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PRIOR ENTRY https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/784-art-comments-07232026/ NEXT ENTRY ? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1357987024/5304167424 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox @Chaosfive-55 I am nearly done my entry into the hardboiled. @staatsf it is rare to see a watercolor in deviantart for a natural landscape in new york state @Trippy4U the angle you found , this is New York City yes, something tells me I know that curved canopy, is that on or near broadway? @jflaxman so cute, i love your woodwork figures @Anton-Constantin a giant girl with no face nice, reminds me of the art for the show Night Gallery COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1340436226/5304170815 COMMENT CONTENT nice work from all @Blu3-F1nch Ist das im Hintergrund ein Planet, von dem eine gewaltige Vulkanausbruch ausgeht? // is that a planet with a large volcanic explosion from it in the background? @RafarteAntunes Danke, dass du mir den Karakara vorgestellt hast. Die Rotbrustkarakaras fressen Insekten. Wundervolle Beleuchtung. // thank you for introducing the caracara to me. the red breasted eat insects. lovely illumination. @MayGoldworthy Ich liebe dieses Pilzhaus – die Schlümpfe müssten dich engagieren. // love that mushroom house, the smurfs need to hire you . @QuirkyQupid Wundervoll und magisch – ich frage mich, was dich zu diesem Design inspiriert hat? // beautiful magic, i wonder what inspired your design? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1354324238/5304175505 COMMENT CONTENT Beautiful craftwork from all, thanks for sharing @pinkythepink @InKibus hope someone bought the loki horns and with doomsday coming you should get a buyer, foam, so it is light. do you know anyone who made a metal loki horn crown? @RositaTheCardMaker very cute have you considered chocolate colored hearts for valentines day? @TopKnotchMediocrity the traditional devil mask can be great for carnival? has anyone worn one of your mask s for carnival? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1360859755/5304189913 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox glad you had fun, seeing friends and enjoying life @aucatgirl love the facial expression of ruby @getfreemazes how do you create your mazes? by hand or program? @allusernamestaken666 i first asked what kind of oive is that, planetary very nice @BERLINsART ductor tape is cool but i love your ruins @samirkgupta forgotten caslte has a lovely reflection COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1363699865/5304191814 COMMENT CONTENT @Chaosfive-55 Thank you for sharing my dark academia photomanipulation @DavisPK great praise to chaos and love the structure of your illustration. @recycledrelatives you made a fractal look like octopus tentacles in mating ,nice @CapnDeek373 oldie but goodie is ricci still nearby? @Keriwan nice faux cover COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1358657098/5304192585 COMMENT CONTENT congrats @Mythka well earned mothra sticker is so cute do you make godzilla stickers? foo dog is so cute happy new year is a beautiful commission COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1365507642/5304194926 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox I got to get busy to make sure my hardboiled is on time. I have a lot of typing to do for other stories so @berryspitfire what do all of those have in common? I first thought a frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum, and it works for sound. As sound propogates in space, the heat from it is electromagnetic emissions, not visible light but infrared or lesser, but electromagnetic. snowflakes, crystals, soundwaves, cymatics, ear, stars, flower, plasma, @zzemla nice pop style @lymerikk you have a cool style, it is chibi like @ArtByJenX this is a great work. you should shirt it COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1362174849/5304195542 COMMENT CONTENT thank yu for sharing ibsen and undset ibsen in project gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/861 undset in project gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35742 COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1365667294/5304197674 COMMENT CONTENT @Bnspyrd blue bicycle in the house so cute @CraigSkeltonArt have you ever drawn a three wheel cycle? @beardmanWITHcamera beautiful dawn, i think maybe it is sunset the water, is it very clean there, so northern? @Nightline was hallstatt austria where the film the ballerina was shot? @allanr24 alleys and streets in big cities are always full of photographic magic at night @ankazhuravleva i like how you sued the door as a frame for the model @SyphaTechno parrot love @Volnium Вдохновляющие слова; никогда прежде не видел, как рука океана хватает луну ///Inspiring words, I never saw the hand of the ocean grab the moon before @notoved a little francis turbine but lovely fashion what will they do with it now that it is retiring? scrap heap ?or recycle in some fashion? @nrg2166 beautiful blue pencil, mother child and bird, like the italian mary/jesus/dove COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1360936695/5304200125 COMMENT CONTENT @KABANOMORI I think the overall populace online for decades before most of us now were on the internet, has been battling overall the overall vibe of the internet. Some of us, especially artist, like creating and seeing others create. Too few places online are built to show creativity, not complaint, not soapboxing bur creativity. @Anastasiaya so cute, those berries look too big for their little beaks @CalixtaTepes nice art fight, beautiful queen @marcusturkill hellow fellow graphiter beautiful eye, i tried to see what the eye is looking at but I can't tell @Sloppygee sugar carried on an echo, like the second line of the poem, nice street graffiti style @mahi2002 i like where your free imagination went , will you frame the work? @PReih love the moons , what I Think the white circles are. the two cats being kept warm snuggling @SabakuNoShi very cool steampunk doll house, how many steampunk doll houses have you made? @SilverScythe89 pastels have such vigor as colors, i think the first elk battle i have seen illustrated, thank you @offermoord nice illustaration, great design. i didn't see it until i saw it larger https://www.deviantart.com/sabakunoshi/art/Steampunk-doll-house-3-1351224505 COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1367561014/5304201166 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox happy 20 years now your an deviantart adult haha You are the mazemaster, love your designs. Nice maze honoring your time @glenox66 beautiful chiaroscuro @DianneHoffmanArt hahah game of shrooms @SennhArt where si the photo in florence?

