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The ‘great wealth transfer’ isn't $73 trillion but $129 trillion, Bank of America says—and the government gave most of it to baby boomers

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  • If include other countries, that list gets pretty long.

    • The ‘great wealth transfer’ isn't $73 trillion but $129 trillion, Bank of America says—and the government gave most of it to baby boomers

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  • I think it has to be both.

    There are many times throughout the history of the United States where a community came together and became prosperous only to have everything taken away by people supported by the state through shit laws and/or law enforcement turning a blind eye. Look at Black Wall Street aka the Tulsa massacre.

    I get that corruption is prevalent and is difficult to clean out, but there was massive sea change after the 1930's crash that lead to the US having a massive, strong, and healthy middle class.

    • Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel

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  • I have sympathy for the Palestinian and Israeli civilians that are being murdered by both sides. Since 2008, Israel has killed significantly more Palestinians than vice versa https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties, 6,000 Palestinian deaths to 300 Israeli deaths.

    It's the "deserve" part of your comment that I'm having trouble with reconciling when the amount of deaths and violent oppression has been so unbalanced against Palestinians. Yeah, Hamas needs to face consequences, but that's not really what's happening or what's going to be happening. It's going to be civilians that will suffer the most and Hamas will be fine when it's all done.

    It's not hard to see, as horrible as Hamas is, how they can get recruits and support for their regime and how this escalated to this point. I don't support what happened in any way, but I can see how things lead up to this.

    And I've seen people say that Hamas fucked it up for Palestinians because now they lost the sympathy. Which is hard to not see as flawed when the sympathy hasn't helped Palestinians for over half a century of violent oppression.

    • Clarence Thomas Wants to Go After Freedom of the Press

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  • It's not a surprise, the Republicans are following the "How to Fascist: for Dummies" step by step book

    • Trump pushes envelope with comment on the ‘poisoning’ of U.S. ‘blood’

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  • You can't make them read their own book.

    • Kari Lake formally files for Senate bid

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  • That's what she did last time.

    • "waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate"

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  • I had to take a COBOL class in early 2000s. And one of the two C/C++ courses was 90% talking about programming and taking quizzes about data types and what do functions do, and 10% making things just beyond "hello world." And I'm still paying the student loans.

    • Potato, anyone?

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  • Looks like a manly arm.