Wait, so the July jobs report that added a miniscule 70k jobs is actually good news, based off of April income numbers for only "native born" Americans, however they track that?
Lotta qualifiers and mix and match, but I hear they've got new numbers people in charge now anyways
the slavish insistence on treating their idiocy as a reasonable counterparty in a discussion is maddening. It's not """being equitable to both sides""" - it's equivocating alchemy and chemistry. One is bullshit fantasy and one is hard science.
It was SO GOOD back when COVID was hitting in Feb 2020 and President Trump fought against nation-wide testing because if we had no positive tests then we had no pandemic!
It's not like our president has a history of running whatever he's in charge of into the ground and then moving on to the next thing. It's hard to predict how a failure will happen, given the variety of unnecessary risks and stresses on the "free" market system, but at this rate there's not gonna be any money left for consumers to consume and participate in capitalism
My family had a beloved Volvo 240, my sister claimed and destroyed every single front frame assembly from Pick n Pull in San Antonio learning to drive it lololol. What a great car to learn how to work on cars
Small businesses owners are the lifeblood of any fascist movement. They always fall for the lie precisely because they think they're temporarily embarrassed oligarchs/billionaires, only to get tossed on the pyre with the rest of the rabble.
The 1930s budding reich under Hitler enjoyed broad support from small businesses owners that got him his seat and power, only to get gutted or consumed by state-sponsored cartels ran by the old money ruling class
Private funding is always obsessed with growth above all else, even business model sustainability.
When your only goal is growth, and you don't give a shit about outcomes for the people consuming your product/service, you're gonna run that enterprise into ground and ruin everything that made it successful in the first place. It's half the reason I have a career - cleaning up that mess of bad foresight is a very very reliable means for finding work and engagements
Discussion is much more active in other threads where posting facts and discussing them is less likely to cause crashouts.
But seriously, maxwell getting transferred to jail in aggyland is just too fuckin absurd. It's completely ridiculous how the president is protecting this child sex trafficker, but even talking about it too rude for polite company
The qanon crowd exists BECAUSE they lack the curiosity to look critically. Of course they were unaware of empirical facts that were easy to look up. If they weren't, they wouldn't be qanon
Unfortunately, the conflation is intentional by the fascists. It is a means to preempt discourse and discussion on the topic, and ultimately control the dialogue.
It's why any criticism of Israel is met with accusations of antisemitism
Bro, the shareholders would NOT accept a "not for profit" use of their money. Don't you know they're entitled to consistent quarterly growth at all costs?
Really, it's just the COVID shock that's fucked us so badly. Of course, everyone taking the opportunity to goose margins and stock up for tariff impact is great for inflation too
That's the most awful thing about the holocaust. It was completely legal under German law. They went to extreme lengths to comply with (or change) the law to remove any potential sources of dissent to their genocide.
The Wannsee Conference was just nine years after Germany legalized discrimination against Jews. Timeline-wise we're creeping up on that first mile marker pretty fast.
rarely non-sequitur, apologies for rubbing you the wrong way across a couple threads it seems. In a thread about climate change, tearing out a rose garden to replace with a gaudy ballroom feels pretty emblematic of the Presidential™ vibe