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This was Obama’s slogan, because he would always call out issues but then act like he was powerless to do anything.
Biden’s strategy is to act like problems don’t exist and actually it’s the people who are wrong, the economy is doing great. To say otherwise is to imply you actually support Trump.
Because the market processes all information at a speed that makes regularly beating the market impossible; and literally every investor on earth is looking for an “edge” at the same time. The stock market is “efficient” from the standpoint of, any profit you can make by trading on new information vaporizes in a nanosecond.
I use quotes around the word “efficient” because I’m NOT implying the stock market is efficient from a Marxist or resource allocation perspective. Just that today’s stock prices reflect the sum of all information that we have about a given stock up to the moment.
The outperformance of index funds is largely due to their lower expenses and the fact that money managers, just by trying to beat the market, often do the wrong thing.
So about 2X more women are vegan than men? Honestly I would have thought the ratio to be a lot higher.
I would call them “workhouses” but Americans have no idea what “workhouses” are and how horrific they were.
Death to Israel and death to America.
grossly mismanaged the pandemic (killing a lot of people), did horrible stuff for the environment, passed a bunch of shit laws, including repealing net neutrality, deported a bunch of ppl for no reason, and he supports isreal
All that is literally and precisely what Biden has done, too (except net neutrality I guess, but you’re also leaving out Biden signing off on the biggest expansion of the surveillance state since the Patriot Act).
He fucked over queer people in the us
Lots of queer people on Hexbear, ask them if the barest crumbs Democrats throw to queer people (i.e. doing nothing to stop anti-queer actions, but not being the ones to propose the laws) is worth supporting genocide.
increased the federal debt by 7 trillion
Imaginary number doesn’t matter.
You seem well-meaning, so let me put my cards on the table: I don’t believe in validating the invalid dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by voting for anything beyond the local school board and various propositions, so it’s not like I’d be voting for Biden anyway. But what I don’t get about when libs push leftists to vote for Biden is… at what point does someone committing heinous acts mean that not voting for them is the only moral action? If Joe Biden murdered my daughter, would I not be in the right to say I wouldn’t vote for him? Even if in this weird scenario Trump also would have murdered my daughter… at what point do we measure someone by what they do and not what the other person would have done? And it doesn’t matter if my kid isn’t actually involved, I have seen enough death and sadness from parents and children in Gaza that the fact that it’s not my kid is totally and completely immaterial to me.
I, as a German-American, feel very unsafe when people around me say things like “Nazis are bad” or “The Third Reich was genocidal”.
It’s fine, you could do a lot worse. I think it’s unreasonable to think that he’s going to give the precisely correct line on it all the time, but you can usually tell when the lib brainworms are talking. Probably won’t find a better source to learn about it in audio form. It’s 97% sticking to the facts.
While I do like the LotR movies, the worst thing about them is one very specific directorial choice made by Jackson that isn't in the books: to show the "good guys" as being reluctant to fight and downplaying the threats faced.
Theoden is portrayed as unwilling to fight at first. I can't count the number of times I've seen reactionaries on Twitter reference Aragorn's line about "open war is upon you, whether you would have it or not" when talking about tRaNsGeNdEr iDeOLoGy or something. Theoden has to be convinced to fight. Likewise, Treebeard and the Ents initially refuse to fight until Merry delivers his Sorkin-esque speech about how they're a part of the world, so they have to fight for it.
But none of that is actually in the books!
Theoden and Treebeard are not indecisive. They immediately join the fight without hesitation. Everyone recognizes the threat posed by Sauron and they join in. The Hobbits, while they are Little Englanders, are more in an isolated bubble far away from trouble, so it's more that their courage is never tested until the Scouring. They are unaware of what's happening in the world, not that they know about it but don't want to fight.
This seemingly small change has been latched onto by liberals and chuds alike for 20 years now. Because no one reads books anymore, we just assume the movies are the books. I doubt Ferguson has read the books any time recently.
And for as long as LotR has been published, everyone wants to interpret their own allegories into the story. It was very popular to read Mordor as Nazi Germany, which Tolkien had to always push back against. While Tolkien was the first to say things like his experiences in war and his religious faith influenced the books, he absolutely and in no uncertain terms was NOT writing anything to be allegorical to the real world. And to any fan of the books, it's offensive to try and read allegory into it when you understand that act of story telling and world building - and not allegory making - was central to the writing process for Tolkien.
@TransComrade69@hexbear.net , her comments are still there she wasn’t banned or anything, just moved on.
Trying to find evidence that the IOF has done bad things is anti-Semitic.
I think I’ve finally figured out her deal. You know how there are people who say “if you don’t support Israel, you are anti-Semitic”? It’s a terrible, bad-faith argument; and obviously just used as a cudgel to silence any legit criticism of Israel.
Fartlow actually takes it one step further. She thinks that it’s anti-Semitic to not support Zionism. If you think Palestinians have any right to live in Palestine, you’re anti-Semitic. I have never once seen her actually state what she think should happen to the Palestinian people. I have no doubt she would be fine if the IOF killed every Palestinian. She’s an absolute monster, but I do take a little comfort in the fact that appears to be absolutely miserable and lives in a hell of her own making - where she has a breakdown every time she hears about someone in the world chanting “free Palestine”.
I don’t remember why it took me a like a week to sign up. I kept checking the lifeboat discord for news. I think I missed it by a couple days. I made an account but didn’t like the name so I came up with this one.