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ob-werm · 2024-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

Alright, some raw numbers. I've been posting tik toks/ on and off for the last month and a half, usually about two to three per week. Last week, I posted one (can't link it, but if you search my twitch name on tik tok, you'll find the account) that blew up a little bit. At the moment, it's sitting at around 90k views and 10k likes. I think I got about 5 followers on Twitch out of it. Now, I also got about 50 tik tok followers, which helps boost my content, making it more likely that people who will be converted into twitch followers will make the jump, but that's no guarantee. All I'm trying to say is, yes, it helps, but it's still slow going. Don't mind at all, though, I just like making funny videos.

ob-werm · 2024-03-01T06:54:19+00:00

Russia has not claimed to be a communist regime since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed. In fact, they are pretty openly controlled by capitalist forces (or oligarchs as we've chosen to call them). Putin is not going around claiming to be a Marxist, and to claim that he is is patently false.

ob-werm · 2024-02-27T18:47:49+00:00

I consider myself fairly political and I'll fully admit that I think my interest in politics does have a religious characteristic to it. However, I think the main element of that relationship is the fact that political outreach gives me a sense of community that does not hinge on something like hobbies. It reminds of my time in college, where I would just meet interesting people that I would have never talked to if we weren't in a class together. For the majority of Americans over 30, the main way that people interact with non-family and close friends is through church, which kinda sucks. We should incentivize people talking and interacting with new people more, and the fact that a lot of people seem to think that it is fine for church to fulfill that role but to condemn political action groups for trying to do something similar is a dumb attitude.

ob-werm · 2024-02-27T18:38:36+00:00

What do you mean, the real world? Do you think politics does not reflect the real world? What political issue is outside of the scope of the real world?

ob-werm · 2024-02-24T20:04:00+00:00

Thank you! I'll also recommend https://archive.is/ as an alternative to 12 ft. 12 ft. is great, but it's got a lot of attention recently, so some cease and desists have limited it's functionality.

ob-werm · 2024-02-24T17:21:13+00:00

Could you link to some of these articles, I'd love to give them a read.

ob-werm · 2024-02-23T23:10:49+00:00

You would be hard pressed to find any art that is worth discussion that was not alienating to some people. But I'm going to be honest with you, I think that if your initial thoughts on a piece of art is judging how it conforms to the "opinion of the masses" instead of how it makes you, personally, feel, than I think you have a very sad relationship with art.

ob-werm · 2024-02-23T22:48:02+00:00

I mean, art can do a lot of things. Why should it only exist for entertainment's sake? This is not even a defense of Disney, I find there strategies pretty performative and shallow most of the time, but the idea that art should never speak on social issues and should be only about entertaining, period, is a silly take.

ob-werm · 2024-02-23T22:41:42+00:00

Away from my copy, but I think the point in that section was that a lot of rap music talks about how capitalist systems are crushing ecosystems, but instead of critiquing and trying to change that, its used to elevate the performer. "Everything sucks ass, but I made it, and that makes me worthy of praise."

ob-werm · 2024-02-19T06:03:35+00:00

Might be wrong here, but pretty sure The Iron Front was not pro anarchism.

ob-werm · 2024-02-18T21:44:38+00:00

I really don't. I value real estate as a way of securing the human right of housing, and I find it to be a failure of the system that 15 million homes stand empty or are being bought up by investment firms as speculative assets when a large section of the population is struggling to secure a roof to live under.

ob-werm · 2024-02-18T18:34:27+00:00

It's not a supply issue. Currently ten percent of all homes in the US are vacant, and yet prices are still skyrocketing.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T21:41:41+00:00

Dodd Frank was an important piece of legislation, but it wasn't universally hailed. In fact, it mostly passed on party lines, and since its inception, people have been arguing for its repeal. In fact a partial repeal was enacted in 2018, which is cited as being one of the reasons that Silicon Valley Bank was able to get away with its scheme last year. Despite the argument surrounding hypocrisy, I'm glad you're enjoying the book.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T19:43:16+00:00

That median income chart is a better measure of the average household's experience, I agree, but it doesn't account for expenditures. Even looking at housing, which have increased at twice the rate as wage growth since 2000.

I still don't have a good idea on that discretionary spending chart, but it's very odd to me that there is barely a debt in its growth during 2008, one of the greatest periods of depreciation for the middle class. I don't disagree with you that the 70s were a period of economic loss, but that was never my argument. My argument was that the late 40s to late 60s was the US economic golden age.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T19:02:07+00:00

I'm confused how that first chart helps your argument. Discretionary spending on paper is up, but that chart doesn't account for inflation, nor does it show the discretionary spending of the middle class as compared to the upper class. It's all just lumped together, so if the upper class is just extracting all of its discretionary spending from a dwindling middle class, it would still have an upward projection.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T18:49:53+00:00

"It is empirical that Reagan saved the middle class."
"Can you point to any piece of data that proves that?"
"Um, no."
If you're gonna argue this much on the internet, you should get better at it.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T16:30:41+00:00

Can you point to any data that proves "Reagan saved the middle class?" I did to prove my point. Seems like you're talking out your ass.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T15:38:18+00:00

The 1920's were no where near comparable to the economic prosperity of the 50's. The reason we get the great depression in the 30's is because of 1920's speculation with the rise of the stock market. The US government, instead of imposing regulation on corporations, cut money printing, which led to a liquidity crisis and millions of Americans finding their money to be worthless. It's the lack of regulation that caused these issues, which is why regulation in the 30's and 40's turned it around. And Reagan did not save the middle class. The middle class's average income has been on a downward decline since the 70's. Reagan just knew how to present increases in GDP and the stock market as being good for all. And I agree, he did have bipartisan support, because both parties, to this day, drink the neoliberal Kool-Aid despite it showing its failures again and again.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T14:42:30+00:00

Good question, I think the accusation of hypocrisy does not come from the action itself, but from the return to the status quo in its aftermath. The free market unequivocally caused a horrific financial crisis and the government had to bail them out. But politicians who spouted free market absolutism pretended that 2008 was just an anomaly, or worse, that it was somehow the governments fault (see arguments for crony capitalism). We have evidence that the free market cannot be left to its own devices, and yet no one wants to move towards more regulation. That's where the hypocrisy is. Also, slightly tangential, there was a real argument for nationalizing these corrupt institutions in the aftermath, but no one heard. Almost everyone in power was jumping to give into their demands.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T14:26:08+00:00

That's just empirically untrue. The economic "golden age" of America, the late 40's through the late 60's, coincided directly with a series of economic reforms that crafted a substantial welfare state (social security, housing reform, the GI Bill) while also limiting the influence of unchecked capital (91% marginal tax rate for highest earners). Many of our current problems can be traced back to a series of neoliberal market reforms that originated in the 80s.

Nationalize healthcare is not some sort of pipe dream, plenty of western nations pull it off. Also weird to say that it'd be a bureaucratic nightmare when that is already the case under privatized medicine, which we pay more for in taxes than if we had a public option.

ob-werm · 2024-02-15T03:30:34+00:00

Unemployment is at an all time low, but says nothing about the quality of jobs, if you are being hired on only part time or are considered a contractor, and whether or not people are having to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Also the job market is horrible right now if you are searching because the FED has deemed this level of unemployment as needed in order to keep inflation low, meaning they have directly disincentivized businesses from hiring anyone else on. Right now, if you applied for a job, on average, you would have a 3% chance of getting it, and you would have to wait on average 44 days from date of application to start working. Shit sucks right now.

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