Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Eh... i think you need to check your previous post again, since you where arguing about being unable to make those things "safe":
For one thing, asbestos can't ever be made "safe," just like plutonium, botox, or methylated mercury can't be made "safe."
Well, duh...
Are you now arguing against your own point?
Imagine if someone suggested we no longer care about how likely it is for plutonium to leak into the environment...
Monstrous.
https://kdvr.com/2018/08/09/colorad...d-four-year-old-daughter-from-being-deported/
Before I see any chimes about how this happened during Obama or any other shit like that, fair warning, I don't give a fuck. It was still monstrous.
https://kdvr.com/2018/08/09/colorad...d-four-year-old-daughter-from-being-deported/
Before I see any chimes about how this happened during Obama or any other shit like that, fair warning, I don't give a fuck. It was still monstrous.
I’ll bet anything that if the country was switched from Peru to somewhere like Canada or England, the little girl would already have US citizenship.
Assholes.
Don't want to change the countries culture by letting whiter people teach kids that aren't white how to behave... coz that's a different culture, right?
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Well, it's not easy when you're using 2 different definitions of "safe".
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Unite the Right 2 was a flop. Few participants, but lots and lots of counter-protestors.
It's been a year, so I can't say one way or the other. I remember it was a statement, but I didn't watch any of the videos.
Maybe all those people in the new photo are Jewish
.It's like shaming them works....
FUCK NAZIS....
We're all Jews on this blessed day...
But just honorary ones, stay the hell away from my foreskin...
Not with my, your, or anyone else's dick. Punch them instead. Better still, kiss them upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat.
This isn't England... you can fuck ppl with other things then dicks...
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Well, this is interesting:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world...tions-truth-seeking-scientists-run-for-office
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CNN: Report details sexual abuse by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church
The full report is pretty detailed (i.e. a disgusting read).
The full report is pretty detailed (i.e. a disgusting read).
It's immoral to be rich
Just to see if I can make Gas' head explode
The author's not a socialist or marxist, and while I don't actualyl agree with him, he does make an interesting point (up to a point). But it's a very, very unAmerican way of thinking.
Just to see if I can make Gas' head explode
The author's not a socialist or marxist, and while I don't actualyl agree with him, he does make an interesting point (up to a point). But it's a very, very unAmerican way of thinking.
GasBandit
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Classist wealth-envy: the article.It's immoral to be rich
Just to see if I can make Gas' head explode
The author's not a socialist or marxist, and while I don't actualyl agree with him, he does make an interesting point (up to a point). But it's a very, very unAmerican way of thinking.
We (sort of) have a thread about this already, wherein I and @TommiR (and @Chad Sexington and Gas) go back and forth about what is essentially this issue.It's immoral to be rich
Just to see if I can make Gas' head explode
The author's not a socialist or marxist, and while I don't actualyl agree with him, he does make an interesting point (up to a point). But it's a very, very unAmerican way of thinking.
But I think I would've liked the article better as an argument for social responsibility rather than an attempt to draw a direct parallel between bank balance and "evilness quotient."
--Patrick
Neither, but it does mean you get to punch Bill Gates in the face without repercussions.
Looks like Warren has decided to stir the pot a bit. More than a bit, even.
Elizabeth Warren introduces Accountable Capitalism Act
A different, (slightly) less leftist take here.
CNBC reeeeally doesn't like it. ("It will help destroy Capitalism as we know it!")
Link to Warren's WSJ op-ed (paywall-ish).
--Patrick
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Sadly, you've included links to Vox twice, and none to CNBC.
That said, it'll surprise no-one that I can certainly understand her reasoning. I haven't read her op-ed piece yet and I can't argue specifics, of course, but the direction she wants to go - less Friedmann, more FDR, more input from workers, less short-termism - is sound. The idea that one could achieve this in the USA with a single law, though, is pretty much laughable. It's far too easy for this to be turned into "COMMUNISM 2.0" to ever become reality.
That said, it'll surprise no-one that I can certainly understand her reasoning. I haven't read her op-ed piece yet and I can't argue specifics, of course, but the direction she wants to go - less Friedmann, more FDR, more input from workers, less short-termism - is sound. The idea that one could achieve this in the USA with a single law, though, is pretty much laughable. It's far too easy for this to be turned into "COMMUNISM 2.0" to ever become reality.
"If you where rich, you'd not care about the poor either!"Classist wealth-envy: the article.
Also, it's not a new idea... ask Jesus!
Just in case you forgot ICE is a blatantly evil organization.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/201...-san-bernardino-driving-wife-to-deliver-baby/
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/201...-san-bernardino-driving-wife-to-deliver-baby/
Wealth is not zero-sum.It's immoral to be rich
Just to see if I can make Gas' head explode
The author's not a socialist or marxist, and while I don't actualyl agree with him, he does make an interesting point (up to a point). But it's a very, very unAmerican way of thinking.
Yeah, we could all be millionaires, and that would totally work...
figmentPez
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And how does this statement relate to the article? Yes, it's possible for humanity to increase the amount of capital that the human population has access to. There is no arbitrary limit to the amount of money that can exist. However, that does not mean that the methods that are most commonly used to "get rich" don't unfairly distribute the capital generated by human efforts.
There is a reason most socialist and communist works define labor in terms of human effort and time, instead of dollars and cents, and that is because you don't get time and effort back once you've expended them. It's also the biggest obstacle to getting people to understand what the difference between the systems is.
Let's hope California's AG, who was very vocal about companies not gouging customers during the wildfires, has an investigation in place already - or will soon, because that's fucked.
figmentPez
Staff member
The stupidest part of this is the fire department being sold a plan that didn't suit their needs in the first place. I'm not sure who to blame for that, though. Did Verizon fall down on the job by not realizing what was needed? Did Verizon outright lie about what they were going to provide? Did the fire department try to cheap out and not buy what they needed?
Clearly Verizon really fucked up by insisting on an upgrade to the plan in the middle of a crisis, but there's the bigger issue that the plan the fighter deparment was on wasn't sufficient for their needs, period.