General Politics Discussion [ARCHIVED] • Page 381

Fellas.

 

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Talking of back to the future, one of the biggest policy calls from mainstream economists has been for governments to launch more infrastructure spending (building roads, rail, bridges, power stations, telecoms etc) to get economies going. So far, this has been largely ignored by governments trying to cut budget deficits with reductions in government investment spending or facing high public debt levels.

The latest call on this front has come from the economists of the Australian investment outfit, Macquarie. Why not colonise Mars? “It is not as crazy as it sounds,” wrote Viktor Shvets and Chetan Seth from the Macquarie global equities team. “A giant Mars colonisation program would create a vast, capital-intensive industry which would span the globe, create jobs, and address the global economy’s productivity problem.”

You see, the world economy is not growing at a sufficient rate because there are “declining returns on investment”. So what we need to do is to start a huge government programme to colonise Mars, similar to the space program of the 1960s under Kennedy that led to landing on the Moon."

From China to Mars

 

More people should read this post over and over again ... I really don't think enough people grasp that at all.

 

The internet is very slow on Labor day. I'm spending it reading about the "goodyear welt" shoe construction.

 

Back to this one more time ... how does this analogy work in any way that's not flat out racist as shit?

 

He knows what he is doing by using Civil War imagery.

 

Trump "diversity" advisers push conspiracy theories and fringe ideas about minorities

 

my brother used to live in richmond, pretty nice city, you know, besides all the confederate memorials everywhere

 

gotta love monument avenue.

 

Phyllis Schlafly died.

Ended up being a good day after all.

 

This list is insane.

 

"champion for women"

 

If there is someone is who deserves to be called "this bitch", it's Phyllis Schafly.

 

Remember how transformative the commentary on how Bush was stupid, delusional, a zealot and that sort of thing? No, I don't either. He still won two terms because liberals were so obsessed with facts, the comedy of errors, the idea that he was, at bottom, someone in over his head. They didn't understand the movement behind him, nor did they care to do the work to understand him. Jon Stewart had epic takedowns of Bush and yet core neoconservative foreign policy and neoliberal economic policy persists. In refusing to deal with Trump seriously and vigorously, you've already ceded ideological ground to him. He is going to lose, but the alt-right has been animated and there is no defense, if we aren't actually interested in the social processes that underpin the power they hold over sections of the upper middle-class and working class.

 

Lenny Pozner Believed in Conspiracy Theories. Until His Son’s Death Became One.

 

I can't choose what is funnier: "champion for women" or "on behalf of America's workers."

This is the woman who literally said that the best thing for women workers was to get paid less so that men could get paid more and they could find a richer man. She also, if I'm remembering correctly, stated that married women could not be raped by their husbands.

I won't post a FB status about it for consideration of tact, but I'm super happy she's dead. Here's to her legacy getting worse and more disgusting with successive generations.

 

Her son also started the laughable Conservapedia website.

Also, I wished she lived long enough to witness Trump's utter defeat.

 

Phyllis Schlafly is literally one of the last people I'd ever think of as a champion for women. Plus, she also tried to get Schlafly Beer to lose their moniker because she didn't like that a beer company had her last name in it. Nevermind that her nephew runs the company or anything.

 

you're correct
Schlafly Reiterates View That Married Women Cannot Be Raped By Husbands

 

I'm sure the liberal media is taking that out of context tho

 

"Laureate has faced investigations in Brazil over whether students were getting what they paid for, and in Chile concerning its for-profit status. U.S. students have complained the school failed to deliver on its promised degree programs.

In addition, three of the five schools Laureate operates in the United States are under what the U.S. Department of Education calls "heightened cash monitoring" because of potential problems with its "financial responsibility." The school told CNN it disagrees with the government's methodology."

Hillary Clinton's for-profit university problem

 

Even if you don't like Corbyn, it's not OK to vote for Owen Smith