SNL Finally Catches Up To C99P: "The Bubble"

Saturday Night Live just went "there," a few moments into this evening's show, no less!
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb-kmOgpI]

But, of course, even after this, many there still don't get it. (See comments in Orange State's diary, linked in previous sentence.)

But, other websites do...

'SNL': Brooklynites Run From the Real World By Hiding in "The Bubble"
Catrina Dennis
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This week’s “Saturday Night Live,” hosted by Kristen Wiig, saw a very pointed sketch that poked fun at the presumed “bubble” over millennial neighborhoods. The skit zeroed in on Brooklyn, and painted a picture of a new living establishment completely shuts out the rest of the world. While it’s healthy to have a safe space away from others every once in a while, this particular skit highlighted the dangers of retreating into a bubble of like-minded people at all times. It’s something that should hit pretty close to home regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum...

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The sharper skit was the one that followed host Kristen Wiig’s apolitical, Thanksgiving-themed monologue. A fake commercial for “The Bubble” (“a planned community of like-minded free thinkers—and no one else”) was a terrific sendup of young urban liberals who feel ready to divorce themselves from the other America. Offering diversity, safe spaces, and one-bedroom apartments starting at $1.9 million, The Bubble is the perfect place to enjoy the Huffington Post and a glass of raw milk without any Trump transition team microaggressions to harsh your progressive mellow...

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Obviously, it's not just about "Brooklyn."

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Just a little nauseated. Here in my little quiet part of the city, new houses just went up...

400 grand a pop. Less than a block from where I pay 1300 a month for a 3 bedroom duplex.

I don't doubt my Landlord will soon start doing the math, and determining that catering to the new folks moving to Portland will be more profitable than the 2 lower income families and 2 disabled veterans he's got living here now.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Once they realize barristas and wait staff can't afford the two hour commute on their wages, and business is unwilling to pay the $70k to pay said barristas, they'll move out in droves leaving whole swaths of Little Detroit.

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the future.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

The FAA? LOL

The FAA has already granted special permission for more than 5,300 commercial drone uses while it developed the final rules. Tuesday's action opens the floodgates to tens of thousands more because drone operators won't need to seek case-by-case approval.

Heads up! whee Vegas stays in Vegas? Hope so.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3054550/drone-vs/worlds-first-droneport-under-construction-near-las-vegas

We are uniquely prepared to help meet the increasing demand for an unmanned systems workforce.

Peace
Edited to add: priceless quote from the World's First.

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Automation is hard. It's also less reliable than people. When a person gets sick, a coworker can cover for them. What does an automated place do when the computer gets sick?

At my local walmart, when the self-checkout has a hiccup, the entire area is offline for a couple days while it's getting fixed. If all the registers were self checkout, that'd be two days of lost profits, if not longer. I doubt a small coffee shop could afford the wait and expenses of a broken down system.

The closest thing I know of that we have right now is Eatsa, and even that's just the illusion of an automated restaurant. It's not even a new style of restaurant, as the article shows. And I'm sure there's a reason why "automats" didn't take over the food industry as well.

The only food industry related positions I see in jeopardy anytime soon are those that already can be replaced: waitstaff and line workers. The closest thing I've seen to being a threat to the actual kitchen staff is little more than a luxury item concept at this point.

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And then removed them and went back to human cashiers. I think the machines broke down too often and the clientele was easily confused and couldn't use the machines correctly.

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Machines are amazingly costly, and people that threaten to automate things due to even the discussion minimum wage increases never take that into account. The cost of maintenance alone probably would cost more than a modest minimum wage increase.

And there's that confusion aspect. Unless we can develop a decent kind of virtual intelligence, machines can't explain things as well as a human can. Even with pre-programmed explanations, a machine can't adapt to a person's level of confusion and frustration.

Plus, there's the whole hacking aspect. I wonder how long it would take some business owner to notice that their automated business was giving away half of their product for free. And then I wonder how quickly they'd replace that machine with a hack-proof human.

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A lot of jobs (finance, medicine, data analysis) are already being automated. Reliability is built into cloud systems that will run these algorithms as part of the basic infrastructure: if a node goes down, an exact duplicate is started up immediately. This failover is also part of the terms of service, so it is basically guaranteed for any business model built,on top of it.

Automation of knowledge work is not hand waving future stuff. Just last week I heard a story at work about how a customer was interested in some analytics automation we were working on but suddenly realized that our work would put him out of a job.

