People need to stop learning their history from bad Zack Snyder movies.
People need to stop learning their history from bad Zack Snyder movies.
So you want to never win another election. Got it.
This is a bad reading. It wasn't just Trump who opposed it. Claiming it was gives him too much credit.
Democrats: outside of academics no one uses these woke terms The literal Democratic Party: x.com/greg_price11...
What you think of as "state capitalism" is socialism. You just don't like that label.
State ownership *is* collective ownership when the state is a democracy.
The government owning manufacturers is exactly what socialism is.
Anyway what Trump is doing is outright socialism. You don't like it? Great, you don't like socialism, an economic system that has been debunked by economists for decades.
Saudi Arabia has a command economy, just like any other socialist country.
Making up a new term to describe mercantilism and socialism because you want to make it seem like capitalism isn't useful.
No, Saudi Arabia absolutely does not have a capitalist economy.
Capitalism by definition does not include state control of the economy. That's literally the thing that separates it from mercantilism. Having a Wikipedia entry does not make it real. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has a Wikipedia entry too. They aren't real. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage...
No. "State capitalism" is a euphemism for socialism.
The question who are they making the euphemism for instead of just saying Trump is doing socialism? Fans of Trump or fans of socialism? Or both?
That's a lot of words to say Trump is embracing socialism.
I'm still more and more skeptical of this story. First it was a carjacking, then it was a fight with a gang of teenagers, and now it's a 15 year old boy and girl he got in a fight with?
Why are you thinking that only elected Democrats matter? Stephen Miller, Charlie Kirk, Laura Loomer, none of these people are elected. Do you think that what they say doesn't matter too?
Yeah, they'll do that.
Ok, but if you want to be a superhero, I think you can do better than becoming Shrimp Man.
Even before the war Crimea had a very Russian population, and by now anyone not loyal to Russia is either dead or has fled. To retake it Ukraine would have to be an occupying force.
I mean realistically, it's highly unlikely Ukraine will be able to retake Crimea. Though saying so publicly isn't a great negotiation tactic. Unless you side with the USSR of course.
There is a good chance whoever is elected in 2028 will be president when Social Security becomes insolvent, forcing the government to choose between abandoning the elderly to poverty or tanking the economy for everyone. And that election will be decided by whoever has the best AI generated memes.
I have no idea who will win. But I'm certain who will lose. Hint, it's all of us.
2028 is going to be the dumbest election ever.
There is no conspiracy with sex traffickers, Trump is just a narcissistic moron.
When Trump heard this he was so flattered he started complementing Putin. Putin saw this and realized how trivial it was to manipulate him.
What Putin has on Trump is obvious. He has a playbook on how to manipulate him with flattery. During his first campaign Putin was quoted as saying Trump is "brilliant". Which he did say but in Russian that idiom means noticable or flamboyant.
In response Trump started gushing about how great Putin is. I believe he literally said at one point "if he said good things about me, I'll say good things about him." Putin saw this and realized how easy it was to manipulate him.
Since 2016 people have been wondering what Putin has on Trump, but the answer is obvious. Trump heard a poorly translated quote from Putin that he was a "brilliant". That's literally what Putin said but the idiom in Russian doesn't mean smart, it means noticable or flamboyant.
"What if kids use these AIs to do this?" "How would presumably sexually inexperienced kids "seduce" the AI?" "Oh we give them step by step instructions!"
Except, these aren't actual teenagers, are they? They are adults pretending to be horney teenagers in an attempt to get the AI to hit on them. Ok, that's a little creepy. The adults, but the AIs.
Ok, hold up. Teenagers are, instead of having actual sex and risking pregnancy and STDs, engaging in sexual fantasies with AIs based off Judi Dench? I agree that's weird but I'm not sure it's horrible, or at least worse than the alternative.
You also have an age of consent of 16. Which, sure, is better than 13 before 2015. But still.
Yes, and in 2025 your country allows child marriages.
Your profile suggests you are from Spain. Your marriageable age is 16, and 10 years ago it was 14. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
If you think underage marriages with parental approval isn't a thing in Europe you are in for a rude awakening.
She has all the qualities they are looking for.
Are there some legislators trying to reduce the age of consent? Probably. There are some legislators trying to make pretty much everything legal. The age of consent in most states is still high relative to the rest of the world.
Child labor, under 14 is only legal for certain jobs like babysitting, acting, or working for their parents. 14-18 is heavily regulated in terms of what they can do or how long they can work.
Child marriage: in general no. Most states require both partners to be 18 (some need them to be older) unless there are special circumstances.
I know you've been told that but it really isn't true.
It wasn't?
Overall grocery stores have a very narrow profit margin, around 2%. Meaning if you buy $100 with of groceries, $2 goes to the store. It's one of the most competitive industries in existence. The notion that they are price gouging is nonsense. m.macrotrends.net/stocks/chart...
Anyway, grocery stores often not only sell staples without a profit, they often sell them at a loss in order to draw customers and get them to buy items that they can profit from.
