What is the Republican Policy that will stop inflation?

[tarheelbybirth]

Nope. I’m not going to argue that. But I’m also not going to argue that the us is a net evil in the world and that capitalism is the source. I’m not going to emphasize colonialism and whiteness as negatives today relative to the us. I’m not going to argue that we need to dismantle the system. Zinn sucks.

So you can point to work by Zinn demonstrating that's what he taught?

He said he wanted to be remembered "for getting more people to realize that the power which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests in people themselves and that they can use it. At certain points in history, they have used it. Black people in the South used it. People in the women's movement used it. People in the anti-war movement used it. People in other countries who have overthrown tyrannies have used it."

I'm not sure what about that you would have a problem with.

 

[Banditking]

So you can point to work by Zinn demonstrating that's what he taught?

He said he wanted to be remembered "for getting more people to realize that the power which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests in people themselves and that they can use it. At certain points in history, they have used it. Black people in the South used it. People in the women's movement used it. People in the anti-war movement used it. People in other countries who have overthrown tyrannies have used it."

I'm not sure what about that you would have a problem with.

That’s a long discussion. But, he’s clearly political. Read any interview with the guy.
Eg

"One Long Struggle for Justice": An Interview with Historian Howard Zinn

In early January of 2010, the Zinn Education Project joined with HarperCollins, publisher of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, to sponsor an "Ask Howard" online radio interview, and invited teachers from around the country to participate. Sixty teachers and students...

www.zinnedproject.org

He was an out in the open activist and identified as a socialist. His framing of the world and the us and west within it is core to the modern dem party.

Would you accept as a major influencer of core concepts in an unquestioned educational curriculum, Ted Cruz or whatever as the author?

 

[tarheelbybirth]

That’s a long discussion. But, he’s clearly political. Read any interview with the guy.
Eg

"One Long Struggle for Justice": An Interview with Historian Howard Zinn

In early January of 2010, the Zinn Education Project joined with HarperCollins, publisher of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, to sponsor an "Ask Howard" online radio interview, and invited teachers from around the country to participate. Sixty teachers and students...

www.zinnedproject.org

He was an out in the open activist and identified as a socialist. His framing of the world and the us and west within it is core to the modern dem party.

Fine - tell me what in here isn't factual...and cite your sources:

The first thing we ought to recognize is that in American education we learn nothing about Haiti — which is remarkable. Think of how close Haiti is to us and how significant Haiti is. Haiti’s was the first war for independence in this hemisphere after the American Revolution. Haiti was an independent republic. It had fought against Napoleon’s France, stimulated by the French Revolution, and then had won independence. This was a remarkable thing.

The United States, interestingly enough — and this is the first thing that people should know because it is such a forerunner of what happens in the next several centuries — the United States, which had just gone through a revolution itself, refused to recognize the independent country of Haiti, refused to recognize the revolutionary regime. And from that time on, the United States’ relationship to Haiti has been paternal, imperialist, negligent. So we become the richest country in the hemisphere and Haiti the poorest country in the hemisphere, and the United States does nothing to alleviate the poverty or help the people of Haiti. In fact, just the opposite: The United States maintains and supports the brutal military regime of the Duvalier government in Haiti after World War II. And the United States is hostile to the first popularly elected president of Haiti, [Jean-Bertrand] Aristide. And the United States has essentially carried on an embargo against Haiti, which has kept that country poor. And in recent years the International Monetary Fund, which is mostly a creature of the United States, has ruined Haiti’s agricultural situation, preventing them from growing their own food and sugar and insisting on them buying from other countries. And so, we have contributed to the ruin of Haiti, to their lack of food self-sufficiency. They grew a lot of rice, but now they don’t grow rice because they’re forced to buy rice from other countries.

In other words, people should learn — students should learn — that the relationship between Haiti and the United States has been the relationship of an oppressed colony to an imperial power. That’s the background of what is happening today.

 

[TennNole17]

The republican party needs to get over same sex marriage. The dems have a much better approach. You cannot be the party of small government and want to be involved in who someone is happy with. The world is tough, if you find someone to go through it with, enjoy it.

I have no issue with same sex marriage.

 

[Banditking]

Fine - tell me what in here isn't factual...and cite your sources:

The first thing we ought to recognize is that in American education we learn nothing about Haiti — which is remarkable. Think of how close Haiti is to us and how significant Haiti is. Haiti’s was the first war for independence in this hemisphere after the American Revolution. Haiti was an independent republic. It had fought against Napoleon’s France, stimulated by the French Revolution, and then had won independence. This was a remarkable thing.

