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It’s not perfect, but it would be a good start.

There’s far, far too much evidence of negative impacts to children and young adults from social media, particularly in terms of mental health.

Every military, in every country, in every empire, in all of human history has used rape as a weapon of imperialism.

It’s a feature of our species. (A shitty one, let’s not be unclear, but a feature.)

This is so cute.

Only until the bubble pops. His pay is likely mostly in stock, and when the dominoes fall, it’ll get ugly.

Elon Musk isn’t just the biggest douche in the universe. He’s the patriarch of douche-dom worldwide.

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Oof, yeah. Having to make group decisions with money is tough.

Partly why I love being single and childless.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

that is the time to buy in more, not the time to sell.

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That’s the other side of my strategy, having my portfolio in cash means I can reinvest at the new fire sale prices.

I was able to pay off my student loans by buying oil stock at a 90% discount in March 2020 and then waiting a few years for the rebound. You don’t even need to be rich to do it, just patient.

Yeah, this economy has given me the heebie-jeebies for the last quarter now.

Unless you’re a billionaire or on a signal chat in Washington, I don’t know how you can feel good about what’s happening.

My plan is to stay invested until dividends hit in December, and then I’m going to evaluate moving my investments into a money market or bonds. Amazon’s numbers show that consumers are still buying, and my assumption is that consumer spending will hold off the pop for now.

I 100% expect a massive crash, and when it’s just seven companies propping up an entire economy, the pop is going to be very bad. I’d rather lose a little value in the short term than have my portfolio drop to a calamitous degree and have to wait 5-10 years for it to recover.

*not a FA, just my personal plan

The Punisher

This just tells me that Israel has pedo videos of the decision makers at Google.

there are a lot of us that want to help.

I get that. I mean on a macro level.

Gavin Newsom, presumably one of the front runners for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, is enthusiastically criminalizing homelessness in California right now. People are lionizing him and ignoring it for his dank memes.

I don’t think a lot of people think that homeless people should be jailed or imprisoned, but when you’re content to vote for politicians helping to make that happen as a collective, what you believe as an individual doesn’t matter much.

That is a very broad question.

What specifically are you wanting to improve right now?

Yeah, this is the same crap they had last year.

This was in the plan

It’s also generally where our government operates. Under Clinton we watched the social safety net get cut. Under Dubya it was cut further. When the poors tried to revolt Obama stood by and let the NYPD brutalize them and let the banks con and rob them. Biden and Trump I also got in on the fun of making life harder for the poors, by standing by and doing nothing as the cost of living has doubled and tripled while wages stayed stagnant. (And for added fun, Biden and Trump have done nothing while homelessness is increasingly criminalized.)

It’s who we are at a cultural level. We ARE a cruel people.

We’re not dumbfounded by this.

Over the last 40 years our Federal Government has always been very intentionally and deliberately cruel to the poor. Democrats have done it. Republicans have done it. In our culture poverty is viewed as a personal moral failing, so it’s a-okay if you’re thrust out into the street to starve.

(Not saying I agree with it. It’s just silly to pretend that Americans really give a shit about poverty.)

Always love a good pedant.

But the exact number really doesn’t matter and isn’t the point.

And all to have a few thousand extra billionaires.