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it was 50k in February but 45k today, S&P down to 6300 from almost 7k in February and the latest 401(k) reports are from Q4 2025 so your numbers are based on months ago before the Iran war.
The parent comment is quoting Pam Bondi doing evasive maneuvers a couple of months ago
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Believe it or not; it is an enormous luxury to be able to ignore politics.
It's fair to expect people to pay attention to political issues that can affect them. It's not fair to expect everyone to be intimately aware of every political gaffe, and instantly make the connection when you repeat it so they know not to reply to the comment seriously -- as the original comment was doing. FFS, just put it in quotes so people know you're quoting someone. (Or if it's not a direct quote, mention that…
I would, in fact, say it's a huge deal that anyone remotely aware of what's happening in politics should know about. It was headlined and broadcast on most major networks.
Nor do I see anybody upset that it was misinterpreted or that someone didn't know. Just people who didn't know about it name-calling anyone who did. So not sure how their little joke "provoked" a flamewar, vs people being sensitive and lashing out that they aren't in on the joke immediately.
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It's fair to expect people to pay attention to political issues that can affect them. It's not fair to expect everyone to be intimately aware of every political gaffe, and instantly make the connection when you repeat it so they know not to reply to the comment seriously -- as the original comment was doing. FFS, just put it in quotes so people know you're quoting someone. (Or if it's not a direct quote, mention that…
The head of the DoJ, being questioned about the president of the United States' involvement in (one of) the highest profile child sex trafficking ring in US history and it's subsequent cover up using the FBI itself, yelling about the economy and that nobody cares about child sex trafficking... Is not exactly a normal "political gaffe". I would, in fact, say it's a huge deal that anyone remotely aware of what's happen…
Putting quotes around a quote isn't hard.
I don't know why you are asking about pedophiles and sex trafficing - The Dow is over 50,000 right now, the S&P is at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq is smashing records. Americans' 401(k) savings are booming, thats what we should be talking about.
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This is a common refrain you hear a lot. I get why people say it, because it feels good to say when you feel bad. But the decline of the Roman empire took nearly 500 years. Even the bronze age collapse, which you might say happened fast, took more than 100. A thought I have every time someone parrots this is, "what is reasonable to expect?". Would you have heard people saying the same thing during the civil war? Duri…
We live in the Information Age. Things happen quicker now. The Roman Empire took 500 years to decline. The Soviet Union took 2 years. The US broke centuries old alliances and upended the global order in a matter of months. If there is a collapse of the American empire it won’t happen over centuries but in the span of a few tweets.
Unlikely, unless those tweets are about how all the ICBMs are being launched.
Too much of the world's economy and security is tied in the US for it to collapse quickly. The divestment and roll-back of soft power will be slow.
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The head of the DoJ, being questioned about the president of the United States' involvement in (one of) the highest profile child sex trafficking ring in US history and it's subsequent cover up using the FBI itself, yelling about the economy and that nobody cares about child sex trafficking... Is not exactly a normal "political gaffe". I would, in fact, say it's a huge deal that anyone remotely aware of what's happen…
People don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the same things you care about. Putting quotes around a quote isn't hard.
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This is a common refrain you hear a lot. I get why people say it, because it feels good to say when you feel bad. But the decline of the Roman empire took nearly 500 years. Even the bronze age collapse, which you might say happened fast, took more than 100. A thought I have every time someone parrots this is, "what is reasonable to expect?". Would you have heard people saying the same thing during the civil war? Duri…
It sure doesn't make me feel good to say. Rome is an extreme outlier. Its size peaked in 117. The beginning of the decline is up for debate but you could probably say it was somewhere in the 3rd century. The empire still managed to last until 1453. That decline is far, far longer than almost every other empire in history lasted from start to finish. The British Empire reached its greatest territorial extent in 1920.…
It did, because Gorbachev chose peaceful dissolution over hegemony enforced at gunpoint.
He didn't have to make that choice. He wasn't forced to make that choice. The USSR could have limped along for a very long time. What he did was the right thing, but, as they say, no good deed goes unpunished.
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I assume you mean low cost broad market index funds when you write 401k, but what other mechanism has offered financial security to so many other than having lots of productive and well networked kids that believe in helping you when you are old? There is, of course, taxpayer funded retirement benefits, but that is just taking from others’ kids.
Unions + Pensions
Pensions are useful to individuals, because they support you until you die (while your 401K will either run out before you die, or will 'waste' money in the bank if you die before it runs out). But they aren't a magic money tree. They are the exact same formula. Money in, money out, it just gets distributed a little better.
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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…
Conversely, arresting people going paddleboarding and filling skate parks with sand was a totally sane reaction. Good thing we didn't overreact to Covid and completely fuck up the economy and the education progress of millions of children. 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…
Next pandemic, come back from 5 years later with your time machine, and let us know what to do, mmmkay?