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it is, however, wrong.
Goddammit, I’ve got to get cracking on my Mandarin studies so I can get a good job as an overseer at the athletic shoe factories they’ll be building here soon.
It’s so awesome and so wrong at the same time I feel like my head is going to explode!
Another explanation is that empires expand material consumption outside their borders, developing a huge import trade network, which they develop a huge military to protect, which bankrupts them. We are also specializing in exporting bulk commodities with almost no labor making them – wheat corn, coal, and importing things that take a lot of labor to make, software, cars, TV’s and phones.
Hey, VideoGum was being totally sarcastic…. I wasn’t sure you were.
That guy is a Robot and the joke is on us, as they say. Laugh all you want, your crappy Itable from 1999 displays less than 1 megapixel, you nu-nerd.
Yeah I wasn’t sure this was sarcastic either at first – the version on the Slog had a handy *sarcasm note at the bottom of the post. I had my pitchfork all sharpened up and everything.
Oh, yeah, Citizens Against Government Waste. So named because “Neocon Astroturfing Sugardaddies Against Liberals and Working People Getting Ahead” just gives away way too much.
Pfui. So anyone can do political theatre. It’s so much easier than coming up with a way that people can get ahead without screwing his neighbor.
So what?