I had the misfortune of listening to NPR coverage of Iranian politics and US foreign policy and there was no context, just self-congratulatory well-meaning BS about what a shame that the two countries are having a hard time trusting each other… Fuck that. At least the imperialistic white-supremacists on Fox outright lie and spew honest hate. NPR actually has the opportunity to elevate the discourse from the completely moronic but they don’t because they’re pussies. Sorry. That was disrespectful to vaginas >:/
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Fox is the media equivalent of explosive diarrhea, but NPR is a whimpering sycophant
Posted: 2013/11/05 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: Fox, media, NPR, propaganda
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Yes it’s true that America’s income gap is widest since the Great Depression (NPR), but It’s even worse that that:
Posted: 2013/09/11 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: capitalism, Economic inequality, Great Depression, history, income, justice, Kleptocracy, lobbying, NPR, unions, United States, Wall Street, wealth
Yes it’s true that America’s income gap is widest since the Great Depression (NPR), but It’s even worse that that:
- This is just income and doesn’t include the wealth already amassed by the wealthy so the real difference in economic well-being is much larger.
- Back in the 30s Americans had effective labor unions and most were aware of the situation they were facing. Today, this is no longer the case so the efforts to correct this imbalance are very weak.
- The political parties in the 30s had some accountability to the majority and not only to their wealthy corporate owners. Hence FDR was willing and able to represent “main-street” and not only “Wall-street” despite strong pressure, and even an attempted coup, by the “banksters.”
- While it was certainly a painful collapse of the economy, the Great Depression was in the middle of a very long period of growth in wages and standards of living for the majority of Americans. This period ended in the mid 70s and for the vast majority of Americans, things have been getting worse for 3 decades and getting catastrophic in the last few years. In this context, the long term, irreversible, damage is much worse today than in the 30s.
Consider a bad flu hitting a strong young person as opposed to a chronically ill old person: same disease but worse effects and dismal prognosis :'(
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On Florida NPR some “experts” just explained how brilliant Larry Summers is… WTF!? Let me say I now agree with consrvatives: defund the pathetic mofos!
Posted: 2013/08/02 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: FED, Larry Summers, NPR, Obama
And the tone of discussion was nauseating. Their idiotic rhetoric was muffled by their tongues being stuck so far up Summers’s ass. I trully think I prefer the fucking fascists to these apologetic sycophants. Arggghggh.
