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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Forget recent wage stagnation, there hasn't been much of a real wage rise on average since the eighties. That's long enough for low inflation, basically no wage growth and comparatively high unemployment to become normal to everyone, the recession just highlighted it. The few people who were in the labour market during the last days of full employment without the gig economy are now old, with piles of assets and a fixed retirement income, so they now hate inflation too no matter how much we need more of it coupled with wage growth.
The number of cyberpunk parallels is becoming slightly unnerving.
@Ambar: Kennedy voted for ending the ban on "sodomy laws" on certain states and was the decisive vote in Obergefell vs Hodges. Unless one of the liberal justices dies soon and Trump replaces them with a crazy, legal racial discrimination isn't coming back.
Detroit Become Human, set twenty years in the future, was pretty spot on with a magazine headline "0.1% of the richest people hold 94% of the world's wealth, politicians vow to fight this problem".
edited 4th Jun '18 12:02:47 PM by Grafite
Life is unfair...
You know, when you say "unless... then" usually it's something less outlandish than "an 80 year old in a tough job passes away or falls ill."
Just sayin'.
The economy right now is worrisome that it's in this quantum state and Trump's approval is hovering because, by all merits, the average person should be distressed. Gas prices are jumping up, people are getting their taxes back and realizing they're not saving anything, and there's no indication that the average person is benefitting in any way. Yet people are still going "this is great!" and attributing it to Trump because... reasons?
edited 4th Jun '18 12:35:40 PM by Larkmarn
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.A court just ruled a few days ago that a black man's life is worth less than a candy bar. Legal discrimination does not need to "come back", it is already here and has been for decades. That's the entire purpose of euphemisms and dogwhistles like "religious freedom"—to keep legal discrimination on the books.
As for the "unless"...what Larkman said. You think there's no risk of an elderly person dying or having to retire?
Just for the record: The new Ambassador to Germany has managed to piss off everyone again by giving a Breitbart interview supporting right wing populism in Europe. And that in the same week the Af D is in the news for having their Youth organisation sing the complete Deutschlandlied (Germany only sings the third stanza since the war since the first one is so closely associated with the Nazis, and since it has been adopted by the far right) and one of their leaders called the Holocaust "chicken shit" in the history of Germany. You couldn't make it up.
Honestly, where does Trump find those people? No ambassador was better than this one.
I dunno, we should ask South Korea how they feel about not having a US Ambassador.
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Depends on the ambassador.
Also, anyone ever notice how many Weasel Words Trump uses in his tweets?
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An ambassador is blatantly talking about trying to meddle with German politics and we're the ones causing an international incident?
Yeah, no. Least we can expect is that people send us diplomatic personnel that isn't stupid..
Though to be fair, this moron is a perfect representative of the US government.
edited 4th Jun '18 1:00:53 PM by DrunkenNordmann
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He's already caused an international incident with the entire Western world, this is just justified pushback. There is no placating Trump outside of capitulation, but the rest of the world put up a nice front in the name of diplomacy. Now that he's thrown the first punch, the gloves are coming off.
edited 4th Jun '18 1:01:03 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I understand where you're coming from,although if Germany does expel him,then Trump will expel the German ambassador in retaliation,and then there'll be a war of words,Trump will rage on Twitter,bunch of rightfully annoyed countries will back Germany's behaviour..
Then what?
I'm genuinely curious what the fallout would be in this hypothetical situation
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverIf it were any nation on Earth except the United States I'd be like so 'sure,go ahead,what's the worst they can do?" but the United States is a superpower,they outrank you militarily and economically,i wouldn't risk it
edited 4th Jun '18 1:57:22 PM by Ultimatum
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverThey are already fighting half the world economically, escalation is coming regardless so this is the time to start taking stands. As for the military aspect....while the EU does need US protection (unless that European Army idea truly gets off the ground), Germany has some leverage in that sphere as well. Namely, there are some US bases there that are critical to American logistics.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I just remembered that America's still sitting on most of our gold reserves. Kinda wish we could actually get them back home at this point, especially considering Trump's obession with the stuff.
edited 4th Jun '18 2:41:25 PM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyAt least Trump didn’t make Bolton the SK ambassador, we might have a shooting war already.
I would fully support Germany expelling this prick, and doing the same or arresting any reactionary bastards like Bannon should they try meddling in local politics over there, as Bannon did in Italy.
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The Supreme Court is currently five/four in favour of conservatives and reactionaries. The automatic assumption that they would dismiss race-based discrimination is precisely that—an assumption, and a bad one at that.