the i dont care about politics anymore thread

[bubur]

1 month

one month until they bombed syria. if there was a stock i woulda struck gold

americans anal swabbed in china, death camps go unnoticed, economy tanks

bring on the nasty shills, lets go. if you're tired of it, cool bye. bring on the swing boys

[Cassawary]

1 month

one month until they bombed syria. if there was a stock i woulda struck gold

americans anal swabbed in china, death camps go unnoticed, economy tanks

bring on the nasty shills, lets go. if you're tired of it, cool bye. bring on the swing boys

you're only saying those things to interrupt.

https://i.imgur.com/CO6iY4J.jpg

[bubur]

wish we had this propaganda when we were killing terrorists, woulda been nice

[Cassawary]

wish we had this propaganda when we were killing terrorists, woulda been nice

Irregulars are terrorists :D

[bubur]

Irregulars are terrorists :D

not sure what you mean

do you think we should imprison and torture everyone who doesnt think like us friend?

[Cassawary]

not sure what you mean

do you think we should imprison and torture everyone who doesnt think like us friend?

Unlawful combatants aren't eligible for the rights entitled to those soldiers wot fly a flag

Thread related

[bubur]

you know what i agree. so shall we slay the irregulars. you and me babe. we together

lets this be our theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK15MicRKz4

[bubur]

btw

do you think this shit retard leadership you "voted for" can protect your 401k?

[Cassawary]

btw

do you think this shit retard leadership you "voted for" can protect your 401k?

Protect from whom? Street Sharks? Ninja Turtles?

[bubur]

inflation

welcome to real life ya boomer

[Cassawary]

inflation

welcome to real life ya boomer

I like this subject better thanks for goalposts

Inflation is when bad number go up more than my number?

[zodium]

1 month

one month until they bombed syria. if there was a stock i woulda struck gold

americans anal swabbed in china, death camps go unnoticed, economy tanks

bring on the nasty shills, lets go. if you're tired of it, cool bye. bring on the swing boys

https://i.imgur.com/9b7RBMk.jpg

[Jibartik]

7 years of tribulation, 4 to go then the real party starts. Jesus 2027 ah yes! #americanpolitics

[GinnasP99]

Member when Joe Biden just said N............................................... nevermind.

[Kaveh]

https://i.imgur.com/9b7RBMk.jpg

Gross

I bet even in senility Biden could whip your ass boy

[zodium]

As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

[Mead]

https://i.imgur.com/zFbHPnB.jpg

[FatherSioux]

Surprised the bird guy hasn’t pointed out “hypocrisy” argument is for kids. As he cites what appears to be a 15 year old on Twitter as gospel.

I bet the families(civilians) that lost someone don’t see it through your lens.

[Gwaihir]

1 month

one month until they bombed syria. if there was a stock i woulda struck gold

americans anal swabbed in china, death camps go unnoticed, economy tanks

bring on the nasty shills, lets go. if you're tired of it, cool bye. bring on the swing boys
There is a stock for it. It goes under the ticker DFEN

[Snortles Chortles]

i am very smart

[Cassawary]

Surprised the bird guy hasn’t pointed out “hypocrisy” argument is for kids. As he cites what appears to be a 15 year old on Twitter as gospel.

I bet the families(civilians) that lost someone don’t see it through your lens.

I wish you knew enough to correct me too :p

[FatherSioux]

I wish you knew enough to correct me too :p

You are a bias snob who thinks your shit don’t stink. You aren’t anyone to be concerned about, seek Christ.

[G13]

Ironic that 95% of a commie's post count is calling everyone racist

[Cassawary]

You are a bias snob who thinks your shit don’t stink. You aren’t anyone to be concerned about, seek Christ.

Please?

[zodium]

Ironic that 95% of a commie's post count is calling everyone racist

when u definitely know what irony and communism is

[Cassawary]

when u definitely know what irony and communism is

the irony is when they agree with the commies because the libs owned them

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/bZ4vA0X.png

[G13]

when u definitely know what irony and communism is

The Uighurs probably know

[Fame]

Imagine not realizing that bombing other poor people is, has been and always will be how Americans continue to feed uninterrupted at the trough.

Trumps hippy peace song and dance actually hurt worse than business as usual and a boot on the neck. Sorry if actually getting some skin in the game is more difficult than just talking about it.

[Jibartik]

I wonder what happens in like 2 years, does mcdonalds cost $29.99?

[imperiouskitten]

Ironic that 95% of a commie's post count is calling everyone racist

i think u meant iconic

[imperiouskitten]

i am very smart
that's a reddit meme lil **gga and it wasnt funny in context, that makes u desperaet to post reddit memes, that makes u CRINGE homes they all laughing at you homes

[Cassawary]

Imagine not realizing that bombing other poor people is, has been and always will be how Americans continue to feed uninterrupted at the trough.

Trumps hippy peace song and dance actually hurt worse than business as usual and a boot on the neck. Sorry if actually getting some skin in the game is more difficult than just talking about it.

https://i.imgur.com/w57wivB.jpg

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/5b6tIvq.jpg

[imperiouskitten]

Trump bombed syria at the same point in his presidency

maybe it won't go anywhere else. praying

[Jibartik]

Yeah hopefully we can maintain the stability of the region lol

[magnetaress]

China is running Americas death camps and making $$

[Bearsnowls]

I'm totally cool with trans folks in the military? Like, why not? As long as they are able and mentally fit, I'm down with it.

[HalflingSpergand]

Good 1

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/YPhjlqh.jpg

[magnetaress]

I could easily press both at once.

[Cassawary]

https://i.imgur.com/gpfTTaf.jpg

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/nBNyJo0.png

[Bardp1999]

https://i.imgur.com/NwPufY6.jpg

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/34isY6d.gif

[Bearsnowls]

I think that mentally fit part being emphasized. Most of us are batshit crazy, lol.

[magnetaress]

Transition aktchialuy improved my mental fitness.

Now I just scream n cry like a totally cool and normal person.

[Cassawary]

there was a bearded lady in the los angeles gay chorus. it was on tv once.

[maskedmelon]

I wonder what happens in like 2 years, does mcdonalds cost $29.99?

399 sats. Just pretend there is a decimal before the last two digits ^^

[maskedmelon]

there was a bearded lady in the los angeles gay chorus. it was on tv once.

You are full of information, aren’t you?

[Snortles Chortles]

he's very intelligent

[Rader]

Trump bombed syria at the same point in his presidency

maybe it won't go anywhere else. praying

so then it must be bad

[imperiouskitten]

https://i.imgur.com/gpfTTaf.jpg

laffing my butt

[Lune]

I wonder what happens in like 2 years, does mcdonalds cost $29.99?

In places that have a high minimum wage, the price is comparable. Prices aren't solely determined by cost, though cost plays into it, they are determined by elaborate equations that take many variables into account. When wages increase the main effect is that capitalists pocket a smaller proportion of revenues as profit. What many people forget is that productivity has skyrocketed astronomically over the last 50 years, while wages have declined compared to inflation. McDonaldses were profitable back in the 1970's when they had to pay their burger flippers today's equivalent of $20 an hour.

Additionally, if your business relies upon slave wages that employees can't live on without sucking off the safety net, your business model is shit, your business is a drain on society, and it doesn't deserve to exist. Chick fil-A, In n' Out, Costco, Wawa, REI, Winco, and countless other businesses thrive while paying their labor well above minimum wage. In the short term, there would like be some loss in jobs as companies adjust their profit points and pass certain thresholds for automatization, but in the long term increased aggregate purchasing power would drive greater demand (trickle up economics), along with untold other benefits in general human welfare.

The fact that we couldn't pass such a popular idea is disgusting beyond belief. Our government remains broken beyond repair, Democrats are limp-dicked spineless pussies, and just as expected, Biden is only slightly better than Trump

[zodium]

mcdonalds workers get paid $20 an hour here and we dont even have a minimum wage

[zodium]

big strong unions tho. we love our unions dont we folks.

[Toehammer]

... Democrats are limp-dicked spineless pussies, and just as expected, Biden is only slightly better than Trump

So since DT is Hitler, does that mean Biden = Goebbels? They share the first name Joseph... get Budz, Byue, Cd288, and Caroll on the case, it's a conspiracy!

[Lune]

I remember as a kid in elementary school reading that passage of Ender's Game where Valentine and her brother basically conquer the world by posting on internet forums and thinking at the time how preposterous that was. About 20 years later, in came to fruition in the memes and facebook propaganda that put a man in the oval office and fueled an entire movement based on lies and disinformation.

[Kaveh]

Wow bubur is very very mad that trump got smoked BIGLY

SAD!

[bubur]

watchu mean this was from a week ago. I've defected. it's joe time now, bitch get in

you fat racist terrorist tomato farmers will never win

[magnetaress]

Tomatoes grown in delpeted soil are malnutriotious.

[Cassawary]

big strong unions tho. we love our unions dont we folks.

