Did he sign the 2,000-pound bombs that he sent to israel? Regarding the stimulus checks, biden is stupid alright, but it’s not because he didn’t sign the stimulus checks, but because he promised $2000 checks and then shortchanged it by claiming earlier payments that went out before he even entered office counted towards it.

One problem I see is that people feel like they have to work in absolutes or match their opinions 100% with everything within a group. How the grouping forms is not always clear, but apparently if one is associated with that grouping, they feel the need to defend everything in that grouping and attacking everything that isn’t.

There is some discussion to be had in the role of the US using proxies to undermine global rivals, but that does not justify Russia invading Ukraine, nothing does. Absolutely, fuck Russia.

You mean it wasn’t already? The organization was created to counter the USSR and never really drifted from that, even when the USSR fell, funnily enough.

Greenest US president in history or something.

Nice caricature, but it has nothing to do with my post. Pointing out that the US is the biggest source of imperialism doesn’t mean no one else is doing bad things, but thanks for proving my point. Fuck Starbucks and Apple, by the way.

The US is the biggest source of imperialism in the world. We don’t have to always follow that up with “butwhatabout” to distract from that, which is what the US media machine does by running stories all the time to manufacture consent for its own imperialism.

biden could have stopped it, but instead he actively supported it by sending billions to israel, even bypassing congress to send his support. That’s how committed he was to the cause of genocide. I said nothing about trump being better, he obviously won’t be, but biden’s full support of genocide has nothing to do with trump other than being able to point at trump as an excuse for “moderate” support of genocide.

I stash away quite a bit, but less in my 401k so that I have access to it whenever I want/need instead of decades into the future.

No, where did you pull that out from?

2004 was also great! Too bad that’s not available for free as well.

Good to note when this overgrown child gets his turn to be regime changed.

Trump’s tariffs in his first term were also a mistake, but Biden kept them and even added onto them. Biden should shut the fuck up for costing the democrats the election because he was too power-hungry to let go, even though he’s a walking fossil. Seriously, he’s so decrepit but instead of relaxing and enjoying the remainder of his life, he chose to stick around like a ghoul and hand Trump a second term.

What’s even worse than the major mistake of a bunch of silly tariffs is the supporting of genocide, which Biden loved doing. He couldn’t get enough of supporting genocide. That’s his legacy and he shouldn’t bother trying to talk about mistakes because he’s just about the worst person to talk about doing the wrong thing.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/zelenskyy-wants-ukraine-to-be-a-big-israel-heres-a-road-map/

Makes sense.

israel does not have the right to exist, not when it does horrific shit like this.

Awesome picture! How long was he like that?

This is always the advice given by the “experts” during retirement “workshops”. Have money and invest as much as you can into broad diversified funds. That the market will always grow in the long run because it has so far is taken as almost a guarantee, yet every one of these workshops will include a disclaimer of “Past performance is not indicative of future results”. At some point I feel like there’s going to a massive rug pull as the rich encourage everyone to put as much money as they can into the system so the rich can use it as exit liquidity. What’s even better is that with retirement accounts, you’re not allowed to pull out your money until decades into the future without massive penalties, and any changes in your allocations take at least a day to be made. Meanwhile the ultrawealthy have sub-millisecond algorithms at their disposal.

I’m sure when the great rug pull happens, every genius that espoused the common advice will come out and claim that obviously it wasn’t sustainable (like the tech bubble or countless other bubbles) and repeat the magic words “Past performance is not indicative of future results”, then they’ll all suggest some other investment vehicle and that’ll become the new common knowledge advice that everyone should follow until that also becomes unsustainable.

No thanks, I’ll just do the company match for a guaranteed pay amount and enjoy the rest of my money while I’m young, instead of stashing it away and hoping it doesn’t get fucked with in the decades before I can draw from it penalty-free and maybe having a decent chunk of money when I’m old and less capable of enjoying it.

Trump can already pardon himself. Even if he couldn’t, making enemies of the rich wouldn’t help himself, in fact it’d just do the opposite. The ultrawealthy have class solidarity, so Trump was never in actual trouble. They only face consequences if not doing so would majorly harm the collective image of the rich (e.g. this is why Jeffrey Epstein had to die).

Hello fellow hark! As someone who hasn’t been able to obtain the name elsewhere, I feel your pain.

If they make it too hard I’ll stop watching.

Exactly. There is practically an infinite supply of entertainment with a wide variety these days. There are too many alternatives to care about any single source.

Human interaction is important. One of the problems with capitalism is the commodification of that human interaction (or what that human interaction used to provide for free). Really only the last point diverges, but it is somewhat related in that a shared set of activities can bring forth positive human interactions (e.g. progressive movements have come up or gained momentum from church gatherings, see the civil rights movement in the US).