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The Imperium of Corporate Collective Salvation | With the advent of ESG, the US and EU socioeconomic landscapes are completing a consolidation by fascist combines of public/private partnerships eating up all the small spaces in the wake of post disaster market contractions, and leaving them disused, so that the middle and lower classes remain fossilized in a static more manageable state that by mid century hopes to become a digital landscape of nationalized infrastructure that has pushed everyone not wealthy out of property ownership, and into a kind of rental society where you work, house, feed, and entertain yourself from a limited buffet supplied by large government and corporate concerns trying to preserve their unsustainable paradigm at everyone else's expense. Some of the nations I have created over the years have been parodies of concepts I detest. | |
The Pirates of Xyanth | I'm back. Had a long trial in New Mexico and not all that much free time. Now, time to catch up. Not in the US. There are very few things you cannot put into a contract. If it is not precluded by state or federal law, you can agree to it in a contract. In the US a freelancer (also known as a contractor) comes under a different set of laws than an employee. An employee is paid an hourly wage or salary. Taxes, FICA, and Social Security are withheld. A contractor invoices for services and is paid in full, with all taxes being their own responsibility. Employees operate under the employer's business license(s) and insurance. Contractors operate under their own license(s) and insurance. The list goes on and on, but the bottom line is there are very distinct legal differences. Not true. While there are many lessor party candidates for office, they rarely get elected. As a rule third party candidates tend to keep one or the other mainstream candidates out of office by taking votes from them. Those casting the votes for the third party candidate probably would not like to see the person they are helping across the finish line win. (See what the Green Party did to Al Gore in Florida during the 2000 election.)
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The Pirates of Xyanth | This article about Nippon Steel's bid to buy US Steel ot me to thinking about how this came to be. In this nation, domestic steel production got so expensive that sometime in the 1980's it became cheaper to ship raw materials to the Pacific Rim, have those materials made into steel, and then ship that steel back here. Let's set the Way-Back to the late 1960's. Japan was in need of more steel than they could produce. Japanese industrialists came to the US to look at US Steel production facilities with an eye toward buying. They toured Bethlehem Steel, among other plants. At that time, Bethlehem steel had a payroll just north of 5000 people. The Japanese witnessed people seven or eight people doing a job that should only take four. They saw processes from mixing to pouring that were done manually rather than automated. They discovered flaws and quality issues because of manual due to a lack of electronic and mechanical process controls. Every inquiry the Japanese made about the above issues and more came down to union rules and requirements. Those industrialists went back to Japan. They did not place any orders. Three years later the first of several behumouth steel mills opened on Osaka. That first mill dwarfed Bethlehem by a factor of three. Fully automated with state of the art mixing and process control. That first mill opened with a payroll of 500 people. That was the beginning of the decline of US steel production. Of course, the unions are screaming bloody murder over Nippon's acquisition of US Steel. "I feel like they already haven't put America first, by selling out to a foreign entity," USW Local 1557 President Don Furko said. No, Don, you did this to yourselves over the last 50 years or so. What do you think? New poll is up. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nippon-steel-says-us-steel-acquisition-wouldnt-cause-layoffs-plant-closures#&_intcmp=fnhpriver_4 | |
The Imperium of Corporate Collective Salvation | It is an older story than the 1960s, and not exclusive to steel. Okay, back to US. The apologetic paradigm is what inspired the unnecessary flip into a primarily consumerist society, turned US into a piggy bank for UN international wealth redistribution, and if it has ever appeared that our trade policy dynamic seems to mostly put US over a barrel, well, that is because it intentionally does. My concerns are not just for US, however, as we catch up to and combine with the EU, and other consortiums who have been advancing similarly dysfunctional policy models ahead of US, and continuing on after some of the most ridiculous inhuman, and anti-social pandemic mitigation yet fever dreamed by politically compromised technocrats to drive this century towards an apocalyptic global food deficit. | |
The Allied States of TheCapitalistUtopia | ||