a post about the populace in the usa was presented https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12856-nilf-neetpeople-who-are-voluntarily-unemployed It is based on the following article https://www.aei.org/commentary/what-do-prime-age-nilf-men-do-all-day/ The following are excerpt response pairs, excerpts from the article and responses from me Thanks to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we have detailed, self-reported information each year on how roughly 10,000 adult respondents spend their days—from the moment they wake until they sleep. so they are supporting their position based on a study of ten thousand in a country of three hundred and fifty million. One percent of three hundred and fifty million is three million and five hundred thousand. A thousandth of one percent is three thousand and five hundred. so ten thousand is three thousandth of one percent. Why is a study of three thousandth of one percent adequate to make any position toward any populace. Just how and why so many men in the prime of life should now be swept up in this flight from work is a matter of continuing scholarly research and debate. So they admit they don't have any position that has been researched adequately to comprehend the processes that are leading to or the causes to the choices in the populace to labor. But they suggest Universal Basic income will be a negative. I see job fairs in New York City where usually hundreds but sometimes thousands of people are looking to land one job, putting on suits and preparing all sorts of papers to pitch themselves, but at the end of the day, one person will get a second interview or perhaps accepted for employment while ninety nine to nine hundred and ninety nine will have to continue. The articles argument is that the labor market in the usa is adequate to employ all in the usa, if they would gain more education or apply themselves to more job opportunities. I don't know. The problem with labor in the usa is historically the labors that generated the most human involvement were labor intensive. When I look at NYC the biggest job markets are not in engineering but in nursing- the aging populace in the usa needs workers, law- the city always needs lawyers to fill the low paying legal jobs. Jobs in design or engineering are not enough, to restate if everyone in NYC not employed had the experience in various engineering disciplines, they would not all be hired in 48 hours. And the article criminalizes those in college as unlabored, when I know many people in the city university of new York have lived their entire lives as scholars. The reality is ever since circa eighteen hundred and sixty five ( 1865 ) white people in particular have complained about the viewpoint citizens have in the usa to the idea/role/value of fiscal capitalistic labor. Before circa 1865 whites never complained, post circa 1865 whites have never stop complaigning until now it is silly. The reality is, technology has always deleted human labor , from the cottin gin doing it before 1865 till various assembly lines to electronic computers to computers called artificial intelligence deleted human labor to the USA has a very powerful mechanical or electronic labor force that allows the fiscal wealthy to maintain plus grow their financial fortunes with no need of human laborers. The funny thing is in the countries so media labeled hard working or grandly educated populaces you see signs they are going through it. Japan is inviting students from the likes of Africa to have lives in Japan and build population growth. Many Japanese business are going out of business as Japanese are not coming in to run the business, either as younger Japanese don't want to or the population simply can't support the maintenance of the firm. China still has tons of people leaving china to find financial happiness outside china, even though many say china has more engineers than anywhere else. But clearly not all. The reality is, technology has ended in the rich or powerful countries the need for masses of human laborers. But who is the American Enterprise Institute? their founding statement is the following to promote "greater public knowledge and understanding of the social and economic advantages accruing to the American people through the maintenance of the system of free, competitive enterprise." I restate, maintaining a set of studies for willing elected officials to support legislation or legislative acts that allow for complete fiscal capitalism, complete fiscal capitalism defined as fiscal capitalism where all can fail or succeed, allowing criminality in any firm, demanding legal systems penalize. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) was founded by an asbestos maker who proudly admitted he saved money while making his workers sick. AEI doesn't mind any business at any size being allowed to go bankrupt, they don't mind any business making money in any way; they don't mind laborers failing, being fired, not having enough money to afford where they live. Thus Universal Basic Income is opposed to how they feel fiscal capitalism should operate. MORE INFORMATION Lewis H. Brown founded the American Enterprise Association (AEA) in New York, a think tank which later moved to Washington, D.C., and was renamed the American Enterprise Institute. He served as AEA's chairman until his death. Brown also co-founded the Tax Foundation and served as chairman. [ https://web.archive.org/web/20090708195505/http://www.aei.org/history , look below for the content ] [[ modern aei webpage doesn't refer to what the link above does https://www.aei.org/about/ ]] In 1984, thirty-three years after Brown's death, Johns-Manville was alleged to have prioritized profits over the health and safety of employees during the time of his leadership. According to testimony given in a federal court by Charles H. Roemer, formerly an employee of Unarco, describing a meeting between Unarco officials, Lewis H. Brown and J-M attorney Vandiver Brown in the early 1940s, "I’ll never forget, I turned to Mr. Brown, one of the Browns made this crack (that Unarco managers were a bunch of fools for notifying employees who had asbestosis), and I said, ‘Mr. Vandiver Brown do you mean to tell me you would let them work until they dropped dead?’ He said, ‘Yes. We save a lot of money that way.'" [ Testimony of Charles H. Roemer, Deposition taken April 25, 1984, Johns-Manville Corp., et al. v. the United States of America, U.S. Claims Court Civ. No. 465-83C, cited in Barry I. Castleman, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, 4th edition, Aspen Law and Business, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1996, p.581 ] CONTENT [ History of AEI The American Enterprise Association (AEA) arrived in Washington in 1943, in the thick of World War II. In Congress there was talk of making wartime price and production controls permanent to prevent another Depression when peace finally arrived. The tiny AEA, a business group formed in New York City in 1938, was horrified; it resolved to open a Washington office to advocate rapid postwar economic demobilization and, more generally, to improve Congress's understanding of the economic consequences of its actions. The new AEA office, which eventually became headquarters and graduated from "association" to "institute," was the avant-garde of two momentous developments of the decades to come, both responding to the growing size and power of the federal government: the migration of business and trade associations from commercial centers to the nation's capital and the emergence of the policy "think tank." AEA was a partnership of top executives of leading business and financial firms (Bristol-Myers, General Mills, Chemical Bank) and prominent policy intellectuals (Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, economic journalist Henry Hazlitt, and disillusioned New Dealer Raymond Moley). From the beginning, however, the Association's spirit was libertarian and conservative rather than simply "probusiness." Its founding mission statement would still serve well: to promote "greater public knowledge and understanding of the social and economic advantages accruing to the American people through the maintenance of the system of free, competitive enterprise." So, too, its academic and empirical commitments: AEA was to be "nonpartisan and nonpolitical," was to "express no opinion of its own," and was to produce "accurate, impartial, and objective" research. Following the highly successful dismantling of wartime economic controls, the AEA Washington office began preparing analyses of legislative proposals and publishing studies on subjects that remain AEI staples today--Social Security reform, government health insurance, the effects of trade on domestic employment, and the effects of productivity growth on wages and income. In 1950, a fan letter from freshman congressman Gerald R. Ford began a long and happy relationship with the late president. AEA also produced philosophic tracts portraying private enterprise as a form of voluntary social cooperation undergirding strong communities and democratic self-government--intellectual sprouts that would later blossom in such landmark works as Michael Novak's The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and Irving Kristol's Two Cheers for Capitalism. The arrival in 1954 of William J. Baroody marked the beginning of the modern AEI. The son of a Lebanese immigrant stonecutter, Mr. Baroody gave up a secure job at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for the chance to lead a small, financially strapped organization. He was an entrepreneur and risk-taker, a strong political conservative, and a widely read intellectual convinced of the potential for ideas to move practical politics. During his twenty-six years at AEI, he demonstrated singular gifts for spotting important academic talent and for promoting dense--and often contrarian--policy-reform ideas for busy public officials, business executives, and journalists. Mr. Baroody expanded the legislative analyses, commissioned original research by leading scholars, and raised the money to pay the bills. Within a year of his arrival, reviews and excerpts of AEA publications began appearing in the Wall Street Journal and Barron's. By the early 1960s, economists Milton Friedman, Paul McCracken, and Gottfried Haberler had joined his academic advisory board. Mr. Baroody conceived for AEI a brilliant slogan that combined the Institute's commitment to freedom and competition with a forthright challenge to the liberal orthodoxy of 1960s Washington: "Competition of ideas is fundamental to a free society." Mr. Baroody's leadership produced a period of astounding growth in the quantity and quality of the Institute's output, making it one of the busiest and most productive centers of policy research in the nation and heralding the sea change in American politics to come. In 1972, Gottfried Haberler was appointed AEI's first "resident scholar," to be joined the following year by Yale's William Fellner; the arrival of such renowned scholars signaled the Institute's intention to become a first-rate research institution in fact and name. When the voters prematurely retired President Gerald R. Ford in 1976, he became AEI's "distinguished fellow" and brought with him a dozen colleagues to pursue work begun in his administration; among those who would subsequently return to public service were Arthur Burns, Robert Bork, Laurence Silberman, Antonin Scalia, James C. Miller III, John Snow, Rudolph Penner, and David Gergen. As AEI achieved critical institutional mass, it was able to attract several of America's most influential thinkers, including neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol; economists Herbert Stein and Marvin Kosters; sociologist Robert Nisbet; political scientists Robert Goldwin, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Walter Berns; theologian Michael Novak; and author Ben Wattenberg. Having begun the 1970s with a budget of $1 million and a staff of ten, AEI at decade's end had a budget of $8 million and a staff of 125. AEI had become a hotbed of innovative ideas--on deregulation, tax reform, trade policy, social welfare problems, and revitalization of defense and foreign policy--that were about to debut on the political stage. The 1980s were great years for AEI's ideas but troubled years for the institution itself. President Ronald Reagan appointed several dozen AEI scholars and fellows to his administration and to federal judgeships, where they helped him to achieve monumental improvements in economic, regulatory, and legal policy and to deploy the more assertive foreign policy that dispatched Soviet Communism by decade's end. But Mr. Baroody died just months before Reagan's election, and his successor, son William Baroody Jr., struggled to maintain his father's legacy in a transformed political environment. With so many prominent AEIers in government, and with the emergence of several energetic new think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, AEI's reputation and finances suffered. Still, many exceptional scholars remained busy and productive at AEI and began work on audacious new projects--such as producing a new liberal-conservative consensus on welfare reform that eventually produced the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. AEI's trustees appointed a