Howard Zinn's A People's History is a great step to fixing the whitewashed US History classes you had.

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

Noam Chomsky does excellent work looking at fucked up dealings US has, he has an extensive body of work but his recent Who Rules The World? Has both current and historical perspective.

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Rules-World-Noam-Chomsky/dp/1250131081

This appears to be clear collusion by Sam Frizell at Time

This must be the article

edit: fixed second link

DNC staffers actively sought out negative narratives to push to the media to disparage Sanders' campaign. That is exactly what the article I linked to talks about. No mention of the money sharing agreement and when people talk about the rigging we don't even care about that.

Here is an article by HuffPo about how super delegates actively went against the will of the voters to vote for Clinton: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-super-delegates-decid_b_10098414

Definition of rig: to manage or conduct (something) fraudulently so as to produce a result or situation that is advantageous to a particular person.

Hmmm...

I use this bad boy. A LOT. Because my work laptop is also locked down so i cant get to reddit, amazon, facebook or slack. So I switch a monitor to my personal computer and my work laptop would time out even though i was keeping an eye on whatever process i had set up to run. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MTZY7Y4/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_HS7EYYF9GQRKPWP5ZD0S?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Here's the megathread, for all your "This is a corrupt bunch of election fraudy bullshit and our law enforcement agencies should be pulling their heads out of their asses to actually finally protect American freedoms" needs. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4u5ztv/dnc_email_leak_megathread/

Aaand... Here's the email from May, well before anyone could make this call, https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/9999

And the asking for proof is a bit bullshit when there are megathreads with these email chains all over the place. The emails are out there. We're reading them and we're seeing just how slimey this coup of our political system is.

Our voting rights have been compromised. The American political system is being revealed for what it really is, a false sense of involvement for the American people to keep us from revolting by pretending we have a choice.

Don't take this shit. It's unamerican. Get mad. Get loud. Stand up and refuse to sit down until we get our country back. Again, this isn't about what party you belong to or who you support. It's about being an American and having the political parties pretend we have a voice while shoving their agendas down our throats.

very interesting

>.Arizona more serious because the state was covered under VRA and has had a history of problems - Rhode Island doesn't have those same historical issues.

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You licensed it under the Standard YouTube License. You did not name the original author.

Not to mention this is literally an exact clone.

This is a shit source.

Check out [NPR article] and others(https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/569676712/dnc-group-calls-for-drastic-cut-in-superdelegates-as-part-of-nomination-process)

> The commission is also recommending that all 50 state parties make absentee voting more accessible, offer same-day party affiliation switching and ensure that same-day voter registration is available. It also is calling for written ballots at caucuses so that recounts and recanvasses can be done accurately.

If implemented, I fully support these changes.

One thing I don't see in there is absentee voting in caucus elections. I think that's a recommendation, but I don't know where to find if it's explicitly stated.

Unfortunately, we still need to wait to see if the reforms are accepted:

> After being finalized, the recommendations are sent to the DNC’s rules and bylaws committee, then to all 447 DNC members in the fall of 2018, where two-thirds support will be needed.

I was confused by the remaining delegates, but this clears up their recommendations:

> “We disabled the mechanisms that made superdelegates undemocratic and of the remaining superdelegates, they are bound to the will of the people,”

There is some concern that this is not entirely what it appears to be.

>With the latest photos of Koroleva appearing online, the fraud allegations have re-emerged. Alexander Gezalov, who runs his own mentorship center in Moscow, wrote on Facebook that while he had previously attempted to help Koroleva, he now considers her manipulative. According to Gezalov, Koroleva and her husband are making money off the media’s portrayal of them. Gezalov claims that thanks to assistance from a number of people, Koroleva recently collected about one million rubles ($13,740) (he provides screenshots of a conversation with Koroleva to back up his claims). He also added that he reached out to Delivery Club: the company said that Lada Koroleva hasn’t worked as a courier since October 2019. 

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/05/photos-of-a-young-mother-working-as-a-courier-in-moscow-spark-renewed-calls-for-help-and-fraud-allegations

This is a shit source.

Check out [NPR article] and others(https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/569676712/dnc-group-calls-for-drastic-cut-in-superdelegates-as-part-of-nomination-process)

> The commission is also recommending that all 50 state parties make absentee voting more accessible, offer same-day party affiliation switching and ensure that same-day voter registration is available. It also is calling for written ballots at caucuses so that recounts and recanvasses can be done accurately.

If implemented, I fully support these changes.

One thing I don't see in there is absentee voting in caucus elections. I think that's a recommendation, but I don't know where to find if it's explicitly stated.

