I deeply appreciate the small detailed Cuban flag on the Astronaut suit. Well done.

My dude. You can just look at the current stock market and compare it to the Nifty 50 bubble from the late 70’s to see how fucked everything is about to become.

You don’t need anything you just said. You’re just making excuses to avoiding engaging with the very valid points I made because you incorrectly assume I don’t have a masters in economics likely more recent that yours.

So here’s a bunch of easily comprehensible facts that competely disproves your bullshit entirely:

https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/nar-2025-profile-of-home-buyers-sellers-reveals-market-extremes

First-time home buyers now make up just 21% of the market—the lowest share since NAR began tracking.

First time home buyers are at record lows.

The median age of first-time buyers is 40—a record high

Highest average home buying age ever recorded is now, and it’s 40.

Which means, clearly, for the first time ever recorded, Americans need to work into their 40’s to be able to buy their FIRST HOUSE. You likely bought your first house when that average was 20.

the typical age of home sellers this year is 64, the highest ever recorded… those between the ages of 60 and 78, are the largest share of both home buyers and sellers—moving markets more than younger generations often due to their better financial position.

Younger generations do not have boomer money. They don’t because real wages have stayed stagnant for 40 years.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/

… despite the strong labor market, wage growth has lagged economists’ expectations. In fact, despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today’s real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago.

So a 2026 dollar is now worth about the same as a dollar earned in 1989. Wages have not grown, only prices. So Americans can’t afford homes until their 40’s.

This is basic economics. I don’t even need to calculate trends or slopes to understand how this is just cause and effect.

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Please read the above to expand your education rather than hiding behind it as if it’s something incomprehensible.

What was the average age of homebuyers when you were young? Was it over 40 like it is now? No. How many times have you had federal minimum wage increase when you were young? It’s increased 0 times in the last two decades. Likely close to 11 for you. What was the rate of suicide in adults over 20 when you were young? Currently it’s the 3rd highest rate of death in 2026 just under heart disease and cancer.

You have near monthly school shootings, or none at all?

You’re cherry picking. The future we live in now is awful in comparison to what you lived.

Yeah, but your kids don’t which is my point.

Kids invent new words for their current culture. They in no way organically invent words that are friendly to advertisers. You should be disgusted that corporations are now such an invasive species they are affecting the language our youth is inventing. This is poison. It is not at all normal.

Dude. Bro. Radical. Excellent. Tubular. Fleek. Ratchet.

Are not at all the same as:

Sewerslide. Unalive. Junocide.

Oligarchs are forcing kids to learn a new language that downplays the very suffering they are causing worldwide.

You should be furious, not apathetic. Or your kids will never learn the meaning of those words as they aren’t productive to the oligarchy.

then through competition they’re all driven down to a price that’s near production.

The creation of “better” products means improved production methods as well. There’s an incentive to improve processes to be more efficient if it means you can earn more profit than someone else and stay in business longer. That’s how we’ve gone from hand copying books to printing presses to free digital libraries. Better doesn’t just mean making better books, it also means better methods in making books.

you don’t seem to understand the difference between laws that prevent the creation of anti-competitive practice and regulation that increases the cost of product and decreases competitiveness.

You don’t seem to understand that both of those things are essentially the same. Regulations are just interpretations of existing laws. Without laws, there are no regulations. That’s why breaking them has legal consequences, and 3rd party agencies that enforce them.

Also, you don’t seem to understand how regulations clearly protect the cost of production at a sustainable price above exploitation within that market. I find it fascinating that on one hand you say competition drives prices to near production levels, but on the other complain that regulations increase the cost of product. Do you not see the very obvious mechanism that regulations have in making sure competition is sustainable by keeping market costs fair and safe above exploitative practices? You literally described both cause and effect as problems then complained as if they don’t clearly relate.

Not true at all. In a free market competition drives the creation of better and more profitable products. Companies that can’t improve fail.

The way we reach the end state of capitalism we’re now in is exclusively and only through the removal of fair and equal trade. Deregulation is how Capitalism got this bad. What youre saying is nothing but provenly false propaganda.

It’s only without regulations can the formation of monopolies and oligopolies even happen where there is no competition and both price and quality are captured and frozen. Companies in these positions then artificially leech from the societies they’re in through corruption to survive instead of collapsing to dust naturally.

That’s 100% where the US is now. In an unregulated monopolistic billionaire playground where the best performing companies in the stock market haven’t made anything of value in over a decade, and have done nothing but raise prices on worsening products and leech value from the society theyre in in place of giving anything of value back.

The entire concept of capitalism rests on selling something for more than it’s worth. This includes your own time and physical labor.

The problem is that we all got indoctrinated to believe that capitalism is a meritocracy, instead of a snake oil selling competition.

We’re instead to believe a high paycheck means you are high in importance. But in reality, since this is capitalism, it just means your high paycheck is now a great reason to waste people’s time to feel important. Selling your time as valuable while actually wasting it as much as possible for profit.

Which is now the only thing that trickles down. Well paid, but ultimate skilless idiots all making decisions to massively waste their time and everyone else’s so they can feel their paycheck is earned.

People who want to get shit done, don’t get these kinds of jobs simple because they’re too good at finishing them. Making all the other idiots they work with look like idiots. So actual skills are seen as a detriment to holding these positions as they quickly reveal how much time is being wasted by every single Csuite whose paycheck is bigger than their abilities. (Which is from my experience damn near all of them).

Worked with Apple, Google, Sony, and more. All have the same problem at the top: idiots delegating impossible promises to people that have actual skills then making them take the fall when it inevitably goes wrong.

