Re: OT: "A Deliberate Act of Sabotage"

On 31/10/2024 11:54 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:40:21 -0700, john larkin wrote:
 

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:07:19 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 10/27/2024 6:14 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:46:22 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 10/27/2024 2:02 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:49:40 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 10/27/2024 8:03 AM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

This could just be the last election.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx3ixwA2UVY

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The US fruit-picking and meat-packing industry will just replace
their illegal immigrant labor with 12 year olds it's OK. Former
illegal immigrant Musk has never had a problem with child labor in
his EV supply chain so far

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Or replace the labor with Ivy League liberal arts graduates. People
need to eat so the market aways adjusts.
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How many Ivy League liberal arts graduates at this point in history
do you figure really need to work for a living in the first place? Or
Ivy League graduates, period?
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Remember Jean Harlow in "Suzy": "Don't you worry about me; blondes
never go broke. Being a brunette, you wouldn't understand that."
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Nobody goes to an Ivy to go broke. Not even the basket-weaving majors
from the few destitute families that manage to make it there.
Networking
is the biggest advantage of schools like that and like Ivy graduate
DJT must know well enough you're your own "too big to fail" brand
once you have an Ivy degree in hand, probably why he likes bringing
it up so much.

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You sound like the New York Times. All Trump, all the time.
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He's certainly a unique character.
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At age 80 that should probably be something of a matter of concern
the Republican party, much less the NYT's bottom line.

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There is a minimum age requirement for a President. There should be a
max too. Either party!
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Senate and House, ditto. And term limits.
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A min age for any political position would help elect people who had a
real job once in their lives.

 The biggest flaw in our current model of democracy is the concept of a
'career politician' which opens up all manner of opportunities for
grifters to sell-out in return for any improper inducement made to them in
regards to their future comforts when they're no longer electable. You get
elected, do your four years or whatever it might be, then get the hell out
of the game. Then join everyone else in the real world and live yourself
under the laws you yourself helped to make.

This is a trifle unrealistic. When you are in power you have lots of contact with powerful people. When you re-join the real world, you still have those contacts. Even if you don't set out to exploit them, you will automatically be someone whom somebody powerful will think of when an interesting/demanding/well-paid job comes up.
It's not what you know, but who you know - and it works both ways. The powerful will have seen how you perform as a politician - perhaps competently, perhaps as somebody who is easy to influence, and they will exploit that knowledge.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney