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is this due to the ban?

not afaik

Left wing political correctness gone mad!

https://journalstar.com/news/state-a...a914018ed.html

A quip about Steve Bannon in a story about one woman's journey through the alt right movement
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...y/katie-mchugh

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...y/katie-mchugh

Need to bring back Trollys Troll of the Week

What % of homeless people are too mentally ill to ever hold a job or manage their own finances? Just by walking around LA and SF I'd guess 75%.

The only ones who didn't fit were the street kids in the Haight who by their own admission would rather be homeless in SF than in some apartment in Cleveland.

But man everyone else - what is the solution? I could see aggressive programs for the first 25% - who are just in bad straits due to drugs or w/e. Then maybe free housing for the next 25% or so.

But the bottom 50% (give or take by whatever my estimate is off) - the people who would have been in sanitariums in the 50s - what is the answer for them?

I read an article about some apartment building in DC that opened up a ton of spots for the homeless. And of course, the seriously mentally ill people caused a lot of problems.

More humane sanitariums?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ion-stock.html

Cliff notes: Chelsea Clinton makes over $300k per year and has over $6M in stocks for apparently doing very little on a couple boards.

It is interesting how welfare for poors is such a hot button issue, where the truth is our society is structured so the wealthy get much more free ****, and it isn't even close. And it seems corporate boards is a real hidden source of this. It seems every major company has several board members from rich, connected families who don't do much more than show up to collect their checks and stock options. It is funny, we are so critical of CEO salaries, but CEOs are actually working. There is a whole class of people in these big companies on boards getting handsomely rewarded for doing nothing. Sounds like welfare to me.

Thinking about this reminds me of the first season of Billions where the hedge fund manager guy (I dont remember any of their names) gets revenge on the other guy by getting his mistress kicked off a board.

I think that was the plan for 100 years until it was finally deemed impossible.

Boards are 100% bull****.

I know people on them who say basically if you ever rock the boat, you get kicked off and never get any more lucrative board gigs. Until people start going to jail - the incentives are 100% to align with management. It's just about connections - which obviously she has.

Although I guess it's a bulwark against a literally insane CEO. So it has one possible albeit extremely rare purpose.

Property taxes were going up in Texas so the Texas legislature proposed increasing the sales tax to replace some of property tax. Of course the end result is taxes are going up for the poorer but going down for the richer




I guess the good news is that even Republicans are willing to tax the middle class, it's just to give those with more income more wealth instead of Medicare 4 All, etc.

lol Nevada

https://thinkprogress.org/how-abraha...mpression=true

So you're telling me that Lincoln out maneuvers the racist Confederate Democrat politicians until 1893... Almost 30 years after his assassination?

He was a master politician.

That's how good he was

Any book recommendations for a centrist scumbag to broaden their political horizons

I really like Ulysses.

Banned on Amazon or not banned on Amazon? Probably not banned to start...
The Power Elite by C.W. Mills is old but a classic
Who Rules America
Both of those are tame enough to be taught in college sociology classes.

I don't read a lot of political books, but here's a random selection of books I've read in the last couple years that I thought were generally worthwhile.

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy (Joseph Stiglitz 2016)

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals (Tyler Cowen 2018)

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein 2017)

Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network (Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz 2010)

I'd be interested in one or two off the banned list as well, for sure

I've been told to keep the spiciness of my posting to a minimum and if you actually self-identify as a centrist then those books that I recommended would be good because they attempt to blow up the whole two-party system, left/right paradigm, democracy is real way of thinking.

As far as conspiracy stuff goes--youtube is the place for that. But I can't recommend anybody there either. That was just meant as a tounge-in-cheek joke at me being an unabashed conspiracist.

The Rick Pearlstein books are good for a history of the American Conservative movement

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

For the violent movements in the 60's and 70's

America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence Days of Rage (Hardback)

The Taylor Branch Trilogy over the Civil Rights Movement

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

For some perspective on the Reconstruction and Redemption periods

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Evil in Modern Thought to see how the idea of evil has tranformed throughout modern history

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Poverty and Race

The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

lol

This was a post made in the Venezuela thread. Is the bolded actually true? If So what exactly is so disastrous about it? Genuine question.