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A judge, especially an appointee, should not decide policy--good or bad. Policy should derive from (best first) referenda, initiatives, snap elections, votes of no confidence, recalls, and impeachments--or at least from fair representatives and technocratic caretakers.

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Why did anyone vote for a dictator and sociopath? When he delivered what he promised, why have so few resisted? My theory: So many people are already cutting so many corners that too few will risk more than a sentiment or pose. The US has never valued general fairness.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

My minimum standards for people: Voting, no smoking, no alcohol, no self-medication, no tattoos, no buzz cuts, no tv sports, no fireplace burning, no cheating, no anti-vax, no pets, no MAGA, no Hypocrats, no Kennedy delusions, no Marx, no Putin, no sky fairies, no Zionism; minimal meat and children

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Mitch McConnell did it again! He previously froze and fell, but now he has twice voted against Drumpf cabinet picks. The moderately ambulatory Nancy Pelosi has admitted that the Hypocrats should have held an open primary. Ageism can be wrong, and younger sociopaths worse.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I support collectives and communes, but not Communism, Bolshevism, or whatever China calls itself. I oppose autocracy, central planning, and command economies. Most of all, I support initiatives, referenda, recalls, snap elections, and votes of no confidence. 3/3

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I support markets that are competitive rather than free, but I accept public utilities in cases of natural monopolies (water, electricity, internet access, and health care). 2/3

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I do not oppose capitalism. The pooling of nongovernment money produced canals, railroads, and the industrial revolution. I oppose bribery, doctrinal deregulation, monopolies, price fixing, regressive taxation, regulatory capture, revolving doors, and union-breaking. 1/3

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I SUPPORT ending Carried (passive voice) Interest, which has enabled hedge funds. However, Trump knows that rescinding CI will never pass either Chamber of Bribes, so his proposal is safely DoA. Proposing to end CI may attract dumb populists; he can always blame legislative failure on the Chambers

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Each policy and voting decision deserves an equation--a sum of positives and negatives, each receiving weight by priority and importance. Instead, ex-thinkers of the left and right begin with an emotion or pose, highlight supporting memes, suppress counter-arguments, and spew ad hominem.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Decisions can derive from voting (1936 Barcelona anarchism, stock trading, startups, referenda), the rich (capitalism), or government (central planning). If voting fails, then wealth and government must be adversarial (profit v. regulation); the nadir is a merger, as in the US now.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Stop working. Nonviolently march on Washington. Strike nationally. Although transportation cannot accommodate everyone at once, join the wave where and when you can. Demand the obvious first--living wages, taxes for the rich, and health care for all here legally. Settle the rest by referenda.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Here's how a two-party system worked: A Republican in the Senate in 1933 (Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan) added deposit insurance to the Democrats' Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial from investment banking. FDR had considered deposit insurance too radical.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Dummies bleat exceptionalism rather than advocate the enforcement of laws impartially. Apprehend Trump and illegal immigrants; Nettie and Putie; murderers and CEOs; and war criminals Biden, Obama, and Bush II.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Communism succeeded in lowering mean, median, and total national wealth but likely did not affect the disparity between richest and poorest (pending the release of tax returns from Stalin, Mao, and Castro).

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

The trouble with revolutions (from below) is that the masses are not smart or dispassionate enough to make good decisions, and the leaders of revolutions have not even won a vote of the masses.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Ignore my putts, and my wife's name is not Rosy.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Immigrants are not here to vote. Immigrants are here to receive substandard wages from Republican employers. If immigrants prioritized politics, they would flock to a democratic country, such as México, whose new president is Claudia Sheinbaum.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

US GENERAL STRIKE! until federal referenda on: 1) Ending military aid to Israel 2) Prohibiting presidential wars 3) Providing first-world, no-insurer medical care 4) Outlawing gifts to candidates and officeholders 5) Adopting Australian laws on guns and failure to vote

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Even if we purge "many," "most," "often," and "to a certain extent," academic prose remains content-poor, copycat, doctrinaire, jargonistic, mealy-mouth, nit-picking, paraphrastic, and obvious. Instead, build arguments on facts, quotes, and sources. Judge at the end, not the beginning.

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

The 1960s resistance to a plastic culture and the special operation in Vietnam took the form of out-self-indulging the establishment. What could go wrong?

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

Presidential candidates need additional human shields. Children in Gaza are available now.

submitted 230 days ago • 0 comments

I knew there was a silver lining! The melting point of Ice-9 is 114.4 F.

submitted 252 days ago • 0 comments

When, and in reaction to what, does a species' selfishness cease, or even abate? Answer: Extinction.

submitted 258 days ago • 0 comments

The lesson of the Robert Hunter Biden case is that if a legislature passes a law, and an executive signs, then someone may want to enforce it.

submitted 259 days ago • 0 comments

The self-described left has not reformed, advanced, or progressed beyond Marx, Bolsheviks, Stalin, or Castro. Witness the two Koreas (a nearly perfect experiment) and the Spanish Civil War (Líster of Stalin's International Brigades destroyed the Anarchist communes in Aragón).

submitted 260 days ago • 0 comments

For war crimes arrest and prosecute Bushwah, Nettie, Putie, and a Hamas leader. Ban bribery. Pass laws for minimum income, maximum net worth, maximum market share, and maximum profit margin. Institute audits, initiatives, recalls, referenda, snap elections, and votes of no confidence.

submitted 263 days ago • 1 comment