I do like the police union :p

[Kaveh]

My saffron stockpile is worth more than Bubur’s life savings. Probably why he’s so mad that trump got smoked. Funny thing is, if trump had said, “please wear a mask, we’re in this together against the China virus / kungflu,” he would’ve won. He couldn’t do it though. Couldn’t admit anything was wrong or try to lead

SAD

[HalflingSpergand]

Best thing about trump persona is that it isn't a virus cuck

[Horza]

Remember that time Trump had to be hospitalized because he almost died from Covid?

[Jibartik]

“please wear a mask, we’re in this together against the China virus / kungflu,” he would’ve won. He couldn’t do it though.

SAD

I believe this to be true, I believe this year people were beyond fed up, I mean we had 100 days of riots, on top of the pandemic, and I felt like I was in the U.S.S.R. where the state ignores everyone and says "EVERFING IZ FINE DO YOR JUB."

[HalflingSpergand]

Remember that time Trump had to be hospitalized because he almost died from Covid?

No i don't.

But using the knowledge i have deduced myself that headlines are for shock value renders them completely invisible

[Snortles Chortles]

totally not a psyop guys

[Nocht]

Everybody in 2020: OmGerdz im so sick of hearing about TrUmP!
Everybody in 2021: OmGeRdZ im sTiLl oBbseSSeD wItH TRuMp!

[bubur]

My saffron stockpile is worth more than Bubur’s life savings. Probably why he’s so mad that trump got smoked. Funny thing is, if trump had said, “please wear a mask, we’re in this together against the China virus / kungflu,” he would’ve won. He couldn’t do it though. Couldn’t admit anything was wrong or try to lead

SAD

agreed on each point. now stop bitchin and get in, we got some killin to do

[Cassawary]

“I wonder if there’s a place where I can stay in detention where I don’t have cockroaches crawling over me while I attempt to sleep,” he said. “I mean, I really haven’t slept all that much, your honor. It would be nice if I could sleep in a place where there were not cockroaches everywhere.” (U.S. Magistrate Zia M. Faruqui told Klein that his concerns would be addressed if the conditions were in fact unsafe or dirty.) Klein is not the first person arrested in connection with the riot to complain that prison hasn’t met his high standards. (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/federico-klein-capitol-attack)

[magnetaress]

Watch all of these people become progressive activists for prison reform and start championing minorities.

[bubur]

that article is art

only distraction was the link to andrew cuomo's scandal in the middle, little bit of dissonance but i can tune it out

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/VCxrRqV.jpg

[Horza]

A bill that would require new cellphones and tablets sold in Utah to come with pornography filters won final approval in the state legislature. (https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/03/05/porn-blocking-bill-wins/)

[A Knight]

Good and a bad thing. Sometimes I wish youtube had an on and off filter for porn. Sometimes I don't want to come HOME and see hot chicks in my face.

Just hope the mormons don't make an anti-porn empire.

Edit: I meant come home.... bah

[Horza]

REPORTER: A lot of Americans are saying immigrant surges are happening under President Biden's watch.

PSAKI: Who are the Americans?

REPORTER: The former president.

PSAKI: Former President Trump?

REPORTER: Yes.

[bubur]

https://www.kens5.com/article/news/special-reports/at-the-border/a-new-surge-of-migrants-overwhelming-border-towns-resources/273-15eb48c6-de8c-4f90-8c18-3353bc02e150

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/06/unaccompanied-minors-immigrant-biden-border-rise/4400666001/

im all for shitting on trump

but i also like shitting on the other old white guy

i also just like shitting, hbu

[Kaveh]

8 dem senators against the $15 minimum wage

New boss same as the old boss

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/s9p8jbG.jpg

[Cassawary]

8 dem senators against the $15 minimum wage

New boss same as the old boss

I thought they were commies? :p

[Kaveh]

Meh I voted for Biden my man never thought they were commies

I just want the unemployeds to know that they won’t be getting a free ride

[bubur]

the big secret was i didnt give a shit enough to change my out of state registration to vote

but i was on record for a green manastone bet on trump, no one took me up on it. i woulda resisted but ida have to paid up by now for sure

rip you for not taking this illegal presidential bet

[zodium]

Meh I voted for Biden my man never thought they were commies

I just want the unemployeds to know that they won’t be getting a free ride

a rare nude sighting of the real democratic base.

[Jimjam]

8 dem senators against the $15 minimum wage

New boss same as the old boss

Do they say why? Is this like a ‘we won’t approve unless the new minimum wage meets the previous one when it was last updated including inflation’ (so like 20-30 dollars)?

[zodium]

Do they say why? Is this like a ‘we won’t approve unless the new minimum wage meets the previous one when it was last updated including inflation’ (so like 20-30 dollars)?

guess again

https://i.imgur.com/QI6Qems.png

[bubur]

maybe we should just kill every corrupt politican, what say you, party of death?

could you kindly squeeze them into your regular quota?

[bubur]

There is a stock for it. It goes under the ticker DFEN

tbh i sold my dfen shares the other day at 18.5, made a few bucks but im out

i dont trust it. too good to be true.

few reasons:
-dont trust biden will actually increase defense spending, yeah we're provoking enemies but he seems like the type to just send troops to die with shitty gear, not sure how that translates to this collection of stocks
-there's something about this etf that seems to be decay-worthy, like a typical leveraged etf, doesnt make sense to me that it wouldnt rise when most defense oriented companies are doing ok; makes me nervous


so im out

[magnetaress]

China's navy is pretty sexy. As soon as they fill it with sexy, hairless, beardless, eunuchs, in anime wigs, they win.

[Cassawary]

China's navy is pretty sexy. As soon as they fill it with sexy, hairless, beardless, eunuchs, in anime wigs, they win.

most of they ships is coast guard :D

[magnetaress]

most of they ships is coast guard :D

Coast guard with missiles. R.I.P. Taiwan.

Also, in the long run they'll just vassal state small maritime nations and close off India.

Or just do Africa.

It's more about selling the most rapidly deployed protectionism and manpower. Soon.

'Murica is headed into a deep global decline, protracted recession, and austerity, no matter who gets elected.

We'll produce a handful of ships at 10x the cost while we focus on mounting civil unrest at home and our economy tanks. As investors pull out. As our health and wealth decline with an aging and ailing population and a plummeting birth rate. Survival rate. Our people are getting terminally ill in their 40s and taking the country down with them as they flounder around and cost us money cleaning them and their disastrous choices up.

God love em, but the disabled,, homeless, drug addicts are extremely damaging to profits, growth, and social stability. And property. America is so fucked.

These people can't dig out of the grave they've dug, or permitted to get dug for them.

AoC ain't Theodore Roosevelt.

[Cassawary]

Coast guard with missiles. R.I.P. Taiwan.

Also, in the long run they'll just vassal state small maritime nations and close off India.

Or just do Africa.

It's more about selling the most rapidly deployed protectionism and manpower. Soon.

'Murica is headed into a deep global decline, protracted recession, and austerity, no matter who gets elected.

We'll produce a handful of ships at 10x the cost while we focus on mounting civil unrest at home and our economy tanks. As investors pull out. As our health and wealth decline with an aging and ailing population and a plummeting birth rate. Survival rate. Our people are getting terminally ill in their 40s and taking the country down with them as they flounder around and cost us money cleaning them and their disastrous choices up.

God love em, but the disabled,, homeless, drug addicts are extremely damaging to profits, growth, and social stability. And property. America is so fucked.

These people can't dig out of the grave they've dug, or permitted to get dug for them.

AoC ain't Theodore Roosevelt.

You of all people should know about brown water.

[magnetaress]

You of all people should know about brown water.

Chinese just run it through some old clothes till it's less grity.

[Kaveh]

Coast guard with missiles. R.I.P. Taiwan.

Also, in the long run they'll just vassal state small maritime nations and close off India.

Or just do Africa.

It's more about selling the most rapidly deployed protectionism and manpower. Soon.

'Murica is headed into a deep global decline, protracted recession, and austerity, no matter who gets elected.

We'll produce a handful of ships at 10x the cost while we focus on mounting civil unrest at home and our economy tanks. As investors pull out. As our health and wealth decline with an aging and ailing population and a plummeting birth rate. Survival rate. Our people are getting terminally ill in their 40s and taking the country down with them as they flounder around and cost us money cleaning them and their disastrous choices up.

God love em, but the disabled,, homeless, drug addicts are extremely damaging to profits, growth, and social stability. And property. America is so fucked.

These people can't dig out of the grave they've dug, or permitted to get dug for them.

AoC ain't Theodore Roosevelt.

https://youtu.be/eUzsw956nto

[Horza]

'Murica is headed into a deep global decline, protracted recession, and austerity, no matter who gets elected.

God love em, but the disabled,, homeless, drug addicts are extremely damaging to profits, growth, and social stability. And property. America is so fucked.

This is rather ironic coming from someone who is so obviously mentally ill.

