How's HBA doing these days, Brian?

If they just stuck to news about foxes, we'd all be happier I think.

(December 28, 2014 at 11:27 am)popeyespappy Wrote: How's HBA doing these days, Brian?

Last time I talked to him his dad was in the hospital for something, had a pick on his FB page showing them smiling so it couldn't have been too major. Hoping he can spend time with me on skype today watching the Skins end their misery of a season vs Dallas. HB is no big fan of football but having been born in Texas he loves the friendly trash talk so if it gets him a laugh beating Washington it is worth the smile on his face for me.

He's doing well as far as I know right now though.

(December 25, 2014 at 6:04 pm)RonaldReagansGhost666 Wrote: In America, six large media corporations have near-total control of all news that Americans receive. All of these corporations suck and give biased and at times false reporting, but there are certain media outlets that are worse than others.
This spectrum goes from the least bad, CNN, to what is the most terrible and tasteless excuse for journalism out there, Fox News, or as I like to call it, Fux "News."
Whenever a hateful, bigoted right-wing view is expressed on American television it is almost always from Fux. Fux News is out there to deceive the people into supporting bullshit neoliberal policies that end up making the rich even richer at the expense of America's poor, supporting America's international imperialist agenda, spewing hate speech against gays, blacks, immigrants and other minorities, and and dismissing issues like police brutality and the ineffectiveness of the War of Drugs.
This is why I think it'd be necessary to revoke Fux "News"' broadcasting license for good. Some may say that it is a violation of freedom of the press. I call bullshit. If anything, fucking corporate media is too blame for violations of press freedom due to its self-censorship and absolute reliance on the US gov't as a source. These US "news" outlets are nothing more than de-facto state media. They hinder reporting that is actually accurate.
Shutting down a state-owned Soviet radio station would be no more of a violation of press freedom than shutting down Fux "News" or any other of the big six corporate media outlets.

What, shitcan the First Amendment because you don't like their opinion?

What could go wrong?



eta: Also, Fox supports neoconservative views, not neoliberal. There's a little difference there.

(December 28, 2014 at 11:40 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(December 28, 2014 at 11:27 am)popeyespappy Wrote: How's HBA doing these days, Brian?

Last time I talked to him his dad was in the hospital for something, had a pick on his FB page showing them smiling so it couldn't have been too major. Hoping he can spend time with me on skype today watching the Skins end their misery of a season vs Dallas. HB is no big fan of football but having been born in Texas he loves the friendly trash talk so if it gets him a laugh beating Washington it is worth the smile on his face for me.

He's doing well as far as I know right now though.

He's back in OK now isn't he?

Tell him I said hello...

(December 28, 2014 at 12:01 am)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

This is not worth throwing away because of those FOX Fucks. Although, oddly the one which has been most seriously attacked is the right of the people to peaceably assemble. The propertied classes have allowed all sorts of restrictions on that one. FOX will never champion the right of people to peaceably assemble...unless they are wearing sheets or waving automatic weapons around.

Bingo. The restrictions imposed on marchers during the 2012 Democratic convention did wonders in shielding the political class from the concerns of normal Americans. Where was Fox in complaining of that unwarranted restriction on the rights of those Americans to gather peaceably? Oh, that's right, they were Occupy protesters -- they don't deserve rights ... outside of a "Free Speech Zone" (Silly me, I thought the entire country was a "Free Speech Zone"!)

Myself, I take the position that an abrogation of one person's right is an erosion of all our rights.

(December 28, 2014 at 11:25 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(December 28, 2014 at 10:17 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I agree the the libertarian trend is troubling, but I'm also watching just as many college libertarians get over themselves once they have rent to pay.

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I have a friend from OK whom was living there back when I met him online. He used to be a Christian growing up, but socially became liberal with time but when I met him he was economically libertarian. He informed me that he was moving to Denver and was getting a job ad Dish hellwork. I knew right at that moment he would learn his lesson. It didn't take but a few weeks for him to understand big businesses can be bullies. He is now a flaming economic liberal as well and wants Bernie Saunders to run for President. He loves Warren as well.

This is pretty much what happened to most of my friends who have left Libertarianism. They got out of school, they got into the situation America is in where student loans are as crippling as a mortgage for no fucking reason or they started to have to pay their own rent or had kids, etc.

The only ones who have remained staunchly Libertarian (and in some cases, Objectivist) are the ones who never struggled for a dime in their lives.

A libertarian is someone who doesn't understand economics, or who benefits from capitalism far above the rest.

A socialist is someone who can realize how capitalism is fucking them and everyone they know over, and who isn't one of the teeny tiny majority of those making phat pay.

The moment the former is exposed to reality, it's only a matter of time before they become the latter. Unless they're idiots. Then they become fans of the tea party if they are.

I used to be a socialist until I studied introduction to economics in college. I started being pretty moderate from there, social democrat centre right.

(December 28, 2014 at 12:30 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: A libertarian is someone who doesn't understand economics, or who benefits from capitalism far above the rest.

A socialist is someone who can realize how capitalism is fucking them and everyone they know over, and who isn't one of the teeny tiny majority of those making phat pay.

The moment the former is exposed to reality, it's only a matter of time before they become the latter. Unless they're idiots. Then they become fans of the tea party if they are.

I think both outlooks have good and bad points.

I also think that oversimplifications found on the Internet are usually worth every penny I pay for them.