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Maggoty

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  • Weimar Republic economy gets Weimar Republic results

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  • Cool, but Dual Income No Kid couples are struggling. That's not in line with the living standard in developing countries much less what people claim the west is like.

  • Weimar Republic economy gets Weimar Republic results

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  • Except you do have to work 60 hours a week if you're working class. And you'll still need food aid.

  • Weimar Republic economy gets Weimar Republic results

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  • Yes. In the US if you're part time you will need multiple jobs.

  • Weimar Republic economy gets Weimar Republic results

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  • That's great. Yay. Why do I need 3 jobs to live here then?

    Oh is it possibly because the prices are higher here too? And most of that wealth is held by a very few people?

    It's almost like you should also look at cost of living and purchasing power and work hours required to meet basic needs.

  • phonetic alphabet

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  • NCD is leaking again. Someone get the 100mph tape.

  • americans are selfish

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  • That way of putting it has always belied the sheer amount of propaganda the rich have poured into making people believe they can be the chosen one to get rich. From scam artists selling get rich quick schemes to syrupy news stories about the kid who dropped out and got rich. Financial news regularly runs stories meant to make people think they're not budgeting hard enough if they can't make ends meet. (spoiler alert there's always a tertiary source of income involved, but it's buried deep in the article.)

    And when things are clearly enunciated, like plans to tax people over 400k, there's suddenly tons of stories about how they're just normal people who can barely make ends meet. They're just like Mr. Fast food worker, they might even have to sell their house if you taxed their stocks! (Just never ask which vacation house that is or how many rooms it has)

    Rather than "copping out" by pointing all this out, I want a counter narrative. Until we get a strong counter narrative people will continue to succumb to this propaganda.

    I almost forgot, the numerous commercials where corporations swear they're a good corporate citizen and you can trust them to have your best interests in mind. While they put all their wrong doing under legal secrecy so people can't even see the problem we need to fix. For example did you know Walmart and Pepsi got caught in a massive price fixing scheme? One that likely extends across most Walmart grocery products and could be partially responsible for our high grocery prices? (Pepsi collaborated to make sure no other store could afford to sell Pepsi products for less than Wal-Mart by charging those stores more if they dropped their prices. This effectively let Wal-Mart set the price floor wherever they wanted.)

    You don't get this stuff on CNN. And it's the stuff that actually impacts our daily lives.

  • americans are selfish

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  • I agree. And the Americans who need help the most do not have the time or energy to put into it. So it's left to the people who do and very few of them actually care about the working poor.

  • The US Torpedoed an Unarmed Ship. Who Are the Good Guys Again? | The Walrus

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  • They aren't the arbiter of what is and isn't a war.

  • The US Torpedoed an Unarmed Ship. Who Are the Good Guys Again? | The Walrus

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  • Yes, that is technically true. It is also completely legal. For reference it is also legal to shoot an enemy soldier in the back as they run away. It is legal to shoot an enemy soldier in any case except where they are clearly trying to surrender, including if they are just laying there unconscious.

    The rules of war allow for far more than people realize. And Again, I'm not trying to let them off the hook. There's real questions about this entire thing being a war crime and about their targeting of bombs.

  • I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone

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  • I loved reading his definition of a war crime. It's basically describing himself at this point, a person sick of mind who is powerful and rich with nuclear weapons. No reasonable leader gets on a social media platform and sends, "Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."

    No reasonable president threatens to destroy an entire civilization.

    It takes a sickness of the mind to justify hitting civilian targets just because they indirectly benefit the military.

  • americans are selfish

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  • Americans are reaching very high levels of political disengagement. Most Americans know it doesn't matter who they vote for. They haven't seen real reforms out of either party, except to make the rich a lot richer. Combine that with the hassle it is to vote in many places and people have just stopped caring unless their personal life gets too bad.

    It's exhausting voting for promises that never materialize or seem to always monkey paw into a way for corporations to suck up all the benefits. People are tired.

    And yeah, it's on purpose. The more disengaged people get, the more the elite can legally rob them.

  • The US Torpedoed an Unarmed Ship. Who Are the Good Guys Again? | The Walrus

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  • Unfortunately what is allowed in war is still pretty brutal. This was a warship and it would be a legitimate target from the moment the war started, without exception.

    Let's focus on the actual war crimes, like the Pentagon redefining "military target" to include destroying energy, food, and fresh water infrastructure because soldiers need to drink water too... Hitting those targets would still be a war crime, the Pentagon is not the arbiter of what is and isn't a military target.

  • Trump officials prepping for ‘nightmare scenario’ at gas pumps: reports

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  • Oh Undoubtedly. I look forward to all the explanations as to why it's Capitalism when we do it and Socialism when Venezuela does it.

  • Trump officials prepping for ‘nightmare scenario’ at gas pumps: reports

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  • They're gonna nationalize our oil aren't they? Required sale to the government at a set rate and then government will turn around and sell into the domestic and international markets to balance prices at our pumps.

    It's about the only option other than stop bombing Iran and that's not happening.

  • Rise and shine soldier.

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  • Hold on I got a thing for that around here somewhere... I think is called a DD214 or something? Oh here's a PT belt that'll work.

  • Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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  • Yup. The US Patent office isn't very good at it's job.

  • Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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  • I got bad news for you. Gabe is human and barring a miracle in medical science; he will die. He's 63, the tables on Age Cohort death aren't kind after 60. (They're brutal after 70) Only 1/3rd of men reach 80.

    This is something we need to be thinking about now. It could easily take 5-10 years to get competitors working.

  • Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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  • Monopolies distort markets even when they act in a pro-consumer manner. For example the credit card companies. A basic credit card is really cheap and easy for the average person to use. All of the fees are actually on the business side, which is why you see businesses that still run on cash only or charge a credit card fee. The credit card network operators, (AMEX, Disc, MC, VISA) are the only option for businesses that want to accept credit cards in the US. You don't see a Debit card fee because it's actually illegal for them to pass along the Debit card processing fee.

    So while the average person with the line of credit is happy about this, the businesses are not. In a normal system you would pay for the service being provided. So the person with the card would be responsible for paying to have that access.

    Steam does this by making their product (the storefront) free to the average person and charging the developers money to use it. While they also effectively own your games. In a system with plenty of storefronts it might be much more common to see downloadable installation files. That's certainly one way in which they've distorted the market. That used to be very common. It doesn't help that EA, GamePass, and some others who've tried to start storefronts have repeatedly tripped over their own feet. Epic seems to be doing it but they're basically using Steam's business model because there's no other choice as long as Steam exerts it's monopoly power.

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    Car faints after seeing gas prices

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  • It's nearly to $7/gal here.

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    Police Illegally Sell Restricted Weapons; Supplying Crime

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    Police Illegally Sell Restricted Weapons; Supplying Crime

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    A Nearly $3 Billion Shortfall in VA Benefits Is Looming. The Senate Has Proposed a Fix, But Time Is Running Out. | Military.com

    www.military.com /daily-news/2024/07/30/nearly-3-billion-shortfall-va-benefits-looming-senate-has-proposed-fix-time-running-out.html
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    U.S. urges China military dialogue despite rebuff to Blinken

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