Facepalm. I'm scared for our country.
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Facepalm. I'm scared for our country.
ayayrawn
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Big shocker when you elect a fucking football coach to government.
Just got these texts from my father 
AnthonyI
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Funny thing I stumbled across this morning, some of you may remember me mentioning a friend who got very defensive about me pointing out her "Copy/Paste" mentality without checking facts before hand. To the point she told me if I didn't stop we couldn't be friends anymore. Needless to say, that's when my exodus from most social media and or political engagement stopped, not because of her, but the toxicity associated with it from Trump loving lemmings.
For whatever reason, she popped up on my feed as updating her profile photo, the lurker nosy body in me decided to go to her profile and see what she was spouting about all this. Low and behold, she's deleted any and all political posts she's ever made..........there is nothing on her page but a few profile pic updates.
Could this possibly mean some people can be reached or at least can see the Bullshit at a certain point? Still all very sad this many people believe all this crap.
For whatever reason, she popped up on my feed as updating her profile photo, the lurker nosy body in me decided to go to her profile and see what she was spouting about all this. Low and behold, she's deleted any and all political posts she's ever made..........there is nothing on her page but a few profile pic updates.
Could this possibly mean some people can be reached or at least can see the Bullshit at a certain point? Still all very sad this many people believe all this crap.
Mather
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TAKE MY MONEY!
AnthonyI
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Very possible, I'll dare to dream, lol
Thousands of cars form lines to collect food in Texas | CNN
Thousands of people lined up for groceries at a food bank distribution event in Dallas, Texas, this weekend, with organizers saying the Covid-19 pandemic has increased need in the city.
www.cnn.com
This just saddens me how many people are in need. The economy is most definitely not as strong as they say it is.
AnthonyI
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.........there's no suffering, where, where is the suffering?Thousands of cars form lines to collect food in Texas | CNN
Thousands of people lined up for groceries at a food bank distribution event in Dallas, Texas, this weekend, with organizers saying the Covid-19 pandemic has increased need in the city.
This just saddens me how many people are in need. The economy is most definitely not as strong as they say it is.
mdmost
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I believe this is the 4th time Fair Park here in Dallas has been used by the North Texas Food Bank for the food giveaways. I'm just thankful the North Texas Food Bank is able to try to help meet the needs of the people who desperately need their services.Thousands of cars form lines to collect food in Texas | CNN
Thousands of people lined up for groceries at a food bank distribution event in Dallas, Texas, this weekend, with organizers saying the Covid-19 pandemic has increased need in the city.
This just saddens me how many people are in need. The economy is most definitely not as strong as they say it is.
When I go to the State Fair for the Texas OU football game at the Cotton Bowl, I walk from the very back parking lot that is well below this picture all the way up to the stadium on the top left. That line is about 2 miles long. I'd imagine it snakes around to the main parking lot which borders a large music venue and then proceeds all the way to the inner portion where the State Fair is normally located. For some perspective on how big that area is, they once held a F1 Grand Prix event inside the Fair and along this stretch.
Thousands of cars form lines to collect food in Texas | CNN
Thousands of people lined up for groceries at a food bank distribution event in Dallas, Texas, this weekend, with organizers saying the Covid-19 pandemic has increased need in the city.
This just saddens me how many people are in need. The economy is most definitely not as strong as they say it is.
I'm just going to leave these two things right here.
These are the same people that were fighting over how much stimulus they wanted to give us--which we all now realize is none. I guess they had to make sure they had enough money for their fancy dinner fund.
Skacel
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Is this the prequel to The Hunger Games?
Nah, just the start of a second Guilded Age.
Dtknuckles
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Sometimes I wonder if these are the natural ebbs and flows of humanity. Didn’t the last major progressive period come after the 1st Guilded Age ruined everything?
Essentially yes.
Wage disparities can only grow to a certain extent until the economy fails and we have a long lasting depression. Progressive policies are the only things that can bring real change. This is where the people get more power.
But as things get better power and influence always swings back to the rich. And the progressive policies are eroded over time until the cycle repeats.
The Republicans have spent the last 50 years trying to undo the New Deal. Deregulation and all and let the free market run it self.
dbarila
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Did he literally delete that tweet and post it again without all caps? Maybe he didn't want to seem to deranged.
Also, lol at that passive agresdive Twitter tag.
bfly
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worse, I think he was just reiterating over his morning Big Mac.
and now "NO YOU DIDNT" has been tweeted more than 40k times today.
Sort of.
So there was this great mathematics paper that I can't seem to locate right now about how after doing several iterations of asset exchange, eventually money aggregates together and it becomes easier and easier, once one person has wealth, to gain more through unequal asset exchange (usually due to the person with more being able to charge interest). There is evidence throughout history of wealth inequality and it is either dealt with by forgiving loans or with radical political and economic change that isn't always pretty--think the fall of Rome and the French Revolution.
I'm not the best on American history, as I've only started reading about this era (c. 1865-1890), and what I have read points to the Guilded age ended when people started demanding anti-trust laws and embraced unions even moreso than in the past. This was only possible because of the emergence of the middle class which started as new opportunities abounded because of westward expansion and new technologies that allowed enough wealth to spread around to the "unwashed masses". While I see a lot of great new technology with computers as well as the new CRSP technology which will revolutionize medicine, I don't see the same amount of wealth distribution that was seen after the Civil War in the US. Furthermore, with a Biden win, we are guaranteed that he will continue the same sort of anti-trust law enforcement as Obama (which was basically nothing. Trump didn't help things, but Obama has a terrible anti-trust record). What was done when transitioning from the Guilded Age to the Progressive Era was a peaceful transition of wealth redistribution by a robust middle class using unions to ensure fair wages and politicans eager to create and enforce anti-trust laws. Now, thanks to the Citizen's United ruling, anyone can fund a political candidate and they don't have to report it. Analysis suggests that our politicians are all (and I mean all) being funded by a small number of very rich individuals (not corporations as feared when Citizens United was ruled on in 2010). This means that the sort of political action that needs to be taken in order to keep everything peaceful will not be enacted in this current political envirnoment because it directly opposes and would strip wealth from these same people.
It wasn't a mistake or happy accident that a progressive era followed after the guilded age. It was a populace movement in direct response to the robber barons and the wealth inequality they constructed. I feel like we are currently, as a populace, starting to react to our economic plight. When Pelosi showed everyone her favorite ice cream, it was equivalent to Marie Antoinette telling people to eat cake. It wasn't out of callous disinterest in her people, but instead the words of a woman that only ever lived in a world of extravagance and money. I feel that the same disconnect is happening here. It is not because our politicians are malicious or spiteful but instead disconnected from the average American. It is going to take a bunch of average Americans to say that all of this is enough and try to change our trajectory.