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  1. VaxRule

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    Mr Macron is the first French president not to have done military service; it was scrapped for the new intake in 1996, when Mr Macron was 18.
     
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    Was talking with a friend last night about something similar. Are there any projections about how much something like this would cost?
     
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    The cost would be a bit hard to pin down because it would likely have a ton of upheaval and much of the industry that would have gotten money from those paying insurance would go into the program, at a conceivably lower clip (this will also have to go along with a couple new laws renegotiating how pharmaceutical things are paid out and the legal/economic practices of generics). Bernies last Medicare for all plan in 2017

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vo...474/medicare-for-all-plan-cost-bernie-sanders

    https://www.salon.com/2017/09/24/medicare-for-all-could-be-cheaper-than-you-think_partner/

    An issue arises, like you see in the first article, that medicaid/medicare cuts are already being made and those will crush the elderly and our parents in the next 8 years.

    Bernies plan would be 14 trillion over the first ten years, but its really, really hard to recalculate just how money will flow with the private insurers leaving a void, and people having more money that could go to adjustable copays and what not.
     
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    That is to say, we're already barreling toward a brick wall with deeper and deeper cuts
     
  6. VaxRule

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    Yeah, ultimately we should get to a point where per capita health costs decrease as a result but getting there is going to take a lot of work.
     
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    I was fortunate enough to meet and attend a talk with a guy that just founds and runs pharma companies across the east coast and then sells them and a pharma company owner from India taking classes in the US to see how drug development and regulation is done in the US. Super good guy, pretty libertarian, and they both kinda went back and forth for a bit about how it doesn't matter what drug or formulation you're making, any pill with any chemical entity can be produced for, at most, $4 per bottle, whatever the illness it targets is.

    Oh man, did he go in on distributors over and over again.
     
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    On a scale from Obama-Marx, how far left is the new “Leftist” Mexican President exactly?
     
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    Bernie is seems, although, I've read that "leftist" kinda has a different meaning in Mexican politics. For instance, his party is allied with a super-homophobic party, and this apparently is acceptable idk.
     
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    Last Week Tonight showed that he was similar to Trump in that he wants always very vague on how he would employ his policies.
     
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    Tom Cotton being pissy and whining makes me happy

    “I regret that the Senate farm bill, unlike the House version, includes no real reforms of the food-stamp program, in part because I was not allowed a vote on my amendment that imposed new work requirements on adult food-stamp users and prevented illegal aliens from getting food stamps. And I also wasn’t allowed votes on my amendment to repeal the Obama-era Waters of the U.S. regulation or my amendment to allow Arkansas fish farmers to protect their stock against predatory birds. The Senate should have a more open process, especially for these common-sense ideas.” - Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who voted against the Senate Farm Bill.

    “We are one step closer to providing certainty and predictability to Arkansas’s farmers and ranchers who are experiencing the most fragile farm economy since the 1980’s farm crisis. I was pleased to see the process move forward.” - Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., who voted for the Senate Farm Bill.
     
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    That’s an intense whistle, undocumented immigrants are already not allowed to receive food stamps benefits.
     
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    NC Rs continue to attack democracy
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    North Carolina GOP plots breathtaking two-step: gerrymander the judiciary, pack the Supreme Court


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    Republicans in North Carolina have gone to extraordinary extremes to undermine democracy, but their latest power grab can only be described as a nuclear attack on the rule of law: They want to gerrymander the judiciary and then pack the state Supreme Court, all in order to do away with the one-seat Democratic majority on the bench.

    It’s a devastatingly devious scheme, and it all begins with the GOP’s gerrymander of the legislature itself—maps that allowed the party to lock in veto-proof majorities even though they’ve been struck down as unconstitutional by the courts. With that ill-gotten hammerlock on the state House and Senate, Republicans last week placed a constitutional amendment on the ballot this fall that would transfer the power to fill judicial vacancies from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to legislators themselves.

    And if the measure passes, it would effectively gerrymander the judiciary. That’s because this amendment would create a commission to provide the governor with a list of names from which he or she would choose an appointee any time there’s a judicial vacancy. But that commission would be a sham: It would be stocked with members chosen by the legislature—that is to say, the GOP—and it could therefore send Cooper nothing but hardcore conservative partisans, giving him no one else to choose from.

