Yawn, another brigade from Drama? They must be tired of disrespecting the trans community or creeping on underage children if they're willing to shit on a wholesome subreddit that actually does something to help others.
Yawn, another brigade from Drama? They must be tired of disrespecting the trans community or creeping on underage children if they're willing to shit on a wholesome subreddit that actually does something to help others.
I'm actually amazed at her ignorance and incompetence. She reminds me of the militants back at college, who demanded lots of stuff (Daycares! Fiscalize internships! etc...) without taking into account the sheer cost of any of that stuff, plus how any of that would work
We know how it could work. We demanded that students who’s internships paid significant amounts (Wall Street, law firms and the like) be forced to pay more in tuition to be distributed to those who’s internships paid less. It’s not that complicated.
I don't find people calling her attractive to be accurate in Their assessment. She's quite manly looking for a chick. I mean Huma would be hotter if she wasn't Hilldawg and Carlos Danger's sloppy seconds.
Its like a conservatard claiming 56D underwater backgammon everytime Trump does something retarded. These mongs cant fathom that they or their party could elect someone who has no fucking clue what they're doing.
The US military budget is such a bloated monstrosity that it contains accounting errors that could finance two-thirds of the cost of a government-run single-payer health insurance system
With that level of wonkery, they might start recruiting drama users to do budgetary analysis.
AOC was making a rhetorically meaningful point. if folks took that to mean she was giving an actual policy prescription within the tweet, then yes, they are Wonks beyond saving... Pod America...
How is bringing up accounting errors and saying you could fund M4A with it meaningful? That money literally doesn't exist. How is calling out incompetent accountants relevant to M4A budget?
It is meant to illustrate that federal spending is not the same as running a small business. When enough voters understand that the deficit is an abstraction (much like these accounting "errors") used as a blockade to guard against proper populist policies, we'll be in better shape. That is why it's meaningful in the face of the knee-slapping literalist dismissal of the little brat congresswoman who doesn't know how money works.
That was a paraphrasing of what Ocasio-Cortez and lefty Twitter was saying, you retard. The very next sentence is:
At least that’s a notion spreading on left-wing Twitter and endorsed and amplified by newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of Democrats’ biggest 2018 sensations and an undeniable master at the fine art of staying in the public eye.
This is actually a legit criticism of leftist rhetoric. It's like the progressive version of the infamous Brexit NHS bus where politicians fundamentally misunderstand how budgets work and promise a bunch of money to healthcare that doesn't exist.
The US military budget is such a bloated monstrosity that it contains accounting errors that could finance two-thirds of the cost of a government-run single-payer health insurance system
Wait, what?
The budget for medicaid medicare is already 30-50% higher than defense spending. A rounding error in a $600b budget can cover a $2t program?
A rounding error in a $600b budget can cover a $2t program?
Well, it seems like the $32 trillion dollar cost she quoted for the medical program is supposed to be the cost over a decade (at least, according to the article). The accounting errors that leave $21 trillion unaccounted for happened over 17 years (from 1998 to 2015). According to Vox (not sure if the Nation article mentions this because I didn't bother reading the whole thing), all of the $21 trillion does not represent actual spent dollars:
Critically, however, the passage of the article that Jordan Uhl quoted in the tweet that Ocasio-Cortez cited does not mean that there is $21 trillion in fraudulent or missing DOD spending between 1998 and 2015. Indeed, there simply hasn’t been $21 trillion in (nominal) Defense Department spending across the entirety of American history.
The $21 trillion figure represents a summation of poorly documented internal financial transfers, so that the same dollar can be transferred back and forth many times over. That’s how you end up with a total amount of mis-documented financial flows that far exceeds the amount of money that’s being actually spent.
Her mistake wasn't a math error, it was assuming that the $21 trillion was actually $21 trillion.
Literally all it takes to join the "leftist" club in the US is "I think black people are OK" and "Gays are fine" and congraaatz you're now a fucking leftist.
