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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
Of all the banking practices to get mad at why focus on fractional reserve banking?  Also I have no idea what BOMF is supposed to be and I'm not sure I want to. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Feb 13, 2022 |
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Cowcaster posted:pretty sure he's mad at don't look up
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Twelve by Pies posted:The "death from covid/with covid" distinction talk from right wingers just reminds me of that dude from Chatterbox in GTA 3. The one who was like "Nobody's ever died from being shot by a bullet! They die of cardiac arrest or organ failure or massive blood loss, a small piece of metal ain't the problem!" Cardiac arrest being the only real cause of death is both an old old joke among doctors, and also technically the literal truth. Source: My sister, who is an actual goddamn doctor.
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Feb 13, 2022 21:05
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Groke posted:Cardiac arrest being the only real cause of death is both an old old joke among doctors, and also technically the literal truth. There have to be exceptions right. Decapitation? Vaporization in a nuclear attack?
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VitalSigns posted:There have to be exceptions right. Both of those involve the heart no longer beating.
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 Broelman:  60 Minutes did an episode with the Morrisons where Scott's wife Jenny apologised for Scott's mistakes and talked about how rude Grace Tame was. The teaser they showed a few days ago was Scott Morrison sitting at the table with his family playing the ukulele singing April Sun in Cuba so now this will be all the cartoons. Rowe:  A whole bunch of stuff that happened. Bega and NSW premier Perrottet are there because there were a bunch of by-elections in NSW where there were massive swings against the government and the seat of Bega was won by Labor. Knight:  Lethbridge:  Warren Brown:  Leak, Son of Leak:  The Australian has a piece on the opposition leader: Will the real Anthony Albanese please stand up? (The Australian, paywalled). "Is Anthony Albanese Australia’s (younger) version of Joe Biden: a lifetime politician at the centre of parliamentary and party power plays for decades, but still an unknown quantity?" I haven't read this piece but during the pandemic Albanese lost a lot of weight and started wearing suits and glasses to present himself as a credible alternative PM and is a contrast to Hawaiian shirt and ukulele.
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readingatwork posted:Of all the banking practices to get mad at why focus on fractional reserve banking? BOMF is just the sound effect used when the devil girl uses her powers to blow something up.
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readingatwork posted:Of all the banking practices to get mad at why focus on fractional reserve banking? One of the consequences of believing only gold is money is opposing fractional reserve banking because it basically creates money out of thin air. Libertarian conservatives and ancaps have an almost religious fascination with gold, and they blame pretty much all economic woes on fractional reserve banking https://mises.org/library/faults-fractional-reserve-banking quote:Austrian economists, and Ludwig von Mises in particular, have shown that fractional-reserve banking under commodity money necessarily causes economic problems on a grand scale. This is because banks then engage in circulation-credit expansion — that is, they issue money through lending that is not backed by real savings. E: the mental gymnastics in that article to justify why fractional reserve banking isn't a free market creation by private business are very funny. Fractional reserve banking is actually a government creation because the government isn't using regulations to ban it! VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Feb 13, 2022 |
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Feb 13, 2022 23:12
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Pants Donkey posted:
Bloody Sunday, famous for a bunch of black people...standing on a bridge and not wanting to move off of it. Also famous for "the media" whitewashing the viole-- history.com posted:Weeks earlier, King had scolded Life magazine photographer Flip Schulke for trying to assist protestors knocked to the ground by authorities instead of snapping away. “The world doesn’t know this happened because you didn’t photograph it,” King told Schulke, according to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Race Beat. Oh.
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readingatwork posted:Of all the banking practices to get mad at why focus on fractional reserve banking? Bomf is his generic SFX for "thing a devil does to devilify something", like making an evil book or whatever. Fractional Reserve Banking is one of those "I really just mean Jews" dogwhistles. It's the idea that, because FRB allows banks to "multiply" money, it's bad and causes inflation and poo poo. It's the same kind of zeroith-order thinking that makes someone a goldbug.
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Have y'all seen the latest Ben Garrison cartoon? The real bomb is the poo poo he writes in his blog to accompany it: quote:The problem is, it’s not true. Our country was founded as a Republic, not a democracy. The word ‘democracy’ does not appear in our Constitution. The founding fathers were wary of democracy. They knew democracies were dangerous and unstable. They end up leading to totalitarianism. It’s why Karl Marx stated, “Democracy is the road to socialism.” When you hear our politicians say ‘our democracy,’ what they really mean is ‘our socialism.’ So Ben Garrison is explicitly anti-democracy. I loving hate this guy, may his balls be chewed off by diseased wolves. I bet if he lived 300 years ago, he'd be a total pro absolute monarchy guy, defending the rights of nobles to keep the lands and title that they took by force. Right-wingers tend to have very weird ideas about how the world works. Kurzon fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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Trapezium Dave posted:
No, it's the grew-up-in-the-eastern-suburbs-played-union-failed-ad-exec-moved-to-the-shire-lifetime-sharkies-supporter that is the real genuine article.
