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  Housing prices and inequality
Posted by: Eric the Green - 08-10-2016, 04:12 AM - Forum: Economics - Replies (2)

Rags posted this on the wrong thread, but it deserves its own. I saw a study not long ago that it's cities like mine, San Jose, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Boston, that are causing inequality in our country. That's because as people are priced out of these places, they move elsewhere and start pushing prices up there too.





It's like we are becoming a medieval society, based on land ownership, except a lot of the owners are absentee. Meanwhile life as we knew it and communities are being destroyed. When life is reduced to work, it becomes death. The opposite ought to happen. That smug real estate guy tells people to be smart and get more education; meanwhile prices keep going up so fast that soon even smart, educated people won't be able to afford anything except their rent or mortgage.

The ideology voiced by Classic Xer is the problem here. Even in SF, according to this film, they can't pass rent or housing price controls, even though the hall is filled to overflowing with folks who want them. Bernie is right; we need a revolution for government action to restore our country. This situation gives new meaning to the socialist-anarchist slogan "property is theft." It is becoming more and more true. We might soon hear, "Storm the Bastille, and set up the guillotine for these aristocrats!" And if we can't start that Revolution here in these ultra-blue cities, where can we?

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  Low activity
Posted by: X_4AD_84 - 08-09-2016, 06:12 PM - Forum: About the Forums and Website - Replies (38)

Maybe it's summer vacations and other distractions like the Olympics.

In any case, the level of activity on these forums is really low.

I suppose the harsh reality is, it's difficult for these sorts of "old fashioned" internet forums to compete with social networking apps.

I hope this does not fizzle out.

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  The Science of Economic Crashes
Posted by: naf140230 - 08-09-2016, 05:33 PM - Forum: Economics - Replies (14)

I recently read a section of Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku. It provides a scientific explanation for economic crashes. Bubbles and crashes might not be very unexpected after all. Science is not uniform either. It comes in waves that go like this. A seminal breakthrough occurs which leads to a cascade of secondary innovations. This, in turn, leads to vast amounts of wealth which is reflected in the economy. As a result, a bubble forms leading to a crash. The seminal invention's heyday ironically happens after the crash.

The earliest example in the book is the Crash of 1850. The first scientific wave started when James Watt invented the modern steam engine. This triggered the Industrial Revolution. This eventually led to the creation of the locomotive. A lot of excess wealth was created as a result. It had to go somewhere. It went into locomotive stocks in the London Stock Exchange. A bubble formed as a result. Because the locomotive was still in its infancy, the bubble burst which led to a stock market crash in 1850, followed by a series of minicrashes. The railroad industry ended up maturing in the 1880s and 1890s, when the railroad was in its heyday.

The next crash mentioned is the one the triggered the Great Depression in 1929. A second scientific wave began in 1879 when Thomas Edison in the lightbulb. Another seminal invention was the car. It wasn't until 1913 that Henry Ford invented the assembly line and brought forth the Model T. The electric and automotive revolutions of Edison and Ford proliferated throughout the world, creating excess wealth. Like before, this wealth had to go somewhere. It went into utility and automotive stocks on the US Stock Exchange. An unsustainable bubble formed which burst in 1929. This led to the Great Depression. After the economy recovered, the paving and electrification of America and Europe took place in the 1950s and 1960s.

The last crash mentioned in the book is the Crash of 2008. The current scientific wave began as a result of the Space Race. It is the high tech revolution that gave us the computer and the Internet. The wealth created as a result of the digital revolution went into real estate creating the housing bubble which burst in 2008. The wiring and networking of the world has not happened yet. The heyday of the information revolution has yet to come.

In addition, Michio Kaku predicts the possibility of a fourth scientific wave. He suspects it will involve artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, telecommunications, and biotechnology. This will create excess wealth which leads to a bubble that is likely to burst in 2087 before the heyday of the revolution comes.

This should be interesting to talk about. What do you think?