So just to be clear, you think a baker making artisinal bread should be able to profit, but a dairy farm worker has to live via subsistence wages? Do you have a list of which professions are allowed to make money and which world be seen as slave labor?
The most effective way to ensure adequate housing, by a large margin, is to allow people to make money building and maintaining houses.
Sure, that's one option. Food stamps or an adjacent program is another. Point is building a new business promising to use only union labor and paying high wages isn't going to provide affordable groceries.
There are far more effective ways to feed the poor than have the government run grocery stores.
The store acknowledged the employee was trans. And if you don't think many transwomen struggle to pass as women, I don't think you know many transwomen.
Well yes, but 5'11 is a tall cis woman. 6'2 is a WNBA player.
And grocery stores already run on razor thin margins. Government owned stores won't make food more affordable.
Rent control does not control housing costs. It leads to shortages and landlords who don't upgrade their properties. This has been demonstrated over and over again.
The problem is the things we think will end the war quickly often just prolongs it. Luckily the atomic bomb was not one of those.
Mamdani is a socialist whose ideas are dumb and will be a disaster if he actually tries to implement them. Cuomo murdered old folks and then went on his brother's cable "news" show and bragged about how well he handled the pandemic. I'm glad I'm not a New Yorker.
Yeah, what are they, Philadelphia sports fans?
They look more like neo Klansmen to be honest.
Was there any point in this travesty where you thought "you know what? Maybe this isn't such a good idea after all..."?
Yarvin probably thinks anyone from south of the Alps or east of the Carpathians is black. Or at least not white.
His argument is that only finished goods should face tarrifs. Things that are inputs into other businesses shouldn't. I'm curious, are his knives those ceremonial decorative pieces that you hang on your wall and never cut anything and certainly never bought by restaurants?
Next week he's going to claim that the *real* reason he broke up with Epstein was because he raped a girl Trump whose virginity he was trying to take.
Stupid shitty Bluesky gif support... youtu.be/XscaGDxuQqE?...
I rapidly flip back and forth between Twitter and Bluesky to replicate that feeling.
Racism exists outside of the United States you inbred cow.
Narrator: it was neither tone deaf nor had anything to do with eugenics and anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron.
That would only work if a) wealth were globally evenly distributed. and b) Asian and African people didn't think Sydney Sweeney is hot. Neither of those are true.
Only someone who has never lived in a foreign country could possibly think America has unique expertise in racism.
It would definitely be a step up from what we have now.
It most definitely does not sound like something Trump could do.
I don't know which is more unlikely - That Trump can do anagrams - That Trump is familiar with an obscure term for girls who looks like boys - Or that Trump is into girls who look like boys
No offense, but that's almost as dumb as the pizza gate crap.
That's really not how chat GPT works.
With all due respect (ok, that's not much), take a look at the globe. The parts of the world that need air conditioning are the global south. Sure it's a luxury for northern Europeans but it's literally a lifesaver elsewhere.
Holding people responsible for failing to prevent an attack would make them more paranoid and willing to weigh an minuscule security benefits over significant hardships. Not less.
Eh, it's interesting to see what relation SATs actually have with regard to your professional life. Seeing that my SATs were higher then both presidential candidates when I graduated from high school certainly was a pick me up.
I'm pretty sure he's being sarcastic.
And if you are somehow not sure if it is *really* white supremacist literature the author created a supposedly "Jew Proof" cryptocurrency.
I guess the penis engagement pills weren't paying enough so now Elon is selling ads to explicitly white power groups.
But he didn't.
Yeah no he's not.
But he didn't see anything.
I assume the eavesdropper gets added to the ban list?
It's not.
But the current blue mayor is supported by Trump while the Republican candidate hates Trump. So I'm not sure your argument holds water.
Literally!
So eating nothing but hotdogs for lunch and drinking lots of carbonated sugar water every day is not healthy. I'm not sure that backs up the "no safe level" claim.
Not even as a metaphor. They are deliberately rounding up immigrants faster than they can be deported, meaning the policy is designed to remove them to these camps for indefinite detention.
Also note that there are not 65 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States, so she's not talking about gators eating people who overstayed their visas or crossed the border illegally. There are about 65 Hispanic Americans. So she wants them to eat Hispanic citizens too.
I mean that's kinda the point. They are praising their "Alligator Auschwitz" not because alligators are cool and it's neat to see them but because they are fantasizing about the alligators eating Mexicans.
And yet you will be called a TERF by people who can't comprehend that while there are situations where a person's gender identity is more important than sex, athletics is not one of those.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
These are multiple studies which absolutely support that statement.
Are you some kind of obsessive idiot?
It's not a "crusade" and that study absolutely supports it.
Science is not bigotted and that absolutely supports the fact that transwomem maintain a physical advantage over cis women.
It's silly to expect Christopher Nolan, a 21st century British American filmmaker, to treat the subject the same as Homer, an 8th century BC Greek poet. Different artists, different audiences, different sensibilities, different mediums.