new president in 1986--Christopher DeMuth, a lawyer and economist who had served in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Mr. DeMuth revamped the Institute's program of foreign and defense policy studies and focused its domestic research agenda on traditional strengths: public finance and tax policy; government regulation; U.S. politics and political institutions; and cultural, philosophical, and social welfare issues. He also instituted major managerial and financial reforms and a new and variegated publications program. Donors responded with alacrity; by the early 1990s, AEI had paid off its debts and was growing mightily in financial resources, in the size of research staff, and in the quality and influence of its output. Soon, the Institute's eminent senior scholars were joined by a new generation of economists, social scientists, foreign policy and trade experts, and students of social and cultural problems. To name only two recent accomplishments, Institute scholars, and particularly Peter J. Wallison, provided prescient warnings about the problems of the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In foreign policy, Frederick W. Kagan is credited with providing the intellectual and practical rationale for a change in strategy in Iraq in 2007, which came to be known as the surge. Today, the Institute has a staff of 185, including seventy scholars and fellows. It also has a new president. In 2008, after twenty-two years at the helm, Mr. DeMuth stepped down as president and moved down the hall to do research. His successor, Arthur C. Brooks is a classical musician by training. He came late to the world of public policy, influenced by the innovative and daring social science research of Charles Murray. After seven decades, AEI continues to serve a vital role in the intellectual life of the nation. The Institute furnishes policymakers with ideas to meet the pressing challenges of today based on the resilient principles of private liberty, individual opportunity, and free enterprise. ] https://www.aei.org/commentary/too-big-to-fail-or-succeed/ CONTENT [ Too Big to Fail, or Succeed Author by Peter J. Wallison Date June 18, 2009 ECO-Mon-0017-Stock iStockphoto/DNY59 In a speech at the White House yesterday, President Barack Obama outlined what he envisions for future regulation of the financial system. He called his plan “a new foundation for sustained economic growth . . . a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression.” Indeed it is. His plan, if adopted, will fundamentally change the nature of our financial system and economy. The underlying concerns and assumptions are clear, and they are made clearer by considering other ways that his administration has dealt with the consequences of competition–particularly the faux bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler and the impending change in antitrust policy. Although the president said in his speech that he supports free markets, these initiatives confirm that the administration fears the “creative destruction” that free markets produce, preferring stability over innovation, competition and change. According to the administration white paper circulated prior to the president’s speech, the Federal Reserve would be authorized to create a special regulatory regime–including requirements for capital, leverage and liquidity–for any firm “whose combination of size, leverage, and interconnectedness could pose a threat to financial stability if it failed.” In addition, if a large financial firm is failing, the Treasury is to be given the power–in lieu of bankruptcy–to appoint a conservator or receiver to “stabilize” it. Despite all the talk about credit priorities, the fundamental point is that the administration used taxpayer money to overturn the market’s verdict. Designating particular financial firms for this kind of special regulatory treatment clearly signals to the markets that these institutions are too big to fail. It will reduce the perceived risk of lending to them, enabling them to raise funds at lower cost than their smaller competitors. In other words, the administration’s plan would create what are essentially government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in every sector of the financial economy–insurers, securities firms, finance companies, bank holding companies, and hedge funds–where these specially regulated firms are to be designated. The result will be devastating for competition. Larger firms will squeeze out smaller ones and aggressive small companies will have less opportunity to overcome the government-backed winners. Moreover, the administration’s proposal to provide a special bailout mechanism for large firms confirms the likelihood that these firms will never be closed down or liquidated. Citing the market turmoil that followed Lehman’s collapse, the administration will argue that failures like this are “disorderly.” But failure comes from risk-taking–the very source of our economy’s strength–and it is ultimately risk-taking and its consequences that the administration’s plan is intended to prevent. The turmoil following Lehman’s failure occurred because market participants expected, after the rescue of Bear Stearns, that any larger firm would also be rescued. When Lehman wasn’t, all market participants were required to recalibrate the risks of dealing with all others, causing a freeze-up in lending and hoarding of cash. Lehman’s failure itself did not cause any substantial losses, and within two weeks of its bankruptcy filing Lehman’s trustee sold its brokerage, investment banking, and investment management businesses to four different buyers. Contrast this with AIG, the administration’s paradigm, which was saved by the government because it was allegedly too big to fail. That firm is gradually wasting away under government control, with the taxpayers footing the bill. The administration’s fear of competitive outcomes is not reflected solely in financial-sector policies. Consider General Motors and Chrysler. They were defeated in the marketplace. Simply put, they failed to build automobiles enough Americans wanted to buy. Their disappearance would not have threatened the stability of the financial system, although it would undoubtedly have been disruptive for suppliers, dealers and employees. Yet the administration wouldn’t allow them to fail, either. Despite all the talk about credit priorities, the fundamental point is that the administration used taxpayer money to overturn the market’s verdict. If we want a preview of what the administration will do with the resolution authority it wants for large financial companies, we need look no further. The same pattern with regard to