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  1. PseudoSABR
    If producers don't supply as many jobs, they have less leverage over a democratic majority. Ergo, why socialist policies are seemingly more palatable now, where most people's jobs are related to service and not the production and distribution of goods.
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    You're right there's no good cognate. Maybe Germany with it's education system (free college for foreigners? how do they manage that?); I don't know how they run their healthcare over there. I don't think we should be afraid to experiment, and then abandoned a socialist project if it proves untenable. (If we can survive bailing out the banks, and these recent tax cuts, we can survive the cost of higher taxes over the short run to pay for even ill-fated programs).
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    You are still trying to use anecdotal evidence (youtube videos and websites) as a fact showing a TREND in Black Americans flocking to conservative values. That's not a trend, it's a trickle. We all accept that Black Conservatives exist, but you've pointed to no object facts that there is a trend in the aggregate. There's a recent example of how anecdotal evidence to prove/disprove a claim, see Rep. Meadows from Cohen's hearing. Likewise, I'm sure we've all seen those Trump supporters who are upset about their tax returns from twitter and else where, yet his base report is unchanged. Anecdotal evidence is largely meaningless, especially, when the same pieces of evidence get recycled by the groups whose narrative that bit of evidence backs.
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    America. Our military, police, firefighters, our schools, our post office, our national parks, arguably our utilities on and on.
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    Empty threat. As long as those producers still make profit they will do so, and if they cannot make profit, the should be replaced with someone who can. Corporations have been making record profits. I don't buy that Wal-Mart will suddenly close it's doors because their substantial piece of the pie got a bit smaller. And really, socialism shouldn't be reduced to "paying for other people to not produce," that's just nonsense. If we want to attach welfare with job training, and organize work for them to do, I am all about it, but that will be pricier in the long run (but welfare isn't new or even at issue in this election). Paying for health care, education isn't paying people to not produce, in fact its an investment, and frees up a lot dollars to buy goods, which is what producers should actually want. How do you feel about corporate structure and limited liability? Those are government enforced non-natural market conditions that allows debts to go unpaid (and externalities unaccounted for), or put another way it privatizes the profits of a company while socializing the risk of its business.
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    Well, Joe is wrong, because the policies are popular, and that's what Nate Silver's tweet is about. Although I agree, branding isn't quite the right word when comes to how Americans feel about socialism, because the Democrats don't really own the product of socialism, but, I think for obvious reasons (the cold war, McCarthistic tendencies) socialism has been something of a dirty word in our culture. (For my part, Joe Lieberman is exactly the kind of establishment democrat that the party should leave behind.) Although if the Democrats want to embrace these policies, they either need to find a more palatable way of characterizing those policies or change how Americans think of socialism, which perhaps can be done through something like branding. Democrats should realize however, that whatever policy they adopt, they will be labeled socialists and crazy lefties by the right, no matter how reasonable they are.
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    What larger point are you even trying to make? You have anecdotal evidence of Black conservatives, but you have nothing to demonstrate there's been any kind of recent trend in the aggregate. For someone who is self-professed as a moderate, you certainly seem to have an agenda in terms of pointing to this supposed phenomenon. Polls are shaky evidence of trends, but anecdotal evidence is totally meaningless in identifying trends in the aggregate. No one is going to be convinced by that, and you shouldn't be either.
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    Yeah, I remember them too. Times may have changed. The current HOF voting public may have recognized the problems with gold gloves (i.e. non-objective and based on popularity). I think a more interesting comparison is actually Molina and Perez (who just lost the year).
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    He's one of those players you associate with an organization, so it's a huge loss for the Royals even in a non-competitive year.
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    Encouraging about Pineda. How and when do the Twins approach him about an extension? If he kills it this year do we just offer QO to both him and Gibson?
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    I wasn't trying to offer an interpretation of the TOS, but rather guidance for how I learned to go about my business around here. But now that I know I'll try not to embed my own pejoratives with the voices of others (i.e. in memes).
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    NOW I GET IT. (It's probably been ten years since I've read it (as I no longer teach), and the weight of "prefer" was lost on me.)
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    Just to point out. I've had posts deleted, and did accrue a few warning points years ago, and few PMs since then. (The only bias is towards pretty much zero tolerance for pejoratives directed towards other persons; indeed, I've tangoed with ashbury over his moderation technique, but it's a damn thankless job; so I try not to get too butthurt.) In general, I think we cross the line when we ourselves degrade public figures as opposed to sharing a meme or whatever doing so. Though both are in bad taste, the former takes a more active role on our part. That said, Nasu, I hope you stick around, because we need some more diverse voices around here.
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    As far as 19th century literature, it isn't bad. Worth skimming. When I would teach it, the students didn't notably cringe. (If the point isn't clear, it's main theme is that empowering those who refuse or can't work has dire consequences).
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    Can we get some mod action on that last sentence. Wrong forum!
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    Look, it's not that any of what you're saying is complicated, but you didn't express yourself very clearly, and you're blaming everyone for not divining what you meant. And ANY internet forum will be useless because of selection bias, right? So I'm not sure what your point is. Among the thoughtful group of people that post in the Sport Bar at Twins Daily, Trump is disfavored; no one is claiming that is representative of American sentiment, which obviously, it is not.
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    Oh, I get it, and agree. But from the mental health perspective, unemployment can be a tail spin. We should first make shorter work weeks, and continue to divide up the labor to spread it out, even at the cost of efficiency (i.e. having to train and keep track of so many employees). Having the government cover the cost of benefits would make this much more possible.
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    Along this line of thinking, all liberals (and anyone really) should read Melville's Bartlby the Scrivener to see how accepting non-work from certain people can have awful results.
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    Sorry that you weren't clear.
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    Bias is not giving something a fair shake because of a preconceived notion. It's not bias that leads people around here to disapprove of Trump, it's his actions, words, and policy.
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    Really like hearing that Wes Johnson has been working with pitchers over the winter, even those not likely to make the 25-man.
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    And comments in all caps really make me cringe. Obviously he was paid an enormous amount of money. But no one predicted his AAV would be as low as 25 million.
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    I understand the tradeoff, just noting he got far less AAV than I anticipated.
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