Let Me Introduce Myself

[BeautifulStranger]

Greetings all. Formerly known as MaximumPossibleSuffering, I decided to change my tact and focus with my ET posting efforts.

I will be addressing more politically neutral and seemingly under-covered issues such as privacy, consumer education, and corporate malfeasance by starting and maintaining threads for each issue.

My objective is to inform, hopefully in an interesting way, and to help lay a foundation for future legislative action.

I will be conducting interviews of experts and professionals in their respective fields as well as providing citations for written sources used.

I encourage the participation of other posters and hope we can create a useful resource for our ET Community and beyond.

Attached below are two videos that could be used for introduction purposes. Which one do you like the most?:

 

[Nobert]

MaximumPossibleSuffering

- Memorable nick (at least i remember it), why changed ?

 

[Tony Stark]

Greetings all. Formerly known as MaximumPossibleSuffering, I decided to change my tact and focus with my ET posting efforts.

I will be addressing more politically neutral and seemingly under-covered issues such as privacy, consumer education, and corporate malfeasance by starting and maintaining threads for each issue.

My objective is to inform, hopefully in an interesting way, and to help lay a foundation for future legislative action.

I will be conducting interviews of experts and professionals in their respective fields as well as providing citations for written sources used.

I encourage the participation of other posters and hope we can create a useful resource for our ET Community and beyond.

Attached below are two videos that could be used for introduction purposes. Which one do you like the most?:

You seem more deranged than you were last time buddy.I do hope you are doing well though.

 

[BeautifulStranger]

MaximumPossibleSuffering

- Memorable nick (at least i remember it), why changed ?

Too negative of a nick. Potentially discourages others from requoting my posts on other social media sites. Wish to focus on issues that should have value for people regardless of their political philosophy and am concerned my MPS nick would hurt the credibility of my efforts.

 

[BeautifulStranger]

You seem more deranged than you were last time buddy.I do hope you are doing well though.

Got to make hay while They are distracted with the Coronavirus! Besides, my avatar should be disclosure enough!

Thanks for the well wishes and your politically related dreams are no longer my worst nightmares! But Joe Biden? As in mentally feeble, unpopular as measured by crowd attendance at his own political rallies, impulsive, entrenched establishment politician, defense contractor owned, and pro-war Joe Biden? Can we have a Primaries redo and get Andrew, Oprah, or a young, Millennial plus candidate who still has an agile mind to run for Executive office?

Are there any polls out there that ask respondents to name their own choices who they would like to see run for President?

Please excuse my rant. Old habits die hard. Hope things are going well for you as well. On the bright side, this pandemic seems to be causing people to take less things for granted and be more appreciate of those around them. Hopefully less people will continue to bemoan their differences with one another.

 

[Tony Stark]

Got to make hay while They are distracted with the Coronavirus! Besides, my avatar should be disclosure enough!

Thanks for the well wishes and your politically related dreams are no longer my worst nightmares! But Joe Biden? As in mentally feeble, unpopular as measured by crowd attendance at his own political rallies, impulsive, entrenched establishment politician, defense contractor owned, and pro-war Joe Biden? Can we have a Primaries redo and get Andrew, Oprah, or a young, Millennial plus candidate who still has an agile mind to run for Executive office?

Are there any polls out there that ask respondents to name their own choices who they would like to see run for President?

Please excuse my rant. Old habits die hard. Hope things are going well for you as well. On the bright side, this pandemic seems to be causing people to take less things for granted and be more appreciate of those around them. Hopefully less people will continue to bemoan their differences with one another.

Welcome back.I agree Biden is a dud but I still thank he beats Trump for the very simple reason he's not Trump.

 

[Nobert]

Too negative of a nick. Potentially discourages others from requoting my posts on other social media sites. Wish to focus on issues that should have value for people regardless of their political philosophy and am concerned my MPS nick would hurt the credibility of my efforts.

The way i saw it, it was something in the meaning of that nick, associated with sacrifice towards worthy ideal, you know, once a man goes for a big dreams/goals, suffering will be the part of the journey. The more of it, the bigger reward.

But obviously, very personal and individual perspective comes from each user/member.

