People don’t “like him for it” they like him despite it. Just because people like an unlikable person doesn’t mean they like everything about him.

Yi Gang is also the name of his rap crew.

In India. US number is 35%, here are some numbers for Europe: https://i.redd.it/d8udyq9edyhc1.png

Average in the US for a 2 bedroom is $1317 per statista.

Triple that for a monthly income = $3951

x12 for annual = $47,412

/2080 for hourly full time = $22.79/hr

A 1 bedroom (or 2br with a $200/mo UBI) at $1100ish brings the minimum to $19ish.

A 2 bedroom but working 60hrs/week or using 50% of income on rent instead of 33% is around $15/hr.

Just trying to play around with the numbers to see what a real political proposal might look like. Feels great to meme a declaration, people start disagreeing when you start putting numbers to it.

You have control by default. If you hire a financial advisor to manage your funds, you’re giving them control but you can tell them not to sell ever and they will do what you say.

Michigan GOP is in shambles because they elected the “outsider” MAGA candidates who had no fundraising experience, they immediately failed to fundraise enough, it got so bad that their flagship annual fundraiser was a fraction of its normal size.

Instead of pulling together to right the ship they…immediately turned to conspiracy theories, declared each other to be Deep State plants, and demanded the party leaders “open the books” to show how much money there really was, but party leaders refuse because it would prove how bad at fundraising they have been.

Detailed in a recent This American Life.

Pretty sure it should be “valuation”

The nihilism of legal consequences has so far come from the lack of charging him with anything, mostly when he was president and the policy was not to charge him with anything. He hasn’t actually gotten away with anything that has gone to court.

He lost the E Jean Carroll suit and the Trump Corp fraud case. The other stuff is still ongoing.

It’s doing fine. There are many free trade deals in the works around the world, the WTO is still chugging along as normal.

I’d actually say the idea of minimal government control over the economy is still the majority opinion in the US, Biden’s Child Tax Credits are tax cuts, Trump had tax cuts. UBI which has been growing in popularity on the Left is really a neoliberal solution to welfare.

And on trade we just renegotiated NAFTA and kept it and we’re working on a trade deal with the UK. You think the trade barriers to China are this big turn against neoliberalism but nobody has even had the ability to pass a law about it, the sanctions law is all repurposed from the Cold War.

Personally I had way too many quality issues at that price range. An earbud would be randomly quieter than the other, the battery of an earbud would die, the Bluetooth would suck, or they would be unusable for phone calls. I bought refurbished $100-something headphones for $70 and haven’t needed to buy any more since.

There’s a famous example of the poverty trap that uses boots that fall apart every season vs quality boots that last, and I think there is a quality level that is so bad it’s more expensive in the long run. So I do buy shoes that cost money. But I’m not buying fashion shoes or luxury brand shoes which I think is what you’re saying too.

That’s kind of like saying sports cars are the transportation equivalent of a painting because they are made to look good. I guess you could say that, but it’s not really a useful metaphor if they only have the one thing in common and they’re both things everyone would be familiar with so you’re not translating into more common experience.

The Australian billionaire who leaked the nuclear sub info he got from Trump bragged about doing that. Called it a cost of doing business.

“Have more kids to save the culture” seems 100% at odds with saving the planet, as does expending 51 tons of CO2 to make the statement.

If everyone lived like Elon the planet would be ruined and the only hope would be colonizing Mars…but there’s no way to get everyone off the planet, especially if we have 11 kids each.

I just don’t see a coherent ideology except “save the planet long enough for me to off it.”

This comment did not go where I thought it was going but very interesting. You’re clearly making the right call for your personal finances.

I assumed you were going to say something about like expensive composting equipment or aluminum straws.

That ‘immigration is bad’ would actually be the vastly more common incorrect belief.

There’s some subset here who are just trolling the polls or giving the answer that supports their candidate regardless. But even reading this flatly, I think that’s fine for Biden. He’s never getting the “poison the blood” vote, that’s the 42% of the furthest right 50% of the country.

But then there’s the 58% who don’t like this. A large number of them will still vote for Trump in the General if they vote because they still like him better than Biden, but this is one more thing making them maybe not vote, maybe protest vote for a 3rd party, whatever. That’s something.

Trump appeared on Epstein’s flight logs at least 7 times confirmed in a court of law it’s not even conjecture to say he is on there.

There is literally no evidence or reason to believe Biden is on the list.

But BoTh sIdEs

Let’s check in on what was going on 100 years ago, see if weekends are doing any good…

Oh yeah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1917–1923