I love how the immediate past involving Kimmel proves you wrong. You’re angry at nothing but your own poor assumptions. Namely, that this admin is capable of a level of respect they’ve literally never demonstrated the capacity for.

Show me a single moment where the Trump admin has acted in response to criticism the way you just magically described they would. Because I can point to literally hundreds of examples of Trump lowering the bar far below where people like you constantly bitch it couldn’t be lowered. Now below the bodies of two Americans it never needed to be after people like you bitched “ICE wOuLd NeVeR.”

And despite being proven wrong again for the 30,000th time, here you are still bitching about a depth Trump wouldn’t lower the bar under. He would. Based on the fact he literally always has to the point where the US is now an international embarrassment at best, and a collapsing nation at worst.

You’re defending the worst kind of pedophile imaginable for embarrassingly snowflake reasons.

Well said. Do Democrats understand optics? Because I swear US propaganda has cooked their brains just as bad as MAGA. They’re asking Europe to do the job they completely failed at doing for a decade? Please shut the fuck up Dems, all you’re good for is asking others to do your jobs better than you can. FFS.

I sincerely hope this is satire because I’ve met people that think this way.

Now do the US.

Far less changes in the same unreasonably short amount of time since these files dropped.

If we depose them, we’d have access to their wealth to tackle climate change. And it wouldn’t be for building the doomsday bunkers they are now.

Zuckerberg spent nearly $400 million for a bunker to be built in Hawaii. This was after Hawaii had fires that cost them nearly a billion in damages.

Zucks $400 million purchase could have repaired half the nation-state. It would have immediately improved ecological recovery, and restore the canopy biome that helps pull C02 from the air as a natural deterent to Climate change. He’d then have most of the population worshipping him for doing so. Likely welcoming him anywhere in the state he’d want to visit.

Instead he can now visit his bunker, needs it because the island hates him, and helped contribute to ecological collapse in building it.

The problem is that billionaires are the worst humans imaginable to have such wealth. It will always go towards cthe acceleration of climate collapse for their benefit instead of preventing it. Whether you feel they’re a contributor or not, they’re still in charge of the resources that could easily stop climate change faster than any other mechanism on the planet.

Instead they’re building bunkers with that money to run from the problems they’ve actively contributed to more than any other human on the planet.

Afghanistan and Iraq both had governments the US effectively destroyed and replaced with something worse. They then occupied each of those territories for decades.

Neither had infrastructure, roads, or active US military bases that the EU has. Neither are conveniently located near bodies of water where the US has 7 of the 10 aircraft carriers that exist on the planet. Neither were convenient to invade and dispose the government of, but the US is literally batting 1000 on doing that to whatever nation it wants no matter how remote and inhospitable its terrain.

That’s what you should be taking away from Afghanistan. Not that the US occupied it, that they easily fucked it up for generations. Something they’re now doing domestically, and loudly announcing they want to export.

Now do the US since they’re likely going to be the ones at the front of the attack on the EU.

That’s the point he’s making. Just subtly. As not to disturb the very thin skin of the US leader in charge of the world’s largest active military with bases across the world.

Of course he did. But he’s insisting, quite publically, that he didn’t. That it was only HIM that played said game for 10 hours a day.

Which means he’s an even bigger idiot than if he just told the truth. This guy WANTS you to believe he’s a loser that plays games as long as the people he pays. Believe him. I’m just taking his word he does. Instead of pointing out how stupid he is for lying about it.

Because in reality he’s even more of a loser. Someone who needs to pretend to play video games with their money, rather than simply gaining the skill to do so themself.

And the fact he’s made this lie public, means he wants all of his investors to believe he’s the video game boy as well.

There’s literally no possible way for this behaviour to be stupider than it is. Because not admitting to this lie makes his actions stupid whether it’s a lie or not.

He either plays games 10 hours a day, or desperately wants you to believe he does. Both of these are stupid. And make him seems like a poor CEO to invest in.

Completely agree. To be clear, I very much respect Rednecks. I do not respect Elon. He is a genuinely worse person than the most exagerated and derogatory punchlines of those jokes.

Here’s the basic Google search 100% proving this is fact because his tweets are public and easily countable:

https://www.statswithsasa.com/2024/09/18/elon-musk-definitely-tweets-too-much/

it took fewer than 50 days for Elon Musk to post ~3,200 tweets

Elon is averaging 67.8 tweets/day, and there have been weekdays (read: workdays) where he has tweeted over 150 times in one day.

Yes, that’s right. Using my method, I estimate that Elon spends ~2.7 hours per day on Twitter… there have been workdays where Elon Musk has spent over 5 hours on Twitter in a single day.

I even rounded that number down to make it easier to swallow. You want to say you’re choking on doubt, when you clearly just forgot how to swallow truth.

“What the f*ck did you do?”

NEEDS to be embraced as a slogan with the same passion as “Let’s Go Brandon”

It’s the perfect Anti-ICE, Anti-Trump, Anti-Capitalist message.

It calls back to the decades of intelligent well educated Americans saying this was an inevitability given the obvious path we’ve been on.

So here’s the thing. Elon is an idiot. He wants you to desperately believe he is a genius while also holding true that he plays games 10 hours a day, tweets 2 hours a day, all which he prioritizes over for his 14 kids. That’s several punchlines worth of “You know you’re a redneck when” material in one sentence of his public behavior. Articles like this are beautiful. But his stupidity should not be a surprise here, more of an expectation. (And a hilarious one at that)