Dr. Strangelove

12 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Oh really. 
 

 

Spending the 1990s sexually assaulting numerous women makes one have a pro-choice stance, who knew!

39 minutes ago, knapplc said:

The candidate Republicans chose is not getting great reviews.

 

 

 

 

 

If you think that the average Republican voter cares about America being a guardian of Democracy, I have penthouse in Pyongyang to sell you. 

These voters stupid behind saving and believe our Democracy is rigged. There is truly no hope for these people.

Why would Joe Biden do this. 

15 hours ago, teachercd said:

I just opened a new account with Charles Marx!  Can't wait to start being a worker bee that owns even more companies! 

If they have a referral bonus - a bigger stake in the commune or something - let me know. 

On 4/4/2024 at 12:51 PM, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Workers control the means of production. Wealth inequality is something to be corrected. The value of a commodity is measured by the worker's skill, yada yada yada.

 

I'm sure this isn't what you or Carol had in mind, or Karl for that matter, but it's not that big of a leap from that post. 

 

Also, it's laughable to think DEI investment is taking anything away from corporate bottom lines. Carol is so keen to badmouth DEI and ESG, she unwittingly crawls in bed with Karl Marx. Best of all, she's right. Shared ownership is a smart corporate move that's been available to them forever and avoided for the selfish reasons that create class conflict.

I'm always tickled when ardent right wing supporters unknowingly embrace left wing ideas. 

This is wild to have sustained unemployment rates sub 4% for the first time in 60 years considering the job killing, America hating, economic catastrophe inducing economic policies of the President.

On 3/27/2024 at 7:16 AM, teachercd said:

I mean, I like most of your posts but you are wrong.  No one is "denying climate change" we all know the climate will change (it has to) and that the sun will one day die.  We are denying living in fear over it.  You are living in fear over it.

 

Look at it like this (and before the "That is not a good metaphor" crowd comes in, just know that I don't know what a metaphor or analogy is so it doesn't matter what you say)

 

You drive, right?  You are super likely to get into a bad or even fatal accident driving, statistically speaking.   We all know this, for the most part the only thing we do about is wear a seatbelt.  We still speed, we still cut people off, we don't always signal, we roll through stops, we do all we can to make it through that yellow light, we check out texts.  Even though WE KNOW something bad could happen.

 

We are not "Car Accident Deniers" we are normal people that don't live in constant fear.  

 

 

I mean, firstly, I don't live in constant fear. I do think that people on the left - or young people having extreme fear over climate change - is a problem because the effect on people isn't going to lead to the extinction of humanity or anything like that. It's going to cause deaths, sure, but in the form of increased natural disasters which will predominately affect poor people in 3rd world countries who nobody cares about.

Climate change is going to affect life in all kinds of ways - it already has. Increasing insurance rates - making states like Florida increasingly uninsurable - weather patterns changing causing agricultural economies to change, etc. All of these things cost money. The issue we're facing now is that these changes are happening MUCH faster than previously expected and are costing A LOT more money than previously thought. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how I view climate change - it's not the loss of life I worry about; I do not care about people that much. It's the political instability rapidly shifting economics are going to cause.

If you think our politics are toxic now, wait until homeowners insurance premiums increase massively by the end of the decade. And that will be just the start.

19 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

 

Kind of insane if you consider the unfriendly business and tax increases (not to mention America hating) policies passed in the Inflation Reduction Act.

34 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Kids need two parents heavily involved whenever possible.  A father figure and a mother figure.  Doesn’t mean it’s always gonna be in the traditional sense.  
 

 

 

While I don't think anybody disagrees with this, I do think this is an extremely simple view. I'd be curious to see any studies that control for poverty levels, working hours of the mother figure, and what school districts these kids come from.

Fortunately the rates of single parent households has fallen after peaking in 2005. Although I don't think it's because we've gotten better at helping these families, it's more in line with decreasing birthrates and decreasing marriage rates overall. I'm not sure what pro-family policies will actually work to address the above problems.

19 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Nothing says Law and Order like being charged with 88 felonies and being found liable for sexual assault.

This guy is going to win because his constituency are complete morons. 

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Pretty good considering the job killing, capital sucking, and manufacturing ending Economic Policies of the President.

12 hours ago, Scarlet said:

I don't expect the bros who struggle with concepts like rates, ratios, and proportions to understand weather vs climate but I'll post this for people who actually can understand rudimentary statistics and trends

 

https://apnews.com/article/hot-climate-change-records-oceans-0af09f155051b25d245a0fd28fe23af6

 

For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks

The ocean temperature in the North Atlantic has set a record high every day in 2024. And not by small margins.

13 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I am gonna take your advice.  Everyone should my man including you.  We’ve apparently passed the point of no return in this big scary place according you what you said earlier.   There is no point in trying to change anything.  

