Phi for All

I think we're being played by another deplorable tactic, the bait-and-switch. In personal life, it goes like this, you move out into an apartment with friends, and because you're deplorable, you spend your rent money on beer. You know you can't approach your parents for more money for beer, but they don't want you moving back in, so you say you need it for rent. They pay it out and hopefully you can do that every few months without them getting wise to your tactic. So our infrastructure money gets spent on subsidizing oil and coal and sugar, until our bridges start killing people, then we pay tons extra to fix them because it's an emergency now. The corporate interests get to party on the public dime while they paint pictures of welfare recipients partying on the public dime. It's the same deplorable, accuse-the-other-guy-of-what-you're-doing-first, tactics that we as gullible People/parents keep falling for over and over.

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In parts of Missouri, if you ask how someone is feeling, then send them 5 kisses, it's a marriage proposal. This is followed by 30 days of no-contact, a week of fasting and flagellation, and finally the year-long honeymoon. You people are crazy.

I certainly have earned my money through capitalism. My objection is that the US spends far more than comparable countries for their social systems because of our insistence that we allow inordinate profits for those building our highways and other infrastructure, or our healthcare providers. Our deplorables bitch about government cheese distribution or needle exchange programs while private contractors overcharge for government contracts in the billions of dollars every year. And we're forced to use private contractors to make it look like we're keeping government payroll down, when in reality we spend billions more by doing it that way. And everyone knows about the US overpaying for healthcare. Why do we allow it? I think capitalism is great. I like socialism and communism too when it makes sense for the People or the state to own something. I think it's deplorable that we've forgotten what it means to own the roads, the seaports, the parks, the airports, the highways, the federal lands. We've forgotten how much power is in our hands already, and we've forgotten the responsibility. I think it's deplorable that "business as usual" is forgiven just as quickly as casual assault on women, or that mega-corporations who provide jobs are excused from caring about pollution, or paying taxes, or otherwise benefitting the country that gives them charter. I don't think all capitalism creates greed, but I do think when you've chosen a socialistic or communistic approach to a program or problem, and you allow it to have elements of profit that run contrary to what your program is trying to accomplish, the result is going to be some deplorable abusing the system for greedy purposes.

We pursue capitalist interests where it doesn't make sense. It's like we're practicing extremist capitalism when we feel we have to make a profit from school lunch systems and welfare medications. And when you place money and power above people in those situations, you get ugly, deplorable practices that make a few rich at the general expense.

Why are we shocked by the number of deplorables out there? We set out to educate our children in the US as an investment using public funds, and then we allow so much capitalism into the system trying to profit from it, and lobbyists pressuring for more privatized choices, and so much that is NOT good education directed in a productive manner gets piled onto our children. Many pick their way through the system successfully with help or without, and many more end up with less education than they need for modern survival. And far too many become deplorable examples of citizens, people who prey on other members of society rather than doing what they can to help. And of those, the poorest go to prison while the richest become media executives, real estate moguls, and politicians. I harp on this a lot, but I'm getting really sick of having our social powers diluted by capital greed. It's deplorable how stupid we're being with our efforts and resources. Is this the inevitable outcome of allowing corporations to control the media AND the businesses the media informs us about? I think, between a lack of education and constant media manipulation, much of the US at least has fallen to deplorable attitudes and behaviors, and respect for human lives fails to extend beyond a very limited circle.

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Like the belief systems that need to caricaturize science as being riddled with errors, hidebound, and resistant to change?

Please, criticism is inappropriate and divisive at this point.

There's also something imprecise and subjective about a lapel pin that seems out of place in a court of law. Whether it's a BLM pin or an American flag, by wearing it you're implying that you support only the "good things" about this faction, as defined by you alone.

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... and false. http://www.snopes.com/einstein-rejection-letter/

Because gravity changes the closer you get to the center of the Earth, by the formula 1/R2 (R being your distance from Earth's center).

If I dig a deep, deep hole in the Earth, and lower myself into it hanging by my hands from a chain 1000 miles long, as my gravitational center gets closer to the Earth's gravitational center, am I going to be shorter because gravity is pushing down harder on me, or am I going to be taller because I'm being pulled by gravity? Will I experience a compression stress, or a tensile stress?

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aka "I'm OK, but you suck!" Yup, American Republicanism.

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Uncle Sam retires! Looking for scary white clown, to symbolize fear. No huddling, masses! If you're different, you're wrong, Hate makes great again! Orange you gonna vote? Elect your bully nightmare! Don Juan Tim for Prez!

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I'm going to flat out accuse you of having a great mind.

When it's unintentional, it's called conservative myopia. When people mean to do it, it's called Republican strategy. "If climate change was real, would I have bought a Hummer 3?" "I'm going to lie about how much more of a liar my opponent is." The only logic involved is "do unto others before they do it unto you".

Is it one of those personal resource reduction powders? I've heard those work really well.

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Prediction based on established evidence: there will be at least seventeen humanity-ending events predicted before 2100. Crazy and patient rarely occur at the same time.