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them to chg jobs just as easily as a citizen. Shd also provide a simpler & more rational path to citizenship for those folks.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
them to chg jobs just as easily as a citizen. Shd also provide a simpler & more rational path to citizenship for those folks.
Generally true, but the H1-B visa system shd be reformed or ended. The way the visa ties the worker to the employer allows employers to depress wages & put pressure on workers that they cdn’t on someone who cd easily chg jobs. Instead, we shd hv a system that admits talented people and allows…
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Generally true, but the H1-B visa system shd be reformed or ended. The way the visa ties the worker to the employer allows employers to depress wages & put pressure on workers that they cdn’t on someone who cd easily chg jobs. Instead, we shd hv a system that admits talented people and allows…
believe in the justice of the cause, with the passion that tended to characterize his beliefs, sometimes in good ways and sometimes in bad, and really fought for it.
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
believe in the justice of the cause, with the passion that tended to characterize his beliefs, sometimes in good ways and sometimes in bad, and really fought for it.
Some truth to that, but - he listened to his wife and she persuaded him it was a just cause. While again there are many bad things that are true abt Churchill, I think it’s excessively cynical to say he only favored women’s suffrage bc he thought it wd gain votes. Evidence is he genuinely came to…
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Some truth to that, but - he listened to his wife and she persuaded him it was a just cause. While again there are many bad things that are true abt Churchill, I think it’s excessively cynical to say he only favored women’s suffrage bc he thought it wd gain votes. Evidence is he genuinely came to…
flawed, as was FDR (tho FDR opposed European imperialism, to Churchill’s irritation), and simultaneously had crucial virtues; was simultaneously deeply conservative and in some respects progressive for his day.
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
flawed, as was FDR (tho FDR opposed European imperialism, to Churchill’s irritation), and simultaneously had crucial virtues; was simultaneously deeply conservative and in some respects progressive for his day.
Xinjiang and is actively colonizing the area and elsewhere like Tibet, vy most progressives seem perfectly happy to buy the cheap goods from Xinjiang with no protest, much as earlier generations happily consumed cheap sugar and cotton w/o bothering much abt how it was produced. Churchill was vy…
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Xinjiang and is actively colonizing the area and elsewhere like Tibet, vy most progressives seem perfectly happy to buy the cheap goods from Xinjiang with no protest, much as earlier generations happily consumed cheap sugar and cotton w/o bothering much abt how it was produced. Churchill was vy…
he was in many respects vy conservative, and of course racist and pro-imperialist. It’s a complex world. And some of those paradoxes exist in different forms into our own times, on the left as well as the right. For ex, altho China has imprisoned some million people in concentration camps in…
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
he was in many respects vy conservative, and of course racist and pro-imperialist. It’s a complex world. And some of those paradoxes exist in different forms into our own times, on the left as well as the right. For ex, altho China has imprisoned some million people in concentration camps in…
radical, favored nat’l food and health care programs for poor ppl. He also of course took the crucial stand at a crucial time against Hitler, and did so early, while many leftists, bc of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, were willing to let Hitler invade other countries at will. At same time…
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
radical, favored nat’l food and health care programs for poor ppl. He also of course took the crucial stand at a crucial time against Hitler, and did so early, while many leftists, bc of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, were willing to let Hitler invade other countries at will. At same time…
This is actually not true. It’s worth reading a detailed biography of Churchill. Churchill had huge flaws, among them racism and imperialism. He was also a progressive in some respects, for example worked for humane prison reform, favored votes for women at a time that was still considered…
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is actually not true. It’s worth reading a detailed biography of Churchill. Churchill had huge flaws, among them racism and imperialism. He was also a progressive in some respects, for example worked for humane prison reform, favored votes for women at a time that was still considered…
standing for, then why stand for anything? Can only hope that this age of corruption spurs some real reforms, like the Gilded Age did for the early Progressive movement.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
standing for, then why stand for anything? Can only hope that this age of corruption spurs some real reforms, like the Gilded Age did for the early Progressive movement.
