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SECOND, YOU HATE AMERICANS, remember?
You've said so yourself many times. Why pretend to be concerned about what happens to the rest of us?
The main reason why you hate Americans, rooted in your personal history, is because Americans are stupid enough to fooled into being pro-war. (Or stupid enough not to recognize and appreciate YOUR personal cost for being fooled into a stupid war.)
well, most Dem Presidential candidates are just as pro-war as Republicans.
Also, most Dem politicians are just as beholden to Big Money as Republicans, and therefore NONE of them will address the root causes of wealth inequality. ("Pity would be no more, if we did not MAKE men poor". The causes of wealth inequality are rooted in systemic problems, and can't be solved by spreading money around, just like the causes of repeated famine can't be solved by food aid. "I believe in solving problems, not sharing them")
You hate Americans because they are easily fooled and don't hold their politicians to account. And yet here you are, encouraging Americans to be easily fooled and not hold their (Democratic) politicians to account. You yourself don't hold Democrats to account about ... ANYTHING.
You're so mired in hate that you can't think straight: You're CONSTANTLY contradicting yourself; it's been pointed out to you time and time again. Since your thinking is entirely twisted by hate, and you hate the people you're posting to, why should anyone take what you say seriously?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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The Age of Decadence
The real story of the West in the 21st century is one of stalemate and stagnation.
“What fascinates and terrifies us about the Roman Empire is not that it finally went smash,” wrote W.H. Auden of that endless autumn, but rather that “it managed to last for four centuries without creativity, warmth, or hope.”
The dilemma that Auden described is now not Rome’s but ours.
We — or at least we in the developed world — inhabit an era in which repetition is more the norm than invention; in which stalemate rather than revolution stamps our politics; in which sclerosis afflicts public institutions and private life alike; in which new developments in science, new exploratory projects, consistently under deliver. What if the meltdown at the Iowa caucuses, an antique system undone by pseudo-innovation and incompetence, was much more emblematic of our age than any great catastrophe or breakthrough? A story to illustrate the point:
A girl grows up in Texas, she gets accepted to Stanford, she wants to be Steve Jobs. She has an idea that will change an industry that hasn’t changed in years: the boring but essential world of blood testing. She envisions a machine, dubbed the Edison, that will test for diseases using just a single drop of blood. And like Jobs she quits college to figure out how to build it.
Ten years later, she is the internet era’s leading female billionaire, with a stream of venture capital, a sprawling campus, a $10 billion valuation for her company, and a lucrative deal with Walgreens to use her machines in every store. Her story is a counterpoint to every criticism you hear about Silicon Valley — that it’s a callow boys’ club, that its virtual realities don’t make the world of flesh and blood a better place, that it solves problems of convenience but doesn’t cure the sick. And she is the toast of an elite, in tech and politics alike, that wants to believe the Edisonian spirit lives on.
But the Edison box — despite endless effort and the best tech team that all that venture capital can buy — doesn’t work. And over time, as the company keeps expanding, it ceases even trying to innovate and becomes instead a fraud, using all its money and big-time backers to discredit whistle-blowers. Which succeeds until it doesn’t, at which point the company and all its billions evaporate — leaving behind a fraud prosecution, a best-selling exposé and the inevitable podcast and HBO documentary to sustain its founder’s fame.
That’s the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. It’s a big story. It’s another case study in what happens when an extraordinarily rich society can’t find enough new ideas that justify investing all its stockpiled wealth. We inflate bubbles and then pop them, invest in Theranos and then repent, and the supposed cutting edge of capitalism is increasingly defined by technologies that have almost arrived, business models that are on their way to profitability, by runways that go on and on without the plane achieving takeoff.
We used to go to the moon; now we make movies about space — amazing movies with completely convincing special effects that make it seem as if we’ve left earth behind. And we hype the revolutionary character of our communications devices in order to convince ourselves that our earlier expectations were just fantasies, “Jetsons stuff” — that this progress is the only progress we could reasonably expect.
For adults, the increasingly legal drug of choice is marijuana, whose prototypical user is a relaxed and harmless figure — comfortably numb, experiencing stagnation as a chill good time.
Today we are just 50 years removed from the peak of human accomplishment and daring that put human beings on the moon, and all the ferment that surrounded it. The next renaissance will be necessarily different, but realism about our own situation should make us more inclined, not less, to look and hope for one — for the day when our culture feels more fruitful, our politics less futile and the frontiers that seem closed today are opened once again.
