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Burning Man and Green Homes: When Collectivist Dreams Collide With Reality
Here are a couple of fresh examples of what happens when the beautiful language of the left, filled with "solidarity" and hope, crash lands in the real world.
Saturday, November 03, 2018
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Gerardo Garibay Camarena

https://fee.org/articles/burning-ma...reams-collide-with-reality/?utm_source=ribbon
 
In theory, Burning Man is a kind of window to a post-Christian, post-capitalist utopia where everyone is a kind pagan connecting with the spirituality of art and nature. The problem? Behind the goody costume, the festival has become an example of the same dreadful corporate practices its principles claim to reject.

The rumors about poor working conditions at Burning Man have been circulating around the Internet for some years, but it seems the situation is getting worse—so much that even some "lefties" are starting to become scandalized. A couple of months ago, Salon ran a solid story about the toxic environment, lousy working conditions, and unleashed hypocrisy at Burning Man, which has turned into a multimillion-dollar business—and we're not talking about millions of good wishes, but of shiny dollars.

The story blew the whistle about gender discrimination against women, mistreatment of the employees, and a startlingly high suicide rate. In short, the people in the story blew the whistle about gender discrimination against women, mistreatment of the employees, and a startlingly high suicide rate (as much as ten times larger than that of the US Army) among the workers charged with building and maintaining the logistical structures that make the event possible.

Employees and volunteers, often for little or no pay (probably because, you know, "money is bad") work for months on end in the unmerciful Nevada desert to lay the electric lines and necessary equipment for the festival. They are also tasked with cleaning it all up afterward.

As Caleb Schaber, a full-time employee and later a volunteer at the festival (who eventually committed suicide) explained,

They don’t help out the workers that are injured, quite often, and they just try to get them to work for the most by giving them the least and then discard them.

Ricardo Romero concurs: "Over the years I just kept on seeing so many of my co-workers getting fired for complaining about worker treatment." Meanwhile, the managers are earning a pretty bourgeois $200,000 annually. Once again, they are paid not with warm hugs but in cold, hard cash
 
The most loyal and ignorant leftists are the most vociferous race card slingers.
Trump was never a "racist" until he stepped out of the TT elevator and announced his intentions to run for POTUS in 2015.
Leftists are a race of sheep.
 
A Moldy Home, Courtesy of Hollywood
The second example is the monumental fiasco of the "green" houses built by the “Make It Right Foundation,” a so-called charity organization backed by the actor Brad Pitt. The homes were built in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but they're—again—literally falling apart a mere eight years after they were delivered.

The residents also complain about gas leaks and denounce that the houses "were built too quickly, with low-quality materials."
Back in the day, the foundation bragged about the homes, calling them "affordable, high-quality, environmentally sustainable," and safe, of course. Many victims fell for the fantasy and paid as much as $130,000 for houses they've since had to abandon because they're "rotting and dangerous," residents recently told NBC News. Some structures are collapsing, while floors, walls, and ceilings have been invaded by mold. All very ecological, though.

According to NBC—which, like Salon, is not a conservative or pro-capitalist outlet by any stretch of the imagination—the residents also complain about gas leaks and denounce that the houses "were built too quickly, with low-quality materials, and that the designs didn’t take into account New Orleans’ humid, rainy climate."

And the Make It Right Foundation? It virtually disappeared years ago.
 
Ricky Fandango said:
The most loyal and ignorant leftists are the most vociferous race card slingers.
Trump was never a "racist" until he stepped out of the TT elevator and announced his intentions to run for POTUS in 2015.
Leftists are a race of sheep.
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Baaaaaaaa. Free thinkers....sipping their cuppa Joe.
 
When the Left's Fantasyland Crashes, the Poor Are Left Worse Off


Once again, when the goody fantasies of the bourgeoisie left crash headfirst with reality, the damage is horrifying. When the flames of the Burning Man go out and the cameras of Brad Pitt's—or any celebrity's—PR team go away, the people on the ground are left facing a situation even worse than before. All the while, on the other side of town, their so-called "benefactors" drink good champagne and make "good conscience" toasts to condemn "evil" capitalism—with the third bottle of Patron on the one hand and the fifth of Dom Perignon on the other.

And for everyone else? Only smoke and mold.

In other words NO ON G!!!


Gerardo Garibay Camarena

Gerardo Garibay Camarena is a Mexican writer and political analyst with experience in the private and public sector. He the author of two books – Sin Medias Tintas and López, Carter, Reagan – and a weekly columnist for many online news organizations.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
A Moldy Home, Courtesy of Hollywood
The second example is the monumental fiasco of the "green" houses built by the “Make It Right Foundation,” a so-called charity organization backed by the actor Brad Pitt. The homes were built in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but they're—again—literally falling apart a mere eight years after they were delivered.

