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Re: Crumbs for a Canaanite Woman

mayalibre — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 02:03:58 -0000

Jesus isn't just the Son of God. He *is* God. He didn't make mistakes or need to "grow up" into his role as the Messiah. The Saviour of the world is, by definition, sinless. He thus had/has no prejudices or imperfections to overcome. The theory that God needed to learn or mature is an astonishing failure of theological understanding. Why avoid considering the whole context, as in who the lesson was for? The disciples were watching, as likely were others (possibly including Pharisees). She addressed him in a way that expressed her acceptance of her lowly, outsider status. But her faith overcame her social barrier, and He played along (referring to her as a low pet, not a street dog) to highlight the barrier in her own mind that she was overcoming to reach out, in order to show up all the witnesses. He essentially demonstrated to THEM that even the lowliest can show great faith and are worthy of attention and salvation. The idea that God needs to "grow up" is satanic claptrap. It's actually you, as a man, creating God "in your image" (the image you have in your mind). In other words it's megalomaniacal blasphemy.

Re: US rumble

mayalibre — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:48:39 -0000

Started last night, continuing all the way to now. No streaming on Roku app or phone app. Website also not available ising browser. Location: Arizona.

Re: Remember the Twitter "ER doctors” who claimed hordes of patients were dying daily of COVID? They were fake… - Revolver News

mayalibre — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 15:14:56 -0000

The vax spike protein "shares similarities" with human proteins because the 'm' in mRNA means 'messenger'. The mRNA vax doesn't contain spike protein -- it contains a message with a recipe and instructions to your own cells to manufacture spike proteins. Normally your body would immediately fight a toxic 'messenger' like this so that's also why your immune system has to be initially suppressed until the new factory cells can start. Conceptually the immune system recovers quickly and after the spike proteins are pumped out it kills them (while learning) and ALSO kills the new factory cells. But they didn't design (or test for) a time limit or quantity shutoff. Thus the immune system might take a long time to fully recover, if ever, and the newly created factory cells can pump out millions of spikes over a long unknown period of time without stopping.

Re: Hidden Pfizer trial data shows that ALL “vaccinated” women in pregnancy lost their unborn babies

mayalibre — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:34:46 -0000

The Pfizer paper doesn't say 100% spontaneous abortion or that no mother delivered a live baby. Where did you get that? I just finished reading the paper. The number is 10% spontaneous abortion, not 100%. 10% is still a lot so why sensationalize? Just tell the truth.

Re: Harris honors Women's Equality Day in op-ed, calls for voting reform

mayalibre — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:22:46 -0000

Fine - As long as those same-day registrants have to show proof of citizenship, and verify that they haven't voted somewhere else.

Re: How ‘Stakeholder’ Movement Could Hinder Economic Recovery From COVID-19

mayalibre — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:15:40 -0000

Except a report yesterday says that shareholders are being prioritized over workers. Thousands of workers at Levi Strauss, Steelcase and others have been laid off, and the savings have been plowed back into dividends and share buybacks. Is that what this article is advocating? Let the shareholders profit while the rest of "Rome" burns?

Re: Castro Regime Triggered By Trump's UN Speech » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

mayalibre — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:14:34 -0000

Funny how the Cuban minister was condemning imperial globalism and all the commenters here are saying that condemnation is terrible. As long as globalism is anti-socialist I guess that makes it okay. Buncha freakin neoliberals & neocons who probably didn't even listen to the speech.

Re: Pensions Timebomb In America – “National Crisis” Cometh

mayalibre — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 15:35:30 -0000

This helps explain why property prices & rents are skyrocketing. States, counties & municipalities are funded to a large degree by property taxes, so their incentive is to keep property values high. Central banks keep property values rising by artificially low interest rates for purchasers of property assets, especially purchasers who already have other property to act as collateral. Thus the rich get richer using nearly-free bank money. And since real property "investments" are passive & produce very few jobs, that almost-free money also doesn't stimulate real growth. Add in the "turbo charge" of money laundering by foreign elites purchasing properties with cash to secure and hide money from their own governments and you can see why it's increasingly difficult for an average person to afford housing. Our "leaders" keep slinging the myth about the high cost of housing being due to simple supply & demand -- it's not. It's due to their manipulation to keep themselves funded at our expense, regardless of larger risks to the economy resulting from unproductive investment, and including by looking the other way when criminal money laundering is everywhere evident.