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  Test: Attitudes About An Incident
Posted by: X_4AD_84 - 08-09-2016, 01:01 PM - Forum: General Political Discussion - Replies (12)

This is a test of your attitudes about the following incident. A (self proclaimed?) neighborhood watch person claimed in a 911 call that "hoodlums" were racing up and down the street brandishing weapons. He told the operator he was going out to "secure the neighborhood." He shot a young black man in a vehicle. The youths' side of the story is a bit different. They claim they were leaving a party. Being in possession of weed they ran, after thinking they saw a police vehicle approaching. They say they had just gotten in a car and started to drive when shots rang out and one of the youths in the car was shot dead. My own take is there are probably elements of truth on both sides. Prior to the incident I am guessing there was a side show going on, or at very least, laying a couple of scratches and maybe the odd doughnut laid down. So some noise from one or more vehicles. Brandishing weapons? Maybe, maybe not. In any case, it still seems the "neighborhood watch" guy used excessive force. Now he's charged with murder. What is your take?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...65d5778248

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Tongue Millenials and PC/Microaggressions
Posted by: Ragnarök_62 - 08-08-2016, 06:17 PM - Forum: The Millennial Generation - Replies (1)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-08...als?page=1


Uh, really?  BFD about Native Americans , forts, and beaver skins. I have far more important stuff to do than get worked up over some silly pictures. Cool

PS

Some of the comments are hilarious to Rags. Big Grin

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  Retro Commercials
Posted by: Dan '82 - 08-05-2016, 07:41 PM - Forum: Entertainment and Media - No Replies

Since it's Olympic time and 80's McDonalds commercials are the best:


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  Why do American "anti elite" types think the Kremlin is OK?
Posted by: X_4AD_84 - 08-05-2016, 04:41 PM - Forum: General Political Discussion - Replies (55)

I just have to ask.

Y'all give Kremlin tools like Assange and Snowden a pass.

In your book:

"big bad Western elites" = the devil.

Seriously?

I will concede that Western Corporatism is not ideal.

But look at the current alternatives.

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  Why Angry White Men Love Calling People “Cucks”
Posted by: Odin - 08-05-2016, 02:25 PM - Forum: General Political Discussion - Replies (4)

The problematic history of the alt-right’s favorite new insult.

Quote:If you’ve been on Twitter in the last few months, chances are you’ve come across “cuck,” a word that you’d previously only seen while your browser was in Incognito Mode.

Its literal meaning references a submissive man sexually cuckolded by a woman. Now, it is a catch-all among the alt-right, in the dark corners of the internet where #feminismisacancer hashtags are a badge of pride and the real enemy is PC culture, where “cuck” has become shorthand for any perceived weakness, or rather, perceived reluctance to exploit strength.

Although “cuckold” has been used since the thirteenth century (the word itself derived from cuckoo birds, which lay eggs in another’s nest), “cuck” was added to Urban Dictionary in 2007. Any more exact tracing of its origins is lost in the dense knot of the internet and the speed with which its population seized upon an insult to emasculate others.

The word gained political potency during the 2016 election in the portmanteau “cuckservative” (cuck + conservative) used to imply that the mainstream conservatives of the Jeb Bush variety are weak and effeminate. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is not a cuckservative. He says what he wants and doesn’t care if it’s offensive. In reference to Trump’s comments about Megyn Kelly having “blood coming out of her wherever,” radio host Rush Limbaugh snarked, “If Trump were your average, ordinary, cuckolded Republican, he would have apologized by now.”

But Donald Trump doesn’t apologize. He went on to win the Republican presidential nomination as Jeb Bush, the one-time favorite, was irrevocably set back by a simple insult from Trump delivered with an invisible wink: “low-energy.”

Since The Donald bested the field of cuckservatives with his manly virility and full head of hair, those who couldn’t see a good insult go to waste have continued to use it in its shortened form—cuck—which applies first to anyone supporting Hillary, but also anyone who would challenge Donald Trump on his spelling, his logic, or his facts.

So now that a word previously only used for pornography or in 4chan has achieved mainstream political significance, it’s time to ask the question: Why has the word “cuck” resonated with so many angry white men?

An insult is, by nature, telling of its source: you never insult with something that you don’t think is insulting. A woman would never sneer that another woman is fat if she herself would be comfortable with her body at any size, if “fatness” weren’t something she feared. A man mocking the size of another man’s genitals broadcasts his own belief that the length of one’s penis is something to be either proud or embarrassed about.