Yes, Teddy was a big influence. I think the damage has come from many sources, sometimes left as well as right. The tendency on some parts of the left to view our country as nothing but hypocrisy, racism, etc. has been corrosive in its own way - if there were never any values worth…
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Yes, Teddy was a big influence. I think the damage has come from many sources, sometimes left as well as right. The tendency on some parts of the left to view our country as nothing but hypocrisy, racism, etc. has been corrosive in its own way - if there were never any values worth…
perfect, they didn’t solve all the problems. But we felt like they were trying, and sometimes succeeding.” I’ve never forgotten that answer. And now we have the polar opposite, a gov’t simply in bed with the most corrupt and self-seeking financial interests. How will this end?
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
perfect, they didn’t solve all the problems. But we felt like they were trying, and sometimes succeeding.” I’ve never forgotten that answer. And now we have the polar opposite, a gov’t simply in bed with the most corrupt and self-seeking financial interests. How will this end?
asking my grandpa, who grew up in the Depression, why people didn’t rebel more, why more didn’t join Nazi or Communist parties. He was fairly conservative, not necessarily a huge FDR fan, but he thought a few moments and then said, “Well, we felt like the government was trying. It wasn’t…”
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
asking my grandpa, who grew up in the Depression, why people didn’t rebel more, why more didn’t join Nazi or Communist parties. He was fairly conservative, not necessarily a huge FDR fan, but he thought a few moments and then said, “Well, we felt like the government was trying. It wasn’t…”
FDR understood well that w/o some security, people will turn to extremism and demagogues. People compare our time to the Gilded Age, but some of its leading lights like Carnegie are humble choir boys compared to the solipsistic self-indulgence of Musk etc.. I remember…
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
FDR understood well that w/o some security, people will turn to extremism and demagogues. People compare our time to the Gilded Age, but some of its leading lights like Carnegie are humble choir boys compared to the solipsistic self-indulgence of Musk etc.. I remember…
They grew up with a sense of patriotism and noblesse oblige, plus an influential progressive movement in the early 20th century which, despite flaws and limits, instilled a real sense of duty, an obligation to mk things better. That is gone, in the nihilism or our times.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
They grew up with a sense of patriotism and noblesse oblige, plus an influential progressive movement in the early 20th century which, despite flaws and limits, instilled a real sense of duty, an obligation to mk things better. That is gone, in the nihilism or our times.
Sausage/yam/chutney/mango skillet. Can’t post a picture cause we’re still sitting around figuring out who has to get up and cook it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sausage/yam/chutney/mango skillet. Can’t post a picture cause we’re still sitting around figuring out who has to get up and cook it.
Maybe. But wd like to do something that has a high probability of passing. Art of the possible and all that. In any case, won’t pass now, but if Ds propose something that benefits older voters, mking Rs oppose it wd be great campaign fodder.
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Maybe. But wd like to do something that has a high probability of passing. Art of the possible and all that. In any case, won’t pass now, but if Ds propose something that benefits older voters, mking Rs oppose it wd be great campaign fodder.
And not just wealthy; cd be modestly middle class homeowners too in some areas. And I get it, they’re right. But we need to build the homes to help young people get started.
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
And not just wealthy; cd be modestly middle class homeowners too in some areas. And I get it, they’re right. But we need to build the homes to help young people get started.
And it won’t likely happen unless Dems can win both houses + the Presidency.
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
And it won’t likely happen unless Dems can win both houses + the Presidency.
accurately describe US or Canada; and there many health care systems we cd look at for ideas. The dvlped world is an encyclopedia of different models w varying mixtures of public & private. A serious convo abt healthcare wd look at all of these, examine what wd work well for us and what wd not.
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
accurately describe US or Canada; and there many health care systems we cd look at for ideas. The dvlped world is an encyclopedia of different models w varying mixtures of public & private. A serious convo abt healthcare wd look at all of these, examine what wd work well for us and what wd not.
Yes, I think a gradual & pragmatic approach is necessary. And it will probably always be some mixture of public and private. One thing I think nds to change abt the American debate on healthcare is it often gets reduced to a simple binary of “public like Canada vs private like US.” Doesn’t…
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yes, I think a gradual & pragmatic approach is necessary. And it will probably always be some mixture of public and private. One thing I think nds to change abt the American debate on healthcare is it often gets reduced to a simple binary of “public like Canada vs private like US.” Doesn’t…