competitive markets can be seen in the Justice Department’s new antitrust policy. Christine Varney, the new assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust policy, has said that U.S. policy should be more like Europe’s. Until now, U.S. antitrust policy has tried to protect competition. Europe attempts to protect competitors. Protecting competitors means blunting the skills of superior players, allowing inferior managers and business models to remain in business and thus preventing better managements and business models from emerging. Again, stability wins out over change and progress. The president has said on several occasions, including in yesterday’s speech, that “I’ve always been a strong believer in the power of the free market.” But his administration’s prescriptions tell a different story. In AIG, GM, Chrysler, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac we can see the future that the administration envisions for our economy–a sclerotic and unchanging structure of big companies working with, protected by, and relying on big government. Peter J. Wallison is the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at AEI. ] POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12856-nilf-neetpeople-who-are-voluntarily-unemployed/#findComment-83003 POST CONTENT content I read the article... The one thing I notice it doesn't concern itself with is the imprisoned or former imprisoned populace. Do you know circa forty thousand women in the usa are blockaded from labor because they had traces or marijuana in their babies when born and the states they were in labeled them as endangering a child/child abusers. These women , most of whom have had multiple children and have no criminal record are blockaded from work because of a situation in which their child had a drug in them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-kDnO6GSI what is my larger point? How many people in the usa are blockaded from labor because of their criminal record? A criminal record whcih often is based on the criminal intent of law enforcers applying their activities to specific communities for a fiscal or governmental policy agenda. But the reason why said populace isn't mentioned is because of the fiscal capitalistic philosophy of the AEI , which i argue is a faith based position toward fiscal capitalism which in Universal basic income is seeing the death of their faith as they know it. https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/795-economic-corner-44-08122026/ PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/794-economic-corner-43-08042026/ NEXT EDITION COMMENTARY

PRofd made a post https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12850-why-are-non-rich-americans-against-socialism MY COMMENT content The USA has reached two hundred and fifty years. Starting off as a fiscal capitalistic country with tons of financial imbalances, regardless that they were legal. . Now a populace, getting larger and larger, within the usa seems to want the usa to become what it was never, a place for all in it to be content. We will see, but I will end with what I always do for all governments anywhere or anytime in humanity. their most negative times are always built in the times suggested as positive or acceptible, their gilded ages, their glorious or advertised wins is usually the times where the seeds of the worst times were laid. MY EXPANDED THOUGHTS content The titular question is , why are non rich americans against socialism? The questions are clear G)What do people in the USA consider socialism? E)What variations of opinion do people in the usa have in defining socialism? M)What percentage of people, whether citizens or not, whether americans or not, in the united states of america are opposed to socialism? K)What aspect of the USA implements socialism? Before anyone can answer the question " why are non rich americans against socialism" , G) what do people in the usa consider socialism. New York City has a socialist party, which isn't the democratic socialist party. NYC also has a libertarian party and green party and others. But what is socialism? I bet socialism is different for the socialist party in comparison to the democratic socialist party. My point? I am unconvinced that socialism has a majority accepted definition. And absent said majority accepted definition, any question on the populace of three hundred and fifty million plus in the united states of america opinion on said idea goes into automatic argument. Cause the point of the titular question is a matter of opinion from majority consensus, not the opinion of individuals. E) and what is socialism. Some people think socialism is a system with an absence of fiscal capitalism. Some Don't. M) With so many variations of definition to socialism, who is opposed to socialism? can it be calculated? can it be known? or is it an assumption? K) Lastly, where is socialism already implemented? Some will say the entire welfare programs in the usa are socialism. In Nippon/Japan they are stated as such, but people don't always view welfare programs as socialsim in the united states of america. so... Is the issuse of the democratic socialist creating a wedge in the party of andrew jackson OR are multividing lines simply being treated with their proper presence. One of the prblems in many human organizations is the falsehood of unity, the asusmption of a collective united behind something when it is a group of various tribes or sects who exist through a loose arrangement that isn't strong enough to handle all the groups sway. It can be similarly noted that the reforms or libertarians in the party of abraham lincoln are a similarity to the democratic socialst plus greens in the party of andrew jackson. The falsehood is the structure of the two party system as adequate for all the parts that the two parties try to umbrella . The usa does have a history of parties of governance splitting/dying/merging/mutating so it is clear that the democratic socialsts and the fdrr corporate members of the party of andrew jackson can't survive together forever, int he same way the Maga and the reagan corporate members of the party of abraham lincoln can't survive together. I think the donkeys fdr wing feels, government can be an avenue for fiscal capitalism, not a tool for socialism living side by side with ffiscal capitalistic private sector. The reason no universal affordable healthcare , or universal affordable housing or universal childcare has happened is lobbies, not any party of governance The problem in the usa has always been the faithful or hopeful financial assessments. Those in the usa who feel a middle always exist or that the usa can change into something are the people who have always pushed the usa along. mno matter the race: phenotype/gender/religion/language/geographic descendency /or other. But the questions are clear. Can the usa be an engine for fiscal capitalism while fund socialism? The USA has never financially been able to provide for all who live in it. NEVER. circa 1492 native american peoples, were blockaded or murdered from the fiscal capitalistic environment by whites for whites fiscal betterment. early 1500s, black people were enslaved to whites , so the usa wasn't a place for black positive living. 