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« Liberal Outrage: September 2016 | Main | Liberal Outrage: November 2016 » Liberal OutrageMandatory privatized retirement accounts David Sirota & Avi Asher-Schapiro: The proposal would require workers and employers to put a percentage of payroll into individual retirement accounts "to be invested well in pooled plans run by professional investment managers," as James put it. In other words, individual voluntary 401(k)s would be replaced by a single national system, and much of the mandated savings would flow to Wall Street, where companies like Blackstone could earn big fees off the assets. More from Yves Smith. By fnord12 | October 20, 2016, 4:54 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Here comes the goddamn apocalypse: The Republicans and Democrats who make up the foreign policy elite are laying the groundwork for a more assertive American foreign policy, via a flurry of reports shaped by officials who are likely to play senior roles in a potential Clinton White House. By fnord12 | October 20, 2016, 4:51 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Not feeling depressed for some reason? Time magazine has you covered: By fnord12 | October 17, 2016, 6:46 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link I hear we are not at war in Yemen. Which is good. Because even if we have been supporting a country that is at war in Yemen both financially and logistically, and even though we may have had a ship fired at, and even though we've bombed Yemen and may "have to" do so again, it would be terrible if we were at war. We'd also like you to know that what we're doing in Yemen is very different than what Russia is doing in Syria. And as soon as the State Department official can figure out why it's different, he'll let you know. By fnord12 | October 14, 2016, 11:00 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Found on Naked Capitalism: The campaign, according to Adweek, is designed to motivate Millennials "to commemorate their 'real,' honest relationships with diamonds, even if marriage isn't part of the equation." Would an honest relationship with diamonds include talking about slithering into a recession. Good thing we have such promising choices in this next election. By fnord12 | October 12, 2016, 2:56 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link I'm unsure if the things being revealed about Hillary Clinton in the latest Wikileaks drop (here, here, and elsewhere) are new awful, confirmation of old awful, or if i'm just suffering from confirmation bias, but, regardless, i love the response from Bernie Sanders (from the second link): Sounds like he's acting like he has a contract and he's all ready to turn against her if she drops the ball on the things that (he thinks) she's agreed to. By fnord12 | October 12, 2016, 7:23 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Everything is a plot by the Kremlin. I hope we're at least gonna get some Super Apes out of this. By fnord12 | October 11, 2016, 9:38 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link I'm not seeing this white savior movie. Sorry, Matt Damon. Damon addressed the controversy himself on his panel about the movie at NYCC, but it doesn't seem as though he fully understands the problem at hand, let alone how prevalent it actually is. According to Coming Soon's transcript of Damon's words at the panel, he said: To point out the white savior problem that seems to be exactly what they're marketing is apparently undermining our credibility because we've only seen the teaser and trailer and not the entire film. Well, if it's not a white savior movie, then mebbe you should try not marketing it that way and then we wouldn't have to have this discussion. And to add salt to that wound, The Great Wall won't be passing the Bechdel-Wallace Test. There appears to be only one woman in the movie's main cast, to be played by Jing Tian. In this trailer, she appears to be the only woman fighting on the battlefield, but for some reason, the movie isn't about her experiences becoming a warrior woman in ancient supernatural-universe China... even though that sounds way more interesting than whatever Matt Damon's character does, which is show up, steal stuff, and shoot arrows. In this trailer, Jing Tian's character looks like a by-the-books "Action Girl", the only woman on the team. I'm willing to stake money that she'll end up as someone's love interest and, also, end up getting captured by baddies and rescued at least once. Oh, she's totally going to end up a love interest. Most likely Damon's. Blech. By min | October 11, 2016, 9:26 AM | Liberal Outrage & Movies | Link Link (PDF). Seems pretty safe to vote third party, if one were inclined to do so. By fnord12 | October 6, 2016, 7:22 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link « Liberal Outrage: September 2016 | Main | Liberal Outrage: November 2016 » |