death. In 1924, the first execution by gas chamber took place, in Nevada. In a history of the American gas chamber, Scott Christianson states that the fumigating agent Zyklon-B, which was licensed to American Cyanamid by the German company I. G. Farben, was considered as a lethal agent but found to be impractical. Zyklon-B was, however, used to disinfect immigrants as they crossed the border at El Paso—a practice that did not go unnoticed by Gerhard Peters, the chemist who supplied a modified version of Zyklon-B to Auschwitz. Later, American gas chambers were outfitted with a chute down which poison pellets were dropped. Earl Liston, the inventor of the device, explained, “Pulling a lever to kill a man is hard work. Pouring acid down a tube is easier on the nerves, more like watering flowers.” Much the same method was introduced at Auschwitz, to relieve stress on S.S. guards.

When Hitler praised American restrictions on naturalization, he had in mind the Immigration Act of 1924, which imposed national quotas and barred most Asian people altogether. For Nazi observers, this was evidence that America was evolving in the right direction, despite its specious rhetoric about equality. The Immigration Act, too, played a facilitating role in the Holocaust, because the quotas prevented thousands of Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, from reaching America. In 1938, President Roosevelt called for an international conference on the plight of European refugees; this was held in Évian-les-Bains, France, but no substantive change resulted. The German Foreign Office, in a sardonic reply, found it “astounding” that other countries would decry Germany’s treatment of Jews and then decline to admit them.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans died fighting Nazi Germany. Still, bigotry toward Jews persisted, even toward Holocaust survivors. General George Patton criticized do-gooders who “believe that the Displaced person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews who are lower than animals.” Leading Nazi scientists had it better. Brian Crim’s “Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State” (Johns Hopkins) reviews the shady history of Wernher von Braun and his colleagues from the V-2 program. When Braun was captured, in 1945, he realized that the Soviets would become the next archenemy of the American military-industrial complex, and cannily promoted the idea of a high-tech weapons program to ward off the Bolshevik menace. He was able to reconstitute most of his operation Stateside, minus the slave labor. Records were airbrushed; de-Nazification procedures were bypassed (they were considered “demoralizing”); immigration was expedited. J. Edgar Hoover became concerned that Jewish obstructionists in the State Department were asking too many questions about the scientists’ backgrounds. Senator Styles Bridges** proposed that the State Department needed a “first-class cyanide fumigating job.”

These chilling points of contact are little more than footnotes to the history of Nazism. But they tell us rather more about modern America. Like a colored dye coursing through the bloodstream, they expose vulnerabilities in the national consciousness.

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2021/10/31/how-american-racism-inspir
ed-hitler/

** According to Drew Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column published after Hunt's death, senator Styles Bridges threatened that if Hunt did not immediately retire from the Senate and agree not to seek his seat in the 1954 election, they would see that his son was prosecuted and would widely publicize his son's arrest. In a closely divided Senate, Hunt's resignation would have allowed Wyoming's Republican governor to appoint a Republican to fill the remainder of Hunt's term . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_C._Hunt#Son's_arrest_and_Hunt
's_suicide

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Good.

They can start with the star of David Biden* is unsuccessfully trying to have everybody forced to get shot in their arm.

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