Re: The People Left Behind When Only the ‘Deserving’ Poor Get Help

mayalibre — Thu, 25 May 2017 22:11:06 -0000

A valid criticism of welfare programs is that they try to micromanage people's lives and thus incentivize underperformance. Why are there *lines* between someone who's a little more disabled (and they get help) and someone who's a tiny bit less disabled (and they get less or none). Same with housing. The government says if your income is under this LINE you "qualify" for help, whereas make $50 more and you're out in the open market with the wolves paying 3x more for rent. It's crazy. I know people in subsidized housing who have been offered more work, and more money, but they can't take it because they'd lose their unit. It's fine to help people, but we encourage underperformance instead of advancement and excellence!

I believe we should stop micromanaging and just tie opposite incentives together. Example: the incentives of landlords and employers are opposite. The landlord wants to charge a lot for rent, whereas the employer wants to pay little in wages. If you tie those incentives together, in an defined area (say a district, county, or metropolitan area), then rents can only rise if wages rise, and if employers want to pay low wages, then rents have to stay low. Let the fatcat employers and landlords just work it out! No government micromanaging, and NO incentivizing underperformance!

Re: Why the White Working-Class Voted for Trump

mayalibre — Thu, 25 May 2017 21:59:11 -0000

Are we just too allergic to the term "class struggle"? Why whitewash it with elitist language that simply masks identity politics with a term like "cultural anxiety"? Just wait until a new "Cultural Revolution" breaks out. Widening class division is the core.

Re: Schumer tries to keep the peace as Sanders speaks out

mayalibre — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:49:32 -0000

The safety standards argument against the Canadian importation legislation is recycled GOP BS and everybody knows it. The Republicans used the EXACT same argument when efforts to lower drug costs were made before. Schumer and those traitor Dems can suck it. They should all be looking for alternative employment.

Re: Win or lose, Hillary is finished

mayalibre — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:40:22 -0000

You say, "Americans want their president to do two things: boost the economy and keep them safe." It's not a sufficient answer. What's under this whole debacle is thwarted justice. After the S&L crisis there were more than 1,000 banker convictions. After the 2008 collapse there were none. People are pissed that investment bankers, inside traders, and the moneyed class have impunity whereas any common person acting the same way would go to prison. Notice too that the bailouts and TARP funds had no strings attached. The Administration could have the funds conditional on using them to invest in productive job-creating enterprises rather than getting sucked up into static assets owned by the wealthy. The rich are still getting richer, the poor poorer, and until the GOP pulls its head out of the bribe trough and starts promoting a plan that will reestablish justice things will only continue to fester.With Hillary at the helm, we can be assured of more war though, which does, incidentally, "create jobs". Forgotten is how we wouldn't need to shed each other's blood if the elites weren't increasingly hoarding resources leaving everyone else to struggle for the remaining scraps.

Re: What’s Wrong With Hillary?

mayalibre — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:47:50 -0000

I don't doubt a lot of this, but her own choices, for example giving a pass to Bill's serial philandering and sometimes assaults, never drawing a boundary and instead making those women's lives hell for speaking up, are not part of her crafted facade. They are really her. Those choices make a lot of women doubt her commitment to ending sexual misconduct, much less violence. I would prefer a woman who knows how to draw a line, like Maria Shriver did, like Marc Sanford's wife did, and like her pal Huma Abedin did -- than one who enables her husband and attacks women, both to further her own naked ambitions. It's just not natural to live with constant sexual betrayal. To be a good role model she should have enough self-respect to say no, draw a boundary and then enforce it.

