I forgot that detail. I do remember they talked about him using 'computer paper.' We had a machine that used that stuff on my job. I think they finally got rid of it around 2012.
You keep shifting the goalposts, misrepresenting what I said, and refusing to answer questions.
Good-bye.
You'd rather face the US Army then vote for someone endorsed by Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders.
Please read some history. Back in the day, Frederick Douglas campaigned for candidates who couldn't promise to end slavery.
My point is that something like the New Deal doesn’t just happen because everyone decided to get out of bed and vote one day
Well, since I never said that the New Deal just happened out of nowhere, everything you've written is moot.
I said the New Deal was a great place to start. Try dealing with that.
Tell me why we shouldn't have a CCC and a WPA as a start.
The Left failed to get past the DNC twice with a popular candidate. The idea that the Left could get past the US Army is ridiculous.
In "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" the computer has gained self-awareness. It was already running all the computer operations for Luna. The hardest thing it had to do was create CGIs.
There was snail mail sent by starship in 'Starship Troopers.'
Back in the day, variety shows and Top 40 Radio did a great job of exposing people to new talent.
The first four words.
so noted
If you don't like it, don't read it.
I personally liked it from the start, but it's got a style that's not easy. Also, a lot of it is very dated, so when you read about things like pocket sized VCRs it won't make much sense.
Great old novel/movie "The Magic Christian."
Peter Sellers is a billionaire who decides to wage war on his own class.
All Donny had to do was call the Saudi embassy on Inauguration Day 2017 and politely ask for $50 billion in a Swiss account.
Let me count the ways that upending the system isn't going to happen anytime soon.
For the system to be upended in a meaningful way first means you've got an organized cadre in place. Savvy political operators who can make things happen.
The Left failed to get past the DNC twice with a popular candidate. The idea that the Left could get past the US Army is ridiculous.
Next, let's look at what 'upending the system' would actually look like. Look at the hyperinflation in Germany after WW1. Or the Depression. Or maybe just the riots of the 1960s. Life isn't a video game, and when the system fails the most vulnerable people are the ones who suffer the most.
Finally, do you really think that companies like Blackwater are just going to step aside and let themselves be swept away?
If the system goes down, it will be replaced by something much uglier.
It certainly wasn’t as extreme or successful as the soviet union,
So we agree that there was no way there was going to be a Socialist uprising in America in the 1930s, which is what you were trying to imply.
Also, the idea that FDR's plans weren't radical is ludacris. The only evidence you can come up with is a cloying speech he gave to settle the nerves of people who feared an actual revolution.
The goal was to placate workers enough to preserve the power structure.
Nice revisionism.
There wasn't any chance of a massive class struggle like the USSR happening. There was more of a chance that the richest would have kicked FDR out and put in their own junta. That attempt only failed because Smedley Butler wasn't having any.
I was lucky enough to meet some old school Communists who'd been in the Spanish Civil War. They would have laughed at the idea that the US was on the verge of a Socialist takeover in the 1930s.
Watch the movie 'Network.'
When it came out it was a cutting edge satire; it's become a quaint and staid docudrama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt has entered the chat...
Look up the New Deal. Pretty good blueprint for a place to start.
The analogy I've used is that Nixon's Southern Strategy was like beer; Reagan's rhetoric was like grain alcohol punch; Bush Jr. fed them straight whisky; Trump gave them meth.
On one hand I would love to kick the collective ass of all the people who sat the election out.
On the other, I know that I don't have the power to change things without them.
Back in WW2 a lot of people had to accept that the British, the Soviets, and the Americans were the only thing standing between them and the Axis. They had to give up control of their forces and hope for the best.
People love to talk about how 'the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots.'
It's easy to talk about big dramatic battles.
The truth is that it's really a never-ending struggle that requires sweat.
How many people bother to show up for primary elections? How many are willing to get a petition signed to get a good candidate on the ballot?