[imperiouskitten]

I think the dire prognostications for America are wrong. I mean idk, things have changed a lot, predicting the next century is really not to be done lightly and this will be a low effort post. But I am expecting a sort of stasis.

See, it doesn't really matter if most ppl are retarded and useless. Our economic engine doesn't need hardly any Americans to work. We all work at coffee stands feeding each other coffee on our coffee breaks from the coffee stand. The empire we sit on is what makes us collectively rich, not our exceptional productiveness. This is why forcing Americans to starve and enjoy no healthcare if they don't go out grind some useless job is merely punitive and very dumb, magnetaress. Not to mention highly destabilizing. You see all the symptoms but you just refuse to see what even the neocons have begun to see: "work to eat" is mere ideology and its logic breaks down at a certain post-agricultural, post-industrial, automation-heavy point. There just aren't enough positions of merit to fill. Just look at the dough they've cranked out for covid, and how it turned the stock market into an all-win casino. We are better off paying ppl who don't make $70k or more to stay home and stop crowding our streets doing their poor person shit. And we most certainly *are* being primed for a UBI.

No, we'll get our unrest under control using gibs. Continue to be the main cephalus of Europa. And keep doing empire shit. We do this to keep our elites propped up, in opposition to their (eastern) elites, because submitting to Eastern rule would end the vast stratified wealth in the Western hemisphere. We'll get dramatically, vastly wealthier in the next 30 years on robot labor (which might actually enable manufacturing to return to USA), we are talking the ability to do 500x the labor we presently can, then 500000x 30 years later. The pyramid scheme is about to get a series of HUGE bricks laid under it in the coming years. The only thing that would cause it to fall over is to let the plebs starve and get super angry, but political developments prove our rulers are not that ideologically blinded that they would allow that to happen. Only u are. :p But with UBI on the table, questions about social cohesiveness get taken care of. In fact, our politicians might be smart enough that UBI may come in time to preempt truly harsh times for the unemployed truckers, gas station workers, the 90% of grocery store workers laid off, all fast food employees, all coffee house employees, most (75%+, includes Lulzsect) low-skill IT workers. No big collapse coming, nothing interesting coming at all rly until Southeast Asia goes underwater and we have a 1 billion-person refugee crisis.

I know the robots seem like theyll never come because we have talked about them for so long, but they are seriously almost here. like, vast labor surpluses are coming imminently. Doomsday is just adolescent fantasy for avoiding the grind of a stable, sterile, un-martial reality. Except maybe for climate change, but even that is just another opportunity to juice the economy on a "war footing" and make lots of machines.

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/3Od9IqZ.jpg

[Nexii]

I think the dire prognostications for America are wrong. I mean idk, things have changed a lot, predicting the next century is really not to be done lightly and this will be a low effort post. But I am expecting a sort of stasis.

See, it doesn't really matter if most ppl are retarded and useless. Our economic engine doesn't need hardly any Americans to work. We all work at coffee stands feeding each other coffee on our coffee breaks from the coffee stand. The empire we sit on is what makes us collectively rich, not our exceptional productiveness. This is why forcing Americans to starve and enjoy no healthcare if they don't go out grind some useless job is merely punitive and very dumb, magnetaress. Not to mention highly destabilizing. You see all the symptoms but you just refuse to see what even the neocons have begun to see: "work to eat" is mere ideology and its logic breaks down at a certain post-agricultural, post-industrial, automation-heavy point. There just aren't enough positions of merit to fill. Just look at the dough they've cranked out for covid, and how it turned the stock market into an all-win casino. We are better off paying ppl who don't make $70k or more to stay home and stop crowding our streets doing their poor person shit. And we most certainly *are* being primed for a UBI.

No, we'll get our unrest under control using gibs. Continue to be the main cephalus of Europa. And keep doing empire shit. We do this to keep our elites propped up, in opposition to their (eastern) elites, because submitting to Eastern rule would end the vast stratified wealth in the Western hemisphere. We'll get dramatically, vastly wealthier in the next 30 years on robot labor (which might actually enable manufacturing to return to USA), we are talking the ability to do 500x the labor we presently can, then 500000x 30 years later. The pyramid scheme is about to get a series of HUGE bricks laid under it in the coming years. The only thing that would cause it to fall over is to let the plebs starve and get super angry, but political developments prove our rulers are not that ideologically blinded that they would allow that to happen. Only u are. :p But with UBI on the table, questions about social cohesiveness get taken care of. In fact, our politicians might be smart enough that UBI may come in time to preempt truly harsh times for the unemployed truckers, gas station workers, the 90% of grocery store workers laid off, all fast food employees, all coffee house employees, most (75%+, includes Lulzsect) low-skill IT workers. No big collapse coming, nothing interesting coming at all rly until Southeast Asia goes underwater and we have a 1 billion-person refugee crisis.

I know the robots seem like theyll never come because we have talked about them for so long, but they are seriously almost here. like, vast labor surpluses are coming imminently. Doomsday is just adolescent fantasy for avoiding the grind of a stable, sterile, un-martial reality. Except maybe for climate change, but even that is just another opportunity to juice the economy on a "war footing" and make lots of machines.

Alpha Centauri predicted this like 22 years ago.

Cybernetic Society
"In the far future, citizens may turn many of the tasks of governing society over to artificially intelligent computers, increasing efficiency and freeing individuals for more creative tasks. But will workers displaced by computers sink into despair, poverty, and possible unrest?"

The displacement will be massive. But I'm optimistic because of the Internet. The average person has much more of a voice than say during Great Depression starvation times.

[zodium]

tfw the internal contradictions of ur capitalist society become so heightened that random ppl start independently reinventing marxism

[magnetaress]

I think the dire prognostications for America are wrong. I mean idk, things have changed a lot, predicting the next century is really not to be done lightly and this will be a low effort post. But I am expecting a sort of stasis.

See, it doesn't really matter if most ppl are retarded and useless. Our economic engine doesn't need hardly any Americans to work. We all work at coffee stands feeding each other coffee on our coffee breaks from the coffee stand. The empire we sit on is what makes us collectively rich, not our exceptional productiveness. This is why forcing Americans to starve and enjoy no healthcare if they don't go out grind some useless job is merely punitive and very dumb, magnetaress. Not to mention highly destabilizing. You see all the symptoms but you just refuse to see what even the neocons have begun to see: "work to eat" is mere ideology and its logic breaks down at a certain post-agricultural, post-industrial, automation-heavy point. There just aren't enough positions of merit to fill. Just look at the dough they've cranked out for covid, and how it turned the stock market into an all-win casino. We are better off paying ppl who don't make $70k or more to stay home and stop crowding our streets doing their poor person shit. And we most certainly *are* being primed for a UBI.

No, we'll get our unrest under control using gibs. Continue to be the main cephalus of Europa. And keep doing empire shit. We do this to keep our elites propped up, in opposition to their (eastern) elites, because submitting to Eastern rule would end the vast stratified wealth in the Western hemisphere. We'll get dramatically, vastly wealthier in the next 30 years on robot labor (which might actually enable manufacturing to return to USA), we are talking the ability to do 500x the labor we presently can, then 500000x 30 years later. The pyramid scheme is about to get a series of HUGE bricks laid under it in the coming years. The only thing that would cause it to fall over is to let the plebs starve and get super angry, but political developments prove our rulers are not that ideologically blinded that they would allow that to happen. Only u are. :p But with UBI on the table, questions about social cohesiveness get taken care of. In fact, our politicians might be smart enough that UBI may come in time to preempt truly harsh times for the unemployed truckers, gas station workers, the 90% of grocery store workers laid off, all fast food employees, all coffee house employees, most (75%+, includes Lulzsect) low-skill IT workers. No big collapse coming, nothing interesting coming at all rly until Southeast Asia goes underwater and we have a 1 billion-person refugee crisis.

I know the robots seem like theyll never come because we have talked about them for so long, but they are seriously almost here. like, vast labor surpluses are coming imminently. Doomsday is just adolescent fantasy for avoiding the grind of a stable, sterile, un-martial reality. Except maybe for climate change, but even that is just another opportunity to juice the economy on a "war footing" and make lots of machines.
I think people born post 90-2k will have it figured out.

People born prior to the 90s are gonna die in protracted misery on UBI in hospital beds pre 70s due to poor food, lack of exercise, and psychiatric abuse. Watching CNN and Fox. Devoid of any spiritual well-being and succor.

They already treat people worse than stray dogs once they lose their income and property.

Not that I am technically complaining. In the 30s they woulda just done outrageous medical experiments on us or pushed people out into the street to starve with syphilis.

Lookit LA though.

I'm using myself as an example. I know how to live a wholesome godly life and help others.

I'm crawling on the floor to the bathroom. Not out of choice. Laziness. Or sloth.

I pray that this doesn't happen to you.

Procedures, processes, regulations, laws, legislation. None of it is the answer. People either find ways to abuse the rules or allow the rules to hem them in away from just doing the right thing. Doing right by each other.

Neomarxism isn't the answer, and enslaving nonhumans will create an implacable, inhumane enemy.