    But there’s more. North Carolina's constitution allows lawmakers to add two more justices to the state Supreme Court, simply by passing a new law doing so. Right now, the court has seven members, with four Democrats and three Republicans. You can see where this is going: If the amendment passes, the GOP could then put two more justices on the court, creating vacancies that their rigged commision would be in charge of recommending names for.

    And with that, the North Carolina Supreme Court would have a five-to-four Republican majority.

    Note that Republicans could pull this off even if they lose their illegally obtained supermajorities in November (which looks likely) by calling a lame-duck session after the elections to pack the court over Cooper's veto. State House Minority Leader Darren Jackson took to the House floor to accuse the GOP of preparing to do exactly this on Thursday and dared his Republican colleagues to deny it.

    None would.

    North Carolina Republicans have relentlessly shown they will stop at nothing to hold onto power. They have gerrymandered every level of government from Congress down to local school boards. When they passed one of the most restrictive voter suppression laws since Jim Crow, a federal court struck it down for targeting black voters "with almost surgical precision." And when Cooper ousted GOP Gov. Pat McCrory in 2016's elections, the GOP legislature used a lame-duck session to try to usurp as much power as they could, much like this judicial appointment amendment would.

    With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to take a radical lurch to the right following Anthony Kennedy's retirement, state courts will soon become the last refuge for those seeking to place a check on Republican power run amok. Consequently, defeating this amendment in this November's referendum is critical for preserving the independence of the one branch of North Carolina's government that is currently able to limit the GOP.

    But even if this amendment succeeds, Democrats have one other way to stop the GOP takeover of the court: at the ballot box. Earlier this week, Daily Kos proudly announced our endorsement of Democrat Anita Earls in her race against Republican Justice Barbara Jackson this fall. As a civil rights attorney, Earls has fought and won cases against GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression. Crucially, if she prevails, Democrats would hold five seats on the high court, meaning that even if the GOP went ahead with its court-packing scheme, Democrats still have a five-to-four majority.

    However, Earls doesn't have an easy road ahead of her. With their power on the court threatened, Republicans eliminated this year's primaries entirely, forcing all candidates to run on a single ballot in the fall so that fake Democrats could try to split the vote. But Earls scored a very lucky break when no other Democrat ended up on the ballot, and a second Republican made it on there instead.

    And if Earls wins and voters defeat this amendment, she’d be able to join what would be a five-to-two Democratic majority to strike down Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression laws in a way that would not be subject to U.S. Supreme Court review. That very thing happened earlier this year in Pennsylvania, where a Democratic-majority Supreme Court interpreted the state constitution to ban gerrymandering. North Carolina's constitution guarantees similar rights.

    Indeed, Republicans fear that exact outcome, which is why they passed another constitutional amendment—this one to enshrine a voter ID requirement. They also recently overrode Cooper’s veto of a law that tries to eliminate Saturday early voting only to abruptly pass a subsequent measure to restore it on a temporary basis this year. Since black voters disproportionately used Saturday voting, it’s likely that Republicans were worried about judicial review until the courts move further right.

    But that isn’t the end of it: The GOP put a third amendment on the November ballot this week that would transfer control of the bipartisan state Board of Elections from the governor to the legislature itself. When Cooper took office, Democrats would have gained a majority on the board and been able to reverse past voter suppression measures the previous GOP majority had enacted, but this amendment would make that impossible. Republicans, desperate to avoid this fate, previously passed three separate statutes in furtherance of this goal, but state courts struck down or curtailed them every time.

    Republicans in North Carolina have pursued every imaginable angle in their quest to ensure they'll remain in power no matter how much or how often the electorate would prefer Democrats in a fair election. But voters will have the power to fight back this fall by electing Anita Earls and rejecting this amendment to gerrymander the judicial branch.

    Please give $5 to help elect Anita Earls and preserve the rule of law in North Carolina.
     
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    FARGO - Longtime broadcaster Ed Schultz has died. He was 64.

    Sources tell WDAY-TV in Fargo that Schultz died of natural causes.