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Information jobs are far, far easier to automate than manual jobs, though they still have the same problems of hacking and crashes/viruses. Even those cloud systems are vulnerable. And if a cloud makes an exact copy, that means it has the exact same security vulnerabilities.

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it puts people out of work. I was recently at CVS and they tried to usher me to self-checkout. I said no. The clerk looked at me as if I had two heads. I said, I don't want to put people out of work. I got the sense the thought hadn't occurred to her. Then she smiled.

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Every time they encourage me to go to the self-checkout line I ask, "How much do I get paid for that?" They of course give me the same 'two-headed' look you describe a respond, "you don't get paid for it."

I point to the live cashier and say, "you pay her to do it...why not me?"

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The people, united, will never be defeated.

15 minutes, when you have the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

[baristas are addressed, iirc]

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti

I feel your pain.

In 2002 my 1-bedroom 692 sq ft apartment was $600 per month. Just signed a new lease for the same apartment. It's up to $1,219 a month.

We won't have a bubble here, though. We'll have a fancy iron fence.

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So, crowbar rather than drill. Okay! Wink

Cheers LSM, nice to see you posting here. Sorry about the ever increasing rents, mine too here, and the cost of everything else keeps going up. Every penny gets spent, most of it goes to assholes. Meh.

Solidarity

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you should see the one around the State Capitol.

Wages in Austin have not kept up with rising housing prices as this chart shows.

When you ask people in Austin what are the city's greatest challenges, the answer is always affordability and traffic. They go hand in hand. While there are lots of jobs in the city, no one can afford to actually live in the city and are forced further and further out into the suburbs and then they wonder why IH-35 is a parking lot all day.

And while we do have some good paying jobs here, most of the jobs are State employees, University of Texas employees, and workers in the service industry (hotels, bars, restaurants, retailers) and don't pay well..

And don't even get me started on some of the new mixed-use projects with ground floor retail. Very little of the ground floor retail is something useful like a dry cleaners or a hardware store. It's all high-priced boutique and eateries, juice bars, salons, day spas, and places like The Pretty Kitty where you can get your private parts waxed.

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Heh, you know what I mean? California, but but but, exports! Even the bubble parts. Here I was perusing some data, because of course state government does not provide it, except through a door where lobbyists get first cut I guess, holier than thou pardon my snark.

Whether the bosses are Ds or Rs in California, field workers get the lowest pay for the worst work. And looking at the latest illiteracy rates on that PDF, at the same time us poors lack food, jobs, and shelter, the school system is failing to educate our youth. "That's the system."

Peace

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but they've brought some good things to the city - namely Trader Joe's and In-N-Out Burger.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

just fixing to open on S. Lamar about 15 blocks north of me.

Bluebonnet Studios

It's got plenty of bus service - three local routes (3, 331, 338) and the 803 Capital Metro Express bus. Unfortunately, they're efficiencies and the efficiency units don't allow pets and I'm not about to get rid of my cat.

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Also, cheap imported goods are a thing of past. Made in USA is more expensive. Housing prices can't rise in that environment.

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Just this summer a long time friend was just kicked out of his rental in Hillsboro after seven years, for no reason at all. Being naive and unfamiliar with this aspect of Oregon's truly awful laws, I told him to just call a lawyer, the guy's bluffing. Landlord's can't do that, there are laws.

There are. Just not in Oregon. Maybe there's some recourse in Portland, I'd check it out either way so that you know, just in case.

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I'm living in a Street of Dreams home in Vancouver. Built in 1976. It went for $28,000 then. The 2015 Street of Dream homes now are pushing 8 figures.
They charge lookee lews $15 a head just to walk tbrough. It's sickening.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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In my recent meetings with Dems, today at the California convention of the CADEM in San Diego, the Hillary supporters were still blaming Bernie for Trump getting to be POTUS.

We will eventually prevail.

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The political revolution continues

Thanks Shockwave, that is cool you are showing up and participating. Can you say more why you think you'll prevail? I've been waiting decades for the purge to occur up north, sick and tired now. Thanks. Keep going! Biggrin

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Watched it as a kid. Bad idea. It imprinted a horrible feeling I can't shake when I've come across her stuff as an adult. Though, there was a good movie she was in when she was much older, with a young African American guy - can't recall the name - and I had to keep reminding myself she's an actress, and not Jane.

