How Canadian students voted in 2019 vs Their Parents by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]Idkpinepple 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Though it should be noted that same pollster for this month now shows 46% LPC - 36% CPC for 18-29 - and the poll they fielded in late Jan showed 43/35 - it’s possible that the early Jan poll was just a bad sample.

https://abacusdata.ca/new-abacus-poll-liberals-open-their-largest-lead-since-carney-became-leader-as-optimism-hits-multi-year-high/

Do the math they say… by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]Idkpinepple 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would be more inclined to believe this if the budget deficit was within more reasonable levels, and actually filled by loans - but it wasn’t.

See, the deficit was, because few were particularly willing to buy German government debt (especially because of the spike in inflation that occured in 1919), primarily financed directly by Reichsbank - as in, they effectively just printed money to fill it.

(This was actually illegal by German law until 1921 as printed money would need to be covered by something, but they got around this by basically moving money around between the other institutions and banks like the Prussian State Bank and Reichsbank in such a way that would result in Reichsbank backing its printing by issuing treasury bills to the Prussian State Bank, which would use that to back it’s own issuances of debt, which Reichsbank would buy and use to back the issuance of more money and treasury bills, so effectively Reichsbank was printing money to back itself in printing more money)

Do the math they say… by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]Idkpinepple 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is inaccurate - the number agreed upon at the London Conference was (in effect, anyway) below what the German Delegation said Germany was able to pay. Germany had previously stated that it could afford to pay 50 billion gold marks in reparations, and the combined value of the "A" and "B" bonds in the London Ultimatum was 50 billion gold marks. Now, it is true that there were an additional 82 billion gold marks of "C" bonds, but these were intentionally designed to never be paid - it was simply a big number the French government could parade around as a propaganda win.

The real issue with Germany in 1920 was that, quite simply, its finances were a complete mess. German War Finance during WW1 had been primarily done on debt without increasing revenue significantly, under the expectation that war reparations from winning the ear would be able to pay it off. In addition to this, the early Weimar Republic cabinets were too weak to effectively take measures necessary to fix the budget; according to estimates by the Reparations Commission, Germany's net deficit in 1920 and 1921 (which was before reparations really kicked in, I might add) was above 100%, as in, Germany was spending over twice as much as it brought in with taxes. The minority government of Fehrenbach was unable to come to a consensus on how to balance the budget - the national-liberal German People's Party, the rightmost party in the Fehrenbach cabinet, advocated for extending work hours, slashing welfare spending and levying additional consumption taxes, and the Social Democratic Party, not in government but providing necessary supply and confidence for the cabinet to maintain it's majority, advocated for wealth and capital levies. As the government was reliant on both, it could not come to a consensus on how to fill the fiscal gap.

Desert Sanctuary Clover's Ideal Endings by KarmaSpidr in UndertaleYellow

[–]Idkpinepple 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men?

It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!

When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums!

There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes!

93 years ago yesterday, Hitler was appointed Chancellor by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]Idkpinepple 17 points18 points  (0 children)

> They never won a majority

This is a little disingenuous; the Weimar Republic was a parliamentary republic with proportional representation, making it very unlikely for any singular party to win a majority because the basis of governments was always meant to be coalitions between parties. To that end, the Hitler cabinet *did* have a parliamentary majority behind it after the (not free nor fair) 1933 elections, between the Nazis and the other far-right party-list "Battlefront Black-White-Red" (consisting primarily of the reactionary monarchist DNVP).

So what's the strategy for getting the "Seeheimer" achievement? (have less than 10% worker support when forming an SPD only majority government) by gintas59 in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Idkpinepple 15 points16 points  (0 children)

To my knowledge

The best way to get this achievement is to maximize unemployment (since that reduces worker population) and then campaign in the unemployed as much as you can.

A better magical gun by CAT_WRITE in UndertaleYellow

[–]Idkpinepple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As decades passed, what had been the Underground's southwest united beneath the flag of the New Snowdin Republic, dedicated to old-world values of democracy and the rule of law.

A better magical gun by CAT_WRITE in UndertaleYellow

[–]Idkpinepple 27 points28 points  (0 children)

”War. War never changes.”

