***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[elpablo21]

Jon Isaac & Fox News took a day longer than I expected

All while Fox News themselves have a mandate

 

[blastercombo]

All while Fox News themselves have a mandate

And that lady is fully vaccinated lol

 

[1995]

That profile pic can be used for Halloween decorations. Looks like a character from the mask.

Looks like a **** Tracy villain tbh

 

[RustyShackleford]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Andrew Yang is really just a scammer Ross Perot

 

[whywesteppin]

I knew something was wrong when I found out he's barely even a millionaire but passes himself off as a successful businessman/entrepreneur.

 

[dmbrhs]

Look, I'm all for letting your freak flag fly, but when you force kids into it, that's when I have a problem. Leave the kids out of it.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Only if this stuff could catch on...


It would save the country.

But it won't, because corporate America props up right-wing evangelical pastors, to prime conservatives white grievance and white supremacy politics

I love how both dudes stopped being conservative because..... they actually read the bible and took the lessons in them seriously

I have been reading a lot about Evangelical in America recently. I really wonder how a Progressive Evangelical Democrat might do on the ballot.

 

[dinyc3st]

 

[rexanglorum]

My read on Biden, thus far, is that he’s positioning himself right in the middle. But unlike the majority of the DC Press, he has an accurate and up to date reckoning of where the middle is. The Middle does not coincide with Romney, or Collins, or Manchin, or Sinema. The middle of American politics is somewhere between Jon Tester and Elizabeth Warren. Biden is, obviously, to the right of a potential Bernie Sanders Presidency but a tad left of a Hillary Clinton Presidency. That is astonishing.

While my view is that the lefter you are the better you are; if you’re governing from the real middle, you’re doing quite well. Joe Biden has a better understanding of the material realities in America and genuine public opinion than do members of the press who are half his age. At this point, it’s quite clear. It’s better to have a moderate, who lives in 2021, than a self described progressive who acts likes it’s 1995.

President Biden, keep drinking thise B-vitamin and Ashwaghanda infused malts and you may leave office with a lower Gini coefficient than when you started.

 

[gry60]

He won't do it because the US media will not allow Republican obstructionism to be called out; in the version of American politics peddled on TVs and online, the GOP being obstructionist isn't objectionable. There is no upside in McConnell raising a single finger to do what is right, and there's a lot of upside in pinning this issue on the Democratic majority with the help of most of the media.

 

[blastercombo]

He won't do it because the US media will not allow Republican obstructionism to be called out; in the version of American politics peddled on TVs and online, the GOP being obstructionist isn't objectionable. There is no upside in McConnell raising a single finger to do what is right, and there's a lot of upside in pinning this issue on the Democratic majority with the help of most of the media.

If all he does is say no what exactly is he getting paid to do? People need to start thinking about these simple logical thoughts.

 

[AEA18]

 

[gry60]

Only if this stuff could catch on...


It would save the country.

But it won't, because corporate America props up right-wing evangelical pastors, to prime conservatives white grievance and white supremacy politics

I love how both dudes stopped being conservative because..... they actually read the bible and took the lessons in them seriously

I have been reading a lot about Evangelical in America recently. I really wonder how a Progressive Evangelical Democrat might do on the ballot.

The success of an evangelical progressive would probably depend on where they're running. Most right wing Christians find ways to rationalize the misalignment between the faith teaches and the way they vote. From a comment on the video:

Evangelicals tend to argue that Jesus teaching only applies to individuals and doesn't apply to government (and therefore Christians should vote against Christian values in government), but that is not only an argument based on silence, but is also quite perverse. Its led to a situation where the majority of evangelicals hold political views that are arguably even less Christian than those of the pagan leaders of first century Rome - they permitted immigration and provided for the poor, even if they shared Republicans dislike of gender equality.

Usually, when you point out the discrepancy, they signal that it's time to change the subject of the conversation. They'd rather live in the delusion that their faith makes them right, instead of using their "god-given" reasoning capabilities to critically look at their actions, beliefs, and the outcome of their political choices.

