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Fidel Castro Compared to James Dean in New York Times Op-Ed


The highly educated Castro was like James Dean with a progressive political agenda: a rebel with a cause.


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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims the VA system has the 'highest quality care,' doesn't need to be fixed

What about the VA problems?

In March 2014, former Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned after the department's own inspector general determined that VA officials had falsified records to mask the fact that veterans were being made to wait on average 115 days for an initial appointment at a Phoenix medical center. At least 35 of the veterans seeking care at this facility died while on waiting lists. And while Phoenix was particularly plagued with problems, similar issues were happening at VA facilities across the nation.

A week before Shinseki was fired, then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told CBS News that "someone has to be accountable" for what was going on in the VA, although he said he did not think Shinseki should be that person.

A report by The Associated Press in May 2015 found that even after Shinseki stepped down and promises were made to reform the department, one in 36 veterans (roughly 894,000) had to wait at least a month for an appointment at VA facilities across the country, and almost 232,000 had to wait more than 60 days.

A report by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel from January 2017 found that the Phoenix location "continues to struggle with significant patient wait times."
 
Guido is trying very hard to look like he's making headway.
 
Life in Venezuela is hard. Look at all the empty food shelves.
 
redrumloa said:
7 minutes in and they don't even mention Maduro mowing people down in the streets with armored vehicles. I'm done.
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Yes, one person was injured by an armoured vehicle while they were trying to storm an army base. Other than the image we know nothing about who's vehicles they were, who was in control of the vehicle - it it looks like he was aiming for a pocket clear of people but hit one person. At least one vehicle was hit with a molotov at one point too but not in this clip - but, yes, you have specially selected news. I just thought I'd show some of the other side. There are also large numbers of civilians protecting the presidential palace continually as they remember what happened to Chavez. you never see the huge pro-Maduro crowds and the still enormous popular support the movement has. Sure, the affluent mostly white part of the population has been chaffing at the Bolivarian Revolution because it has cut into their wealth and increased the wages and labour protections of their servants, but the majority of the country are darker skinned people in the countryside who were raised out of abject poverty and were taught to read and write and organised to build their communities and take better jobs - that is still the largest part of the population and they still remember the nothing they had before and they do not want to go back there. They will shed their blood to keep their children free.
 
redrumloa said:
7 minutes in and they don't even mention Maduro mowing people down in the streets with armored vehicles. I'm done.
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7 minutes? So just before the part about it being absolutely false that Guido had taken the airbase?
 
Wow...

CURL: An Endless Stream Of Dumb Flows Forth From AOC

"OK everyone, I need your help because I just moved into this apartment a few months ago and I just flipped a switch and it made that noise and it scared the daylights out of me," she said in the video. "This D.C. apartment is bougie and has things I’ve never seen before." (For the record, the Urban Dictionary says "bougie" means: "Aspiring to be a higher class than one is. Derived from bourgeois — meaning middle/upper class, traditionally despised by communists.")

Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t done. "Like what is a garbage disposal really for? Is it better or worse than throwing something in the garbage? More importantly why is it so loud and yelling at me?" In her post, some text is overlaid with an image of a hole in the sink that says, "I am told this is a garbage disposal."

Never seen or even HEARD of a garbage disposal before. Wow, but it gets much MUCH worse.

That wasn’t the only dumbness posted on social media by AOC this week (and it’s only Tuesday). In another Instagram video, the graduate of Boston University is seen looking at her small plot in a community garden in Washington.

"I just checked on my community garden slot and I was so nervous because I was in New York for two weeks in recess. Look!" she says as the camera pans to leafy plants. "Oh. My. God! Look at this!" she gasps. "It’s like — look at the collard greens! Look at the dahlias! Oh my God! I have to trim all of these back for smoothies. I. Am. Shook! Look, like, honestly, gardening — food, that comes out of dirt! Like, it’s magic!"

She's taken aback and "shook" (SIC) that food can grow out of dirt. What kind of sheltered life did she grow up in? :smh: Wow...
 
Veterans Walk out of Private Meeting With AOC: 'I Just Couldn't Hear Her BS Anymore'

“She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about,” Silvio Mazzella, a Vietnam War veteran and treasurer of Community Board 11, told the New York Post.

Another veteran, "Anthony Vitaliano — an Army veteran who worked in the NYPD for 38 years, and commanded the Bronx’s homicide detectives," was sitting right next to the congresswoman and her chief of staff as she made her remarks.

“I just couldn’t hear her BS anymore,” Vitaliano told the paper. “I just got up, got my umbrella in my hand and walked right out.”
 
Democrats have moved ‘too far to the left,’ says BET network founder Bob Johnson

“The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the left,” Johnson, the founder of cable network BET and RLJ Companies business network, told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble Tuesday.