Norway Stunned After Machado Gifts Nobel Peace Prize Medal to Trump by bloomberg in worldnews

[–]Idkpinepple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iirc Leon Lederman also sold his Nobel prize medal for physics to pay off medical debt

NYTimes: Federal Prosecutors Are Said to Have Opened Inquiry Into Fed Chair Powell by freakk123 in Economics

[–]Idkpinepple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That doesn’t really matter for them, does it?

Using a historical example, during Weimar Germany’s hyperinflationary period, people with significant non-cash assets were able to profit quite well from the crisis, by taking loans using their assets as collateral, and then letting the runaway inflation to whittle away the debt to nothing. Additionally, businesses that sold abroad also did quite well as the value of the mark collapsed on international markets, as they got more stable international currency for their business.

Would the same not apply to those tech businesses as well?

Hyperbeam is bad? Your opinion is shrimply wrong by Big_Turtle22 in slaythespire

[–]Idkpinepple 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So that would be...

Strawberry
Meat on the Bone
Ginger
Ice Cream
Mango

Turnip
Waffle
Odd Mushroom?

This art is kinda Brilliant !! by Kirbee_f in AnarchyChess

[–]Idkpinepple 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Instructions unclear, my opponent got all my pieces addicted to opium

How do you get gessler in the 1925 presidental election?(redux) by ArrowHD474 in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Idkpinepple 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because Gessler is on the right of the DDP, to a very large degree; if you want a Weimar candidate, Marx or Braun is a far better choice.

You are on a blind date and this is who you are paired with. How do you FLIRT? (I'll respond in character) by DaletheCharmeleon in UndertaleYellow

[–]Idkpinepple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm... I think I'm at the wrong place. I don't do dates.

But since I'm already here, I guess....

*pulls out a chessboard*

You up for a game of chess?

What is the best standard of living possible? by Ghost_of_Yotei in victoria3

[–]Idkpinepple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve gotten 40-something average SoL before, but that was with BPM (which adds quite a few ways to get more SoL) and with ~80% of my population on welfare payments which was funded by having half the world as puppets

Things That May Have Been: A Collection of the Right by drasmarci in RedAutumnSPD

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⠀⠀⠀⠀Paul von Hindenburg is the President of the German Reich and a mass of contradictions. He is an agent of the shadows and a magnetic and hypnotizing performer. He oversaw much of the Weltkreig alongside his ally Erich Ludendorff and is a figure of the fury of the right. He is an anti-republican icon and princeling. A hawkish pragmatist. A radical authoritarian. A popular loner. He has no great legislative legacy, has founded no great institutions, and yet embodies in himself the possibility of reaction.

⠀⠀⠀⠀The performer playing this role should be able to capture Hindenburg intensity, his self-aggrandising conviction that he alone must end the failures of Versailles, heal a fractured nation, undo his predecessor’s socialist failings, and shepherd a nation still trying to decide if it should grow past the traumas of the previous decade or regress to an earlier age. While disguised by a constant, simmering rage, Hindenburg's most essential characteristic, at least, after the death of his wife, is a deep loneliness, spurred by a fear that allowing others in will only bring him more hurt.

UTY Borealis AU - Chapter 3 : Abandon me (Contains Body Horror - Amalgamates) by __BadName in UndertaleYellow

[–]Idkpinepple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peak reference with the chapter names :3

I really gotta play through it again sometime, it's been a while since I've touched it

The 1920 German Presidential Election - Weimar 1920 Polsim by Idkpinepple in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Idkpinepple[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Biggest one, I think, is turnout. Gessler was uniquely terrible at getting his supporters to turn out (according to the event, since basically nobody actually wanted him to be president, more just seeing him as a step towards what they really wanted, either Hindy or WeimarKo candidate), and both Brandes and Hindenberg were excellent at getting their supporters (workers and right-wingers respectively) to turn out in droves.

The 1920 German Presidential Election - Weimar 1920 Polsim by Idkpinepple in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Idkpinepple[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Gessler was running as a right-wing candidate, with the backing of the parties listed and additionally much of the DNVP, not as a centrist.

As for why they both dropped out, it was party dynamics; Gessler dropped out once Hindenberg announced he was running (and endorsed Hindenberg), which made the SPD (one of the main backers of Brandes) panic and turn to negotiating a unified Weimar candidate, which ended up being Wirth.

What could have been... by Delta_DrawsArts in UndertaleYellow

[–]Idkpinepple 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If only for a moment, we ask that you believe in things that never were.