The United States, interestingly enough — and this is the first thing that people should know because it is such a forerunner of what happens in the next several centuries — the United States, which had just gone through a revolution itself, refused to recognize the independent country of Haiti, refused to recognize the revolutionary regime. And from that time on, the United States’ relationship to Haiti has been paternal, imperialist, negligent. So we become the richest country in the hemisphere and Haiti the poorest country in the hemisphere, and the United States does nothing to alleviate the poverty or help the people of Haiti. In fact, just the opposite: The United States maintains and supports the brutal military regime of the Duvalier government in Haiti after World War II. And the United States is hostile to the first popularly elected president of Haiti, [Jean-Bertrand] Aristide. And the United States has essentially carried on an embargo against Haiti, which has kept that country poor. And in recent years the International Monetary Fund, which is mostly a creature of the United States, has ruined Haiti’s agricultural situation, preventing them from growing their own food and sugar and insisting on them buying from other countries. And so, we have contributed to the ruin of Haiti, to their lack of food self-sufficiency. They grew a lot of rice, but now they don’t grow rice because they’re forced to buy rice from other countries.

In other words, people should learn — students should learn — that the relationship between Haiti and the United States has been the relationship of an oppressed colony to an imperial power. That’s the background of what is happening today.

I don’t have time to deconstruct Zinn at the moment. And, others have done so at great length. But, I think my bonsai tree analogy is fair. Meaning, this is about the lens. Zinn is open regarding that.

Relative to Haiti, they were occupied for hundreds of years collectively by France and Spain. And, also Germany made moves there. The us involvement, actively, as a counter to Germany was pretty brief. But, in Zinn’s interview he shoots only at the us. This is part of my overall point against him. In zinn’s worldview; we are the bad guy.

Aristide, by the way, liked to hang with Fidel and was into that whole socialism thing. So, naturally, Zinn is a fan.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

I don’t have time to deconstruct Zinn at the moment. And, others have done so at great length. But, I think my bonsai tree analogy is fair. Meaning, this is about the lens. Zinn is open regarding that.

So you can't refute a single thing he said. Got it. FTR, in the early 80's, Haiti produced almost every grain of rice they needed to feed their population. It was THE major food source. In '86, they booted Papa Doc. The IMF, under US control, required that the Haitian govt drop their support for Haitian rice farmers and open their market to foreign rice in order to get loans to "rebuild" . In less than 20 years, the Haitian rice industry was destroyed and they became - tada - one the of the biggest importers of US rice in the world. And - tada - rice is one of the crops most heavily subsidized by that same US govt. Those are facts...do they make the US "evil"?

 

[Banditking]

So you can't refute a single thing he said. Got it. FTR, in the early 80's, Haiti produced almost every grain of rice they needed to feed their population. It was THE major food source. In '86, they booted Papa Doc. The IMF, under US control, required that the Haitian govt drop their support for Haitian rice farmers and open their market to foreign rice in order to get loans to "rebuild" . In less than 20 years, the Haitian rice industry was destroyed and they became - tada - one the of the biggest importers of US rice in the world. And - tada - rice is one of the crops most heavily subsidized by that same US govt. Those are facts...do they make the US "evil"?

FACT SHEET: U.S. Assistance to Haiti | The White House

Haiti is a partner of the United States and we have continually sought to provide support for Haiti’s safety, security, and development. In January 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration announced $75.5 million in bilateral development and health assistance for a wide range of issues, including...

www.whitehouse.gov

 

[tarheelbybirth]

FACT SHEET: U.S. Assistance to Haiti | The White House

Haiti is a partner of the United States and we have continually sought to provide support for Haiti’s safety, security, and development. In January 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration announced $75.5 million in bilateral development and health assistance for a wide range of issues, including...

www.whitehouse.gov

Lol…wtf does that have to do with what I posted? Making Haiti a vassal state isn’t good by ANY measure. Discuss what was posted or stfu.

 

[Banditking]

Tarheel -Lol…wtf does that have to do with what I posted? Making Haiti a vassal state isn’t good by ANY measure. Discuss what was posted or stfu.


What it has to do with is that the situation in Haiti is complicated. Their elected president was a socialist/commi type. They weren’t going to have a good outcome. The us didn’t cause them to have a terrible outcome. The us has been providing aid to deal with the fact that Haiti has often crappy governance. Zinn can dream the Hugo Chavez, Bernie Sanders dream all he wants, and spin people who make money as the enemy of the people all he wants. doesn’t make that crap workable.

 

[Banditking]

Lol…wtf does that have to do with what I posted? Making Haiti a vassal state isn’t good by ANY measure. Discuss what was posted or stfu.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/outlooks/39144/56601_rcs-16a-01.pdf?v=8202

Here’s an interesting read. The situation is complicated.

 

[RileyHawk]

I agree. And yet, they do.

They are. That's the problem. Are you willing to vote to fix it?

 

[Tom Paris]

They are. That's the problem. Are you willing to vote to fix it?

He’s not.

 

[Banditking]

They are. That's the problem. Are you willing to vote to fix it?

Who would you vote for to fix it?

 

[RileyHawk]

Who would you vote for to fix it?

LOL - typical non-answer.

I will vote for those candidates who are opposed to book banning, for starters.

Now, what about you? LOL.

 

[Banditking]

LOL - typical non-answer.

I will vote for those candidates who are opposed to book banning, for starters.

Now, what about you? LOL.

I too will support candidates opposed to book banning.

