It's true of course that we shouldn't let the rape charge overshadow the fact that Biden is also a racist pig who tried to extend school segregation and whose best friends were segregationists, and that he is responsible for ensuring hundrerds of thousands of students remain in debt and that he also ensured that hundrerds and thousands more - primairily blacks - would spend time languishing in jail and so on and so fourth. Oh and that he's senile and a war hawk and equally reponsible for murdering tens or hundrerds of thousands more in the Mid-East, while ruining millions of lives there too. I mean there's only so much space to mention this stuff each time.

At some point it just becomes a list and it's hard to convey just how much concrete suffering and grief Biden has been personally responsible for.

But also yes a probable rapist.

Just to add to that, nationally, Biden is currently losing with men and ahead with women by 20 points. If he doesn't maintain a significant lead with women going into the election, he's a goner. The GOP are licking their lips at this. — Baden

This was supposed to be the candidate with the most 'electability'.

The voter-blaming and total refusal to take responsibility on the part of democrats and their lackeys will be a bloody marvel to behold, if and when it comes to it. They're already laying down the groundwork to avoiding accountability at all costs: "vote for our man or else look what you made us do". The same logic, it turns out, as abusers of women.

Imagine thinking the NYT - a paper for neoliberal shills - has anything of value to say on this topic.

Yeah I suppose it didnt occur to anyone to be an apologist of sexual assult in just that kind of manner.

Ah, sexual assault. Just another 'gotchya'. Like peek-a-boo with your penis. Or finger apparently. Guys it's OK its just a 'gotchya'.

Oh God Biden's going to fucking die, and he'll take anyone who has cared about sexual assault and rape down with him. This is not a take-down of Biden - this is a take-down of anyone who ever asked that women's grievances be taken seriously. Biden's actually going to fucking ruin the credibility of an entire generation and cause for justice. Holy shit.

A disdain for the poststructuralist bullshit — Banno

The article doesn't really say this - in fact it almost says the opposite, that there is indeed 'plenty of enthusiasm' for that kind of thing, after which G-S just opines on his own distaste for it.

After all, if you're involved in the uni systems here, theres a very healthy interest in alot of that stuff in the humanities, and Australia is well known for having some of the best post-structuralist leaning philosophers in the world.

the Sydney Opera House looks like a bunch of nuns seen through the wrong end of a telescope. — csalisbury

No no no no no.

I wonder how many we can get through on this forum alone before November. Shouldn't be too hard. Should be able to cross a few off already. Definitely 'Do you want Trump?' is done.

Biden didn't give a shit during the Michigan primaries, not sure he's going to give further shits about plebs dying during a general.

Voting to legitimate a system that holding you hostage seems like the the worst possible evil in this case.

Not as if the US is a democracy in any meaningful sense anyway.

I remember when liberals were all aghast when Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and still have support, and they couldn't understand how that sentiment could hold. Now they same the same thing about their man.

Pathetic.

Reappropriation and expropriation are not opposed or antithetical to novelty. The first person who noticed the one or the other aspect of the duck-rabbit brought something new into the world, despite it being already 'there' in some way:



The first chimpanzee to use a stick to catch termites reappropriated what was there to do something new:



Just as one can use an instrument different for a new purpose, so to can thoughts, applied or implicated differently, be new. Arguably, all 'new' thought begins it's life as reappropriation in this way.

It's true that the charges should not be treated the same. There is more corroborative evidence in Biden's case than there was with Kavanaugh's. So Biden should not only get a congressional hearing, but more besides.

Gosh you really know how to threaten everyone with a good time, don't you?

In any case, yeah, debt jubilee. Time for it to happen (again).

And of course a massive strengthening of social security nets - UBI perhaps, in conjunction with massive investment in public goods in general.

The suggestion is that you ought to have M4A and cancel student loans and stop coming up with shitty excuses to not do either.

As for stupidest things, simply tune into any one of Trump's appearances, anywhere, ever.

Ugh, those economics-for-dummies articles are stupid and wrong. Some of that money is going to the repo market, but hardly all of it. In fact, it's kinda hard to know where any of that money is going to go because transparency over who gets what is utter trash. Not to mention that the much made-of collateral that those articles play up are made up of a bunch of completely useless junk bonds.

In any case the point remains: multiple 9/11s are happening daily in the US and somehow, it's always banks and business for whom there is money, and never actual people. Fucking trash country.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Moneyness.

Ah, but insurance companies are people.

People on the other hand, are inputs and outputs.

Or you'll just have to do this again in 50 to 100 years. — Benkei

Just like we used to do in the past, and just as the bible proscribes:

"You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you" (Leviticus 25:1–4, 8–10)

Pay for Medicare for All through short-term loans from the Federal Reserve. Brilliant. Why has no one thought of that? — NOS4A2

idk probs because certain people are too busy sucking the dicks of the rich.

The same reason why America remains one of the last remaining developed nations to have a universal health care system; or better, remains a third world country when it comes to healthcare - which is why its citizens are dying by the tens of thousands.

