Random Thoughts (Political Edition)

If the US of A goes to shit, so will it's currency.


Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has introduced a ten-year plan called the Green New Deal this week. Highlights include:
  • Rebuilding all buildings to be energy efficient;
  • Replacing planes with railroads;
  • Reducing "emissions from cows" - yes that's an actual quote;
  • "Economic security to all who are unable or unwilling to work";
  • Consent from indigenous people to do anything that might in any way affect them;
  • Providing "good jobs", whatever that means;
  • Ensuring that "the public receives appropriate ownership stakes and returns on investment", i.e. communism;
  • Ensuring that "every businessperson is free from unfair competition", because we're now at the playground level
If you're wondering how any of this idiotic nonsense can even be possible, you obviously need to be less "concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right", to put it in AOC's own words. Amazing.

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You do realize this was just a resolution, right?
 
Hence me typing "in a currency that will not devalue to shit". I wasn't talking about USD's or HNL's. They tell me Swiss Bonds are a good way to store money. not currency as such but it Switzerland goes to shit, clearly money has ceased to have meaning and I should've instead stocked on canned supplies and listened to that podcast on vegetable plots and armed personal defuse.

As for resolution, what, will the actual law speak about burning the poor and make the trains run on coal again? this seems to align with AOC's wide-eyed populist image as a politician and p much reflects what she would do given enough power. Good for the smarts who game the system and flee if implemented. bad for sustainability.
 
Your point is...


It is not a Bill that will be turned into law. It is just saying that these things are what we should work towards to have a better society.
 
I don't see anything wrong with it. Have you seen some of the other crazy resolutions that have come out of Congress?
 
I don't see anything wrong with it. Have you seen some of the other crazy resolutions that have come out of Congress?
You are engaging in whataboutism. Just because other resolutions have been crazy doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call this one out. Keeping government in check is one of the cornerstones of democracy
 
The funny thing about the Green New Deal is that it has very little to do with environmentalism and almost everything to do with socialism and identitarianism. Some people are jokingly calling it the Watermelon Plan. Green on the outside, red on the inside. lol
 
You are engaging in whataboutism. Just because other resolutions have been crazy doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call this one out. Keeping government in check is one of the cornerstones of democracy


It is non binding. It is not a bill that can become a law. It is not going to cost anything.
 
It is non binding. It is not a bill that can become a law. It is not going to cost anything.
You are missing the point, it illustrates the idiocy of AOC and her platform. Further just because something isn’t a bill now doesn’t mean it won’t be later. Kind of like that wall we been talking about.
 
It is non binding. It is not a bill that can become a law. It is not going to cost anything.
That like saying that a resolution to kill all black people wouldn't be a big deal because it's not a bill. Still says a lot about the author/sponsor...
 
That like saying that a resolution to kill all black people wouldn't be a big deal because it's not a bill. Still says a lot about the author/sponsor...

What an analogy...
 
Yes, a genocidal resolution gets the point across so well.
 
you're now arguing against the example, not the point brought on by the example.
 
Not arguing, just mocking it.


 
This is the RANDOM THOUGHTS thread, the discussion is allowed to go wherever it goes.
 
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