Bill Maher nails it... warning for language
Bill Maher nails it... warning for language
acesfull86 (01-30-2017), Runnin (01-29-2017)
Agreed I watch bill Maher often despite his political views.
I have always liked Maher. I dont agree with his policy views a lot but I respect people who are intellectually honest and are not afraid to say what they believe even if it is not popular. Abolisitionists were hated in the South and North for advocating an end to slavery for example.
When peoppe are honest about their views we can have open and meaningful debate.
Another guy I like who is similar is Jimmy Dore. He doesnt support people just because they have a D next to their name on the ticket.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
This is the one I was telling you guys about on Friday night (after I watched it) in another thread. It's a classic
Now the left is demanding a boycott against Uber, because they had the audacity to offer people rides to and from JFK airport... rather than refusing to drive in order to boost the protests.
Uber sent out a tweet saying that since cabs were not performing rides, that Uber would suspend surge pricing so that people wouldn't get screwed over with huge fares.
After massive backlash, the Uber CEO went public with an apology.
Julio3000 (01-30-2017)
The communist threat never died.
Ok, now I will be glibly dismissive:
lol
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But yea: if you consider economic justice to be your enemy, then you should be afraid: because the combination of (a) tepid, establishment (neo)liberals blithely knocking over progressive candles until they've blindly burned down the Democratic Party's house and (b) a right-wing autocratic santorum-stain ascending to the head of the executive branch has radicalized a lot of folks, young and old, to pursue a more truly-equitable economic ordering, as opposed to agitating for a few more band-aids on the suppurating gash of late-state capitalism. And the sort of redresses I seek—single-payer, UBI, better-subsidized post-secondary, more stringent worker-protections, increased access to the franchise for those marginalized by fiduciary or social status, restrictions on corporate financing of our elections, less regressive and more progressive taxation, less privatisation of public funds—well those are all actually pretty damn minor, pretty damn mainstream, and pretty damn still-working-within-the-established-economics compared to what a lot of those folks would entertain.
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"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
cajunrevenge (01-30-2017), zitothebrave (01-30-2017)
You mean the country that initially only franchised land-owning males, whose economy for the first century was largely driven by chattel slavery, and whose understanding of unusual cruelty in criminal justice was being drawn by a horse and quartered?
Again: This country was founded on an ideologies that are alien to either of us, and our respective ideologies would be alien to any of the men who founded this country.
You can be sad; but formulate better, more historically-aware reasons than those.
Last edited by jpx7; 01-30-2017 at 11:21 PM.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
goldfly (01-30-2017), Julio3000 (01-31-2017), zitothebrave (01-30-2017)
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
As Libertarian as I am I do feel lIke when we get to a certain point in automation and technology a communist system might work best.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
jpx7 (01-31-2017), The Chosen One (01-31-2017)
jpx7 (01-30-2017)
goldfly (02-03-2017)