Prehensile_cloaca @ Flocklesscrow @lemm.ee

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Simple enough:

Religion primed them to believe nonsense while removing their ability to parse fact from fiction. So now they're both rubes and willing targets for any grifter that has the right blend of charisma and hate that they associate with their religious upbringing.

Jerome Powell was never going to softly land anything. It was all a smoke screen while they sold stocks and shifted their assets so that the plebes and taxpayers end up holding the bag. As always.

Powell and Yellen should be in prison for the rest of their lives.

It better be about dead animal bones and forging too

Good, now clap him in irons and haul him off to prison.

Propaganda is a helluva drug

C'mon pal, we know you have at least 3-4 copies of that dissertation lying around.

Lil moth rave

Okay, now do it in Count von Count's voice.

Boomers lived their entire lives failing upwards. Why wouldn't they expect things to just go their way?

Who?

It bothers me that he aligned the frames by their bottom edge, rather than the top.

Being dramatic about self-victimization does seem very on-brand

Texas has been GOP governed for nearly 30 years. All the frictious and inept surface layer outcomes are the result of specific political strategy. And also general corruption.

1930 revisited

What's the deaf man's profession?

Vinegar with a side of fried potatoes? Absolutely

Proof yet again that "business leaders" typically don't know shit about shit.

It's referred to as Escalation of Commitment (at least in business school).

Some people have a really hard time admitting when they've been wrong. Especially if they feel tricked/bamboozled. So instead, they double down with their original premise. In other words, there's just no convincing someone who doesn't have an open mind.

Beautifully said

And exploitation. And extortion.