Unfortunately, we still need to wait to see if the reforms are accepted:

> After being finalized, the recommendations are sent to the DNC’s rules and bylaws committee, then to all 447 DNC members in the fall of 2018, where two-thirds support will be needed.

I was confused by the remaining delegates, but this clears up their recommendations:

> “We disabled the mechanisms that made superdelegates undemocratic and of the remaining superdelegates, they are bound to the will of the people,”

Commute all non violent drugs sentences is what I want.

Commute and expunge.

Why can't we do it?

Why won't we do it?

Because JC Penny would go out of business without a prison population.

Because without slaves in American prisons our economy might collapse.

And with Trump driving out "illegal humans" our food won't be harvested.

Criminalization.

It is a slave gathering tool.

13th.

The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.

Watch 13th on Netflix to see where this all has led.

Please, don't project. I understand that it might hurt your ego to discover that you're in contradiction to the scientific community, but that's no basis to pretend someone doesn't know the difference between pesticides and herbicides so you can rationalize ignoring the science.

EDIT:

Also, yes, they are used interchangeably.

>Synonyms for herbicide

>noun poison

>defoliant insecticide pesticide DDT paraquat weedkiller

If Murphy's platform ($15 min wage, legal weed, single-payer) is what's considered "centrist" then pushing the Democratic Party leftward is working.

I think because of his (problematic!) Goldman Sachs background people never bothered to check out the platform Murphy ran on, which even 4 years ago would have been considered at the far left of the party. If you want to really see how much things have changed, check out Dennis Kucinich's platform from 2004 when was considered the fringe loony left of the party:

>In addition to his opposition to the war and his support for universal health care, he is a vocal foe of wasteful military spending, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the World Trade Organization, the Bush tax cuts, and efforts to privatize Social Security. He is co-chairman of the House Progressive Caucus and has introduced legislation calling for a Cabinet Department of Peace.

If centrist Democrats are tacking towards positions considered basically completely batshit insane by the same centrist Dems a little over a decade ago, leftward progress is being made. It's not a time to rest on our laurels at all, but where we are is better than where we've been.

I feel unsafe knowing that there is a list, by no means proven accurate and almost impossible to get off of, that I could be placed on for committing acts of "precrime", or even arbitrarily, and the supposed left wing of Washington wants to use it to screen people for new reasons and consequences as well.

I do not own any firearms.

According to the new Marist poll (A rated by 538):

Clinton is up 15 points on Trump

Sanders supporters are voting:

65% Clinton, 13% Stein, 11% Johnson and 5% Trump, 6% Unsure

> There are good parts to the ACA however the name of it pisses me off - mainly because it does (edit: nothing) to make insurance more affordable for the average person. Nothing.

Let's assume that's true. Then the tax penalty for not having insurance (which varies depending on your income and the average cost of bronze plans, but at least $695/adult) must have made the difference and been the stick that persuaded 20 million people to get covered. That's quite an extraordinary position to take.

This is why it is SO important to use a VPN or proxy to access sensitive sites.

TIP: You can search for the website disruptj20.org privately at StartPage.com and then visit the site privately using the free StartPage.com proxy link option.

When you search with StartPage, you are protected. StartPage does not log any personal information, and your searches remain private. Even Edward Snowden has recommended StartPage no-logging privacy.

When you visit the disruptj20.org site through the free StartPage proxy, StartPage doesn't "see" you and neither does the website or host. All they would see is StartPage. This also prevents you from getting any tracking devices, adware or malware on your browser while you visit through the proxy.

If you are interested in the topic please read this book: https://www.amazon.fr/Sortir-lAfrique-servitude-mon%C3%A9taire-profite/dp/2843032806/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&qid=1621974184&refinements=p_27%3AKako+Nubukpo&s=books&sr=1-3

I don't know if there are English translations but this is bulletproof and will help you understand how french monetary neocolonialism, is enforced in our countries. The author is a renowned economist, former central banker, and former Minister of Togo Republic, one of the countries suffering from Franc CFA.

If you cannot afford healthcare you can generally get an exemption from the fine, FYI. I'm not a tax expert but you might want to look into it: https://www.healthcare.gov/health-coverage-exemptions/exemptions-from-the-fee/

Yes, but these aren't solutions. I work in gun violence prevention, so I know that the approach is basically bullshit.

The problem, though, is very real. I eventually concluded that Sanders approach on the underlying causes (corruption, campaign finance, unaccountable government, unemployment, poverty, lack of high quality health care, etc.) was a much better way to spend your political capital than this bullshit, which has lagged on for years and years and years and won't actually do anything. It's like Obamacare - it will help a little, but won't fundamentally solve the problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/15/it-took-one-massacre-how-australia-made-gun-control-happen-after-port-arthur

BREAKING: Obama commutes Chelsea Manning's sentence for leaking to WikiLeaks. She will be freed on May 17

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html

> Social media Clinton-Trolls: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/10744

Just a caveat - that email doesn't show that. The Clinton trolls are a program run by Correct the Record. That email is most likely just talking about the DNC's regular digital team.

