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when entire world economies and hundreds of millions of lives can be destroyed by the childish petty illogical whims of a single man, we need to start banding together to figure out how to stop that man.

multiple generations of people will lead immensely more brutal, unhappy lives because some fucktard is throwing a tantrum that there might not be enough slaves to toil in his factories and mines someday.

I think they meant to say interbreed, ie, sapiens and neanders fucked each other. vast majority of humans living today have neanderthal DNA in them.

opposition party? these motherfuckers may as well be on the same goddamn team.

updated links above and will take note in the future. thanks!

not about who won the election (seriously we need to move on already). this is about overall strategies and tactics which limit the Dems ability to function as a collective opposition to the GOP.

even when Obama was president and had both houses, he couldn't even fucking close Guantanamo or get a supreme court seat... and now it's being converted into a concentration camp.

this is why Dems can never be an effective opposition party to right wing extremism

The Alt Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low (InnuendoStudios, YouTube)

painfully relevant and insightful even 6 years later.

Dems are rule following conformists who would rather keep the wheels of governance spinning no matter what, because they incorrectly believe that the "democracy machine" can only ever produce "more and better democracy".

from Merrick Garland being denied confirmation, to Al Green at the state of the union, Dems fundamentally don't grasp when it's necessary to break the rules to achieve goals

they don't understand, The Rules Serve Us, We Do Not Serve Them (Parkrose Permaculture, YouTube)

it's not enough for their stock valuations to decline, we need to see their actual wealth (assets, private property) redistributed to the 99 percent.

in other words, control over the means of production needs to be taken from them. at minimum, reestablishment of top marginal tax rates and inheritance taxes.

they have demonstrated they cannot be responsible with the productive powers of our country. time to make the bosses pay.

Until Debt Tear Us Apart relevant economic analysis. collapse has many facets, and the "wealth pump" described by Graeber and the author of this article, is perhaps the most imminent threat. even resource depletion and climate perma-crises are relatively slow moving compared to the velocity at which resources have been gobbled up by the wealthiest 'elites', threatening all of humanity.

we all need to get serious about redistribution of wealth.

society as we know it may come crashing down, but there are mechanisms (taxes is a big one) to slowing down the free fall to a slightly more humane controlled descent.

i think the commenter is just baffled at how drastically overvalued (over hyped) so many stocks are - a well known problem where speculative over investment can and does distort the whole economy and has power over the whole population. see for example, speculation bubbles like the dotcom overvaluation or subprime mortgages, or Theranos, or Bitcoin, or even how Tesla stock was being traded higher than the next 6-8 major car companies combined.

in other words, stock prices are a bunch of bullshit.

stocks arent exactly the same as "money" in the common sense so it confuses people when headlines say money was lost or wiped out. but stocks are similar to money in that they are placeholders for value, however much more susceptible to wild devaluations. because ultimately they're just speculative bets on what something is worth and can fluctuate rapidly, as rapidly and suddenly as human emotions.

it's so much more than stocks. stocks are mostly vibes and short term get rich schemes for already wealthy people. they're Pokemon cards for the finance class, creating almost nothing tangibly beneficial to society. hype and FUD in an endless cycle.

you can't eat stocks. you can't warm your house with stocks. you can't manufacture solar panels with stocks.

real wealth, the serious fuck you Big Money, depends on the ownership and distribution of real resources: real estate, agricultural land, factories, pipelines, commerical buildings, capital infrastructure. these are what the ultra wealthy buy up during recessions and then charge rents and leases for everyone else to pay, forever. forget about owning land or a home, your kids can't compete with someone paying cash on a 600k house or snatching up entire portfolios of hundreds of rentals in a single purchase.

bailouts and blank checks given out as PPP loans to "business owners" during Covid redistributed wealth from the taxpayers (government) into the hands of the wealthiest people in the world. they can then convert their Pokemon collections into real wealth generating resources. government bailouts to corporations become an engine for not just making the rich richer but the types of assets they then acquire using that money cements them at the top of the wealth generation food chain forever.

Trump 2.0 is engineering another massive redistribution, even bigger and more focused on real estate than before. he made his fake reputation on real estate. loyalist oligarchs who bank rolled dark maga will be handsomely rewarded with the newly emptied government office buildings and public lands.

and your kids and grandkids will be homeless.