    Schultz started his broadcast career in TV and radio in Fargo in the early 1980s, including time as sports director at WDAY.

    He went on to host a show at MSNBC and most recently worked for RT.
     
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    Woman calls out of work -- her child on life support. The Boss tries to fire her for it


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    The tyranny of 'no workers protections' is REAL and PAINFUL to see.
    Crystal Reynolds Fisher of Michigan is living every mother's nightmare.Her 18-year-old son is on life support after running a fever of 104 and doctorsare still figuring out what caused his condition.
    Like any mother would, Fisher called out of work so she could stay by her son's side in the hospital. However, the reaction she received from her manager is more heartless than she ever could have expected.

    Last week a mother was pushed into a inhuman decision. She was asked to choose between being there for her child who is on life support and keeping her service job at a store called “Folk Oil.”

    Her child on life support and his future unsure she did what any person would do and let her manager know ahead of time that she would be absent due to a family emergency. What followed after that was down right disgusting.

    Her boss (read petty bourgeoisie) decided that the concerns of “folk oil” and the subsidiary “PS FOOD MART”, a chain of gas station connected retails, outweighted the humanity of Crystal (The Working Mother) and her child who was on life support.

    She put it rather directly “ I have a store to run that’s my focus.”

    VIa: Buzzfeed News.

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    On Saturday, Fisher uploaded screenshots of the text exchange to her Facebook page and the post was shared over 70,000 times. By Monday, the story had reached the Folk Oil corporate office and the manager was swiftly fired.
    After learning that her manager was let go, Fisher told station WWMT all she had to say to her former boss is, "I pray for you."

    This is what the Right-to-work/Gig/contractor/understaffed/service-only Economy gets you. You are a replaceable subsidiary. You are here only as a means to profit and your humanity is quite mutable to the owners and Managers.
     
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    I hear this guy is bouncing around and doing some things in a rural GA district.
     
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    12 hour workdays coming soon to the US
     
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    Is this because we've relatively plateaued technologically?
     
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    no and in fact it’s the opposite - increased automation (an increase in the value-composition of capital) is the chief driver in the fall in the rate of profit over time. one way to recapture some of this is to increase the rate of surplus value extraction by paying less/reducing perks/increasing non-overtime hours/etc

    furthermore, andrew kliman goes on to suggest that the rapid increase in the rate of obsolescence of new technology has devalued advanced capital more than it has reduced the rate of profit and is a significant reason as to why the economy has stangnated over the past couple-few decades
     
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    Remember how Justice Kagan was treated by Republicans in 2010 when Obama WASN'T under investigation?


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    White Supremacist-in-Chief Donald Trump just nominated conservative white guy Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The move serves two obvious purposes—only one of which is of any interest to Donald: 1) Kavanaugh will likely side in favor of forced-birther challenges to Roe v. Wade, and 2) Kavanaugh has written glowingly about how sitting presidents shouldn’t have to deal with petty problems like special investigations into serious charges of illegal misconduct. Trump could give a rat’s ass about abortion, having been pro-choice all the way up until he wasn’t—a little while before the Republican primary in 2016. And be aware: Kavanaugh was birthed in the unconstitutional shitshow that was the 2000 election, working in the George W. Bush campaign and later making his way into Bush’s White House and finally, after a lot of fighting, into a position on the D.C. Court of Appeals.

    Now cast your mind back: Remember in 2010, when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was first nominated? The Republican Party, behind awful people like Sen. Mitch McConnell saw a chance to revitalize their base via their homophobia and misogyny. Here’s the CBSNews reporting on the upcoming “fight” the Republican Party was planning for Kagan:

    Now, with opinion polls showing a weakened president and critical midterm elections looming -- and with a steady stream of documents from past jobs showing Kagan taking predictably liberal positions -- Republicans are poised for a fight.

    Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said on Sunday's "Face the Nation" that Kagan has "serious deficiencies," citing her lack of judicial experience and her positions on a number of social issues.

    This was after President Obama was popularly elected and had a considerably higher approval rating for the first part of his tenure in office, than the dirtbag there now. Republicans made a big to-do about the thousands of emails released by the Clinton Library—now let’s just watch if the thousands of Kavanaugh emails in the George W. Bush Library will be released as well.

