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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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rufus said:
Not all. Most are just little children throwing temper tantrums til mommy and daddy relent and let them have their way.

Best to ignore the tantrum until they cry themselves out. And then the next tantrum starts.
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Last time we let them cry themselves out, 600,000 Americans died.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Last time we let them cry themselves out, 600,000 Americans died.
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No, those people were different. They weren't pitching fits every three or four days about outrages that they make up in their heads. Those folks were true believers.

The majority of these MAGA crybabies are just undeveloped adolescents. "Waaah I don't like that!!! Whaah, I don't want that!!!!!"

Not to say there isn't a significant number of violent and dangerous extremists among their number.
 
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The downside of democracy is if a critical mass of the population are failures, failure is the appropriate representative governance.

Florida is, weirdly, proof that democracy works. If 51% of the population believes in a special needs delusion, or a vicious ideology, or, as in this case, both, then that's what becomes law.
 
Kepler said:
The downside of democracy is if a critical mass of the population are failures, failure is the appropriate representative governance.

Florida is, weirdly, proof that democracy works. If 51% of the population believes in a special needs delusion, or a vicious ideology, or, as in this case, both, then that's what becomes law.
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exactly. It's why education is on par with feeding the population in terms of importance. One is immediately fatal. The other takes generations but it creates a far more dangerous monster.
 
rufus said:
No, those people were different. They weren't pitching fits every three or four days about outrages that they make up in their heads. Those folks were true believers.

The majority of these MAGA crybabies are just undeveloped adolescents. "Waaah I don't like that!!! Whaah, I don't want that!!!!!"

Not to say there isn't a significant number of violent and dangerous extremists among their number.
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Actually it was more similar than you know. The South took everything as an assault on them and played up false grievances all the time.
 
bronconick said:
Half of the culture wars boil down to older people being very upset that products and services are no longer being marketed to their generation. Companies care much more about appealing to a 22-year-old than they do a 70-year-old.
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This actually makes a lot of sense when you think of it from a marketing perspective. Looking back on a lot of "changes" in my perspective absolutely fit this mold.
 
ticapnews said:
Correction: 365,000 Americans and 290,000 traitors died.
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I would not have guessed more Union soldiers died than traitors. Grant really did just roll those bones.

50,000 civilians also died which TBH is an excellent ratio. God only knows what the Ukraine ratio is. Might be 1:1 or worse.
 
Kepler said:
I would not have guessed more Union soldiers died than traitors. Grant really did just roll those bones.

50,000 civilians also died which TBH is an excellent ratio. God only knows what the Ukraine ratio is. Might be 1:1 or worse.
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About 200,000 of those Americans died as a result of disease, "only" 110,000 as a result of combat.
 
ticapnews said:
About 200,000 of those Americans died as a result of disease, "only" 110,000 as a result of combat.
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Makes sense. IIRC 10x the number of people died in the Thirty Years War from famine, exposure, and disease caused by war than actual combat.
 
From a famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on course for a spectacular crash
At the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Gotham) was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck at home with some cash in his pocket, worried about his family, armed with only the vague notion that people were making heaps of money on something he—despite a degree in economics—didn’t entirely understand. Lured in by the promise of taking power from banks, possibly improving democracy, and sure, a touch of FOMO, McKenzie dove deep into blockchain, Bitcoin, and the various other coins and exchanges on which they are traded.
But after scratching the surface, he had to ask, “Am I crazy, or is this all a total scam?” In Easy Money, McKenzie enlists the help of journalist Jacob Silverman for a caper and expos? that points in shock to the climactic final days of cryptocurrency now upon us. Weaving together stories of average traders and victims, colorful crypto “visionaries,” Hollywood’s biggest true believers, anti-crypto whistleblowers, and government agents searching for solutions at the precipice of a major crash, Easy Money is an on-the-ground look at a perfect storm of 2008 Housing Bubble-level irresponsibility and criminal fraud potentially ten times more devastating than Bernie Madoff.
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I figured it out without investing a dime. I don't have a degree in economics and I am relatively dumb. It's kind of how I knew in 2006 that the worth of my home was vapor.

https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Money-C...en+mckenzie+crypto+book&qid=1681648953&sr=8-3

Book looks interesting though.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
I figured it out without investing a dime. I don't have a degree in economics and I am relatively dumb. It's kind of how I knew in 2006 that the worth of my home was vapor.

https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Money-C...en+mckenzie+crypto+book&qid=1681648953&sr=8-3

Book looks interesting though.
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Having an economics degree myself, and, more importantly, having attended SCSU, I can tell you that economics students are mostly average people who got bored with business school classes.
 
MissThundercat said:
Ultra Right Dad's swill: brewed by Goose Island, who is owned by AB-InBev.
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Aha! The other Chicago facility with brewing capability was Heinekin owned, but all signs pointed to Goose Island.

Hilarious that the ultra Right Wing beer is brewed in one of the bluest cities in the nation by the company the RWers are trying so hard to avoid and can't.
 
Fun fact, Goose Island's brewers fits 100% with RW'ers attitudes: as the labor tried to unionize just prior to the pandemic, but Goose Island retaliated illegally with union busting and laid everyone who tried to unionize off.
 
aparch said:
Fun fact, Goose Island's brewers fits 100% with RW'ers attitudes: as the labor tried to unionize just prior to the pandemic, but Goose Island retaliated illegally with union busting and laid everyone who tried to unionize off.
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Surly did the same thing here.
 
"You said 'Hamilton' twice."

"I like 'Hamilton.'"

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