Yup, every level of government and regulatory body has been utterly permeated and compromised by the very groups they’re supposed to govern and regulate.

Capitalism is incompatible with democracy.

They think the only thing holding us back from a race war where we kill all the non-whites is our access to electricity.

I think it genuinely doesn’t even cross their minds that the vast majority of all the other people aren’t violent, racist monsters.

This mask smells like poor oral hygiene

Yummy!

NOBODY needs to be a billionaire

Its the consistency with which they would eat at least a pound of it a week that caused the problem.

Quite how something thats 50% fat can be sold as a health food is the real puzzle here.

“A pound or two each week”

Thats your problem right there. The next step up from peanut butter, in terms of calories (particularly fats) per kg is actual butter or lard. Its about 50% fat.

I imagine the rest is second hand regurgitation of info they dont really understand.

“Can you describe the nature of the unrealness of these bills, as its own thing and not as the absence of something else?”

Just thought the dissection of that particular “weasel word” might help someone out there at some point.

“Brandy made in Germany isn’t “real” cognac. The nature of the unrealness is that it was made in Germany and not the cognac region of France.”

You may disagree but my point here is, right or wrong, you can always describe the nature of the unrealness, unless its being used as a cheap, underhanded rhetorical device.

‘Satan 2 missile’

“Ivan, are we the baddies?”

Almost everything your brain decides is affected by things outside of it.

We are a mixture of chemical desires and social + cultural outputs. Free will is an illusion. Its been done. Philosophers did to to free will what they did to God and capitalism.

That kind of honesty is early always the way with people from regular etc. backgrounds who made it. Probably because they’re surrounded by people who worked just as hard as they did but, through no fault of their own, never stood a chance of making it through bad luck.

But then you’ll get some nepobaby, whos had over a million spent on their education, claiming to be a genius for earning a million in their lives, despite only (at best) breaking even.

Or worse, somone like Elon who was given enough free capital that he didn’t need to spend on loving to keep spread betting until he got lucky acting like it was all down to him alone and no one else could have done what he did.

Lobbying is a sanitised word for bribery.

Exactly, the idea that you go up a floor because there’s a roof over your head is very silly.

Each to their own but, to me, rich people would make far more, personally, with the American system. I 100% get how you came to your conclusion though. I’m not saying sadism wouldn’t make sense or anything.

The UK did it immediately after WW2 when our economy was destroyed. We were in much debt, we didn’t finish paying America back until 2006. However, apparently, the country we paid all that money to cant afford it?

You have to admire the brazennes of the lie though.

To me, its much more that the rich don’t want to pay for the healthcare of the people who earn all of their money for them, rather than active sadism.

More, devoid of empathy and not really seeing them as fellow humans, deserving of basic rights like not dying of poverty. Especially if it costs them money.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you’re white and male

He’s been telling that story for years

OK but what about going onto the ground?

Like, in your garden, is that the first floor of the planet?

When you get off an airplane, do you say

“Its great to be back on solid first floor of the earth.”

?

Same, I didn’t want to go in early on that game but I’m very happy I did.

It just good, clean and terribly unwholesome fun.