thisorthatorwhatever

@thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world
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Why nine barrels?

As with all elections. The youth don't come out, but the elderly do. Elections are decided by retired people.

Interesting to learn so much about how Fascism works, because of Trump. Making crazy statements, as a type of blind loyalty test is instinctual for fascist leaders. Alienates his followers from normal people, forces them to believe in even crazier things.

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It's like the 80s all over again; Neo-Nazi's, bad adult VHS movies, drug epidemic, Trump.

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Haha, Trump increased his shares to 1 Billion shares, from 78 million. Squeezig everyone else out.

Also, Truth Social values itself at $4Billion, LOL.

It seems nothing here smells right, from the valuation of the company to somehow Trump declaring he has 1 billions shares of the company.

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If you do enough crime, it's too hard to prosecute because no one knows where to start?

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40 years of a recession will do that to a society. An entire generation fucked.

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In a years time, will learn that rich billionaires like Elon Musk are propping up this stock. Think of all the speculators playing this stock because it's so volatile.

This is just dumb, chat bots are the dumbest of technologies.

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Teenage girls are psychotic, getting into fights with a trans kid and beating them to a pulp. How many psychotically violent teens are in schools?

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39 minutes...that's really troubling. It's not like 1 song or 2 short songs, to take a few impromptu questions as people filled out. That's almost an hour of some sort of severe breakdown.

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The irony of not being able to spiral downward, when spiraling downward.

Exactly. Where will they move to? Most older people want to stay in the neighborhood that they grew up in. It's not like an 80 year old will be selling their house in suburban Long Island to find a cheap room in rural Alaska.

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Interest rates were raised to kick people in the teeth, the Federal reserve says that it needs to keep kicking people in the teeth for a few more months.

Economists are saying that people are not being kicked in the teeth.

Logicians everywhere are banging their heads on their desks, as people are both being kicked in the teeth, and not kicked in the teeth.

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Interesting to see what happens, if he moves his companies to Texas. Texas is very rich, he'll just be another large company in Texas and nothing special. Many companies register in Delaware because of the lacks tax laws. I bet he won't find what he is looking for in Texas; a blind cult following.

"...anarchists looking to consolidate power...", they don't even know what anarchism means. Was this a dumb AI drivel content? Reads like it.

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He literally pleaded 'non-contest' to being a racist, when investigating for bias in his slum rentals. https://www.newsweek.com/fair-housing-acts-50th-anniversary-look-back-investigation-trump-familys-879437

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SCOTUS asks 'why are you hurting such a fine company, don't they have a right to sell tickets they way they want to, FREEDOM'.

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At the very minimum ranked ballots.

Democracy is already broken, the popular vote winner doesn't get to be president if they are Democrat, unless the margin is very large.

I guess it's cheaper to use low wage National Guard members, than to hire more transit workers.

We know why the U.k. slipped into recession...Brexit.

Businesses have already achieve what they wanted after the fall of the USSR, to establish themselves in Russia. They don't care about human rights. War is a good money maker.

It's done from time to time. It's to lower the export value of goods. A country prints a lot more money. Say Almeria wanted to sell more cars to England.
Currently an American car is worth $30,000USD and $30,000USD can also buy 2 motorcycles from England (£‎24,000) .

If the world is flooded with more USD, then the person from England can still buy the American car for $30,000USD but the American can now only buy 1 English motorcycle, as the value of USD has fallen to British Pounds.

Great if you're English and buying an American car, bad if you're American and want to buy an English motorcycle.

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You're still advocating individual car ownership as a sustainable future...buses, trams, trolleys, LRT, trains. 6000lbs (2200kilos) just to get a few groceries is over kill.

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...and you've been recruited into the Crusades. God speed holly warrior, may you strike the infidels down.

"firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations. In this model, a larger supply of older workers and declining economic growth restrict younger workers’ access to higher-paying roles and widen the age pay gap in favor of older workers." https://www.nber.org/papers/w32340

Another bullshit article spouting the same bullshit "Expand Career and Technical Education: Increase investment in vocational schools and CTE programs that provide hands-on learning and practical skills. Studies show that boys who attend technical high schools can see earnings up to a third higher. These programs prepare students for high-demand careers in trades like electrical work, plumbing and carpentry."

It's all about creating good worker bees.

What is needed; 1)Free universal healthcare for all people, not dependent on anyone's job. 2)Housing for all homeless people. 3)Funded food banks.

What is needed for education: 1)Better funding.

What is needed for the lower middle class: 1)Laws that allow for unionization. 2)Nationalization of many of the key industries such as railways, ports, hospitals. 3)Insurance such as home and auto through public government bodies. 4)A national, public, bank that has a high interest saving's account and no bank fees.

This misses an important point. Cities like Chicago and Miami compete globally, against places like Berlin and Sao Paulo. Smaller regional centers, like Oklahoma city, and Des Moines are ruled by their own elite and are not concerned by international affairs.

The wealthy in smaller regional centers don't have the ear of the Federal government, but they do employ most people in the local area, so locals are tied to their success. Locals also rely on them for donations to local hospitals, charities, and sporting clubs.

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1910 machinery starts to transform farming, killing small subsistence farms.

1920 factories in large towns start draw labor of off small subsistence farms

1930 cheap cars make it easier to travel great distances, small towns start to decline

1930-50s telephones, refrigerators, radios and TVs allow people to live even greater distances apart

1970s new pesticides allow for an even greater mega-farms, and fewer family farmers

1980s Free trade kills off most industrial jobs in small towns

1990s collapse of USSR means rush of cheap engineering labor, depreciates well paying technical jobs

2000s reinvestment into oil fracking and other oil extraction methods causes dutch-disease (taxes come from oil, so little interest in industry)

2010s spike in cheap synthetic drugs rolls through rural America

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A military takeover of the cities would last about 20minutes, if that, it's against the HOA rules.

What happens when the wealthy home owners see their property values drop, because the army is on every corner, they'll start calling their political reps.

This is a childish fantasy, the highest real estate values are in cities, the wealthiest people have homes in cities. It is a fantasy of the Republic base, that tends not to live in large urban centers.

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https://youtu.be/1tfK_3XK4CI?t=52 As of this moment they're on double secret probation!

And jobs are so stable, and give great benefits.

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The 'one person, one piston', rule is amazing.

The car industry, and regulations around cars need to rewritten. Small 1 cylinder cars need to be sold legally.

Many families I know would be happy using a golf cart for 90% of their needs. Leaving the big car in the garage for the 1 time a month they drive somewhere far, or in very bad weather.

The person that sewed your jeans makes $2 an hour, the electrician the comes to your house makes $200 an hour. This is 2 orders of magnitude in difference.
Our world view becomes skewed.

If 1/7000 kids are the product of incest, I'm guessing that 1//500 have been lied to about their biological father; looking at you royal family of England.

Intelligent design takes all 20 seconds to explain, 5 seconds if you talk fast.

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It's worth as much as the Saudis are willing to dish out bribing Trump, period.

I wish that misuse of charity funds, and running a fraudulent University, verdicts where more in the spot light.

We are not a very reflexive species.

Pulling out millions of tons of fish from the Oceans is not sustainable. People don't care. If they don't see it, they don't even think about it.

We willfully blind ourselves in any way we can.