KevonLooney @ KevonLooney @lemm.ee

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They learned their lesson during the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution

How long do you think rich people live?

There is no way to do that. People in the US don't just roll over when their votes aren't counted.

2000 was different because voters in Florida were too stupid to figure out their ballots.

Ok man, whatever. Conveniently everyone in your story agrees with you. I'm sure they all clapped as you escaped dramatically.

Compromising for 25 years? Someone doesn't remember Clinton, the original compromiser. Or Reagan Democrats.

No. They want attention. Don't reward them with content.

You were talking about "no go zones" where women are supposedly attacked for not covering their heads in Paris. Now you're describing some random attempted robbery in Marseille. Those are 100% not the same, unless the carjackers had an ISIS flag or something.

I think you need therapy for PTSD or something. Your experience might be affecting your judgement.

Lol. Yeah man. No one ever goes to Paris.

Sandoval said the army continues to encounter far more road-side bombs than drone-dropped ones.

The Jalisco drug cartel has been fighting local gangs for control of Michoacan for years, and the situation has become so militarized that the warring cartels use roadside bombs or IEDs, trenches, pillboxes, home-made armored vehicles and sniper rifles.

Uh, this is not smart. This is just asking for military intervention. There's a reason why the mafia never wanted to kill police officers.

It's not. Investors literally only care about money.

Rich people don't have "class consciousness" because they all want to be better and richer than other rich people. That's what "keeping up with the Joneses" (or Kardashians) is. You don't want the Joneses to improve, because that hurts you.

It's a zero-sum game at the top. If your neighbor buys a Mercedes, you need to buy a Maserati. Like I said, neo-marxism fundamentally misunderstands rich people.

This is not about running the best company or running the best economy. It is about maintaining class power and privilege.

I understand your point, but neo-marxist perspectives like this fundamentally misunderstand what companies care about (for obvious reasons). No company cares about "class power" or "privilege" because shareholders only care about their own money.

Their "class" is not important when it comes to investing. If they could fire all the nepo babies and use AI instead, they would do it in 1 second.

"Definitely"? Lol. You are just repeating 10 year old "Fox and Friends" nonsense. The 19th in Paris is just a working class neighborhood.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/01/paris-no-go-zones-what-life-in-pont-de-flandre-in-the-19th-arrondissement-is-really-like.html

The funny thing is that there are executives who know what they're doing, but they may be outvoted by people who failed upward due to connections or a "good background" (ivy league, internship, etc.).

I always thought "what does a brand name education prove?" This isn't the 1800s. Community college now is almost as good as Harvard was in the 1800s. Back then, just being able to read meant that you were educated.

Also, what does an internship prove? You know how to carry 8 coffees at once? You can wear a cheap suit? No, it's all cover for connections. If businesses wanted the best people (say the top 10%) you could literally just set up a table outside a subway station and interview random commuters, getting probably 10 good prospects in a day.

Yes, it was. Tech led the downturn yesterday, but Nasdaq was only down like 2%. The "world" stocks (ex-US) are more volatile than the US. In my opinion (and Warren Buffett's), they are not worth investing in as ETFs. Only particular companies. The markets are genuinely worse than in the US.

I don't know why you're being mean. I'm not misgendering anyone. How many people have had to surrender within a minute (not a knockout or pin)?

It's a little complicated. The Italian boxer who faced Imane in the last match said she "had never been punched that hard before" and had to resign in the first minute.

There's no proof of an Y chromosome, the test Imane failed was just for testosterone (which might be natural). I'm not a doctor, but couldn't that just be from doping or something? She's from Algeria, which has only won like 17 Olympic medals total, which could encourage cheating. It would explain her punches being stronger.

Anyone who disagrees has never tried to pay for healthcare. Even if you have "good insurance" there's always something stupid going on.

Doctors have no idea how they get paid, and they pay another company to work with insurance companies. That other company is impossible to contact, so if there's any issue the insurance company and the payment company blame each other. "Oh the insurance company rejected it incorrectly" or "the payment company coded it wrong."

That's not really true. All that stuff about "$50K toilets! $5K screwdrivers!" includes shipping and installation in a warzone. Try asking for that on Task Rabbit and see what price you get.

There were neighborhoods in cities in both of these countries that if you're a non Muslim or if you don't follow the strict rules like women wearing headscarves, you get harassed and attacked.

Name the cities and neighborhoods or you're lying. It's possible someone mislead you, but if you repeat it without verification you're still lying.

This is like the thing conservatives said about "cities burning to the ground" because of BLM. Whenever you looked into it, it was some rando not associated with any group. Or possibly a right-wing agitator.

Stop repeating the game of telephone. You can literally go to Saudi Arabia without wearing a headscarf. You think Paris is going to be stricter?

VP Harris needs to come out guns blazing. Like just call him old in her first answer. Then weird in the second answer. By the time she calls him fat, he should be apoplectic.

Yeah, I didn't check that. It makes sense but they still have editors. I'm not saying there's some conspiracy to keep Kamala down, but watch for this to coincidentally happen again.

Being up by 1.5% is huge. Biden being down by 1.4% caused him to drop out.