Posts by Kumara Republic
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Robert Mercer is facing mutiny in his own ranks over his sponsorship of hate propaganda and the new ratfuck machine. Even the freaking Koch Bros think he's off the deep end. I'd be happy just to see the whole rotten lot go Second Amendment on each other.
Short of doing something which could give the Trump regime an excuse to pull a Reichstag crackdown, maybe the best way to take down hate-sponsors like Mercer is the same way Al Capone got taken down - tax evasion charges. The journos who did the spade-work on the Panama Papers would be ideal to assist any leakers involved.
Oh, and if anyone on social media plays the "George Soros pays snowflake protesters!" card, an equal and opposite response about Mercer would be in order.
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And if it's anything to go by, addiction to opiods and other drugs is a bellwether for American counties that strongly voted Trump. What if in NZ, those written off/smeared as 'too stoned to work' are swayed by a 'burn it all down' strongman who makes Winston Peters look moderate?
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I sometimes wonder if the real reason for "ghost drug-testing" is to reinforce US-style right-to-work dogma & prevent unions organising, particularly in the agriculture sector.
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It's Muldoon's banning of Tom Scott, but on steroids and P.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
Their point that the business doesn't have economies of scale is a good way of summarizing why it must eventually break. They didn't actually make driving a taxi magically cheaper. They just worked out how to squeeze worker balls in a way that's taking a few years to unpack.
If it hasn't already been mentioned, Uber's business model has been likened to a Ponzi scheme.
http://boingboing.net/2016/12/07/excellent-deep-series-on-uber.html
https://uberpeople.net/threads/hidden-uber-pyramid-scheme-hmmm.9124/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/12/the-latest-get-rich-scheme/
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Hard News: Sky and 2020, in reply to Richard Ram,
It's a shame Telecom didn't keep on with Xtra. Couple of missteps at the end in dealings with Microsoft etc. Innovation stopped and technology rolled over the top of the business model. And the business model didn't adapt.
I'm guessing that was the cut-everything-and-add-nothing business model of Rod Deane. NZ is still paying for such under-investment.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Hilary Stace,
This report from Michael Moore is disturbing. Trump is already future-proofing his reign.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
Yeah I just came across it too, and everything it says resonates with their behaviour in every way to every complaint ever made to them. It's a Trumpesque, however frantically they are trying to disassociate from The Orange Vortex.
In other words, they're only sorry that they got caught in the act.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
IIRC the Washington Post is now majority owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame, and the NYT's single biggest shareholder is Carlos Slim. You can also add Tribune Media (owner of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune).
Of the major media networks listed by Katharine above, only NewsCorp seems to have a newspaper division. The anti-trust law experts should be taking a good look at it.
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When I was at high school, my folks thought it was a good idea at the time to tiger-parent a quasi-autistic kid to success, partly because it worked for my siblings, and partly because ASD was still poorly understood in those days. They've since seen the error of their ways, but there's little they can do now to fix it.
Us autistics can do without the victim-blaming dressed up as motivational snake oil. There's just no substitute for some kind of new New Deal approach, which we're not likely to get under the existing cost-of-everything-value-of-nothing dogma.