Re: Joe Biden: Hillary Isn’t Doing a Good Enough Job Communicating to Middle Class

mayalibre — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:13:47 -0000

Probably because her cheeks are too stuffed with cash.

Re: Forgiveness Quiz Results | Greater Good

mayalibre — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:56:43 -0000

Doesn't matter. What matters is whether you are taking care of yourself. The only other option is to hope that the other person will miraculously start "fitting" the role you hope they will in your inner movie. The thing is, you don't, and can't, control them. They aren't your cartoon or puppet, and you're not their director. If you're being hurt, it's up to you to move away from the source of the pain. Bless them, pray for them, but "in the event of cabin depressurization put your own mask on first." You can't help anyone if you're allowing yourself to be depleted.

Re: Democratic House Ends Sit In After 26 Hours

mayalibre — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:21:04 -0000

After these same representatives tolerating election fraud and allowing the DNC to predetermine the Democratic candidate the whole thing smells of a politicized act that coopts bona fide movements and their concerns. WE don't have to sit down, THEY will do it for us. Now we are supposed to feel great relief and go back to our daily lives, after posting a link or two, content that all our problems are being handled for us? Hypocrisy. We can rush out and vote for the Democratic party because supposedly at long last THEY will take a stand for the public. But this is an easy one. How about sitting down for the climate, for abolishing the so-called "free-trade" deals, for banning fracking, for limits on the banks, for ceasing regime change policies, for stepping away from a militarist foreign policy, for getting money out of politics... ? Will these follow? Not betting on it.

Re: Why Nuclear Fusion Is Always 30 Years Away

mayalibre — Sat, 28 May 2016 12:55:09 -0000

Subsidies are one thing, taxes are another. The smaller scale, clean industries are subsidised because they can't compete with giant behemoths whose huge lobbying budgets allow them to avoid normal taxes. It's also worth looking at secondary effects. Fossil fuels provision the (huge) military and armaments industries in ways solar and wind never can. In both these senses it's a miracle clean energy is supported at all. The fact that clean energy is subsidised at the corporate level however, without much in the way of results, should be the real clue. An analogy would be how giant the American Heart Association and Cancer Society are, and how long we've had government-determined dietary guidelines, yet obesity, diabetes, heart-disease, cancer and Alzheimers are now skyrocketing exponentially. No corporation is going to work to free itself of funding. Thus what presents itself as "goodness" in fact has only accelerated our illness. If clean energy was REALLY desired, CUSTOMERS (individuals and property owners) would be subsidized, not corporations. More money in the pockets of customers would provide the proper incentives, diminishing the incentive of the industry to keep underperforming in order to keep getting the subsidies.

Re: Bernie Sanders Can't Explain How He'd Break Up Big Banks, Among Other Things

mayalibre — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 13:51:56 -0000

A plan is just a plan. Clinton's plan may tell us something about her ideal vision (currently), but it doesn't tell us about her core beliefs or what drives her. Those are communicated through history and over time by what is consistent about her.

Plans also typically change when the come into contact with others. They may also never be implemented. That's why we primarily look at beliefs, philosophies and motivations -- because when negotiations begin, THOSE are what guide the compromises made or inform the creative third options proposed.

Bernie does have a "plan", but he talks more about his beliefs, philosophies and motivations because THOSE are what will come into play as president. They guide his policies and they will guide his choices in the changing, flexing river of reality. When we look back through time, Bernie's beliefs, philosophies and motivations have been consistent and transparent. He has always acted with integrity. Not so Mrs. Clinton. Thus I don't have faith in her "plan". And since a better candidate exists, with high integrity, transparency and consistency, who may change opinions as information emerges, but who never equivocates on core beliefs, why would I vote for anyone else?

