She was aware it happened to others and despite evidence to the contrary just bought the US government’s narrative that those all were illegals and criminals.

I thought that too when I got my mechanical keyboard. Now I’m an old fart, ergonomics start to matter and I constantly curse myself because the distance between the wasd keys and my mouse is too wide to game comfortably for prolonged periods because of the numpad.

There’s no link?

They looked more competent when they did it.

In what way is the working class being choked in EU?

The same neoliberals are in power in Europe, and the same redistribution of wealth from below to the top happens in Europe. All over Europe they tell us we have to work more, earn less, our social services are too expensive, and “what are you talking about, rich people should pay taxes, are you insane?”

If you truly believe the working class is not being choked in Europe you’ve got to open your eyes. They are just a bit more subtle about it over here.

over half of Americans say the shooting was unjustified.

That’s a low bar to pass if I’ve ever seen one.

Well yes, more revenue means more taxes, more taxes mean more (absolute) profit from any given tax break. That doesn’t mean small restaurants don’t benefit from it. It’s also true for any cost reduction. If electricity costs went down, McDonald’s would also profit more (in absolute numbers) than mom and pop restaurants.

The lowered tax is for all restaurants, they just don’t pass it on to customers.

He will also just claim he is now the Nobel laureate, no matter what the committee says, and some time next year he will make it a huge diplomatic incident when he is not added to some official list of laureates.

it means that those with the most money in the world will effectively be in power of the world, which is exactly what we see.

Wealth is power, which is why wealth, like power, must be limited.

Everybody who works in advertisement should be reeducated to do some productive work for society instead. Like caring for old people, cleaning parks, repairing roads …

If you make a profit on your house, are you a scalper?

If I had never intended to live in it and just speculated on rising prices? Yes. Take your fair share and leave some for others. Your entire reasoning is why the world is such a shithole.

It’s not ok to be a scalper just because it’s kid’s toys instead of geforce cards.

In Germany, where I’m from, FDP (“die Liberalen”) is a prime example. They are notorious for campaigning on civil liberties issues and then, once in government, dropping most or all of them in favor of radical deregulation and tax gifts for rich people.

Enacting progressive taxation, punishing white collar crime, establishing strong environmental protections, establishing a strong social safety net, ensuring high quality universal healthcare, enforcing anti-trust legislation, and enacting electoral finance reforms are all things that liberals support

Those are all things that the liberals of old supported. But the parties that call themselves “liberal” today are usually strictly neoliberal. So that’s what people have come to associate with the term.

Baldur’s Gate.

From what I understand, we’ve already pushed the limits of option 2 during the Housing Crisis and COVID. Printing more money is talked about as though it’s impossible without causing more harm than good.

The neoliberal claim that the amount of money printed directly influenced inflation has been tested and couldn’t be proven so far.
Hyperinflation is either caused by too much demand or too little supply of goods, or by greedy fucking billionaires price fixing.

They still keep making that claim and neoliberal governments (pretty much all of them) still act on it because it makes rich people richer. Nations sell their public infrastructure or make other bad deals to beg private actors for money, those earn interest and dividends.

As long as the USD is the de facto world currency it also seems highly unlikely that any amount of money printing would hit it’s value too hard. There’s always demand for dollars. On the other hand, Trump is working hard on incentivizing the world to use different currencies.

in the event of like complete societal collapse or hyperinflation, they could use it for purchasing.

They are going to learn that you can’t eat gold. It has next to no purpose other than looking pretty, and that’s not going to matter much anymore in one of these events. It’s value is as speculative as any other.

Engineers use math and know math. That doesn’t mean they have math degrees. They have engineering degrees. Of which math courses are a part.

Moreover, most people with actual math and science degrees explicitly are not engineers.

This is not StarCraft.