Vox is centrist liberal through and through, and right-leaning economically and on foreign policy, but because it's not actively anti-intellectual and bigoted it's counted among the left in America. Bizarre.
Just comparing one-time "expenses" and running year-on-year costs alone is so fucking dumb that I feel personally insulted by every politician using that sort of example as a tool.
Let's say the accounting error money gets 100% funneled into single-payer healthcare. Great, everything's fine. Then the fiscal year ends, and you're up shit creek without a paddle, because the accounting error was cumulative for decades, but you needed that money every year. So now you're back to square one.
The best part is that the money doesn't even exist. The "accounting error" is double counting money when it gets moved around so there isn't even a $2T pot of money to spend on Medicare for 1 year.
Wait... there is no way that is true. I would call her deluded if she even said she knew as much about economics as myself. And it's not my area of expertise.
I can't believe anyone is hitching their wagon to her. A five second interview will tell you she's illiterate on basic economics. She thinks the unemployment rate is so low because everyone has two jobs.
/r/politics thinks she should be the VP candidate in 2020
I like how americanoids insist that one of the richest country in the world somehow, by some unknown magic, just can't afford medical care for its citizens.
I can't wait for the next mass shooting. The more of you brainlets die the better.
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1 redsmokee 2018-12-03
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1 Greatpointbut 2018-12-03
Leave now this is abuse. He will do it again. Men are scum.
1 2odastream 2018-12-03
slander and libel
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-12-03
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1 dramasexual 2018-12-03
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1 HungerArtistatlunch 2018-12-03
But she ate Mac and cheese on Instagram!
1 DistortedLines 2018-12-03
She's just like me!
1 cleverseneca 2018-12-03
And I bet you don't know how to pay for universal healthcare either...
1 DistortedLines 2018-12-03
I do!
1 cleverseneca 2018-12-03
See there she's nothing like you.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-12-03
Very cool! 💞
1 throwaway-familyhelp 2018-12-03
We'll just confiscate Tay's assets and use that to pay for it.
1 CuriousKrow 2018-12-03
Make fat people pay for it. Solve the issue of where to get the money and encourage fat people to not be fat.
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2018-12-03
Umm the same way we pay for free electricity? Duh
https://i.imgur.com/9iYCovy.jpg
1 Anarcho_Autism 2018-12-03
But she was giant brown zealot eyes and her lips look fun.
1 e-guy 2018-12-03
did she put in hot sauce, or was she a basic bitch about it?
1 mygoodpostingalt 2018-12-03
remove blue checkmarks
1 VidiotGamer 2018-12-03
Are you trying to tell me that US Congressmen are illiterate retards?
Shocked.
1 GreatEmuWarVeteran 2018-12-03
Congresswomen
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-12-03
1 Tytos_Lannister 2018-12-03
congress"people"
1 Grappler_125 2018-12-03
Congressperson
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
Congresscritters
1 Ganbazuroi 2018-12-03
I'm actually amazed at her ignorance and incompetence. She reminds me of the militants back at college, who demanded lots of stuff (Daycares! Fiscalize internships! etc...) without taking into account the sheer cost of any of that stuff, plus how any of that would work
1 RecallRethuglicans 2018-12-03
We know how it could work. We demanded that students who’s internships paid significant amounts (Wall Street, law firms and the like) be forced to pay more in tuition to be distributed to those who’s internships paid less. It’s not that complicated.
1 plurpnslurp 2018-12-03
Assuming those internships provide the same amount of useful service to a useful company.
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-12-03
after i read your posts i have to convince myself you are just a really dedicated troll to avoid losing faith in humanity
1 RecallRethuglicans 2018-12-03
How does people helping people cause you to lose faith in humanity? It’s selfishness that angers me.
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-12-03
>We demanded that students who’s internships paid significant amounts (Wall Street, law firms and the like) be forced to pay more in tuition
youre totes the good guys helping people out lmao
1 100_Percent_not_homo 2018-12-03
Don't listen to these trolls rethug. You go girl!