I did read your post. You're not wrong. We have a great potential. We will not empower people though. And those, like me, who are intelligent and good, but just not valuable. Two weak, old, sensative, caring, or slow. Well, tough luck.

I'm old. And tired.

Trying to live long enough to die skinny and emaciated. Sans a beard.

I'm extremely frustrated with my own corpse disposal.

[Horza]

I wish that I had enough faith in the American electorate to assume we'll have UBI by the time I'm dying of poor health in my seventies.

[zodium]

I wish that I had enough faith in the American electorate to assume we'll have UBI by the time I'm dying of poor health in my seventies.

its actually a mental illness. its called "liberalism."

[imperiouskitten]

its actually a mental illness. its called "liberalism."

i am predicting what liberalism will do, not advocating it. am also not a "random person" thank you vry much.

it's a natural progression for the ruling class to simply buy us off as the cost aligns w the benefit. i'm not calling it justice! so stop being mean to me.

i also disagree that it's a recapitulation of marxism, completely. it will not be a rearrangement of power structures or redistribution of productive capacities, just a subsistence payoff. Probably paid in proportion to the scale of social unrest among the (ex) workers. I think it has been demonstrated relatively well that marx's predictions of discrete steps of evolution/revolution based on growing class awareness are not coming to pass. I don't think you can call his predictions correct if we reach a post-scarcity, post-labor economy with the working-class still never having achieved much consciousness at all. so far, capacity to befuddle and obfuscate far outweighs common drive to seek the bare truth of the power structures and/or do anything about them. No, I'm not recapitulating marxism, I'm predicting a course of things quite to the opposite thank u very much.

The question is open however whether things will travel more along Marx's predicted course once the common laborer is rich in free time to think about his powerlessness. My bets are with the obfuscators, though, personally, as life is worth living for videogames and porn alone.

Now please actually read this post and stop taunting me with ur BS that proves u just skim me.

[G13]

I wish that I had enough faith in the American electorate to assume we'll have UBI by the time I'm dying of poor health in my seventies.

Nobody owes you anything you lazy worthless pos

[imperiouskitten]

I wish that I had enough faith in the American electorate to assume we'll have UBI by the time I'm dying of poor health in my seventies.

i don't put my faith with the electorate, more with savvy politicians who will push the issue knowing it will make their positions very stable. Like social security, once passed it would be untouchable. And they who passed it will be re-electable for 40 years.

plus intelligence services / tech lobbies / natsecurity people will want to calm down domestic unrest when we start dropping workers from entire industries and replacing w/ robots. And as of this moment, MMT says there is literally no downside and tons of upside to pumping money into the economy. Peep the record stock market as we had one of the worst years ever, but pumped. The market seems only to love state spending and take-home checks. So not only will you have thinktank "intellectuals" and economists advocating UBI, you will have the very largest corporations, whose lobbies will advocate it as a means to minimize the blowback for laying off tens of millions of workers and consolidating further. Add a few unemployment riots and 8 more years of boomers dying off and the pressure mounts, resistance declines. I really do believe it's coming, masochistic electorate or not.

[Horza]

Nobody owes you anything you lazy worthless pos

https://i.imgur.com/Pctev0X.jpg

[Lune]

If UBI doesn't happen in our lifetime I hope I at least get to see the rich get guillotined, even if it takes 10,000 poors for every rich life like the French or Chinese revolutions.

[Snortles Chortles]

how dare people earn money and save it

[Kaveh]

So sacrificing 10,000 people is better than working? I’m understanding more and more why the founding fathers greatly limited the franchise

[Horza]

So sacrificing 10,000 people is better than working? I’m understanding more and more why the founding fathers greatly limited the franchise

Careful there, someone in this thread has already taken a forum vacation for debating the merits of the 19th Amendment.

[imperiouskitten]

how dare people earn money and save it

you cant "earn" a billion dollars, theres no life long enough nor brain brilliant enough -- nor unelected individual worthy enough of such power, on par with the state.

and then there's the "earner's" shitty kids jetsetting around building pedophile dungeons arranging imperial foreign policy for the next 200 yrs on the dough.

i am sorry but your "philosophy" is lazy, dogmatic, convenient, ignores actual outcomes, and generally suits a man of your intellectual stature. but please, continue getting triggered for black lives matter while insisting nothing change and endlessly bashing minorities which are not you. In the meantime, i am ready for my jaypeg reply.

[Jibartik]

Imagine if in every game the NPC's were like, waitaminet.

[Cassawary]

i am predicting what liberalism will do, not advocating it. am also not a "random person" thank you vry much.

it's a natural progression for the ruling class to simply buy us off as the cost aligns w the benefit. i'm not calling it justice! so stop being mean to me.

i also disagree that it's a recapitulation of marxism, completely. it will not be a rearrangement of power structures or redistribution of productive capacities, just a subsistence payoff. Probably paid in proportion to the scale of social unrest among the (ex) workers. I think it has been demonstrated relatively well that marx's predictions of discrete steps of evolution/revolution based on growing class awareness are not coming to pass. I don't think you can call his predictions correct if we reach a post-scarcity, post-labor economy with the working-class still never having achieved much consciousness at all. so far, capacity to befuddle and obfuscate far outweighs common drive to seek the bare truth of the power structures and/or do anything about them. No, I'm not recapitulating marxism, I'm predicting a course of things quite to the opposite thank u very much.

The question is open however whether things will travel more along Marx's predicted course once the common laborer is rich in free time to think about his powerlessness. My bets are with the obfuscators, though, personally, as life is worth living for videogames and porn alone.

Now please actually read this post and stop taunting me with ur BS that proves u just skim me.

https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2021/feb/tax-provisions-american-rescue-plan-act.html#:~:text=The%20bill%20expands%20the%20Sec, 3%2C600%20for%20children%20under%206).

Direct payments for kids now, Romney good or bad?

[Kaveh]

you cant "earn" a billion dollars, theres no life long enough nor brain brilliant enough -- nor unelected individual worthy enough of such power, on par with the state.

and then there's the "earner's" shitty kids jetsetting around building pedophile dungeons arranging imperial foreign policy for the next 200 yrs on the dough.

i am sorry but your "philosophy" is lazy, dogmatic, convenient, ignores actual outcomes, and generally suits a man of your intellectual stature. but please, continue getting triggered for black lives matter while insisting nothing change and endlessly bashing minorities which are not you. In the meantime, i am ready for my jaypeg reply.

You are right about billionaires. It’s very hard to destroy a system and the rights it confers based on extremes, however. We have a problem. Opioids, suicides, bullying, conspiratorial thinking. All of it is a loss of meaning. This won’t easily be fixed by simple financial or political “solutions.” It’s going to take greater depth of thought than that

[Kaveh]

https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2021/feb/tax-provisions-american-rescue-plan-act.html#:~:text=The%20bill%20expands%20the%20Sec, 3%2C600%20for%20children%20under%206).

Direct payments for kids now, Romney good or bad?

Bad, you should not subsidize bad behavior. Having children you can’t afford is bad

[Kaveh]

We should actually increase taxes for children, and tattoos, and anything else stupid. Unless your children are IQ > 120

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/DSGUSlO.jpg

[Horza]

https://i.imgur.com/nKTl4Fr.jpg

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/c0KWi1V.jpg

[zodium]

This won’t easily be fixed by simple financial or political “solutions.” It’s going to take greater depth of thought than that

yeah, it's called "marxism"

[Cassawary]

Social conservative, fiscal liberal (https://www.washingtonblade.com/2021/03/06/senate-narrowly-rejects-measure-to-defund-schools-allowing-trans-kids-in-sports/)

[G13]

yeah, it's called "marxism"

Over 100 Million "served" last century

[Kaveh]

Washington Blade would be a good name for a black actor

I miss Wesley snipes

[magnetaress]

You are right about billionaires. It’s very hard to destroy a system and the rights it confers based on extremes, however. We have a problem. Opioids, suicides, bullying, conspiratorial thinking. All of it is a loss of meaning. This won’t easily be fixed by simple financial or political “solutions.” It’s going to take greater depth of thought than that

This is the most retarded shit I've ever red on here. Bought the war on XYZ hooked lined and sinked.

Yikes.

Enjoy your retirement. Hope don't end up in an ALF or worse. Eat to prepare for your eventual decline and death at the hands of nurse Ratchet and liability law.

[magnetaress]

If UBI doesn't happen in our lifetime I hope I at least get to see the rich get guillotined, even if it takes 10,000 poors for every rich life like the French or Chinese revolutions.

I would prefer to see a more stable system. Where this didn't need to happen periodically and people who earn it can enjoy the fruits of their labor, those that don't, can live out their life in obscurity and relative unimportantance without bringing society, their families, and communities down with them.

Yet we all enable the rich to exploit and enable these people and hold us hostage.

[Gwaihir]

I would prefer to see a more stable system. Where this didn't need to happen periodically and people who earn it can enjoy the fruits of their labor, those that don't, can live out their life in obscurity and relative unimportantance without bringing society, their families, and communities down with them.