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With Sidney Portier?
Or was it "Look who's coming to dinner"?

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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It was much more recent; likely her last movie. Urban setting.

Gotta get back to work.

Break time:

[video:https://youtu.be/O9fk9UsUPNs]

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But the truth is the truth and the Hillary campaign ran a corrupt, manipulative, dirty, smearing, cheating, deck stacking, undemocratic, issue ignoring, intelligence insulting campaign. The truth will set us free.

at the California convention of the CADEM in San Diego, the Hillary supporters were still blaming Bernie for Trump getting to be POTUS.

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Well, I'll believe it when I actually SEE it, but I will be part of the attempt - am a new member of the exec committee, and was mostly in shock and dismay through the primary season. I intend for us to take a deep look at what did not work as well as things have in the past and complain upwards. I was pretty disgusted at the effort. I suspect I'm not alone, but I've only been in close contact with a couple others who feel similarly. There actually are quite a large number of us who were Bernie folks, and I think we can assemble and be more coordinated. None of us, of course, are in the leadership, and there seems to be a motion to oust our current chair. Dunno. Gotta catch up with what's already in the works.

It the group won't be moved, I'm out. Truth is that the local folks who represent us are quite good for the most part, and I've felt very connected to them - this is the first time in my life I've actually KNOWN pretty much all my representatives (I got gerrymandered and don't actually know my congressman now, but I kinda knew the last one, and I think he might even have been able to put my name and face together at one point). It's been such a frustrating year to have the corruption be so aggressive. Maybe it cannot be saved - jury's still out for me, but I'm keeping my expectations very low. Regardless of if this local party gets it together, I think we gotta have more parties to keep things honest.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

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@eState4Column5

My favorite comment from the GOS link you shared:

banana7
Nov 19 · 11:16:51 PM

Daily Kos is trending way down in an election year, unfortunately…

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dailykos.com

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Add breitbart.com as a competitor and look at the longer term trends;

https://www.similarweb.com/website/dailykos.com

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The political revolution continues

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GOS has a 60% bounce rate. Not so great. I don't buy the stated "unique visitors" stats.

Thing is-- all you ever see posting is the same people day in and day out. To me, the entire internet numbers racket is so skewed it can't possibly represent a number that would be truly useful to advertisers.

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himself usually uses when he reports on their traffic. Now trending down. Any idea why they had good traffic last Monday? https://www.quantcast.com/dailykos.com#/trafficCard

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protests. or riots. or whatever the hell they were. or are.

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

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The only time I go there is following links from here. I do not follow dkos on fb.. HuffPo is now AOL or Comcast I forget who ones that cesspool. I quit going there years ago as like dkos it's just another propagandist misinformation spewing hate site diquised as a progressive website. My granddaughter a millennial and a Jill Stein supporter used to read dkos over my shoulder back when she was a pre-teen. She was always an anti-war, environmentally active, liberal free thinker and for a giggle she used to write some of my replies to the nastest neoliberal brainwashed denizens that live in that cesspool. I hope dkos like the Chuck Schumer vampire squids who own and run the party somehow get pried off the face of humanity.

She decided this summer to join dkos and try to convince them to go Green or at least support Bernie. lol. She was horrified and said Grandma how could you hang out there so long with those mean, hateful stupid people. She has a point. I see no point in giving them or vox, traffic. One thing about this election it was an eye opener as far as the so called progressive media online media goes. Even Digby joined in sing the praises of the Clinton New Democat's. Atrios forget about it. He has long been living in the hipster yuppie developer bubble. The reactions to The Hairball's win blame everyone who had had enough but refuse to look at the reason's people balked at voting for the so called lesser evil.

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Today she has a post up quoting some Yale professor to underscore her thesis that Trump is Teh Hitler.

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...and pretty much "in the (Democratic status quo's) tank" for far too many years, already.

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His latest anti-Trump cartoons are so heavy-handed they are simply not funny.

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President-Elect OranguTrump

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to orangutans.

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it just had to be done. I don't think Bill is always funny, but that whole feud was funny.

And completely beneath the "leader of the free world".

How about this one?

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President Obamacelot

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Did she join Women 4 Bernie? We had a pretty good support group Over There. Although by this summer, most were scattered.

I hope she'll join us here. Sounds like she'd fit right in!

