***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[whywesteppin]

everybody wants to squeeze out marginal gains but don't think to protect against catastrophic losses.

Have a awesome week fellas. Be nice to each other and take life one day at a time

you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourselves. but please, don't hurt each other, ok?

 

[mister friendly]

Can we make a big drive to get Obama to the Supreme Court for Breyer?

 

[gry60]

There’s a fundamental tension between efficiency and resiliency. Just in time inventory and horizontal integration have reduced excess and redundancy, but have also made the entire system more susceptible to shocks.

Can't we just replace the entirety of Congress with systems engineers?

However, COVID being a black swan level event is what makes this whole thing so much more serious on a global economy level.

The thing about COVID is that it was a preventable event. Public health officials have been predicting exactly what we're going through, but they have been ignored by most of the people in charge because they have a such a hard-on for cost cutting and efficiency that they disregard the safety that comes with redundancy.

The same goes for climate change: climate experts have been warning about everything from the emergence of new diseases to the destruction of crops and resources necessary to modern life (like lumber), and we elected people who chose to subsidize oil and gas companies. Then, we act shocked when the experts are proven right.
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[TooOlfForThisIsh]

We’re all complicit in this system and shocks like this is going to make us all miserable.

If the misery comes in the form of reduced consumption to. non-durable goods, then maybe it’s for the best. But I fear for us all when containers of sneakers takes precedence over medicines because that’s what the market demands.

Can't we just replace the entirety of Congress with systems engineers?

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, and we elected people who chose to subsidize oil and gas companies. Then, we act shocked when the experts are proven right.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

- H. L. Mencken

 

[TooOlfForThisIsh]

We’re all complicit in this system and shocks like this is going to make us all miserable.

If the misery comes in the form of reduced consumption to. non-durable goods, then maybe it’s for the best. But I fear for us all when containers of sneakers takes precedence over medicines because that’s what the market demands.

Can't we just replace the entirety of Congress with systems engineers?

…

, and we elected people who chose to subsidize oil and gas companies. Then, we act shocked when the experts are proven right.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

 

[cedric ceballos]

Have a awesome week fellas. Be nice to each other and take life one day at a time

No awesome life for Libs. America first

 

[dwalk31]

Can we make a big drive to get Obama to the Supreme Court for Breyer?

I don’t think Former-President Obama is interested in that position.

Merrick Garland is the most obvious choice, but I doubt Breyer steps down. It’d Look too much like the politicization of the Court by its officers.

 

[dwalk31]

Good faith discussion occurs in this thread regularly. That it so seldom involves you is less evidence of a “double standard” than a reflection of your behavior.

You spent five years slinging feces and now you want people to shake your hand after 5 seconds of hand washing.

This isn’t what’s happening; I’m not asking anyone to shake hands. I posted links without comment. Another poster mentioned me asking me a question multiple times, then I responded.

Then you remarked on how my posting the link without comment and my remark didn’t rise to the level of good-faith discussion.

You are saying I should be involved in good faith discussion and you are also explaining to me why posters don’t want to engage in good faith discussion with me. I can’t control who chooses to engage in good faith discussion with me. It doesn’t seem that you can either.

That’s why I offer the links without comment.

 

[blastercombo]

This isn’t what’s happening; I’m not asking anyone to shake hands. I posted links without comment. Another poster mentioned me asking me a question multiple times, then I responded.

Then you remarked on how my posting the link without comment and my remark didn’t rise to the level of good-faith discussion.

You are saying I should be involved in good faith discussion and you are also explaining to me why posters don’t want to engage in good faith discussion with me. I can’t control who chooses to engage in good faith discussion with me. It doesn’t seem that you can either.

That’s why I offer the links without comment.

You wear a maga hat to “spark conversation with strangers”

why do you want to control womens privates?

 

[zekethephysique]

Abbott literally and figuratively has no spine. Republican politicians are almost like Austin Powers villains.

 

[zekethephysique]

 

[gry60]

But I fear for us all when containers of sneakers takes precedence over medicines because that’s what the market demands.

That new shoe smell cures all ailments and makes the instant ramen go down easily.

 

[TooOlfForThisIsh]

That new shoe smell cures all ailments and makes the instant ramen go down easily.

This article reminded my of this conversation and the carelessness that people express in the AF1 thread about returning customs.

 

[RustyShackleford]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Apprently Manchin and Sinema have two different sets of priorities, that conflict and neither is willing to compromise

Sinema wants tax increases on the rich, and Medicare drug price negotiations out. But she is cool with climate stuff

Manchin wants the climate stuff cut, but is cool with Medicare negotiating prices, and tax increases on rich.

Apprently both want up to 200 billion for deficit reduction. On top of the 80 billion the House Dems want for SALT

It is a **** show

 

[dwalk31]

Apprently Manchin and Sinema have two different sets of priorities, that conflict and neither is willing to compromise

Sinema wants tax increases on the rich, and Medicare drug price negotiations out. But she is cool with climate stuff

Manchin wants the climate stuff cut, but is cool with Medicare negotiating prices, and tax increases on rich.

Apprently both want up to 200 billion for deficit reduction. On top of the 80 billion the House Dems want for SALT

It is a **** show

Is there any word on what the climate stuff means for credits towards electric cars? Like Tesla or the i4?

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

s t r i k e s z n

IATSE Sets Strike Date for 60,000 Film and Television Workers, Ratcheting Pressure on Studios

IATSE has set Oct. 18 as the strike date for 60,000 film and television workers unless producers set a new deal.

variety.com

Matthew Loeb, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, said early Wednesday that unless an agreement is reached, 60,000 union members will begin a nationwide strike against the major studios on Oct. 18 at 12:01 a.m. Such a work stoppage would be catastrophic, halting production across the U.S.

we're talking movies, TV, live shows...definitely here for the entire industry getting a huge ******* reality check.

 

[gry60]

Judge sentences Texas man in US on asylum to 12 months of probation for Capitol riot

Eliel Rosa, 53, entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6 with his friend Jenny Cudd.

www.wusa9.com

This clown can't vote, and he risked his future ability to do so because he believed in Trump's nonsense.

 

[IATT]

 

[gry60]

 

[elpablo21]

When asked why she didn't negotiate with the House it was because she was in the Senate but she doesn't even talk to anyone there either?

We have a literal troll posing as Democratic Senator

 

[cedric ceballos]

Sinema needs to be confronted in public more often and taken to task on her bs. Preferably with more and more hostile encounters. And I don’t mean violent when I say hostile. But make her feel uncomfortable if she’s going to be intentionally ducking her constituents.

 

[IATT]

 

[elpablo21]

Sinema needs to be confronted in public more often and taken to task on her bs. Preferably with more and more hostile encounters. And I don’t mean violent when I say hostile. But make her feel uncomfortable if she’s going to be intentionally ducking her constituents.

While I agree she nor Manchin are getting phased by any of that

Only real threat to them are their donors and corp. handlers

 

[blastercombo]

While I agree she nor Manchin are getting phased by any of that

Only real threat to them are their donors and corp. handlers

Naw, money don’t mean a think face down KO’d. Everyone feel broke then