1 PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 2018-12-03
They why would I take an internship if I didn't see any of the money?
1 RecallRethuglicans 2018-12-03
The same reason those who aren’t getting the big money doing it, for the love of it
1 PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 2018-12-03
If I'm doing something for the love of it why would I work for anyone but myself?
1 degorius 2018-12-03
Or they do do it for the money its just less valuable of a skill
1 memoryplays 2018-12-03
this coming from a woman with a minor in econ but she still doesn't understand the simple concept of 'there is no such thing as a free lunch'
1 THOT-AUDITOR 2018-12-03
A woman who majored in international relations and completely flubbed the first Israel-Palestine question she was ever asked.
I think Boston University might be a bit of a diploma mill.
1 sodomcel 2018-12-03
"it just works"
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
Is there a picture of this woman where she doesn't look like she forgot to take her meds that day?
1 ArlenBilldozer 2018-12-03
She ways looks like she was just asked a difficult question about 2 seconds earlier.
1 Legion681 2018-12-03
Every question is difficult for her.
1 OnlyRacistOnReddit 2018-12-03
2+2 nearly made her brain explode, but I hear she can mix up a mean mind eraser and great blowjob shots.
1 22333444455555666666 2018-12-03
so a picture where she doesn't look puerto rican?
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
Ok point.
1 No_Paine_No_Gain 2018-12-03
It’s only other Latinos that shit on Puerto Rico, so I’m going to take a guess and say...Cuban?
1 22333444455555666666 2018-12-03
no just had a dominican friend who shit on puerto ricans (he shit on dominicans even more tho to be fair)
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
Dominicans and Puerto Ricans are always battling it out for the second to last spot on the Latino hierarchy.
1 Lysis10 2018-12-03
Cubans hate Mexicans. Colombians think any Islander is the blacks of the hispanic community, so I'm going with Colombian.
1 Kat_B0T 2018-12-03
I’ve heard Argentinians and Chileans consider all other Hispanic countries to be full of spear chuckers and porch monkeys.
1 E_G_Never 2018-12-03
All other hispanics mock how the Argentineans speak
1 AnnoysTheGoys 2018-12-03
I'm gething they lithp like a Thpaniard?
1 No_Paine_No_Gain 2018-12-03
No, not from my experience.
1 E_G_Never 2018-12-03
No, they just have a stupid fucking accent
1 preserved_fish 2018-12-03
It's sort of sounds like Spanish spoken with an Italian cadence. At least in BA. Not sure about the other dialects.
1 ffbtaw 2018-12-03
No you're thinking about Chileans.
1 WeWuzKANG5 2018-12-03
Now that's a hot take.
1 GreatEmuWarVeteran 2018-12-03
Um wow sweaty
1 The-Devilz-Advocate 2018-12-03
F.
I'm Puerto Rican, this hurt me on a personal level.
1 Greatpointbut 2018-12-03
I don't find people calling her attractive to be accurate in Their assessment. She's quite manly looking for a chick. I mean Huma would be hotter if she wasn't Hilldawg and Carlos Danger's sloppy seconds.
1 SideFumbling 2018-12-03
Say what you want, but she could still get it.
1 Greatpointbut 2018-12-03
What? GRA Surgery?
1 SideFumbling 2018-12-03
my peepee in her butt
1 Greatpointbut 2018-12-03
2 girls one cup mayos edtion
1 HeftyHovercraft 2018-12-03
I think the way she trash talks the demographic I fit into turns me on. That her and her huge tits.
1 Greatpointbut 2018-12-03
I know I fanticize about Hilldawg's mammers too 😍
1 BeanerShnitzel 2018-12-03
You know you want to stick it on her spicy 🌶 bean pocket.
1 holditsteady 2018-12-03
she's hot
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
God no.
