Nope. You had unemployed, but mostly low functioning alcoholics and/or mentally disabled.
Mind you, one of the surprisingly enduring appeals of communism was that even borderline functional cases got some sort of made up job from the state, even if it was just a superflous night watchman for example.
Nothing out of the ordinary. You’re doing nothing, but some small amount from the state keeps trickling in and you’re hooked for life.
You know, generally speaking anything that follows this phrase in conversation is almost guaranteed to interest me for one reason or another.
Unbelievable. How tone deaf can you be?
Wait. Don’t answer that. I momentarily forgot who we have as political leaders.
It’s quite baffling. I mean, did they forget how badly that screwed them up only 4 years ago??
Honestly, I don’t know why this doesn’t register.
I have to wonder what you guys across the pond must be thinking when you see the bumbling circus that is American national politics. The UK has its share of imbecilic pols, but as a whole the level of party politics is…well anything but this trash.
Is it “aww, look at the poor children trying to imitate real politics” or what? 
It wouldn’t be the first, second, or even 100th time consultants have been ignored by a large organization after being hired to fix the crisis…
Well, being that they have a perfect record going so far this is no time to break the streak.
So maybe Antifa won’t have to work. Just switch meth for alcohol.
My God this tortured passive voice.
How are they going to protect voting locations from these nutbars?
Orcs hate daylight.
@Aragon! I know I only get to see snippets…but who couldn’t Love the way the (British House of Commons)? operates and debates!
They will stand up there and call someone a flaming asshole who buggers sheep…without saying… “Mr. so-and-so is a flaming asshole who buggers sheep”…and they do it so “politely” and “gentlemanly” followed by a rousing “Hear! Hear!”
Love it!
I have a dear friend that I go back and forth on this with - he’s a colonial (Indian aristocracy) so clearly in the wrong, but he loves the Parliamentary system and feels it’s a shortcoming of the US. I remind him that we don’t want to re-establish a government and shadow government every time Congress hits a standstill. But we both agree that the PM’s addresses to the House of Commons are the best possible political invention of all time.
It’s difficult to tell if CNN just has someone onboard with an outstanding sense of humour or they became a satire news outlet one day
I think it would gain him support from some people,
I’m not sure it would lose him more than it would gain for election purposes
Aside from elections, I do think that would be better for the country and the world
No need to be so extreme tho, denouncing the organization might not be as helpful as denouncing large aspects of it
So at least 40 shot 10 dead in Chicago, multiple police officers shot in various locations with one dead, a right-winger hunted down and killed…
Oh, and killings of police officers up 28% so far this year.
Blue lives matter too, yet?
Police reform and law reform specifically. Clearly, we need to address policing, but to do that it’s going to take more funding, not less. I want the police to be more competent and accountable. To do that, you need money.
And the legal system cannot continue to function in the way that those with the most resources get extreme advantages over less resourced people.
And I’ll be happy to get into the weeds of that discussion when the violence stops. As long as the violence continues any discussions or good ideas will never be anything other than theoretical.
They are strait out fucking liars. The National Enquirer has less balls to strait out lie like they do.
The violence has been going on for over 3 months now and they just now notice?
Don Lemon, in a brief moment of clarity explained it the other day. “Democrats need to pay attention… because it’s starting to show up in polling and focus groups.”
Not because the riots are evil and the perpetrators are evil. Not because 33 people have been killed. Not because thousands of lives have been ruined, but its showing up in the polling.
Those guys are all heart. /sarcasm
The fact that this question was asked with a strait face is mind-boggling to me. Should Biden denounce violence, destruction, arson and murder? Gee, I don’t know. Because these assholes are going to pause on election day to go vote?
He can try to denounce it, but it will be hollow. His campaign donated to bailing rioters out of jail. He has no credibility on the issue.
Here in the seattle area we had an officer killed in the line of duty a couple months back. there was a large memorial, a large funeral procession with helicopters and shutdown streets, and was the top news story for more than a week.
in 2010 when a native woodcarver with a pocketknife was shot dead by police. The SPD even back then found it a bad shooting, but the officer was never charged. The victim never had a funeral procession, or large memorial, or headlined news for weeks. This is typical for victims of police shootings, and victims of shootings in general.
Our society already values “blue lives” appropriately… which is more than civilian lives.
This is your response to to killings of police officers going up by 28%? No, “yeah, the anti-police rhetoric needs to chill?”
When the dust clears, and Trump is triumphant over Biden, I sure do hope the Democrats do some soul searching.
All lives matter
Do you think blue lives matter?
That’s not very anti-racist of you.
Do i think blue lives matter? based on what i posted above what do you think?
Do you think cops appreciate trump gaslighting the the very people out to cause them harm just to score political points?
I think you should have the chance to speak directly for yourself. Do blue lives matter?
