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Re: Politics
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:39 pm
by losthighway
^ I mean one group is trying to assure that everyone has access to healthcare and clean energy, but the other wants to create an authoritarian theocracy.
Crazies all around.
Re: Politics
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:15 am
by DaveA
Some interrelated, overlapping factors at hand, but something that could be said is that an increasing number of right wingers don't seem to believe in the rule of law anymore, in so far as upholding it might adversely affect them, their causes, favored candidates, and so on.
Re: Politics
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:43 am
by Curry Pervert
Disturbing domations.
An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and the recipient is one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to reshape the American judicial system, including the Supreme Court.
Inside The Right’s Historic Billion-Dollar Dark Money Transfer
Re: Politics
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 8:31 am
by penningtron
That link was broken for me but this should work:
https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archi ... over/41194
also, ugh. Further illustrates how long this takeover was in the works..
Re: Politics
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:11 am
by Curry Pervert
I've fixed it, thanks for the heads up.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 2:01 pm
by enframed
Eight-minute listen on the design of social media, the specific design of which is to make us upset.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:13 pm
by losthighway
This might be a little callous and is definitely a simplification, but isn't immigration one tool to combat inflation?
Re: Politics
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:19 pm
by brephophagist
losthighway wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:13 pm
This might be a little callous and is definitely a simplification, but isn't immigration one tool to combat inflation?
I don’t understand the mechanics of the connection between the two; I think you might have to break that one down a bit.
Re: Politics
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:52 pm
by Hairy Caul
brephophagist wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:19 pm
losthighway wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:13 pm
This might be a little callous and is definitely a simplification, but isn't immigration one tool to combat inflation?
I don’t understand the mechanics of the connection between the two; I think you might have to break that one down a bit.
If I had to take a guess it goes something like this: current inflation is, in part, being driven by a ruling class that is extremely afraid of the rising power of labor--people are tired of working shitty jobs for shitty pay, and refusing to do it--so the cynical, capitalist, solution could be to fill the positions no one wants because of shitty pay, with immigrants/migrants who will.
Re: Politics
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 10:44 am
by enframed
Hairy Caul wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:52 pm
brephophagist wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:19 pm
losthighway wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:13 pm
This might be a little callous and is definitely a simplification, but isn't immigration one tool to combat inflation?
I don’t understand the mechanics of the connection between the two; I think you might have to break that one down a bit.
If I had to take a guess it goes something like this: current inflation is, in part, being driven by a ruling class that is extremely afraid of the rising power of labor--people are tired of working shitty jobs for shitty pay, and refusing to do it--so the cynical, capitalist, solution could be to fill the positions no one wants because of shitty pay, with immigrants/migrants who will.
I have for a long time been of the belief that in America anyway,
capital needs immigrants, needs people for whom the "American Dream" is still alive. If that is true, then closing the borders might be the quickest way to bring about significant change. The caveat of course being that in such a scenario the pendulum could just as easily move to the right as the left, more likely to the right even.