Trump can basically print infinite amounts of dollars through the federal reserve.
As we all know, conflicts are hella expensive and often decided by who can stay solvent longer. The fact that trump can just print dollars is extremely problematic here.
I guess the necessary course of action would be to bring the dollar’s value to zero, and use an alternative currency instead (such as euro, canadian dollar, mexican pesos).
My city can’t afford housing or transit but just spent $150 million building a stadium for live nation. Free taxpayer funded stadiums for corporations to profit from, yay!
Calgary?
“Live Nation Entertainment is composed of Live Nation, an events promoter and venue operator, and Ticketmaster, a ticket sales giant. The two companies merged in 2010 and now control an estimated 70% of the ticketing and live event venues market.”
The world desperately needs more Luigis.
*and actively destroys/dismantles anything one could remotely be proud of having their tax money go to.
I’d gladly fund NASA and scientific research any day of the week, but nooooo gotta feed the poor poor billionaires.
My republican coworkers are complaining about NASA because they always flake when buying our products (we sell electronic stuff to defense related military contractors) because they don’t have enough budget.
Fucking idiots don’t realize that their political party doesn’t even want a NASA
but noooo gotta feed the poor
HUH?!
poor billionaires
Aaaahhhh.
Yeah, I did the same thing at first. Did the half head tilt thing and didnt finish reading and was like, uhm, am I readinnn that right? Oh.
:P
I’d be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.
Now let’s talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent
Love my taxes going to committing genocide and protecting Israel
Me trying to take a dump
Need an hand to help you back up? You seem to keep falling down.
- issuing currency
- collecting taxes
- suppressing evidence of child sex trafficking
One of these things is so outrageously unlike the others that it makes me kinda sus of whoever decided to put them all in the same list
*Corrupt Government
*Has the ability to print money out of thin air with no downside.
*Forces you pay taxes anyway making you technically complicit in its crimes.
*Uses Its infinite wealth and power to openly protect child predators instead of something good because it is a corrupt government. (The most recent thing in the news cycle)
Interesting how all these things line up together when you don’t abstract these things into nothingness. It makes me very sus of the person who decide to reword these so they don’t fit on the same list.
No disagreement on the corruption, coercion, or economic exploitation.
Nor that there’s a straight line from their ability to manipulate the economic and legal systems… directly to their ability to evade justice for the worst crimes imaginable.
My concern is:
Tech libertarians using a (nearly-) universally-acknowledged and reviled scourge as a pretense to post in progressive spaces and sneak in neo-metallist sentiments like “taxation is theft” and “money-printing is fraud”.
I’m not saying OP or even OOP is one, for sure. But the meme does advance their narrative.
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You really saw a random image of Xi making a
face and got upset enough from the sight of him to start comparing a chinese man to a yellow bear. 
Just skip to using slurs next time loser your not slick.No I think slurs are awful, but its just laughably easy to annoy a lot of tankies by pointing out fairly well-evidenced, uncontroversial facts, so its a bit of a hobby of mine.
Speaking of which, here’s another well-evidenced, uncontroversial fact:
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
Oh, shit, fuck, I guess that makes me uh, a cultural appropriator, yeah, fuck, damn, I’m such a bad loser person, that attack angle will work!
Pooh bear thing is a racist redditism so maybe just cut that part from your repertoire
No I think slurs are awful
But racist caricatures are just fine and dandy for you. So you’re not just a racist, you’re a hypocrite who likes to pretend you’re not racist. Good to know.
but its just laughably easy to annoy a lot of tankies by pointing out fairly well-evidenced, uncontroversial facts,
What annoys “tankies” is typical white western chauvinist losers who mistake the western “culture” they’ve been brought up in and force-fed propaganda as “uncontroversial facts” that just happen to parrot US state department talking points. Yes, it gets very annoying to have to counter the same cringe bullshit that liberals who fancy themselves as radical say over and over, after being absolutely refuted over and over. You can only explain the basics to a smug 5-year-old so many times before it starts to wear on a person no matter how patient they are. Also, you should know that the people you’re calling “tankies” aren’t just ML’s but also anarchists who have taken the time to educate themselves (rather than “anarchists” who just adopt the term while still adhering to liberalism and carrying water for the systems of oppression they say they’re opposed to).
so its a bit of a hobby of mine.
Jesus, it never ceases to amaze me when some fool literally announces how cringe they are yet think they’re being clever or cool for making the announcement.
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
A racist meme appeared in an evil and authoritarian country that doesn’t tolerate the spread of open racism (so evil and authoritarian!) so they removed and blocked that meme on their web. This meme and the rumors about it being blocked were then picked up by racists in the freedomland country where racism reigns supreme (because people are so free there) and twisted into an absurd lie about a cartoon character being banned in the evil country (which never happened), and used as propaganda (based on a lie) to reinforce the common knowledge that everybody knows: the mean authoritarian country that addresses racism is so evil and authoritarian it bans cartoon characters! So now all the good freedom-enjoyers in freedomland like yourself get to use that racist meme and the lie it’s tied to to make oh so very cogent points about freedom and how bad it is to be authoritarian. You really owned the tankies here, wowzers!
