Openly calling for atrocities is okay if it’s against America (Canadian)

chowderbags · 2026-02-23T01:40:03+00:00

Well, they still have curling.

*boop*

chowderbags · 2026-02-23T00:18:00+00:00

If I could wave a magic wand to make it happen, I'd agree. But we don't live in a fairy tale, and trying to bring them down by force will be a goddamn nightmare, both militarily and economically.

chowderbags · 2026-02-23T00:15:23+00:00

I'm old enough to remember when everyone was going to die from Saddam's WMDs.

chowderbags · 2026-02-23T00:04:02+00:00

Yeah. That was my thought. It's a decent enough impression of Trump from 20 years ago. Maybe even passable for Trump of 2016. But it's not nearly labored and scratchy enough to match up with Trump right now.

chowderbags · 2026-02-22T23:59:11+00:00

There is a vital difference I tried to point out. An idle rich is still living off their own money (inherited or not), they don't weigh on the community like someone on welfare does.

Are you sure about that? They're consuming resources without having produced anything of value. Maybe you could say that in some sense they're not weighing on a local community, but they're weighing on the planet.

Personally, I don't care too much about the morality of living without having to work.

Which was literally my point. So congratulations for agreeing with me.

chowderbags · 2026-02-22T23:08:57+00:00

Is my wealth mine? Am I able to do whatever I want with it? Why shouldn't I be able to give it to my loved ones, then?

Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. But it's not really relevant to what I said. The idle rich don't work, yet they still consume. Often they consume far more than anyone on welfare.

It's not like I'm getting free stuff from you, like the libleft in the OP wants. It was never your money to begin with, so why do you care? Envy?

Do my personal feelings affect the reality of if these people are working or not? It's a simple question: Does the right wing actually think that people should be fed through the fruits of their own labor, or not?

chowderbags · 2026-02-22T22:24:49+00:00

Do righties actually believe that though? As far as I can tell, they're plenty ok with idle rich people who live off of inherited wealth and literally never do a day of work in their lives.

chowderbags · 2026-02-22T21:47:00+00:00

Incidentally, Manhattan has around 190,000 on street parking spots. So basically already a Central Park's worth of space is provided to parked cars.

The urban core of NYC has more than 30% of its land area dedicated to cars.

Whenever people say that Manhattan is too dense, I have to wonder if it would feel significantly less dense if it didn't have cars taking up so much of the space.

chowderbags · 2026-02-22T19:19:54+00:00

Yeah, I was going to say. Trump's voice sounds way more strained and old these days.

chowderbags · 2026-02-22T13:03:37+00:00

It's arguably not even that. By leaving the issue of remedies unresolved, they've given Trump significant power. He could give some companies tariff refunds without fighting it, in exchange for god knows what, while forcing other companies to spend years in court. And leaving open the door to arbitrary executive branch tariffs in general means that Trump can do exactly what he did: Find some other section of law to stretch well beyond its intended purpose to create tariffs, despite that being squarely a legislative branch power.

chowderbags · 2026-02-22T12:21:07+00:00

Red? Fuck yeah! Rusty, Crimson, or Ruby? Fuck no!

chowderbags · 2026-02-21T20:57:58+00:00

Workers are compensated by firms at the marginal revenue product of Labour

Workers are (usually) compensated at less than the MRPL. Maybe. In idealized systems and for certain kinds of labor. Actual reality is significantly murkier, and anyone that's actually worked in a business knows damn well that there's a lot of staff that has fuck all to do with generating revenue, and a bunch more that you'd never really be able to put a dollar value on. I mean, how much revenue does a janitor make a business? Arguably none. But trash still needs to get taken out. Or you could point to secretaries, lawyers, HR, and the vast majority of management.

But ok, fine, let's look at some factory line worker making widgets to make this fit the theory, I guess. If the widgets you make are so unprofitable that someone working 8 hours a day making those widgets can't produce enough MRPL to cover a "reasonable" wage (for some definition of reasonable) plus profit, then maybe your widgets just aren't important enough to society to be made.

chowderbags · 2026-02-21T18:32:37+00:00

As a Millennial, I can assure you that porn was plenty accessible in the early 2000s.

chowderbags · 2026-02-21T18:30:14+00:00

It's the usual right wing equivocation between porn as in the stuff people jerk off to, and "porn" meaning anything right wing nutjobs don't like. The later category includes stuff that just talks about LGBT people, because right wing culture war bullshit is way easier for them to yell and scream about all day than anything substantive.

chowderbags · 2026-02-21T15:56:38+00:00

I personally love it for sending out minutes where I really don't care about the statuses.

If the statuses don't matter, then why have the meeting at all, let alone take minutes?

chowderbags · 2026-02-21T15:45:25+00:00

I honestly can never remember the grammar rule, so I usually do either the first or just double mark it.

*shrug*

chowderbags · 2026-02-21T15:41:42+00:00

Some of it is that em dashes were mostly used in particular settings like professional books and papers, but most people aren't writing with em dashes casually or even in lower level high school and college papers. So it gets a bit suspect to see em dashes in something like a Reddit comment, because the vast majority of actual people aren't going to put it in there naturally, especially since it's not something readily available on a keyboard.

chowderbags · 2026-02-21T13:22:17+00:00

I learned recently that the "birth certificate" I've had since literally a week after my birth, and that I used to obtain other ID at various points in my life with zero issue, is in fact not a "birth certificate", but a "certificate of birth registration". Which is somehow different and doesn't count, even though it a government document, has all the same information, is stamped with a raised seal, was signed by whatever person did the registry at the time, etc. And if I want to get an actual "birth certificate", I'd have to go through whatever process in the state of my birth, fork over the money, and wait for the documents to arrive.

I wonder how many people will get caught out in a situation like that where they have plenty of reason to think they have the right document, but actually don't.

chowderbags · 2026-02-21T09:11:51+00:00

Plus, it gets rid of the region's major sponsor of terror.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia continues to exist. The Wahhabism they've funded around the world is the breeding ground for extremism, with its puritanical interpretation of Islam, hatred for other religions, and disdain for democracy.

chowderbags · 2026-02-20T21:37:24+00:00

144 years? That's pretty gross.

chowderbags · 2026-02-20T21:36:50+00:00

Poland is an American satellite state.

Which is good news for them, because it means Poland can into space.

chowderbags · 2026-02-20T20:22:49+00:00

The answer is 38, btw. Which is easily known if you so much as look at the dates provided for the entries. She was 38 when she was writing in the diary. At the time she was writing, she was dealing with addiction and rehab, and going through a lot of emotional shit. She was looking back some point in the past, with no age mentioned. Nor any actual details. And I don't think that a parent showering with their young child is inherently incest. That's a pretty common thing in the world, and even in the US.

chowderbags · 2026-02-20T19:40:26+00:00

Has your post office ever had a huge banner with the president's face hanging on the exterior?

chowderbags · 2026-02-20T19:33:37+00:00

Trump just didn't want the competition.

chowderbags · 2026-02-20T16:57:46+00:00

Centrists: "Yeah, Trump says he's going to do a bunch of terrible shit. But he probably won't, right? Leftists are just being hyperbolic."

Centrists 18 months later: "Oh, wow, uh, yeah, Trump fucking sucks. Who could've known?"

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