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The Pirates of Xyanth | Want to know why Democrats should not be allowed to even suggest nominees for the US Supreme Court? Here's why: "Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods. The government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country... by encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information." | |
The Democratic Technomancy of Gurkland | Translation: The ''first amendment is an obstacle for the government for protecting citizens against information we disagree with, if we were north koreans we would definitively support the internet ban that Kim Jong Un did because that prevents misinformation and people should only get information from competent institutions and government authorities that are run by experts and knows what they talk about, people are unintelligent and democracy is rule by the ignorant, trust the experts only, people are also too disinformed and unintelligent to vote'' | |
The Republic of Smieda | In Germany, the government is also having similar goals. They want to pass the "Demokratieförderungsgesetz" so "Democracy encouragement act". It will enable the government to give even more money to "democratic" aka left wing and progressive organizations. Some of these organizations also go to schools. The law is also dealing with fighting hate crime, where of course the government decides what counts as hate crime. Probably anything they call "right wing" and "right extremist". They currently also can monitor people and people's bank accounts who they classed as "Anti-constitutional". This mostly applies to people from the opposition party. The government agency that does this classification is bound to instructions by the government. | |
The Imperium of Corporate Collective Salvation | Why am I reminded of Chancellor Palpatine just now.? An administrative state ridiculously top heavy with bureaucracy that is fundamentally inept, and has outgrown, and defies most efforts by elected officials to address dysfunction, is a ripe fruit for fundamental transformation. American progressives are government supremacists, and in regards to information handling, see themselves as the supreme authority on truth. Again, an old problem. | |
The Pirates of Xyanth | I would think the people of Germany would have already learned that lesson. But, yet... here we are. | |
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The Democratic Technomancy of Gurkland | Same, not a good page in the progressive liberal canadian history | |
The Imperium of Corporate Collective Salvation | Both Trudeau senior and junior are Marxist simps. | |
The Republic of Smieda | Well actually a lot of people especially in the eastern parts of the country are very fed up with marxist and woke agenda. A lot of them still remember how socialism was and they see the similarities. But unfortunately, this is not an isolated issue. We see similar things happen in other western countries like the US and Canada. Yes, they are everywhere. One of the latest things I heard, maybe some of you know about it, was that there are consultant companies that video game studios hire to make their games politically correct and to get that juicy ESG score. They rewrite the stories and are able to do other things in the name of "inclusion" and "diversity". Basically they want to shove you woke stuff down your throat. | |
The Imperium of Corporate Collective Salvation | In regards to US entertainment media, just follow Disney's odious trail, and assume the rest of the industry is following suit. In its arrogance, American news media operates under the premise that the customer is always wrong. | |
via BOPDR | The Republic of Moreistan | Everyone, BOPDR's next debate will be on immigration. It will be at 9:00 AM AEST Sunday, or 6:00 PM EST (I think. That could be CST) Saturday. The specific topic should be 'In what cases is increased immigration a good thing?'. If you would like to sign up to participate in the debate, telegram me about it, and I will add your name to the list. |
via BOPDR | The Republic of Moreistan | |
The Pirates of Xyanth | Disney is a freight train speeding toward a busted bridge. The CEO and the Board are starting to catch on and backed off on the throttle. What waits to be seen is if anyone applies the brakes before it is too late to stop the train from plunging into the canyon. | |
The Imperium of Corporate Collective Salvation | The New York Times, and other powerhouse publishers like it, have devolved into allowing Twitter to be their editor in chief in all but name. | |
The Pirates of Xyanth | Tell me about it. More and more news articles are littered with twitter comments as part of the article. Seriously, people. I don't care what people are tweeting. Other people's opinions should not ever be part of a fact based news piece. Opinions are why someone created the editorial page. | |
The Imperium of Corporate Collective Salvation | Never mind that Twitter is the lowest common denominator of American discourse, and does not represent a median example of much beyond willful emotionally charged ignorance. | |
The Armed Republic of Anconcapistan | ||
The Imperium of Corporate Collective Salvation | Case in point. At least I don't have to be online to know what they are thinking, if that is the word for it. |