AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
Interesting that you clicked on this...I hope your day is going well and you're at least finding our conversation stimulating, if you're not finding it pleasant. Looking to reinforce your beliefs about about me? Dig up some dirt? Have at it! Only cowards and scam artists make their profile private.
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AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
1d ago
There is no approaching economic crisis. The USA is doing better than every single country in the world economically. Why do you say this like is is a default belief we should all accept. What proof do you have?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
1d ago
True, I did not take your full headcanon into account while being a grammar Nazi.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
1d ago
The main thrust here is that we are trading promises (however trustworthy or not) for actual goods. If you can do that with cheap money, as we have been, all the better. Worst case you just inflate the pain away. What matters is the underlying assets, the Oil the car company, the wafer fab, the farms, money is just an idea.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
It is important to remember that sound is what determines what article is used, not the letter that a word begins with. The above should read 'an Xbox' since the letter X has a vowel sound
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
Well just spin up another. How is this a thing? Unless you're writing man hating screeds from 40 years ago you're not going to DOX yourself. I swear...
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
The twisting to come to this conclusion is almost head spinning. I hear what you're saying from a 10,000 foot level, but the boots on the ground reality does not match with your assessment of this hypothetical. Some regimes and societies are better to live in than others. That is just a fact. If you would rather live under Stalin than Obama then I don't think anyone can have a real conversation with you unless you're a hard core USSR stan.
So to circle back to @quiet_NaN's point. It is much better to be a an actor playing a peasant in a Monty Python sketch than to be an actual peasant in 6th century Britain. Things are actually quite a bit better now.
As NaN so eloquently states. Repression is not a blanket catch all, nor an equally applied device. There are gradients and subtilties. To compare the USA currently to Nazi Germany or Russia or the Stasi in East Germany is farcical.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
Poker is a solved game so it is all scams now if you're not playing in person. The rake will just eat you. You can try tournaments but the result will be the same over a longer timeline.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
The trailers looked really CGI, so I wasn't going to give it a shot. Now I will. Thanks for the recommendation.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
Help help I'm being 'repressed! https://youtube.com/watch?v=l8ukak8P2vY
It isn't a tribute system. It is just the implication. These women are not in any danger. https://youtube.com/watch?v=-yUafzOXHPE
If you're borrowing at or below inflation or what have you, you're leaving a ton of resources on the table that you should be trading worthless promises to secure. This is the new world!
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
Speaking of magical thinking. To quote Who's Line is it Anyway? "Everything's made up and the points don't matter". Debt is just a human construct. When you see people wax on about there being 200 trillion in ghost credit default swaps ready to doom the world economy when a butterfly in China's housing market flaps its wings it is hard not to just dismiss it all out of hand. MMT is, I think, a result of some institutions evolving to understand and use this concept. If we have the raw resources and the might to decide how they get divvied up, the rest is just semantics.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
They aren't.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
I'm 100% with you except for the massive fraud stuff. This political witch hunt is setting up banana republic style precedents where if you want to stay out of jail after your time in power you must remain in power forever... It is terrible for the country. The US election process is pretty safe and accurate though and the stolen election stuff is just wrong.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
That would be a good niche to fill. Remember pop up videos on MTV or VH1? Those were great. This is a good idea.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2d ago
I know you don't like deficit spending, but I don't think I was particularly rude or dismissive in that recent exchange. I didn't accuse you of magical thinking as you accused me for disagreeing on monetary policy (I save that for the religious debates where I am summarily chastised). I feel that budget hawks continually underestimate the power of extend and pretend, and we may, in fact, be able to do it forever.
Missing the forest for the trees here don't you think? I'm using the term gulag because that is what the Russian prison system and work camps were called in western media for decades, no need for quotes. If you mix in some forced labor and politically motivated charges then you've got yourself a gulag. So if they had Trump breaking rocks and cutting lumber and he got sick from being outside in the winter then yeah it would be an American gulag. The term is still used as a mildly derogatory nod towards Russian notions of justice. The gulag is bad, but not as bad as suffering from the one of the rash of defenestrations that seem to come for you if you badmouth the boss man.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
3d ago
Yeah I've been around this particular weird space since 2013ish so 2 years ain't a lot. The fact that I can see an admin amongst the posters from your example is not a point in the favor of this argument.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
3d ago
Deleted post, what happened here?
Well it is make believe to start. How would you react to being asked why the 3 little pigs were a not solution to societal ills?
Also the countries that have tried that are all total shitholes. Been to a theocracy lately? Not great.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
3d ago
I've never posted ironically. I stand behind every post I've made. Unlike those of you who hide their posting history.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
3d ago
I don't want left leaning posts. I want rational posts!!!! I want hot takes on current events from a reasonable and objective body of smart people. Not this partisan shit. It just makes me upset and mad at what it could have been, and what it has been when in full form. I occasionally have been able to come on here and the former sub for some of the smartest and most informative information available anywhere on the planet.
Maybe the news is too slow now and it is impacting the quality of the posts, maybe it is ideological drift or capture, all I know is I'm not getting the discourse I would expect from a forum that perhaps I saw as a more august body than it was.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
3d ago
Spicy stuff somedude! That Huxley line was gold, I just had a hearty chuckle re-reading it, -20 just proved my point. If I'm not wrong you've also just overstepped somewhat and there is a modpost incoming.
What? He literally had his political opponent thrown in the gulag where he died. What are you on about?
Somehow 5 downvotes...For something 100% factually correct. Along with Ditto blocking me, amazing stuff really.
How about a more extreme example then rather than just the revealed preference as shown by the Berlin wall needing to be put up. Just about anyone in the world would rather live in the USA than Bangladesh. One country and society is obviously better by any reasonable metric I can personally think of. Just because both governments may do something you don't like doesn't make them the same.
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