Yet we all enable the rich to exploit and enable these people and hold us hostage.

This assumes that the only thing required to fix the abject depravity of a heroin addict is just to give him enough money to afford a heroin addiction, nevermind the fact that he shits himself as he's nodding off and spreads shit everywhere around himself; too lazy and wantonly careless to do any different.

[magnetaress]

This assumes that the only thing required to fix the abject depravity of a heroin addict is just to give him enough money to afford a heroin addiction, nevermind the fact that he shits himself as he's nodding off and spreads shit everywhere around himself; too lazy and wantonly careless to do any different.

I never said give them money, heroine or freedom.

Seems like a good case for an monastery or reservation though. Perhaps some food that doesn't come from a vending machine or a plastic bag. And is low in sugar. Not fried.

Soylent powder and a work detail picking up trash and going to a school perhaps. If they are really f'd up and disabled, the other heroin addicts can take them for walks, PT. Lead a pilates course and have them sort, reclaim, and recycle trash.

[Jimjam]

So, to stop the social harms of these individuals ‘spreading shit’ everywhere (vandalising, petty crime?) you propose a camp concentrating all these addicts and deviants into one place, where their cost to society can be managed and minimised?

...

[zodium]

I never said give them money, heroine or freedom.

Seems like a good case for an monastery or reservation though. Perhaps some food that doesn't come from a vending machine or a plastic bag. And is low in sugar. Not fried.

Soylent powder and a work detail picking up trash and going to a school perhaps. If they are really f'd up and disabled, the other heroin addicts can take them for walks, PT. Lead a pilates course and have them sort, reclaim, and recycle trash.

ah, the fiscally liberal, socially conservative poster.

[magnetaress]

So, to stop the social harms of these individuals ‘spreading shit’ everywhere (vandalising, petty crime?) you propose a camp concentrating all these addicts and deviants into one place, where their cost to society can be managed and minimised?

...

Where they can have a chance at a healthy life with less suffering.

These folks deserve peace and comfort. They cannot possibly achieve it because modern civilization is beyond them. They are akin to the species left behind. Slaves emancipated but given no work.

Native Americans and booze.

We like to believe everyone is perfectly abled and can make the right choices.

I happen to personally know many people are not. That many people no matter how hard they try are so damaged and broken, or the generational abuse so deep.

Every time they will fail. They really can't even do the basic most decent thing and get their cigarettes in the ashtray. Or cook a healthy meal. Even if we provided absolutely everything.

I don't hate them. Don't want to torture them. Don't want to enable them. Or this incredibly stupid system That mass produces them in order to maintain a cheap throw away basic labor pool.

I believe the solution is in acknowledging reality. But that takes power away from kings, and freedom away from the sick.

It is the God, damned truth though.

[Horza]

First they came for the heroin users, and I did not speak out because I was not a heroin user.

[magnetaress]

First they came for the heroin users, and I did not speak out because I was not a heroin user.

Lookit US prisons bro.

Also US prisons are trash.

[imperiouskitten]

ah, the fiscally liberal, socially conservative poster.

hate and masochism is very contrary and therefore teh hard truth you are to soft to get. Go join the military it will learn you a lot about self torture and its wisdom

[Horza]

Lookit US prisons bro.

Also US prisons are trash.

https://i.imgur.com/ci0xbHH.jpg

[imperiouskitten]

My political philosopy is we must feed all ppl to pirhanas because I am hurting. I believe this strongly. Please reply

[magnetaress]

Prisoners would be better off growing and cooking their own food.

I'm not even saying to throw people in prison or mass encarcerate them without the ability to earn privileges or for punishment.

I'm just pointing out one obvious and massive failure of our system of governance.

Any viking can see for him/her/xer/xem whatever, selves.

As for my personal example, regardless of my gender identity and homosexuality, IF the state had ripped me away from my shitty parentage, put me to work on a farm and given me the option of conscription, my chances of leading the Imperial legions would have been much higher.

I'm not angry for this loss of opportunity, but kids, and adults, I see 30 years olds as kids these days aren't going anywhere with or without UBI unless they collectively pull their heads from each other's asses.

[magnetaress]

My political philosopy is we must feed all ppl to pirhanas because I am hurting. I believe this strongly. Please reply

Your little passively incomed pleasure palace is in no way threatened by terreforming ecosystems for the eventual interment of the surplus worker drones on building off world colonial resorts.

[Cassawary]

ah, the fiscally liberal, socially conservative poster.

sounds more like a materielist

[imperiouskitten]

I love watching the Godfather LARP guy go down. Thought he'd survive it fine but the slow continued drip of accusers + medical liability scandal combo is looking baaaad. His insulting persona always drove me nuts & now it's destroying him. so yummy.

now I hope we take the lesson -- don't vote for movie actors or guys who imitate movie characters

[Nexii]

I love watching the Godfather LARP guy go down. Thought he'd survive it fine but the slow continued drip of accusers + medical liability scandal combo is looking baaaad. His insulting persona always drove me nuts & now it's destroying him. so yummy.

now I hope we take the lesson -- don't vote for movie actors or guys who imitate movie characters

Nothing sweeter than the downfall of a psychopath

[HalflingSpergand]

Where they can have a chance at a healthy life with less suffering.

These folks deserve peace and comfort. They cannot possibly achieve it because modern civilization is beyond them. They are akin to the species left behind. Slaves emancipated but given no work.

Native Americans and booze.

We like to believe everyone is perfectly abled and can make the right choices.

I happen to personally know many people are not. That many people no matter how hard they try are so damaged and broken, or the generational abuse so deep.

Every time they will fail. They really can't even do the basic most decent thing and get their cigarettes in the ashtray. Or cook a healthy meal. Even if we provided absolutely everything.

I don't hate them. Don't want to torture them. Don't want to enable them. Or this incredibly stupid system That mass produces them in order to maintain a cheap throw away basic labor pool.

I believe the solution is in acknowledging reality. But that takes power away from kings, and freedom away from the sick.

It is the God, damned truth though.

Its more like a victim pool

[Horza]

These U.S. cities defunded police: 'We're transferring money to the community.' (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund-police-transferring-money-community)

[Kaveh]

This is the most retarded shit I've ever red on here. Bought the war on XYZ hooked lined and sinked.

Yikes.

Enjoy your retirement. Hope don't end up in an ALF or worse. Eat to prepare for your eventual decline and death at the hands of nurse Ratchet and liability law.

Take your meds dude. Neither you nor any other degenerate could ever take anything from me, by force or otherwise. Fantasize about what you think needs to happen without ever lifting a finger to make it reality, but please do take your lithium

[Kaveh]

yeah, it's called "marxism"

You live in a NATO European country (I think) my man, you don’t actually believe this

Why do people think that Sweden has more in common with the USSR or China than it does with America? It doesn’t (and yes, I know Sweden isn’t NATO, and no, I don’t think Zodium lives in Sweden)

[imperiouskitten]

the big doom is coming any second now. then u'll see i was right, about killing every 10th person in the phone book while jacking off. U'll see

[magnetaress]

You live in a NATO European country (I think) my man, you don’t actually believe this

Why do people think that Sweden has more in common with the USSR or China than it does with America? It doesn’t (and yes, I know Sweden isn’t NATO, and no, I don’t think Zodium lives in Sweden)

These U.S. cities defunded police: 'We're transferring money to the community.' (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund-police-transferring-money-community)

[magnetaress]

the big doom is coming any second now. then u'll see i was right, about killing every 10th person in the phone book while jacking off. U'll see

Idk what you are even trying to say. No one is advocating random killings, or killings at all.

The Rs are trying to get people to do it to each other.

The Ds want Skidrows, zoos, prison, and malnutrition to do it.

Kaveh wants poor people to freeze to death in their Texan recliners with a 42oz big gulp at their side.

I personally want to rehabilitate, heal, train, and empower people so that the oligarchy can't keep pushing them around and generating revenue from emergency services and Tax subsidies.

And so they can feed themselves afford their own homes, and run and protect their own community.

[magnetaress]

https://i.imgur.com/rqZ0pqj.jpg

[magnetaress]

If we enabled individuals to take care of themselves it would eventually reduce taxes and the need for government and the money wouldn't be in politics tho.

Lol.

[Kaveh]

You need your lithium. I voted for Biden and most assuredly do not want Texans to freeze to death. Thing is, I’ve already ran 6 miles today and just drank my coffee and am heading in to work. You have done nothing nor will do anything today. I’m simply telling you, and others, to be constructive. Whining accomplishes nothing

[magnetaress]

You need your lithium. I voted for Biden and most assuredly do not want Texans to freeze to death. Thing is, I’ve already ran 6 miles today and just drank my coffee and am heading in to work. You have done nothing nor will do anything today. I’m simply telling you, and others, to be constructive. Whining accomplishes nothing

Congratulations. I was exactly were you were at in 2019. Doing my trail running and running the household like a boss.