1 holditsteady 2018-12-03
yes.
you probably prefer animated japanese little girls don't you?
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
If by cartoon japanese little girls you mean fine Celtic lasses with copper hair or Nordic blondes, then yes, I do prefer them.
1 holditsteady 2018-12-03
you some kinda racist?
1 HungerArtistatlunch 2018-12-03
Because the beauty of the white Aryan woman must not vanish from the earth.
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
This is why I set up a breeding lab
1 myusername_sucks 2018-12-03
If this turns into porn you'd better source that shit.
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
old news
1 random_modnar_5 2018-12-03
Lmao kys
1 pvijay187 2018-12-03
I don't doubt they are still under 14
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
Maybe they are really immortal dragons shitlord.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-12-03
Lolololol
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
I've fucked a literally communist but I'm not fucking horse faced crazy.
1 Kat_B0T 2018-12-03
Only a street shitter would think AOC is a “good looking woman” 🤢🤢🤢
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-12-03
https://i.imgur.com/8HnT78H.jpg
1 Kat_B0T 2018-12-03
🤢🤢🤢 😴😴😴
1 pepperouchau 2018-12-03
"I like both kinds, white and whiter!"
1 Chicup 2018-12-03
Like this?
1 ElonMuskar 2018-12-03
this is what the future will look like if you don't support the mayocide now.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
Her eyes practically have anime proportions so it's probably not that
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1 Kiru-Kokujin23 2018-12-03
over cortez?
sure
1 holditsteady 2018-12-03
pedo
1 Kiru-Kokujin23 2018-12-03
if preferring people who look like women over someone who looks like a man makes me a pedo sure
or as yamete would say
1 holditsteady 2018-12-03
ya sounds like youre a pedo
1 MayoIsSpicy 2018-12-03
She's hot in videos, but man is she not photogenic
1 JustLions 2018-12-03
Well, yes, but it's a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vbXoiTYFg
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2018-12-03
How's this?
1 hungarianmeatslammer 2018-12-03
She's the burrito version of Adam Lanza
1 wow___justwow 2018-12-03
libs i know IRL keep telling me that she is actually super smart, but then she makes tweets like this...
1 Power_Incarnate 2018-12-03
Its like a conservatard claiming 56D underwater backgammon everytime Trump does something retarded. These mongs cant fathom that they or their party could elect someone who has no fucking clue what they're doing.
1 libelecsBlackWolf 2018-12-03
Sounds more like Vox is still able to cash checks from the Clinton Foundation.
1 Osterion 2018-12-03
Why not both?
1 DistortedLines 2018-12-03
What a dumb foid lol
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-12-03
How the fuck is this controversial?
1 DistortedLines 2018-12-03
Foids man
1 shallowm 2018-12-03
we /r/gendercritical now
1 seshfan2 2018-12-03
Final nail.
1 pbermiez 2018-12-03
Even Vox? The extremely centrist neolib wonky nonsense Vox? What?
1 KingWayneX 2018-12-03
With that level of wonkery, they might start recruiting drama users to do budgetary analysis.
1 pbermiez 2018-12-03
AOC was making a rhetorically meaningful point. if folks took that to mean she was giving an actual policy prescription within the tweet, then yes, they are Wonks beyond saving... Pod America...
1 Skyright 2018-12-03
How is bringing up accounting errors and saying you could fund M4A with it meaningful? That money literally doesn't exist. How is calling out incompetent accountants relevant to M4A budget?
1 pbermiez 2018-12-03
It is meant to illustrate that federal spending is not the same as running a small business. When enough voters understand that the deficit is an abstraction (much like these accounting "errors") used as a blockade to guard against proper populist policies, we'll be in better shape. That is why it's meaningful in the face of the knee-slapping literalist dismissal of the little brat congresswoman who doesn't know how money works.
