Venezuela is a prime example (well, a more recent one than the shit hole known as Cuba) of socialist policies put to practical work in all its magnificently retarded glory.
Banning evictions is their latest bright idea.
And the spiral and cycle of banning things along the way continues. And when the results lead to mayhem and chaos, just do what any self-respecting whiny left-wing blowhard does. Blame capitalism, white people and blah, blah.
Let's copy them!
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Unions.
Unions helped to push Obamacare and then lobbied to be exempt; once they saw it was bull shit.
Unions then helped L.A. force a mandated 15 hr minimum wage with a 14-1vote want to, guess what, be exempt.
Holy mother of God. A more crooked bunch of assholes you can't get.
And when that leads to all sorts of tricky unintended consequences, guess what? What will happen? Anyone? Bueller?
That's right. Blame capitalism.
Progressives consider corporations as small, unaccountable groups containing enormous amounts
of political and economic power, working in collusion with the
government to take advantage of the (honorable) 'little guy' for their own personal
gain. Profits on the backs of the laborer! Aka cronyism.
These same people believe unions serve an important function in the economy, which in reality are small groups with immense amounts of political and economic power, working in collusion with the government to take advantage of the 'little guy' for their own personal gain.
How this little bit of reality escapes the average person or the media is rather perplexing.
These same people believe unions serve an important function in the economy, which in reality are small groups with immense amounts of political and economic power, working in collusion with the government to take advantage of the 'little guy' for their own personal gain.
How this little bit of reality escapes the average person or the media is rather perplexing.
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In his mind perhaps.
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Woman tries to sue monkey for tearing off her bikini.
Yes, you read right.
Sigh.
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This
is
how we get into this mess in the first place. "We would,
but...." "We should, but...." "We believe in
freedom of the press, but...." It's death by a thousand buts. We
wanted to say the unsayable, and draw the undrawable. We ended up
feeling like we'd tried, and, due to human error on our parts and on
the magazine's, failed. - See more at:
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2015/05/drawing-undrawable-explanation-from.html#sthash.Y3gtblaQ.dpuf
But..."...Running a magazine is insanely hard work, and having to deal with the crisis at the last minute was no fun for the New Statesman team, who have been supportive of us all the way, and who wound up, at the end, face to face with, and having to deal with, what is and isn't unsayable. (And from their perspective, as they expressed it to us, it was also a freedom of speech issue: they didn't want to run the comic, and couldn't be pushed into it.)
But...
This is how we get into this mess in the first place. "We would, but...." "We should, but...." "We believe in freedom of the press, but...." It's death by a thousand buts. We wanted to say the unsayable, and draw the undrawable. We ended up feeling like we'd tried, and, due to human error on our parts and on the magazine's, failed."
This
is
how we get into this mess in the first place. "We would,
but...." "We should, but...." "We believe in
freedom of the press, but...." It's death by a thousand buts. We
wanted to say the unsayable, and draw the undrawable. We ended up
feeling like we'd tried, and, due to human error on our parts and on
the magazine's, failed. - See more at:
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2015/05/drawing-undrawable-explanation-from.html#sthash.Y3gtblaQ.dpuf
"...America is in the midst of another media-hyped moral panic. Sexual assault on college campuses, we're told, is rampant, with women being targeted at every turn by the very men they call their friends. To stop this epidemic, we're further told, colleges and universities must create their own justice systems and hold more accused students accountable. This, naturally, results in witch hunts
This moral panic comes nearly 30 years after the last one, in which men and women were accused of sexually abusing children after those children were coached into "remembering" the abuse by child therapists using now-discredited techniques. Among the more bizarre claims were that children were sexually abused in underground tunnels and that they were forced to watch ritual animal sacrifice and drink blood-laced Kool-Aid."
The moral panic happens on Canadians campuses as well. Not to mention the move to censor free speech and fears of micro-aggressions.
Not healthy.
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Misconceptions of what makes and drives success:
"...These books almost always contain an empowering message, whether explicitly or implicitly: that anyone can be successful if they just understand what it takes, and follow the key steps. The problem is, this message is highly misleading. Understanding success is much harder than most of these popular accounts suggest. Attempts to demystify high performance may often end up perpetuating a number of harmful misconceptions about what it means to achieve success."
"...There’s a common thread underlying the messages of popular business books that there’s some kind of formula for success that anyone can reliably follow to achieve great things. Though inspiring, this message just isn’t true."
"...Unfortunately, the study of failure doesn’t make for such an inspiring message. “In Search of Mediocrity” or “Built to Collapse” probably wouldn’t have been best sellers. The real benefit of reading popular business books could be this: they may not provide a path to guaranteed success but they certainly provide inspiration."