1865 was the end of the war between the states. The UTZ indigenous peoples were murdered by the federal government from nineteen hundred to ninteen hundred and three. The civil rights act whose biggest beneficiary were women was signed in nineteen hundred and sixty five. The USA went to a fiat currency, not backed by gold in the nineteen hundred and seventies to handle future financial wobbles based on their military power or calculative ability. The United states of america has never financially supported ALL the humans in it. NEVER. So how can in the year two thousand and twenty six it change to do so? five hundred years of genocide or enslavement or abuse can not be undone in decades. If it can? we will see. But it is clear that abet against the usa is wisest. The idea that fiscally wealthy people should take less in a country founded by ENSLAVERS is a historical insult. but ford vs dodge prove that it is illegal in the usa to go against profiteering. The hopeful or faithful in the usa, after its two hundred and fifty year anniversary are tasked with the challenging of having hope when the myths or legends the usa has professed, from its very infancy, have to be called in, and no cards can even be placed on the table. POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12850-why-are-non-rich-americans-against-socialism/#findComment-82849 PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/787-economic-corner-42-07262026/ NEXT EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/795-economic-corner-44-08122026/ COMMENTARY

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/August-2026-Contest-Cat-Nights-1359936387 CONTENT 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅Brought to you by: Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch! 🎯 THE CHALLENGE1. For the Line Art Creators: Whether old magic black, or siamese, or psychedelic magenta, or an image of your own Original Character Cat draw a Cat at night. The night symbolized by a crescent moon. Make line art displaying a cat under a crescent moon. Have fun! 2. For the Colorists: Once the line art phase is over, you can color any of the LineArt contest entries to complete these worlds with your prismatic touch! If you want to color before the coloring contest time you must use my example image or your own entry. If you need more inspiration for your imagination I provide some more tools at the bottom of this post FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO THE COLORING CHALLENGE After the Coloring page challenge is finished, see below for times, you will be able to use any of the entries of the coloring page challenge plus my example image to color Cat Nights FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO BOTH CHALLENGES Please go for it! But you must note the times for each. 📅 DATES & SUBMISSIONLine Art (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: August 1 , 2026 | Ends: August 25 , 2026 Coloring (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: August 25, 2026 | Ends: August 31 , 2026 You can also share your creations in the comments below to get feedback form other group members or just start a conversation about your art 🏆 PRIZES & REWARDSAll prizes courtesy of @Community and @color-me-club Ambassadors 🖋️ Line Art Category 🏅 Winner: 1,000 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 500 pts + Hype 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 500 pts + Hype 🎨 Coloring Category 🏅 Winner: 500 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 250 pts + Quartz 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 250 pts + Quartz 📋 RULES & GUIDELINES Originality & Copyright: The line art must be your own work. Ripped or "sampled" line art will be disqualified, this includes tracing. This doesn't include referenced images. You may use images for reference, as long as you don't trace it directly and provide credit in the artist's comments section of your entry. Requirements: Min. 1200px / 300 dpi. Traditional art must be clean and scanned.Need help? Use this website to check the pixel size and dpi of your image.] Traditional drawings must be cleanly scanned, in focus, adjusted to predominately black and white, and on plain white paper. [Need help? Check out this excellent tutorial by @BeckyKidus: How to digitally edit traditional line art.] Originality: Must be your own work created after July 31st, 2026. No tracing. All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions Accessibility: Line art must be free to download. Membership: Join @color-me-club to be eligible! That's free too 📚 INSPIRATIONNeed help with your imagination? Search your gallery for Cat or Kitten or Moon or Night. If you have a Cat Original Character, use it. Cat Nights refers to an irish , or better celtic, folklore. From what I comprehend, August 9th to August 16th is when a witch can transform herself into a cat and turn back to human. But on August 17th if a witch transforms into a cat , she is a cat until she dies. S Literature Ship of Fools, Legend to beTitle: Ship of Fools, Legend to be I will tell a short story A fresh start, from long ago When the sun was turquoise blue While the moon grasses said no An equus stood on a hill Saw a ship tilted at shore Apple branches in his mouth Released... and one to the core Branches back, stepped on the side And down, to Sojourner's Tide Hustle or bustle about Ney! he said, where's a sea ride A human point to Sojourn Forward, no dilly dally Stop! right there... you hooved baby Or you'll become a sally The unsailed youth looked down and Quizzically looked around Question, who spoke the harsh words That gave his trepid fear sound A tap of metal on bone Revealed the hidden locale The fohlen raised his head up He be no males leisure pal Easy young one, your head's safe Said the sailor underneath His tiny scuffed head peaked out Said, stop chattering your teeth He had a sandy crown and Two little cute kitty feet The sea you want is tricky The cat said in summer heat Know! surprises is the norm If Cat Nights by V. Neumann By old Irish lore on the 17th of August more cats are among us than ever before. It is said that witches can turn into a cat. But no more than eight switches as a matter of fact. On the ninth switch they cannot regain their life as a witch. A cat they must remain. So if in mid August you should hear the cats yowl amongst sounds of the locust when cats are on the prowl Then you will know as lore was told over time that cats will show lives as many as nine. referal from Old Farmer's Almanac https://www.almanac.com/calendar/date/2024-08-17 from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-s%C3%ACth Superstitions of highlands and islands of scotland https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61730/pg61730-images.html Cat-sith https://folklorescotland.com/cat-sith/ I can't wait to see the beautiful visions of Cat Nights ! you create or color! @HDdeviant Ask yourself, to color or to be colored! 