Edit: /u/Auch999 promptly fixed the error.

Hey Redditors, I'm one of the members of this project. We're trying to make it easier to weigh in on proposed legislation at the state and federal level as well as replace representatives who are not doing a good job of representing their constituents.

I would love any feedback from the community regarding whether this is something you might find useful or not. Feel free to ask me any questions.

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I highly recommend her interview on the podcast Ologies. It's more about volcanology than her politics, but they do get some time to shine and she's just super awesome and informative during it.

In spite of the horrible national leadership the grassroots is poised to generate a blue tsunami https://www.amazon.com/precinct-captains-guide-political-victory-ebook/dp/B01M4IG914/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1478469506&sr=1-1&keywords=precinct+captain%27s+guide+to+political+victory

I think I see where you are coming from. If you want to try to understand the left's perspective, on a lot of issues, it may help to think through a lens of class instead of race or religion. Market forces are the drivers of a healthy economy, but unchecked capitalism necessarily creates a class of powerful elites and a large powerless underclass. Liberals believe that government can and should take measures to dull the rough edges of capitalism with redistribution, and sometimes things like labor protection, nationalization of some sectors of the economy, environmental and business regulation, and trade protectionism. Of course, there has to be a balance, but when it works well, you can have a strong equitable economy with a large middle class, less suffering, and income mobility. I personally believe that a lot of the cultural and religious friction you described would be softened if those economic goals were advanced. I like The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, which is a little goofy, but well sourced, and argues that many U.S. foreign policies over the last 50 or so years have served an excessively free-market approach to ill effect. I find it very persuasive. Trump talks a lot about immigration, which is sticky for a lot of liberals because the social net that we support creates some zero-sum benefits. Either way, like with many policies sloganeering and politics has taken over the issue, making it hard to find balanced answers.

Edelman’s Wall Street businesses included investment banking, money management, and derivatives trading. In 1988, he taught a course called "Corporate Raiding – The Art of War" at Columbia Business School, using as his textbook Sun Tzu's The Art of War. The character of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street was based in part on Edelman.

In an interview with CNBC on March 9, 2016 Edelman endorsed Bernie Sanders as the next US President citing the falling velocity of money and Sanders' platform of stimulative fiscal policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wAa9DqHZtM

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), private insurance companies are allowed a medical loss ratio of 80/20%.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/medical-loss-ratio-MLR/

It was originally supposed to be 10-15%, but Obama and neolibs insisted it be increased.

Insurance companies take full advantage of that. The definitions for medical related services is very loosey-goosey, too. They get to include all kinds of "educational" and other administrative activities.

Oh look. A quick google search found this story.

"There are no reported examples of Americans dying by taking real, but F.D.A.-unapproved, medication bought online from a foreign pharmacy that requires valid prescriptions. This is after tens of millions of prescriptions have been filled online and internationally over the past 15 or so years, since online pharmacies were created."

Also,

"Sadly, a few have died from buying drugs internationally that were obtained without a prescription or that were counterfeit, from rogue websites. But the most tragic domestic drug-safety-related deaths in recent years are not from personal drug importation or online pharmacies. Eighty-one Americans died from tainted heparin in 2007-8 made by an American company with bad Chinese pharmaceutical ingredients. Sixty-four Americans died from fungal meningitis contracted from United States-made tainted steroid injections sold by poorly regulated compounding pharmacies. These drugs were sold in the legal supply chain."

Hmm....

The Sunlight Foundation offers triggers on If This Then That, so you can set up a trigger to text you, post to a Slack channel, etc. whenever a bill is voted on or signed into law.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.

Have you heard of invitation-based forums? When troll or spam accounts appear, you can implicate the account that invited them.

A site that I view quite often employs this method:

https://lobste.rs/about

>Invitation Tree

>New users must be invited by a current user, though there is no formal vetting process. Invitations are used as a mechanism for spam-control and to encourage users to be nice, not to make the Lobsters userbase an elite club. The most efficient way to receive an invitation is to talk to someone you recognize from the site or request one in chat.

>The full user tree is made public and each user's profile shows who invited them. This provides some degree of accountability and helps identify voting rings.

>There's no limit on how many invitations a user can send (though that might be prompted by scaling problems in the future). When accounts are banned for spam, sockpuppeting, or other abuse, moderators will look up the invitation tree to consider disabling their inviter's ability to send invitations or, rarely, also banning.

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Here you go.

