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I am so much looking forward to not following this election.
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I'm not too sure what you're angry at here. If i recall her book correctly I remember thinking she was far too kind to silicon valley types in it and not scorching the earth enough, but I gave her a pass because I figured she's also writing for Americans. Hard arguments against capitalism can be found elsewhere but America over 40 is too stuck in the financialized system to listen to them ("WHAT ABOUT STALIN? CHECK MATE. THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE."). I don't especially care about the TED talk because it's a TED talk.
I mean, i'm not an economist but my laymans understanding of quantitative easing is that it makes the rich richer (we did not give freshly printed money to the poor after 2008, we handed it back to the people who caused the crisis in the first place), which is why it's seen as a lovely solution by those with their hands on the levers of power every-time capitalism fails - it forces austerity on the poorest; who are acutely aware that no matter what is "underneath" the veneer, if they don't have enough of it this month then they're out on the street.
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Economists make decisions that destroy entire countries, you may hate them but you need them fighting the fight on the left as well, otherwise you end up with, well, what we have now.I'm not all that angry. She means well. I get annoyed with economists in general. They come up with hypotheses, generally sounding very like Kipling's "Just So" stories, and retrofit them into test cases in the past.
Like, not even like the AI and the machine learning guys who have a tendency to train on bias datasets and overfit their prediction are anywhere near that bad, economists straight up go back in time to cherry pick a scenario that suits their hypothesis, apply their model (knowing the outcome) and then claim it's proved.
I don't know. They rub me the wrong way, even if I agree with what they're saying, because it's all hopelessly unprovable. They make these grand vague fortune teller-ey predictions, get huge plaudits, and the one time in a hundred they're "proven correct" guarantees them a lifetime of after dinner speeches at country clubs.
I've more respect for the methodologies of those horrible predatory quants and microtraders than economists.
What's the conspiracy? What are they actually doing?Anyway, I see their attempt to paint Sanders win in Iowa as a lose is finally falling apart 3 days later. It'll never be provable but yes there is a conspiracy against him and they're willing to throw the entire system under the bus to defeat him.
A) Not releasing the last poll, historically "the most important poll of the entire season", Bernie was winning on it.What's the conspiracy? What are they actually doing?
I can't believe it's still going on in Iowa. Nothing between them
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A) Not releasing the last poll, historically "the most important poll of the entire season", Bernie was winning on it.
B) Not releasing the votes and blaming an app.
C) When they do start releasing them they do so in such a way that the "winner" appears to be Pete Buttigieg.
D) Nothing between them except that Sanders won the votes by a long shot and they have the same amount of delegates at the end - only if you take the inbetween vote does it appear that Pete is winning, except by the looks of how the final tally is panning out he's not, and when 100% of the vote is in this will be clear, but they've got 3 days of a "Pete winning" newscycle out of it.
A whole load of unforseen fuckups that all work against Bernie, total coincidence of course.
It's fine, the DSA will cheat, and the Bernie team have been prepared for it and have sailed through on the assumption that the DSA will cheat, but it's amazing to see how much of their precious voting structure they're willing to burn down as they do it. If a South American or Middle Eastern country pulled this the USA would be bombing them right now
LOL sorry, got my acronyms mixed up. Good catch. For DSA read DNC.DSA are the democratic socialists of america.
DNC are the Democratic national committee
well I might be overselling a long shot but right now this is how many final votes Bernie got:But how did he win by a long shot if 96% of the voting still has Pete marginally ahead? What am I missing?
Has he some kind of policy on this? I'd be surprised if anything happened, whoever's in the white houseI also wonder what would happen with all the silicon valley companies in Ireland if Sanders came to power.
Yeah,Has he some kind of policy on this? I'd be surprised if anything happened, whoever's in the white house
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What would actually happen is of course a whole different thing.
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