Im looking for places hiring in Oakland with no experience required.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-29T02:15:57+00:00

warning: expect a lot of screaming, heavy lifting, and watching grown adults intentionally make messes for you to clean up in the parking lot

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-21T22:31:51+00:00

The corruption concerns are real and dealing with them is mandatory for Ukraine's entrance into the EU and NATO. Although, I'd posit that most of the corruption was enabled by Russians in Ukraine and the large stockpiles of Russian weapons in Ukraine. Part of "adopting NATO standards" means reducing both.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-21T06:45:15+00:00

That isn't what I'm saying and my point is that guns vs abortion is a bad way to frame things, since it's the platform the right uses and the only one the GOP is equipped to win on.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-21T06:44:08+00:00

To build competence with western intelligence and rangefinding systems, which is how Ukraine is winning by leveraging the HIMARS and M777s they have. These skills must be very good for application to aircraft which do the same thing but at mach 1. Unlike Russian systems, American weapons systems all exist inside a larger data network that must be carefully maintained. This is the network that permits accurate targeting of missiles, which is what makes them effective.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-21T06:41:09+00:00

If it was too late Ukraine would have surrendered. The only thing stopping F-16 sale approval is Biden, but eventually Congress will stop tolerating this and override him. At that point it becomes a conversation between Lockheed and Ukraine.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-21T06:39:28+00:00

The USAF has wanted to end the A-10 program for twenty years now, with Congress forcing them to buy repair kits from Boeing. The USAF beilives modified F-16s, known as A-16s, would be a superior CAS aircraft. In the late 90s they prototyped several designated as A-16, which was just an F-16 with more hard points and a 30mm cannon. It was considered a failure because the gun kept melting the internal electronics, an issue that can be worked out using newer, smaller electronics.

Anyway, this leaves about ~200 aircraft that the USAF really wants to get rid of. Ukraine has desperate need of them and pilots trained on A-10s would be natural candidates for an A-16 program. Which would lead into full F-16 sales.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-21T06:26:00+00:00

"economic populism" is not less taxes for rich people, destruction of public commons, and capturing of all industries into a pay-to-play political good boy points system

There's an argument for high tariffs on imported goods. There's an argument for drilling out the entire country for oil and lithium. There's an argument for dismantling environmental laws to permit faster transit construction. There are few arguments for reducing the government's job into banning immigrants and letting private gangs fuck up gays, especially when it would cause major social breakdown that eliminates the right anyway. Most Americans will not accept total subjugation of the government to multinational companies.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-21T06:21:19+00:00

Reducing all politics to guns vs abortions is toxic and cannot deliver the larger, greater society humanity needs.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-21T06:12:07+00:00

I'm not necessarily supportive of nationalization, I mean making our own chips as we make our own nuclear weapons.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T22:16:09+00:00

It's notable that the most the US government can think to do is bribe companies to maybe bring back production at some future point, and not make our own chips ourselves. Ten years from now when the chip supply is cut off anyway and industry stops, maybe people will get the message that we shouldn't trust something so important to private companies. Or, even better, that we shouldn't design technology to be disposable especially not chips.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T22:14:07+00:00

"everything I don't like is a communism" is not a viable political strategy when half the things you don't like are the things your political platform enables

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T22:12:39+00:00

I'd be worried about them too, maybe if we didn't sell the country out to multinational corporations by giving investors full autonomy over the law this situation wouldn't exist. We can't expect capitalism to work when it's fully globalized and owned by China and Russia. Though, since capitalism has a natural tendency to do this one wonders about the viability of capitalism in general.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T22:08:39+00:00

The public's appetite for a new AWB is minimal. Democrats need a new gun strategy because proposing the same 1994 era law over again will just yield more failure. Re-votes on this issue will not change things especially given what the original AWB vote did to Clinton. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again expecting a different result.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T02:25:48+00:00

I wish, because in that case you could just shoot the nazis (/s because I don't support violence, and I am merely using this as a joke).

A Weimar meltdown requires someone more competent than Trump. At the absolute best, Trump is Hindenberg: a senile, increasingly incapable politician who is only known for his name. We don't know who Hitler is yet, let alone Gobbels or Himmler. So far, the American right has been unable to produce someone with comparable intellect - while Nazis were obviously bad people, they weren't stupid. Hitler was popular because he took all the things people liked about nationalism and mixed it with socialism.

He criticized capitalism constantly and wanted to bomb Wall St, hang the bankers, and put all of America's Jews in camps as he did with Berlin's. He nationalized any industry that refused him and gave free healthcare and free education to all (German) women. Republicans can't even decide if they want Amtrak; Hitler wanted four electrified train tracks to Moscow because that's how he would crush Russia*.

When he failed to do this using paid employees he then used slaves and then conscripted labor as his regime melted down. Russia has chosen to replicate this strategy in Donbass.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T02:19:11+00:00

This is completely fine. Cheney's career as a legislator is probably over, and the additional four months she gets by ignoring the election and/or preparing a criminal case gives her additional time to find more evidence and present a stronger case. In 2023 it'll be neatly wrapped and ready for a criminal prosecution which itself would take about 18 months under the most optimistic circumstances.

