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Central banks around the world have heavily distorted financial markets. This was true 10 years ago, but it's more blatant than ever right now.

When central banks create trillions of dollars (or yen, euros, etc.) and you wonder where the inflation is, look at financial asset prices.

Edit: I get that unemployment is backward looking and the stock market is forward looking, but the Nasdaq is up for the year. That's not because of fundamentals.

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Democrats are so confident in their moral high ground that they have anointed themselves as the only people who can decide when due process is allowed and when a rape accusation can be questioned.

They dont need intellectual consistency because they just know better.

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In fairness to the mods, I only got a NKL moderation when I mentioned this theory. If I had waited a bit longer to contest the moderation it might have been overturned.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMc8pczn-hs

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ayane225 posted...

The establishment supports the Israeli far right lol.

Democrats will talk about BLM and how all racism is bad but support the Israeli clash of races over the Iranians.

And support them wiping out palestine

So you are referring to Zionists as far right Israelis? I guess this is just semantics but the ADL comes down pretty hard on people who criticize Zionism, and the ADL is on the left. Admittedly they are unique on the left because ethnic nationalism is ok when they do it.

Maybe it's better to say anti Zionist vs. pro Zionist rather than left vs. right. That seems to fit for people like Glenn Greenwald (leftist, Jewish, anti-Zionist) and Dave Smith (anarcho-capitalist, Jewish, anti Zionist). I picked 2 Jewish people because some folks have the mistaken idea the anti Zionist = antisemitic.

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but i want them to confirm the 3d mario remake + paper mario rumors

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RoadsterUFO posted...

Judge Andrew Napolitano

he is pretty great

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All of CE should be able to agree that it's fun to watch Tucker absolutely obliterate John Bolton.

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Reno and Rude were fun characters in AC, but...

Their tone seems off considering Reno was a mass murderer who killed countless innocent people in an act of false flag terrorism in FF7. It's impossible to redeem yourself from that and I don't know why he is supposed to suddenly be likable a few years later.

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I don't think anti war = left and pro war = right. It's more like anti war = anti establishment and pro war = pro establishment.

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If Jacob Hornberger is the libertarian nominee I will be very tempted to vote for him.

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kayoticdreamz posted...

They are already taxed and the military budget isn't near as high as you think

The real burden on the tax payer is the cost of social welfare programs that have escalated out of control and if you do the math the bottom 50% of income earners pay no taxes. The rich already pay an absurd amount as is

We can't just keep taxing the rich while we spend with reckless abandon

The 24 trillion in debt isn't even our total debt
Once you get into unfunded liabilities we break 100 trillion with ease

We have got to stop spending money

The spending will not get under control. The government will keep doing it until they market stops them from doing it. Maybe rising interest rates will eventually be what changes things. Japan has managed to maintain their zombie economy, high deficits, and low interest rates for 30 years though. I'd argue that it's been a negative for their economy, but there has been no flashy collapse there yet.

Basically, I agree with you but these things take time to play out and there is zero political will to change. It would take something pretty traumatic for us to change course. IMO, if we see another stagflation-like episode there might be a hard reset that forces the US government to default via non-payment or dollar devaluation. My reason for saying that is because if the Fed raises rates like they did under Volcker, our hyper-leveraged economy will completely collapse.

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"Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them." -Michael Malice

In college I drank some to prevent cramping on the tennis court.

the fruity flavored versions were tolerable but the unflavored version tastes like sweat.

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Absolutely.

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Ill tell you what, bashing white people in such a white supremacist society takes a lot of guts. Obviously you can get away with doing that to any other group because of white privilege, but doing it to whites? You have to really be willing to swim against the current and live dangerously.

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REMercsChamp posted...

Until we get a vaccine.

If we just print money and hand it out for that long, I think we might end up with inflation. Especially if there is a major supply chain disruption because youd have more money chasing fewer goods.