I never said that. What I said was that the planet warming has far surpassed worse case scenarios, predictions made by scientists years ago. No scientific projections predicted ocean temperatures where they are today - hence the meaning of passing even the worst scenarios because that's true.

15 hours ago, teachercd said:

Wow, I was kidding about being scared of everything but you seem serious.  "The world is a big scary place"

I say that because reactionary politics of people on the right are in large part because of paranoia and fear. 

Archy1221 and other right wingers deny climate change because denying reality is comforting to them. Because the truth scares them, and they'd have to reconcile support for destructive politics. 

36 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Right on Bro!  I was just going to switch parties tomorrow until I read your post that we blew past all the catastrophic predictions this year.  Damn AOC over estimated our destruction by like 6 years!!!!    WTH?   I was gonna get behind those multi trillion dollar ideas that I guess are fully funded….  
 

Too bad the enviro Bros didn’t have better ideas I guess.  We could have saved the planet….from something

Don't switch parties, stop participating in politics. Spend time with your family, pick up a new hobby, whatever it is stop spending time on politics and worse taking that time you've spent cultivating political opinions to the voting booth.

You don't understand the world around you, and that's okay. It's a big scary place, and reactionary and angry politics that you vote for isn't the answer. I get it man, but for the sake of everybody, disengage all together. 

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

You got that right brother.  The enviro bros wanting to further bankrupt the country on all their schemes when you’ve already told us we blew past the worst case scenario is peak….

Please, for the love of God, stop voting. You are entirely unequipped for it. 

If you think that legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act - which fully paid for climate investments in the bill and has actively raised more money than it has spent on climate tax credits - has or will bankrupted the country... well, honestly that actually tracks with voters like you. So completely hopeless and disconnected from reality that our only hope is to keep people like this disconnected from politics all together. 

45 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

If you have any sage advice for them to do so, I’d buy you your ticket to wherever you need to go to explain it to them.

 

From where I sit they’re on the geographically worse end of an archaic, broken system and both sides are pretty dug in where they’ve got power now and don’t want to give it up.

 

I do see calls for them to shift priorities. Give up on guns, punt on abortion, etc. Basically capitulate on GOP positions to make gains in red areas.

 

 The problem is voters too are dug in. We’re hyper polarized. Red America is pretty content to watch Fox News to confirm their priors. That isn’t gonna change regardless of what the Dems do. They’ll just invent some new reason Dems are Satan incarnate and conservative voters will agree.

You make a lot of good points, in a lot of ways Democrats are doomed because of the stupidity running rampant across rural America. 

My advice to them would be to continue to push for and campaign on what has made them successful: labor movements, taxing the wealthy to support welfare programs, and to push for popular job creating economy policies. Joe Biden has done most of this but instead of taking credit for the largest manufacturing investment boom in decades, they have to put out a press release saying they're going to fight a pride flag ban at embassies. Republicans are dragging them down into the mud needlessly. 

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

“The worst case scenarios have been blown by” 
 

Welp, at least now we can just live our lives without all the moaning from alarmist.   Apparently we already blew past the worst case scenarios so we are screwed anyways.   Or not.  

I mean honestly humanity deserves what's coming to it because people are stupid. 

1 hour ago, Danny Bateman said:

The broader country should probably also admit they just flat out hold the Democrats to a much, much higher standard, akin to what we should expect from intelligent, reasonable, functioning adults. Meanwhile Republicans get a pat on the back and a participation ribbon every time they get through a day managing to dress themselves and make coherent thoughts without crapping their pants or tripping on their own dicks.

 

Allegedly serious people will strain themselves to admit this isn’t true. We should consider why that is.

You are absolutely correct, but at the same time I want Democrats to win elections which means appealing to stupid people. 

Currently, Democrats are hurdling towards a future where they dominate politics in coastal areas and are not competitive elsewhere. States like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan are going to become what Iowa and Ohio are now once the MAGA era is over. If Democrats ever want to sniff a Senate majority post MAGA, they need to evaluate the types of politics they champion and realize that appealing to college educated elites is not a path to electoral majorities. 

7 hours ago, teachercd said:

This is ALWAYS the Envior-bros hot take.

 

But...the second we have 10 days of hot weather in July...the bros are out in full force "GLOBAL WARMING!"

 

Can't have it both ways.

Because your schtick is always sarcasm, nobody can tell if or when you're joking.

Please, for the love of God, tell me that you're not dumb enough to use the 10 day weather for your local city as proof for or against climate change.

Because I don't know if you knew this, but 2024 has thus far been so catastrophic for the climate that the even the worst case scenarios are being blown past.

8 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Geesh, even Carville is done with the woke mob.  Whatever happened to the Blue Dog Democrats?  Getting kicked to the curb by the extreme Left Wing of the Party.
 