🌅 NEW HORIZONS: January 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":581,\"chars\":3373}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":1,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1284759575]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"jpeg"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> New HorizonsJan 8, 2026 February contest: heart of loveFeb 1, 2026 Wishing WellsMar 1, 2026 EASTER EGGS - Color Me ClubApr 3, 2026 🌅 Mother Goose: May 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":631,\"chars\":3641}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":5,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1327120224,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSEMay 1, 2026 🌅 Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":611,\"chars\":3541}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":12,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":1,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1351341816,1347274411,1302167434,1287891912,1329835732,1339486094,1338171404,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393,1289531986]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds!Jul 1, 2026 #tctbc #colormeclub #tocolorortobecolored #hddeviant #catnights

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Cat-Nights-1363463941 IMAGE EMBED CODE CONTENT For the Cat Nights challenge of @color-me-club 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":805,\"chars\":4660}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":31,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":1,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1363463941,915145623,942211651,951736105,966962989,1044713478,1051283183,1062162113,1095093839,1105893076,1116735145,1077395213,1215911247,1227928494,1231215822,1236307158,1246204212,885748474,894114250,896625503,897400726,909901566,928829613,1181712745,1181732640,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393,1289531986,1348613517]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-alignment="center" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: flex; justify-content: center; position: relative;"> August 2026 Contest: Cat Nights2 hours ago 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅 Brought to you Cat Nights refer to the nights when a witch can turn into a cat. On the ninth night , August 14th, if she turns, she can't turn back to human. The woman on the cliff side is Erin inspired by the painting from Thomas Buchanan Read; she is sitting under the Sgríob Chlann Uisnich. The main mirror is a nonagon, nine sided mirror, with a four leaf shamrock for luck on it. The eight mirrors represent various irish witches. Left side top to bottom - architectural items if present Alice Kyteler Florence Newton -Blarney Castle Biddy Early - St Eunan's Cathedral, Letterkenny, in Ulster Cailleach - Labbacallee Wedge Tomb, where the goddess supposedly rests Right side top to bottom Petronilla de Midia Islandmagee witches - Ireland north Atlantic cliffs Bridget Cleary - Glendaloughround tower Airmed - 365 herbs , representing the goddess I left a space for a person to put whatever cat image they want. mine is https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Addietober-Day-5-Black-Cat-Ink-894114250 Lineart Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages My Cat art gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=cat If you like my art consider the following Line Art https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Single-Coloring-Page-1349611949 Microcalligraphy https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1349613094 tipjar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #catnights #ireland #erin #witch #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #lineart #coloringpage #coloring #superhero #usa250

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-6-Fictional-Slave-Narratives-1348180919 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time outside the 28 days designated as Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of the Black community during the other 337 days of the year. Let's continue learning all year long, because history doesn't stop when February ends. For this edition of #Black337 the focus is Fictional Slave Narratives. In modernity most know of biographical slave narratives like Frederick Douglass's autobiography or Solomon Northrup's Odyssey , more commonly known as "Twelve Years A Slave". But circa 1865, the year the Union defeated the Confederacy in the War Between the States in the United States of America, the most popular fiction from Black or non Black writers were Fictional Slave Narratives. The fictional slave narrative most mentioned in modernity is Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". But, Black people did create fictional slave narratives , as well; they were heavily published or financially successful in there original publishing time. [ I list a set of fictional slave narratives written by Black people , free to read, below. ] To be blunt, the fictional slave narratives written by Black people had two forces against the continuity of their financial or media popularity when first published in the U.S.A. . First, Black peoples finances went through an obliteration from outside the Black populace. Second, Black people became resentful of the tone of slave narratives, biographical or fictional; it isn't a dislike of the truth but from 1865 to modernity , Black people have become frustrated or bitter about the ever presence of embattled black characters in the media of the U.S.A. So, GALLERY MONTHLY CONTENT The following are all fictional enslaved fantasies from Richard Murray @HDdeviant K Literature Koko Henda and the Stitched PeopleTitle: Koko Henda and the Stitched People The K Literature Koko Henda and the wailsTitle: Koko Henda and the wails The