The cultural importance of the cuckold in America is rooted in racism: in pornography, the wife of the cuckolded (almost exclusively white) husband is most commonly sleeping with African-American men, meant to provide an additional layer of humiliation if the white husband sees that man as “inferior.” In the world of pornography meant to elicit humiliation as an erotic sentiment, cuckold porn takes advantage of its viewers’ racist perceptions.

After the Civil War, the white supremacist movement radicalized its supporters with the fear of black men raping white women. Even Shakespeare evoked the sexual element of racial angst: in Othello, Iago attempts to pit Desdemona’s father against his Moorish son-in-law by evoking very specific imagery: “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe.”

In 2016, the word “cuck” resonates with white nationalists who feel as though their country has been taken away from them, and not enough had been done by the cuckservative establishment conservative party to protect it. “Cuck” is a concept borne out of insecurity: a fear that one is inadequate, sexually or otherwise, and that inadequacy will lead to the loss of the things that are important to him.

And it’s becoming increasingly obvious: these men have lost. They have watched the first black president elected into office twice become a positive symbol for the progress and promise of our nation, both domestically and overseas; they have watched women join the workplace and become empowered enough to speak out at the injustices they face. They have watched as a “politically correct culture run amok” has made it socially unacceptable to be racist in public.

But here is Donald Trump who says what he thinks no matter how many people call it sexist or racist, who promises to build a giant wall to keep non-white people out of the country, who makes being in charge seem easy. Trump doesn’t require a nuanced understanding of politics or statistics or complex trade agreements. He will say whatever he’s thinking. And in this election, he’s also appealing to a base instinct, something hardwired after generations of pernicious cultural feedback: a confident man knows better than a woman.

Because after all, what is being cuckolded but humiliation at the hands of a woman? The cuckolded man is at the mercy of a woman to choose to be with him or to be with someone else; she chooses the other as a punishment for his sexual inadequacy. If one’s insults represent their own fears, those who call others a cuck do so in the desperate hope that shreds of their own masculine and racial prominence can be protected.

When their party’s political candidate can retweet images from neo-Nazi websites and call the Jewish head of the DNC “highly neurotic” without reproach, when he can quite literally launch his political career by accusing our nation’s first black president of being born in Africa, when he can rank women on a scale of 10, call them fat pigs, say you need to “treat them like shit,” and still not take a hit in the polls, the angry white men who use the word “cuck” can exhale, safe in the understanding that, even if only for a few more years, their views are still shared by millions of other Americans. They will go on calling others “cucks,” pretending they’re not afraid of their own impotence.

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  Paul Ryan’s Challenger Paul Nehlen: Deport All Muslims
Posted by: Dan '82 - 08-04-2016, 04:04 PM - Forum: General Political Discussion - Replies (8)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...itter_page


Quote:The Republican businessman hoping to take down House Speaker Paul Ryan thinks the United States should consider deporting all Muslims.

Speaking this week with AM 560’s Morning Answer, congressional hopeful Paul Nehlen excoriated Ryan for failing to sufficiently support Donald Trump in his ongoing feud with Khizr and Ghazala Kahn, the Muslim-American parents of a U.S. Army Captain killed in Iraq in 2004, who lambasted the GOP candidate during a speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention.

Trump is correct to take umbrage with the Khans, Nehlen said, because the larger question is about Muslim-Americans’ loyalty in general...



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...itter_page

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  Drug legalization
Posted by: radind - 08-04-2016, 08:41 AM - Forum: Society and Culture - Replies (6)

I am in favor of the legalization of marijuana. In my opinion, we would be better off to make all drugs legal and treat them in the same we we do alcohol use.
Put the drug cartels out of business, tax the drugs and use funds  on education to discourage use and to treat the drug addicts.

Quote:https://barna.org/research/culture-media...6M6jJMrLEZ
… “In one of Barna’s previous studies in 2014, it was found that 58 percent of adults believed marijuana should be made legal in the U.S.”…

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