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Kurzon posted:Have y'all seen the latest Ben Garrison cartoon? The "we're not a democracy, we're a republic" is a red flag for the absolute bottom of the barrel libertarians, the dumbest among them. He isn't really being anti-democracy here, he's making like 3 arguments that don't go anywhere even if he thinks they are, some of which don't even start anywhere and couldn't be explained if you put him on the spot. Namely "Ok what is a republic?" for instance. The most generous reading of this dumb-rear end argument is the idiots making it are saying that "Republic = Representative Democracy" and "Democracy = Direct Democracy". Which is a stupid mix of being pedantic and incorrect at the same time. Grape fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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It's also possible that Ishida is dumb enough that he confused fractional reserve banking and the Federal Reserve, since libertarians love to go off about how the Federal Reserve is how
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Grape posted:The "we're not a democracy, we're a republic" is a red flag for the absolute bottom of the barrel libertarians, the dumbest among them. like that's it it really is that simple for some people
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Vib Rib posted:I think it's literally just people trying to instill (or believing the instilled message) that "Democracy = Democrat = bad", "Republic = Republican = good" I think it’s also often partially about denying the equality of people under the law and saying that some have and should have more rights than others, as realized by the legislature’s power over the common rabble.
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Vib Rib posted:I think it's literally just people trying to instill (or believing the instilled message) that "Democracy = Democrat = bad", "Republic = Republican = good" No, it's definitely Grape posted:
which poorly educated 4th grade social studies teachers have been saying forever and people whose education on government stops there have been believing.
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Stultus Maximus posted:No, it's definitely
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Twelve by Pies posted:It's also possible that Ishida is dumb enough that he confused fractional reserve banking and the Federal Reserve, since libertarians love to go off about how the Federal Reserve is how Could he be a dumbass goldbug, an anti-Semite, or both? The answer is probably both.
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I think the vast majority who say the "it's a republic not a democracy" have no idea what it means. Someone on right wing radio said it to justify the Republican winning a presidential election despite not winning the popular vote and they thought it sounded smart and it allows them to believe this is the Right Way as defined by the infallible Founding Fathers and therefore unquestionable. It goes no deeper than that.
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Pants Donkey posted:Could he be a dumbass goldbug, an anti-Semite, or both? The answer is probably both. Probably both, as someone on the Sinfest subreddit noted, the evil professor talking about fractional reserve banking being the key to controlling the masses looks like Einstein, who was Jewish. Murdstone posted:I think the vast majority who say the "it's a republic not a democracy" have no idea what it means. Someone on right wing radio said it to justify the Republican winning a presidential election despite not winning the popular vote and they thought it sounded smart and it allows them to believe this is the Right Way as defined by the infallible Founding Fathers and therefore unquestionable. It goes no deeper than that. Yeah, it's mostly just to justify all the times the Republicans have lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote. They had the complete opposite take on "republic not a democracy" back when states passed laws banning same sex marriage by popular vote and then had those laws overturned by the courts, with talk about how they were overturning the will of the people. And as has been said before, if the electoral college ever started favoring Democrats instead of Republicans, the right would absolutely start trying to abolish it.
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Robert Ariail Clay Bennett  Steve Benson  Steve Breen  Jeff Danziger  Al Goodwyn  Clay Jones  Steve Kelley  You know, I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen any C.W. McCall references throughout all of this. Michael Ramirez  Tom Stiglich  Plucky little Joe Rogan
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Pants Donkey posted:Fractional banking was (and technically still is) a problem…but only because deregulation in the 80s/90s allowed banks to gamble the amount they have to keep in reserve on stuff. Which became….troublesome when that stuff happened to be bundled mortgages. Yeah. FRB is "bad" in the way inflation is "bad" or debt is "bad": when your understanding of economics extends to the edges of your peripheral vision and no further.
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Rall: Time for Accountability on the Uyghurs Ted Rall posted:China’s oppression of its Uyghur minority in the western province of Xinjiang has been well documented for decades but it’s only now, that China is hosting the Beijing Olympics, that the West is finally paying attention. Forgotten in the belated outcry is America’s own role in oppressing the very same people, doing China’s dirty work for it as part of the so-called war on terror. First Dog on the Moon: How could such a likeable down to earth guy like the prime minister be slipping in popularity? Let's find out 
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Raised By Birds posted:Al Goodwyn
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Murdstone posted:I think the vast majority who say the "it's a republic not a democracy" have no idea what it means. Someone on right wing radio said it to justify the Republican winning a presidential election despite not winning the popular vote and they thought it sounded smart and it allows them to believe this is the Right Way as defined by the infallible Founding Fathers and therefore unquestionable. It goes no deeper than that. This is the entire right wing in a nutshell. Conservatives do something lovely -> Get called out on it -> Make some half-assed excuse to justify it which is absorbed by the base and becomes a new right wing dogma. That's it. That's the entire movement. There is no actual ideology or deeper attempt to make it a better place. It's just a bunch of assholes desperately trying to explain to each other why it's OK that they got caught saying n-word.
