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Quote:I was thinking about Firefly story where Mal is trying to persuade settlers to get aboard Serenity, but the settlers give a whole litany of tiresome reasons/excuses to not, mostly around price and schedule -- price is too high, schedule is too soon. River starts the fan-jets and closing the ramp while Mal is outside talking-talking-talking with those settlers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hitler liked dogs.
Hitler was a Nazi.
If you like dogs, you're a Nazi.
Shut up, boy.
Mal gets aboard damn quick and demands River land so he can keep talking even more and make a little money transporting the settlers. River says, "They will talk you to death." She is not very communicative with Mal, beyond those words and she will not allow Mal to take control.
One day later, Reavers land and kill the settlers. Only then does River explain, in her usual cryptic manner, that she knew the Reavers were coming and knew that the settlers won't believe her and won't change their minds until the Reavers are entering the atmosphere. At that point, Serenity would have been first thing the Reavers attacked and the settlers the second thing.
River saved as many people as possible, despite Mal's propensity to talk too much and negotiate fruitlessly. He is really poor at running a business and sometimes that almost kills Mal and his crew. Similarly, Democrats talk too much and negotiate fruitlessly when they could learn a lesson from River: if Trump voters don't get it after a few minutes, leave them for the Reavers to eat.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Similarly, Democrats talk too much and negotiate fruitlessly when they could learn a lesson from River: if Trump voters don't get it after a few minutes, leave them for the Reavers to eat.
Said by the biggest dumbass windbag to ever post on FFF.
Go away then.
Nobody takes anything you say seriously anyhow.
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Quote:My parents were exactly the kind of people who would have voted for Trump. They struggled to stay in the middle class, same as typical Trumptards. It took the Vietnam War to convince me that the people all around me, that I depended on, and even my parents, did not know what they were talking about. The way they believed how money and business works was childishly naive. Their worries over Communism and Socialism were ridiculous. Their understanding of the stock market was absurd. So many things wrong about their beliefs and they wouldn't change anything because they knew they were right. I proved them wrong. Despite them saying often 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating' the proof never changed their minds. It was amusing to listen to their explanations of why doing things the opposite of the way they would do it cannot possibly work. But work it did. Oh, and I didn't cheat on my taxes like some people (Trump) I know.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Similarly, Democrats talk too much and negotiate fruitlessly when they could learn a lesson from River: if Trump voters don't get it after a few minutes, leave them for the Reavers to eat.
Said by the biggest dumbass windbag to ever post on FFF.
Go away then.
Nobody takes anything you say seriously anyhow.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I'm still waiting for you to show yourself to be smarter than the average Democrat and stop talking.
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Residents of California:
Next month will see a recall election for Gavin Newsom. If you want to impede rightwing efforts to continue undermining democracy, please vote 'No' on recalling Newsom. Here's why:
1. If a Republican candidate is elected, they have the power to appoint new senators if one dies in office or has to otherwise leave.
2. California Senator Dianne Feinstein is 88 years old. If she dies or has to leave office, the new Republican governor could appoint a replacement, who will be all-but guaranteed to be Republican. If this happens, the 50-50 split in the Senate will be tilted in favor of the Republicans.
3. If the Republicans take control of the Senate, it will all but doom any chance to pass legislation that will protect democracy, such as universal voting rights. This will subsequently make it easier for the Republican party to continue passing laws in individual states making it easier for them to win elections. And if this happens, the Republicans will cement their minority rule for a generation, and possibly much longer.
Gavin Newsom is not the best governor (if you truly cannot stand him, you can always vote him out in next year's gubernatorial election), but the balance in the Senate will hold if he remains in power, and right-wing efforts to undermine democracy will continue to be blunted.
On the 14th, please vote 'NO' on recalling Newsom. This election may seem trivial, but all of us must do our part to help protect our Democracy and give it a fighting chance to survive.
More about How California’s bizarre recall system could elect a Republican governor at
https://www.vox.com/22617048/california-recall-gavin-newsom-larry-elde
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Polls say that Newsom looks to be recalled, and the Dem Party is losing its collective shit. I know bc I'm a registered Dem, and the # of spam phone calls on the topic has become intolerable. We get more than eight a day.
When I engage with any of these callers - which is seldom - I get the same canned spam that SECONRATE posted, along with the added feature
Republicans from out of state are funding the recall effort!! You don't want those [uout of state Republicans to determine our governor, do you???
Yeah, like Dems in California never funded a Dem in Minnesota? Seriously? Between the endless lockdowns and promotion of illegal immigration, Newsom is seriously unpopular now, with everybody.
People forget, CA has had Republican governors in the recent past, too. Now, if I can just find someone who isn't a complete idiot to vote for.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:If you are a registered Democrat, you are the biggest faker in California. There is nothing about the way you think that is anything like a Democrat. Why not do the honest thing and register as what you are? But if the truth would be known, a lot of people, including about every black I know, are better suited emotionally for the GOP. If the white racists every leave the GOP and form a third party, blacks will switch back to Lincoln's party. Switching won't make any sense, but it will feel right. Since when have Americans ever done the sensible thing rather than be ruled by their fears of Communism, terrorists, crime, vaccines, or whatever the latest thing they have found to be fearful of and confused about? For example: Killing Japanese women and children with nukes was not a sensible response, but a majority of Americans approved. It Americans can get that wrong, there is nothing they can't get wrong. And Americans proved they can stay wrong by approving of the building of a super stockpile of nukes. What planet did they think those nukes would fall on? Mars?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Polls say that Newsom looks to be recalled, and the Dem Party is losing its collective shit. I know bc I'm a registered Dem, and the # of spam phone calls on the topic has become intolerable. We get more than eight a day.