In addition, you can use the Reddit Enhancement Suite, which conveniently emulates the button functionality of a word processor into the comment writer.

Also, RES is just awesome in general.

I'm just about to place my pre-order and I thought of this:

Do others here know that Amazon offers a donation to your charity of choice? I chose Democracy Now! because they have such high quality reporting and interviews. You have to set it up and order EVERYTHING through AmazonSmile.com rather than Amazon's regular site. Some items you purchase are eligible for the donation and some are not. But, all must go through Smile. And, no, they don't tell you how much is being donated.

I order a lot from Amazon and figure some donation is better than nothing. I know they are terrible to workers, but most retailers are and until others deliver to my house I know I'll continue ordering.

Bernie's Book on AmazonSmile.com:

https://smile.amazon.com/Our-Revolution-Believe-Bernie-Sanders/dp/1250132924/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469829868&sr=8-1&keywords=our+revolution+bernie+sanders

Here's a great book if you are looking to get into the history of banking or economics in the United States. It's called All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins. Amazon Link

The book goes into detail on how monied interests collectivized and consolidated power throughout the end of the 19th century and put themselves into a position that made the federal government dependent upon them. The author organizes the text chronologically so you can skip around to specific times period if you'd like, but the main crux, in terms of a histiographic sense, is the continuum of power that the author presents and the ways in which interested parties retain and perpetuate their collective position from generation to generation.

I'd highly suggest to check it out.

I think Bernie scared off those mainstream DEMs with 2 words he used, that make them uncomfortable, socialism and revolution. I just wish he could describe the movement without using those words. He had the heartland with this it still gives me goosebumps: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bernie+sanders+ad+simon+and+garfunkel&&view=detail&mid=2A142592BE35A206516D2A142592BE35A206516D&FORM=VRDGAR

The next sentence after the Reichstag comparison:

>The fact is that I'm not saying [Sept. 11] was a [U.S.] plan, or anything like that because, you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box - dismiss you.

Does that alter your analysis at all? He didn't want to be put in the nut-ball box, so he wouldn't say that Bush did 9/11? As opposed to: I won't say Bush planned 9/11 because Bush didn't plan 9/11.

It's the same thing Donald Trump did with David Duke. You say one thing, and then disavow. Conspiracy theorists heard what they wanted to hear (Bush did 9/11) and then voters heard what they wanted to hear (I mispoke. Osama Bin Laden did 9/11). It was wrong for Trump; it's wrong for Ellison.

I think you are confusing raw income with influence in the civil societies that run the political system in the US. Trump is supposedly quite rich (although there is no proof he isn't just deep in debt), however he was not part of the upper echelons of civil society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/nyregion/donald-trump-nyc.html?_r=0

>That's because you're a joke.

No, that's because Christians are the single largest voting bloc in the country, and currently have a majority in two branches of government, with the capacity to extend their majority in the third branch for thirty years under the current administration.

And I'm supposed to take it on your word now that there are "far less attacks" from Christians (there were at least 3 deaths at Christian hands the same year as your newlywed story)?

One Muslim kills a room full of people and it's a trait of the whole group, but a nation of Christians institutes a culture of shame and repression across half the country, legislating morality, ramping up prison systems, banning good medicines for fear of imaginary "sin" and it's "a joke" to feel threatened by them.

This story is pretty underwhelming. You can find similar looking US eagle logos if you search for it. Maybe it's a dog whistle? But I doubt anyone would notice without people putting a magnifying glass to it.

It doesn't scream "Nazi" - it screams crappy version of the Great Seal. The Nazi eagle looks evil, but designed by an artist. This Trump shirt looks like comic sans.

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just own it with your chest, be proud to called semi-fascist and not Biden voter looool I'm #proud_semi_fascist_ultra_maga_american

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Because the FBI has never had a political bias... This was a good book btw: https://www.amazon.com/FBIs-War-Against-Dr-King/dp/B01LDEYWKA?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=3cfc33fc-c452-4963-84a9-c8b5fb2d67dc

Hey man, you seem like a smart guy, that likes to ponder on some good questions.
I worry though that some of the feeling that comes through in your writing is overly pessimistic. I see some of my past self in your words.

I apologize if you are not looking for advice, but I read a book when I was at my lowest that really helped me out.

https://www.amazon.com/Models-Attract-Women-Through-Honesty/dp/1463750358

Reagan's switch to a fee-for-service system in 1983 created an economic mess. Hospitals have a perverse incentive to overtreat and doctors waste 8+ hours each week on the billing bureaucracy. The ACA has initiated a slow effort to move back to a capitation model.

https://www.amazon.com/Nanonomics-2-0-Modern-Social-Investments/dp/098395108X

I agree with fixing the timezone, no question. I'd prefer EST, but I'll accept DST over flip-flopping every 6 months. My $2.00 Goodwill semi-smart clock might work if I disable DST and change the timezone to one that doesn't exist in the continental US. Or, like you said, change it twice a year. Or, I can use that as an excuse to buy a new phone, and demote my current phone to a clock, using Huge Digital Clock app

TIL: Maine is on EST.