While I agreed with the entire article, I will dissent on the above paragraph. I believe it could work. After all, even book publishers don't really know what will succeed. I bet you most of the best sellers in history won't expected to be. We hear this all the time.
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Envious tripe from The Guardian:
"I resent rich people in general, but I hate them especially during the summer.
During this past wretched and seemingly never-ending winter, we Americans were all miserable together. The poor were punished more than the rich – they always are – but the rich couldn’t escape the collective misery of the cold, no matter how much wealth they were hoarding. Boston Brahmins couldn’t escape the more than 100 inches of snow Beantown was under as they trudged to work, while Wall Street bros still had to turn into ballerinas to cross slush puddles. In the suburbs, the rich still had to dig out their cars and navigate ice tunnels to get to work."
...Come summer, the rich get to go on vacation, a luxury only available to select salaried people. Vacation isn’t usually an option for Americans who are “independent contractors,” underemployed part-timers or flat out poor. For the 8.5m currently unemployed workers in the US, there will be no vacation from their misery and anxiety about when they’ll find work again.
But, our Facebook feeds will be filled with wealthier friends going on vacation to exotic places, and news broadcasts will be filled with the president’s vacation and Congress attempting to go into recess as quickly as it can to flee the summer misery of Washington DC.
Those vacations will rely upon the exploitation of cheaply paid workers. Those minimum wage workers at Disneyland, and those dismally paid cruise ship employees at sea, will likely not get to vacation themselves. And, while the economic benefit to any place which relies upon rich tourists is nebulous, “all-inclusive” vacations mitigate those benefits almost entirely....
...When rich people aren’t fleeing town, they get to enjoy the best their cities have to offer – unlike the rest of us. When they do go outside, they can walk around in expensive organic fabrics rather than the kind of sweltering polyester which can drive someone as crazy as Divine in the heat. And those free outdoor movies or plays some cities offer? The rich enjoy those, too: movie lawns are filled with assholes who can afford to spend hours waiting around for the free movie, and theater lines are packed with scalpers who sell “free” tickets to the rich. And here in New York, while the rich can cool off in private pools or far away beaches, the poor have to cool off in public pools which close before most working people can get to them or go to public beaches which lack even toilet paper in their restrooms...
...The delusional ways rich people ignore the plight of the poor is more obvious in the summer. On a warm Saturday night in Oakland last weekend, the night after mayor Libby Schaaf ordered a ban on nighttime protests, I watched a calm black man being arrested by cops in riot gear. He seemed to be a part of a group of demonstrators who were being arrested after peacefully, but strongly, asserting their fourth amendment right to assemble even after dark . The rich people dining al fresco on the same street pretended like nothing was happening; the dog walker had more interest in his dog taking a crap than the man being arrested ten feet away."
There are no words.
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Charles C. Cooke on the sexual fantasies of Benie Sander.
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Study looks at global cooling.
But it's climate change anyway and it's what the Gaianticians meant all along.
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Religion of peace.
81% of al-Jazeera readers support ISIS.
Depraved idiots.
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Envy makes you do and say kooky things.
Like:
"Compensation on the basis of risk is no different, on an individual deservingness level, than compensation for lottery winnings. In both cases, money is put into the system with some level of risk of loss (in the lottery winner’s case, huge levels of risk) and then, if you are a lucky one, you get a bunch of money out. This compensation is not based on individual desert (whether productive or otherwise); rather, it is based on the exact opposite of it: randomness and good fortune. It’s gambling."
Deservingness level?
So. To this guy, to the extent I can comprehend it, success is all luck and nothing else.
Oh, the zero-summnes of it all.
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/pelosi-qataris-have-told-me-hamas-humanitarian-organization
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I've posted this a couple of years but still a goodie. It's about Elizabeth Warren profiting on foreclosed homes.
She knew how to profit off the hammered middle-class, eh?
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The history of ice-cream in the USSR.
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Like what we like!
To the left, we never want to confront or admit anything.
Mostly because they're insipid.
People like tea. Big shit. I think the limey commies in Britain have bigger problems than worry about tea.
Mighty insufferable these people are.
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"A male student suspended from school through 2020 by a James Madison University appeals panel that found him guilty of having sex with a female student allegedly too drunk to give consent has filed a lawsuit against the university, claiming his due process rights were violated and that he is innocent.
The lawsuit, filed May 11, states the freshman male student had consensual sex with a freshman female student twice over the course of the fall 2014 semester, a connection that included friendly texts.
But their relationship ended abruptly after the female student, called Jane Roe in court documents, came to his room and found another woman on his bed. Her allegation was lodged after that."
A woman scorned...
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Alarm clocks are bombs!
What a bunch of clowns.
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Oh look. Le Journal de Montreal goes full blown rag in the aftermath of Parizeau's death.
As for Parizeau himself, my pappi always told me if I have nothing good to say, wait a few weeks.
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