The residents also complain about gas leaks and denounce that the houses "were built too quickly, with low-quality materials."
Back in the day, the foundation bragged about the homes, calling them "affordable, high-quality, environmentally sustainable," and safe, of course. Many victims fell for the fantasy and paid as much as $130,000 for houses they've since had to abandon because they're "rotting and dangerous," residents recently told NBC News. Some structures are collapsing, while floors, walls, and ceilings have been invaded by mold. All very ecological, though.

According to NBC—which, like Salon, is not a conservative or pro-capitalist outlet by any stretch of the imagination—the residents also complain about gas leaks and denounce that the houses "were built too quickly, with low-quality materials, and that the designs didn’t take into account New Orleans’ humid, rainy climate."

And the Make It Right Foundation? It virtually disappeared years ago.
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The building codes in California have become ridiculous.
Houses are required to be so "energy efficient" that they literally cant breathe.
Mold issues in many cases are a direct result of codes that require a home to be so air tight, they are unhealthy.
Is it difficult to see the irony of a code that requires bathroom exhaust fans to run continuously in an attempt to reconcile another energy code that causes restricted ventilation?
 
Progressives' Suggestions to "Save Democracy" Are Hilariously Terrible
While the solutions outlined in the article are laughably bad, they do offer some interesting insights into progressive thinking.
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Responding to the anniversary of Donald Trump’s election, The Washington Post Magazine presented “38 ideas for repairing our badly broken civic life.” Post Magazine editor Richard Just explained that “all of us … should be able to agree that some future-pondering about the state of our democracy is in order.”

Many — if not most — of the Post’s recommendations from experts, artists, and writers are insipid or authoritarian. But they provide an excellent snapshot of progressive thinking after nearly one year of Trump era tumult.
 
*Author Kristin Henderson proposes conscripting all young people for three years in military or government civilian work such as AmeriCorps. Forcing adults to “spend time in compulsory service to our country” would be the same as going back to “kindergarten and relearn how to cooperate and share our toys.” But the Founding Fathers never intended to treat personal freedom as a political toy.
 
*The best fix for American democracy is to “outlaw private education” to banish inequity, according to novelist Ann Patchett. In the name of equality, parents must be prohibited any choice or effective role in their children’s schooling. Patchett also rhapsodized about confiscating Ivy League endowments to redistribute to state schools. Artist George Lois supplemented Patchett’s point with a poster proclaiming “There’s an OUCH in every Voucher.” But the pain is suffered by teacher unions, not by parents desperate to find escapes from educational hell holes.
 
*Harvard professor Dani Rodrik proposes to boost democracy by vastly expanding government economic intervention, empowering government to become “co‑owner of the new generation of technologies and machines” to create the “innovation state.” However, the crony capitalism debacles of recent years (such as the Obama administration’s Solyndra scandal) should have stifled any such suggestion.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
In theory, Burning Man is a kind of window to a post-Christian, post-capitalist utopia where everyone is a kind pagan connecting with the spirituality of art and nature. The problem? Behind the goody costume, the festival has become an example of the same dreadful corporate practices its principles claim to reject.

The rumors about poor working conditions at Burning Man have been circulating around the Internet for some years, but it seems the situation is getting worse—so much that even some "lefties" are starting to become scandalized. A couple of months ago, Salon ran a solid story about the toxic environment, lousy working conditions, and unleashed hypocrisy at Burning Man, which has turned into a multimillion-dollar business—and we're not talking about millions of good wishes, but of shiny dollars.

The story blew the whistle about gender discrimination against women, mistreatment of the employees, and a startlingly high suicide rate. In short, the people in the story blew the whistle about gender discrimination against women, mistreatment of the employees, and a startlingly high suicide rate (as much as ten times larger than that of the US Army) among the workers charged with building and maintaining the logistical structures that make the event possible.

Employees and volunteers, often for little or no pay (probably because, you know, "money is bad") work for months on end in the unmerciful Nevada desert to lay the electric lines and necessary equipment for the festival. They are also tasked with cleaning it all up afterward.

As Caleb Schaber, a full-time employee and later a volunteer at the festival (who eventually committed suicide) explained,

They don’t help out the workers that are injured, quite often, and they just try to get them to work for the most by giving them the least and then discard them.

Ricardo Romero concurs: "Over the years I just kept on seeing so many of my co-workers getting fired for complaining about worker treatment." Meanwhile, the managers are earning a pretty bourgeois $200,000 annually. Once again, they are paid not with warm hugs but in cold, hard cash
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Shocker, after all, they are commies.
 