I understand how and why you feel the way you do and felt the same way for a long time, I have changed my mind.

If you really want to be angry about something watch:

13th.

The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.

Watch 13th on Netflix to see where this all has led.

I don't understand? A doctor could order an unnecessary test while still prescribing the correct treatment. Unnecessary medical tests alone account for $200B of annual medical costs in the United States (2). Estimates are as high as 1/3 of all healthcare spending being unnecessary (1), (2).

Which gets to the point I've been trying to make. It's easy to hate on insurers but they aren't the leading driver of healthcare costs. It's wasted spending and astronomical Rx costs (1). Understanding the problem is very important; if people don't understand the problem they can't advocate for the correct solution. I'm a proponent of single payer healthcare but people need to understand that won't get rid of insurance company's, it simply controls pricing in the market.

(1) http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/11/it-is-time-to-get-mad-about-the-outrageous-cost-of-health-care/index.htm

(2) http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE81F0UF20120216

Enough Clinton bashing and distraction? The beast is sighted and will breach, ready the Lampoons........................

"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."

Moby-Dick https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

Omnibus indiget amabam!

8-)

9md

>When we do well there, then the narrative changes from Bernie kicks ass among young voters to Bernie does well only among young white liberals-- that is a different story and a perfect lead in to South Carolina, where once again, we can work to attract young voters of color.

From https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4429

Seems to fit the definition to me: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/race%E2%80%93baiting

>the unfair use of statements about race to try to influence the actions or attitudes of a particular group of people.

Almost half of the Fortune 500 companies had guaranteed pension plans 20 years ago. Now, we’re done to 14 and half of these will freeze their plan soon. Boomers lived high on the hog.

Millennials must prepare to eat cat food.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/098395108X

No. If the minimum wage doubles, everyone else's salary's go down (or stay's the same). No one who's making $30/hour will all of a sudden make $60/hour. What kind of a question is that? LOL

Here's a few other things that are also likely to happen:

• It would take longer for people to get their first job, which would delay their ability to learn how to work at a company.

• It increases the rate of unemployment

• It makes other, harder working employees resentful, and they're more likely to try and change jobs, which increases turnover and hurts smaller companies.

• It hurts smaller companies more than large multi-nationals, who can outsource labor to other countries more easily.

• It puts small/local businesses out of business.

• Companies may fire long-time employees and cut staff in order to decrease their pay-roll responsibilities. So a company who has 10 people at $20/hour may fire them to make up for the people that use to be making $9/hour, and thus all new employees would be making $15/hour.

CTR never used shills.

> (“Barrier Breakers accounts are always identified as Correct the Record,” spokesperson Elizabeth Shappell said, adding: “We are focused on breaking down the barriers that stand in the way of progress, like Donald Trump’s agenda.”)

That was just reddit spreading a conspiracy theory they based off one vague press release that was almost certainly inflating its importance.

Meanwhile, Russia is well-documented to actually use shills, many of whom switched to play Trump supporters.

> Whether tuition-free college becomes a reality, state governments are already spending more on public colleges and universities. State support for higher education is up 4.1 percent this year, according to the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University.

> "The biggest challenge with state funding for higher education is not just increasing it, but making it consistent," said Ben Miller, senior director of post-secondary education at the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund. State governments tend to support higher education when the economy is strong and cut back when the economy weakens, he said.

Seeing as universities are some of the best economic engines in our country, and employers increasingly look for workers with higher education or specialized skills, it might help to make it more accessible and affordable.

And in primary and secondary schools, a move away from property taxes to fund them would be an even greater boon. The entire way we fund education urgently needs reform.

They've grown from a couple of hundred members in the early 90s to roughly 3,800 in the US today (3000 according to official labor ministry figures in 2014).

In the UK they just broke the 1,500 member wall, with mostly health care workers organizing with them, in addition to cleaners, construction workers, social service, and various.

In Germany they currently have about 400 members in good standing, but have not "gone public" in any big way, but rather spreading through organizer trainings. OK figures given that there is already a considerably larger explicitly anarcho-syndicalist union in the country already.

Canada IWW I don't know much about.

The focii of the US union will obviously vary depending on location, but publicly highlighted organizing campaigns are currently oriented towards organizing in low-wage catering/restaurant (like the http://www.burgervilleworkersunion.org/ endorsed by Bernie Sanders and regional AFL-CIO), incarcerated workers, and various.

