Yes and no. It’s an important part of a capitalism that runs on privatizing profit and making risk public. But not so much the capitalism that capitalists spend 99.9999% of their time telling the general public they should be subject to and that they themselves are heroes of society for mastering.

LW#1, your “wife” wanted to have that one last meeting in the hopes that she could convince the other dirtbag to leave his wife and family so she could do then same. He turned her down and now she’s going back to the safer choice. Dump her and avoid years of pain and misery. 

I feel like you were trying too hard to excuse the wife in the first letter. Whatever problems she had that led to her stepping out and starting an affair is HER problem to identify and fix, not Hbh. Her saying that she wants 1 night a week with her lover to help her figure out how she really feels is her telling how…

Yeah, sure, but pretty much everything he said was utter bullshit. For starters, only one of the three other diseases he mentioned originated China (swine flu actually came from the US) and the only reason he mentions the unusual (by Western standards) animals that are eaten in China is to make them seem barbaric and…

Counterpoint: in general, we need to move away from the idea that every last policy needs to be means-tested, and granted only to “the deserving”, because “the deserving” is how they get us every single time.

One thing that bothers me about this is this type of believe system is pretty damn close to old timey bigotry. This article takes one piece of known info and then spins and shits all over the unknown with the same amount of ignorance that allows for your typical dickhead racism.

The Neo-Reactionary movement effectively died with him. At least with NRXers you could say “I think you’re colonialist and a more than a bit racist, but at least your arguments have rigor, are internally consistent and the lies they’re based on are due to worldview than being utterly fabricated.” That they got…

Yes, a program affecting less than 1.5% of all used cars totally “dried up” parts sourcing...

Actually, everything but the engine block was allowed to be recycled.

the carbon footprint of that disposal and building a new car generally outweighed the reduction in pollution from an older car.

Oh for fuck’s sake... every time somebody mentions C4C one of you uninformed asshats comes out of the woodwork.

It’s the cold. As long as it doesn’t spiral into something worse like pneumonia, its pretty mild for most people.

No, that’s exactly what it means. 

If there were many reliable $500 cars in 2008 it was because of a massive oversupply of used cars.

It would make a lot more sense to just quarantine the old people and let the young and able still work and go to school.

Just be sure to check in with your own comments in a month.

Another day, another “percentage of net worth” article about the ultra wealthy (not picking on Mike, it’s common across the mass media).

The other issue is that those cars had to be crushed. They couldn’t be stripped for parts, which reduced the availability of low cost replacement parts, increasing the number of defective cars on the road as people were unable to afford to replace worn or damaged parts.

In what way am I mistaken, do you think people were doing cash for clunker if they could get more on an regular trade? You think selling $30 billion worth of new cars, hell maybe twice that, wasn’t good for the auto industry and the economy?

I did the math. At the top end about 5.9 million (3% of 60% of 330 million) and 3.3 million at the low end (1% of 40% of 330 million). Those are very scary numbers. 2.8 million die in a year in the US according to the CDC.