Lizzardspawn
No bio...
User ID: 594
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
You can read the guy's program yourself
rent freeze, state built housing, free public transport, state owned grocery stores, free childcare, - all of this paid by wishful thinking and unicorn dust. Close enough to socialism. His tax plan is for 10 billion from my understanding for his whole term mostly by the rich.
I really wish he will win. And I really wish he succeeds in implementing his program, just so that USA will see first hand the results of those policies.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Road to hell is paved with good intentions. I am fairly sure that Marx's ideas didn't include people being boiled alive by NKVD but that is what we got in the end.
The problem with socialisms are two - people are selfish and tragedy of the commons. For the first the only socialist solution that works so far is to beat them into submission. For the second - there is no found cure yet for people not giving a shit for the common good under socialism.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
In a free market the better product wins. In the last couple of decades the better marketed product wins. Which is not optimal for customers
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Not quite. The first part - selfishness is usually nudged to be somewhat aligned with the society's interests by the free market. Before Madison avenue takeover of the american economy companies were actually competing with producing better and cheaper items. We had similar boom with electronics in the 80s and 90s, game industry in 2000s. We have such with chinese phones and cars. All those people may have been passionate about their products, but they were passionate about money too.
The second part - yes there is also tragedy of the commons, but just by the nature of the system - the commons are smaller. So there is less tragedy to be had.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Unfortunately, the other end of the spectrum is a permanent generation-on-generation underclass of non-citizens like Turkish and Arab immigrant communities in Germany.
I see no problem here. They can always return to turkey or whatever.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
This is for an effortpost that I am not qualified to do. But I think it is combination of two things - women entering the workforce and being single - they just have different buying patterns than men. As every geek that has been forced to buy more expensive and with shittier spec laptop for his girlfriend just because this is such a nice shade of blue. And the other is that marketing stopped selling products, they started selling desire, status, dreams.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
The idea is to find some sympathetic plaintiff who would be affected by a statute or executive action you don't like, shop around the whole country until you find a judge who agrees with you, and then get that judge--before the case has even been tried--to indefinitely prevent the government from applying the challenged law/regulation/action to anyone, anywhere in the country. This opinion represents a potentially huge obstacle to progressive activist's attempts to stymie Trump's immigration agenda.
I think this is the right decision, BUT need some safeguards. First one is the government should be mandated to appeal or accept the outcome as nationwide precedent. A situation in which there is lawsuit in the middle of nowhere and government loses, but doesn't appeal and do what it feels in the other circuits is probably not an optimal one. Right now by not appealing the government can decide what kind of cases come to the supreme court. There must be a way for cases to percolate to SCOTUS that the government itself doesn't want to be heard.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Nevertheless, there are no white poor performance countries and no black high performance countries.
Argentina?
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
This period was not because of the amnesty but because of the win of the cold war.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
The Juche (kim whatever) guy said it straight face. And in a way the stick works ok up to a point. You can squeeze more productivity. But you rarely can squeeze passion, innovation, and creativity this way - so probably you are doomed to stagnation.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
One of the most common jokes in the soviet bloc was - we pretend that we work, they pretend that they pay us. And neither GULAG or their equivalents in eastern europe were productive. And they beat up people.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
Since their parents did it the same when they came, why not?
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
I really love how trust erosion in the news is something that just happens. No one is responsible. The same way cars ram into parades. It just happens people.
2015 the media decided that stopping Trump is more important than the truth and they burned the social capital that they have been accumulating for more than a century. Trump is not stopped and they don't deliver the truth. So what is the point in their existence?
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Has the USG directly confirmed the use of MOP?
There are only 3 things being thrown out of this airplane in that kind of operation that make sense. They are by order of letality MOPs, Nukes and Chuck Norris. It wasn't nukes. We would know. It wasn't chuck Norris - you would only need 1 plane, not 6. And there won't be a need for in flight refueling - when they run out of fuel he will just get off the aircraft and push it to the destination. So it leaves MOPs.
And inside those facilities there is a shitload of nasty stuff that could create what sjw call toxic working environment. So I think that even minor damage could cascade into unsalvigably contaminated facility.
There is always possibility that iran has backup facility and some sort of top secret clandestine protocol that they will pull all of the enriched stuff to it with first signs if danger. And they already did it two weeks ago. Whether they are capable of pulling such tight opsec is exercise left to the reader.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
There's simply no beating capitalism at making interchangeable consumer goods cheap, it's the one thing it's incredibly good at. Food supply chains are at once critical, complex and old, which means that they are very highly regulated, involve a ton of actors and have been optimized to absurdity.
Good rule of thumb is that whenever you look in any complex system in the USA of lately usually you have shitload of rent seeking and not capitalism. I am not sure that the food chain is an exception from this - I already know that farmers have great problem with rent seeking behavior from John Dreeres and Monsantnos of the world.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
I am not sure he has the mandate of heaven, but the bastard has barakah. If you had to write Trump bio so far as a movie script - no one would buy because it is too implausible
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
wants to create public supermarkets (horrible idea all around, supermarket margins are very small)
Then who makes money from the food industry. And this is a very serious question. Farmers are on thin margins, Supermarkets are on thin margins and yet you have manyfold increase in the price from farm to table.
I actually approve this as an experiment. Create couple of stores. Cut direct deals with some farmers in the Midwest, olive oil produces in California, the big corn and wheat mills. Organize distribution and see if you can deliver fresh produce and other staples, pay wages and sell at near cost. And if the whole operation is financially sane - scale it.
Also when will the Dem party figure out that their tactics for stopping Trump like figures don't work as good as they think? People are tired of economic stagnation and hate the establishment.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
This will happen only in ground war with Iran. Serbia bombings didn't hurt clinton. And let's be clear - MAGA americans love those kind of display of american might mic drops. As long as the bodycount is 0 and the involvement short - it may even net him votes.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Feel free to make money on polymarket.
Lizzardspawn
29d ago
If I can quote Shoe on head -
"oh my God we need a liberal Joe Rogan" You had a liberal Joe Rogan his name was Joe Rogan but he was too edgy too problematic
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
(Drinking cum out of skulls is, uh, certainly a choice).
This guy is a reverse duke nukem.
Lizzardspawn
11d ago
It would be much harder to accuse Israel of genocide if they studiously avoided anything that hit the general populace. Water, power, etc.
I would say that Israel is not treated quite fairly here. Russia is way more indifferent to civilian casualties, they hammer the energy infrastructure of ukraine more, blew up a fucking dam and so on. And yet no one is seriously accusing them of being genocidal.
Israel decided instead of doing the fast, cheap and easy way - cover from end to end with napalm and throw a match, to actually put their men in street and urban fights. And also why no is accusing Egypt of starving Gaza when there is another border there. And in theory this is Egypt territory. And they didn't just throw some dry ice or lpg in the tunnels. Now probably not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because they care of PR and anyway they are paying the price of a genocide anyway.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Although it seems far-fetched, it also seemed far-fetched that an assassination of an archduke could spiral to a world wide conflagration.
That is absolutely not what happened. The war was inevitable at this point. It is not surprising that the killing of the archduke lead to the war, it is surprising that it had taken so long for something to lit powder keg.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
HACKER: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country. The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who own the country. The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country. And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. HUMPHREY: Prime Minister, what about people who read The Sun? BERNARD: Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
It is a bit like saying a third of programming is done by hibernate and spring. Even if true, doesn't mean what you think it means.
More options
Context Copy link