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Ralph needs to get with the

jollyroger — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:49:57 +0000

In reply to Bloomberg economic columnist

Ralph needs to get with the de facto MMT program that (sloppily and without transparency) is QE fill-in-the-number.

The idea that you are going to pay a sovereign half a point or more to store your cash is only logical, when you ask what it would cost to insure a billion in Benjamins kept in your cellar. Add overhead for the kinda safe that you would prudently purchase on top of the insurance..

We should just mint the fuckin' platinum proof Trillion already, and zoom off into the new world where the Repugnants can't kneecap progress by waving the bloody flag of (meaningless) deficits.

Bloomberg economic columnist

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:12:01 +0000

In reply to "Ok Boomer"

Bloomberg economic columnist Noah Smith retweeted this:

The belief that you should be able to make lots of money indefinitely just by leaving it in a savings account is one of the weirdest Baby Boomer pietieshttps://t.co/6eWvSOZY7Y
— dylan matthews (@dylanmatt) April 7, 2020

"OK, Boomer" made its first

artappraiser — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:02:35 +0000

In reply to "Ok Boomer"

"OK, Boomer" made its first appearance in the Supreme Court Wednesday, invoked by baby boomer Chief Justice John Roberts 12 days before he turns 65.https://t.co/mKd0abpTOh
— Ben Pu (@BenPu_nbc) January 15, 2020

Gen X, meanwhile, forever in

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 06:31:23 +0000

In reply to "Ok Boomer"

Gen X, meanwhile: forever in existential pain. Ginia Bellafante to Elizabeth Wurtzel:

I will miss you Elizabeth Wurtzel. Goodbye. May the afterlife spare you the Influencer.

in Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Illusion of Gen-X Success

“Prozac Nation” seemed to herald a boundless future for young creatives. It was actually the beginning of the end.

@ NYTimes.com, Jan. 10

Snooze-a-thon. The original

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 04:11:37 +0000

In reply to These kids are all right,

Snooze-a-thon. The original Schhol of Rock:

https://youtu.be/ZoZBI52KmDo

These kids are all right,

artappraiser — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 02:12:00 +0000

In reply to "Ok Boomer"

These kids are all right, they get it:

Ok boomer Kasparov:

artappraiser — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 06:40:32 +0000

In reply to I do realize it's tiresome to

Ok boomer Kasparov:

It's nice they have opinions about communism now, because once you're living in it you don't get to have an opinion about it anymore. https://t.co/YjFFwFxSFj
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 30, 2019

Yeah, socialism isn't clearly

ocean-kat — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 01:09:33 +0000

In reply to I'm pretty sure most people

Yeah, socialism isn't clearly defined and for many it could just mean a robust social safety net and other government services. Communism is more seen as an economic system with government seizing the levers of production and is significantly less favorable.

I'm pretty sure most people

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 23:52:06 +0000

In reply to I do realize it's tiresome to

I'm pretty sure most people couldn't follow a Communist propaganda thread anymore. Soak the rich, fine, but seize the levers of production? Lumpenproletariat shit? Forget it. Just show us the money.

I do realize it's tiresome to

artappraiser — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 23:46:47 +0000

In reply to "Ok Boomer"

I do realize it's tiresome to hear, but nonetheless boomers basically been there, done that:

More than a third of millennials polled approve of communism

Biggest threat to world peace? 27% named President Trump, 22% said Kim Jong-Un, and 15% tapped Vladimir Putin

By Shawn Langlois @ Marketwatch.com, Nov. 2

Somewhere, Bernie Sanders is smiling.

A new survey released by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation reflects that, if the younger generation gets out and votes in 2020, those running for office on the far left have reason to be hopeful.

According to YouGov, which conducted the poll, capitalism, amid a widening divide between the haves and have-nots, has plunged in popularity from a year ago, with one out of every two millennials — ages 23 to 38 — supporting it.

Meanwhile, 36% of millennials polled say that they approve of communism, which is up significantly from 28% in 2018.

Socialism, a dirty word to the president and many of his supporters, has shown a decrease in favorability in all age groups except the Silent Generation (age 74+) and millennials, of which 70% say they’d be likely to vote for a socialist candidate.

Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, says he’s troubled by the findings of the poll [....]