And corruption obviously also exists in China, the CCP is basically constantly crusading against it.
Wow, it must suck to live in an evil authoritarian country that actively works to stamp out corruption instead of endlessly rewarding it like in freedomland USA.
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
I think you should get a better argument becase racists take things that minorities were doing and ruin them all the time. E.g. how “woke” lost its meaning when white people started using it. Even if the first time Xi and Obama were compared to Winnie the Pooh and Tiger it was done by Chinese internet users (which, by the way, doesn’t even mean it wasn’t racist, there’s a lot of racist crap on the Chinese internet too) doesn’t mean that when Western internet users do the same thing they mean it the same way.
Another example is how the Dave Chappelle Show used to have an audience who appreciated the way Dave Chappelle made fun of racists by embodying caricatures, then it slowly started to build up an audience of racists that didn’t know the joke was on them. It got to the point that Chappelle stopped doing the show because the audience had gotten so white and so racist that when he talked about anything going on in the Black community, he felt the show’s fans were just weaponizing it against Black people (see his famous “there’s n words, and there’s n words” joke). Just because something starts out within a minority community and isn’t necessarily racist in origin, doesn’t mean that when white people pick it up and decontextualize it it’ll remain benign.
“It’s a bit of a hobby of mine”
God I hope you huff so many of your own farts you literally choke to death. And I don’t even gaf about China tbh, you just seem like an insufferable waste of oxygen
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Please fuck off with this racist “pooh bear” shit. People like you are why people call most white western anarchists social fascists/chauvinists.
You really need to do better.
Why are you fucking people so obsessed with a country you have no way of influencing, you do not live there, and all you are doing is adding to the chorus of racist and fascist propaganda espoused by western intelligence and corporate news?
Work on fighting your government and let the people of China decide what to do about theirs (spoiler alert the vast majority quite like it there).
Also taxes in China are fundamentally different than taxes in the US in both use and because again printing infinite money. China does not do that.
Edit: I didn’t see the emoji load when I wrote this but my point stands. I would not be chuffed about my taxes going to build massive amounts of public housing and high speed rail in a country that has not fought an offensive war since Mao’s revolution. I’d rather be an anarchist in China running a rural collective farming outfit or some shit than trying to do the same thing in China than I would in the US who will murder me just for being a communist if it looked like we are getting too popular.
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They’re mad at #2 because #1 gives them all the money they need to do #3. So why do they need my money too?
All USD is printed. Taxes are the only thing that gives USD its value.
I have a problem with the meme playing footsie with the ideas that taxes are theft and money-printing is fraud.
These are common neo-metallist arguments. And in techie spaces like the fediverse, libertarians like to sneak them into the conversation while going “How do you do, fellow progressives?” before they start pitching NFTs.
-genocide
A charitable interpretation of “printing money out of thin air” is how they bail out corporations and landlords. Why even save if the game is so obviously rigged?
Okay but we all get that Douglas was the bad guy, right? OP??
I’m pretty sure the bad guy was the fucked-up system that tortured him into his behavior. He’s a victim as much as any of the people he hurt.
Being a victim doesn’t mean you are not also an abuser. Not all victims become abusers. We all live with the same fucked up system, but we don’t all fall down. We don’t all turn to violence and self-righteousness. Douglas was the fucking bad guy. Try watching it from his wife’s point of view.
At the time of its release, Douglas’s father, actor Kirk Douglas, declared: “He played it brilliantly. I think it is his best piece of work to date.”[26] He also defended the film against critics who claimed that it glorifies lawbreaking: “Michael’s character is not the ‘hero’ or ‘newest urban icon’. He is the villain and the victim. Of course, we see many elements of our society that contributed to his madness. We even pity him. But the movie never condones his actions.”
If you see something to be emulated or respected, you might just be fucked in the head.
I didn’t say that victims can’t be abusers, nor did I say that he was a hero.
People who’ve done harm need to be prevented from causing further harm, but it’s important to acknowledge the root cause of their behavior if you want to stop future iterations.
I think that the OP is entirely a joke, but that it comes from the very real villain of systemic injustice that pressures us all to lash out. I think one could see the film as inspirational insofar as being inspired to take violent action, but I would hope they direct their aggression towards worthy targets.
He is bad guy, but he is not bad guy
He was pretty alright when he killed that nazi
I didn’t see that part ;)
Well…
Yeah, originally I was going to say I don’t agree at all with his character, but the progression is so great, leading up to the “I’m the bad guy?” moment.
Oh damn, I’ve never seen this thanks for linking.
Perhaps you would also enjoy Changing Lanes. (Trailer)
I just don’t get how this has a 6.5 score, it seems like at least a 7+. But maybe it’s the rose tinted glasses, we were kind of spoiled for good movies back in 2002 when it came out, and most of the votes are probably from back then.
“You forgot your briefcase!”
I don’t want to be your buddy, Rick. I just want a little breakfast…
Such a great scene.
That’s it, I’m walking directly home in a straight line
I can hear Iron Maiden’s ‘Man on the Edge’ music.
And now your going to die wearing that stupid little hat
