Actually you are really agreeing with me. I'm stating that California is almost a country in its own right, but it is being exploited and abused by its overlords in Washington.
The exploitation I'm living with is not coming from Washington, but rather from Sacramento. As a firearms owner, every night I go to sleep a law abiding citizen, yet I risk waking up as a felon through no action of my own. This is how they treat citizens who value independence and accountability. The state has blown $77 billion worth of taxpayers' money on a train project they cannot finish. They refuse to cut their losses and insist on spending another $3 billion (of Federal funds) on this doomed project, just so the money doesn't go towards something that will actually help Americans, like Trumps wall. Several times in recent posts you've used the term "regime change" and you're so close to pointing out the root of the problem, but you always fail to see it as it truly is. The most despondent areas of our country all have one thing in common; Democrats have had a monopoly on power for decades. California is the prime example, and quite ripe for a regime change. It is sad too, because all the people who fucked that state up are now fleeing the results of that failing state and moving to others then immediately trying to change the government into the system they just fled. It is terrifying.
This is so true, it's mind boggling. A decade ago Idaho was one of those sanctuaries for people who love freedom, and now it is struggling with it's abundance of Californication. This is all true, but I'm in favor of states as experimental laboratories. Just let the experiments fully play out, and don't allow any smokescreens or bail outs from Washington. Then we can enjoy watching the failure of stupid socialists, their continued chatter and mis directions. |
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... this is related to the "MILF" Genre which had a major boom in the early 2000's....
Disagree, I thought that was a simply a recognition of a lot of women with a couple kids were very attractive. Which seems like a good thing not a bad thing. |
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Well the US is a big country and since all resources are distributed based on extreme inequality, we end up with the best and worst of everything. Jetcash statement would not apply to well-off areas but its definitely a reasonable point if you consider underserved areas within the US for your comparison. https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/8/15/17692414/puerto-rico-power-electricity-restored-hurricane-mariaJust for perspective, Puerto Rico was without power for 11 months and it was largely due to the poor shape of the grid infrastructure before Maria. I think its safe to say it was in worse shape. How’d they get that way? As an invaluable article in IEEE Spectrum points out, tax incentives in the 1970s induced mainland US companies to build factories in the southern part of the island, so Prepa built generating facilities there. In 1996 the tax break expired and the factories left. So today, 70 percent of Puerto Rico’s population lives in the north, around San Juan, and 70 percent of the power generation is in the south. A fragile grid connects the two via tough, mountainous terrain. Scattered rural populations have always had a tenuous connection to that grid. Meanwhile Prepa, hamstrung by billions of dollars of debt, austerity measures, and possible corruption slacked off on maintenance. Hurricane Maria sliced Puerto Rico’s broken-down grid in half.
This has been what Knowles calls a “slow disaster.” Like the lead-tainted water in Flint, Michigan or a flood in Houston, the crisis in Puerto Rico came not as a consequence of one big storm but after years of well-understood neglect. “The standard logic has been, ‘we know, and that’s just the way our government works.’ So we wait for a disaster,” Knowles says. “But disaster relief funds are not up to the challenge of meeting deferred maintenance issues.” https://www.wired.com/story/why-cant-we-fix-puerto-ricos-power-grid/Also, keep in mind that Flint, New Orleans, and Houston have all suffered severe disasters because of poor, foreseeable infrastructure failures that we are sure were not due to any intentional sabotage. Nope. Even that comparison is absolutely retarded. I would also like to point out those areas you pointed out are all Democrat strongholds for a long time. While I wouldn't quite call it intentional sabotage, it definitely falls under the rubric of corrupt leftist mismanagement, especially Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico only has itself to blame for its issues. Still none of these places come even close to the degradation of the infrastructure in Venezuela currently. Wrong question Right question... Why can't Puerto Rico fix Puerto Rico's power grid? |
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Very true, but it's worth remembering that by no means all the deluded fools who think they can print money forever are socialists. |
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Actually I see some promising open source educational systems. I am going to wager a guess you are referring to state subsidized "free" education, not literal lesson plans available for use for all on the internet. Now as far as certifications go, I agree there needs to be some kind of standard setting authority to weed the incompetent people out. We should not however confuse free with government funded, and education with a certification or a degree. They are not always the same thing.
You're suspicions are correct, I was indeed using the word "demonetization" as a socialist might; code for "taxing the shit out of you giving you very little in return." I agree there are so many ways to educate one's self available for free on the internet these days, it's really a marvelous time if you are able to take advantage of it. Coding, astronomy, science, mathematics, language, all can be learned for free. Demonitization has occurred hugely; if you take the right time spans. A person used to have to travel hundreds of miles walking or on horse to get to a library. There might have been a few street performers playing music, but the fancy music was only for the wealthy. Even in the 1990s, if you wanted to look up patents, you had to go to a library with the repository. All of Wikipedia can be put on a computer or card < 100 gb, and freely given out. |
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....violating the rules of registration as a foreign agent - before working with Trump, he worked for the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. .... And everyone knew it. It's been repeatedly reported in newspapers and media. Wasn't concealed or any kind of secret. |
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OP started with concept of free entertainment (though I do not think it free when your habits and data getting collected and there is huge market of data) ....
No it's not "Free." So let's not call it "free," if it is actually more enslaving. |
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No one ever said nor implied the government could "print money forever". That is why you need to learn MMT. You just made it clear that you have a fundamental lack of understanding of what it implies. No it did not exist in 1913. We didn't even have fiat until 1971. Please watch that video at the very least because MMT is probably part of the economics you have forgotten.
This is nothing that a Nice Wall won't solve nicely. |
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I think, but do not know, that if measured in an 'un-normalize' manner, unemployment in our great 'Trump Economy' is greater than was the case in the depths of the great depression of the 1930's.
