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Comment It took almost nothing (Score 1) 81

For Republican voters to piss away the Constitution and states' rights. Just one fat orange turd who said nasty things and got away with it and they would burn everything in the country down.

It really shows a complete lack of any principles on the part of Republican voters. That's the problem with the right wing they have a hierarchy not a belief system let alone principles.

Comment Re:Ihre Papiere (Score 2) 228

USAID was horrifically corrupt

The cuts to USAID are projected to cause 14 million extra deaths - a large minority of those children - by 2030. And USAID engendered massive goodwill among its recipients

But no, by all means kill a couple million people per year and worsen living conditions (creating more migration) in order to save $23 per person, that's clearly Very Smart(TM).

And I don't know how to inform you of this, but the year is now 2025 and the Cold War and the politics therein ended nearly four decades ago. And USAID was not created "to smuggle CIA officers" (though CIA offers used every means available to them to do their work, certainly), it was created as a counterbalance to the USSR's use of similar soft power to turn the Third World to *its* side.

Comment Re:Ihre Papiere (Score 1) 228

They can go back at any point if they don't think the conditions and salaries offered are worth the job. What matters is that they remain free to leave, with no "catches" keeping them there (inability to get return transport, inability to communicate with the outside world, misinformation, etc etc). Again, there's a debate to have over what conditions should be mandated by regulation, but the key point is that the salary offered - like happens illegally today en masse - is lower than US standards but higher than what they can get at home.

Comment Re: Ihre Papiere (Score 1) 228

What on Earth are you talking about? Nobody is trying to make other countries poor and dangerous. People come to the US from these countries because even jobs that are tough and underpaid by US standards are vastly better than what is available at home. Creating a formal system just eliminates the worst aspects of it: the lawlessness, the sneaking across the border in often dangerous conditions (swimming across rivers, traveling through deserts), "coyotes" smuggling people in terrible conditions, and so forth. The current US system is the dumbest way you could possibly handle it: people wanting to work, US employers wanting them, the US economy benefitting from it... but still making it illegal, chaotic, dangerous, and unregulated for those involved.

Comment The left is about 2% and basic income is a scam (Score 0) 29

If you pay attention to who's pushing basic income it's a handful of extremely wealthy people with connections to billionaires. The goal of basic income is to replace all other forms of civilization and society with a blank check so that you can blame people when they are completely crushed by the systems in place. Monopolies alone make basic income pointless since they will just suck up the money.

American farmers are extremely well off. They are no small farms left. If you see something that looks like a small farm odds are it's just somebody's tax Dodge. We had decades of running small farmers out of business that process is basically over. The people who are left love Trump as long as he cuts them those checks you're talking about. Those big farmers want cheap labor or better yet slave labor and they want zero environmental regulations and Trump will give them both of those things.

As for direct health insurance payments the health insurance industry sucks up half a trillion dollars a year and private equity is buying up all the hospitals and doctors offices. You can't just cut people checks in it that environment just like you can't just cut basic income checks when you have monopolies.

Everything you're suggesting is bullshit put forward either to benefit Rich assholes or by Rich assholes who want to make you think there's an easy patch or fix to keep the system going so you don't have to think about any actual changes.

It's not your fault that's just how our media works but it's not a solution it's a scam

Comment Buddy of mine drives a school bus (Score 0) 29

It's real annoyed when idiots pull in front of him because it takes him 3 football fields to come to a stop.

The economy is like that. Capitalism is like that. It's a big fucking thing that takes a long time to come to a stop. And you just pulled out in front of it. And your little Geo Metro...

Now my buddy is smart and he knows how to drive around idiots. But we didn't put smart people that the wheel in this economy we put the dumbest motherfuckers we could find for the dumbest motherfucker reasons we could come up with.

So when the economy needs to stop and can't because you're dumb ass pulled out in front of it it's going to go right through you.

Unfortunately this is where the analogy breaks down because it's not just your little car being splattered you're taking all of us with it

Comment Because men are weak (Score 1) 33

Look at who the loudest ones are to decry OnlyFans. Men.

Look at who the loudest ones are to decry pornography. Men.

Guess who are the largest purveyors of OnlyFans and pornography.

Now comes ease of gambling and once again, guess who are the loudest ones to complain they can't pay their bills.

If you don't want OnlyFans or pornography around, don't use it. That is the only way to hurt the industries. Don't hand over your money. Now guess what is a surefire way to not go into debt when gambling.

But nope, men will complain (about everything) how this or that is bad or unhealthy or whatever, and yet they go out and hand over their money. If they'd stop being weak none of this would be an issue.

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