I guess it would make sense to counter that slur with a counter-slur.

I.e., when somebody calls you a slut, respond by calling them a “needy one” or sth. Might hit a spot.

where the “need” is the need to be an asshole, i mean

You drastically overestimate the share of people’s impulses that come from rational thinking, and fail to account for the fact that humans are rationalized beings, not rational beings. That means, people are emotionally first, and secondarily taught to act somewhat rational.

i’m torn about this. most of these things happened in the middle east, and then it’s self defense, kinda, since the US invaded these countries.

if the interest is just as high as the general inflation, then the government can just take out extra loans to serve the interest without actually increasing the real total debt, because the nominal increase in debt is just eaten by the inflation.

Yeah, you’re right. I think the author tried to contrast jobs that add real value to the economy against financial trickery, which he accused of only serving the rich.

But indeed, white-collar jobs have played a tremendous role in the economy in the last 50 years or so.

These problems are often caused by psychological problems, such as bad experiences in their past, for example being bullied in school for being fat.

You might want to talk with your partner about that.

basically when the federal government goes into debt, that basically means that the federal reserve which you can imagine like a big bank hands out a loan to the government.

the government doesn’t really have to pay back that debt, ever. (it technically has to but that can be avoided by simply taking out a new loan at a later time).

i hope i explained that correctly.

Ich finde es jedes mal wieder beeindruckend, wie viel hier über Personen, die Politiker sind, gesprochen wird, und wie vergleichsweise wenig über die Vorschläge die sie machen.

It’s also interesting for California and other blue states.

Since Trump is attacking the blue states especially, there’s a form of warfare there. As we all know, wars are really expensive and are often decided by who can stay solvent longer.

Normally, that would be California and other blue states, because they have the better economy. If they stopped paying taxes, that would severely harm Trump.

However, through the federal reserve, Trump can just print infinite amounts of dollars, and that effectively overrides the blue states’ strong economy.

So the blue states have a serious interest in de-dollarization, sothat Trump’s money-printing federal reserve becomes meaningless.

lol i was talking about the person, not the food :D but i guess it’s both

The rise in gay people since then reminds me of this diagram:

in general i would agree but many people were tricked into it.

are people in general for or against secession (i.e. splitting up the US into jesusland and the blue states)? poll by upvoting (pro secession) or downvoting (against secession) this comment.

that’s antisemitic. you should be ashamed, you want to kill all jews /s

I’d be annoyed too if someone kept sticking their hand in my food every single day.

i’d say it depends on how hot they are, honestly

and I had to desperately fight falling in love right then and there

but why fight against it?

flirting? at the workplace? at this time and age?

Kolanaki, i guess you’re not really getting the point here. The point is intentional cruelty to demotivate these people to ever come to the US again.

i don’t really get why nobody besides me seems to freak out about how amazing it is that the “fire & water” dualism can be found in our households

Multiple things can be true at once.

I think that humanity only optimized for quantity of life, not quality of life in the last 200 years. That doesn’t really make sense. All of our needs can be fulfilled with 30% of the current workforce.