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golden bubble posted:It's like American macro-economic policy. Most of the current heads learned that inflation is Satan during stagflation of the late 70s-early 80s. It might just take a generational shift for economic leaders to give inequality anywhere near as much prominence as inflation. Inflation and inequality are really divorced from one another policy wise, the former being the responsibility of the Fed. It's simply that politicians don't care about income inequality.
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psydude posted:Inflation and inequality are really divorced from one another policy wise, the former being the responsibility of the Fed. It's simply that politicians don't care about income inequality. The fed is also supposed to care about the employment rate I believe, but they traditionally weight inflation much more heavily. But that's not inequality really.
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Crakkerjakk posted:The fed is also supposed to care about the employment rate I believe, but they traditionally weight inflation much more heavily. A very simplified version of it is that a strong economy means low unemployment, but growing inflation and increasing consumer prices. So by raising interest rates they can help offset inflation. But yeah, technically 99% of the workforce could work at minimum wage while we have low unemployment.
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Oct 20, 2018 04:29
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golden bubble posted:During the rise of St. Reagan, the democrats learned that a ultra-centrist platform was the best way to get votes. It's going to take a while for the old democratic establishment to learn that times have changed. For many of the old national democrats, they can't learn this new lesson, and have to be replaced instead. Unfortunately we don't have the time to wait "a while" for the Dems to learn the times are changing. We don't have time to wait for a generational shift and it doesn't matter if we did. Those in power don't give a poo poo about inequality no matter the team. Rome is burning. I just hope more people join the bucket brigade than take up the fiddle.
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I don't think there's a single financial situation out there that has even begun to address the pretty fundamental fact that economies based around infinite growth don't work on one planet, so that'll be a fun little side project to figure out. Of course we'll all be dead from climate change before that's a significant political problem.
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Climate change will solve the jobs problem because in the dark future every hand will be needed for labor in the new world.
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Vasudus posted:Climate change will solve the jobs problem because in the dark future every hand will be needed for labor in the new world. this but unironically (leverage gained by the 25% deaths from the black death gave us the european improvement in living conditions)
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Oct 20, 2018 05:23
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Godholio posted:It's gonna be this. I used to have a putty power ranger toy as a kid and when you hit a button on its chest all of the extremities would explode via spring away from the trunk.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:33
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Ohhh, so it was actually the democrats that have been moving so far left this entire time. It wasn't at all the GOP moving so far to the right there's barely anything to their right left anymore for the past twenty years. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1053355470449127424
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Oct 20, 2018 05:53
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I don't know why everybody is so concerned about devastating climate change when the solution is staring us in the face. We just need a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India. The climate will drop, less people will be producing fossil fuels (not that they are even the cause of climate change), and a large amount of potential climate refugees won't be around to become climate refugees. We can even maintain our current existence of serving those who live in their towers of avarice while we subsist off the scraps they provide us. Checkmate libs.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Ohhh, so it was actually the democrats that have been moving so far left this entire time. It wasn't at all the GOP moving so far to the right there's barely anything to their right left anymore for the past twenty years. It's really cool how they're using the mob narrative to preemptively delegitimize the upcoming elections.
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BaconAndBullets posted:I don't know why everybody is so concerned about devastating climate change when the solution is staring us in the face. We just need a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India. The climate will drop, less people will be producing fossil fuels (not that they are even the cause of climate change), and a large amount of potential climate refugees won't be around to become climate refugees. We can even maintain our current existence of serving those who live in their towers of avarice while we subsist off the scraps they provide us. Checkmate libs. One of my more useless skills is remembering Futurama jokes. Global warming will be cancelled out by nuclear winter.
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As Nero Danced posted:One of my more useless skills is remembering Futurama jokes. Global warming will be cancelled out by nuclear winter. We didn't think the four horsemen would be racing like it's at the track, but here we are.
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Fister Roboto posted:It's really cool how they're using the mob narrative to preemptively delegitimize the upcoming elections. He's seriously hitting all the greatest hits of Fascism 101. "My political opponents are a violent mob, the political process is rigged if I don't win, reporters are the enemy of the people, your suffering is caused by this minority group, we need law and order, only I can protect you." Just waiting for words to turn into deeds.
