Re: Awfully quiet in here...

On 2024-11-08, Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/7/2024 8:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net>,
Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:

Hey!
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Is anybody else out there?
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Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already started
trucking people off to the ovens???
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Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from the
people/bots that I filter, that is.

 
I imagine the American posters are either updating their passports
or making lists of which neighbours to inform on and the rest of us
are trying to work out if we're Austria or Poland.
 
(if you have to ask, you're always Poland)

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My wife and I have had serious discussions about moving.
I have the possibility to get an EU citizenship, I
grew up as an expatriate, and we both travel, so the idea
isn't as alien as it would be to some. We're both retired,
and have sufficient funds to be accepted in many countries.
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For the moment, we're sitting tight. Trump only got a 3%
margin - there are plenty of non-Trumpers left in the
country.
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Personally, I concur with Bernie Sanders that the Democrats
abandoned supporting working class interests, and Trump said
all the right things to pick that demographic up. I'm pretty
doubtful that he'll actually deliver for that group. He's
a lame duck, unconstrained by re-election. He will strip mine
the country to benefit billionaires.

As opposed to the many billions that Biden funnelled to his billionaires
through the IRA, CHIP act and others?

You have to remember that we grow old. The status quo has changed. The
Democrats have been the party of the wealthy for the past 20 years and it
grows worse.  Many more billionaires supported Biden in 2020 and Harris
this year than supported Trump. The growing discrepency is alarming.  The
Democrats spent 60% more than the Republicans since Super Tuesday
(over 1.6 billion compared to under 1 billion (NPR)).

Chris