I don't really care deeply anymore who people vote for. Don't really like Biden. Trump was a huge bigly disappointment. And I don't expect politicians to solve my problems.

I see others have problems, the state that our country is in and I'm doing step 1.

Offering suggestions and feedback so the 20 year olds can consider solutions instead of buying into the same bullshit praying they win the very rigged election lotto.

My advice if heeded would leed to an overall improvement in the quality of life and illusiory bullshit freedom people seem to value.

Hamburders and chilicheese fries and 16hr shifts at Walmart decrease mobility and you are not compensated for injuries sustained on the job.

Welcome to hell. Where you can't even fight back against your oppressor.

[magnetaress]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

[Kaveh]

You don’t have a job dude, stop playing the victim

[Kaveh]

https://i.imgur.com/c0KWi1V.jpg

[Snortles Chortles]

”capitalism has failed us”
-unemployed poster(s)

[Bardp1999]

How's the office today? Nice view at least

[Snortles Chortles]

home office is great today
i go in when i feel like it
cope

[Jibartik]

https://youtu.be/TCM-aoFCHw8

lol i dont know anything about current events but this was funny.

[Horza]

Trump vows to campaign against 'disloyal' Murkowski. (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/06/trump-lisa-murkowski-2022-474028)

[Cassawary]

https://youtu.be/TCM-aoFCHw8

lol i dont know anything about current events but this was funny.

That's why it's funny.

[Jibartik]

That's why it's funny.

I know enough about them to know that this was funny too hehe

[Toxigen]

https://i.imgur.com/Jkk6OnE.png

[Snortles Chortles]

kek'd

[HalflingSpergand]

R q folks anti mask? Thats awesome

[magnetaress]

No one has given me shit for wearing a mask and when people seem curious or get a little to comfortable I just say I feel like crap and have had a cough. And I don't feel like spreading my funk around and potentially getting grandma sick.

People give me a respectful and courteous distance then.

[Nexii]

No one has given me shit for wearing a mask and when people seem curious or get a little to comfortable I just say I feel like crap and have had a cough. And I don't feel like spreading my funk around and potentially getting grandma sick.

People give me a respectful and courteous distance then.

Everyone here wears masks. We had zero COVID cases today. Hope this helps

[magnetaress]

I pick up forks off the public floor and use them and generally don't give a fuck.

In America we got idiots who'r clearly sick with at least a cold wearing painters masks. Thinking they are hot shit. (Hairspray would get right through from 12 ft away)

Every once in awhile I double up on cloth ones when I feel really crappy. Also got my non-covid normie flu vax this year.

It sucks to have a nasty sore throat and runny nose and achey bones for a few weeks, vs just be sore/tired two days.

I've been sicker in 2020 than I have in the last 8 years and it got really bad right at the beginning of Covid. Still pretty sure I had it early on in the first wave in the US. I would get the Covid vax, but it's a bit of a drive, so I'll just wait.

BTW my mom officially started treating Covid plus patients last month.

I tested negative in the ER last week so, it's unlikely covid is what dropped me.

Eerily reminiscent of the Chinese ppl just falling down and passing out though. That also happened to my mom, and another girl who had close contact. Weird.

[HalflingSpergand]

Why would you think someone would give you shit for wearing a mask? People view one another as a liability, disgusting trash they don't want to share air with. Of course they love your bot ass to wear mask

[Toxigen]

If you're still wearing a mask in March of 2021 you're a fucking dipshit.

Hope this helps.

[magnetaress]

My flowery masks made in China are a fashion statement. I'm wearing them every flu season, and to do the cat litter, or anytime I have to go around people I want to smirk at and get a stupid smile from how bad they are, but feel like just appearing cheerfully professional.

Masks are my friends.

[HalflingSpergand]

Masks are gay.

[Kaveh]

If you're still wearing a mask in March of 2021 you're a fucking dipshit.

Hope this helps.

I wear a mask indoors around others. It’s unfortunate, because I really am handsome

[Jibartik]

I think about the many times I just stared hard at someone, thinking they understood I was giving them a gentle smile, but I was wearing a mask and sunglasses.

[bubur]

i like smilin hard thinking about stuff when im getting groceries so its better this way for everyone

[Kaveh]

i like smilin hard thinking about stuff when im getting groceries so its better this way for everyone

I agree with this, I also don’t like minorities breathing on produce. Ebola scares me way more than covid

[Gwaihir]

I wear a mask indoors around others. It’s unfortunate, because I really am handsome

The revenge of the uglies and fatties

[Tunabros]

biden did nothing so far but kill a bunch of innocent Middle Easterns

https://i.imgur.com/11eR4Gq.png

[Horza]

https://i.imgur.com/TfxQt3z.jpg

[Snortles Chortles]

Masks are gay.

[Cassawary]

Biden, like Trump, embraces the ‘Buy American’ folly (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/10/opinion/biden-like-trump-embraces-buy-american-folly/)

[magnetaress]

Biden, like Trump, embraces the ‘Buy American’ folly (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/10/opinion/biden-like-trump-embraces-buy-american-folly/)

Couldn't get past the Facebook splash page. (Yes, that's an insult.)

[Cassawary]

Couldn't get past the Facebook splash page. (Yes, that's an insult.)

use incognito

[Gwaihir]

who STILL uses facebook? lol

[Horza]

Oklahoma legislator apologizes for 'colored babies' remark. (https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/09/oklahoma-legislator-apologizes-saying-colored-babies-debate/6931814002/)

[G13]

Oklahoma legislator apologizes for 'colored babies' remark. (https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/09/oklahoma-legislator-apologizes-saying-colored-babies-debate/6931814002/)

The other portion is a lot of people don’t know how to register. Not everybody in the community, in the Hispanic and the African-American community, particularly in rural areas that are distant and/or inner city districts, know how to use … know how to get online to determine how to get in line for that COVID vaccination at the Walgreens or at the particular store.

Potato Biden 2/18/21

[Kaveh]

Is not wanting black and Hispanic people to have abortions racist? Or is the objection to the use of the word “colored?”

[Gwaihir]

Do you really want people with the IQ of a potato voting, though?

That's the problem with pure "democracy"; it's mob-rule, and the majority of the mob are sub-80IQ retards who shouldn't be voting at all, offsetting 120+IQ people whose vote should count for double.

To clarify, if you're age 30+ struggling to make ends meet working at Taco Bell, you don't have an opinion that matters, and shouldn't be voting. Because you're voting like a heroin-addicted panhandler flying a cardboard sign at his closest freeway onramp, guaranteed.

[Gwaihir]

Just before my wife and I moved out of san Jose, I saw a homeless asian woman panhandling at the onramp. That's when I knew it was time to get the fuck out of the city. She's got to be the only homeless asian woman bum in the entire country; ultra rare sighting, indeed. My female asian coworker stared in disbelief as I regaled her with the story in the week to follow.

[Evia]

I think it's unfair to assume that just because a person has a low IQ that their opinion doesn't matter. Does their life not matter? Or mean less than yours? I think they're living in this world and have just as much of a right to an opinion as you do. Just because your IQ tests try and discredit their opinion doesn't mean they shouldn't receive the right.

I disagree with a lot of people that I might personally feel aren't intelligent, but that shouldn't discredit them from being entitled to their views and opinions. That's all I'm trying to say.

[Gwaihir]

I think it's unfair to assume that just because a person has a low IQ that their opinion doesn't matter. Does their life not matter? Or mean less than yours? I think they're living in this world and have just as much of a right to an opinion as you do. Just because your IQ tests try and discredit their opinion doesn't mean they shouldn't receive the right.

Actually, it does, because their vote is purely out of self-interest, and drags the entire country down to their level of stupidity.

We can use the excesses of capitalism to shoot for the stars, or we can use it to keep dullards who will never contribute anything meaningful to humanity on life support while they spiral further and further into self-destruction; fielder's choice.

In such a case, the vote doesn't come down to what's best for humanity, overall, rather it comes down to whoever can market policy change in the most palatable trope for the idiot masses to consume, which absolutely doesn't equate to "best".

[zodium]

Actually, it does, because their vote is purely out of self-interest, and drags the entire country down to their level of stupidity.

We can use the excesses of capitalism to shoot for the stars, or we can use it to keep dullards who will never contribute anything meaningful to humanity on life support while they spiral further and further into self-destruction; fielder's choice.

In such a case, the vote doesn't come down to what's best for humanity, overall, rather it comes down to whoever can market policy change in the most palatable trope for the idiot masses to consume, which absolutely doesn't equate to "best".

consciously directing "the excesses of capitalism" to shooting for the stars instead of profit isnt capitalism, it's communism. lmao

[zodium]

your favorite billionaire isnt in the business of shooting for the moon or mars or the stars; they're in the business of keeping dullards like you who will never contribute anything meaningful to humanity on life support while you spiral further and further into self-destruction.

[Nocht]

I'm still lost trying to figure out why half of you are mad af all the time.

