LWDT 7: The Earth and Heavens Tremble.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

>Avengers
So the answer to my question is yes, then :^)

Thank you, they're terrible movies.

How are they terrible?

[First American Empire]

Thank God big boss George Soros actually reinvests his wealth by paying all of us lefty shitposters - and above minimum wage, too.

The worst bit about being a double agent is that I'm only paid in icepicks and lengthened knife blades sent through the post.

We would never do that. If we wanted to kill you by sending murder implements through the internet, we would use poison.

[Pasong Tirad]

This could have been the worst discussion here ever if it wasn't co-opted by comrades talking about D&D classes. Well done.

In what direction were you worried it could have gone?

This one.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

In what direction were you worried it could have gone?

This one.

May as well full steam ahead then.

[Jack Thomas Lang]

>When you realise Beria was unironically the best post-Stalin candidate because in his opportunism he supported political liberalisation in return for economic aid
>But he's also a serial rapist and pedophile

Wtf Beria why do you do this?

[Cekoviu]

Indeed.

Not to tout my credentials. However, as someone with a Ph.D. in sociology and history, I can confidently say that any historian who would make that claim among other historians would be assumed to be making a joke.

If somebody says "not to tout my credentials," they will immediately tout their credentials much in the same way that "I'm not racist, but..." is followed by something racist.

[Nova Cyberia]

Indeed.

Not to tout my credentials. However, as someone with a Ph.D. in sociology and history, I can confidently say that any historian who would make that claim among other historians would be assumed to be making a joke.

Your appeal to authority is noted and dismissed, professor.

[Nova Cyberia]

>When you realise Beria was unironically the best post-Stalin candidate because in his opportunism he supported political liberalisation in return for economic aid
>But he's also a serial rapist and pedophile

Wtf Beria why do you do this?

Almost as if all the Bolsheviks were terrible and the Tsar should have done far worse than exiling them.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Not to tout my credentials. However, as someone with a Ph.D. in sociology and history, I can confidently say that any historian who would make that claim among other historians would be assumed to be making a joke.

Your appeal to authority is noted and dismissed, professor.

Not to toot my own horn but..

[EARDRUM-BURSTING FOGHORN FROM THREE PACES AWAY]

[Northern Davincia]

The rich reinvest their wealth. If the common folk saved their money, rather than be encouraged to spend it by Keynesian economists, that environment would exist already.

The common people don't make enough money to save it, and if they didn't spend it, then the entire economic system would collapse. Do you know anything at all about the modern economy?

They make enough to spend but not to save? How is that not contradictory?
The economic system would slow down but it certainly wouldn't collapse.

Is that why EA has a history of hiding millions of dollars in tax havens and pressuring workers to work overtime without pay?

Also, companies like EA reporting record profits and still laying off hundreds of workers because their stock-holders wanted more.

Oh, and let's not forget that EA did to Visceral.

Don't purchase EA games, then.

[Of of of of of]

The common people don't make enough money to save it, and if they didn't spend it, then the entire economic system would collapse. Do you know anything at all about the modern economy?

They make enough to spend but not to save? How is that not contradictory?
The economic system would slow down but it certainly wouldn't collapse.

Also, companies like EA reporting record profits and still laying off hundreds of workers because their stock-holders wanted more.

Oh, and let's not forget that EA did to Visceral.

Don't purchase EA games, then.

Beautiful thing about capitalism, you vote with your dollar. You don’t purchase their games or labor unions protest these unfair conditions and therefore, without labor or buyers, they must change themselves as a company.

[Northern Davincia]

They make enough to spend but not to save? How is that not contradictory?
The economic system would slow down but it certainly wouldn't collapse.

Don't purchase EA games, then.

Beautiful thing about capitalism, you vote with your dollar. You don’t purchase their games or labor unions protest these unfair conditions and therefore, without labor or buyers, they must change themselves as a company.

Well said.

[Washington Resistance Army]

They make enough to spend but not to save? How is that not contradictory?

Because nearly 80% of full time workers live paycheck to paycheck. Their spending goes towards things to keep them alive and little more. This fantasy that everyone could just save their money and invest and all this garbage has no basis in reality, as is so often the case with right libertarian thought.

[Torrocca]

They make enough to spend but not to save? How is that not contradictory?

Because nearly 80% of full time workers live paycheck to paycheck. Their spending goes towards things to keep them alive and little more. This fantasy that everyone could just save their money and invest and all this garbage has no basis in reality, as is so often the case with right libertarian thought.

Basically this.