I'm 100% sure it isn't simply because in 1930 most women weren't employed. It counts as a lot. https://medium.com/the-thirties/employment-of-women-in-the-1930s-5998fd255f525% of women were employed. "Most" were not employed. |
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forget what you are dreaming about, we have open financial market now, not constructive communism/socialism,
now the spammers rule it.
economic sabotage and destruction of structures will become the norm
Nothing that a nice wall won't solve nicely. |
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They didn't have to define "Socialist", because Socialism has a firm definition for anyone... except for Socialists who define it as anything great that has nothing to do with actual Socialism. Its ok because you think all of the things socialists want are captialism so you might as well call us capitalists but you'd rather have an endless dance around semantics than get anywhere productive. You have no concept of a mixed economy and only deal in absolutes. Nice false equivalency and projection combo. You have a lot of nerve talking about semantics Captain Postmodern. I have forgotten more about economics than you will ever know. Well it certainly is communists who tend to say "That's not REAL communism," and socialists who say "That's not REAL socialism" or "That's not Democratic Socialism" blah-blah-blah. And coins-for-commies is in this group... ....
Its ok because you think all of the things socialists want are captialism.... Well, people in socialist countries DO WANT the products of capitalism.... Question: What is your opinion of a person lying, if it seems to further a person's cause? |
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People destroy the land they own for the same reason they do anything in a capitalist system.
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It's not clear at all what you might be referring to as "destroying the land." ...Recalling fond memories of working in coal strip mining areas.... |
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....How did you think people find out about the candidates they prefer?
Those who decide which candidates the rabble should prefer, let them know in various ways. |
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This sounds like a nightmare to us environmentalists. More sprawl means more habitat destruction, more fragmentation, and more unnecessary trips.
Sure, that kind of travel can improve but the ideal situation is to not need the trips at all. Even if people are working remotely, food and waste have to be shipped to and from these decentralized populations which is extremely inefficient. We need to put boundaries up on all land that isn't already devleoped ....
You mean we need to build walls? |
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You think the poll is bullshit because you don't like the results. Your poll on the other hand, leads the surveyed to a conclusion of your liking. This is called faulty and biased survey design. Yes I've had a job designing surveys scientifically to eliminate bias. |
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But, if democrats gave real chance to Bernie, than I think that election result could be very different.
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Sure. It'd be the most resounding defeat for a party in US presidential history. Just check this recent survey out... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-news-wsj-poll-2020-race-will-be-uphill-trump-n978331....The NBC/WSJ poll also tested 11 different presidential characteristics. The most popular: An African American (a combined 87 percent of all voters say they are “enthusiastic” or “comfortable” with that characteristic), a white man (86 percent), a woman (84 percent), and someone who is gay or lesbian (68 percent — up from 43 percent in 2006). The least popular: ....someone over the age of75 (37 percent) and a socialist (25 percent).so go ahead, push hard for an old white socialist guy..... |
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.....Of course, we will never know.
Now, I'm not sure if Bernie still have still the same charisma and energy like in the last presidential elections.
I'll comment on that as sort of an outside spectator. I only know one individual personally who thought Bernie had "charisma and energy." Almost all thought of him as a tired, washed up old man, babbling stale socialist concepts we've all heard before. Sure, in some places, college students and other young people may not have heard of those ideas before, and they might have thought they were great ideas. But that's a very small percentage of the electorate. Most people though of him as a joke, and knew Hillary was going to crush him. |
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.....We do not fill our jails with Jean Valjeans (the guy who stole a loaf of bread to feed his family in Les Miserables)......
I'm not so sure about that. We fill them with his modern day equals. People that didn't pay a traffic ticket, then got issued a warrant, then got arrested and jailed.... Many, many other small, victimless crimes put people in jail. |
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Productivity continues to increase and we will see even greater improvements as technology gets even better. Shouldn't the end goal be for humans to work less? The monetary system truly doesn't matter, what matters is the amount of resources we have. An economic crash doesn't just magically take away the natural resources we have. If one person could press a button and produce all the things we make now that should be the goal.
If you can find purpose for your life then yes. But most people cannot. Look how many rich people do nothing productive. Look at all the people on welfare who have their basic needs taken care of. Are they happy? Are they reading? Learning? Are they diligently working on a hobby - be it music, art, literature, helping wounded animals, helping old people. Are they helping out by cleaning streets and parks and other things? No. So, what makes you think things will be different if no one had to work? I'm in favor of me not working, but in order to achieve that goal, I'll accept .... only as a public service for the benefit of all, mind you .... the job and the responsibility of correctly allocating labor to the masses. The goal would of course be for nobody to work but we all understand that's a goal we have to work toward. It's not going to happen overnight. So first, I commit to working at least ten minutes for each eight hour day that society pays me for. Second, I commit to allocating at least ten hours of labor to each member of society per day. Of course we could allocate less, live five hours per day, but then it would take us twice as long to get to our goal of nobody working. I'm sure nobody will complain when it's all correctly explained to them. Okay, so my ten minutes for today is up, so I have to quit. Let's continue this discussion tomorrow, okay? In the meantime be sure to put in at least the ten hours that's your duty for today and just remember the great and worthy goals we're all striving and toiling towards. Onward! |
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For the last few years I have seen a lot of talk about how de-monetizing basic life requirements are trending to de-monetized model.
.... is it possible that education could follow this trend? .....
It would certainly be a lot cheaper option than the ones being proposed by some 2020 candidates.
But their platforms, superficially about free stuff, are really about gaining power and control over the populations. Education is long overdue for disruptive innovation. That's not going to come from ANY organized power structure or government entity. |
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