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A radfem talking about women being more productive than men is comparable to Marxists talking about workers being more productive than capitalists. The difference is they believe class hierarchy (the most recent incarnation being capitalism) stems from patriarchy instead of patriarchy stemming from class hierarchy, as Engels argued. They want to do to men (and often transwomen) what we would like to see done to capitalists.

You can’t get buyer’s remorse if you knew Biden was shit but felt forced into making that choice. I guarantee at least half of the habitual lesser-evilists have learned to abandon all hope and expect nothing good from their party ever again. There is only the obligation to retain a defensive posture to defeat the Republicans in a vain effort to prevent the acceleration of their immiseration, and a bitter, cynical contempt for the (typically younger, more progressive) “purity ponies” whose spirits haven’t been broken yet and who dare to make demands from their captors from a position of weakness, demands which could raise people’s expectations and jeopardize their purely defensive, harm-reductionist efforts.

What kind of social-chauvinist loser highly ranks the opportunists (e.g. Vaush, Cody, Natalie) who went full popular-frontist, critically endorsing Biden and tarring independent socialist supporters with the same ultraleft brush as the strict electoral abstentionists (while still putting the anarchist Thought Slime in a mid-high tier)?

Who puts women with much better politics (e.g. Mexie, and Lily Orchard to a lesser extent) in bottom tiers with Peter Coffin?

What the fuck is Jreg doing here at all when he’s the Political Compass subreddit in YouTuber form and known magnet for fascist recruiters?

Has Ramsey never been to a retail store anywhere in the US?

Christian

amassed a fortune telling people to pay off their debts

I haven’t been a Christian for a long time but these motherfuckers still piss me off.

I feel like this explanation slightly underemphasizes the role of USD inflation. Stock prices, if denominated in dollars, must increase in the long run if their real price (“real” meaning inflation-adjusted, with the USD’s value anchored to what it was an arbitrarily chosen base year) stays the same, and the rate of inflation remains positive, even if it’s low inflation.

The Federal Reserve (which indirectly controls inflation and interest rates, which they do by buying or selling bonds, the former being how they “print” new fiat money) definitely has a hand in propping up stock growth, especially in indices like the Dow and S&P. I would go so far as to conjecture that much of the stock growth we’ve seen since 2008 is thanks to interventions by the Fed (i.e. quantitative easing).

Which pride flag is on the pin of the person on the upper right? It looks like purple-orange colors. Nvm it’s lesbian pride.

Ubisoft are French liberals, our current equivalents to the very same backstabbing bourgie liberal-democratic bastards who made life hell for Marx’s and Engels’s French, German, and Italian comrades starting in 1848. Ass-Creed distorts Marx in almost the same fashion the Kautskyites and succdems did, and for the same reasons: depicting Marx advocating violent proletarian revolution and the smashing of the bourgie state as he did since 1851 is threatening to the game publisher’s class interests (because there’s a straight line going from Marx and Engels to Lenin), while the murder spree against the fictional Templars isn’t.

Awful take. For starters, GOP-dominated counties tend to have smaller populations, which means less available labor to exploit for profit, and fewer jobs - of fucking course their GDPs are going to be smaller! What is even the point of looking at aggregate GDP (which corresponds to local capitalist profits more than anything worker-related with the post-1970s wage-productivity divergence), and then drawing a conclusion about the work ethic of the average person in each county? This person isn’t even citing per capita data, which would control for the fact that there are just more people in the dense urban counties where, of course, Dems tend to do better!

(Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1138/)

If they wanted to make a point like “Republican voters don’t work”, they should have looked at unemployment insurance claims by county, or any of the U3, U6, or labor force participation rate. Most of these data should be available from the BLS.

Regarding the Brookings Institute article that produced this infographic, which has its own different problems, they use this statistic to comment on the same old portrait of a rural-urban economic divide manifesting in divergent propensities to support different parties, aka shit we knew already (with some classic conflation between Dems/libs and the left-leaning voters they hold hostage):

The problem—as we have witnessed over the past decade and are likely to continue seeing—is not only that Democrats and Republicans disagree on issues of culture, identity, and power, but that they represent radically different swaths of the economy. Democrats represent [sic] voters who overwhelmingly reside in the nation’s diverse economic centers, and thus tend to prioritize housing affordability [sic], an improved social safety net [sic], transportation infrastructure [sic], and racial justice [sic]. Jobs in blue America also disproportionately rely on national R&D investment, technology leadership, and services exports.

By contrast, Republicans represent an economic base situated in the nation’s struggling small towns and rural areas. Prosperity there remains out of reach for many, and the party sees no reason to consider the priorities and needs of the nation’s metropolitan centers.

Do liberals not realize that “bot” implies an algorithm is the one tweeting the anti-Dem agitprop? At least calling you a “Russian shill” or accusing you of having fallen for Russian propaganda would actually make sense.