rowe33
4412
I’m sure he’s just talking about The Walking Dead!
RichVR
4413
AKA POC on his property. Or near it.
Is there a thread for this sort of honest, thoughtful government?
So it is newsworthy that a politician cut their losses on a stock that everyone could see was a loser? It’s not like they made an aggressive options play to capitalize on one day movement. They unloaded a short term position for less money that they had bought it for the week before. I’m really not following why this is newsworthy. The idea that the US, and everyone else, would ban travel in the near future was already priced into the stock. Even before it was announced all the savvy investors knew it was coming, as evidenced by the fact that the stock barely moved post-announcement compared to the nosedive the previous week.
Then ignore it?
Strangely, the stock fell more sharply after the ban was announced.
I believe they had an explainer on Market place or Make me Smart on it. It is being investigated.
Bunch of unelected bureaucrats put there by the fuckin’ libtards, trying to stop all the good honest conservative corruption we expect here in 'murica.
(I fucking hate everything.)
Right there with you. Which is probably why most of my posts include references to various forms of capital punishment. When this is over heads need to be on pikes, and I don’t mean figuratively. Sadly, not gonna happen.
antlers
4421
If you ever lived in a place where heads literally went on pikes, you wouldn’t be happy about it.
Substitute whatever other form of execution you prefer then.
The nice thing about burying them up to their necks in an anthill is that the problem cleans up after itself.
You all realize that the French Revolution was not a good thing? At least during the time it was happening.
Yeah, Parisians should have starved like good proles.
Yeah, that’s the point I am trying to make. That the only alternative to bloody revolution and years of terror is starvation.
Once again, @inactive_user, you show you have a knack of being wrong in a wide variety of threads and subforums.
We basically had a peaceful revolution in 1932. It ushered into power a faction focused on improving the condition of the poor and working people, a regime that lasted for the next 30+ years and did a marvelous amount of good through public policy. But it only worked because the conditions on the ground in 1932 lent themselves to a peaceful change in direction.
That is not always the case! I don’t think that the alternative to poverty is always bloodshed; but I don’t really see any other path for the poor and oppressed of France in 1789, or the poor and oppressed of Russia in 1917, and so on. It isn’t like they were going to vote the King or the Czar out of power.
CraigM
4428
The alternative path requires the Czar to not act as he did in 1905-6. Which was no guarantee of success, but immediately rolling back and disenfranchising the peasants after granting them representation assured failure.
Yes, this is true. Once he did that, there was really only one way of getting rid of the guy.
There was a peaceful revolution in Russia in 1917; but the leaders also felt compelled to stay in WW1 fighting the Germans.
The Bolsheviks refused to accept anything less than a total break, and partly out of self preservation and partly from opportunism at a moment of weakness overthrew the Provisional Govt and then overthrew all the other Soviet parties by hook and crook.
Yes, there were two revolutions in 1917.
