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  • Without blowing another big hole in our budget, people might get the idea that we should start taxing the Epstein class to fund things like childcare, healthcare, education, scientific research, feeding, clothing and housing all our people, and updating/fixing our infrastructure here at home.

    There is always going to be money to pay for bullshit like this in “defense” of 'merica, but anything done for actual people IN America will have to be means tested and always up for getting cut by the likes of idiots that thought “doge” was a good idea.


  • Not to mention giving the crazy xtian fucks their pipe dreams of having Jayzus come back on a cloud and rapture all these morons up while they get to watch other tortured horribly.

    I mean, what a perfectly normal ethical system. It doesn’t sound at all like a dream of a total psychopath, getting front row seats to others being tortured and reveling in the notion that they’d be tortured forever. By a loving god, because they didn’t accept the highly-dubious truth claims and demented ethical system offered up in “the” bible…







  • while all they do is blame others like boomers, who btw, protested the fuck out of everything and earned many rights you’re supposed to have today.

    That is something I’ve noticed gets completely lost in the “Boomers vs. Gen Y” narrative that is so very tiresome and myopic.

    They keep acting like boomers were somehow the most regressive generation to ever come along and I am not sure I really see the evidence for it. What is true is that marketing ended up catering very much to boomers, given their size, but the very same thing happened with Gen Y (Gen X was skipped largely because we are a smaller group), not because of any inherent quality in either, but instead, because of their numbers.

    I think this has led to some of their members in both groups being a bit more narcissistic (when it comes to demands that often involve sentences that contain the phrase “my generation”) than generations that were not overly catered to.

    But I see lots of footage and evidence that boomers really stuck their neck out to fight for things. Gen Y is now well into middle age and I don’t see much evidence that they did so, as a group. Not that Gen X did, either, but I also don’t see much intergenerational warfare coming from Gen X aimed at boomers, either.





  • I’d like to see the Democrats take up a modern version of the WPA, if I’m honest. The conservatives get all butt mad about such things, but hell, some of their output is something you still see around, nearly 90 years later. My understanding is that for men that were out of work, it gave them a real sense of pride and purpose, too.

    We have a crumbling infrastructure and we have people being thrown into desperation. Seems like the problem almost solves itself. That is if ridiculous conservative dogma about how economies work can be cast aside. If we can spend ~19 billion and counting on something like bombing Iran, we can do something like this.

    It doesn’t have to just be only the usual infrastructure we think of like bridges and roads. Why not hire a bunch of people to (responsibly) migrate our older systems running things like COBOL that always seem to have so many people wringing their hands over? And do it not as an outsourced project, but instead, under something like WPA?

    Why not have people hired to re-imagine and re-implement our mass transit? Everyone from people working on the design for such changes all the way down to the people that need to hold signs to direct traffic when the construction is under way…

    I’m not sure I’ve heard a politician even talk about something like WPA being done, at scale.