1 shallowm 2018-12-03
That was a paraphrasing of what Ocasio-Cortez and lefty Twitter was saying, you retard. The very next sentence is:
1 KingWayneX 2018-12-03
zzzzz
1 voidnullvoid 2018-12-03
You mean the hyper-far right Nazi xenocidal Vox? Only a literal concentration camp guard would see it any other way.
1 DESTINY_IS_ALT_RIGHT 2018-12-03
Can't wait for the woke radlib vs leftist battles. Looks like they're starting.
1 holditsteady 2018-12-03
the libs have already won but there will be another fight for the primary
1 Vladith 2018-12-03
This is nothing compared to spring 2016 dude
1 DESTINY_IS_ALT_RIGHT 2018-12-03
With Bernie the radlibs could play the idpol card. Now with people like AOC in the mix they have to actually attack leftist policies.
1 Skyright 2018-12-03
That shouldn't be hard if this post is anything to go by. My 11 year old sister could probably find the flaws in their policies.
1 Gnarwhalrus 2018-12-03
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-12-03
radical liberalism and leftism are pretty different but they're both retarded
1 SecretSnack 2018-12-03
FUCKING LEFTISTS
He seethed as he tried to force urine past his hypertrophied prostate.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
This is actually a legit criticism of leftist rhetoric. It's like the progressive version of the infamous Brexit NHS bus where politicians fundamentally misunderstand how budgets work and promise a bunch of money to healthcare that doesn't exist.
1 SecretSnack 2018-12-03
DARK LADY BAD
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
I'm half beaner and have no problem with her race. Her take was just mega retarded.
1 SecretSnack 2018-12-03
VIRTUE SIGNALLING INTENSIFIES
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
REEEE MY PLOY TO USE IDPOL DIDN'T WORK AS EXPECTED
1 SecretSnack 2018-12-03
HALF BEANER CONGRATULATES SELF. IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE.
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2018-12-03
https://i.imgur.com/NhZ77ny.gifv
1 RedditorsAreRetarts 2018-12-03
Holy shit, it's the retard who is in every fucking thread on r/PublicFreakout
1 SecretSnack 2018-12-03
Reporting for duty.
1 RedditorsAreRetarts 2018-12-03
Watch yourself, you ain't on your turf no more.
1 SecretSnack 2018-12-03
Is this turf compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act?
1 RedditorsAreRetarts 2018-12-03
Pretty much everyone here is a retard, except me of course, so I guess.
1 SecretSnack 2018-12-03
Hey, you made me laugh out loud.
1 RedditorsAreRetarts 2018-12-03
fag
1 SecretSnack 2018-12-03
Mmmm, various body parts of mine soften, while others harden.
1 KingWayneX 2018-12-03
Wait, what?
The budget for medicaid medicare is already 30-50% higher than defense spending. A rounding error in a $600b budget can cover a $2t program?
wtf guys?
1 elftor421 2018-12-03
lol it's a gussy of course they don't understand simple math
1 CucksLoveTrump 2018-12-03
I'm surprised she can read
1 HeftyHovercraft 2018-12-03
I guarantee you that 90 percent of Democrats do not know that half the budget goes towards Medicare and social security.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-12-03
Military spending is literally 200% of the budget.
1 itsrattlesnake 2018-12-03
More like 2000%, you goddamn philistine.
1 FaygoMakesMeGo 2018-12-03
Or that the cost of healthcare quintupled after we instituted it.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
Apparently if you shuffle around the same dollar a bunch of times it magically multiplies itself lmao
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-12-03
This but unironically
1 shallowm 2018-12-03
Well, it seems like the $32 trillion dollar cost she quoted for the medical program is supposed to be the cost over a decade (at least, according to the article). The accounting errors that leave $21 trillion unaccounted for happened over 17 years (from 1998 to 2015). According to Vox (not sure if the Nation article mentions this because I didn't bother reading the whole thing), all of the $21 trillion does not represent actual spent dollars:
Her mistake wasn't a math error, it was assuming that the $21 trillion was actually $21 trillion.
