100%! There does seem to be a shit-lib idea that allowing the mega rich to dictate our immigration policy, specifically in order to drive down wages, is a left wing position. It is not. Not even slightly.

Even as someone who knows the only way to stop most of the shit is to abolish boarders all together, which is way too radical for most people, we have to deal with the world as it is, not how we would like it to be.

Of course the mega rich are a bigger problem, but don’t think they won’t weaponise immigration in more than one way where they can.

Love it!

I accept all major credit cards, cash and ritual humiliation.

Why would a war on the completion alone hurt the CIAs drug sales? Think through what you’re saying before labeling it in that way, just because you dont understand what’s being said. If your drug runners make it across the border without any hassle, you make more money than anyone else. It really isn’t as hard to understand as you’re making out to be.

Also, I mean the CIA literally ran the heroin game out of Laos and Myanmar from the start Vietnam war until they switched the base of operations of Afghanistan in the early 2000s. It’s how they paid for operation gladio and the illegal regime changes around the world, in the exact same way they flooded America with crack in the 80s.

It not making sense to you is a user issue.

If we realise that the “war on drugs” was actually the CIA’s war on the competition because counter narco insurgency is, for instance and purposes, indistinguishable from narco insurgency, the “war on drugs” was a roaring success. I mean, those illegal regime changes and death squads aren’t free, ya know.

Subcultures. These days, it’s just an aesthetic choice.

You’d have thought that depicting Mary pegging satan would get you burned at the steak in those days. Apparently not, it would seem.

They have eyes for nipples and nipples for eyes. It’s Titface!

It’s not an illegal bribe, if we legalise it and call it lobbying. *taps head

In the rest of the western world, landlords buy houses. They’re especially prolific for this in places with a high demand for housing, as this will maximise their profit extraction for the least amount of work. It’s a real problem, especially when the people denying mortgages to people are the same ones buying up the housing stock.

The same claim is made in the UK about the “real” problem being building regulations, as if forcing developers to build infrastructure like schools and roads (along with the houses they want to build) is a bad thing. Luckily though, the idea that the private sector could save us from themselves, at the expense of their own profit, is so silly that most people are informed enough to dismiss it instantly as nothing more than the corporate propaganda it is.

At some point, we have to start accepting the finite nature of land.

I would look at things like “supply and demand” to answer that question.

It depends on what you mean by absorb. To make into muscle, it’s about right. Maybe a bit more for a man on a hard weight lifting regime. Like, 4 x 1-1.5 hours a week. The rest will be stored as fat, if it isn’t used for energy, the same as anything else. That could also be seen as absorbed but I think you mean the first one.

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100%. For example right now the meat and dairy lobby groups are pushing hard for everyone to eat for more protein than they need. Now, I have people who can’t tell the difference between a cytokine and a histone without using Google, even if it slapped them round the face, telling me they need 100g plus a day in Brotien. Its just a coincidence that this so called health advice makes those groups a lot more money.

“How dare you say that I’d convert to islam”

Trump 2026.

This just in, ignorance is still bliss

The only other person here who understands MMT. Sorry for your downvotes. Just wanted to send some love, over the ignorance.

I have one simple trick for people who hate taxation but turn a blind eye to corporate profits. Instead of calling it “tax” call it “government profit” because, apparently, that’s all it takes to fool them.

I mean, we’ve barely started. I don’t think it’s time to think about when we should stop. But, if we have to, it’ll be when it’s finished.

They do have these programs but they barely scratch the surface or even contra the damage currently being done to the communities in question.

It’s not exactly easy but it’s not exactly impossible either. Of course, not you necessarily, someone could keep declaring it impossible to do no matter much the subject is researched.

For example, we can see that the communities effected by this have had far less investment than places that benefitted. The way to fix a severe lack of investment is through significant investment. There’ll be more, of course, but that’s an easy one right there.

Arming and radicalising traumatised people and setting them against people you don’t like is quite the American staple.