If you want to learn more about what is going on in the union currently, their magazine is available for free (or at least 72 issues of them) at https://www.scribd.com/user/19968767/Industrial-Worker-Newspaper

explain to me why CNN is hiding the full debate hmmm??

for those that missed it, here is the audio from the entire event, please share and keep thiss link moving!

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I did a tax report for a multibillionaire when I worked in the investment industry. It was the firms first-ever tax analysis for a client. F-inflation guy paid an effective tax rate of 10%.

I left to teach and write books shorty thereafter. I didn’t want my entire career to be making filthy rich people more money. They have tax loopholes galore: GRATs, no SS, check-the-box, and private foundations.

I keep half my paycheck now or 51% after deductions. Rich people can suck it. I hate this system and will fight against it. Reagan raised payroll taxes on workers. Don’t think for one second that Republicans want to lower YOUR taxes.

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Reverse all the damage Reagan did to higher learning 40 years ago. Stop giving student loan money directly to the schools. The Federal Reserve needs to stop hyperinflating essential goods just to enrich Wall Street.

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Colorado just passed the Equal Pay Act, which forces employers to disclose the pay range on job description. It’s even forcing companies hiring outside CO to list the pay range. All states need this law.

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Billionaires waste taxpayer money building penis rockets but but but poor people.

Try raising the minimum wage and letting workers unionize so not everyone is poor.

Nanonomics 2.0: Modern Social Investments

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It’s insane how the union movement died out over the last 50 years. Workers need a voice.

We need to learn how to rebuild the union movement.

There are a lot of reasons Hillary lost and I'm not going to get into them because it's not analogous to what's happening this year or next.

>He won't turn Texas blue either if he can't beat Ted Cruz.

I'm not so sure about that.

> He gutted welfare (and boasted about it)

I think you're a bit confused about Bill Clinton's welfare reform

>encouraged mass incarceration

By that logic so did Bernie Sanders, the NAACP, and CBC.

>working class to NAFTA.

Compared to the rise of automation in the workforce, NAFTA didn't hurt the working class at all. Only useless jobs were gutted, which is appropriate in a capitalist society.

>Obama is similar, the economy is no better right now than it would have been if we'd just dropped everything and went on autopilot in 2008.

1. Unemployment is down
2. the stock market is up
3. the debt to GDP ratio is closing
4. more people have left affordable housing to find jobs
5. fewer people are on food stamps
6. Middle-class incomes had their fastest growth on record last year

>The stimulus was a fucking joke

The stimulus is the reason millions have jobs today.

>It means treating workers like assets, cogs in a money-printing machine, rather than actual people.

That's not neoliberalism. You're describing Marx's critique of capitalism. And money printing? I'm starting to think you're an angsty anarco-communist.

Healthcare stocks are a good investment for a reason. Those balance sheets "remain flush" due to overpriced healthcare, overpriced drugs, and under-cared for patients.

>Meanwhile, balance sheets in the Health Care sector remain flush with cash, increasing the possibility of higher dividend payments, share-enhancing stock buybacks, and mergers and acquisitions.

https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/healthcare-sector

Full interview here -- Deconstructed podcast (The Intercept).

How many did Stalin murder again? Let's see what liberal historian, J Arch Getty has to say: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Victims-of-the-Soviet-penal-system-in-the-pre-war-A-Getty-Rittersporn/e2fe906c15cfefcdaca84d42c6e6fd51bc7b0a93 Either way, you're being a bourgeois shill.

What I find hilarious is that Einstein actually defended Stalin multiple times, most notably during the Moscow Trials.

I'm 29. And I do blame my generation.

Modern American kids are the most sociopathic generation in the country's entire history, and consistently rank lower and lower with each case study.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Changes-in-dispositional-empathy-in-American-over-a-Konrath-O'Brien/e6110444b492accc811291c8954b1f4cf5d349d9

I think most Americans know deep down in their hearts that we have a serious problem here.

That's what you get when you refuse to fund the schools. A general public that doesn't know what defund means, and who are too anti-intelligence to bother looking it up.

defund dē-fŭnd′►

​

• transitive verb To stop the flow of funds to.
• v. To cancel funding for.

I'm just going to leave this here for you...

https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-statistics--st101

In all seriousness though, if p(f1)=.5 [where p is probabibility and f1 is the first coin flip] and p(f2)=.5 and p(f3)=.5 and so on and so forth, then p(f1f2f3f4f5f6) [i.e. The probability of all of them occurring] equals p(f1)*p(f2)*p(f3)*p(f4)*p(f5)*p(f6).