“And for that reason, I don’t have a particular candidate (I’m supporting) in the party at this time,” he said. “I think at the end of the day, if a Democrat is going to beat Trump, then that person, he or she, will have to move to the center and you can’t wait too long to do that.”

Johnson described himself as a long-time centrist and Democrat. He publicly supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. However, he has since expressed admiration for some of Donald Trump’s policies, particularly those related to the economy.

“I think the economy is doing great, and it’s reaching populations that heretofore had very bad problems in terms of jobs and employments and the opportunities that come with employment … so African-American unemployment is at its lowest level, ” Johnson said.

Johnson became the country’s first African-American billionaire after selling Black Entertainment Television in 2001, according to Forbes.

“I give the president a lot of credit for moving the economy in a positive direction that’s benefiting a large amount of Americans,” he said. “I think the tax cuts clearly helped stimulate the economy. I think business people have more confidence in the way the economy is going.
 
Yale Professor: People Lived Better in Soviet Union than Under Donald Trump

“Every single person I have I [sic] asked in Central Asia (and Eastern Europe) over the past decade and a half has said life was better under the Soviets — 100 percent,” O’Dell tweeted. The professor, who claims expertise in Islamic law, deactivated her Twitter account this week.

Dell also claimed that an Ivy League professor told her that “coming to America was the greatest mistake of her life.”

This isn’t the first time that O’Dell has attracted critics on Twitter. O’Dell once argued that all men should be required to attend reeducation camps as a means of preventing the next mass shooting.

“Imagine being raised as a white man to have no awareness of (let alone empathy for) others,” O’Dell wrote in a tweet. “Deep down inside they know there’s something fundamental missing–hence all the violence towards others.”
 
California’s Homeless Crisis Pushes Business Owner Out

“I’ve had a business in downtown Sacramento for 15 years – a successful business. I now have to leave my place of business, I have to close my shop,” Novak said. She outlined the course of her day for the Democrat politician:

I just want to tell you what happens when I get to work. I have to clean up the poop and the pee off of my doorstep. I have to clean-up the syringes. I have to politely ask the people who I care for, I care for these people that are homeless, to move their tents of of the way of the door to my business.

I have to fight off people who push their way into my shop who are homeless and on drugs, because you won’t arrest them for drug offenses. I have to apologize to my clients as to why they can’t get into my door, because there’s someone asleep there and they are not getting the help they need.​

Novak said that the police directed her pleas to the governor. “I talk to the police officers, they told me to contact you,” she said. “They want to do something and they can’t, you changed the laws.”

President Donald Trump has been openly addressing the same issue. In a recent Cincinnati, Ohio, rally, Trump lambasted the governor, as well as San Francisco representative Nancy Pelosi. “Nearly half of all the homeless people living in the streets in America happen to live in the state of California,” Trump said. “What they are doing to our beautiful California is a disgrace to our country. It’s a shame, the world is looking at it.”

For now, neither California politician has responded. But Elizabeth Novak has already come to a conclusion in their absence: “You want to make us a sanctuary state, you want to make it comfortable for everybody except for the people that work hard and have tried their hardest to get along in life,” Novak said. “Your liberal ideology isn’t working.”
 
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There's a "Community Fund" that's separate from the "Bank" which is either the government or simply the concept of wasted resources. The Community Fund only gets money when players give to it voluntarily. When someone can not afford something, the rest gets paid out of the Community Fund. If ever the Community Fund can not pay the balance of what someone can not afford, EVERYONE LOSES. Monopoly forces the players who are "winning" to subsidize the players who are losing to stave off their own demise, further contributing to the death spiral of the game as a whole.

That's not the best part. The BEST part is that although everyone can lose, only one person can win, when they collect the 10 tokens that I believe represent working for the party, and ascend to power.


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metalman said:
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Ironically, Monopoly was a game that came out of the 30s which was an unlicensed, unattributed copy of an almost identical game (called Rent maybe?) It was designed to show the unsustainability and somewhat capricious nature of capitalism. Many can play, much wealth is created, but there is only one winner.

To be a more accurate representation the game should not actually end. Even if you have nothing you should be required to move in and out of debtors prison and grind around the board hopelessly until you die. The only reason Monopoly works as a game is that you get to start over with everyone getting an equal share. If the end rule was changed to - everyone has to play 1000 rounds and after that the person with the most is declared the winner - I doubt anyone would play.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Ironically, Monopoly was a game that came out of the 30s which was an unlicensed, unattributed copy of an almost identical game (called Rent maybe?) It was designed to show the unsustainability and somewhat capricious nature of capitalism. Many can play, much wealth is created, but there is only one winner..
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Landlord game Patented 1904

People preferred playing with the rules where there was one winner
 
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