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she's not stupid or into fear and loathing. She checked it out and had the good sense to see it for what it is. She would like cc99%. I'll get her to give us a whirl. She's not a Democrat she's a Green and I don't think she would enjoy reading wall to wall politics that deal with the Democratic Party intrigues,Trump, Hillary or Bernie. She was for Jill Stein right from the start. As a registered Green she did not get to vote for Bernie. She tried converting her parents to go for Jill . They were for Bernie and ended up voting for Hillary in the general. She believed like Obama, Bernie was a bait and switcher and part of the rigged corrupt Democratic machine. So we here might not be her cup of tea these days, too establishment politically. I think she is more interested in outside resistance like BLM, noDAPL, and real political economic reform.

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Just stop saying that this minute! Don't make me stop the car!

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comprehension levels at Dead State have taken a nose dive...

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(Taken from weblink screenshot.)

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

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Was pretty hilarious too...

ursulafaw banana7 Nov 20 · 07:43:26 AM
I am a Bernie supporter and I never felt pushed away. However, I have certainly read enough comments in these threads to know that a lot of Bernie supporters did in fact feel that they were not welcome on this site. Again, I am clueless where they got that from because if that Bernie-alienating sentiment was present it washed over me unnoticed. Maybe I’m obtuse.

Ya think?

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Salut! Or whatever winos say as they sip California's finest. Don't look at the detritus, don't think about the watershed, just legalize weed because experts agree everything is fine. From 39F to drenching rain, yeah no problem we got charity Mrs. Bitterman.

During the part of the evening when volunteer “sleepers” were mostly still indoors, some getting food or otherwise preparing to spend a cold, wet night outside, Deputy Sonoma County Administrator Peter Rumble and Santa Rosa school board member Jenni Klose eyed the alcove at the entryway to the Social Advocates for Youth Finley Dream Center.

If they grabbed some space there, they thought, they could largely stay out of drenching rain expected to start sometime before sunrise, while their brief experiment with life on the streets was still underway.

Klose and Rumble were among 48 local professionals and civic leaders who gave up comfy beds and warm homes overnight Friday to sleep outside in cardboard boxes to raise awareness and funds for the hundreds of youths and young adults who are homeless in Sonoma County. [...]

It is always a guess-timate how many people are without shelter, no one keeps track. Only once a year in the middle of winter when the shelters reopen. And even then it is volunteers who go out and "count".

An estimated 2,906 people in Sonoma County are homeless on a given night, nearly a quarter of them, or 663, younger than 25, according to the most recent point-in-time census conducted on a single night in January.

Welcome to the bluest state with the largest economy, where Clinton won in a landslide. "That's the system."

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Deja's picture

The episode with the last surviving human. Creepy!

[video:https://youtu.be/pHR2FvtVv9g]

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And, it was just a few moments into the opening of the show, which means it received near-maximum exposure, too.

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"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." --Hunter S. Thompson

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That's a laugh... maybe because it is so close to reality.

They've tried it, and it wasn't very successful. Do you remember...
biosphere.jpg

Seems like they did a TV show about a city in a bubble too, but I never caught it. I'm not much for commercial TV.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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who ran Biosphere II from the inside.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

they don't really want to even see out

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Somewhat like off the Island? Disagreements Will Not Be Tolerated!

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

or get hit by a ban hammer.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

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Who do they think will be able to afford the rent? We're the 99%ers, we don't have any money!

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I thought that was the usual deflection and dig at sanders. The people in the bubble were the clintonites, as the results show. Why didn't they put her face on the money- too pointed, I'd argue. Too on the mark. I wouldn't be surprised if the writers thought they were critiquing the "bernie bros" and blaming them for the loss. Those darn hipsters in their bubble wouldn't do the sensible thing and vote for clinton. I wouldn't be surprised at all.

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Trump. All of us on the left, whether we supported Bern or Hill. Otherwise it doesn't make sense, that we would use Bernie Bucks but afford million dollar apartments.

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gentrifying hipster yuppies in Portland Oregon it's the opposite, they were not for Bernie. They are neoliberal's 'professional's who like the meritocracy and are busy running out Portland's diverse and weird population by demolishing everything that made this city liveable, green and affordable. Hope they enjoy their salted ice cream and 'fusion' food along with their 360sq. foot jail cells that rent for 1,500$ a month. They are clogging the narrow streets with their giant earth destroying SUV's cutting down the trees, and call this progress, liberal and environmental.