I'd say it doesn't sound so much like a dream as a reasonable guess/hope of where things could head in the future. I don't know if this is the same as what you're talking about, but it sounds like liquid democracy. A lot of (smart) people have already put a lot of thought into systems like these. Google did some experiment about it (don't know the details), and I know there is some information about using blockchain technology for liquid democracy on this Ethereum web page. It seems the thing this kind of idea doesn't have yet is an idea of how exactly it would function and what benefit it would serve on a wide level when it's not yet the actual legislative mechanism of a society. I think it sounds really interesting and even plausible after it's made the massive step of actually carrying legal authority, but until then, it's hard for me to see what kind of real benefit it holds for the average person—not the average redditor or Github contributor, but the average person in a whole society, including the vast amount of people who have never even heard of Github and who have only ever read stuff from Wikipedia as opposed to editing a page. You mentioned it functioning "within our government and eventually replacing it" but that transition would be very, very hard to make. It would be very, very hard just to get to the point where it would even be something that people would consider. Please don't let me discourage you! I just hope to offer you some things to think about, because I've wondered about some of these points before. Thanks for sharing the post.

Why are you parroting right-wing talking points? Seriously? You realize they're just trying to tear down every Democratic candidate, right? You gonna listen when they do the same shit to Bernie? To AOC?

https://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c63134ee4b00ba63e4b32ac

US military was deployed to quell the fighting. That's how JEB Stuart knew John Brown. And people died, towns where sacked, shit they even had artillery.

https://www.amazon.com/War-Knife-Bleeding-Kansas-1854-1861/dp/080327114X

BTW -- trolls don't write novels. https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Confederate-Raven-Kathleen-Thomas-ebook/dp/B08M8P8N3S/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=songs+of+a+confederate+raven&qid=1619908351&sr=8-1

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Most books have a high list price, hardcovers especially. Even Audacity of Hope is still $25 list. As an avid reader, brand new hardcover books from many retail stores are priced at list and make me sad. I usually wait until they show at the library or until the retailer discounts it.

Like many retail products (electronics excluded) book stores purchase is usually as much as 40% of the list price, then they sell it at list for a little while. It tends to drop quick because those who are desperately wanting to read as soon as it hits the shelf buy it within the first couple weeks. That's why you don't see as many books at that price, because they've long dropped it.

And you can't use Amazon as a good example, as they usually immediately discount it immensely, sometimes even at a loss, to undercut other retailers.

Still, what's likely to happen is the book is going to be used to help fund his new non-profit. He's not going to be raking it in, because he never has. His previous book profits and speaking fees have all been donated.

EDIT: I see you're also arguing about how he may be talking about MSRP, which is probably what he's doing because most anyone selling anything is going to be talking about their listing price, not the price it may go for when a retailer discounts it.

to be clear, police use a less advanced version of it that cannot track targets. The military has such things like predator drones that can find ground targets. But this is a specialized piece of equipment to find air targets. If the one on the police helicopter can do the same thing then why wouldn't they just use that?

here is a FLIR imager you can get off of amazon. Would you agree that this has the same capabilities as the FLIR camera on a SAM site?

As I have said, using the SAM is very likely overkill. But the technology that goes along with it that has the purpose of finding and tracking air targets means someone thought it was worth using. To be more specific. A normal FLIR camera does not track movements. A normal FLIR camera can not find a jet or a drone miles away and notify the user that there is a jet or drone miles away. A normal FLIR camera will not also track a specific jet or drone.

Again as I have said the purpose of these SAMs are to find, track, destroy air targets. they are stationary(ish, they are set on jeeps). They aren't recon devices. The recon FLIR cameras are set on drones. There are unarmed drones that they use, but those drones are likely able to be refitted to hold weapons.

> Perhaps the greatest contribution in Snyder’s clarifying and unnerving work is buried in its epilogue, and it shows the slippery intellectual path from freedom to tyranny. After the Cold War, he writes, we were enthralled by the politics of inevitability, the notion that history moved inexorably toward liberal democracy. So we lowered our defenses. Now, instead, we are careening toward the politics of eternity, in which a leader rewrites our past as “a vast misty courtyard of illegible monuments to national victimhood.” Inevitability was like a coma; eternity is like hypnosis.

> “The danger we now face is of a passage from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity, from a naive and flawed sort of democratic republic to a confused and cynical sort of fascist oligarchy,” Snyder concludes. “The path of least resistance leads directly from inevitability to eternity.”

> A possible detour from that path may be found in “On Tyranny,” a memorable work that is grounded in history yet imbued with the fierce urgency of what now.

A good book, and practical on what to do. Read it in a few hours. Available for under $10 at Amazon

edit: what to do

Here's an Amazon link to the book.

It's a collection of essays, letters, speeches, and other writings from a variety of New Deal thinkers, businessmen, politicians, and even opponents.

