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Post by Juggs on Jan 10, 2016 11:42:16 GMT -5
Man, I rememeber six months ago when my mayor and senator was at 5% and wasn't taken seriously. It's been such a fast ascent to relevancy in national politics. I'm feeling the bern in a major way.
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Post by Juggs on Jan 10, 2016 20:52:13 GMT -5
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Post by Morkim on Jan 10, 2016 23:48:08 GMT -5
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Post by Juggs on Jan 11, 2016 0:00:43 GMT -5
Yes it is. Bernie is pro ME, but not the ending of ME3. Trump hates it and prefers Final Fantasy because there's too much diversity in ME. Hillary used to play Mass Effect, then switched to Borderlands, then Far Cry, and is now very excited for Andromeda, but only if focus groups say so. |
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Post by Juggs on Jan 11, 2016 0:14:04 GMT -5
MarchingOnSins season 2 anime isn't coming out until 2017 because the manga is so slow. So I just bought a crunchyroll account. I have to know! I've never even read a comic book before. This is daunting. I'm confused, but it's cool.
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Post by Juggs on Jan 13, 2016 0:31:00 GMT -5
Jancey, Bernie Sanders was the only non-republican senator to vote for your boy's bill today to audit the fed. Unfortunately it died in the Senate because it failed to override a democratic filibuster. I had mixed feelings about the bill, which is to say that I thought it was dumb until Bernie voted for it, and now I want to learn more about it since he's probably representing my interest in a way I didn't know. I generally think that even slight global consequences to the audit would be worse than the general public "learning" anything about reserve policy. They haven't even grasped openly available info, so why try to dig up more? I was reading the FB hashtag on the subject - conservatives of every stripe are "outraged" because they feel they deserve to know how the federal reserve spends its money. But these same people obviously have no idea what the federal reserve actually is or what it does. 99% of Americans think the fed prints money, and the people who aren't totally ignorant thinks it drives inflation, which it technically doesn't. All the fed can do is raise or lower interest and modify the minimum asset rates for banks. Those things can also raise or lower inflation, but it's ultimately up to the banks to lend and cause inflation, not the fed. As I said, if 99% of Americans, probably more than that even, have no concept of how the fed works, then why is an audit worth even a small risk in our credit ranking or our net export rate like the government claims it would? It's not like anyone has taken what information is available already and is clamoring for more. I know that Bernie understands the Fed, and I know that at least the vast majority of congress does. So maybe they think that the Fed is actually hiding something and want that information unearthed so that they could use it, even if it would be useless to the general public. I don't understand Bernie's private reason for supporting the bill, but I'm confident he has a valid one, so I'll support the policy cautiously for now... even though it's dead at the moment. When Bernie's president, he can appoint a chair who would support an audit anyway.
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Post by Juggs on Jan 21, 2016 22:22:33 GMT -5
www.vice.com/read/what-alabamas-failed-anti-immigration-law-can-teach-us-about-donald-trump?utm_source=vicefbusI posted a long time ago about how Texas lost money in 2014 because more Mexicans left the state for Mexico than came across the boarder, legally or illegally. It's now the case nationwide, we have negative net immigration from Mexico. Alabama kicked in the harshest immigration laws outside of Arizona just a few years ago in a bigoted fervor, and it lost them $10.8B in net tax revenue - and that figure is adjusted for basic services. This is because immigrants actually pay taxes more regularly and at higher rates than American citizens since they don't qualify for as many exemptions and are less likely to use an accountant. Like it or not, we are an immigrant nation, and our tax base is built on immigration, especially in the south. Anti-immigration politicians are delusional, out of touch, and would cripple the US economy and inflate the deficit if they actually executed their ridiculous policy objectives.
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Post by Juggs on Jan 24, 2016 17:07:45 GMT -5
For anyone still on the fence about where your vote is going, just watch this and feel the chills in your spine.
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Post by MarchingOn on Jan 26, 2016 18:01:39 GMT -5
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Post by MarchingOn on Jan 31, 2016 0:54:24 GMT -5
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