One of my neighbors a Democrat told me the other day that the problem with our nasty exRpublican turned Demoratic mayor was that he did not haul off and clear out the homeless people who were a blight and an eyesore on his Spring Water corridor bike commute. Fake progressives who's 'life style' depends on social and economic injustice. I belong to a group called Stop Demolishing Portland and I do see opposition to this gentrification and development growing. Hope the damn bubble pops before they completely wreck this great city.

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I actually live in gentrifying/ied brooklyn. My neighborhood was an off the beaten track working class pocket. It was dead in those days. Now that it's become yuppie central (the hipsters are being priced out) I can barely handle living here. It's become so suburban in feel, veering into precious (which is soul-sucking IMO). Some days I feel like I can't take it much longer and will have to move to the bronx. I come from the working class and have always hated "nice" neighborhoods. Too stifling and dull for me.

And yes, the gentrifiers were all in for hillary. No political consciousness. And the way they repeat talking points as if they're pearls of wisdom is tiresome. ANd the city becomes whiter and more privileged by the year. I would not be surprised if we see very few non-white faces in NYC in 20 years.

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Like their king and queen, they know how to make money off big donors, taxpayers, influence peddling, think tanks, etc.

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  1. Falsely smears Bernie voters as living in a bubble.
  2. Blames the victim by centering the bubble over Brooklyn, the site of a massive Progressive voter registration purge.
  3. Tries to rehabilitate DKos by promoting the phony impression that Agent Orange is Progressive.

Guys, this is still NBC. Just because the election is over doesn't mean the agenda has changed.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

They've done it before.

A lot of projection going on with those SNL folks, who cried copious tears when Hillary lost.

This skit seems to be their sly way of blaming the Bernie supporters for Hillary's loss. Odd they are promoting DKos, as well as no Dem site attacked Bernie more viciously during the primary.

I'm sure they think they're being clever with all these snarky, but clumsy attempts at triangulation, distraction and finger pointing, but it sure as hell didn't help them win the election. Like Establishment Dems, SNL is disliked by both Republicans and most progressives.

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"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, take their money and then vote against them you've got no business being in Congress."

disliked by anyone with an active sense of humor.

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if they had put the bubble over Westchester County and Hillary's face was on the money.

More honest too.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

detroitmechworks's picture

Entry into the simulation, where everybody is given proper corporate clothing, and told the various words that will cause them to be immediately removed from their job in the company.

Just imagining hearing this soothing computer voice:

"Remember, You are the Diversity that they are fighting for..."

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Not Henry Kissinger's picture

never goes out of style.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

...but, I realize a lot of people don't get that...which, in and of itself, is perversely funny.

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"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." --Hunter S. Thompson

Bernie voters who didn't "convert"to Hillarylanders probably don't post there.

Also, a whole contingent of Hillarylanders pretended to be Bernie voters so thatthey could explain, at some point, why Bernie supposedly "lost" them. Another group pretended to be Bernie voters so they could "confirm" the myth of the existence of nasty Bernie Bros. The fakes probably post at Kos and likely make up a good part of the smarmy "Bernie has my heart; Hillary has my vote" group. Very few of those who supported Bernie for the goals and principles Bernie articulated voted for Hillary. For just one thing, despite her allegedly unparalleled GOTV operation, seven million fewer Democrats showed up at the polls than showed up in 2012. (Do you ever change your mind about voting because of a robo call or a stranger at your door?)

Being principled, which is admirable, now occasions mockery because it's not "pragmatic," which apparently means "roll over for whatever any Democratic politician wants to do or leave undone because we know sainted Democrats are always doing the very best possible thing (for themselves)." The Colbert Report iteration of Colbert did that to Kucinich--something about being principled means you never accomplish anything. HIllary never accomplished anything good, but all the unprincipled do is brag on her job titles. Some horrible people have had some very impressive job titles, so good luck to the unprincipled with that standard.

Sadly, as the planet becomes unable to support life as we know it,the principled will go down with the "pragmatists" who clapped louder the thicker the centrist bs got.

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Anja Geitz's picture

It was very satisfying hearing The Daily Kos being called out as irrelevant. Or pandering lick spittle. Whichever one you like.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

The Bubble isn't quite the opposite of Idiocracy.

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Beware the bullshit factories.