You have broken the law, and therefore you have been sentenced to having your second Peepee whacked.

Bailiff, present the spatula

Yep, those “cuts” only serve to funnel more money into the hands of the already rich.

America has so much money in the form of financial goods and services at its beck and call that everybody could be “moderately” wealthy and it wouldn’t even be a big issue.

People with armchair economics degrees will tell you that if everybody had $10,000 in their back pocket at all times, that a hamburger would cost $100. But that’s just not the case.

Any company that tried to make $100 hamburgers the default (more accurately, anybody that tried to make hamburgers that cost 13.5 hours of minimum wage labor the default) would find themselves unable to sell hamburgers.

Not to mention that it is very possible through regulatory means to cap the price of goods and services with a reasonable method. We have computers. We have programs. We have some limited form of neural networks and artificial intelligence that could be used to dynamically price things so that they are affordable for everybody.

Every single obstacle that people love to throw at the average person to explain to them why they have to continue living in Squalor has a very simple solution that merely requires compassionate and capable leaders to implement them.

And we don’t do these things because the way we are doing things is the way we’ve always done things and people resist change.

It is nothing like a home equity loan.

It’s more like a business loan. Actually, that’s exactly what it is, is a business loan.

The influx of money has allowed more things to happen that will generate profit through economic activity to pay off the business loan.

The big number bad thing is pushed to make everyone think that America is in financial trouble and therefore makes it easier for them to swallow that they are living in some form of poverty.

That $30 trillion is the value of the economic powerhouse that is America.

It’s made to look bad when it is actually good, as long as it is moderately reasonably managed.

The thing is, is we will never pay off the debt.

Paying off this debt would be bad for America.

Even if we did pay it off for some reason, we would immediately begin to accrue more debt because that debt is the cash value of the money influx that we are using to do amazing things, the same way a landlord would not just pay off their rental properties, but would instead, if they found themselves with a paid off rental property, remorgage it, and use the cash value of that remorgaging to purchase another rental property.

And it is also useful as a lie to control the population and to make them think that America has financial problems and therefore to tolerate a little bit more misery in their own lives when it’s completely unnecessary for people to be financially miserable.

That misery only serves to increase the happiness of the people who are aware of the fact that it is a lie and have used the lie to benefit themselves.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that they have weaponized hanlons razor and are actually malicious, but are acting bumbling and incompetent to keep people from rising up and slaying them.

o7 rip

If it were a Costco 48 pack, that would be 13,434 calories, 653 grams of fat, 1.3kgs of pure sugar, and 206 grams of protein.

The people you find unlikeable for no apparent reason are not always flawed.

Sometimes other events have crushed their self esteem so thoroughly that they have lost faith in themselves.

You have no responsibility to fix them. You probably can’t even if you tried.

But it doesn’t hurt to be kind to them.

Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race or ethnicity over another.

That is specifically what I am talking about. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Why don’t you take the time to provide your sources?

Why do I need to scour all of the existing literature to verify a claim that someone else made that I feel dubious? It’s on the person who posited the initial claim to prove their claim.

After all, my tribe, which is a Native American tribe, hates people that are not Native Americans so much so that if they have a good reason to believe that somewhere back in your genealogy, 150 years, there’s a drop of white blood, you’re considered a white person.

So I have lived experience that throws some shade on the claim that all racism springs from capitalism because my tribe is not capitalistic.

Can you prove me wrong with verifiable external sources?

Arachnid

Yes.

It’s been done by hand.

It’s been done on old computers from the late 90s.

It’s been done on DDR1, DDR2 and DDR3.

It can also be done on DDR4 and DDR5 and any other form of RAM that shows up in the future.

I don’t know where you’re getting your news from, but they are just straight up lying to you, and you are believing the lies.

Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

The national debt is a lie.

But it’s a very fancy one that has a healthy sprinkle of truth in it.

We are $30 trillion in debt.

But we have assets far in excess of $30 trillion that are working to generate profit.

On this massive financial tree we have hundreds of thousands of people siphoning the profit away for their own desires.

The big number is used to make the average person honestly believe that America has an inescapable debt that can never be paid off, and therefore it justifies any shitty financial decision that we make regarding our own citizens.

However, because we have those assets, if we wanted to, we could simply stop paying the national debt and exchange those assets for the outstanding balance and have money left over.

If we did that, it would likely cause a global financial collapse because so many other countries are in on the GRIFT that if the GRIFT were taken away, it would destabilize the economy of the entire planet.

The news glosses over that because it’s far better to have a terrified and spiritually impoverished country rather than a bunch of sensible money-savers who focus more on long-term, sustainable, non-disruptible wealth accumulation.

But the national debt is kind of like the outstanding mortgage on a rental property where your tenants are paying off the mortgage for you.

On paper, it may look like you are millions of dollars in debt, but you run that out over 30 years, and not only will that debt pay for itself, but you will also have the original assets that paid for those debts in the first place.

However, except in probably exceedingly rare cases, there are no microbes that can subsist off of silicone.

Racism still exists sans capitalism, so how does racism get its power from capitalism? I can see that it becomes a form of turbo-racism where every Tom, Dick, and Harry hates every Abdul, Rahim, and Schlomo, but even if we lived in a communist utopia, there would be a significant portion of the population that hates people because they have a different skin color or a different form of community.

“Just get therapy? Why don’t I strap on my therapy helmet, and squeeze down into a therapy cannon, AND FIRE OFF INTO THERAPYLAND, WHERE THERAPISTS GROW ON THERAPIES?!!!”

I’m pretty sure that racism exists outside of capitalism also.

I’m going to need some explanation as to how capitalism is the primary source of power for racism, so much so that you cannot be anti-racist without being anti-capitalist also.

It’s not that I disagree with the statement. It’s that the statement takes a massive leap when it says “racism gets its power from capitalism”, and I’m not able to follow.

I need a couple of steps between to fill the gap.

I was literally on the verge of purchasing an LG C5 with my bonus this year. Now there’s no fucking way in hell.