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Carl said:
Thanks for the kind words, I’ll try harder next time but only because I value the opinion of a total stranger who is completely removed from the conversation.

In fact, I can already feel the change coming on. It’s warm and tingly, washing over me like a blanket that’s made of the deepest, darkest...uh oh, I think I mixed up the heroin and the insulin again. Either way, it’s a good night.

Ps, fuck you.
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Not that what any of what I'm about to say matters and just as you're not interested in my opinion I'm not interested in yours, but your whole performance is sad. It's sad that maybe you had a point to make but couldn't make it, it's sad that a meaningful conversation couldn't happen, it's sad that you've managed to alienate a number of people who align politically with you, it's sad that you've chosen to put this much energy into some dumb shit.

You have less than 50 messages posted. You came into a thread with people who have been part of a community for several years and crapped on the way they were approaching a conversation and an individual because it didn't align with your narrative. Get off your own dick and take a seat.

We all have bad days and your anger and frustration over gun violence and narratives that oppose yours is understandable, but for some reason you would rather scream into the ether, tell everyone else they suck and you're right than actually try to understand perspectives. If you actually gave a damn about making anything better you might try to learn why people believe the shit that they do so that if you really wanted to put energy into changing hearts and minds you could have a reasonable strategy for doing so.

Frankly you're just as full of shit as anyone else and the sooner you figure that out the better the rest of your life will be.
 
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debianlinux said:
Here I was thinking we were trying to see others' sides of things and maybe show others ours. I didn't realize we were trying to win something and create losers out of everyone else.
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I think most of us here have enough life experience to have learned the lesson that when you start trying to separating the winners and losers everybody looses.
 
I am still hoping Carl makes a turn. If Sgt. Slaughter can switch from a Saddam Hussein loving, America hating Heel to a flag waving, Hacksaw Jim Dugan tag team partner Face in the span of one WWF Pay-Per-View event anything is possible.
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*Sorry, I have I spent last few months watching pretty much nothing but old WWF Pay-Per-Views. I see the world only in the terms of pro wrestling now.
 
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Yep. And we keep electing these people. Couple this with the notice that we're already at an elevated risk of energy shortages and power outages this summer when the average temperature is in the 90s. But hey, we got our own power grid that has little regulation!!!

 
Not a huge story nationally but pretty big here in Tacoma. Thankfully the State AG did the right thing and changed these officers. Hopefully the Country will continue holding Police that commit murder to account for their crimes.
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Tacoma Police Charged With Murder In Case Where Black Man Said He Couldn't Breathe

Two of the officers are charged with second-degree murder and another is charged with manslaughter. Manuel Ellis, a Black man, died after he was restrained and said he couldn't breathe.
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This guy nails it. I wish I could quote the whole post. For years, most corporations have been surviving on government subsidies and are no longer profitable. Retailers can't raise prices because consumers, en masse, have very little purchasing power due to stagnant wages, and because retailers can't raise prices, that means they can't raise wages either--which becomes a Catch 22 race to the bottom. The incredible amount of wealth inequality is causing all of this and it's ceasing to work for those at the top--it never really worked for those at the bottom.

I believe our country is in trouble. And it's not about a loss of morality or religion or liberals or conservatives or the current president or the last president. It's about a fundamental problem we have as a nation — a reckless imbalance of wealth.
  • The people at the top have too much and the people at the bottom don't have enough.
Keep it 💯: This is not a philosophical matter of doing what's "right." It's a practical matter of doing what's necessary to uphold and maintain a consumption-based economy.
  • Corporations are hoarding trillions on their balance sheets, cash just sitting idle, largely because there's no such thing as a safe investment anymore.
  • Globally, many bond yields are rising but are still near record lows, meaning investors get compensated next to nothing and they lose money for the privilege.
  • The best high-yield savings accounts are currently paying 0.5% interest, which translates to -3.7% in real yield because of the current state of inflation.
On the other side: Those who aren't asset holders haven't even benefited from the risk-asset inflation that's accompanied housing, medical and education price inflation for the past decade because wage inflation hasn't even come close.
  • Even in the roaring economy that was 2018, 40% of Americans had negative net incomes and were borrowing money to pay for basic household needs.
  • And this trend has only worsened in the years since 2018 and then accelerated at warp speed as a result of the pandemic and policy response.
The bottom line: A consumer economy simply can't function when the consumers are too poor to consume and the wealthy don't want to.
www.axios.com