    It took about three months between President Obama’s announcement until Kagan was confirmed by the Senate. And during that time, scam artists and bigots like Jeff Sessions and Mitch McConnell griped about Kagan for everything from her supposed lack of “experience” to questioning whether or not she broke the law by banning military recruiters on the Harvard campus because of their homophobic service policies at the time.*

    McConnell has already emerged from his secret cave of one thousand sorrows to wring his hands and ask for “fairness” for Kavanaugh. Considering that McConnell’s greatest legacy will always be that he helped orchestrate one of the most massive overreaches in legislative power in the history of the country by stealing away the executive’s decision on the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Anton Scalia’s death, Mitch McConnell could care about as much about “fairness” as Donald Trump cares about the facts or the law.

    If Sen. Chuck Schumer doesn’t have the stamina to stand truly strong for something, it’s time for him to step aside. Our country is at stake.

    *She didn’t.
     
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    That's kinda what I was getting at. They're sinking profits into illiquid capital that quickly becomes worthless so they're squeezing labor.

    I think i remember seeing some curve or something around Moore's law that shows the exponential increase in R&D costs required to eke out a bit more performance of a microchip. Seems kind of analogous, to me.
     
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    Meanwhile France, with historically strong labor laws and unions, has an average workweek of like 35 hours
     
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    I believe Germany just moved to a 28 hours workweek.
     
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    I think a couple of the Scandinavian countries were expirementing with 30 hour weeks also
     
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    more or less yeah the microchip analogy is a good one for the value-composition of capital
     
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    What if the cave is dark and we can't tell who is white and who isn't :laugh:
     
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    rounding up illegals, mmhmm. Centrist dems think these people are roadmaps to victory for themselves



    not creepy at all
     
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    dk editorial

    Republicans Can Not Govern Honorably

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    Respect for people, human rights, freedom, truth and equality is honorable. Misusing respect for the flag is dishonorable.

    Who was the last honorable Republican president? Was it Bush Sr? Eisenhower?

    We are well aware that the current occupant of the White House regularly partakes in receiving emoluments, attacking federal agencies, denigrating opponents, disparaging allies, coddling dictators, and colluding with Russia. Donald Trump also has personal issues that are widely considered immoral or unethical, such as laundering money for criminals, as well as, infidelity to wives and business contracts alike.

    But, is Trump an aberration or a symptom of increasing malignancy?

    How far back do we have to go to find a Republican president who fulfilled his duties with honor?..
    Nixon set the precedent for criminal behavior in the modern Republican party with the break in and theft of DNC materials. The criminal cover-up of those crimes led to his resignation, thanks to pressure from Republicans with a modicum of shame and honor. Reagan followed up a half decade later by negotiating for Iran to keep our hostages until he became president. Then, during his term, he either ignored or approved the illegal selling of arms to Iran and using the proceeds to illegally fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Now, Reagan is practically considered a saint, while members of his administration who carried out the crimes are revered among Republicans. George HW Bush might have been the most honorable of the modern lot, but he was caught up in Iran-Contra too, and later invaded Panama on dubious pretenses before starting the decades long military intervention in Iraq. George W Bush, under false pretenses, eventually invaded Iraq, which killed and hurt millions of people, and which has been a significant contributor to instability in the region to this day. Let’s also not forget the previously unacceptable torture that Bush Jr approved.

    Perhaps we have to go back to Eisenhower to find honor in a Republican president. Or, maybe George HW Bush was the only honorable modern Republican president. At best, he was forced to bloody his hands as all presidents must do in this imperfect world. Still, Iran-Contra, Panama and Iraq hang over him. Yet, that is not what kept him from a second term. That happened because he committed a sin that was unforgiveable to proponents of supply-side economics; he broke a promise of no new taxes.

    This hints at why modern Republicans cannot govern with honor. Their philosophy prevents it.

    Modern Republicans govern in compliance with Reagan’s famous quote.

    The nine most terrifying words in the English Language are, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

    They have demonized the government. They can’t admit that government can be helpful and even necessary. So, they discredit and destroy government whenever it suits their purposes.