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Raised By Birds posted:
This is funny to me because the Rams won.
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Cowcaster posted:pretty sure he's mad at don't look up He should be, it sucked.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
What the gently caress is BOMF Also the Buildabergs. Lol.
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HootTheOwl posted:What the gently caress is BOMF It's the sound effect he uses for devil magic. Probably a reference to the X-Men's Nightcrawler, who goes BAMF when he teleports.
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Raised By Birds posted:Tom Stiglich Yeah, Stiglich absolutely strikes me as someone who believes that it’s tyranny that he can’t say the n-word without repercussions.
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Vib Rib posted:I bet this inquest will finally put her away! I guess the right wing has just decided Hillary's running for president in 2024, whether she is or not.
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By popular demand posted:How old is Ishida anyway? that joke was old when the characters were born. I read once that he made his start for a college newspaper in the 90's, so he's probably in his fifties now? Assuming that's true; I can certainly believe it from his politics.
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Tatsuya Ishida was always based. Remember his phase where he was attacking prostitution and pornography every other strip? He was a called a militant feminist back then, but now that I think of it, there's nothing really feminist there. Modern feminists don't care much about prostitution. They care about things like job discrimination, the gender pay gap, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and abortion — things which Ishida never touched upon in his strips. He was never a feminist. You know who also hates prostitution and porn? Conservative Christians.
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Kurzon posted:Tatsuya Ishida was always based. Doesn't 'based' mean good in the current Internet lingo? Are you using that wrong or am I going mad?
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Raised By Birds posted:Steve Kelley Oh, populist reforms. Like?
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Doesn't 'based' mean good in the current Internet lingo? Are you using that wrong or am I going mad? Anyway, even when he appeared to be a militant feminist, I didn't respect him because he had a very weird idea about how prostitution and pornography worked. He seemed rather out of touch with reality. It seemed like almost every woman in his strips was a victim of sexual exploitation. Kurzon fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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 Rat Comics for January: Radicalized Rats  12/27Well, they at least produce something as opposed to just owning a factory or making decisions on how to maximize profits over all else. Now of course we should be regulating these celebrities, as many of them also exploit the working class, and ergo, we must seize the means of production.  1/6"By work I mean opposing every bill you send our way." "Oh, whew! For a moment there I was worried." "Worry not, old friend. We remain dedicated to our mutual cause: ensuring the people never seize the means of production."  1/7I forget what she actually said, but you know.  1/8"Huh, I seem to be posting this one more frequently every year..."  1/9Yes....HA HA....YES  1/16ANY DAY NOW  1/16"Why must I jump through hoops to survive? Is life not part of our guaranteed rights? And do you immediately pit me against another person who is merely trying to secure their own survival? It is clear to me now: we must seize the means of production."  1/21"Either way, I don't even own this farm. Some faceless megacorp does ever since your grandfather sold it in '77. We do the work, and they get all the profit. Junior, forget hemp, what we must sow are the seeds of revolution. We must seize the means of production."  1/22"You're right, personal responsibility is a myth passed on by polluting megacorps! I need to pressure my lawmakers into more environmental regulations, and to primary those that refuse." "Wow, good point. We must seize the means of production. "  1/23Any day now, Ratman says, and then I can finally get off.  1/26"Wait, what does sports performance have to do with academics? In fact, why are we paying for something that's practically required to make a livable wage? Why must these girls compete for a future? Clearly, we must seize the means of production."  1/27"Blathering goat! I was raised in the culture of Christianity; immersed in it from the day of my birth. I am intimate with its teachings, and its critical flaws. I cannot speak the same of a religion I do not know. I cannot criticize a culture alien to me. All I know is that religion is the opiate of the masses, and I wish to free them so that we may seize the means of production."  1/28"Earl, my old friend. Do you know see what you have been reduced to? You huddle in cold, cramped conditions just to imbibe deadly chemicals that offer nothing but fleeting joy. The fiends who sell these have put a price on your very life. I will not allow them to kill you like this, Earl. I will see to it that they pay for their crimes. And to do that, we must be seize the means of production."  1/29"You swine. You complete fool. We must tax the soporifics that keep us dazed and helpless, and make firearms accessible to the people for our ultimate goal: seizing the means of production."  1/31"Curious, we all seem to be struggle despite our varied backgrounds and histories. I wonder what we must do..."  1/31"Listen here, you cur, I will not patronize an establishment that treats its workers like a burden. There are no customers without workers, and you would do well to remember that. Your callous disregard for your fellow man leaves me with no alternative: we must seize the means of production." Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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