HomebrewHedonist

You’re right. Self determination is a right we all have.

The People’s Republic of China

If you look at this jacket in this picture closely and compare it to the one at the scene of the crime, they don’t match. This is the wrong guy.

The ultimate “own the Libs” conspiracy.

What could go wrong?

It’s truly unbelievable, isn’t it. It illustrates the degree to which people are truly a slave to their impulses and delusions. No external factors will ever reform this guy, and it’s really a sad thing to watch a person trapped in their own kind of hell.

Hedge Funds and Short Sellers.

Had* concerns. The state murdered him today.

This is just the delusions of a deranged man. No country can e perpetually at war. Eventually, something gives way, and there’s no way Russia will ever win a war with the West.

Lol… you just proved my point. I never said it was a fact. It would be hard to quantify, but it could be done.

You’re right. You just proved my point. It’s my opinion. 😁

A large segment of the population don’t understand the difference between a fact, an opinion, and a belief.

How about ignitable instead.

Yep… every time.

I think the real danger is Trump winning… or getting so close that the election is a toss-up… or very close to that. I worry that the results will be thrown into question and that will tear America apart.

Thanks Blackrock and Vanguard.

Another example of the rich buying their way out of crimes.

If the penalty for crimes is a fine, the law only applies to the poor.

The Americans had better get really serious about saving their democracy because it’s about to run off of a cliff. If Trump gets reelected, he’s going to go after democrats HARD.

I don’t believe this for one second. I haven’t heard anything from the Ukraine administration that would suggest in any way that they are interested in peace talks. In fact, their recent choice of putting a Crimean Tatar as the Minister of Defence suggests that they are serious about taking Crimea back from Russia. I hear nothing but absolute resolve by both the Weat and Ukraine to keep fighting until a Ukraine victory.

I’m not going to get dragged into creating a new government framework with you. I’ll leave that to the political scientists. What I’m saying is that we need limits on power. Limits on income existed before 1980 and were dismantled in Regan’s trickle-down economic policy. Taxes used to be really high for the ultra rich after WWII to around the late 1970s. Limits existed in other forms too like anti monopoly laws, more regulation and market oversight. What I’m suggesting is simply taking those that once existed and codifying those things into a charter, like the Magna Carta did for kings, so that they can’t be repealed by changing governments. It’s an idea, not naive at all.

Greater equality is essential for well functioning societies and well functioning economies. It’s good for everyone, even the ultra rich… they just forgot it. Read Ray Dalio’s The Changing World Order and he explains this quite well. The man is a billionaire himself, and he advocates for a redistribution of wealth and greater economic equality. His research echos much of what is tough in history: inequality always breads social unrest and political upheaval. It’s what revolutions are made from.