When I engage with any of these callers - which is seldom - I get the same canned spam that SECONRATE posted, along with the added feature
Republicans from out of state are funding the recall effort!! You don't want those [uout of state Republicans to determine our governor, do you???
Yeah, like Dems in California never funded a Dem in Minnesota? Seriously? Between the endless lockdowns and promotion of illegal immigration, Newsom is seriously unpopular now, with everybody.
People forget, CA has had Republican governors in the recent past, too. Now, if I can just find someone who isn't a complete idiot to vote for.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Polls say that Newsom looks to be recalled, and the Dem Party is losing its collective shit. I know bc I'm a registered Dem, and the # of spam phone calls on the topic has become intolerable. We get more than eight a day.
When I engage with any of these callers - which is seldom - I get the same canned spam that SECONRATE posted, along with the added feature
Republicans from out of state are funding the recall effort!! You don't want those [uout of state Republicans to determine our governor, do you???
Yeah, like Dems in California never funded a Dem in Minnesota? Seriously? Between the endless lockdowns and promotion of illegal immigration, Newsom is seriously unpopular now, with everybody.
People forget, CA has had Republican governors in the recent past, too. Now, if I can just find someone who isn't a complete idiot to vote for.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
AOC's receipts for donations from the state of California between 2019 and 2020.
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&committee_i
d=C00639591&two_year_transaction_period=2020&contributor_state=CA
There are 22,859 of them.
Her total receipts during that period were 172,447, meaning that almost 15% of the contributions came from the state of California (not in terms of dollar amount, but of the number of them).
If anybody would like to throw the entire thing into a spreadsheet I'd love to know how much of the 21.25 million she got came from California.
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How Redistribution Makes America Richer
There’s been a lot of important work on the social and political effects of inequality — separate (though tightly related) issues. But unlike the steady stream of “incentive” theory from Right economists over decades, Left and heterodox economists have largely failed to ask or answer a rather basic theoretical (and empirical) question: what are the purely economic effects of highly-concentrated wealth, held by fewer people, families, and dynasties, in larger and larger fortunes?
A new paper and model published in Real-World Economics Review tackles that question. The model takes advantage of national accountants’ wealth measures that have only been available since 2006 or 2012 (with coverage back to 1960), and measures of wealth distribution that were only published in 2019. Combined with thirty+ years of consistent survey data on consumer spending at different income levels, the paper derives a novel economic measure: velocity of wealth.
The bottom 80% group turns over its wealth in annual spending three or four times as fast as the top 20%. The arithmetic takeaway: at a given level of wealth, more broadly distributed wealth means more spending: the very stuff of economic activity, which is itself the ultimate source of wealth accumulation.
The details of the model are somewhat more complex, but it only employs five easy to understand formulas — all basically just arithmetic, and all expressed without resort to abstruse symbols; they use plain language.
How good are the model’s predictions? It starts with just two numbers in 1989 — the wealth of the top 20% and the bottom 80% — and extrapolates forward using those few formulas to predict levels of wealth, spending, and shares of wealth and spending, thirty years later.
Compare the model’s predictions for 2019 to actual results; in each case, they’re almost identical.
It’s easy to add counterfactuals to this model: what would have happened if some percentage of top-20% wealth was transferred, redistributed, to the bottom 80% every year over those three decades. The results are pretty eye-popping. Downward redistribution appears to make everyone quite a lot wealthier, faster – especially (no surprise) the bottom 80%: 
More at https://angrybearblog.com/2021/08/how-redistribution-makes-america-ric
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If you are a registered Democrat, you are the biggest faker in California. There is nothing about the way you think that is anything like a Democrat. Why not do the honest thing and register as what you are? But if the truth would be known, a lot of people, including about every black I know, are better suited emotionally for the GOP. If the white racists every leave the GOP and form a third party, blacks will switch back to Lincoln's party. Switching won't make any sense, but it will feel right. Since when have Americans ever done the sensible thing rather than be ruled by their fears of Communism, terrorists, crime, vaccines, or whatever the latest thing they have found to be fearful of and confused about? For example: Killing Japanese women and children with nukes was not a sensible response, but a majority of Americans approved. It Americans can get that wrong, there is nothing they can't get wrong. And Americans proved they can stay wrong by approving of the building of a super stockpile of nukes. What planet did they think those nukes would fall on? Mars?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Polls say that Newsom looks to be recalled, and the Dem Party is losing its collective shit. I know bc I'm a registered Dem, and the # of spam phone calls on the topic has become intolerable. We get more than eight a day.
When I engage with any of these callers - which is seldom - I get the same canned spam that SECONRATE posted, along with the added feature
Republicans from out of state are funding the recall effort!! You don't want those [uout of state Republicans to determine our governor, do you???
Yeah, like Dems in California never funded a Dem in Minnesota? Seriously? Between the endless lockdowns and promotion of illegal immigration, Newsom is seriously unpopular now, with everybody.
People forget, CA has had Republican governors in the recent past, too. Now, if I can just find someone who isn't a complete idiot to vote for.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
In other words, unless you worship at the Altar of Maddow, you shouldn't be a Democrat.
You're an idiot.
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