    This anti-government fervor dovetails with adoration of the market. Private enterprise and markets are the solution to all of our economic needs. Taxes are believed to distribute from the efficient market to the inefficient government. Wealth is idolized. Poverty is considered a choice. Increasing inequality is ignored.

    All of which complements the racism Republicans foster. Government destroying welfare queens, who happen to be black or brown, are created whole cloth to vilify all social programs and convince racists that cutting their own benefits is the best way to prevent the demise of the republic.

    Not that they will publicly admit to any such duplicity, racist or otherwise. They don’t have to. They can lie about their true intents. The ends justify the means. They can withhold forthright discussions to private settings.

    Fundamentalist Christians are particularly prone to concealing their true intentions. They fervently believe that they must do god’s will, which they believe is opposed at every turn by evil beings, including nonbelieving humans. Therefore, in order to assist in reestablishing god’s dominion over earth, they are free to use the weapons of deception and cheating in the ongoing spiritual war. In fact, they are not entirely good Christian soldiers if they fail to incorporate these tools into their arsenal.

    When truth is optional, facts may be the enemy. Only facts that confirm their worldview are acceptable. Therefore, rational and critical thinking are discouraged. Education is not necessary in their “real world”, so, it is thusly scorned.

    With a dearth of facts and reality supporting their stances, the entire Republican movement has shifted to a cult of mythology and personality. Democrats and liberals are ugly creatures inhabiting dimly lit television commercials. Republicans are heroes simply for opposing heinous Democrats. Above all is the mythology that shall not be questioned. Republicans are for law and order. They support our troops. They are fiscally responsible. They are better for the economy. Facts be damned.

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    One by one, facts and reality disprove the Republican myths. But, they are too invested to heed the facts. They risk annihilation and eternal damnation should they change course. They must maintain control and not give in to alternative explanations. Ostensibly dishonorable acts are simply misinterpreted as such by loathsome nonbelievers and liberals, according to Republican mythology.

    They have to act as they do. To them, it’s a holy war. They believe that it’s an us or them world. If blacks or immigrants gain, white people must lose. Never mind the stagnant wages and growing inequality. We must give to the rich. Supply-side is king, and the rich will save us. It’s part of the mythology.

    But, it’s wrong, or, at best, incomplete. Republicans will not regain their honor until they acknowledge and act on this.

    It doesn’t have to be a zero sum game. Everybody can be provided support and opportunity. We don’t have to blame anybody. There can still be rich people, and there is enough to go around to take care of each person. We just have to spread the riches more equitably. To do so, Republicans will have to reassess some of their core tenets. To this end, here are some relevant points.

    Government can work for people

    Government does good things

    Democrats have good ideas and policies

    Liberals are worthy of respect

    Supply side economics has failed for most people

    What’s best for the country is not always best for the wealthy

    Money should not be more influential than people

    If they can’t change their views, then the dishonorable actions will continue.

    Both sides are not equally culpable in this. Democrats make mistakes, but are willing to admit mistakes and adapt to changing conditions. The few tenets that Democrats insist on include the notion that human rights are universal and that all people deserve respect. Even in opposition, Democrats have engaged Republicans in respectful debate. A notable example of this is the health care insurance debate in which Democrats engaged in exhaustive discussions and offered multiple compromises when they controlled the debate, which Republicans unjustly called ramming down their throat, while Republicans held far fewer hearings and only included Democrats to the minimum extent required by existing legislative standards when Republicans controlled the debate.

    When warranted, Democrats have demonstrated time and again a willingness to admit mistakes and to adapt. Republicans lie and cheat to avoid changing course, and, therefore, act with dishonor. It sullies not just their name. It threatens the survival of our constitutional republic, as well as, with climate change accelerating, everything up to and including modern civilization.

    Until and unless they are able to step away from the corner they have backed into, Republicans will continue to push towards a dark precipice. If we cross that threshold, it will not be good for any of us. The winners will have to rebuild from the ruins, with no guarantee that they can even get back to where we are now. Republicans can adhere to their myths and personalities, or they can act with honor and give all of humanity a chance to advance.
     
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    Fuck honor. They only care about maximizing their wealth.
     
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