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Con: Never reaching sufficient critical mass to pass legislation on issues you care about

Depending upon how much it’s showing this could be a sign of malnutrition. You can’t get diagnoses on the internet. Visit a doctor if concerned.

As this was at least their 3rd sock puppet account and 4th total, they had a leg up on most noobs

More like ten second TikTok’s. They’ve always for the last few decades been a far broader tent welcoming cohorts that often have directly conflicting views and desires so part of the challenge is that pleasing one often angers another. They try to be all things to all people which makes them weaker overall in fights where a unified front and clear message stated consistently with one voice is required. Even if none of that were true, they also far too often allow the opposition to dictate the narrative bc they lack the same media ecosystem that the right has been building out for years with the help of extremely wealthy benefactors. They’re still around but the reach is small and the messages often lost in the noise. Their message has also coarsened in an attempt to better capture the algorithm you cited.

No. That’s a different phrase. He said something else.

You’re gonna need to grow a thicker skin if you plan to continue engaging here

Helpful advice from the oatmeal

Hence his entry into untraceable crypto

I see what you did there

You’re not wrong that purchasing behavior goes down and the recession self-reinforces thus harming the margins on those businesses and thus their owners, but Ten Oz’ point was different. When markets crash, it’s like a lightning sale on investments and other business. Blue chip stocks and companies that were previously too expensive to buy in bulk are suddenly available for pennies on the dollar since everyone is selling trying to get out of the market. That’s when the big players and whales with enormous reserves come in and scoop them up and when the market inevitably recovers they’re suddenly 10x wealthier than before. Warren Buffett has preached this gospel for years. The best time to buy is when everyone else is panicking and selling… if you can, that is… most people are just tying to find a way to buy dinner and keep the water turned on. For the Uber wealthy, though? Even though quarterly earnings will temporarily be down at Tesla and related companies, you can bet your ass Elon has sufficient reserves to still go on a buying spree during a bad quarter at one of his 7 companies. After all, he ate an almost $20B loss on twitter. He’s working on a different playing board than the rest of us. *there is a risk that since he used Tesla stock as collateral to finance the twitter buy his creditors could call that in if Tesla stock keeps tanking. Should’ve acknowledged that above

Please elaborate. You do not agree that the concepts of rights, freedom, and limitations or conditions are multifaceted and complex. That means you think they are simple, yet here alone in this very thread that premise has been shown to be false. These topics are NOT simple, yet you assert they are. Why?

+1 for the post but especially that last argentum nasal nugget

Poor reasoning and an absence of critical thinking, obviously.

Good luck with the move team, and thanks for the heads up. Side note: Would be lovely if a side benefit of the migration is an improvement around the experiences noted here (fully recognize that's neither the goal nor a guarantee):

You seem to want attention. That generally means you have some internal emotional work that needs doing. Good luck healing. Genuinely.

Say what now?

Post Covid inflation is mostly related to a massive freeze across all supply chains locally as people were not allowed to leave their homes all at the same time that checks were being written to people to help keep them afloat and pay their bills while out of work. It led to a spike in demand since consumers were suddenly cash flush at the same time supply was down and harder to find. This is explained by classic supply/demand curves and is elementary Econ 101. Invoking QE as an explanation is absurd and ideological and is a bit like concluding there are ghosts in your house because you hear a creaking noise.

Society requires a balance and while personal rights shall be protected they must be constrained in context of good for the greater whole. Where those thresholds should be is exactly what political discussion and legislative debate is intended to focus upon, not whether someone is woke.

And also wrong in several circumstances, such as when the economy is sluggish or shrinking. It’s not even just theory. It’s proven out time and again throughout history. Evidence shows your point to be wrong. In those situations of slow activity QE or printing it gives a noninflationary boost to the economy and doesn’t dilute the money supply since it’s essentially a zero sum asset swap of bonds. Your position is childish and ignorant and you may as well be expressing it with crayons on construction paper given its lack of precision and accuracy. Did you know it was also “obvious” that a brick would fall faster than an apple?

It also allows them to control the “market” wherein exceptions are granted to supplicants while anyone showing opposition continues to be shutout. Same is happening with tariffs actually. Only those who kiss the ring and pay the corrupt bribe get to play.

Have you ever looked at their HR data? Your bias is blinding, both of us it seems

Depends on which half you ask

He’s already pulling federal funding for those who had any protests in the last few years (like over Israel’s role in Gaza), and is canceling student debt relief for anyone engaged in “improper activity and serious crimes” which they’ve defined as including support for diversity and DEI.

Nearly every major human civilization grew around water sources as a method of helping agriculture, trade, and commerce. Given the likelihood of living near large bodies of water, pretty much every one of them has been hit by devastating floods at some point (even many points) in their history and those stories get sung down the generations. Flood myth is are common and easy to explain. You I’m sure know this, just jumping off your comment. It’s harder to find a civilization without a flood myth than to explain the origins of them.