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And the Obama-bots eagerly line-up to do their solemn once-every-four-years degrading sexual duties. Gringrich is not going to get elected. If he does, this will not pass, not unless it is a form of political rule which the entire ruling class backs. Individual politicians are insects, and cannot r...

They don't care that these things get out. Look at US history generally. The goal of state secrecy is to prevent the domestic population from knowing what's really going on so they can be obliged to support policies they otherwise would not. For decades everyone else in the world knows the U.S. regu...

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And the Obama-bots eagerly line-up to do their solemn once-every-four-years degrading sexual duties. Gringrich is not going to get elected. If he does, this will not pass, not unless it is a form of political rule which the entire ruling class backs. Individual politicians are insects, and cannot re...

I don't see why we should legitimize these political choices by pretending it was up to us in 2008, 2010, or will be up to us in 2012. The Establishment wants austerity, everywhere, and they will get it, no matter who is elected. There is very broad political consensus on the essential vectors of co...

So, Obama just bended over. Again. Can't say I'm surprised, but why ? Why can he never find his balls? Why is it so hard for some people to just pursue the parsimonious answer that he just doesn't give a fuck about me or you? Because it's wrong. He's a politician. Politicians require votes in order...

Ah yes, the "human nature" argument: capitalism's answer to feudalism's "God said so." One should be suspicious of mission creep: capitalism in the 1950s and 1960 in the West was the best supposedly because it had the highest and rising standard of living in the world, across the...

I don't think any economist or even reasonably intelligent person for that matter is going to claim there is an immutable, context-free threshold for sustainable debt/GDP. As you say there are a whole slew of reasons why the US is in a much worse position now than in 1945 - in terms of debt sustain...

So, Obama just bended over. Again. Can't say I'm surprised, but why ? Why can he never find his balls? Why is it so hard for some people to just pursue the parsimonious answer that he just doesn't give a fuck about me or you? Of course, I am sure every well-meaning liberal will line up quietly and ...

Its a global empire, we're busy making sure that the "rot doesn't spread" - the rot being any opposition to American hegemony. Obama's merely an instrument; any capitalist power of the breadth of interests and economic penetrations as American across the globe would have to resort to syste...

It should be obvious by now that the world capitalist system has no intention of anything other than self-destructive self-replication without any conscious check or logical end. That's because humans are animals that don't have much in the way of long-term planning built into us. If you look at hu...

[Yawn] A bunch of white Republicans got sad the minstrel show they paid good money for ended early. Is this really a surprise?

Sooner or later extensive growth must slow; the USSR posted enormous growth rates when it was engaged in its original accumulation, but sooner or later you run out of peasants to kick off the land and feed into the industrial hopper, and growth must slow. China still has some 700 mil or so peasants ...

It's extremely, extremely hard to motivate an entire society to make radical changes to how they do things. I agree with that sentiment. But it is still possible. So long as the hope that it is still possible, regardless of difficulty, we might have a chance in succeeding.We have to try. America, e...

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The top income tax bracket starts at 373,000 dollars for 2010 tax year. So that will catch up some small businesses owners, but only ones doing really well or who just plain suck at filing taxes. Of course we could just add a new bracket for people making much larger sums and fucking see how many o...

There are definitely firearms equipped aboard.

Maybe you could provide something like some evidence for why I am wrong, and why your vague guesswork and paranoia is in fact substantiated, as opposed to just the appeal to ignorance. No shit I don't have a crystal ball. But so long as we're just airily discussing anything that could happen withou...

Maybe you could provide something like some evidence for why I am wrong, and why your vague guesswork and paranoia is in fact substantiated, as opposed to just the appeal to ignorance. No shit I don't have a crystal ball. But so long as we're just airily discussing anything that could happen without...

Hurrah for the democratically elected and sure not to disappoint IMF/Central Bank of Western Africa candidate. I'm sure he'll improve jobs and social welfare and human development for his people. Oh wait.

Oh they will resuscitate it with the de rigueur fear-mongering of the GOP/Tea Party barbarians banging at the gates, and the glazed-eyed will fall into line and hand Obama a respectable 06 Clinton-style victory, with which he will continue to move to the right and push various excrescences on the bo...

The fundies are useful idiots. They exist in the GOP purely as a GOTV apparatus. They produce the foot soldiers, thus obliging the corporatocrats to make noises for their benefit once in a blue moon. American political party dynamics are driven by coalitions of investor support, not by ideological ...

Bush's problem is he wasn't a black professor. Had he only been able to give a polished speech, and lie through his teeth for years, and then just do it once people stopped paying attention, he could have gotten what he wanted, apparently with the gleeful tailing of the full spectrum of liberal inte...

The fundies are useful idiots. They exist in the GOP purely as a GOTV apparatus. They produce the foot soldiers, thus obliging the corporatocrats to make noises for their benefit once in a blue moon. American political party dynamics are driven by coalitions of investor support, not by ideological s...

I think that's pretty unfair. Marxist politics did not become dictatorships of the party leadership until Lenin's "innovations". The SPD, both pre- and post-war, was quite the lively hive of factionalism and intra-party argument and discussion. Point taken though, as it pertains to Leninis...