I went to this source because I found most writing on the subject to be heavily polluted by the old, "The New Deal was a failure because..." or "The New Deal was a success because..." mentality.

This book opened my eyes to the reality of the New Deal: That it was a political and social philosophy with real world applications. The fact that FDR's New Deal policies were a mixed bag has more to do with the political and legal issues of the 1930's than it does the underlying principles espoused by its proponents.

I highly recommend this collection, and I think you'll be surprised how relevant these issues still are today.

Source: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-6731.html

The more volunteers Bernie has, the more conversions from prospective primary voters who've simply never personally heard good arguments against Biden from a genuine human. Obama certainly wasn't seen as "most electable" going into 2008. Unlike Obama, who governed as a moderate and lost Congress to Republicans, Bernie Sanders aims to build a lasting movement, a political revolution to create the systemic change our country so desperately needs. Our Revolution aims not just to defeat Trump, but defeat the circumstances that enabled him, and build an America that works for all Americans, not just the billionaires!

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Not disagreeing with you, but I use Private Internet Access and am able to game through it (GTA and Rocket League). I've never had a performance issue.

If you use TOR for gaming or high-bandwidth usage apps then yeah, you'll take a hit. But paid VPNs shouldn't slow your traffic, and that's been my experience.

And yeah, what we really need is a new government that understands the implications of their decision making and acts in the people's best interest, not their own.

An Internet Bill of Rights is long overdue (e.g. a users right to delete, a right to audit, a right to opt-out etc).

Unfortunately law makers to not see this issue in the same way they have in the past. An ISP mining your traffic is EXACTLY the same as USPS reading all your letters before they send/deliver them. Its literally the exact same thing. And yet, here we are.

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In chapter 11 of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, The Rent of the Land, Smith describes the supply restriction strategy to mine wealth passively. This is called economic rent in economics, and is responsible for probably more than half of the value in our economy. In short, it's gaining a monopoly (or oligopoly) on goods that are inelastic in supply, and holding most of them out of use so the owners can overcharge. This is why economists consider monopolies to be a market failure - they produce negative externalities like poor allocation of scarce resources, and massive wealth and income inequality, which is strongly correlated with most bad social problems.

You're right that liberals believe in the good of free markets, and I am no exception. I also see the downsides, and I understand that we have to do something to reverse that part of it.

I agree with the Henry George that we can create economic justice by steeply taxing the passive income (economic rent; holding fixed supply goods out of use) only, and none of the active parts of creating demand. Politically, that would turn our whole system on it's head, and we're nowhere near being able to make such changes, since most of business-as-usual exists because of the availability of these strategies.

So, I'm okay with a social safety net as a temporary stopgap measure, but with a long term eye for actual economic justice.

Yes. Some people think that it is worth learning from the past ... for example, The Art of War is about 2500 years old ... "The book was first translated into French in 1772 by the Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot and a partial translation into English was attempted by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop in 1905. The first annotated English translation was completed and published by Lionel Giles in 1910.[2] Leaders such as Mao Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap, General Douglas MacArthur and leaders of Imperial Japan have drawn inspiration from the work."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

I'm not a professional economist, but I've read a number of books from Austrian economists, such as "Wealth of Nations", "Capitalism and Freedom," "Human Action", "Economics in One Easy Lesson"... there's a few more.

The Shock Doctrine: Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein - this book is really good! it gets into to inner workings of the financial sector and neoliberals. Talks about how the financial sector pillages governments and their people for profit. There was a lot that I didn't know before reading this book

Capitalism was coined by those within the socialist and anarcho-socialist movements, popularized initially by Proudhon and later by the entirety of the Marxist movement. Adam Smith not only failed to use the term capitalism, he failed in much of his assessment of the system, which is what he was attempting to do.

You are correct that since the formalization of anti-Marxist rhetoric among economic circles, predominately developed by the Austrian school and its descendents, there has been an attempt to reclaim capitalism to simply refer to "free markets." But this, like most attempts to reclaim words, is a prescriptive usage not a descriptive one.

The reason the word "capitalism" applies is because of the root word, "capital," and the person responsible for the most thorough analysis of "capital" to date is Karl Marx. There is nothing about the system (in Smith's time, in Marx's time, or in our time) that frees it from the boundaries of that analysis.

> The framework put forth in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, etc. requires certain assumptions which are simply not met, and never have been.

Agreed. And?

I would be quite surprised to find out capitalism has been 'coined' to describe the current American political economic system.

Regardless, it is being used in this conversation to signify a 'free market', or L.F. system.

It doesn't exist.
The framework put forth in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, etc. requires certain assumptions which are simply not met, and never have been.

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