US Election 2020 - Pt 3

[obsidian86]

McConnell's skin sleeve is decomposing

McConnell says 'no concerns' despite visible bandages and bruises

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not answer questions about his health Thursday, only saying there were "no concerns" after reporters asked him about what appeared to be bruises and bandages on his hands in recent days.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Sinbad]

You are in the UK aren't you? Check how many UK MPs went to Oxford, studied politics, philosophy and economics, got a job as a researcher / special advisor for a Minister and then became a MP. It's a real problem but not one which is easily solved.

Easily solved. Shoot anyone who studies that garbage.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324287944912474113

Democrats: 'Demographics are destiny"

Hispanics: hold up there.

 

[Ancalagon]

Easily solved. Shoot anyone who studies that garbage.

Philosophy, politics and economics are all worth studying, and a legacy from human history if you ask me.

As long as they are not "decolonised", they are worth studying. But, you still need real world experience to make sense of it.

 

[dualmeister]

 

[Neoprod]

Yeah - that's very true - the "golden era of US prosperity" was post-WW2 until the 1970s. If you are interested, this is a good book about US economic history: https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-America-History-Alan-Greenspan/dp/0735222444. It's very good. The US is truly a remarkable country and it certainly wasn't set to become a superpower when it was founded.

The question is -

(a) were the conditions between 1945 - 1970 unique in certain ways and unable to replicated ?

(b) This is why I am conflicted about trade unions in general because in SA they are undoubtedly a hugely destructive influence and in SA we definitely need to weaken the power of the trade unions - they really do hamper growth and make SA uncompetitive.

Alan Greenspan is a complicated figure - he was a pretty great chair of the Fed but also defended Charles Keating and continues advocating for financial deregulation (most notably, in 2000 he was instrumental in stopping the regulation of derivatives - one of those being collateralised debt obligations, a primary cause of the 2008 financial crisis).

He's either naïve and believes, against all evidence, that allowing the finance sector to govern itself is a good idea or he's willfully ignoring the history of how various financial crises came to happen. I'm not sure what the truth is.

 

[C4Cat]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1323365213450719233

 

[greg0205]

Goodness I hadn't looked at NC for a long time. I assumed it was in safe territory for Trump. This election is so bonkers.

Donnie's Georgia lead is down to 22 000 odd now...

 

[DreamKing]

In the two years leading up to the invasion, Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes. Nevertheless, the German High Command began planning an invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1940 (under the codename Operation Otto), which Adolf Hitler authorized on 18 December 1940. Over the course of the operation, about three million personnel of the Axis powers—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare—invaded the western Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with 600,000 motor vehicles and over 600,000 horses for non-combat operations. The offensive marked an escalation of World War II, both geographically and in the formation of the Allied coalition including the Soviet Union.

Operation Barbarossa - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

@buka001 @Cray @rambo919 @ghoti

I don't remember who said what.

please pick your answers from here.

Germany–Soviet Union relations (1918–1941) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Operation Barbarossa - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[buka001]

You are in the UK aren't you? Check how many UK MPs went to Oxford, studied politics, philosophy and economics, got a job as a researcher / special advisor for a Minister and then became a MP. It's a real problem but not one which is easily solved.

Agreed. From all spheres of the political spectrum.

 

[Temujin]

JFC has nobody won yet?

What a farce of an election

The yanks need to go back to the drawing board or they will have the same problem every election year. Pick between cow dung or bull schit

I'm wondering wtf alaska is doing... theres only like 3 people there, how hard can it be to count

 

[Brenden_E]

LoL WTF is Nevada doing

GUYS I NEED ANOTHER BIDEN BAG IN HERE!

 

[SlinkyMike]

@SlinkyMike - Danes don't; consider themselves to be Democratic socialist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/22/we-danes-arent-living-american-dream-we-still-arent-socialist/

LOL, no one asked what they consider themselves as. Again, it is defined by how government funding is used.

 

[Sinbad]

I'm wondering wtf alaska is doing... theres only like 3 people there, how hard can it be to count

Can't open the ballot boxes, they're frozen

 

[cerebus]

We need law and order!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324187296984231936

 

[bwana]

Continued here: US Election 2020 - The Result