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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Jan 6, 2023 15:55
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evilmiera posted:Russia keeps breaking treaties but it's probably best to get mad at everyone else when they do it again like everyone predicted stfu gbs pig
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Jan 6, 2023 15:55
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:Kissinger's greatest fear was warm relations between China and Russia. Those two countries have the combined expertise, arable land, and resources to create an independent world island that can surpass the United States by any metric. It's kind of amazing how badly they've hosed everything up. The American government is run primarily by people who were alive for so much of the poo poo that America did to maintain it's place in the world through the 20th century and all that intitutional knowledge just what, disappeared? What even happened?
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Jan 6, 2023 16:04
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is the american imperial project just the super strong corporation that got passed down to a generation of failsons that didn't know how to run it and just pulled out the copper wires and let it implode
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Jan 6, 2023 16:08
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Cerebral Bore posted:i feel like its kinda misleading to only count government spending as costs to the west given that we're in the middle of a self-inflicted economic meltdown atm Inflation is high but steady year over year. gdp is up 3.2% for the 3rd quarter 2022. Stocks are down a little but i don't think that's 100% attributable to the war. Hell, dow is about where it was when the war started. I don't really see any big losses due to the war tbh
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Jan 6, 2023 16:08
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https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1611379562469892096 lol this news cycle is semantically targeted to drive us all insane
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Jan 6, 2023 16:13
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Hatebag posted:Inflation is high but steady year over year. gdp is up 3.2% for the 3rd quarter 2022. Stocks are down a little but i don't think that's 100% attributable to the war. Hell, dow is about where it was when the war started. I don't really see any big losses due to the war tbh is that just the US? It's pretty bad in the rest of the west
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Jan 6, 2023 16:13
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Hatebag posted:Inflation is high but steady year over year. gdp is up 3.2% for the 3rd quarter 2022. Stocks are down a little but i don't think that's 100% attributable to the war. Hell, dow is about where it was when the war started. I don't really see any big losses due to the war tbh ah of course, since the bullshit metrics are back where they started that totally means everything is fine
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Jan 6, 2023 16:13
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crepeface posted:is that just the US? It's pretty bad in the rest of the west Cerebral Bore posted:ah of course, since the bullshit metrics are back where they started that totally means everything is fine Inflation is quite bad right now but unless something breaks things in North America are just as "fine" as they've been since 2008 (permanent recession briefly ameliorated by a stimulus check). I don't think it's accurate to compare what's happening in Europe to the way things are in the states at the moment. That could change soon but I think it's too early to be declaring any of this war a real loss for the US.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:15
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crepeface posted:is that just the US? It's pretty bad in the rest of the west Yeah, that's just the us. Cerebral Bore posted:ah of course, since the bullshit metrics are back where they started that totally means everything is fine you made the assertion that things were bad so I looked into it and that's what i came up with. Doesn't look any worse than it was before the war and i don't know how else you'd make an analysis other than vibes or media horseshit
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Jan 6, 2023 16:18
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inflation is the highest it's been in decades, companies are shutting down all over the eurozone and neoliberalism has rotted the west so hard they they can't even produce artillery shells in the quantities necessary for a conventional war, but have you seen that the dow has bounced back???PiratePrentice posted:Inflation is quite bad right now but unless something breaks things in North America are just as "fine" as they've been since 2008 (permanent recession briefly ameliorated by a stimulus check). I don't think it's accurate to compare what's happening in Europe to the way things are in the states at the moment. That could change soon but I think it's too early to be declaring any of this war a real loss for the US. the us has been reduced to cannibalizing its euro vassals to keep their economy propped up, but the problem here is that this is not exactly a sustainable solution when the eurozone ecoomy is falling apart
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Jan 6, 2023 16:19
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1611379562469892096 this is the ceasefire ukrainians very loudly refused to accept right?
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Jan 6, 2023 16:22
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If you seriously believe that "everything is fine" and "nothing changed" in US then we live in a different universe. There's really nothing to argue about here, there are plenty of statistics that show that things "are not fine" and that things "have changed". If you chose to not look at them that's fine, but there's no discussion or argument to be had here because of that.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:28
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Truga posted:this is the ceasefire ukrainians very loudly refused to accept right? Putin violated the ceasefire to show us that he could violate the ceasefire if Ukraine had accepted it.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:34
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Hatebag posted:Inflation is high but steady year over year. gdp is up 3.2% for the 3rd quarter 2022. Stocks are down a little but i don't think that's 100% attributable to the war. Hell, dow is about where it was when the war started. I don't really see any big losses due to the war tbh lol using gdp growth as a measure of the country being ok did you see what the growth was in ill help you out like 90% of it was military sales and oil exports i missed the stocks part as well lmbo
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Jan 6, 2023 16:35
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SplitSoul posted:Putin violated the ceasefire to show us that he could violate the ceasefire if Ukraine had accepted it. lmfao it hasn't been run into the ground yet!!!
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Jan 6, 2023 16:36
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imagine living in the us right now and claiming things arnt bad economically or havent changed
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Jan 6, 2023 16:38
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But you see, the wealthy have never been doing better!