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Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were having breakfast together, the story goes, when Jefferson called Washington to account for agreeing to the creation of a second — and unnecessary, Jefferson thought — legislative chamber.
“Why,” responded Washington, “did you just now pour that coffee into your saucer before drinking?”
“To cool it,” answered Jefferson. “My throat is not made of brass.”
“Even so, we pour our legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it,” said Washington, making his point.
The purpose of the 31-member Texas Senate is similar to that of the U.S. Senate: to cool down some of the fevered legislation filed in the Senate or passed by a simple majority of the Texas House of Representatives.
This is accomplished by a Senate rule that requires a super-majority vote (60% of senators on the floor at this time) to bring up a bill for debate. This rule was enacted in 2015; for 70 years previously, a larger, two-thirds vote was required (21 votes of those present).
It’s no coincidence that the 2015 rule change mirrored the Senate’s partisan balance. It allowed Republicans, who held 20 seats, to bring up and pass a bill without any Democrat support. Now — with the possibility that Democrats may gain Senate seats in the general election — the idea has been raised to further lower the threshold during the 2021 legislative session to require only a simple majority vote.
More about how Senates are where legislation goes only to die at www.texastribune.org/2020/01/27/the-texas-senate-could-become-more-dem
ocratic-for-partisan-reasons/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were having breakfast together, the story goes, when Jefferson called Washington to account for agreeing to the creation of a second — and unnecessary, Jefferson thought — legislative chamber.
“Why,” responded Washington, “did you just now pour that coffee into your saucer before drinking?”
“To cool it,” answered Jefferson. “My throat is not made of brass.”
“Even so, we pour our legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it,” said Washington, making his point.
The purpose of the 31-member Texas Senate is similar to that of the U.S. Senate: to cool down some of the fevered legislation filed in the Senate or passed by a simple majority of the Texas House of Representatives.
This is accomplished by a Senate rule that requires a super-majority vote (60% of senators on the floor at this time) to bring up a bill for debate. This rule was enacted in 2015; for 70 years previously, a larger, two-thirds vote was required (21 votes of those present).
It’s no coincidence that the 2015 rule change mirrored the Senate’s partisan balance. It allowed Republicans, who held 20 seats, to bring up and pass a bill without any Democrat support. Now — with the possibility that Democrats may gain Senate seats in the general election — the idea has been raised to further lower the threshold during the 2021 legislative session to require only a simple majority vote.
More about how Senates are where legislation goes only to die at www.texastribune.org/2020/01/27/the-texas-senate-could-become-more-dem
ocratic-for-partisan-reasons/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
What's your point? If you want to live in a state that passes every Democrat bill under the sun, go move to California.
Tell us how that works out for you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:The point is that Senates, in Texas and in DC, were designed to work in the same way -- to stop any changes that would be to the disadvantage of a George Washington or a Thomas Jefferson, extremely rich guys who did not want a House of Representatives passing laws that might disadvantage the rich. Or pass laws freeing their slaves. Both George and Thomas were slave-owners who worried that slavery might be outlawed, so they fixed things so it couldn't. They fixed things pretty well, too! If Senators from the slave-owning states had not withdrawn from the Union, laws ending slavery could have never passed.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What's your point? If you want to live in a state that passes every Democrat bill under the sun, go move to California.
Tell us how that works out for you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I am delighted with the Senate! No income taxes in Texas! Very low taxes from DC for me! And I can treat my employees like they are slaves. No law to stop me except the minimum wage law, which the Texas GOP wants to remove.
Goal #25. Minimum Wage: We believe the Minimum Wage Act should be repealed.
www.texasgop.org/platform/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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SECOND: You hate Americans. Why pretend that you care about what happens to the rest of us?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The point is that Senates, in Texas and in DC, were designed to work in the same way -- to stop any changes that would be to the disadvantage of a George Washington or a Thomas Jefferson, extremely rich guys who did not want a House of Representatives passing laws that might disadvantage the rich. Or pass laws freeing their slaves. Both George and Thomas were slave-owners who worried that slavery might be outlawed, so they fixed things so it couldn't. They fixed things pretty well, too! If Senators from the slave-owning states had not withdrawn from the Union, laws ending slavery could have never passed.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What's your point? If you want to live in a state that passes every Democrat bill under the sun, go move to California.