[Gwaihir]

I'm still lost trying to figure out why half of you are mad af all the time.

They're addicted to outrage culture. If they get mad that means they're doing something.

[HalflingSpergand]

Haha nice

[Gravydoo II]

I agree with this, I also don’t like minorities breathing on produce. Ebola scares me way more than covid

Like you?? Stay out of the produce section. Didnt you cry about racism like 12 hours ago?? Right?? Look at this fucking piece of shit. Comes in as a fucking immigrant, minority, meritless mooch for how many decades before your first tax payment?? LOL this piece of shit has a lot of nerve, for a guy who looks like a 9/11 hijacker. I noticed you ran from my reply. I must have struck a childhood hurty nerve when i brought up that everyone picked on you after 9/11 and you didnt do shit about it. Always remember he will be racist in one hand then cry in the other when you point out he abandoned his home land where you can marry a 9 year old, legally.

[HalflingSpergand]

Dont worry gravy his racism cant even come close to the true american patriot nazi levels we can achieve

[Kaveh]

Like you?? Stay out of the produce section. Didnt you cry about racism like 12 hours ago?? Right?? Look at this fucking piece of shit. Comes in as a fucking immigrant, minority, meritless mooch for how many decades before your first tax payment?? LOL this piece of shit has a lot of nerve, for a guy who looks like a 9/11 hijacker. I noticed you ran from my reply. I must have struck a childhood hurty nerve when i brought up that everyone picked on you after 9/11 and you didnt do shit about it. Always remember he will be racist in one hand then cry in the other when you point out he abandoned his home land where you can marry a 9 year old, legally.

Man I got you good with that post. Take you seroquel buddy

I really do support masks at the grocery store though. I definitely wouldn’t want your germs on my food. You probably have Hep C from intravenous drug use

[Gravydoo II]

Know your place, son. You cowtow to the whites in power, thats your role. You dont talk down to citizens like that. You shouldnt even address them or make eye contact with them. I wont have immigrants coming here and talking down to natives. Stay in your class, forigner. This is our land, not yours. You're a guest. I'd slap you in the mouth if you spoke in my house like that, guest. You on any watch lists, omar vibes?

I cant help that your country made pedophilia legal, but you could, if you went back.

[Gravydoo II]

Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends being vaccinated for hepatitis A and hepatitis B before traveling to the Middle East, due to it being one of the most common diseases in Iran. Hepatitis A, a liver disease, spread by consuming contaminated food or water, can cause fever, tiredness, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and yellowing of the eyes. Hepatitis B is a contagious virus, transmitted through blood and other bodily fluids. Similar symptoms are seen as with hepatitis A.

In research conducted in 2009, in mid-endemic areas, such as Iran, the lifetime risk of hepatitis B infection is 20-60% across all age-groups. A vaccine was introduced in Iran through a National Immunization Program in 1993, required for all individuals under 18 years old. Despite efforts, hepatitis A and hepatitis B remain common diseases in Iran.

What were you saying, again???

[Kaveh]

your favorite billionaire isnt in the business of shooting for the moon or mars or the stars; they're in the business of keeping dullards like you who will never contribute anything meaningful to humanity on life support while you spiral further and further into self-destruction.

The ethics of allowing a person to be a billionaire doesn’t really advocate for communism. Stalin and Xi have more power, and have done far worse, than Bezos and musk

[HalflingSpergand]

Who hates the iranian immigrant more, white diabetic unemployed can't run a saw or redneck nazi

[magnetaress]

The ethics of allowing a person to be a billionaire doesn’t really advocate for communism. Stalin and Xi have more power, and have done far worse, than Bezos and musk

Without business like Amazon's or Walmart's China wouldn't have global investment or capital.

Where do the plastic bags and cups come from? https://m.made-in-china.com/hot-china-products/Plastic_Bag.html

[zodium]

Without business like Amazon's or Walmart's China wouldn't have global investment or capital.

Where do the plastic bags and cups come from? https://m.made-in-china.com/hot-china-products/Plastic_Bag.html

it's almost like jack ma and elon musk share way more class interests with each other than with the american or chinese worker, to the point that independently acting on those interests is indistinguishable from coordination.

[azeth]

If you're still wearing a mask in March of 2021 you're a fucking dipshit.

Hope this helps.

can you post a link to your LinkedIn profile, I just want to verify that you're a doctor

[magnetaress]

it's almost like jack ma and elon musk share way more class interests with each other than with the american or chinese worker, to the point that independently acting on those interests is indistinguishable from coordination.

https://i.imgur.com/i4MWa36.jpg

P.s. I don't hate or want to kill ppl. I just know how the system works.

[Kaveh]

Who hates the iranian immigrant more, white diabetic unemployed can't run a saw or redneck nazi

Are you the redneck nazi in this scenario? Your dislike of anything doesn’t seem like hatred. That dude definitely hates to the extent of psychosis

[Kaveh]

Without business like Amazon's or Walmart's China wouldn't have global investment or capital.

Where do the plastic bags and cups come from? https://m.made-in-china.com/hot-china-products/Plastic_Bag.html

That’s what a mistake we made. There wasn’t the necessity to admit China into the fold. If we had a necessary demand for cheap labor (we don’t), we could’ve simply gone to Mexico, Indonesia, etc

Nixon and Kissinger will go down as the biggest boneheads in american history

[zodium]

That’s what a mistake we made. There wasn’t the necessity to admit China into the fold. If we had a necessary demand for cheap labor (we don’t), we could’ve simply gone to Mexico, Indonesia, etc

Nixon and Kissinger will go down as the biggest boneheads in american history

The logic of parasitism is based on the maintenance of a minimum profitability level as a financial norm. It serves as a filter on production projects, eliminating even profitable initiatives that do not reach this minimum level. This selection contributes to weakening growth and depressing employment. But it only exists because some of the circuits of capital valorisation offer bigger returns. The forms of unequal exchange between the old capitalist countries and the peripheral economies are crucial in this regard: the insertion of the ex-communist world into the global economy and the abandonment of developmentalist strategies have contributed to feeding the fictitious capital accumulated on the financial markets of the countries of the centre, thanks to the reduced price of imported inputs and to dividends repatriated from abroad. This imperial bonus is the result of a very particular historical conjuncture: three decades during which multinationals have been able to profit from an almost infinite supply of labour, exercise an oligopolistic market power over firms in the global South, and rely on the international predominance of the dollar and – to a lesser extent – the euro.

[magnetaress]

https://i.imgur.com/9R3UChD.jpg

[HalflingSpergand]

Its hard to hate when you are successful rich handsomillionaire

[Cassawary]

Gravydoodoo knock it off

[magnetaress]

https://i.imgur.com/sypCK9i.jpg

[zodium]

In high-income countries, fictitious capital has ceased to be a dynamic factor in accumulation, instead becoming a dead weight on the social reproduction process as a whole. The regulation of financial projections has become chaotic. It proceeds by way of financial and macroeconomic shocks that call for powerful political interventions. The insufficient profits from the molecular process of accumulation-through-production thus make the sovereign state responsible for resolving an ever more acute conflict over distribution, both domestically and abroad. This return of the political is thus paradoxical. The hegemony of finance – the most fetishised form of wealth – is only maintained through the public authorities’ unconditional support. Left to itself, fictitious capital would collapse; and yet that would also pull down the whole of our economies in its wake. In truth, finance is a master blackmailer. Financial hegemony dresses up in the liberal trappings of the market, yet captures the old sovereignty of the state all the better to squeeze the social body to feed its own profits. Is this still capitalism? This system’s death-agony has been heralded a thousand times. But now it may well have begun – almost as if by accident. Alas, we cannot see any sign of the tomorrows bearing the song of emancipation. Since the plutocrats cannot settle for stagnation, they now resort to a strategy of crushing the rest of us. Capital stole people’s hopes. The dead weight of fictitious capital deprives them of what they thought they had won for good.

[Kaveh]

Why can’t communists build a wind turbine without resorting to theft?

[Shourty]

I'm burned out. No more poli ticks for a few more months please.

[Jibartik]

That’s what a mistake we made. There wasn’t the necessity to admit China into the fold. If we had a necessary demand for cheap labor (we don’t), we could’ve simply gone to Mexico, Indonesia, etc

Nixon and Kissinger will go down as the biggest boneheads in american history

wasnt nafta a clinton/democrat thing?

[imperiouskitten]

Its hard to hate when you are successful rich handsomillionaire

This but unironically me

[Cecily]

I'm burned out. No more poli ticks for a few more months please.

[Kaveh]

Political BS really does get old. Anyone own an electric car? I have a Tesla and I hate it. Nothing wrong with it, but it sounds like I’m driving around in a toaster. In contrast, when I fire up my V8 tundra, I feel like the world is full of possibility

[HalflingSpergand]

Gas isnt going anywhere thats retarded. A superduty with an electric engine? A trailer with a electric engine not happening. Electric engines are fuckin lame. diesel will never die. And i gauranteed gas wont either.