 

[piezoe]

Got to make hay while They are distracted with the Coronavirus! Besides, my avatar should be disclosure enough!

Thanks for the well wishes and your politically related dreams are no longer my worst nightmares! But Joe Biden? As in mentally feeble, unpopular as measured by crowd attendance at his own political rallies, impulsive, entrenched establishment politician, defense contractor owned, and pro-war Joe Biden? Can we have a Primaries redo and get Andrew, Oprah, or a young, Millennial plus candidate who still has an agile mind to run for Executive office?

Are there any polls out there that ask respondents to name their own choices who they would like to see run for President?

Please excuse my rant. Old habits die hard. Hope things are going well for you as well. On the bright side, this pandemic seems to be causing people to take less things for granted and be more appreciate of those around them. Hopefully less people will continue to bemoan their differences with one another.

When Millennials start voting in large numbers, what they want will be listened to by politicians. So far, many of them don't vote, so, so far, they are paid lip service by most politicians, but in reality, largely ignored; ignored more by republican than democrat politicians, but ignored nevertheless. Bernard Sander's hitched his campaign wagon to a bunch of non-registered non-voters; hence his failure. In the interim, between our two plutocracies, roughly the period between women's suffrage up to Citizens United, if you wanted to be successful in politics you'd find out who is actually going to vote, and then tell them what they wanted to hear. Nowadays you find out who has the money to support politics and tell them what they want to hear. Of course there will never be enough people with money to elect anyone, so the politician still has to find out who is going to vote and cow tow to them. In the meantime, the people with the money hire all the best marketers and video producers. Once you get to Washington it's those with the money that count.

Millennials don't fit into either of these schemes. Most likely, unless by miracle the Democrats can take the Senate, and then pull off a second miracle by legislating around Citizens or getting it reversed, the nation will move inexorably toward total plutocratic fascism. We'll still vote in federal elections, but there will also remain an Electoral College largely neutralizing the utopian dream of one person one vote in presidential elections.

The move toward a more powerful plutocracy, where monied interests gain greater and greater influence over policy, will return the nation to a "more perfect union" as envisioned by its founders. The nations approximately three-quarter-century experiment with partial democracy at the federal level will be seen by historians as an interesting interlude. We will return to our roots, as a plutocratic Republic with the best government money can buy. And who is to say that democracy or plutocracy is better, Winston Churchill not withstanding? All forms of government are defective, but in different ways. Plutocrats favor, well, a plutocracy, whereas the rest of us look favorably on a more democratic government. And good luck with that!

 

[Tsing Tao]

When Millennials start voting in large numbers, what they want will be listened to by politicians. So far, many of them don't vote, so, so far, they are paid lip service by most politicians, but in reality, largely ignored; ignored more by republican than democrat politicians, but ignored nevertheless. Bernard Sander's hitched his campaign wagon to a bunch of non-registered non-voters; hence his failure. In the interim, between our two plutocracies, roughly the period between women's suffrage up to Citizens United, if you wanted to be successful in politics you'd find out who is actually going to vote, and then tell them what they wanted to hear. Nowadays you find out who has the money to support politics and tell them what they want to hear. Of course there will never be enough people with money to elect anyone, so the politician still has to find out who is going to vote and cow tow to them. In the meantime, the people with the money hire all the best marketers and video producers. Once you get to Washington it's those with the money that count.

Millennials don't fit into either of these schemes. Most likely, unless by miracle the Democrats can take the Senate, and then pull off a second miracle by legislating around Citizens or getting it reversed, the nation will move inexorably toward total plutocratic fascism. You'll still get to vote in federal elections, but it will be even more meaningless than it is now. This will return the nation to a "more perfect union" as envisioned by its founders. The nations approximately three-quarter-century experiment with partial democracy at the federal level will be seen by historians as an interesting interlude. We will return to our roots, as a plutocratic Republic with the best government money can buy. And who is to say that democracy or plutocracy is better, Winston Churchill not withstanding? All forms of government are defective, but in different ways. Plutocrats favor, well, a plutocracy, whereas the rest of us look favorably on a more democratic government. And good luck with that!

Sir, this is an Arby's.

 

[PoopyDeek]

Ugh, a deranged Thomas Dolby doppelganger.