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TDS (edit: Trump Derangement Syndrome) actually pretty well describes the cult following Trump has. His charisma and messaging cause literal derangements in their thinking. Every accusation is an admission, yet again.
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Unions + Pensions
The pensions that are so underfunded (either due to corruption or bad math) they need repeated bailouts from federal taxpayers? Hope you’re in a sufficiently politically influential union. https://apnews.com/article/biden-business-united-states-gove... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-relief-bill-gives-86-b... If federal taxpayers are going to bail out old people, might as well be the whole stock market so it’s…
The stock market is rigged in favor of corporations and wealth.
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Funny how 401ks can make members of the American public think the stock market is really about them. In capitalism, assets follow a Pareto distribution. A small minority hold the majority of assets.
Yeah, it was a big con to get folks to think that what seemed to them a huge amount of money meant that they were participating in a meaningful fashion. I've never gotten anyone who is educated in economy/finance to provide a reasonable answer to the questions: "Is the world economy large enough to support a meaningful number of people regularly investing in it, arriving at an amount able to support a comfortable ret…
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Try being in a relationship with someone who may become a target of the administration due to their status as a resident (but not citizen) of the USA and tell me the outcomes don't change. You're right. I need to calm down. It's all theater that doesn't impact real people. We can just go about our merry way because no one has been kidnapped by federal agents in defiance of judicial orders.
I wasn't trying to be a jerk. There was a massive protest in the US this past weekend. Millions of people standing in solidarity. This was the 3rd such protest, each larger than the last. What has changed? One of these days the US will realize that emoting together with costumes and posterboards, bitching online, and loudly talking about how "my team is right!" is not effective. So, in what ways is it effective to gi…
I think protests are just a tool with varying success depending on context but political action is necessary if you don't want t o lose your country.
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Yeah, it was a big con to get folks to think that what seemed to them a huge amount of money meant that they were participating in a meaningful fashion. I've never gotten anyone who is educated in economy/finance to provide a reasonable answer to the questions: "Is the world economy large enough to support a meaningful number of people regularly investing in it, arriving at an amount able to support a comfortable ret…
It's impossible to answer because the language is too imprecise. Poor people in the US live like gods compared to people living in 3rd world jungles, but they complain just as much if not more. So you quickly realize that "comfortable" is a relative term, and envy poisons any honest measure of "comfort".
The fentanyl addicts drying in the Sun on Tenderloin's sidewalks beg to differ. What a ridiculous statement. There is less poverty in the US, but extreme poverty isn't any easier here.
Also you missed the entire point of the comment you responded to.
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There are a huge amount of people that spend their entire life on reddit worrying about politics
... and comments requiring the reader to be that way too should be downvoted/flagged. Look at the replies it produced: troll mission accomplished, "productive conversation" not so much. At the very least, they could have put the comment in quotes to indicate they're quoting someone and it shouldn't be read at the object level. Edit: Seriously? Am I wrong here? Are you all really okay with Poe's Law-ifying HN, where p…
"All the cool kids know" is a BS way to post.
Worst President Ever.
Depending on how you measure, not as bad as the one we had a few terms ago. There was a pandemic, which should have been a unifying event the president just had to straightforwardly lead us through while letting the domain experts at agencies handle the details. But instead he must have thought he was still campaigning or something, and staked out some edgelord position that we should just ignore the public health em…
I salute you, nonetheless.
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TDS (edit: Trump Derangement Syndrome) actually pretty well describes the cult following Trump has. His charisma and messaging cause literal derangements in their thinking. Every accusation is an admission, yet again.
Agreed. As soon as I see someone pull out TDS I know nothing of substance will follow.
Worst President Ever.
Depending on how you measure, not as bad as the one we had a few terms ago. There was a pandemic, which should have been a unifying event the president just had to straightforwardly lead us through while letting the domain experts at agencies handle the details. But instead he must have thought he was still campaigning or something, and staked out some edgelord position that we should just ignore the public health em…
Your "domain experts" are often chronically incorrect sociopaths.
Let's not even get into the categorical and coordinated censorship campaign.
Shocking that people even support the covid response that happened. Much less make light through smarmy sarcastic shitposting.