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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
@Hilarity: American liberals are more like sane/good people trying work in the Empire, thinking they can change the system internally. Palpatines death would be equal to a complete super-majority of them in both Houses and the Supreme Court, along with one becoming the President.
@Euo: Actually, Ork society is fairly leftist in economic terms, since their teeth acts as currency, and if some Ork somehow managed to have too much teeth the others would beet him up and take his teeth for themselves. It's fairly egalitarian, in a way.
You know, politics would be awesome if every politician was an Ork. It'd be... beautiful.
edited 19th Nov '12 4:52:04 PM by Ekuran
I love Paul Krugman.
When he disses your economics, he doesn't pull any punches. The only way this could be more damning is if he called for Paul Ryan to preface all his policy statements with, "I'm not a smart person, but I play one in Congress."
I would love Paul Krugman if his economic views were actually presented anywhere.
Seriously, the dude has to put a giant goddamn spotlight on the fact that debt is bullshit to all of the US. Far too many people people think the public debt actually matters, and besides this site, I almost never hear of this in any other form of news/media.
Settling politics by sports games isn't right. Instead, you should base all your decisions on sports. Or I don't know if you should, but some countries actually do.
For instance, Spain won Germany in the Final of the European Championship in 2008. (I'm talking about football, obviously.) Since then, Germany has treated Spain like shit.
Spain won Germany again in the World Cup in 2010, and consequently, Germany started treating Spain even worse.
In the Euros this year, Spain never played against Germany; but that's because Germany was defeated by Italy. Guess who's going to get pillaged now... Especially as Italy also beat England.
You might think that Germany is going to forgive Spain for their games in 2008 and 2010. Unfortunately, though, on the way to winning the Championship (again,) Spain beat France this year. So they're in for at least two more years of forced austerity.
Germany won Greece, so Greece should have it easy for the next two years.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.Also, god. Ryan. Ugh. What will it take for him to be discredited as a CENTRIST SRS POLICY WONK GOD.
I'd really like to hear an explanation for why rampant government spending is a good thing other than "Paul Krugman said so." I'm not trying to be snarky, I'd actually like to hear the thinking behind his lack of concern with public debt.
Good one.
edited 19th Nov '12 5:11:44 PM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honorThere are a few other reasons why a certain amount of debt is good-for instance, if the US government owes bondholders money, the bondholders suddenly have an interest in seeing the US government not go broke-but the bottom line has little to do with debt and deficits, and more to do with whether the government is adequately picking up the slack that the private market isn't.
Influential GOP group releases, pulls shockingly sensible copyright memo
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The memo points out that copyright law, which (according to the Constitution) is supposed to encourage the advancement of art and science, is instead being used to force the government to enforce policies that enrich copyright holders. It then goes on the suggest broad copyright reform (including reducing copyright terms, lowering the maximum allowed statuary damages for infringement, expanding fair use, and implementing penalties for false copyright claims).
It was rescinded in less than a day, a spokesman for the group citing "several different perspectives among our members", but another source claims that pressure from content industry lobbyists contributed to the repudiation.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.-sort of off-topic- I was trying to remember a certain incident from...I think the '10 budget? The house republicans tabled a hilariously terrible bill and the democrats abstained from voting on it thereby forcing them to agree with a plan that would essentially destroy the economy. They then voted against their own bill. Am I remembering a real incident or am I going nuts?
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Also also, when people don't pay their taxes (like the rich assholes in the US), you'll end up like Greece, which had an entire cultural meme of avoiding taxes while spending far too much in comparison to their revenue, ultimately leading to hyper-inflation and the terrible state their in right now that could have been avoided if the EU had an actual central government like the US that could control it's own currency, which could then bailout Greece, but no, the EU had to half-ass the Euro and ended up with the bullshit they have now.
In short, you need high taxes and a healthy amount of spending in welfare, education, R&D, etc., if you want to have a successful economy.
Seriously EU, why do you fail so hard in this specific circumstance when you have the best economy/some of the best economic models in the world? It's sad man, and now you've given our right-wing nutjobs bullshit to spew whenever our left-wing politicians try to save our economy.
Not cool, man, not cool.
@Tomu: I'm betting you still wouldn't vote GOP, considering their backwards-ass social views.
edited 19th Nov '12 5:38:46 PM by Ekuran

Master Yoda: (holding up a dollar bill) Life is not this crude paper!
Also
Luke Skywalker - I'm looking for a great banker.
Yoda: Ah, but banks make not one great.
It was an honor