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ThyCorndog posted...

people deserve to make a living. the problem is the government hates giving you money. this is 100% the governments responsibility. they should be rolling out some form of UBI for a crisis like this. I dont blame people for wanting to go out and make money, I blame the government for being irresponsible shitheads

For how long? If the government just hands people money for long enough, the dollar will eventually implode.

The one outcome that we can't have right now is a significant uptick in inflation. In that case the Fed can either a) do nothing and let it get out of control; or b) jack up interest rates and initiate a deflationary debt bomb that makes 2008 look like nothing.

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I don't think I can in good conscience tell people that they should be legally prevented from earning a living when I have a job that enables me to continue earning the same paycheck from home. Granted if the economy completely collapses I will lose that paycheck eventually, but right now it would be too easy for me to say that everybody else should stay home while I continue working as usual.

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CyricZ posted...

Can you prove that straight men would still be attracted to Selena Gomez if she came out as a trans man?

You aren't being serious right now. Any straight guy in this topic would go for it if a biological woman who looked just like Jessica Alba from Sin City said, "I want to sleep with you right now, but you should know that I really believe I am a trans man." You know this is true.

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Esrac posted...

To be frank, I don't think this is a conversation that can be had totally honestly on this board because a ton of comments would get moderated for being offensive.

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AirFresh posted...

Dude I fucking love your username.

its a great sport!


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Do you want to make people stop giving a shit about the word transphobic? Call them transphobic for not dating trans people.

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This is the inter-sectional feminist version of "pray away the gay".

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Damn_Underscore posted...

if I recall correctly, that story ended badly

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RoadsterUFO posted...

I am a not a libertarian libertarian. Too conservative for Democrats, too liberal for Republicans, and too statist for libertarians. Then again, I am not a real Mexican according to Mexicans and I am not a real American according to Americans. >_>

I dont remember you saying anything statist. Whats statist about you?


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Antifar posted...

My hunch is it was not a leftist pissed off on behalf of Matt Yglesias

ill give you this one. This event was a long time ago but as I recall more about this guy he was more of a typical krugman-reading liberal than a socialist.


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RoadsterUFO posted...

Oh yeah, youre a real libertarian!? What is the longest comment you have ever left on a Facebook status!?

lol it's been 5+ years since I've been in a political facebook argument. I posted a video of Tom Woods dismantling Matt Yglesias and one leftist got really pissed off.

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This sounds really annoying, but you can't complain because it's for muslims who a predominantly nonwhite.

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I am an Austro-libertiarian and I hate both parties for being pro war, pro federal reserve, pro deficit spending, pro welfare, anti-free market, etc.

The state's role in our lives is just going to get bigger over time until it collapses under it's own weight, but until then Republicans will make that growth occur slower in the lives of me and my family.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRXNaUz5LGY

As the above morbidly obese racist demonstrates, when far left intersectional feminists talk about whites they sound like neo Nazis talking about Jews.

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monkmith posted...

one of those is a war crime that would likely kick off WW3, the others are just the chinese government being shit.

most people who suspect it came from a lab aren't saying it was an intentionally released weapon, but rather a fuck up that they tried to hide.

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monkmith posted...

i'm gonna guess that you posted your 'facts' in between racial slurs/race baiting/attacking others here for pointing out the failed logic...

bad guess

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hockeybub89 posted...

>facts
>possiblity

there were a few important words in between the 2 that you quoted

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Just a fair warning, if you post any facts that imply it's a possibility that this was accidentally leaked from a lab, you will be modded.

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ssjevot posted...

Yes it would need to be tailored to each sport, but that's already how it works. MMA and Boxing are massively popular along with many other sports that are already "a bunch of divisions", so it's not the simple. I personally enjoy that for example a featherweight and heavyweight fight differ substantially. It's not fair for a heavyweight to fight a featherweight (the beginnings of UFC actually did this though), but seeing the best within their own division is just as enjoyable because they don't fight the same way.