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Jan 6, 2023 16:40
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HallelujahLee posted:imagine living in the us right now and claiming things arnt bad economically or havent changed If you’re only 30-40 years old (which is still old as gently caress), might not have been around to notice the difference from the previous era of stronger unions, middle class attainability, and comically evil segregation and gender policies.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:41
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mlmp08 posted:If you’re only 30-40 years old (which is still old as gently caress), might not have been around to notice the difference from the previous era of stronger unions, middle class attainability, and comically evil segregation and gender policies. this is true to a point millennials have basically seen since day 1 but theres definitely been a curve of it getting worse over time
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Jan 6, 2023 16:43
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PiratePrentice posted:is the american imperial project just the super strong corporation that got passed down to a generation of failsons that didn't know how to run it and just pulled out the copper wires and let it implode Yes. It makes more sense when you know that there is no more real big project but individual actors working in their own self interest only. The institutions and groups are still there but they are dysfunctional now because the hogs inside can't help but pull it apart for their own gain. They don't know how to think for a larger thing anymore.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:43
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https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1611028379771482118
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Jan 6, 2023 16:44
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The media in the US is definitely gaslighting people, cause every so often I see an article about how inflation is easing and motherfucker the bread is still 50% more expensive than before the war started, rice fluctuates between 15% to 30% more expensive in any given week. Meats are still super expensive and so are the eggs. On what is the inflation easing?
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Jan 6, 2023 16:44
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HallelujahLee posted:lol using gdp growth as a measure of the country being ok did you see what the growth was in All i was doing was comparing metrics from before and after the war. They don't seem that different to me, but I'm not an economist. I didn't say things were good in the us
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Jan 6, 2023 16:45
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The media in the US is definitely gaslighting people, cause every so often I see an article about how inflation is easing and motherfucker the bread is still 50% more expensive than before the war started, rise fluctuates between 15% to 30% more expensive in any given week. Meats are still super expensive and so are the eggs. On what is the inflation easing? its gaslighting those prices arent going back to what they were they best your getting is that they dont rise as fast. it also hasent been easing at all in important stuff like food,rent they deliberately exclude stuff from inflation numbers
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Jan 6, 2023 16:46
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The media in the US is definitely gaslighting people, cause every so often I see an article about how inflation is easing and motherfucker the bread is still 50% more expensive than before the war started, rice fluctuates between 15% to 30% more expensive in any given week. Meats are still super expensive and so are the eggs. On what is the inflation easing? 75" smart TV is only like 500 bucks!
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Jan 6, 2023 16:46
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Condiv posted:It's because you accidentally asked for mutant super soldiers with thumbs instead of index fingers and 10 fingers per hand. There’s like a dedicated AI you feed Midjourney and DALLE into the fix faces, hands and eyes iirc
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Jan 6, 2023 16:47
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The media in the US is definitely gaslighting people, cause every so often I see an article about how inflation is easing and motherfucker the bread is still 50% more expensive than before the war started, rice fluctuates between 15% to 30% more expensive in any given week. Meats are still super expensive and so are the eggs. On what is the inflation easing? economists are saying that because the rate of acceleration of inflation has peaked, that inflation has peaked this is the same sleight of hand perpetrated upon the public when it came to COVID reporting, where things were perpetually optimistic because either cases were low, or cases had peaked, or cases were on the downturn
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Jan 6, 2023 16:47
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Look at all these poopie tankie pamps after Russia violated their own ceasefire.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:48
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Hatebag posted:All i was doing was comparing metrics from before and after the war. They don't seem that different to me, but I'm not an economist. I didn't say things were good in the us the point being those metrics you chose are useless to determine the well being of people economically this doesnt even touch in how economic stats are deliberately bullshitted or omit tons of real info the most obvious example being the unemployment rate
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Jan 6, 2023 16:49
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https://twitter.com/aloha9916/status/1611323524534206464
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Jan 6, 2023 16:50
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HallelujahLee posted:imagine living in the us right now and claiming things arnt bad economically or havent changed This is pretty much Megan McArdle and Malcom Gladwell’s jobs, correct? I’m married to a working economist so I just tune it out tbh. We have a new book on the coffee table or her bookshelf every month about how everything is great, the Economist weekly, the Globe and Mail daily.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:53
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Frosted Flake posted:This is pretty much Megan McArdle and Malcom Gladwell’s jobs, correct? they always do the same thing even right down to the 2008 collapse they were daily articles about how amazing everything is, its a profitable business to write bullshit garbage to gaslight people
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Jan 6, 2023 16:54
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DOW SOARS ECONOMY HUMMING
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Jan 6, 2023 16:56
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The media in the US is definitely gaslighting people, cause every so often I see an article about how inflation is easing and motherfucker the bread is still 50% more expensive than before the war started, rice fluctuates between 15% to 30% more expensive in any given week. Meats are still super expensive and so are the eggs. On what is the inflation easing? I forget where this conversation was, but food is technically back to "pre-war levels" I think. Which means it's only back to super inflated pandemic rates.   There's something about rice actually being the most stable staple food now keeping the food prices down, otherwise things would be even more expensive right now. Like right now things are not "extremely bad" they're just "really bad". You can argue that US and the west is far far from any sort of revolution, but also just going "eh it's nothing" is really weird.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:57
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HallelujahLee posted:the point being those metrics you chose are useless to determine the well being of people economically Yeah, i get that the books are cooked i just don't know what other measurements to use that would be closer to reality and i suspect it would take more than 5 minutes of googling to figure out
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Jan 6, 2023 17:02
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gradenko_2000 posted:FF is there something you're trying to tell us i remember those weird pics from the gym posted in the succ zone for some reason
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Jan 6, 2023 17:02
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Hatebag posted:Yeah, i get that the books are cooked i just don't know what other measurements to use that would be closer to reality and i suspect it would take more than 5 minutes of googling to figure out
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Jan 6, 2023 17:06
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I don't think anyone's saying things are good in the US, it's just that things are supposed to be bad in the US. The MLs were wiped out in the 60s/70s so theres zero revolutionary potential in the country, it can just be post-2008 indefinitely and it won't matter.
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Jan 6, 2023 17:06
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gradenko_2000 posted:FF is there something you're trying to tell us he finally realized there's a much larger market of potential cato husbands than potential cato wives
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