US Politics

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Comments be like:
"Out means out, get over it."

...wait...

murdoch visited trump yesterday
wonder what laws murdoch laid down for trump to obey
in fact wonder how much dirt newscorp has on the donald

I wonder what Donald's reaction was like when Obama told him about the aliens.

"Trump".

anything less humanises the awful shit.

see also: "Boris"

^ there must be a collective noun in there somewhere...

see also: "Boris"

those bloody johnsons

How do I get one of these without actually giving the fuckers any money?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/23/trump_is_hawking_a_149_gold_trimmed_christmas_ornament_shaped_like_a_hat.html

"Trump".

anything less humanises the awful shit.

I still think if 'mericans actually knew what trump meant they would never have voted for him.

Can you imagine a Mr Fart being elected PM?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/01/comparing-fascism-donald-trump-historians-trumpism

Can you imagine a Mr Fart being elected PM?

This is why Mr Balls never had a chance...

Mr Johnson seems to have done ok though.

Torture is OK. Drinking blood is bad.

"Do you want to be ruled by men who eagerly drink the blood of their dying enemies...there’s no doubt that they [Islamic State] are dead set on taking us over and drinking our blood."

Michael Flynn was a sensible choice:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/11/flynn-s
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/gen-michael-flynns-descent-madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkm2Vfj42FY&t=2964s

Thanks for that. It's reassuring seeing someone put together a cogent explanation for why so many aspects of western economic, social and political life are unsustainable. Depressing that we seem to be marching straight towards crisis after crisis.

Interesting lecture :)

Glad that you both found it a worthwhile watch. I'm digesting a lot of Blyth media at the mo'. Will be starting his book "Austerity: the history of a dangerous idea" tonight.

I bought a book of the guy he mentioned.

On hive.co.uk (they pay their taxes and give a little to a local bookshop) cos Amazon is the bad guy in a lot of this.

Though I admire the company a little too...surviving the .com bubble and not many have managed that. Bezos is a smart man. But for workers, nah.

I don't see communism work w/o a dictatorship, but on the surface, it's not perse bound to fail. So far it's been communism with dictatorship.

I am a little fed-up with the left because ultimately it doesn't provide jobs. Eh what jwestland? Yes, cos ideals don't pay the bill. (though higher tax rates fair enough if I ever need to pay them I shall not complain)

Big world wide companies: Jobs. Some of the jobs are crap uber 0 hour contract exploitation jobs. Bad. Needs oversight/rules.
Other jobs are good, but you have to watch the companies don't underpay tax (hi, Apples) and yes the security isn't there anymore (soz your job is going to India now...but some companies are moving away from that too). But...jobs. And working with people all over the world.

Left jobs? Bar a few local co-ops in Belfast...nothing. Taxi and restaurant work, nothing in IT/finance... A co-op IT company would be super dreamy right now :)

I rather try properly constrained capitalism first over revolution. It can be done in Scandinavian countries, right?

are public sector jobs 'left jobs' as that's 25% of NI workforce, even after recent cuts in local govment.

cards against humanity has released their new post-trump expansion pack

http://imgur.com/gallery/uhaYz

Good article on the supposed meme-ing of the election... https://theoutline.com/post/352/memes-do-not-matter

Despite its shortcomings, the spectre of “tech” journalism haunted this election. Eleven days before Donald Trump became the president-elect of the United States, The New York Times ran an article in its Style section titled “How Pepe the Frog and Nasty Woman Are Shaping the Election.” The intro paragraph alone reads like clueless liberal bingo: Alex Williams, whose previous articles include “Why a $15,950 Tourbillon Watch Is Considered a Steal” and “Why Does This Watch Cost $815,000?,” interviews the editor of Know Your Meme, an NYU grad who lives in Williamsburg, who explains the significance of 4chan and Pepe the Frog to the Times’ aging readership. It goes on: “In 2008, memes were simply a PR nightmare for the Republican Party.” Were they really? Did Obama owe his landslide victory to the exposure of Floridian septuagenarians to LOLcats, or was it the financial crisis, widespread dissatisfaction with the Bush administration, and record turnout among African-Americans? No evidence is given as to if or why any of this is shaping the election; that it exists at all somehow makes it newsworthy.

This was great, watched the follow up lecture that he refers to with Marco Buti from the EU Commission... Was expecting Blyth to tear into Buti afterwards but Buti seemed surprisingly human, seemed there was some compassion as well as common ground there... The EU is fucked unless the north shares its prosperity with the south, sure, there have been governance and administrative issues and national politics will always get in the way of EU fiscal policy but they can't expect to punish the economies that are struggling without horrific political consequences further down the road... #csb

It's 25% due to The Troubles where there was no companies investment here. 30 years of the Trouble with a population with high rates of poverty and DLA due to trauma can't just be instantly reformed into the GB job market public sector rate.

I'm not a 100% sure if government jobs are left, though left seems to be more OK with government jobs than right-wing who tend to be more small government/the magical market will magically sort all ills :)