It would be extremely complicated and unnecessary in a lot if sports. Is this just to accommodate trans athletes? A much simpler solution would be to have 2 divisions: a "Cis Female" division and an "Open" division.

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This debate often brings up the below takes:

-End gender segregation in sports: OK, so no females at the professional level and basically none at the D1 level. 99% of scholarships go to men, girls have no female athletes to look up to anymore.

-Have a bunch of different physical classes based on weight, height, etc.: Not practical for many sports. Being built like Shaq is not always ideal. People want to see the best players compete against each other, not a bunch of divisions.

-But some female athletes are better than male athletes: Yes, Serena Williams is better than everybody at your local tennis club by a massive margin. She would also lose easily to the #500 ranked man in the world.

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_____Cait posted...

they arent reporting the real amount and are discouraging people form getting checked.

if thats true, thats pretty scary given how old the population is and how common it is for multiple generations to live together.

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isn't left wing punk pretty common nowadays though?

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When used in political discourse, you could just replace "shut the fuck up" with "reeeee!"

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ssjevot posted...

You can just do nothing and nothing happens.

So he could still get both passports, etc.? good for him.

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^^lmao

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_____Cait posted...

im actually curious about how to get dual citizenship now. They always say Japan is the only country to not allow it.

You can be born into it. My 2-yr old son is a dual citizen because my wife is Japanese. IIRC he has to choose to become Japanese or American at some point though. Maybe when he's 20?

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Alt righters are racist anti capitalists. The greatest differences they have from the far left is their violent hatred of degeneracy, their embrace of hard nationalism rather than John Lennon's Imagine-style internationalism, and they replace the leftist hatred of "whiteness" with a hatred of "Jewry". "Whites/Jews have to much money and authority, Whites/Jews had a uniquely evil role in history..."

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legendary_zell posted...

If you want to have your libertarian world view, that's fine. I'll work with you when it comes to reducing unnecessary social control over people by the government. But I'll also take human history into account and continue securing human rights by voluntarist or government means and actually make the lived experience of human beings better.

Hey man if different political groups are able to do a better job of scoring mutual wins that would be great. Id love to see leftists, libertarians, and paleocons team up and end the war in Afghanistan for example.


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legendary_zell posted...

I'm not buying into this idea that taxing people for the provision of social goods is in conflict with peace or is equivalent to violence. Do you consider the existence of public schools that you didn't go to an act of violence against you?

Taxation is collected via a legitimate threat of violence. You can try to make utilitarian arguments for your favored programs if you want, but if you try to argue that it's not force you're just wrong. You can "not buy into it" all you want, anybody can walk through the scenario of what happens when somebody doesn't pay their taxes and tells the government to F off when they come to their door. You should be honest about that because it's the real cost behind all of your social proposals that make you think you're helping poor people by either taking the money of current taxpayers, or from future generations that don't even have an opportunity to vote on this stuff (deficit financing aka taxation without representation on future generations).

The reason why I brought up peaceful alternatives to forcing people to fund and live around government housing is because in this topic this was presented as some sort of cleaner alternative to traditional housing that just doesn't need to turn a profit. It turns out the truth isn't quite as clean and simple as that.

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legendary_zell posted...

It's already been done and done and is currently being done in Denmark and Sweden. The conditions for success are being mixed income, integrated into the business and transportation infrastructure of the location, not segregated, and well funded. If you can do that it works, if not, it'll be stigmatized and lead to a downward spiral.

It's not a new experiment, it's been done with varying degrees of success for over a century.

You're also ignoring the positive benefits of scale. More people helps with destigmatization. It helps to go from a commune essentially to a standard feature of the housing stock.

Ok so you'd have to find an area that is eager to integrate this type of housing into their community. It shouldn't be stigmatized there, right? Great news then! You can do this peacefully after all. At least you'd be able to help some people until those dastardly conservatives lose enough political power for you to make everybody else fund it and live around it as well.

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"Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them." -Michael Malice