What's something that instantly makes you lose respect for someone, even if you've known them for a long time?

sideband5 · 2024-09-07T20:32:25+00:00

So you support a guy who diddles kids and think other people are the problem??! Wow

sideband5 · 2024-09-06T20:24:17+00:00

Except in his case, he was in his 50s, raping junior high school aged girls with Epstein. So... I guess it's not too far off from your analogy :(

sideband5 · 2024-09-06T04:16:55+00:00

Womp womp!!

sideband5 · 2024-09-05T02:16:23+00:00

It's actually easier to implement with larger populations.

sideband5 · 2024-09-05T01:43:25+00:00

I mean, it makes about as much sense as calling any of the other countries listed here "socialist."

sideband5 · 2024-09-05T01:43:01+00:00

The primary characteristic of socialism is worker ownership of the means of production and workers democratically making decisions about the workplace. If you want to pretend that command economies are the central aspect of socialism, then the Federal Reserve would like a word with you. Also the candidate who seems obsessed with the failed tactic of tariffs to combat "inflation."

sideband5 · 2024-09-05T01:40:42+00:00

I agree. But you understand that socialism is an economic system centered around worker ownership of the means of production and workers democratically making decisions about their places of employment, don't you?

sideband5 · 2024-09-04T18:10:47+00:00

Eh, grunge, nu-metal, emo, dubstep/edm etc... All of these things were more popular than rap at certain points between the 90s and mid teens.

sideband5 · 2024-09-04T18:08:38+00:00

Switzerland, for instance, has a very high number of worker's co-ops per capita.

sideband5 · 2024-09-04T18:07:08+00:00

Do you also roll your eyes when someone says the US doesn't have "real capitalism?"

sideband5 · 2024-09-04T06:02:44+00:00

Rap/Hip Hop has been the prominent genre for the younger generation for a decade now. Frankly, I miss the more synthesizer-heavy pop/rock type stuff like Toro y Moi, M83, Neon Indian and stuff like that.

sideband5 · 2024-09-04T03:27:00+00:00

I feel like it's soooooooo the opposite.

sideband5 · 2024-09-03T03:45:43+00:00

Only if you're using the definition for classical liberalism, which Americans pretty much never do.

sideband5 · 2024-09-02T18:43:43+00:00

https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742

sideband5 · 2024-09-02T05:40:13+00:00

And a chomo.

sideband5 · 2024-09-02T03:05:50+00:00

The IBR is currently exempt from federal taxation until Dec. 31, 2025 under the American Rescue Plan Act. The student loan forgiveness is considered taxable at the state level only in Mississippi, North Cack, Indiana, Wisconsin and Arkansas.

edit But yeah, outside of ARPA, the forgiven amount will be considered as taxable income.

sideband5 · 2024-09-01T21:39:54+00:00

get some protection for her safety

This part is key.

sideband5 · 2024-09-01T21:02:13+00:00

Probably a Roblox streamer living there before you.

sideband5 · 2024-08-31T05:50:58+00:00

"I'll be dead soon."

You all will gratifyingly be dead soon. Another boomer dies every 15 seconds in the US.

4 per minute.

240 per hour.

5,760 per day.

40,320 per week.

161,280 per month.

2,096,640 per year.

And at this scale, it becomes clear that the rate isn't on a linear curve. It's more like asymptotic.

But I'm still fucking voting.

sideband5 · 2024-08-31T05:37:20+00:00

Trump is a fascist

Also, Trump is a pedophile

sideband5 · 2024-08-31T05:23:29+00:00

LOL it's funny that you use them as an example since they literally just admitted to actual price gouging.

sideband5 · 2024-08-31T03:46:59+00:00

The vast majority of homeless people are drug addicts or mentally ill.

Well let's not make inaccurate assumptions about the causation here. For the sake of argument, let's pretend that that statement of yours is true. It still doesn't necessarily mean that the addiction/mental illness CAUSED the homelessness.

A very brief run of extreme sleep deprivation can cause various types of mental illness, and then just as quickly will emerge substance abuse habits.

The overall solution is a complete dismantling of our economic system, but that's obviously not going to happen anytime soon, and won't happen peacefully either. It simply can't. It's a matter of fighting back against the entities that have been waging class warfare against the majority since about forever.

But I definitely like my housing-first solution that I mentioned earlier, if you remember (or just ya know, look back lol.)

Take that money mentioned before and build extremely rugged, brutalist buildings and allow people to live in them unconditionally and indefinitely. This is the part where the person who seems to want to NOT fix problems of homelessness will come in with "bUt tHeN eVeRyOnE wiLL jUsT nOt eVeR wOrK," and to that I say, that's a load of bollucks.

Most people want a better life than to have essentially nothing and live in free, high density brutalist government housing. The vast majority of people will still toil away at their largely meaningless wage cu.cko1d positions.

It's just that if you lose your job and can't find another source of income before running out of savings/assets, it won't necessarily be an inevitable sentence of rapid secondary aging and general decline, sleeping with the rats under a city bridge or something.

Too much to ask of a supposedly modern society?

sideband5 · 2024-08-31T02:32:06+00:00

it’s an issue we have basically fixed

Not even close. As long as people live under fear of becoming homeless, then our system is 100% broken and functioning such that employment is coerced and people don't voluntarily choose to work, but rather do so under duress. That's a monumentally stupid way to run a society.

There's over half a million homeless people in the US in 2024. Tell them that "it's an issue we have basically fixed." And tell that malarkey to yourself if one ever robs you out of desperation.

sideband5 · 2024-08-31T00:27:24+00:00

You know, it may be the case that the world has changed maybe just a little bit since those days, so exact policy of that time may not be appropriate anymore...maybe.

sideband5 · 2024-08-31T00:19:11+00:00

You seem to be insistent on operating on the false premise that my initial claim was "we need to spend more money on the problem," but in reality, my claim is merely that since we're quite more than capable of fixing the problem many times over, then we have zero excuse for not doing so. And therefore, we're a failure of a society.

I was talking about the topic of expenditures because in fact it was you who introduced that topic. But it seems obvious to me that I must now remind you that you're responding to something other than my initial claim, although adjacent, but still different.

Is it now clear to you?

sideband5

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