Tell us how that works out for you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I am delighted with the Senate! No income taxes in Texas! Very low taxes from DC for me! And I can treat my employees like they are slaves. No law to stop me except the minimum wage law, which the Texas GOP wants to remove.
Goal #25. Minimum Wage: We believe the Minimum Wage Act should be repealed.
www.texasgop.org/platform/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Seriously. Stop being an asshole and evading a question when it's asked of you.
We have plenty of states where Democrat senates are packed to the gills and they're free to do whatever they want.
Can you give me one example where this works out for people?
Just one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:California. Trump says it is a hellhole because of homeless people, but first you need to define who the people are that you want things to work out for. No political party wants to upset the wealthier 50% of voters in order to build houses in wealthy neighborhoods for the bottom 1% of non-voters who are homeless.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Seriously. Stop being an asshole and evading a question when it's asked of you.
We have plenty of states where Democrat senates are packed to the gills and they're free to do whatever they want.
Can you give me one example where this works out for people?
Just one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:California. Trump says it is a hellhole because of homeless people, but first you need to define who the people are that you want things to work out for. No political party wants to upset the wealthier 50% of voters in order to build houses in wealthy neighborhoods for the bottom 1% of non-voters who are homeless.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Seriously. Stop being an asshole and evading a question when it's asked of you.
We have plenty of states where Democrat senates are packed to the gills and they're free to do whatever they want.
Can you give me one example where this works out for people?
Just one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
OK. Let's pretend for a moment that the streets of major cities in California aren't littered with used hypodermic needles and covered in human shit.
The Top Four Reasons California Is Unsustainable
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2018/04/19/the-top-four-
reasons-california-is-unsustainable/#864f5c23a239
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According to a January 2017 study, “California state and local governments owe $1.3 trillion as of June 30, 2015.” The study was based on “a review of federal, state and local financial disclosures.” In other words, that $1.3 trillion in debt is the amount to which California governments admit.
Indeed, its government has made California unsustainable.
U.S. unauthorized immigrant population estimates by state, 2016
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/interactives/u-s-unauthorized-imm
igrants-by-state/
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A majority of U.S. unauthorized immigrants live in just six states – including California (with the largest population at 2.2 million), Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois. There are eight states with 5,000 or fewer unauthorized immigrants. For more, see our report, "U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Total Dips to Lowest Level in a Decade," and our interactive charts on unauthorized immigrant population trends.
FAIL
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:As a tax-paying Californian, let me tell you how "things are working out" here.
SIX: Seriously. Stop being an asshole and evading a question when it's asked of you. We have plenty of states where Democrat senates are packed to the gills and they're free to do whatever they want. Can you give me one example where this works out for people? Just one.
SECONDRATE: California. Trump says it is a hellhole because of homeless people, but first you need to define who the people are that you want things to work out for. No political party wants to upset the wealthier 50% of voters in order to build houses in wealthy neighborhoods for the bottom 1% of non-voters who are homeless.
I know a few semi-employed people, one formerly homeless (literally living on the riverbed) and their relatives. They were all (formerly) working-class Americans of various ethnicities (Hispanic, Greek, Anglo, Irish) ... well, the jobs went away and they've been scrambling ever since.
One lived with his mom and her Social Security until she died, then went to live with his wife, her (formerly drug addicted daughter) and seven grandchildren. He got fed up with that life, became an itinerant worker in Idaho, Arizona and Nevada, experienced a heart attack and racked up tens of thousands in unpayable medical bills, moved back to California, got heart treatment and a NEW HIP, FOR FREE, on California's dime, and is noW thinking of moving back out to Arizona where he likes it better and can find work.
Mr Fomerly Homeless got a sweet deal working in Idaho (place to stay, cash money in his pocket) but didn't like the boss' wife so he quit, got a PLACE TO STAY IN LA AND MEDICAL SERVICES FOR FREE, on California's dime, and hs been scratching for a meaningful job ever since.
His cousin gets disability NOT DISABLED, on California's dime, and also MEDICAL CARE for free, on CA's dime.
Another neighbor, former contractor, gets DISABILITY and MEDICAL CARE- probably really disabled.
Do you see the trend here? GREAT BENEFITS, NO JOBS. Add into that the many illegal aliens that CA is determined to support. The benefits are like a magnet, pulling in the undocumented, indigent, and homeless from everywhere. But there aren't any jobs for peple who are willing to and capable of work, and no space for the tens of thousands of crazies and addicts who wandered here because the weather is nice and the befits are all right. That can't last.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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