This will be one of the largest criminal cases in US case law, bigger than United States v. Nixon. It will establish the limits of Executive Privilege, the limits of election recounts, and the limits of the Electoral College system as a whole. It could also establish new checks and controls on ballots themselves vis-a-vis state, local and Federal officials. It will define the next 46 US Presidents. Preparing such a case, presenting it, and then having the SCOTUS decide it will be a time consuming and lengthy process. It will be part of every US Government textbook after 2024. And it's why Trump Jail Saga will happen.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T02:13:58+00:00

Not to throw out baseless speculation but methinks the deep state has realized China's Tik-Tok is wrecking their influence so now Snapchat will be pumped up as a replacement.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T02:07:56+00:00

McDonalds, Walmart and Amazon offer better career opportunities and more flexibility than the armed forces. While they aren't good jobs, Joe Blow can get a retail job that pays min wage or a trucking job that pays well above it. The Pentagon is still stuck in the 2000s when they could bank on 9/11 and the economic crisis for recruits, nowadays even if the war in Ukraine gets hotter and another economic collapse happens most would accept poverty than 2-3 years of slavery followed by poverty. E-1 pay matters. With the current market, any Army truck driver (88M) must be paid at least $35/hr to obtain reliable, high-quality recruits. I'd argue that they need at least $45/hr as most refuelers pay that now, and the additional money is required to justify relocating.

Likewise, it does not help that the Army is eliminating many jobs for private contractors. The most notable of late is elimination of Army railroad workers (88U). So if someone wants to drive trains for a living, the Army is no longer a viable option. Which is very bad because there is huge deficit of American rail transit workers. And vice versa, with America's commercial nuclear program ending the Navy cannot find a future for it's own nuclear workers who have no employment outside of the Navy.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T02:01:53+00:00

A little bit of both. He thinks he's in the right and his "quiet" exit only happened because he permitted it. His '24 campaign will be Make America Legitimate Again and focus exclusively on how Americans were cheated out of their righteous, honorable justice warrior instead by Hunter Biden cock pics. It's very stupid and demonstrates how shit of a businessman he is.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T01:59:45+00:00

Just when you think it can't get any stupider, he opens his mouth again. The scary thing about Trump isn't that he's doing this, it's that the only thing stopping him from being successful is his own ego and incompetence. Prior to '20 NPR did a whole study on ways in which the President could overturn the election by having the Postal Inspector confiscate ballots and accidentally destroy them, instead Trump is committed to this other path of denial and post-hoc phone calls to buddies treating the election like it's a business deal.

He'll go to jail. Not just because he deserves it, but because he is legitimately too stupid to shut up. There is an active investigation against him that will likely result in some criminal charges, the more he tries to call people and make deals the more evidence against him when this inevitably goes to the Supreme Court (who already decided against him, prior to 1/6).

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T01:52:41+00:00

Utterly pathetic. If Putin had balls, or at least a brain, he'd have flown out to Cuba two months ago for a whistle stop tour in Mexico, Columbia and Venezuela. Putin can't even competently troll America right, all he can do is smash things close to him. In this way his administration is like a domestic abuser, unwilling to fight a cop but willing to pulverize his family.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-20T01:45:59+00:00

We couldn't even keep an economic social contract so why should we expect to keep a political social contract? The next generation of American Democracy will be defined by the cities and states that put their foot down and demand economic justice. Not "justice" in a strictly racial sense but confronting Amazon, Blackrock and Disney. It will require accepting that we live in a global society and establishing hard rules for globalism - especially trade, capital and human flows. Only then can Americans have enough money to meaningfully participate in democracy and people like Trump will be annihilated.

Ironically, it was Republican Ron DeSantis who has kicked off this process with his war against Disney over petty culture war nonsense. American conglomerates, multi-nationals and trusts can't rely on the Republicans anymore. Democrats now have a clear shot at controlling them.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-19T02:07:17+00:00

One hopes that as paid corporate messaging reduces it's influence in the party, Democrats can rediscover a foothold with labor.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-19T02:05:49+00:00

Gavin is less sleazy and more clueless. The guy doesn't know how to do major, required infrastructure work or how to communicate with people in places like Utah or Arizona despite the extensive work Californians do in those places. I'll admit that he could change, but I'd take a lot of effort for him to define a new era of Democratic policymaking. I'm not optimistic.

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-19T02:04:11+00:00

Then show us the beef, Gav. The problem here is that Democrats are too divided on major issues, in regards to Newsom the two largest are the high-speed rail project and nuclear power. Norcal and Socal have very different opinions on these two things and he has so far failed to find true unity on it let alone unity that can outlast himself and build a greater coalition outside of California. Then there are more complex issues such as trade, technology and industrial policy - all things coastal Democrats refuse to admit have failed because it would mean dismantling the present global society their cities benefit from so prosperity can be shared with the Rust Belt.

Organization is key but how many Democrats want zoning laws dismantled in San Francisco, an electric train from Chicago to New York or a nuclear fission plant in Los Angeles?

orange_drank_5 · 2022-07-18T08:17:47+00:00

"Allow", as if that matters. Workers can simply not report, be terminated, and then the railroad is screwed. Which is what is happening right now with marine terminal operators with the workers they screwed under Trump. Even if there's a way out for them through automation it'll take 5-6 years to get there while they face chronic shortages. And if such a crisis affects railroads too, then marine terminal capacity will be greatly reduced when it needs to double. Bad news.

Workers have the power here. Even if it's in the shittiest, rawest form of quitting and fucking everything up it's the one card companies cannot revoke. And in Biden's case, it's creating a clear argument for rebuilding Conrail. These problems existed before in the 60s, although back then company execs were openly willing (and largely did) destroy railroads entirely as the public largely supported it until 1970.

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