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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2020 2:18:46 GMT 1
Well worth the watch in my opinion but a bit of a long one. About an hour long. One of the more interesting interviews Ive seen in a while
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Post by equality72521 on Aug 6, 2020 5:40:56 GMT 1
I'm about 26 minutes in and I have to say that I think it's sad that she won't lay any of the blame directly at Donnie's feet. Maybe she does later. I'll see.
She talks about future leaders needing to be prepared but never mentions how Trump dismantled our ability to handle an epi/pandemic.
She talks about how China held back information but admits that everyone "knew it was bad" without taking the next logical step and admonishing the administration for not acting quickly. Instead she says that it's more logical to be skeptical.
I'm more of a "err on the side of caution guy" myself, so I find that foolish. If you KNOW it's bad, AND you assume that China is lying, then it's logical to presume that it's even WORSE than you think. DUH! If it's probably worse than you think then you take the steps necessary to protect the people (and the economy - dead people don't participate in the economy) no matter what slight inconveniences it causes.
During and after SARS, most East Asian countries (and their people) were fast adopters of masks. Got a cold? Wear a mask. Got allergies? Wear a mask. Bad air quality? Wear a mask. Cold sore? Mask. Potentially devastating epidemic? Screw the fucking toilet paper. Stock up on masks.
Westerners associate the masks with East Asians and avoid them due to racism. Yes. Racism.
OK. I'll listen some more now....
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Post by equality72521 on Aug 6, 2020 6:19:08 GMT 1
Education is important. We agree on that. One thing she skims is the price of items and suggests that it's all about the labor costs on China without mentioning the dozens of other countries exploiting cheap labor. So far, what she isn't mentioning is that the same 20-pack of Duracell, AAA batteries that I can get for about $5 in China costs the American consumer about $15. The cost of manufacturing hasn't changed. Sure, there's going to be some extra shipping and warehousing costs associated with the Chinese made, American sold items, but do you really think that it will add up to another $10 for a 20-pack of batteries?
Corporations are GOUGING American consumers simply because American consumers make more money and can therefore "afford" to spend more money which makes the profit margins waaaay higher in the US.
Duracell is absolutely making bank on the sale of their batteries in China. Why does the profit margin have to be outrageously higher in the US and other western countries?
And don't get me started on how many "Chinese knock-off" brands are actually subsidiaries of the companies that own the brand being knocked-off. It happens in the US too, with factories simply diverting lines of all the same product to get put in different packaging and or be stamped with a different logo.
One factory, one product, same quality, five different brands at five different prices.
Oh how we love to be fucked in the ass and blame China for doing the pushing.
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Post by equality72521 on Aug 6, 2020 6:59:38 GMT 1
3rd Party!
I've been voting 3rd party for over 30 years. I've told people that this is the thing to do. And I've seen many a person fold at the last second and vengeance vote with one of the Big 2.
If you can't bring yourself to vote 3rd party, at least vote out all incumbents. Let the career politicians know that we're pissed and we're taking our country back.
Term limits? Abso-fucking-lutely! The idea was for concerned, patriotic citizens to do their duty for the sake of their constituency (THEIR constituency) and having done the job, return to private life, not to make a career out of championing all the people of their party even in districts and states that have little or nothing to do with their constituency. Of course there's overlap, but I hope you get what I'm saying.
Want to incentivize the representatives? Make their salary equal to the median income of their district with a cap at 100k or 150k.
And get all the lobbyists out of the system. All of them from the NRA to the AFL/CIO and everyone in between.
Get rid of the PACs and dro this silly notion that a corporation is a "person".
In fact, we should abolish corporations so that we can start practicing some capitalism.
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Post by equality72521 on Aug 6, 2020 7:22:34 GMT 1
Bending to China
I wonder how much of her portfolio relies on companies that benefit themselves and her by bending to China....
To stop having to bend to China means investing real money in (not making financial and martial threats to) other countries.
2 biggest drawbacks to making that happen:
1. The track record of America in the third world is littered with colonialism and racism
2. China already did it. While American corporations were investing in China's cheap labor, China took the money and invested it in even poorer countries and now subcontracts a lot of the manufacturing to those countries who are happy to have Chinese money.
DiMartino Booth likes to sound like a patriot but she keeps sidestepping the reality that good, old-fashioned, American greed is what caused the rise of China in the first place. She's talking about fighting the monster that people like her created without taking responsibility for its creation.
It's no different than "liberals" not realizing that the Trump administration is a reaction to decades of whipping "straight, white, [Christian] men" at every turn.
It just goes to show that even smart people can be blind to their own blatant stupidity.
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Post by equality72521 on Aug 6, 2020 7:28:47 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 3:16:57 GMT 1
I agree. More people should be open to third parties. Although technically Trump is a third party/independent. So is Macron in France
It was a different time then. Everyone was like that during colonialism. It wasnt too long ago in human history that women werent allowed to vote
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