cries of the H Literature Henda jr. and the Highest StrikerTitle: Henda jr. and the Highest Striker The O Literature OshunBala or Why the bees sing like MuxinhoMuxinho, the storyteller play the first banjo FICTIONAL SLAVE NARRATIVES EXAMPLES The Garies And Their Friends from Francis Johnson Webb https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/497-the-garies-and-thier-friends/ Clotel , The Presidents Daughter from William Well Brown https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/496-clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-a-narrative-of-slave-life-in-the-united-states-by-william-well-brown/ Le Mulatre from Victor Sejour https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/495-le-mul%C3%A2tre-from-victor-s%C3%A9jour-two-versions-split-by-an-essay/ The Heroic Slave from Frederick Douglass The Heroic Slave from Frederick Douglass - Work List - African American Literature Book Club More Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_narrative #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #1Mar 14, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #2Apr 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #3May 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #4Jun 2, 2026 #BlackHistory337 5 : FablesJul 4, 2026 #black337 #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #blackhistory #slavenarrative #fiction #slavefables

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN-Frozone-The-Incredibles-1360242837 CONTENT Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group.Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun fan fictions based on popular films and television shows 📽️📺 Ponder pop culture’s most perplexing puzzles as we prompt you to provide fans with a satisfying conclusion to cliffhangers and open-ended mysteries in 250 words or less 🧑‍💻🤩 Get inspired to write about worlds you know and love & you might just pick up some rewards along the way 🏅🏆 We all know him, we all love him, it is the incomparable , the dashing, the best friend in the world, Frozone; known as Lucius Best , to his wife, Honey Best, friends, like Mr. Incredible , and of course the National Supers Agency, NSA. The following are all of Frozones scenes from the first Incredibles movie. Your task is to add to the superhero lore of this legend. Superman prays to him, Spider man idolizes him, Mr. Incredible can always rely on him. In a comment below in 250 words or less, in your own words and without the assistance of AI or similar machine learning tools, write a short fan fiction adding to the Frozone omnibus. Where is Frozone now?! Here’s the rules and rewards for this @CRLiterature activity: All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions, and the group rules for CRLiterature; off topic or inappropriate entries will be removed. Share your entry as a comment to this journal for reward considerations.    Only submit one (1) comment for this engagement that is your very best work; all entries must be original concepts and human-written, no AI-assisted entries are allowed and will be removed.      Comment with your entry by the end of the day on August 31st 2026 for rewards consideration for this activity. You must be a member of @CRLiterature for awards considerations. Joining the group is fast and free from the group homepage. entry must be 250 words or less Winners selected at the sole discretion of CRLiterature group admin; all decisions are final and non-negotiable. We will select three (3) winners by September 5th 2026 to receive the following rewards:: Each winner will receive 250 points and a quartz badge One of the three will receive a hype badge I can’t wait to see how you inform us all on Where Are They Now?! @HDdeviant MY EXAMPLE: TITLE: MARITAL ICE This is not the morning Frozone hoped for. The plan was to calmly spend the morning of his wedding to Honey side his parents plus grandparents, after a great bachelor party hosted by Bob Parr where various male supers enjoyed a dance by Queen Cobra aside her sisters [ for their work release program] the night before. Instead, Lucius Best has to involve himself with a crime by Gravitron this morning, not because the criminal is attracting gold plus diamonds throughout the city, because the criminal has taken Honey's engagement ring plus the wedding rings Lucius side Honey plan on sharing later today. Honey already explained to Lucius how upset she was and how upset she will be, so Frozone is out this morning stalling gold or diamonds by freezing; he hopes to find all three rings before the wedding. Luckily, it is now 9:10 am and Mr. Incredible, Blitzerman, Gamma Jack, Gazerbeam restrained Gravitron and stopped his Gravoball 4.5 . Now Lucuis Best has fifty minutes to find the three rings, get dressed in his wedding suit and be ready to happily bind his soul forever with Honey Abelha. from Richard Murray/ @HDdeviant MY POST M Literature Marital IceTITLE: MARITAL ICE This is not the morning IF YOU NEED FURTHER INSPIRATION OR CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING GALLERY I Literature Incredibles Chapter 0: One Mistake An explosion lit up the night, and his life was turned inside-out. "No, stop! There's a bomb!" For all the good it did, he might as well have been yelling at a brick wall. The kid had launched himself from the window, the home-made cape fluttering inches out of reach of his outstretched hand. He wasn't sure how long he'd stood there as the fluttering scrap of blue darted down and away. It might have been a few seconds, a few hours, a few days for all he could remember. The flash from the ground had come an eternity later, followed shortly by a bone-grinding rumble that he had felt on the sixteenth story of the First National building. ... PRIOR WHERE ARE THEY NOW's - the challenges are over, but the fun isn't. Give each a go and continue their stories with 250 words or less, whenever you want. Where Are They Now: Elaine - Ghostbusters 2Jun 12, 2025 Where Are They Now: Salvadore - JawsJul 4, 2025 Where Are They Now: Farmer Ted - Sixteen CandlesAug 1, 2025 Where Are They Now: Norma Rae - Norma RaeSep 1, 2025 Where Are They Now: Ione Sykes - The GraveSep 17, 2025 WATN: Zero - A Nightmare Before ChristmasOct 8, 2025 WATN: Duckie - Pretty In PinkNov 6, 2025 WATN: The Unknown - Over The Garden WallDec 10, 2025 WATN: Charlie BrownJan 8, 2026 WATN: Danny and Sandy : GreaseFeb 2, 2026 WATN: Wall-EMar 5, 2026 Lost Episodes of Galaxy QuestApr 1, 2026 WATN: Alexander Johnson - GloryMay 1, 2026 WATN: Heroes of Dungeons 'n DragonsJun 2, 2026 WATN: The Storyteller - PosseJul 9, 2026 #frozone #theincredibles #pixar #watn #wherearetheynow #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr