What the hell did people think was gonna happen? Seems to be exactly what the majority wants, not akin to some hostile takeover. Dunno. I think the majority voted for price controls and domestic job opportunities (as silly as it is to expect that out of Trump), not to cut off their own checks and s...

I wouldn't call it a coup. That's giving Trump voters too much credit. They saw this coming from a mile away and voted precisely for it : to make the government run like a whim-driven, piss-poor, American corporation, complete w/privatization and round after round of layoffs. It's not like the media...

Just dropping by this thread to point out that the right largely gotten its way in America not via violence Foreign policy Mass incarcerations Militarized police zapruder.gif All done during or by Democratic presidencies And implemented not b/c of violent acts or uprisings at all, but by... gradual...

AttackChimp wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:35 pm

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OrthodoxEaster wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:27 pm post-Mangione

Chicken dinner.

Amazing!

(And also, exactly right: They're pretty much both just pop fodder at this point in our culture.)

Just dropping by this thread to point out that the right largely gotten its way in America not via violence, but thru policy that was slowly, surely, and methodically devised in the second half of the 1970s and then enacted starting w/Reagan, but way ramped up under W and Trump and on Wall Street an...

penningtron wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:48 am

Carl wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:30 am Would see a Steely Dan covers band played like Flipper (Will Shatter era).

Might join a Steely Dan covers band played like Flipper.

I'd probably go see Sloppy Dan.

Yeah!

Apples and oranges, using two really odd examples. Other than as background music and maybe for a few cynical lyrics, I don't appreciate Steely Dan much at all. I will always associate it w/MOR cheese, but that's also a symptom of when and where I grew up, I'd imagine. (The dudes in the excellent pr...

Nordic cashlessness is admittedly a slightly different thing. (The elderly, migrants, and poor people still get left out in the cold a little, though.) But ok, lending practices and the credit industry are way, way less shitty over there. For example, bank wire transfers are free. And the ecosystem ...

The only upside of cashlessness is that businesses tend to get robbed less They’re lesser concerns, but it also limits the ability of people to cheat on/avoid taxes. Fair enough, and completely true. I'm not saying that things like payroll, home purchases, or cars should be paid in cash, but the wh...

In the last year or two, smaller NYC businesses are fighting cashlessness in their own cool ways. Many are now enacting 3% surcharges or dollar fees if you pay w/a card or an app. One Chinese restaurant I know of discounts you 15% if you pay cash. Reliance on cashlessness might as well be endorsing ...