I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Adder

Nearly no? Not nearly enough, certainly, but I don't think it's nearly nothing. And I don't think tearing it down has ever helped at all.

How do you know when you haven't tried?

You corporate shill, you.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

sorry, it's not gluten free.

It is if it's processed on a clean line. Soy doesn't have gluten.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

It is if it's processed on a clean line. Soy doesn't have gluten.

Yeah, unfortunately, I've spent a lot of time trying to find the gluten-free tofu in the Whole Foods store. As to other soy products - fuggedabotit.

When Armageddon comes, I'm heading straight for the nearest french bakery and pigging out on croissants before I'm called for the judgment.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Nearly no? Not nearly enough, certainly, but I don't think it's nearly nothing. And I don't think tearing it down has ever helped at all.

We've actually come a long way on many issues, especially race and gender, though, as the book says, we've still got fur to go.

On economic issues, there are arguments we've gone sideways and backwards as well as forwards. Unfortunately, the decision of the labor movement to embrace nationalism and protectionism played a big part in some of the backwards stuff, and its hard to see how we reverse that, and I am very dismayed that the brovolution embraces the very elements that played such a big role in the collapse of unions.

But then, as one of my friends recently reminded me, I'm just a feisty old wobbly at heart.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Unfortunately, the decision of the labor movement to embrace nationalism and protectionism played a big part in some of the backwards stuff,

what does this mean? Once the average american thinks it is okay to buy stuff made in dirt pay countries how does work stay here?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

what does this mean? Once the average american thinks it is okay to buy stuff made in dirt pay countries how does work stay here?

That means you put a lot of emphasis on building unions in other countries as a key party of your strategy, which you do through trade deals like TPP, and you focus on supporting union labor in general as opposed to American labor in particular.

I've never bought a car assembled in a nonunion plant. As a matter of fact, I've never bought a car that didn't have an American brand on it. But we all know, the parts, and all the jobs that go with them, usually come from all over the world and all kinds of plants.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

That means you put a lot of emphasis on building unions in other countries as a key party of your strategy, which you do through trade deals like TPP, and you focus on supporting union labor in general as opposed to American labor in particular.

I've never bought a car assembled in a nonunion plant. As a matter of fact, I've never bought a car that didn't have an American brand on it. But we all know, the parts, and all the jobs that go with them, usually come from all over the world and all kinds of plants.

You buy cars? My only transportation is a rainbow cart made from organic trees that died humanely of natural causes and is pulled by small batch artisan unicorns. Here is "Hung Up" by Salt. Your Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t944...166DE8BC1553E7

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

But we all know, the parts, and all the jobs that go with them, usually come from all over the world and all kinds of plants.

And that was not true when all american workers refused to buy stuff made in another country.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

You buy cars? My only transportation is a rainbow cart made from organic trees that died humanely of natural causes and is pulled by small batch artisan unicorns. Here is "Hung Up" by Salt. Your Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t944...166DE8BC1553E7

given all the talk about Union jobs in Asia I think your continued U.S. based funk posts are xenophobic. Why worry about building interest in US bands only? Here is it- Chine Funk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IclW1sooyYk

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

You buy cars? My only transportation is a rainbow cart made from organic trees that died humanely of natural causes and is pulled by small batch artisan unicorns. Here is "Hung Up" by Salt. Your Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t944...166DE8BC1553E7

You are a better man than I. I listened to my Daily Dose while eating my smokey blue cheese on rice crackers with dates and drinking my port and riding in my 15 mpg jeep with the top down on a big superhighway.

I do have a bike rack on it, so I get some hipster eco-credits, right?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

And that was not true when all american workers refused to buy stuff made in another country.

When did that actually happen? I remember a brief period in the 70s when people talked about not buying Japanese cars. But even then, people were buying Japanese cameras and clothes from wherever. And American cars were crappy.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Yeah, unfortunately, I've spent a lot of time trying to find the gluten-free tofu in the Whole Foods store. As to other soy products - fuggedabotit.

When Armageddon comes, I'm heading straight for the nearest french bakery and pigging out on croissants before I'm called for the judgment.

Try Asian markets. And you may even want to look in the local grocery store chain, whatever they call the Piggly-Wiggly (hi Not Bob!) in Beantown. That's where I found my gluten-free soy sauce.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I do have a bike rack on it, so I get some hipster eco-credits, right?

You only get those if you actually have the bike on it and you pull it off more than once a month.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

You only get those if you actually have the bike on it and you pull it off more than once a month.

Done and done. So I can trade these eco-credits for enough carbon to fly me to Europe, right?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

When did that actually happen? I remember a brief period in the 70s when people talked about not buying Japanese cars. But even then, people were buying Japanese cameras and clothes from wherever. And American cars were crappy.

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1960-2000-TVManufacturers.htm

in the 70s it became okay to buy Asian made cars, then electronics, then steel. before that some people might have owned cheap Asian made cameras, but check out the TV manufacturers in the 70s and today. What change do you see?