Post: #926

(02-20-2019 11:50 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  

(02-20-2019 11:15 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  

(02-20-2019 10:58 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  How do you figure we're doubly screwed?

Fair bet Labor gets in next election & then we'll be well on the march to Soycialism.
No Trump / Bolsonaro like figure for us...

In that same 20 years God only knows what the US is going to look like.

It'll be a mix of Apocalypto, Mad Max, the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan (Black Hawk Down in Minneapolis), All dogs go to heaven, and Modern Family...

Post: #927

I'm going back to the Canadian politics thread. I can lower my SSRI dosage compared to this.

Post: #928

(02-20-2019 11:50 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Our dreaded socialist system delivers health care and affordable education while routinely running a surplus... Our demographics are in better shape than America's. We don't have an opioid crisis. Our violent crime is trivial compared to theirs and we're surrounded by oceans rather than drug cartels.

But Huntsman Spiders.

Post: #929

(02-18-2019 01:43 PM)BallsDeep Wrote:  

One more reason to not have Netflix.

And 66 air fresheners? I’d imagine using more than that.

Post: #930

(02-20-2019 11:15 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  Fair bet Labor gets in next election & then we'll be well on the march to Soycialism.
No Trump / Bolsonaro like figure for us...

Consider yourself lucky.

Post: #931

AOC the dunce.

Post: #932

(02-14-2019 04:31 PM)Genghis Khan Wrote:  The Right: "We need to stop tech companies from becoming monopolies, destroying our culture and marginalizing people on the right"

Also The Right: "Wow look at Occasional-Cortex chase out Amazon from NY, the communist!"



We're fucked.

She didn't chase them out. Amazon will just pick a "friendlier" locale. They decided to take their business elsewhere. It is however a net loss for the productive elements in her constituency. Granted the mouth breathing class likely are too stupid to ever realize that

(02-14-2019 06:54 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 06:53 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 06:50 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  It's not a mistake, though.
It's winning her massive support and making her a national topic of conversation.

If put to a referendum tomorrow. Would you expect a majority of American's to vote in favour of the 'Green new deal' ?

Why is this relevant?

Sam's right. She's got mass appeal with the citizens United States of Idiocracy. They're clueless.

Reminds me of the story of when Fidel Castro was just taking power in Cuba. In one of his early speeches he promised (and Im paraphrasing) "All Cubans faithful to The Revolution will have car tires under them" The desired implication was that the citizenry would all own cars. But what did Fidel actually deliver?



He had factories set up to turn used tires into sandals so the Cuban population could have "tires under them".

See?

Socialism can deliver on its promises if you believe hard enough

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Post: #934

We can have a politician IQ "race to the bottom".

We've got New York beat by sheer numbers of morons in office. They have us beat by the magnitude of stupidity of each moron.

Post: #935

She and her team are vastly smarter than you are though.

Post: #936

We have have to approach this with a different angle. We can’t just say, “thier idiots” “thier stupid” “thier entitled”. Yes all of these things are true, or they may be vary aware what thier policy’s cause and they want that.

But thier supporters. We have to realize that they look at baby boomers and realize real estate and cars and college is more expensive. Which is true. We just need to pull alongside them acknowledge life is more expensive and persuade them socialism and free stuff does not equal more.

Post: #937

Just stopping by to reaffirm the beastivities.

Do we have a pic yet of the geat maams?

No?

Maybe she's just wearing a pushup bra on her A-B Class excellence.

Post: #938

they're -- their -- there

(02-22-2019 10:19 PM)BeardedMastodon Wrote:  We have have to approach this with a different angle. We can’t just say, “thier idiots” “thier stupid” “thier entitled”. Yes all of these things are true, or they may be vary aware what thier policy’s cause and they want that.

But thier supporters. We have to realize that they look at baby boomers and realize real estate and cars and college is more expensive. Which is true. We just need to pull alongside them acknowledge life is more expensive and persuade them socialism and free stuff does not equal more.

Post: #939

Some people need to turn on there spell check, it's right thier on the toolbare.

Post: #940

(02-23-2019 12:12 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  Some people need to turn on there their spell check, it's right thier there on the toolbare toolbar.

Post: #941

(02-23-2019 12:19 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(02-23-2019 12:12 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  Some people need to turn on there their spell check, it's right thier there on the toolbare toolbar.

Tank u Hansom Sleepy Earl.

Post: #942

(02-22-2019 10:16 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  She and her team are vastly smarter than you are though.

Bingo.

She conjured this "Green New Deal" bullshit out of thin air and now everyone is talking about it no matter how nonsensical it is. Are we suddenly forgetting the lessons of 2016? Her response to those billboards in Times Square against her was ingenious.

She might not know much about the details of policies or numbers or anything. And nobody cares because none of that shit matters.

Post: #943

How is her base responding to the Amazon "victory"? Does her faction's denial of hundreds of thousands of jobs and tons of tax revenue matter? And New York is already struggling to keep people!

Post: #944

(02-23-2019 05:39 PM)stugatz Wrote:  How is her base responding to the Amazon "victory"? Does her faction's denial of hundreds of thousands of jobs and tons of tax revenue matter? And New York is already struggling to keep people!

They are actually responding cheerful and very gracious that the state didn't give up 3 billion $ of taxes to a tech company that was most likely going to bring in 150k< workers from outside the neighborhood, clogging up the roads, quadrupling the rent prices and decreasing the overall quality of life just so a few older couples who's children have moved out can sell their house for twice as much and move to florida.

I don't think anyone in the country looks at sanfrancisco and says, what a great city, i wish the cost of living was as high in my home town.

Post: #945

They were giving Amazon a 3 billion dollar tax credit, weren't they? As in, they had to pay three billion less than the 30 billion they would owe overall? Now they're getting zero dollars from Amazon instead of 27 billion.

Amazon might be evil and everything but how is no business better than an evil business? Is NYC really that in-demand of an area for the middle-class? People are leaving in droves already and I don't see how this helps.

Post: #946

It would've been good for NYC's tax base, and devastating to the people who live in the area.

Hence why she seized on it as an easy way to gain popularity as a "champion of the downtrodden".

Post: #947

I'd rather get diabeetus than read about this broad. But here I am. She's a fucking retard.

Post: #948

Anyone premising their political fortunes on "tax bases" in a blue city doesn't understand the concept of a four year election cycle or federal welfare.

Post: #949

(02-23-2019 06:43 PM)stugatz Wrote:  They were giving Amazon a 3 billion dollar tax credit, weren't they? As in, they had to pay three billion less than the 30 billion they would owe overall? Now they're getting zero dollars from Amazon instead of 27 billion.

Amazon might be evil and everything but how is no business better than an evil business? Is NYC really that in-demand of an area for the middle-class? People are leaving in droves already and I don't see how this helps.

Unlike most people on this thread.. I actually sell on Amazon (over 2M last year).

The HQ2 was a publicity stunt if Amazon can back out so quickly... Amazon does not seem interested in any other area's that can match NY what offering.

Bezos is to busy getting divorced to notice.

Post: #950

I'm gonna have to agree with SamBRoberts, we are giving her more attention than she deserves.

When we've got multiple Australians, Canadians a Croatian, and a Englishman discussing her on the 38th(!!!) page, you know she knows how to get attention.

If she was the Democrat nominee, I'd understand, but she's just one of the many Representives from one city.