Surprise T Rex posted:

"You say no billionaires, Jemery but you yourself have up to 3 millian poonds!"

I feel like people just don't understand how much more money a billion is than a million.

Continuity RCP posted:

I mean there's a list of LM issues and their contents and her name isn't on any of them. Probably used a different name

pablo gbscobar posted:

Getting in on the ground floor of what is sure to be one of the most legendary editions of this thread yet.

Here is a picture of Jo Swinson holding milk. May it grow wings and fly

Failed Imagineer posted:

This is where we need a new Carl Sagan to explain large numbers to people. Definitely not NDT

HorseLord posted:

I've never been chased out of UKMT

tithin posted:

CGI Stardust posted:

Maugrim posted:

There was a good graphic doing the rounds showing the difference between a million and a billion in piles of cash notes, but I can't remember where I saw it - if anyone else does it could be a good addition to the list of resources that someone is definitely compiling by now, right? (I'd volunteer but don't get much time at the PC atm)

Maugrim posted:

There was a good graphic doing the rounds showing the difference between a million and a billion in piles of cash notes, but I can't remember where I saw it - if anyone else does it could be a good addition to the list of resources that someone is definitely compiling by now, right? (I'd volunteer but don't get much time at the PC atm)

HorseLord posted:

I've never been chased out of UKMT, and in fact i don't know who you are

if you've got archives you can look back through my post history and find the entire conversation i was alluding to if you want. said holocaust denier justified himself as "challenging tankies on their bullshit", which, you know, is a hell of an excuse for insisting the nazis didn't gas people in vans

does tintower still post in here? i know a lot of mileage was gotten out of that coconut thing

HorseLord posted:

I've never been chased out of UKMT

Rarity posted:

Yes you have you oval office

HorseLord posted:

I've never been chased out of UKMT, and in fact i don't know who you are

if you've got archives you can look back through my post history and find the entire conversation i was alluding to if you want. said holocaust denier justified himself as "challenging tankies on their bullshit", which, you know, is a hell of an excuse for insisting the nazis didn't gas people in vans

does tintower still post in here? i know a lot of mileage was gotten out of that coconut thing

Jose posted:

this definitely needs to be in some labour adverts

https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1190191764738428929?s=20

Aramoro posted:

Does anyone have a link to the brexit violence poll or the images from them? You know the ones, the 5% of folk ready to throw down irrelevant of the outcome of Brexit.

atal posted:

a great way to explain that we don't have a good intuitive understanding of millions to billions to family and friends to say 'you remember what you did a million seconds ago, because that was 11 days - you know we went to the pub, whatever'.

You then say (and this definetely works best if the family member/friend is younger than 31 years old) 'you probably dont remember a billion seconds ago because you didn't exist/the berlin wall hadn't fallen yet'

edit: also this means that a trillion is 32,000 years or about 7 times older than the pyramids. The F35 just oozes value.

Doccykins posted:

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/1708631/Copy-of-England-16-Oct-AH.pdf

Doccykins posted:

We will find out at 11

Jose posted:

this definitely needs to be in some labour adverts

https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1190191764738428929?s=20

Continuity RCP posted:

I mean there's a list of LM issues and their contents and her name isn't on any of them. Probably used a different name

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Go here:

https://www.spiked-online.com/author/munira-mirza/

I clicked on a couple and they have her name on them.

Jose posted:

starmer breaking a million FBPE brains here

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1190045091190190080

Doccykins posted:

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/1708631/Copy-of-England-16-Oct-AH.pdf

Continuity RCP posted:

It's specifically LM articles I was looking for. Basically I don't think she ever actually wrote for that magazine or that the RCP were a trot group when she was associated with them

Continuity RCP posted:

It's specifically LM articles I was looking for. Basically I don't think she ever actually wrote for that magazine or that the RCP were a trot group when she was associated with them

pablo gbscobar posted:

quote:

Billionaries aren't just a policy failure, they are the embodiment of immorality. You can't be a billionaire and a good person, despite what their astroturfing PR teams on reddit may try to tell you for some of the 'good ones'.

It's literally impossible to accumulate that much wealth without the mass exploitation of others and the profits their labor generated. Not to mention the exploitation of the earth until it's uninhabitable for human life.

George Washington was the richest man in the country when the US was founded, and he "only" had today's equivalent of 500 million. That wouldn't even get him in the room with some of these ghouls today.

If people only understood just how obscenely rich these monsters were, they wouldn't be able to show their face in society while millions suffer. I like to use the analogy of a staircase, with each step on the staircase representing $100,000 of net worth. That's several years of working wages saved up for tens of millions of Americans:

HALF of people in the united states are on the base or the very 1st step. Almost 200 million people who can't even get one step up in this system.

Those households at the 80th percentile, richer than 4/5 Americans, are on the 5th step. That's about five seconds of walking to get up there.

Those with more money than 90% of fellow Americans, millionaires who we consider our upper-middle class professional class and live more than comfortably, are on the 11th step. A few more seconds of walking up from that previous middle-class step. Most Americans won't even come close to accumulating this much over an entire lifetime of working.

A billionaire is ten thousand steps up the staircase. That's enough to walk up five Empire State buildings. That's almost three hours of walking non-stop. You think they care about the petty squabbles of anyone on those first few steps or so? From these heights they couldn't tell the difference even if they wanted to. And yet those who've maybe ascended or were born on the first few dozen steps think they identify with this group as a class.

And Jeff Bezos? He's so high up it only makes sense to describe his staircase in distance. His stairs take him up 133 miles. That's more than halfway to the space station. That's more than 24 consecutive Mt. Everest's stacked on top of each other. It would take walking, non-stop, no sleep, over two weeks to ascend that high, each single step worth more than five poverty-level families in America combined.

Jose posted:

andrew lilco coming out in giving back all the stolen property in british museums shocker

https://twitter.com/andrew_lilico/status/1190208399406960641?s=20

Eschenique posted:

Then people link pictures of his million pound house and it looks like some Soviet era community project.