1 LongPostBot 2018-12-03
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1 shallowm 2018-12-03
hell yeah 😎
1 Vladith 2018-12-03
Vox has always been opposed to these policies, retard. Just look at their Bernie coverage
1 Anus_of_Aeneas 2018-12-03
Yeah Vox is idpol meant for wealthy liberals, not as much about socialism.
1 Vladith 2018-12-03
I don't see why T_D guys find it so hard to understand that the broad left is not united
1 2016wasthegreatest 2018-12-03
Vox is actually for communist liberals
1 throwaway-familyhelp 2018-12-03
When you're fighting over weather to kill all rich people, or to just take all their assets, there isn't much that is dividing you
1 Vladith 2018-12-03
Vox are literally all rich people opposed to progressive taxation
Again, they were very anti-Bernie and continue to be skeptical of progressive economic policies
1 throwaway-familyhelp 2018-12-03
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17648860/single-payer-explained-3-charts
1 tomatoswoop 2018-12-03
Literally all it takes to join the "leftist" club in the US is "I think black people are OK" and "Gays are fine" and congraaatz you're now a fucking leftist.
Vox is centrist liberal through and through, and right-leaning economically and on foreign policy, but because it's not actively anti-intellectual and bigoted it's counted among the left in America. Bizarre.
1 CompetitiveLoiterer 2018-12-03
Are broads ever capable of uniting instead of up backstabbing each other?
1 Skyright 2018-12-03
Aka being right.
1 MayoIsSpicy 2018-12-03
It would be actually be surprising if Mother Jones or Jacobin said something like this.
But it's Vox, this is definitely expected
1 constantinople_2053 2018-12-03
Just comparing one-time "expenses" and running year-on-year costs alone is so fucking dumb that I feel personally insulted by every politician using that sort of example as a tool.
Let's say the accounting error money gets 100% funneled into single-payer healthcare. Great, everything's fine. Then the fiscal year ends, and you're up shit creek without a paddle, because the accounting error was cumulative for decades, but you needed that money every year. So now you're back to square one.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
The best part is that the money doesn't even exist. The "accounting error" is double counting money when it gets moved around so there isn't even a $2T pot of money to spend on Medicare for 1 year.
1 JurijFedorov 2018-12-03
So, slight miscalculation on her part? I don't think she is a mathematician or an economist.
1 HeftyHovercraft 2018-12-03
The irony is that she has an economics degree.
1 JurijFedorov 2018-12-03
Wait... there is no way that is true. I would call her deluded if she even said she knew as much about economics as myself. And it's not my area of expertise.
1 Prometherion13 2018-12-03
It's true. She must not have attended class very frequently. Or done any of the homework & required reading.
1 _narrows 2018-12-03
DIVERSITY DEGREE
1 jewdanksdad 2018-12-03
I'm not reading all this dumb politics bullshit? Can someone summarize this shit in one or two sentences?
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-12-03
Progressives are bad at math
1 jewdanksdad 2018-12-03
Seems legit
1 tomatoswoop 2018-12-03
economically centrist publication doesn't like socialised healthcare; apparently that's a surprise
1 rnjbond 2018-12-03
I can't believe anyone is hitching their wagon to her. A five second interview will tell you she's illiterate on basic economics. She thinks the unemployment rate is so low because everyone has two jobs.
/r/politics thinks she should be the VP candidate in 2020
1 WeWuzKANG5 2018-12-03
YASSSS KWEEEN SLAY!!!!!!
1 lowlandslinda 2018-12-03
Also, the medicare for all cost is over 10 years.
1 ceproastaimata 2018-12-03
I like how americanoids insist that one of the richest country in the world somehow, by some unknown magic, just can't afford medical care for its citizens.
I can't wait for the next mass shooting. The more of you brainlets die the better.
1 myusername_sucks 2018-12-03
I'm just holding out for some nude leaks.
1 Snauke 2018-12-03
What the fuck