1 big thing: The state of the world, according to me

This being my last Axios Markets newsletter, I figured I'd break from tradition and tell you what I really think. I'm not anyone important, but I read a lot of reports and I talk to a lot of smart people, so I've learned a thing or two.
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nolalady said:
This guy nails it. I wish I could quote the whole post. For years, most corporations have been surviving on government subsidies and are no longer profitable. Retailers can't raise prices because consumers, en masse, have very little purchasing power due to stagnant wages, and because retailers can't raise prices, that means they can't raise wages either--which becomes a Catch 22 race to the bottom. The incredible amount of wealth inequality is causing all of this and it's ceasing to work for those at the top--it never really worked for those at the bottom.

I believe our country is in trouble. And it's not about a loss of morality or religion or liberals or conservatives or the current president or the last president. It's about a fundamental problem we have as a nation — a reckless imbalance of wealth.
  • The people at the top have too much and the people at the bottom don't have enough.
Keep it 💯: This is not a philosophical matter of doing what's "right." It's a practical matter of doing what's necessary to uphold and maintain a consumption-based economy.
  • Corporations are hoarding trillions on their balance sheets, cash just sitting idle, largely because there's no such thing as a safe investment anymore.
  • Globally, many bond yields are rising but are still near record lows, meaning investors get compensated next to nothing and they lose money for the privilege.
  • The best high-yield savings accounts are currently paying 0.5% interest, which translates to -3.7% in real yield because of the current state of inflation.
On the other side: Those who aren't asset holders haven't even benefited from the risk-asset inflation that's accompanied housing, medical and education price inflation for the past decade because wage inflation hasn't even come close.
  • Even in the roaring economy that was 2018, 40% of Americans had negative net incomes and were borrowing money to pay for basic household needs.
  • And this trend has only worsened in the years since 2018 and then accelerated at warp speed as a result of the pandemic and policy response.
The bottom line: A consumer economy simply can't function when the consumers are too poor to consume and the wealthy don't want to.
www.axios.com

1 big thing: The state of the world, according to me

This being my last Axios Markets newsletter, I figured I'd break from tradition and tell you what I really think. I'm not anyone important, but I read a lot of reports and I talk to a lot of smart people, so I've learned a thing or two.
www.axios.com www.axios.com
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You can have all the products and services you want, if people don’t have enough money to buy them your business sucks.
 
@nolalady

One of the things I have been following in the news lately is inflation. For the first time in decades we have an economy experiencing inflation. Usually this is where the feds would raise interest rates to artificially keep inflation down. But they are not doing it this time around because raising the interest rates would grind the recovering economy to a halt.

Biden also believes that inflation is transitory. Meaning temporary and will level out in about a year from now. But other experts are not so sure. We don't have a playbook or any historical records to look back to when it comes to restarting a economy.

It is expected we will see 10 years worth of inflation this year. And the hope is that inflation over the next 10 years will then be next to none. But this is a big unknown.


Inflation is bad because it only leads to more wealth inequality. All essentials and housing become more expensive. And wages remain stagnant or increase to a much lower degree than prices. This means the low income are disproportionately impacted. It will make life even harder for people with low income and as of right now there are no plans to help them.

Inflation however, will help funnel more wealth to the top 1% and corporations.
 
Dtknuckles said:
The depression and 2008?
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Sure we had a great depression and a recession in 2008. But we didn't stop the economy and then have to reopen it. Stay at home orders, businesses closed during the heart of the pandemic is something that's never happened before.

Basically, they are not sure of the long term effects and what works best and what doesn't work to get us through this. The great depression and the recession were caused by different mechanics and needed different fixes to recover the economy that what we need to do today.
 
I have a political question that might be dumb but I really never understood it

Why is it that with control of the Senate, house and White House the Republicans can still filibuster and stop the Democrats from doing literally anything, but when the situation is reversed the Republicans seem to pass whatever they want?
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
I have a political question that might be dumb but I really never understood it

Why is it that with control of the Senate, house and White House the Republicans can still filibuster and stop the Democrats from doing literally anything, but when the situation is reversed the Republicans seem to pass whatever they want?
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They didn’t get that healthcare Bill through
 
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