more career-family politicians are not what anyone in the US needs, you want actual change you need a Lincoln type.

working class roots whose class/privelage conscious, but also not ignorant/naive of The Game.

you’d think everyone would have caught on to this deliberate boom and bust cycle by now…the term itself comes from an investment strategy.

way way back in the day, bankers, who tended to be the most well-traveled/internationally connected and educated people around, knew that certain economies were fundamentally tied to others. if X disaster hit a certain industry, Y town would inevitably fall into ruin as liquidity dried up. so the savy investment bankers had this great idea of extending very generous loans to people in those vulnerable towns, whose livelyhoods were inevitably headed for ruin. them you swoop in, collect what debt you can, then get to get distressed assets extra cheap.

hell, this has been JPM’s speciality for centuries…it’s no accident they’re the largest bank in the world. they just so happened to be the most ruthless capitalists around, in the country where the bottom line is the only thing that’s really sacred

or the US could just properly regulate it’s banks, like most of the rest of the world does.

US banks are still doing boom and bust predatory lending like it’s the 1600’s

we definitely need more sitting spaces in public…though mid-stairwell is an odd choice.

clinton saying under oath trump sucked him off would be great soundbite, and possibly shatter some maga brains would be hilarious

i’m too lazy to read more than the headline…this kinda seems like researchers missing the tree for the forest.

could it be that sex just feels good, and the majority of apes really don’t have social relationships complex enough for gay/straight to have any meaning whatsoever?

a hole is a hole

this kinda seems like how researchers hide all the animal rape that goes on, because it’s “icky” for humans (penguins and dolphins especially, it seems)

I can guarantee you an HoA that fines slightly parking in the grass is gonna have some rule about not using gravel on your front lawn

i can’t tell if alot of these answers are sarcastic or not…

i know social media as a whole is predominantly affluent rich people with too much time on their hands, so maybe that’s just what this demographic is about idk. but surely these people know if you coddle too much the second these kids leave the nest they’re going to make an absolute shitload of mistakes

better to make those mistakes young in relatively controlled environment, teach critical analysis/how to avoid scams/watch out for predatory behavior etc. than to try and pretend it doesn’t exist through a walled garden

you can’t stay in walled garden forever, at some point someone is either escaping, breaking in, or the walls just crumbling down

welcome to the end-game of a police state

https://diskprices.com/

is the best resource for finding cheap personal digital storage, last i looked into it not sure how up-to-date that site is kept though

i do recall hearing something about the head-hair results not being as effective as beard-hair result, something about different hair follicle types? just pulling from memory/personal experience though, no studies or anything

beard results do appear to be permanent, slightly less thick when you stop but long as you use it for a year or so it does seem to fill out a pube-beard permanently.

blanket federal funding wouldnt mean shit to the bottom states, it would just be ratfucked into the local robber barons coffers like everything else is currently.

fixing mississippi starts by removing the slavers-sons running the state like it’s their personal piggybank, same for pretty much all former slave states.

don’t be retarded

…there’s already a cure for this though? minoxidil, great for filling out beards

i mean…there is no center in the US, all reform is “left” at this point i think. anyone running on a platform of “i want to actually spend your $ on something useful, instead of ratfucking it” is progressive in the US, that’s how far the overton window has shifted to the right

i really think your giving the palestinian thing too much weight, the overwhelming majority of US voters are selfish…both just as a natural consequence of how brutal america is for the working clas and how short-sighted/greedy it’s capitalists are. majority of the country living paycheck to paycheck…

america as a whole just votes for whoever promises them the most immediate benefit/relief, then expects them to lie/fuck em over anyway. single-issue culture war/idealist voters are the minority.

most of the working class does not have the privilege of worrying about palestine, ukraine, or anyone else for that matter. they’re focused on providing for their immediate family/friends… they’ve been lied to by career politicians for generations

i do allow myself a smidge of optimism, with mamdani winning NYC’s mayoral election.

if an open and honest socialist can win major seat in the most crooked/establishment heart of america, then progressives can win any seat in the country.

israel has been slaughtering palestinians for the last 50+ years, the US has always stepped in to prop them up across dozens of administrations.

there is/was absolutely no reason suspect this position to change with establishment dems in power.

…the US doesn’t have proportional representation for presidential elections, nor for the House in most states considering how gerrymandered everyt is, so it doesn’t matter where most of the people live.

until it does, how rural america sees you is all that matters. you want to win battleground states, you have to atleast be able to pretend to be an actual person.

doesn’t matter what your positions are, becaude most US voters are just selfish anyway, be a complete piece of shit long as you come off as a “real” piece of shit.

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