August 2011 is the last time I posted. Welcome back me!
👈 Formula. I think it's for a bourbon, water back.
These are comments from various comment sections -- of them Medium, a site rife with tedium. The first comment was in response to an article about capitalism on Medium. I don't remember the particulars now. The "This guy"
refers to umair haque, a Medium regular who cheers on the demise of America. His energy for this type of writing is impressive. I don't know who he is -- calls himself an economist; wikipedia says he's a London-based consultant -- but man-alive does he not like the US!! It's his right but it's always striking that those who register on the extreme end of hating a system lack of awareness that they write from a place where they can openly and safely hate that system; a system that pays them to talk and write about the how much they hate the system (there aren't many). This is particularly true because the remedy or model they espouse wouldn't let them do that! I don't recall what the other comments are for or from -- i guess they were from the Ukraine nothingburger. That comment is a little unkempt. Then there is a Trump support view. This guy writes a prodigious amount of nonsense. He doesn't see America’s glass half empty, he sees it completely empty, dirty and about to crack.
Capitalism is here to stay. It may suck sometimes, but it’s the best system there is for most people. If you like socialism, communism, democratic socialism, whatever flavor, go somewhere else — how about Cuba, N. Korea or Venezuela?
Another comment about haque that's a little meaner:
You’re an economist???!!! Ha ha. I dont think you can include yourself in the group called “other good economists.” Did you study at Hugo Chavez University? Or perhaps at the Burma Socialist Programme Party School? You cannot be an economist and a socialist at the same time. It’s like being a religious scientist or a left-handed shortstop. Not to mention you’re a relentless critic of capitalism — shouldn’t you be happy this is happening? Anyway, curious, is your last name pronounced Hack? Because that, I’m afraid, is kind of what your are.
After this article I think I cancelled my subscription, although I think I paid all at once 'cause I still can read the stories. Medium, though. Ugh. I don't have the data but it just seems like millennials run amok. Bitching about how bad everything is. It's sad because the real pressing problems don't involve race or gender or whatever identity. They involve concentration camps (Uighurs in China), freedom (Hong Kong), daily utter and complete misery, ruined economy, suffering (Aleppo, Syria and now Lebanon). These are just a few. What's to become of these places? Who's going to fix? Are our problems really that bad in comparison? Black people too often are treated unfairly and unkindly by cops. In some cases, they are killed. Let's address that problem specifically instead of painting everyone everywhere racist unless they agree with you. And let's not widen the scope to say that we need Marxism to replace capitalism. Wacky to be sure.
WSJ?
Not sure what I'm saying here many months later or who I'm saying it to. In any case, it’s shocking to me that those in favor of impeachment seemed to have their heads in the sand during the House part of this thing. Did you completely miss the part where Democrats rejected all witnesses called by Republicans? Did you miss the fact that this part of impeachment took just a few weeks, didnt force the president through the courts to allow more witnesses? (They wouldve won in court). Did you miss the three weeks that Pelosi delayed delivering the articles? Weeks that the House couldve been running their investigation more thoroughly? Did you miss the fact that none of the articles delivered actually named a crime? Why? Because there was no crime. The money was delivered, no investigation took place. Any btw, why not a Biden investigation? The Trump hate is so strong that no one on the left seems to think the whole Biden/Hunter Biden/Ukraine/Burisma thing was a little strange and not kosher.? And if running for office makes you immune from investigation, then everyone everywhere who may have broken a law should just say, sorry I’m running for office, you canbot investigate or prosecute. This was big nothing burger that only strengthened Trump’s base and resolve. It probably attracted the uncommitted voters, too.
WSJ?
This one I still believe. You know why people like Trump? Because he never insults them the way the left does. Never calls entire swaths of country racists. Never tells them just because of the color of their skin, they need to shut up, that their time is over (Obama... ok he implied it!). They’re tired of climate catastrophizing every weather event (when btw, what’s gonna kill us all is a virus a la corona/SARS, etc).