Universal Basic Income Is a (Costly) Socialist Pipe Dream
It is the height of hypocrisy to ask the United States government, already USD $22 trillion in debt, to fund handing out free money to the entire nation.
Thursday, January 03, 2019
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David Unsworth

The Numbers Don't Add up
Setting aside human nature, for a moment, let’s take a look at the economics of a UBI program.

Surprise, surprise. They are phenomenally expensive to implement. Just doling out USD $1,000 a month to Americans would cost USD $3.8 trillion a year, according to a recent study by Bridgewater Associates. Well, golly, that’s a tab even Zuckerberg can’t pick up.

National and local governments across the world have been cutting funding for UBI programs in droves. They are expensive and wreak havoc on local budgets. Unsurprisingly, taxpayers (one would presume even of a left-wing bent) don’t take too kindly to funding such pilot programs, especially when they are not the beneficiaries of this state largesse.

Programs in both Canada and Finland have been shut down under political and budgetary pressure, which brings us to the point.
 
Why We Should Take the “Socialism” Part of Democratic Socialism Seriously
Democratic socialism isn’t the same as autocratic communism, but there are problems with socialism that democracy can’t solve.
https://fee.org/articles/why-we-should-take-the-socialism-part-of-democratic-socialism-seriously/

The Tyranny of the Majority
The website of the Democratic Socialists of America is clear about their desire to eliminate the profit motive, or the very least to subordinate it to “the public interest” in a large number of sectors of the economy. A good number of democratic socialists would expand public ownership and control into many of those same sectors. And all of them seem to agree that democratic control is needed for major decisions about “social investment” as well as trade, monetary, and fiscal policy.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Why We Should Take the “Socialism” Part of Democratic Socialism Seriously
Democratic socialism isn’t the same as autocratic communism, but there are problems with socialism that democracy can’t solve.
https://fee.org/articles/why-we-should-take-the-socialism-part-of-democratic-socialism-seriously/

The Tyranny of the Majority
The website of the Democratic Socialists of America is clear about their desire to eliminate the profit motive, or the very least to subordinate it to “the public interest” in a large number of sectors of the economy. A good number of democratic socialists would expand public ownership and control into many of those same sectors. And all of them seem to agree that democratic control is needed for major decisions about “social investment” as well as trade, monetary, and fiscal policy.
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Not according Charles Barkley.
 
Ricky Fandango said:
The most loyal and ignorant leftists are the most vociferous race card slingers.
Trump was never a "racist" until he stepped out of the TT elevator and announced his intentions to run for POTUS in 2015.
Leftists are a race of sheep.
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You mean when he announced and said that Mexicans who come here illegally are rapists?
 
Sheriff Joe said:
All these libs hatin on Trump only have their selves to blame, first they elected a not ready for prime time wanna be 60's radical and to top that off they nominated an American Hero killer, has been politician to go against trump.
Don't blame us. Too Funny.
Can't wait to see what they throw up against the wall in 2020.
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You just can't stop being a dumbass can you?
 
You right wing nuts are so allergic to facts and reason it is sickening. I honestly hope you guys get what is coming to you and I hope the rest of us don't suffer along with you wackos. I'm glad that my kid will be a senior in 6 months and I will be done with this stupid forum. Why is it that rednecks and people with small penises are so often right wingers?
 
Ricky Fandango said:
The building codes in California have become ridiculous.
Houses are required to be so "energy efficient" that they literally cant breathe.
Mold issues in many cases are a direct result of codes that require a home to be so air tight, they are unhealthy.
Is it difficult to see the irony of a code that requires bathroom exhaust fans to run continuously in an attempt to reconcile another energy code that causes restricted ventilation?
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You clearly aren't smart enough to understand the why so just keep swinging a hammer and let the people with brains write the laws.
 
Ricky Fandango said:
The most loyal and ignorant leftists are the most vociferous race card slingers.
Trump was never a "racist" until he stepped out of the TT elevator and announced his intentions to run for POTUS in 2015.
Leftists are a race of sheep.
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All you do is peddle lies. Trump and his father had to settle a lawsuit due to racially based housing discrimination. Are you really this dumb or are you just evil?
 
MakeAPlay said:
You right wing nuts are so allergic to facts and reason it is sickening. I honestly hope you guys get what is coming to you and I hope the rest of us don't suffer along with you wackos. I'm glad that my kid will be a senior in 6 months and I will be done with this stupid forum. Why is it that rednecks and people with small penises are so often right wingers?
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Racist
 
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