Elizabeth Warren looks pretty solid on climate change — at least her past views. On that basis, she has my support.
I don’t think she has a chance in hell in winning under any circumstances, but climate change is my single issue vote and on that alone I will support her if her views remain roughly the same and she wins the nomination.
The reason I don’t think she has a chance? She’s too professorly and just plain misogyny. And the Dem establishment will not want her to win.
Shit fire, I hate these clueless numpties. It makes me angry that “education” so often produces negative value and spits out endless cavalcades of people who are dumber than rocks because rocks never do anything actively stupid.
Government should own all or nearly all housing, in cities especially. Why are we even letting private corporations seeking only profit make decisions about how we live, and who can even afford to live?
I’m not in favor of rent control, either, because I am in favor of NO FUCKING RENT.
This doesn’t mean that I am full-on communist. There is a place for a cash economy and some forms of capitalism, but housing definitely is not that place.
So since she’s definitely running, where’s all the Hillary die-hards who are here to tell me that we should vote for a woman because she’s a woman? Where all ya’ll at? Haley arguably has about as much experience as Hillary Clinton (state House Rep, governor of a medium-size state for six years, U.N. ambassador for ~2 years), so Hillary rules apply, right?
Ok, now that I’ve got that out of my system, Haley is not the worst of the likely Republican candidates, but that’s not saying much. She’s anti-abortion and in favor of lowering taxes but she doesn’t seem as willfully cruel as some of them. That’s about the nicest thing there is to say about her.
It’s weird that people feel anxious or out of sorts without their smartphone. I feel relieved when I’ve misplaced it. Kind of like when I lost my hearing. I was glad it was gone.
So many people trading in the stock market and other similar markets are so worried about what will happen in the future while almost none are concerned with what’s really relevant, and that’s not doing something stupid now.
Avoiding immediate stupidity is far more important than an unknown and unknowable future.
Is there a forum or forum-like site that I’ve joined that I haven’t been booted off of? I can’t think of one. My own, I guess. That’s great. That means I am doing something right.
I don’t join sites or forums anymore because it is pointless. I need less groupthink echoing around in my brain, not more. A perfect 100% ban record means my priorities and intellect is pointed the right way.
Modern education is almost tailor-made to destroy systems-level thinking and understanding.
Fortunately, I never paid attention in school.
In 1985, US department stores took 14.5% of all retail spend. Last year they took 4.3%. The figure is still falling. The internet is often blamed for this. But the blunt truth is that US department stores just aren’t very good retailers. In fact, most of them are abysmal.
— Neil Saunders (@NeilRetail) December 31, 2018
So true. Amazon hurt them, but they mostly hurt and killed themselves. I guess it got to be a race to the bottom, and what a benthic bottom it was. Their main problem was and is instead of competing where they were strong, the chose to compete where they were weak. It takes a well-educated MBA (or a whole herd of them) to do something as boneheaded as that.
Let me try to explain.
College for All costs less than the increase in military spending passed in 2017.
That is the reality. https://t.co/jQSHxSFSFn
— Ari Rabin-Havt (@AriRabinHavt) January 1, 2019
Yes. And with the cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, we could’ve installed enough solar panels and wind farms to power the entire US, provided free college education for everyone, and upgraded and improved all the infrastructure in the US — and had some money left over.
But we have no funds for doing anything that helps people is what centrists and Kevin Drum types would like you to believe.
We should be raising and training women to be Valkyries, not weeping willows. We need warriors, not wilters. Third wave and millennial feminism have both failed.