[Ostroeuropa]

They make enough to spend but not to save? How is that not contradictory?

Because nearly 80% of full time workers live paycheck to paycheck. Their spending goes towards things to keep them alive and little more. This fantasy that everyone could just save their money and invest and all this garbage has no basis in reality, as is so often the case with right libertarian thought.

This, but also this is worsened by modern cultural and social norms. The DINK lifestyle produces quite a comfortable amount of extra money which could be used as savings, however people are not entering long term committed relationships early enough to do that and also have kids.

If people got into relationships and moved in together around 18-20, DINK'd until 30, then had two children, they'd be alright.

Instead people are basically spending 18-27 supporting themselves on a single income (Which due to economies of scale is more expensive), then settling down around 27-30 and having kids, without the intermediary nest-building stage.

The problem is partially that people aren't sharing accommodation enough. The solutions are either more monogamy at early stages of life, or to transition into fraternity and sorority (And desegregated arrangements) society for that intermediate stage.

Where people do settle down early, they often immediately proceed to having kids.

Almost nobody does the sensible thing, which is one reason our system is struggling. Wage problems are also a big factor, but there's ways around it.

[Cekoviu]

They make enough to spend but not to save? How is that not contradictory?

Because nearly 80% of full time workers live paycheck to paycheck. Their spending goes towards things to keep them alive and little more. This fantasy that everyone could just save their money and invest and all this garbage has no basis in reality, as is so often the case with right libertarian thought.

Whoa, this is not what you were saying a year ago. Your views have changed a lot.

[North German Realm]

Because nearly 80% of full time workers live paycheck to paycheck. Their spending goes towards things to keep them alive and little more. This fantasy that everyone could just save their money and invest and all this garbage has no basis in reality, as is so often the case with right libertarian thought.

Whoa, this is not what you were saying a year ago. Your views have changed a lot.

WRA's change in opinions is a real life example of character development tbh.

[Hammer Britannia]

Because nearly 80% of full time workers live paycheck to paycheck. Their spending goes towards things to keep them alive and little more. This fantasy that everyone could just save their money and invest and all this garbage has no basis in reality, as is so often the case with right libertarian thought.

Whoa, this is not what you were saying a year ago. Your views have changed a lot.

WRA is a traitor to right-wingers and America and will now be executed under Order 1776

[Hanafuridake]

Also, companies like EA reporting record profits and still laying off hundreds of workers because their stock-holders wanted more.

Oh, and let's not forget that EA did to Visceral.

Don't purchase EA games, then.

One person not buying a game isn't going to change anything, and if your response to serious grievances is “lol just don't buy” then you've failed at making private corporations accountable.

[Petrolheadia]

They make enough to spend but not to save? How is that not contradictory?

Because nearly 80% of full time workers live paycheck to paycheck. Their spending goes towards things to keep them alive and little more. This fantasy that everyone could just save their money and invest and all this garbage has no basis in reality, as is so often the case with right libertarian thought.

No data on full time vs part time vs rentiers, but the 80th percentile for US household income is $80k/year.

If you get 80 grand a year and live above your means, you are the problem.

Don't purchase EA games, then.

One person not buying a game isn't going to change anything, and if your response to serious grievances is “lol just don't buy” then you've failed at making private corporations accountable.

No. This response means that you don't get to dictate the entire society.

[Torrocca]

Don't purchase EA games, then.

One person not buying a game isn't going to change anything, and if your response to serious grievances is “lol just don't buy” then you've failed at making private corporations accountable.

Nah, clearly, everyone else should be responsible for a bad actor's bad acts (in this case, EA being utterly shitty). /s

[Petrolheadia]

One person not buying a game isn't going to change anything, and if your response to serious grievances is “lol just don't buy” then you've failed at making private corporations accountable.

Nah, clearly, everyone else should be responsible for a bad actor's bad acts (in this case, EA being utterly shitty). /s

If you dislike EA, put your money where your mouth is. That hard?

[Torrocca]

Nah, clearly, everyone else should be responsible for a bad actor's bad acts (in this case, EA being utterly shitty). /s

If you dislike EA, put your money where your mouth is. That hard?

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You.

[Petrolheadia]

If you dislike EA, put your money where your mouth is. That hard?

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You.

Hitting bad targets is not my MO.

[Torrocca]

Hitting bad targets is not my MO.

I don't care what your "MO" is when you can't even pretend to understand how accountability works when someone or a group of someones do a shitty thing.

What you're saying is as stupid as blaming a witness for a murder that happened in a building across the street from where they were at.