sod98 wrote (View Post): |
Another classic quote - " How come these people that don't like Trump, pretty much always want to take off to Canada but not Mexico? They racist or something? ". |
mooxe wrote (View Post): |
Wikileaks has certainly added jet fuel to the fire. However, these emails usually prove nothing and just add to the conspiracies. The emails are basically tips or clues and cannot be considered proof.
If released earlier, it would of given law enforcement or investigative journalists time to study them. Instead they were released in a huge data dump right before election. The immediate after effect was that insane amounts of disinformation was created in a frenzy and the credibility of Wikileaks weakened due to the timing of the dumps. Both of which seem counter intuitive to what it stands for. |
mooxe wrote (View Post): | ||
Exactly. Does the system need to be reformed? Reformed probably means more rules... more governance, I think most people agree we do not want more of this. Its the people using the system that need reforming. |
dj wrote (View Post): |
Presidents don't make laws. That is the role of Congress. Dan Carlin summed up it well in his latest podcast. It's due to Corruption. Our political system is extremely dependent on $ to win. So Congress only cares about getting re-elected and to not upset the donor class. Obama is suppose to regulate financial earnings or force Congress to change laws to make employee compensation more fair? When Republicans have no interest whatsoever in any deals with him. You can't pin the concentration of wealth on the President. It is a trend that has taken decades and I think is a consequence of Corporate Globalization. Companies will do anything to make a $...workers are just a commodity. That's the reality of the situation. |
Schmal_Turm wrote (View Post): |
dj, consider this:
• Under Bill Clinton, 45% of all gains in personal income went to the top 1% of the country. • Under George W. Bush, 65% of the gain in income went to the top 1%. • And according to Emmanuel Saez, a top liberal economist from Berkley, under Barack Obama, 91% of the increase in earnings went to the top l%. So how do you reason that the most liberal person to ever hold the Office of the Presidency also is responsible for the greatest earnings of the highest earners? |
mick_xe5 wrote (View Post): | ||
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sod98 wrote (View Post): |
Its the people using the system that need reforming. |
sod98 wrote (View Post): |
Well done the USA for stopping the rot. |
mooxe wrote (View Post): |
I think the new rot will be information and education. Quality of media information is very poor. The ease of lies being spread via social media is too easy. I doubt anyone posting in this thread needs examples of it either. Comment bots, comment people, summarizing a complicated issue down to a single point, trolls... |
sod98 wrote (View Post): |
Not there yet. |
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