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  1. Retirement is great and all that, but the insomnia is a regular deal.  The videos on this page were a great way to spend the early morning.

    As a guy I'm not supposed to give a shit about the Buckingham and Nicks drama.  I always thought it produced great stuff from LB, but had long since stopped listening to the band's recordings.  The video of The Dance offers an alternate perspective.  Funny how art, even pop, can make one reflect on ones own life.

     

  2. 4 hours ago, SpiralOut said:

    The fuck?   

    I'm a Libertarian.  All I have is skepticism for everything involved with the government.  Troops, corrupt unaccountable intelligence agencies, and everything involved with our interventionism and bolstering of the military-industrial complex included. 

    And dress-up, pretend at being soldiers cops can go fuck themselves. 

    And my contempt isn't reserved for Democratic politicians alone.  I give it freely to each and every politician with a D or an R in front of their name.  Fuck 'em.  Our government needs a power-washing from top to bottom.  So don't try selling me on this "Obama was so great and an awesome role model!" horseshit.  Dude was just George Bush with better public speaking skills.

     

    I certainly appreciate your civic mindedness.  You hate 96% of your fellow citizens, but your motives are purer.

  3. Isn't undocumentd entry a civil violation, thus not criminal?  Doesn't US law and treaties require US to consider asylum applications whether seekers enter at a designated point or elsewhere?

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  4. 11 hours ago, Fozzz said:

    I never said that those questions were mundane, just that they are normative whereas capitalism is not.  I also didn't say capitalism was immutable.  As someone once said, "there is a continual movement of growth in productive forces, of destruction in social relations, of formation in ideas; the only immutable thing is the abstraction of movement."  

    Well, Fozz, our conversation is now thread shitting, which I regret, and I regret as well my grow up comment.

    Your clarification by reclassifying my original statements as normative as opposed to ideological is accepted.  Your classification of capitalism as non normative is true only in the sense that it is a lable for a large set of practices and institutions.  If it is descriptive, it is not so in a positive or positivistic manner.  Yet you showed your true meaning when you spoke of infringement of the freedoms of those wanting to deploy their money.   Those are loaded framing words, reflecting your normative view of the way things should be.  You are not above it all.

    I'll repeat, the idea that macro economics is some real thing out there and up there above mere human wants and desires is nonsense.  Worse, it is a pernicious weapon used to great political effect.  If this is what is taught at McCombs now, well, shit.

     

     

  5. 1 hour ago, Fozzz said:

    This and Hugo's critiques are ideological in nature.  They are critiques regarding how you believe society should look and function.  Capitalism is an economic system, not an ideology.  My main point is that arguing that constraints should be placed on capitalism to serve ideological ends is actually capitalist makes no fucking sense.  It's a product of internalized propaganda (capitalism = good, so anything not good must /= capitalism).  

    And you are framing the issue in your preferred way, in that such mundane questions as what should we do, what may we hope for are cast as "ideological" rather than simply very important to humans.  And you seem to view macro economics as a sort of physics that exists platonically independent of humans.  

     

    Grow up.  Econcomics is a social science.  Macro economics is a collection of models meant to shed light within human decision making processes.

  6. 23 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    The state isn't obligated to do anything.  You are simply begging the question here - capitalism does not define some desired distribution of market power.  It does not define some desired share of income to capital and income to labor.  The government could seize the assets of a monopoly of a given industry and sell them off in pieces to equalize market power in that industry, but no one in their right mind would consider such a policy as capitalist.  

    The essence of capitalism is simply the money-commodity-money circuit.  Any infringement upon someone's freedom to dispose of their money/commodities as they see fit is necessarily in conflict with the functioning of said circuit.  Labor, in its commodified form under capitalism, must also be able to move freely throughout the market.  

    The state is obligated to do what society wants.  Regarding macro economics, society asks "what's the economy for?"  For the 1%, for the majority?  There is no economy without the instituions that the state provides.

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  7. 12 hours ago, Lagunamadre said:

    Sadly, below is not a mock twitter account. Just the president admitting to the world that when he says "fake news", he just means negative news, and as a cherry on top threatening to shut down journalists that report negatively about him. Kim Jong Trump. 

    Screen_Shot_2018_05_09_at_10.03.40_AM.pn 

    Well, given that 99% of what Trump does is ridiculous, it seems the coverage is quite biased in his favor.

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  8. 6 hours ago, Satchel said:

    Fat Nixon is forcing Cruz and all of the other Trumpkin sycophants to publicly declare the racism. The GOP hasnt found bottom yet.

    Trump is a moronic, sociopathic criminal.  Nixon was not a moron.  Your comparison is way off.

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  9. It was gratifying to see the overall effort, and level of play.  No poo pooing that at all.  I, for one, don't think USC sucks.  We'll see against Wazzu this weekend.  I think they get their crap together and win out except UW.  Whatever.

     

    But, no one else will be giving and giving and giving like USC did for us with the penalties and stupidity, short kicks, etc.  A clean game, and its closer.  More close games against mediocre teams are likely in our future.  But I'm giving the cynical hate a rest this week, and hope for a similar effort against TCU.

  10. 29 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    It's always amazed me when we see guys like Duvernay, Daje Johnson, or DJ Monroe go almost completely unused because they fail to fit the nuanced expectations of what their position coaches or OCs have in line for their position, versus coaches finding a way to leverage their unique and competitively advantaged strengths.

    Ricky Williams fumbled a lot and couldn't pick up the blitz as an underclassman. Somehow, Mackovic, for all of his flaws, ended up getting him on the field anyways. As a fullback as a freshman, sure, but in that offense he got the ball. He would have ridden the fucking pine last year in Beck's offense. He'd have sat the fucking bench behind Kyle fucking Porter.

    We haven't had straight line speed of Duvernay's caliber in years. We literally watched him be properly utilized in 2016 to the tune of big gains with promise for the future. And yet here we are, listening to some of you dildos talk about last season's performance as though he had much control. Any offensive mind worth a shit would be jacking off to the concept of being able to use Duvernay's speed in their gameplan. Defending anything otherwise is shocking folly to witness. 

    Man, this discussion of the lack of coaching wizardry last year is bringing me hard back to earth.  Probably a good thing.  

  11. Clearly her list implies a lot of aspiration and confidence.  Well done, so far, Mr and Mrs Brisket.  

    I would reverse the cold weather, dark as problems perspective.  Why not learn how to cope with that reality?  Just one more adversity to master.

    I have met some really great engineers from all the schools except Amherst.   Yet I'm surprised at their low ranking, but these things say nothing about individual programs.

    Let here visit and choose.  Relax, and pay.

     

    I don't understand the bolding shit.

     

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