Wherein bananafish and I debate a topic of our choosing (1 Viewer)

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What do we choose?  

 

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I'd prefer 

Deftones: Around the Fur vs. White Pony vs. S/T eponymous 

 

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This is in fun, BTW. No challenge nor gauntlet thrown down. Just a place to start a discussion about whatever crosses our minds, should the gauntletee be so up for it.  

 

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I'm not familiar enough with those bands to debate the merits but I bought tickets for Ty Seagall today whom you might enjoy if you've never heard of him.

Ty Seagall is garage rock. Deftones are alt/metal. But Zilla and other guys on the board love Segall. I don't, even though I'm a punk garager myself. I like '90s punk garage like the Rip Offs and Teengenerate. I sent you a thing by way of PM for maybe debating the corporate state that we live in, but it's up to you.  I'd love to have people chime in, too. This board has gotten very political, but not theoretical.  Yankee23Fan would be a great addition to any thread like this. 

 

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I am a lawyer only in my own mind, but how do these Wells Fargo folks get away with no criminal charges? I'm curious to hear your thoughts on corporations as people as I am totally a novice in that realm. Not only citizens United and free speech, but in other areas as well.

Really, when it comes down to business I'm a radical moderate with a hyper civil liberties bent. We can't run businesses out of town but we can't have them polluting willy nilly or putting their workers in harms way. What make free trade so difficult is the onus we put on American businesses to promote the greater good which obviously comes at an expense that emerging markets don't have to bear. Tariffs/subsidies seems like an overly simplistic solution and one that does more harm than good in the long run but the only other thing I can think of is just out-educating everyone else. That's why I liked Bernie's free college plan.

I have no idea how they got away with no criminal charges. I have no idea how any of the banks got away with no criminal charges. They fleeced the public, they fleeced everybody. If you want my true opinion, fascism ruled the day and loans were given because the "adults in the room" decided that stability was necessary for 2008. That's the only way to look at it. We would have been in deep trouble had the banks not been bailed out by the federal government. Auditing the Fed wouldn't have been such a bad move, all things considered.  

 

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And I agree on the @Yankee23Fan sentiment as well.

Yep. If we want a history of corporations, he'd be awesome.