British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.
Hard truths. New Labour only ever knows how to run to the right of the opposition and the old Conservatives can’t campaign their way out of a paper bag. So it’s Reform UK in the next election, strictly due to liberal incompetence.
He gets in the news constantly by issuing the most reactionary takes. He’s got tons of friends in the corporate sector, because he knows exactly which assholes to lick. And his opposition is physically incapable of turning left, so he can periodically outflank Starmer on real bread-and-butter issues by saying “I’ll expand the NHS! I’ll be tough on the Bad Businesses! I’ll fight for the working class [white people]!” while Labour just stutters and tuts and replies “That wouldn’t be sensible.”
Any suggestion that there’s something questionable or unreliable about the American democratic process is a trick by the Republican Party to suppress liberal voter enthusiasm. And if you mention it you are helping the Republicans win. Also Russia.
If you’re still in line, stay in line. Our elections are secure. The midterms is winnable if you vote in it. Shut up and do what we tell you or you’re an enemy.
Israeli arms sales break record for 4th year in row, reaching $14.8 billion in 2024.
Billing one half of Iran to kill the other half.
Has any federal agent in Colorado been indicted yet?
They get away with it because the legal system is stacked in favor of the wealthy and connected. Most people can’t raise a million dollars in legal defense, so they just plea out immediately or suffer through a public defense attorney whose advice is inevitably “plea out, I can’t take this case to trial with my current workload”.
Liberal party leadership was very happy with this kind of justice when they were in charge, because they knew they were exempt. Only now that a fascist is running the system do they realize how even their faces aren’t exempt from the leopard.
The message they want to send is that the law can be arbitrarily applied as justification for violence
Most simply contribute to their Roth or IRA or whatever and let the market play out over decades, just as we were taught.
Long term, it has been a smart play. Very hard to find a historical milestone where a $1 invested in Year X is worth less than year X+10, much less X+40
I’ll believe it when I see it
The private sector isn’t doing jack shit that’s at all useful.
I’m riding in a car to a restaurant to have a delicious meal paid for with a salary I earned at a corporate employer. Private sector is doing plenty of useful shit. But it’s boring, slow growth, antiquated shit. Not what you can speculate on to the tune of a trillion dollars
would like your take on the Buffett Index topping 200% for the first time (total stock market value vs. GDP). It was around 130% in 1929 and 2008.
I mean, Berkshire itself is trading at 15 p/e. So if you take the index seriously, it’s a good place to shelter your money when the storm hits.
But Buffet was a value investor and we’re in a growth investor economy. I wouldn’t say the index is a good indicator of a pending crash any more than it was three years ago.
Considering the disproportionate amount of stocks in AI, and, so far, no clear path to investors seeing a return, I’m scared shitless.
Bulls make money
Bears make money
Pigs get slaughtered
Diversify your portfolio, understand why you think an investment has a bright future (and when that future has dimmed), don’t try to time the market, and don’t beat yourself up if you’re wrong.
I don’t see anything in this market to be afraid of. I see a plethora of opportunities to generate healthy returns long term.
I don’t think Zhang wrote the headline.
Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”
I’m not a fan of the guy but I don’t understand what he’s supposed to do here
Madison was also something of a fuckhead, tbf.
I would argue that this strengthens his campaign.
Imagining you saying this while wearing a big “Pokemon Go To The Polls” T-shirt
Clown governor getting the standard Trump pimp slap.
This man is never going to be president if Donald Trump can bully him so easily
How did that guy ruin the economy…
He executed an enormous wealth transfer from the general public to a handful of political insiders. Those insiders them rigged the election in his favor.
Some people will tell you this “ruined” the Argentinian economy, the folks in the know recognize that the Free Market is operating exactly how it should.
He’s a very British kind of racist who panders to a particularly British kind of white nationalism.
Naturally, the liberal response is to blame his existence on evil foreigners, while trying to outflank him on the right.