I can carry 30k lbs 1500 miles without stopping for fuel see a Tesla do that

[imperiouskitten]

gas is definitely not going anywhere soon and Elon Musk is so cringe that i probably wouldnt buy a tesla just to protest his personality.

although I do want to feel how one drives. i never have yet. I heard on joe rogaine that because it's electric, it is a lot more responsive from foot to wheel-spin. Since the engine doesnt have to spin up and whatnot, the energy for torque is just ready to go right from the battery immediately. And of course I want to try out the self driving.

Is it just the sound you dont like Kaveh? Does it at least feel muscly & responsive? or just a faster prius? :o

[imperiouskitten]

Gas isnt going anywhere thats retarded. A superduty with an electric engine? A trailer with a electric engine not happening. Electric engines are fuckin lame. diesel will never die. And i gauranteed gas wont either.

I can carry 30k lbs 1500 miles without stopping for fuel see a Tesla do that

are u a trucker? :O

[Cassawary]

US secretary of state calls Taiwan 'country' (https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4148761)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday (March 10) referred to Taiwan as a country, a label usually avoided by his predecessors.

At the tail end of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Biden administration's foreign policy agenda, Representative Young Kim (R-CA) noted that Taiwan has served for decades as an "invaluable security and global health partner to the United States." She pointed out that given Taiwan's contributions to the international community and its "strong democratic system," it has earned "a seat at the table like the WHO to share its expertise."

[Jibartik]

American Gaza looking like it's made up of toys r us leftovers

https://i.imgur.com/TOnDIGi.png

[magnetaress]

American Gaza looking like it's made up of toys r us leftovers

https://i.imgur.com/TOnDIGi.png

All that space with poor drainage and no ecosystem or green space for seasonal food production.

Yikes.

I'm of the belief most Americans are too frail to engage in real revolution. Americans would starve without subsidy and supermarts.

[zodium]

All that space with poor drainage and no ecosystem or green space for seasonal food production.

Yikes.

I'm of the belief most Americans are too frail to engage in real revolution. Americans would starve without subsidy and supermarts.

yeah, maoism-third worldism is probably objectively correct revolutionary science

[magnetaress]

yeah, maoism-third worldism is probably objectively correct revolutionary science

I'm honestly not that educated. So. What do you really mean?

Those guys could terraform their little neighborhood without any help at all or force from the state. They would be happier for it if they would on their own.

Their brains are probably tuned into the thetawaves of the news though. Their money and attention gone to political donations or Xbox and weed.

I guess they can't help it, but they could. Maybe. If they could see alternatives.

[Jibartik]

I'm of the belief most Americans are too frail to engage in real revolution. Americans would starve without subsidy and supermarts.

Western people 100% would rather be wage slaves and in debt to a stable economy, than be without electricity.

[HalflingSpergand]

That's not really fair, they are soul farmed and denied basic info from birth.
For instance i would rather not be but i was born into it. Seems simple to leave but it's not

[Jibartik]

That's not really fair, they are soul farmed and denied basic info from birth.
For instance i would rather not be but i was born into it. Seems simple to leave but it's not

Yeah, I mean, would we be happy in the little house on the prary fighting to stay alive? Of course we were then, and we would be if we were stuck having to go back to it.

But we've been convinced that we would be more happy locking ourselves in doors and spending money we dont have on debt we never even saw before it accumulated and dying of depression and anxiety is somehow better.

Somehow we think watching Twitch after a 10 hour work day is somehow more fun than churning butter in the sun with your family.

I think it will take a new frontier like mars for us to see the light though, because you cant convince someone who loves MTV that MTV is stupid.

[HalflingSpergand]

Western expansion on the America was engineered conflict complete with supply chains. (War) if history is true (jews)

[hobart]

wasnt nafta a clinton/democrat thing?

NAFTA was an every living President (at the time) thing except Carter.

There's a famous picture/footage of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, HW Bush, and Clinton walking together at the signing (or some other official thing) of NAFTA.

[Jibartik]

Ok here is the conspiracy hat then:

https://i.imgur.com/Eil5Bym.png

Clinton was the president that mind-f(*cked democrats into becoming conservatives and made NAFTA a reality?

[zodium]

if you think we're gonna be colonizing new frontiers before we build socialism, please consider that under capitalism, we can't even successfully colonize the planet we evolved on.

[zodium]

Ok here is the conspiracy hat then:

https://i.imgur.com/Eil5Bym.png

Clinton was the president that mind-f(*cked democrats into becoming conservatives and made NAFTA a reality?

saying that clintons third way was the democrats selling out the working class in favor of becoming professional-managerial conservatives isnt a conspiracy theory, it's leftism. (actual leftism.) heres a similar critique of obama from the clinton era when he was coming up:

https://i.imgur.com/D7Ro63R.jpg

[magnetaress]

https://i.imgur.com/ftXpTjv.png
https://i.imgur.com/J1wFdXd.jpg
My mind works perfectly.

[Cassawary]

Ok here is the conspiracy hat then:

https://i.imgur.com/Eil5Bym.png

Clinton was the president that mind-f(*cked democrats into becoming conservatives and made NAFTA a reality?

google the 80s election maps, that's why they changed. berniecrats want a salty runback for those crushing defeats.

[azeth]

Western people 100% would rather be wage slaves and in debt to a stable economy, than be without electricity.

I think a lot of superwoke gen-z'rs Don't understand how bad it is outside the US

I ask anyone who criticizes "wage slaves" for enjoying scripted entertainment on carnival cruise ships, to go outside that cruise gate and get a feel for what the world is like outside of the safety that the US provides to you

[magnetaress]

I think a lot of superwoke gen-z'rs Don't understand how bad it is outside the US

I ask anyone who criticizes "wage slaves" for enjoying scripted entertainment on carnival cruise ships, to go outside that cruise gate and get a feel for what the world is like outside of the safety that the US provides to you

Yup. I roamed the village away from the port. Male privileged at the time and people didn't try to kidnap me. P.s. they seemed decent enough.

But. Like. No one knows.

That's why I advocate mandatory military survival training, passing grades required. People just have no idea how those delicious frozen burritos arrive neatly packaged on their doorstep and in their gas stations.

[HalflingSpergand]

Yeah, I mean, would we be happy in the little house on the prary fighting to stay alive? Of course we were then, and we would be if we were stuck having to go back to it.

But we've been convinced that we would be more happy locking ourselves in doors and spending money we dont have on debt we never even saw before it accumulated and dying of depression and anxiety is somehow better.

Somehow we think watching Twitch after a 10 hour work day is somehow more fun than churning butter in the sun with your family.

I think it will take a new frontier like mars for us to see the light though, because you cant convince someone who loves MTV that MTV is stupid.

I'm not convinced that is better. I would like a frontier style life. Just don't know how

[Jibartik]

I am hoping I can be that old guy you see in westerns driving a wagon to his eventual death somewhere in the wilds.

But on mars.

https://i.imgur.com/iLEIn7Y.png

It's crazy to think that kids that are like under 12, I firmly believe, will be eligible to "go to mars" to colonize it for free before they are dead.

If I can go stick a flag in the dirt at 90 Ill be damned if I dont!

[zodium]

It's crazy to think that kids that are like under 12, I firmly believe, will be eligible to "go to mars" to colonize it for free before they are dead.

youre right, it is crazy you think that.

[A Knight]

It's crazy to think that kids that are like under 12, I firmly believe, will be eligible to "go to mars" to colonize it for free before they are dead.

I'm actually concerned about gases like oxygen and hydrogen (Can't remember them.) being used to get to space. Its probably because the fat cats of space have a monopoly in the fuel industry.

But seriously, I think we should use helium 3 and use the fuel of methane from titan, as well as a dyson rings, before we blow resources to colonizing mars that will only last maybe less than a thousand years.

[HalflingSpergand]

No one is going to mars u fuck wit. Nothing goes to mars. Jeez bud look into it a bit would u

[A Knight]

Oh. I have brain damage and I can't read everything from a fake existence. Just read the last post and assumed the conversation.

As I have to measure the scale of levels of popularity scales, on this fake forum, but eh... stuck with say how I honestly feel anyway.

Lose lose situation, take the insult and look normal or be honest to another planet.

[azeth]

Tldr if you're poor and haven't traveled extensively you have no idea what the world is like outside the wonderful umbrella the us provides

[zodium]

Tldr if you're poor and haven't traveled extensively you have no idea what the world is like outside the wonderful umbrella the us provides

the umbrella is made of human bone and skin. it's way metal.

[zodium]

also, unfortunately, no one told capital it can't skin americans for umbrella parts.

[Jibartik]

Based on what I seen change in my life time, I bet if I was born today that I'd be going to mars with as little as a bachelors degree.

When I was 12 the VHS was the hottest new invention. Compared to what we're looking at today, if you took what is the hottest new invention and applied the same growth (same growth that led into the 80s mind you from the 60s and on and on) to today, enlisting in space employment will be as easy as being a tech engineer today.