Daily reminder that the US is a terrible place:

jerks — jacksonsprat22

assholes — jacksonsprat22

can't rise above junior high school insulting. — jacksonsprat22

I'm locking this thread because as others have pointed out, there is no argument and nothing of substance to discuss. Rules and recommendations for creating threads can be found pinned at the top of the front page.

Ha, almost no one actually uses the word billabong here. I think the clothing company has a stronger association with it than actual ponds.

I like Barnett, but I think she relies a bit more on her charm and #relatability than her songwriting. My fav Aussie album from last year - probably my fav album from last year straight up - is Two People's First Body. Phone Call is just gorgeous:



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But on topic: Fox News still sucks balls.

You would think that.

RIGHT PAST YOU.

Oh nonno, this is peak Aussie humor-music:



Legit don't know if it translates to anyone not from here though lol.

I don't think Aussie humor is particularly suited to the internet. It's too deadpan. Also we just kinda make fun of minorities as a kind of national pastime, and apparently this is frowned upon in certain circles.

Nah, Yeah.

No shit!

Fox is televised excrement lol. Like, if you put an actual, live picture of a freshly laid out warm turd on TV and labelled it 'Fox', you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

And in case I seem to rag on the US too much, the Australian government is of course trying to do the only thing neoliberal shitkickers know how to do: push back on workers rights in IR and give companies additional tax cuts, all under the guise of propping up the economy.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/22/labor-accuses-coalition-of-using-covid-19-to-dust-off-ideological-ir-obsessions

"Josh Frydenberg has put lower company tax rates and industrial relations reforms back on the table as a way to boost growth, prompting Labor warnings the Coalition will use the Covid-19 crisis to “dust off its ideological obsessions”. As Australia’s health results improve and national cabinet signals Covid-19 restrictions could be eased as early as May, the Morrison government has called for pro-growth policies, prompting business demands for industrial relations deregulation."

I don't know how anyone can look at the utter trash that is American model of governance and think: "ah that's a good idea, let's copy that", especially when the results have been literally murderous and clear for all to see. But such is our fucking government.

Ah. I think it includes all the stimulus packages (all 3.5 of them) passed and in the works so far:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/coronavirus-relief-white-house-adviser-larry-kudlow-projects-aid-package-to-reach-roughly-6-trillion/

EDIT: Some additional analysis of some of the provisions in the cumulative bills:

• An additional $4 trillion from the Federal Reserve in lending power to be lent to big corporations and banks.
  
• Authorization to bail out money market funds, multi-trillion dollar unregulated bank-like deposits for the superrich.
  
• Authorization for the the government through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee trillions of dollars of risky bank debt.

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"The reality is that neither our government nor our banks have the operational competence to write and direct checks quickly enough to avoid distress. ... The cash freeze to small business is already causing a crisis. FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra made these points on Tucker Carlson last night. First, he noted, small business loan sharks are “crippling cash-strapped companies” with onerous contracts. Second, powerful corporations are using their position to cut off small businesses from supply chains. And third, corporate raiders are planning to buy up these businesses cheap. “Corporate raiders and PE firms are already sharpening their knives,” said one Goldman Sachs associate".

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/stop-the-6-trillion-coronavirus-corporate

As in, when was the last upward transfer of public wealth on a scale like this?

But the real problem behind all of this was not Europe, it was the combination of the effects of globalisation, wealth being taken offshore and massive tax avoidance practices like the double Irish and the effects of financialisation etc. — Punshhh

AKA neoliberal capitalism, but yes :) There's a rather incredible video by - of all people - Maggie Thatcher, where she outlines, almost point by point, the problems a monetary union would cause: transfers of wealth from richer to poorer EU countries, extremist political parties, mass migration, institutional distrust and so on. It's uncannily prescient:



She does end up spouting Hayek's rubbish at the end there, but that's to be expected. I suppose that even having the exceptional status they did, the UK still could not brook the effects that spilled over from the continent, and put to use by the populists to screw the nation further.

Daily reminder that any long-term financial effects of COVID will be entirely man-made and preventable, largely because of one of the largest upwards transfers of wealth ever.


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*Figures do not include asset seizures due to foreclosures.

My question is why does a system whos core principles were invented thousands of years ago have the potential to explain all things. — Aiden

Because we tailored math do to so [PDF]:

"Human beings function like sieves that pick and choose from among thoughts and ideas. We bundle the thoughts that are related by symmetry of semantics and declare such statements to be mathematics. We do not say that there exists some perfect mathematical truths and we humans find many different instances of that truth. Rather, we say that there are many different instances of a mathematical fact and we humans bundle them together to form a clear mathematical statement.

.... Both the physicist and the mathematician chose their statements to be applicable in many different contexts. We bundle perceived physical phenomena in the same way we bundle instances of mathematical truth. It is not a mystery that the abstract laws of physics are stated in the abstract language of mathematics. Rather the regularities of phenomena and thoughts are seen and chosen by human beings in the same way."

I can't remember if it was in this video or another, but he talks about how the UK basically had almost of the good bits of the EU (open borders, trade standards, etc) without the bad (the monetary union).