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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Trump is an egotistical opportunist playing the role of the populist demagogue.
There isn't a sincere bone in this man's body.
Charles Koch calls Trump's Muslim registry plan 'reminiscent of Nazi Germany'.
edited 24th Apr '16 10:27:57 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.A lying feminist neoliberal lawyer politician and Goldman Sachs after-dinner speaker was teaching a class on Paul Krugman, known $hill. "Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Krugman and accept that he is the most highly-evolved liberal economist and political commentator the world has ever known, even greater than Cenk Uygur!"
At this moment, a brave, white, atheist, millenial freshman high school student who had donated over $1500 of his parent's money and who phonebanked daily from his high school's computer lab and who fully supported taxing other people's retirement savings to fund his education stood up and held up a photograph.
"Who is this marching with MLK?"
The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied "It's my husband Bill, you stupid millennial".
"Wrong. It’s actually Bernie Sanders. If your husband Bill marched with MLK as you say… then how come you once supported Barry Goldwater?"
The politician was visibly shaken, and dropped her chalk and copy of Hard Choices. She stormed out of the room crying those neoliberal crocodile tears. The same tears Democrat cry for the "blacks" (who today are so stupid they vote against their interests) when they jealously try to spend more money on gun control rather than free education for middle-class people. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, Hillary Clinton, wished she had listened to Reddit and become more than a sociopathic neoliberal shill. She wished so much that she could take an overdose of heroin to spare herself from embarrassment, but she herself had voted for the 1994 crime bill and the War on Drugs!
The students applauded and all registered Democratic that day and accepted Bernie Sanders as their lord and savior. A finch named "Socialist Denmark" flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed proletarian tears onto Old Glory, turning it into the Red Banner. The Communist Manifesto was read several times, and Karl Marx himself showed up and abolished social class, wage labour, the state, money, and student debt. And also legalized weed. The professor lost the Democratic primary and was fired the next day. She was arrested by the FBI and sent to one of the federal prisons she and her husband had built for all eternity.
The student's name? HA Goodman.
#FeelTheBern
edited 25th Apr '16 4:21:23 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiNobel-prize winning economists are smug.
>mfw mommy's going to be president
>mfw Bernie Bros and chauvinistic countries will get mad being bossed around by a woman
>mfw Reddit won't get what it wants because of black people and women
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edited 25th Apr '16 5:16:49 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei![]()
The more I hear of Sanders, the less I like him. Bad socialist, bad Democrat, bad senator...maybe even a bad person.
Sure, but rich people can and more, so why not force the rich kids to subsidize the poor ones.
Tallies with evidence from other jurisdictions with free college, like Scotland.
edited 25th Apr '16 5:20:50 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiOK. So, Krugman is saying that Trump's economic plans are inferior to Clinton's (something we all know for sure) and the Brookings thing says wealthy people are more like to attend college (wonder if free college would change this pattern by making it more affordable), there is a footnote about state participation that is worth noting though.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman![]()
If rich students access it, then they are essentially getting those taxes refunded, though. If poor students access it, then they are getting the subsidy directly.
Look at the actual math - free tuition is a subsidy for the middle-classes.
Krugman's hostility to Sanders and support for Clinton is well-known. See:
- 'The Pastrami Principle'
- 'Why I haven't felt the Bern'
For other examples.
Free tuition has not lead to a higher rate of university participation in Scotland - in fact, it lags the rest of the UK.
edited 25th Apr '16 5:35:44 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
You should probably stop talking about us, because you don't know very much.
"Scotland is poor" also doesn't explain how we get still get outperformed in this respect by Wales and NI, who are both even less well-off.
Why is gaining a marketable qualification and thus a comparative advantage over other people when it comes to hiring, wages, and prospects something that should be free? Especially if you have the means to pay for it?
edited 25th Apr '16 6:05:16 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiGet a job that pays over £21000 and you can do it yourself!
"Pay higher taxes if you're all for them".
"Go and live in Pakistan if you don't like this country".
"Why don't you subsidize a poor family for a year if you love benefits so much".
"Why don't you let a refugee stay with you since you like them so much".
etc etc
edited 25th Apr '16 6:10:25 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiI see a bitch fight between the Anglophile and the False Scotsman.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."Actually, free college is likely to most benefit the upper middle class. The upper middle class will continue to have far higher "participation" rates than poorer classes while not being the ones to pay for it - and they can handle the nontuition expenses like food and lodging much better than the poor.
In my opinion, this is okay. The poor will still benefit (they'll just get loans to live on instead of what we now call "student loans," or they'll bust their asses to work nights and go to college part time - neither is ideal, but we work with what we got until we get minimum basic income). We still get more people going to college than otherwise, and the playing field still ends up more level.
Looks like someone has been talking to the Le Redditors.
The fact that I understood so much of this (even who HA Goodman is) saddens me. I have no life.
edited 25th Apr '16 7:50:12 AM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
Reddit or pretty much anywhere else on the Internet that's left dominated (i.e. most of the Internet) isn't heavily moderated.
Thr best thing about the Internet is that people speak their minds without regards for social consequences. The worst part of he Internet is that people speak their minds without regards for social consequences.
edited 25th Apr '16 7:52:45 AM by CaptainCapsase

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It's either that or people think they can somehow use the fascists for their own goals - which always worked well in history.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history