 

[SI_NYC]

Tax increases seem like a heavy handed approach to controlling inflation. I’d think interest rate shifts more reasonable. Also, decreasing entitlement spending. We had Biden and trump sending people checks every month even if they were gainfully employed. That was unnecessary, expensive, and inflationary.

Meanwhile, Dems are out there shouting:

- free healthcare!!
- free college!!
- free housing!!
- universal basic income!!
- kill oil!!

then, if someone opposes anything dem, we get a lot of equity talk and republicans are racist for not wanting to kill capitalism. That’s not even addressing the defining of having voting rules as a “threat to democracy” and the party advocating for less government as “fascist.” Incoherent babble from the left seems to be at an all time high.

How you people think this is reasonable whilst simultaneously ripping republicans as ridiculous with a straight face is mind boggling. I know you’re not all stupid. Well, at least I think you probably aren’t all stupid. But then, I see people like Reed and Paris calling me delusional for advocating fiscal responsibility. And, I wonder.

You should take a little of your own advice and evaluate your own point of view. What you are accusing your 'opposition' of, is exactly what you are doing yourself.

 

[SI_NYC]

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She's absolutely right. Money shouldn't come above all else. What part do you refute?

 

[SI_NYC]

Agree with what? I mean, by that logic, you should reevaluate your positions because David Duke likes Ilhan Omar.

I consider the current progressive left to be racist against pretty much everyone, white, black or whatever. For example.

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That's a you problem.

 

[seminole97]

You are seriously going to argue tha the United States hasn't done bad things...even evil things...in it's history?

Of course not. That’s just ‘Kremlin talking points’ if you mention something reprehensible done by the United States.

 

[Banditking]

You should take a little of your own advice and evaluate your own point of view. What you are accusing your 'opposition' of, is exactly what you are doing yourself.

What is it you’re equating here?

 

[seminole97]

Fine - tell me what in here isn't factual...and cite your sources:

The first thing we ought to recognize is that in American education we learn nothing about Haiti — which is remarkable. Think of how close Haiti is to us and how significant Haiti is. Haiti’s was the first war for independence in this hemisphere after the American Revolution. Haiti was an independent republic. It had fought against Napoleon’s France, stimulated by the French Revolution, and then had won independence. This was a remarkable thing.

The United States, interestingly enough — and this is the first thing that people should know because it is such a forerunner of what happens in the next several centuries — the United States, which had just gone through a revolution itself, refused to recognize the independent country of Haiti, refused to recognize the revolutionary regime. And from that time on, the United States’ relationship to Haiti has been paternal, imperialist, negligent. So we become the richest country in the hemisphere and Haiti the poorest country in the hemisphere, and the United States does nothing to alleviate the poverty or help the people of Haiti. In fact, just the opposite: The United States maintains and supports the brutal military regime of the Duvalier government in Haiti after World War II. And the United States is hostile to the first popularly elected president of Haiti, [Jean-Bertrand] Aristide. And the United States has essentially carried on an embargo against Haiti, which has kept that country poor. And in recent years the International Monetary Fund, which is mostly a creature of the United States, has ruined Haiti’s agricultural situation, preventing them from growing their own food and sugar and insisting on them buying from other countries. And so, we have contributed to the ruin of Haiti, to their lack of food self-sufficiency. They grew a lot of rice, but now they don’t grow rice because they’re forced to buy rice from other countries.

In other words, people should learn — students should learn — that the relationship between Haiti and the United States has been the relationship of an oppressed colony to an imperial power. That’s the background of what is happening today.

In a 2022 New York Times report, French and US officials admitted that the two nations had pressured Aristide into stepping down, effectively orchestrating the coup.[7]

Well, I’m sure that was the last coup the US ever took part in, right?
Right?

 

[Banditking]

In a 2022 New York Times report, French and US officials admitted that the two nations had pressured Aristide into stepping down, effectively orchestrating the coup.[7]

Well, I’m sure that was the last coup the US ever took part in, right?
Right?

Pressuring him to step down is orchestrating the coup, how? Also missing here is why they pressured him to step down.

 

[seminole97]

Pressuring him to step down is orchestrating the coup, how? Also missing here is why they pressured him to step down.

US says they rescued him at his request, he says the US kidnapped him.
Have any reason to think the French are lying about this?
I don’t.

In 2022, French ambassador Thierry Burkard told The New York Times, that France and the United States had "effectively orchestrated "a coup" against Aristide by pressuring him to step down and taking him into exile". Another French ambassador, Philippe Selz, told the paper that the decision "to extradite" President Aristide had been made in advance.[7] In response to The New York Times reporting, James Brendan Foley, United States Ambassador to Haiti at the time of the coup, criticized the report's assertion that the U.S. had collaborated with France to overthrow Aristide, stating that "no evidence was presented in support of such a historically consequential claim". He called the claims by the French officials untrue, stating that it was never U.S. policy to remove Aristide. He said that Aristide had requested a U.S. rescue and that the decision to "dispatch a plane to carry him to safety" had been agreed upon following night-time discussions at the behest of Aristide.