I’m going to have to move back to California lol. There’s not many in my pasty ass current state. Least racially diverse place I’ve lived by far, and it feels weird.

I see no downsides, and I already speak Spanish well enough to navigate the world. I read it better than I speak it too, which has got to count for some kind of bonus points.

was a good time for all

Ah yes, those crazy extremists who want checks notes… Peace…

We have so much in common.

Imagine the profits!

bad! they’ll put you off your appetite for dinner. I made beans again.

It’s the only morally correct thing to do according to Utilitarians.

I predict that a prediction with in it will come true.

Checkmate liberals.

That’s an estimation. Some companies may be that profitable, but the economy overall in the US is less.

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/corporate-finance/us-corporate-profit-declines-likely-for-some-sectors-as-gdp-slows-17-04-2023#:~:text=Corporate profit before interest%2C taxes,Bureau of Economic Analysis data.

The more important point is that profit is an assumed good, an end worthy of itself. No liberal economist is ever going to tell you a business or economy is too profitable: that’s the point of all this. Thus when a firm raises prices to sustain or increase it’s rate of profit, that’s just business; a decision so basic as to escape scrutiny. But if labor demands more pay/benefits and eats into the rate of profit? Well now that’s driving up inflation! Those greedy workers just don’t know when they’ve got enough! Pay no attention to the decision by Capital to raise prices to sustain the rate of profit, that’s the only reasonable thing they could do! Their privilege in society must be preserved!

We could get off this stupid treadmill if we nationalized mature industries and ran them at cost for the public good - but there’s no profit in that, so what’s the point?

Compare this to a graph of ‘increase/decrease in wages’ over the same period of time. If wages did not increase, then this inflation affects people remarkable. The price increases are cumulative over time. If someone’s wages have not increased then it doesn’t matter if inflation slows down or even stops completely, their relative level of income and direct material well-being has gone down.

We can even make this more nuanced. Rather than look at average wages that can be affected by extreme outliers or just an economy where high earners get a lot more relative to the rest of the population, we could instead look at median wages or quintiles for more granularity. This inflation might not be seen or even affect the bug eating Karen PMC. However, it may be massively painful for a subsection of the population who’s wages have stagnated. Even if this segment was a minority, it would be incredibly tone deaf and ignorant to ignore their plight and just focus on the whole population. The issue at hand would then be distribution of wealth - but liberals of course like to ignore that at every opportunity. Enjoy your worsening material consulting, serf. Middle management and shareholders gotta get paid.

I’m out of the loop: what is unity doing?

My brother in Christ we’ve been off of Reddit for over 3 years. Your vapid “No u” strategy is pretty dumb in context.

Fuck. You’re right.

WE CAN FIX THAT, THOUGH

Everyone gets one freebee per year. Just make sure to read it aloud to yourself and make it sound funny so the jury laughs in court.

A Thin Blue line would be more accurate

Gonna put a hex on news

howdy intensifies

Somebody snap me out of it. I’m causing myself psychic harm because libs on nominally left Facebook pages are malding over Musk apparently disabling starlink for a Ukrainian attack, and I can’t stop bullying them for being brainworm riddled seals clapping along to Western MIC cash cow projects.

How do these idiots not realize the bloodlust for Russia is exactly the same as it was for Iraq? How the fuck do you learn that literally every foreign intervention the US has been involved in during the last 150 years has been naked imperialism or proven lies to mask that imperialism, and go “yeah, no, THIS time it’s legit. Surely the State Department/Pentagon wouldn’t fool us again…”

Seriously, these fucking Blue MAGA morons don’t see the parallel between their “oh, you’re anti-war? Great job supporting fascist Putler ” and the rhetoric warhawks used for years against the anti-war movement during the Iraq war? This is an anti-billionaire Facebook page! How do these people think the problem here is that the Billionaire didn’t use his property to kill people for a change?