Zooey wrote:

bnw wrote:

I have not heard of it.

Dead Poets Society. A film with Robin Williams. 90% of the humor in this depends upon having seen that film.

OK thanks I did see DPS.

I have not heard of it.

Butter bean.

LBJ’s Great Society has been a disaster.

Terrific and transparent. So so golf game. Travels too heavy though. Should get the Mrs. to fly on his jet.

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Zooey wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/100012148270914/videos/125400177874924/

I dunno if this is going to work. I couldn’t get to the host site of the video, so I’m hoping you can see it here.

Funny stuff! Other than the D behind her name only the social wedge issues are the difference between her and the R neocons.

I hope you guys find real relief fast. Is there promising research close to market?

Agamemnon wrote:

Easley’s love of aggressive dogs has caused him other problems. One of his friends, Wiley Brown, filed a lawsuit against in Easley this past January seeking at least $15,000 after being attacked and bitten while staying at Easley’s house. The suit, filed in Palm Beach County, claims that Brown suffered permanent scarring, among other maladies. Easley is also bracing for the possibility of two other lawsuits being filed against him by other parties.

Easley came to the Patriots with a reputation of having an aloof personality, and he lived up to the billing. He already has fired two agents and three financial advisers in his two years in the NFL, and last week hired popular NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus as his third agent. When reached on Wednesday, Rosenhaus declined comment.

Multiple league sources said Easley was unreliable and immature.

“He’ll make an appointment for a massage and not show up,” one source said. “He’s just very disrespectful and irresponsible.”

“I think he rubbed a lot of people the wrong way,” another source said. “He comes across as an entitled kid. He reneges on everything. He thinks he’s invincible.”

When it came to football, Easley played by his own rules, which didn’t go over well with Belichick and staff. He routinely ignored requests to rehab his injuries with the Patriots’ trainers, and instead did it on his own. Most players rehabbed their recent injuries in the Patriots’ facilities, but when Easley was placed on IR in 2014 and 2015, he immediately left the team and did his own thing. This past offseason he traveled to Germany to seek alternative treatments for his knee.

The Patriots grew so fed up with Easley during his rookie year that they placed him on IR in December and told him to stay away and rehab on his own until the offseason program began in April. When the Patriots were raising the Lombardi Trophy in Arizona, Easley was partying in Las Vegas.

The Patriots “never liked him from the get-go, and part of the problem was he would never listen to the medical advice,” one source said.

This guy reads like big trouble. Perhaps Snisher can’t see the big picture?

Your moving the goal line isn’t very egalitarian.

wv wrote:

Is Affirmative Action a conservative policy to make rich white people
feel better? Yes? No?

Check out the four minute mark of the Vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyruiScXqcU

Writing this without watching the Youtube I would say that AA exists for politicians to receive political gain from the AA employee. 25 years ago it was so rampant that clearly unqualified people were given jobs they had zero training for and so much qualified employees effort was devoted to holding their hand so the AA employee could be further promoted. Can’t find a better way to kill initiative among the qualified yet non AA employees.

Billy_T wrote:

bnw wrote:

Really? You ignored the G&T student predicament. So lets see what else. What if someone is ugly vs. gorgeous? Fat vs. fit? Extroverted vs. introverted? Still preaching equality or do you at all acknowledge human behavior and its undeniable effect?

I didn’t ignore anything. I said that you described the existing problems with society, thinking you had come up with some unique problem that would only apply to alternative systems. Again, the alternative wouldn’t have that problem, because the purpose of education in a socialist, left-anarchist society is completely different from a capitalist society. There is no need to create good little capitalist worker bees. There is no need to preach obedience to authority and mold young minds into mass children for a mass consumerist culture. There is no need to make sure kids surrender their own personal autonomy to the ruling class, to business owners, etc. Those things won’t exist.

As for individual differences? Why would any of that matter? We’re not looking for sameness in human beings, unlike the capitalist system, which depends upon sameness, teaches it, herds people into being compliant, complacent drones. It’s capitalism that couldn’t survive if everyone were actually free to do their own thing. It’s capitalism that couldn’t survive if people were taught to think for themselves, provide for themselves, self-govern, self-actuate.

So, again, who cares if people are radically diverse? In this alternative society, we celebrate, promote and do our best to provoke that.

I think you are seriously confused about the definition of “equality” in this context. It doesn’t mean individual to individual sameness. It means equal rights and all humans being equally valued. Our time being equally valued and valuable. It means equal say in one’s workplace, an equal voice in one’s community, and equal access to all the fruits of society, without hindrance. It means all citizens are co-owners of the means of production, with an equal share. It means everyone is entitled to personal autonomy and dignity, as citizens. No bosses. No masters. No slaves.

It doesn’t mean everyone acts alike or is expected to. It means quite the opposite. Because in this society, with everyone having all the tools they could possible need to achieve their potential, the diversity of individual human experience will be greater than in any previous system known to humankind. Rather than just a tiny fraction of society having the chance to pursue individuals dreams, everyone will have that chance.

Again, you seem to be critiquing this from the standpoint of how things work now, by the rules of capitalism and our existing system. That’s using the rules of Risk to say this or that Chess move can’t work.

In short, you have to think outside the box.

We already have this freedom. It’s called owning your own business. You’re in charge. For good or bad.

Really? You ignored the G&T student predicament. So lets see what else. What if someone is ugly vs. gorgeous? Fat vs. fit? Extroverted vs. introverted? Still preaching equality or do you at all acknowledge human behavior and its undeniable effect?

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Billy_T wrote:

bnw wrote:

I’ve never been a Kenny Loggins fan. But I watched a lot of Gilligan’s Island. That seems like what you want to do but out of those 7 stranded castaways 3 are the Howels and Gilligan.

Actually, no. The point would be to make sure no one is stranded. No one. No one left behind. Everyone gets the chance to achieve their fullest potential, primarily because there would no longer be any monetary barriers between them and their dreams. For the first time in history, everyone, simply by being a citizen, would have unhindered access to the full range of educational, cultural, health and fitness and environmental options available, with no entrance fees. Instead of these things being set aside for the Howells alone, or those who manage the wealth of the Howells, everyone could take advantage of all the fruits of society. No exclusion. No one stranded.

As long as they are not the square peg to be forced into the round hole. That square peg looks around the packed gifted and talented classroom and decides the work is so ridiculously easy as to be meaningless. Feigning sleep to daydream of a life lived fully elsewhere brings some solace for now.

I’ve never been a Kenny Loggins fan. But I watched a lot of Gilligan’s Island. That seems like what you want to do but out of those 7 stranded castaways 3 are the Howels and Gilligan.

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profit = surplus

Thought I made that clear. Without surplus you will have to magically guess how much work, sorry, in your system half time work will lead to exactly the production that will be needed. Such prescience. No other system can magically predict all the factors that lead to production.

That is for every product. No surplus. No shortage. Only exactly what is needed.

No way such a laid back do as little as needed command economy can work.