 

[gry60]

If all he does is say no what exactly is he getting paid to do? People need to start thinking about these simple logical thoughts.

He is getting paid to make the USA as terrible as Kentucky.

 

[IATT]

 

[Mark Antony]

Only if this stuff could catch on...


It would save the country.

But it won't, because corporate America props up right-wing evangelical pastors, to prime conservatives white grievance and white supremacy politics

I love how both dudes stopped being conservative because..... they actually read the bible and took the lessons in them seriously

I have been reading a lot about Evangelical in America recently. I really wonder how a Progressive Evangelical Democrat might do on the ballot.

If only more Christians believed in Christianity.

 

[TooOlfForThisIsh]

They'd rather live in the delusion that their faith makes them right, instead of using their "god-given" reasoning capabilities to critically look at their actions, beliefs, and the outcome of their political choices.

Early on in my career I got the following advice:

Never do business with someone who talks about how deeply religious they are. There’s no limit to people’s ability to screw you over when they think they have God on their side.

 

[IATT]

 

[RustyShackleford]

A couple of people at my job tried to blame Biden for this. When I point out Trump was president they just switch to defunding the police being the reason

When I ask which police forces got defunded because the FBI estimates that murders jumped everywhere. Urban, Suburban, Rural, counties that ended up voting for Biden by a Large margin, counties that ended up voting for Trump by large margins. So if you blame defunding, then that must mean the GOP defunded the police too.

When we start getting into it, it suddenly becomes time to stop the small talk and focus on why the meeting was called.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Brahs, I've been listening to some Andrew Yang interviews and this dude is clearly a scammer

I hope he runs into someone that prepares for the interview and points out the holes in his argument

His both sides take contain a ton of nonsense

Once again pushing a couple of programs as a panacea to America's issues

I just know that NFT is around the corner

 

[dinyc3st]

 

[elpablo21]

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

good read.

What the supply chain metaphor obscures about global justice | Aeon Essays

The idea of the ‘supply chain’ shackles how we think about economic justice. What forces could new metaphors unleash?

aeon.co

Spoiler: SportsCenter Version

The notion of weak links in a supply chain also discourages us from questioning the value of an increasingly fragmented extraction and production model – an ever-longer chain. Such chains have continued to grow out of a patchwork of regulations that effectively encourage large companies to distance themselves from the realities of their production.

They do this by outsourcing less-savoury components to a growing number of subcontractors and consultants, who they can then claim neither work for nor represent their company. The more complex the production model becomes, the more reasonable it appears to question the limits of a company’s responsibility to police anyone beyond its direct suppliers. In this way, companies have been allowed to manufacture a kind of deniability and pass responsibility for problems down the chain – fixing weak links that are found, but leaving the broader business model unchanged.

Powerful as it is, the supply chain metaphor draws our attention away from the larger forces that shape the problems we should be tackling. These include the sustainability of current consumption patterns; the absence of economic alternatives; weak regulatory oversight; scant protection for whistleblowers and journalists; the ease with which corporate ownership can be hidden and disguised; and the commercial pressures and incentives that likely drive those profiting from abuses or taking shortcuts.

Our efforts to build stronger and more resilient supply chains will get us only so far. The thing we’re trying to perfect is only an image, and a partial one at that. Alternative visions can help us return these broader issues to the debate, while reminding us, for example, of the importance of engaging everyone affected by global supply chains in the discussion of how they should be organised.

 

[TooOlfForThisIsh]

good read.

I once talked to someone who was a slavery consultant for large multinationals. I asked, "So your job is to make sure there's no slavery in the supply chain?"

She said that there was no way to avoid it, and that her job was just helping companies perform adequate due diligence for the parts they have some control over. She said that with the current international legal regime, it's more or less inevitable that any personal electronics purchase is partially created using slave labor.