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"Stop hitting yourself with a bonesaw, Khashoggi! Nooo. It was a suicide really. He just fell apart somehow. It must have been stress. Totally not us." -Saudi official line "I am satisfied with the Saudi explanation. Very believable." -Trump "Remember that governor who beat up a journalist? My kind of guy." -Trump, in the same week as above.  It's as if things that are said might actually matter, but who am I kidding? It's 2018. Vote while you have the chance.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Ohhh, so it was actually the democrats that have been moving so far left this entire time. It wasn't at all the GOP moving so far to the right there's barely anything to their right left anymore for the past twenty years. He's starting to get that really tired look presidents don't get until term 2.
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EBB posted:He's starting to get that really tired look presidents don't get until term 2. He looks like he's been losing weight. But like the kind of losing weight that drug addicts or depressed people do.
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Oct 20, 2018 13:50
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Yes, rapid stress weight loss makes your cheeks a bit hollow.
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psydude posted:He looks like he's been losing weight. But like the kind of losing weight that drug addicts or depressed people do. I'm sure his blood pressure is increasing as well.
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Oct 20, 2018 13:59
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EBB posted:He's starting to get that really tired look presidents don't get until term 2. Good.
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Typhus outbreak in Los Angeles and yes this is somehow current events and not news from the 14th century https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/los-angeles-typhus-outbreak-homeless
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aphid_licker posted:Typhus outbreak in Los Angeles and yes this is somehow current events and not news from the 14th century Vaccines cause autism
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We put all these people in the poo poo gutter and now they are diseased, this is a most strange outcome indeed.
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Waroduce posted:Vaccines cause autism There isn't a typhus vaccine. Typhus spreads in crowded slums with poor sanitation via fleas and ticks.
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Casual reminder that rich white people are vaccinating their children at a rate usually seen in one of the worlds most impoverished and war-torn nations. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/wealthy-la-schools-vaccination-rates-are-as-low-as-south-sudans/380252/
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Casual reminder that rich white people are vaccinating their children at a rate usually seen in one of the worlds most impoverished and war-torn nations. Thats an old article and US vaccine rates are up.
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mlmp08 posted:Thats an old article and US vaccine rates are up. Not really https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaccine-rates-are-so-are-refusals-n838811
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This is a real goddamned headline from this goddamned week: Witches to 'hex' Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh; exorcists pray in response This saddest part is that I honestly hope that hex poo poo works.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Witches to 'hex' Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh; exorcists pray in response Ladies and gentlemen, your 2018 headline of the year!
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maffew buildings posted:"By engaging the public sphere with their physical presence, women bring about all sexual harassment incidents, just solely by being present. This is a biological inevitability that only they can take responsibility for" - Dr. Jordan Peterson drat where did he say this?
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BigDave posted:Ladies and gentlemen, your 2018 headline of the year! There’s still two months left in the year.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:This is a real goddamned headline from this goddamned week: Witches to 'hex' Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh; exorcists pray in response #imwitchher
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Witches go on chapo
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Witches go on chapo 
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Stultus Maximus posted:There isn't a typhus vaccine. Typhus spreads in crowded slums with poor sanitation via fleas and ticks. There isn't any commercially available typhus vaccines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhus_vaccine
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FrozenVent posted:There’s still two months left in the year. Needs to have something about Fortnite or twitter in the headline to really be the headline of the year imo
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Don't forget pete and ariana. Guillotine.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Don't forget pete and ariana. I need Pete and Ariana to stick it out so I can convince an idiot friend of mine brain meds work. (I'm only like 45% joking here)
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I'd rather listen to Arianas' idiot brother that was on big brother attempt to sing falsetto any of Whitney Houstons' catalog and murder my eardrums than acknowledge the "news" those two generate. John Legend/Chrissy Teigen best celeb couple.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I'd rather listen to Arianas' idiot brother that was on big brother attempt to sing falsetto any of Whitney Houstons' catalog and murder my eardrums than acknowledge the "news" those two generate. I didn't know it was a thing until I googled it and now I hate everyone even more
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