Re: Dem mistake leaves Sanders off ballot in DC

mayalibre — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:48:10 -0000

I think one of them admitted they'd rather have Trump than Sanders. If Trump were to win the DNC would have copious future opportunities for fundraising against him. But if Sanders were to win they'd all be out of a job.

Re: Clinton Campaign Expects to Have Nomination Locked Up Next Month

mayalibre — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:25:16 -0000

Unfortunately Bernie recently confirmed again that if she wins he'll endorse her. Then we'll have to figure out what to do -- write him in anyway, vote Green, vote for a different maverick, or not vote at all. For millions of Bernie supporters, Clinton with her big bank backers is simply not an option.

Re: Clinton Campaign Expects to Have Nomination Locked Up Next Month

mayalibre — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:23:16 -0000

Blatant party corruption however is.

Re: Clinton Campaign Expects to Have Nomination Locked Up Next Month

mayalibre — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:22:02 -0000

The superdelegates, at least, now show us how corrupt the Democratic Party is. It's interesting that the GOP got rid of theirs but the Democrats "conserved" theirs. That tells me all I need to know. So glad now that I UN-REGISTERED as a Democrat and am now independent. The party machine can stuff it.

Re: Hillary

mayalibre — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:13:08 -0000

I can't believe MOTHER JONES, of all magazines, is going down the neoliberal "pragmatism" hole. The real Mother Jones is probably spinning in her grave. For one thing, "dedication to helping the least fortunate" is understood to be protecting the SERVANT class while the middle class continues to be decimated. The 1% aren't going to wash their own cars, mow their own lawns, cut their own hair, or walk their own dogs now are they? They 'need' the working poor, and saving at least some of the disabled assuages their souls, while the middle class can go to hell. Clinton embodies the revolving door of the ivy-league elites, as well as their dream of world empire via violent regime change. See Libya, see Honduras. She's a status quo candidate who has more blood on her hands than any other candidate. I've felt a little guilty letting my MJ subscription lapse but no longer. It was great when I could count on MJ's investigative journalism in support of working people. MJ falling for the myth of elite superiority is more than distressing. Thankfully there are other options still, namely Counterpunch and The Intercept. Buh-bye, Mother Jones.

Re: Libertarianism and the Welfare State

mayalibre — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:34:50 -0000

If we're nuancing terms like neoliberalism, neoclassical liberalism, classical liberalism, and libertarianism, it might be worthwhile to also dig into and nuance the term "welfare state."

Some people say we don't actually live in a (general) welfare society, we live in a rentier society. That makes sense to me. The common good has value -- just a brief look at Michael Moore's new movie "Where To Invade Next" is astonishing, to consider (for example) how the education system in Finland, which used to track equally with ours, now is the most excellent in the world with far lower costs. The Finnish society chose the common good (without big bureaucracy) over the enrichment of rent-seekers, and it's paying off for everyone *including* those rentiers who preferred special waivers early on.

So why doesn't this happen more?

Another example I heard yesterday is how welfare recipients now receive benefits through Chase Manhattan cards, with customer support provided via an 800 number in India and Chase receiving the program markup to their bottom line -- when it would be just as easy to HIRE the welfare recipients to provide Chase customer support, giving those welfare recipients both job experience and dignity. Why doesn't it happen? The rent-seeking Chase shareholders wouldn't profit as much.

I have a feeling that if we nuance the term "welfare state" we find that its problems don't actually stem from unemployed people, or retirees, or disabled folks. They stem from the people with the MEANS to structure a system where they can live off the productive work of others without doing anything productive themselves.

Re: Why Utah’s Mike Lee is single-handedly stopping federal cash from flowing to Flint to fix its water

mayalibre — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 05:54:01 -0000

Because it's an emergency, and in this country we have mutual aid. The government has a duty to pitch in to help American citizens who are suffering in emergency conditions. Emergencies are not partisan and those suffering can't wait for the results of political debates. If the state is dicking around, then the feds should step in for the safety of the people and at the same time jail the governor and/or state reps for dicking around to begin with. The people come first.