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/james-carville-sounds-off-on-dems-in-wild-nyt-column-says-partys-culture-is-being-dominated-by-too-many-preachy-females/

He's not wrong. Democrats are fortunate that their Republican opposition is corrupt, rudderless, and devoid of principle. 

If Democrats want to be successful after Republicans emerge from being ravaged by Trump and the MAGA movement, they need to figure out a brand or politics that appeals to more than just white coastal college graduates. Toxic elements of the Democratic Party - including elements of toxic feminism, LGTBQ+, and whatever performative activism they're doing on the coasts - are being glossed over because the Republican Party has been overrun by crazies.

17 minutes ago, funhusker said:

This is something I can get behind.  Gotta give the man credit when credit is due.  Good on you Gov Desantis and Florida.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/tech/florida-social-media-law-age/index.html

While I agree with social media bans for children, tik tok has fried the brains of a generation - let's not forget that Facebook has had a similar effect on Boomers. The elderly are entirely unprepared for AI deepfakes, voice generation, or any number of the things they're going to be subjected to in the future. 

40 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

In hindsight, the east stadium expansion was more of a mistake than this one, conceptually. Came about at the worst time right before two major factors. #1 being the nationwide trend of declining attendance due to better at home viewing experiences and #2 the beginning of our decade of suck.

 

I know the price point and the timing for what Trev had proposed is simply too much after the new facilities, NIL ballooning and a future that likely includes collective bargaining, but the approach and problems this is trying to tackle are very well thought out to A. increase the fan experience across the board, B. give the AD more high level/suite offerings to make a good chunk of change off of, and C. keep the supply/demand equation of the sellout streak at a better equilibrium.

I think you bring up completely fair and correct points. Making the fan experience better is a good idea, I'm not sure it requires a half billion dollar investment - and probably much larger - though. 

Replacing the bleachers with seats, massively expanding the wifi and implementing ways to make concessions lines go faster (cashless only, self serve beverage kiosks, increase concession capacity, etc) can accomplish a lot of what they're looking for at a smaller price point. 

At a certain point, I'm not sure they can do much to compete with the home experience. Going to and from games is a massive time commitment that no amount of stadium amenities will overcome.

On 3/23/2024 at 8:35 AM, Red Five said:

I think we can we all agree that the $450M stadium modernization project that was outlined by Trev  won't be happening as planned (either in cost or timeline)?

In fairness, it wasn't exactly a secret that the cost of the project was going to be anywhere close to what was initially reported. It was always going to be significantly over budget. It was a financial black hole while nearly half the funding was going to come from private donations - the same people who funded the newly completed Football Facility and who also fund our NIL operations. 

All of this when Athletic Department revenue is about to be collectively bargained with student athletes.

This project was a fiasco from the beginning. Not to mention the real purpose is to reduce stadium capacity to ~75k barely a decade after stadium capacity was increased to 90k. 

On 3/21/2024 at 1:15 PM, BigRedBuster said:

He was learning and struggled the first year and a half.  The rest of the time, he was clearly our best offensive lineman and had very few snap issues.  People seem to remember his Freshman year more clearly than his senior year.

He was so good we used him to pull in order to help our Tackles from getting destroyed, since they had an issue of getting their QB injured.

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Bingo!  And the media/Left falls for it every time.  
 

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-host-says-trump-knows-theres-no-bad-publicity-and-drops-certain-words-to-ignite-media-firestorms/

There's no bad publicity because his voters are a hopeless horde of people who are dangerously disconnected from reality. These morons embrace Trump as their champion and believe he's just like they are... all while being used and abused.

When he's done raping pillaging the Republican Party to pay his many legal fees - something he's been prone to do if you didn't know - I hope you can be proud as a two time Trump voter and Republican politics supporter at the monster you've created.

15 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

we’ll maybe the Saudi gov may try to buy some influence for about $454m just in case Trump gets elected 

It's insane that this rapist is currently pillaging a formerly proud (and current corrupt shell) 200 year old political party because Republican voters are so wrapped up in identity politics that this man still has above a 50% chance of winning. 

15 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Back when we had American Greatness under Bill Clinton and his balanced budget with Newt.  The top 1% paid roughly 34.8% of the total income tax.   Back in that great American timeframe, it seemed 34.8% of the tot income was their fair share and allowed for a balanced budget.   

I get a lot of what you're saying, but the primary driver of budget deficits are because of changing Demographics. Balancing the budget is not possible today. 

Simply put, the Demographic pyramid of the Clinton Presidency of the 1990s is much different than the 2020s. The average baby boomer was entering their prime earning years in their 30s and 40s, while the retirement class was much smaller that their taxes needed to support. In sum, the 1990s had a much better ratio of worker/retiree that the United States will never see again. 

"Balancing the budget" today would require massive tax increases combined with massive cuts to social security and Medicare which just isn't going to happen.