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bah, humbug.

no front on the culture war can ever be “won.”

they are still fighting evolution, for example, and the glbtq gains can be reversed in a very short time.

the anti abortion movement is not about women terminating pregnancies. it is about making women pay a price (slut shaming), poverty or death,  for getting pregnant.

@bazukov

that quote reminded me of one from earl long, former 3 term Louisiana governor and brother to huey long …

“some day the people of Louisiana are going to get good government, and they’re not going to like it.”

will an election require the energy output of a small star to operate?

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change

sounds like they need a regime change.

(sarcasm, of course)

@voltairine

it will take much more than a close election and a well intended president to restore peace.

I really think this machine can only be undone by losing a war (here, in north America), or this civil war ii that the trumpettes desire so badly.

the Julius Caesar analogy falls short.

“crossing the rubicon” is trump’s arrogant assumption that “article 2 says I can do anything I want.” it most assuredly says nothing of the sort. everyone knows about checks and balances.

Caesar could not be “impeached” in late republican rome, the equivalent of impeachment was when cassius, brutus, and the…[Read more]

+1. best post this week.

“there is no alternative.” thatcher on neoliberalism

the “Washington consensus” :

1.Fiscal policy discipline, with avoidance of large fiscal deficits relative to GDP;
2.Redirection of public spending from subsidies (“especially indiscriminate subsidies”) toward broad-based provision of key pro-growth, pro-poor…[Read more]

I am an auburn graduate and fan. beating ‘bama is a wonderful event that requires the highest level of preparation and effort and a whole lot of luck. that said, i still do not understand the last second of the first 1/2 yesterday.

there still may be 2 sec teams in the tournement, but at least ‘bama will not be among them.

@ohio barbarian ohio…[Read more]

@ mr. mickeys mom thank you mom, I understand. I have highest respect for the barbarian and overstepped the boundary of cs. thanks very much and apologies to any offended.

@ohio barbarian makes many goof points as does @charles

but trump is do incredibly destructive of everything he touches that if there is any possibility of removing him, even for the wrong crime, that chance must be taken,

if there is a “deep state” i’d like to remind everyone that we know exactly what a deep state coup looks…[Read more]

continues in massacres of indigenous bolivians by the new junta and the massacre of native amazonians as their forest is burned and converted to agribusiness.

the trump body count continues to rise.

https://www.trumpbodycount.org/

@tk2kewl

you’re probably right. the marketing dept seems to think we engineers exist to give them inferior products to sell.

my contention is that they exist to provide money for us to develop superior products.

this concept is meant to be confusing, and thinking un terms of net income is not enlightening.

1. the wealthy can not be defined by income. they may have no income at all or their income may accrue in foundations, trusts, corporations and the other imaginative instruments dreamed up by their accountants and subtracted , effortlessly, from the tax…

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capital gains should be taxed as earned income.

@ravensong your excerpts were great but I recommend the entire article. here is a better link.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/william-barr-s-chilling-vision-of-unchecked-presidential-power/ar-BBWWboC?ocid=msn360

claiming to champion the “original intent” of the founders, the federalist society goes to great lengths to find obscute…[Read more]

@voltairine @ohio barbarian

there is very little doubt that the purpose of the new deal was to save the system, or that without the new deal a starving unemployed populace would have, eventually taken matters to the streets.

there was plenty of opposition to the new deal from the left within the dem party. huey long was among those who wanted…[Read more]

@ravensong great fdr quoteswhen that generation landed at d day and the pacific islands they knew that they were fighting for the 4 freedoms and the new deal.

that generation had to pass before these reactionaries, of both parties, could try to take that away.

my father, and I, got degrees with the gi bill. my father’s home was financed with gi…[Read more]