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Without Reagan and Thatcher there would be statues of Stalin in London and New York and we'd all be reading out of Mao's little red book.

Never mind domestic policies, ingrates shouldn't be criticizing those.
Larssen
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In all seriousness it does seem to be a bit of an odd occurrence that homeownership is increasingly scarce in... literally the entire world. Though I'd like to, I can't blame thatcher or reagan for similar issues in south america, africa and asia. Even the former USSR too. Esp. Capitals and industrial centres are turning 'unlivable'. Metropolitan world cities another class of their own as playgrounds for the rich-rich; new york, london, amsterdam, paris, shanghai as some notable examples

Is it a structural flaw in capitalism that's not well understood or are societies just unprepared in dealing with rapid urbanisation and the increase of single occupancy homes?
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I can certainly start by drawing some lines between Reagan and the lot of the US today, and also US foreign policies that affected other nations to some of the things going on in those nations and their regions. Worth mentioning examples set to other western and westernized countries.

People can't afford so much as a broom closet in some towns, never mind a rambler on a half-acre suburban lot.
uziq
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Larssen wrote:

Well for that you can notably thank the reagan/thatcher era and their socioeconomic philosophies, which ended up dominating the political field for decades.
the birthplace of neoliberalism and the testing ground for the chicago school economists was chile. who just literally yesterday elected a 30-something-year-old Leftist as their next president.

thatcher was famously close with pinochet, of course.
Cybargs
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Larssen wrote:

In all seriousness it does seem to be a bit of an odd occurrence that homeownership is increasingly scarce in... literally the entire world. Though I'd like to, I can't blame thatcher or reagan for similar issues in south america, africa and asia. Even the former USSR too. Esp. Capitals and industrial centres are turning 'unlivable'. Metropolitan world cities another class of their own as playgrounds for the rich-rich; new york, london, amsterdam, paris, shanghai as some notable examples

Is it a structural flaw in capitalism that's not well understood or are societies just unprepared in dealing with rapid urbanisation and the increase of single occupancy homes?
a lot of it has to do with the explosion of capital and housing becoming more of an "investible asset." ironically it's even worst in China. For a median wage earner in beijing to get a median priced 100 sqm apartment, it would take 70-80 years of work - in a country that has heavy state intervention in the housing market. one primary reason is that real estate is the only thing that chinese people really invest in... the average chinese person don't get any exposures to shares and even less so to any international equities markets.
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uziq
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take it to the investments thread.

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Stumbled down a True crime rabbit hole. Found a YouTube channel glorifying a mass shooter. The shooter had a YouTube channel where they posted their preparations, motives, etc. for the mass shooting in Vlog form. They also had a cartoon fan fiction thing they were working on that is closely tied into the mass shooting.

I learned about all of this because of a hour long documentary another YouTuber made on the mass killer that included all of his videos. That was posted in July and has several million views. A few months after that a new YouTube channel was created by another young man who is using the cartoon characters and old videos to create tribute content. Last month they did their first Vlog. The new YouTube has a few hundred subscribers. The digital footprint spreads across Twitter and Discord from there.

"Why is this in the racism thread?" You know that whole "if you see something say something" thing? It's good advice but I am not going to do it. I don't want any contact with the police, FBI, or any authorities at all. You report something to the FBI and instead they will open an investigation into you. You report something to the police and instead the police find a way to victimize you. Law enforcement is like a bear. Just keep your distance. Don't make eye contact.

People often complain about how black people have a "no snitching" thing among themselves. I get it now though. The police cannot be trusted.
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unnamednewbie13
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Report video for appropriate checkbox. Still uncomfortable, figure out what to do from there I guess. FBI tipline warns you with jailtime for submitting falsehoods.
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What do you think about the federal government abolishing parole in '84? It was part of the War on Drugs.
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Dilbert_X
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Ghislaine Maxwell convicted 5/6

Does anyone else find it odd that Epstein, assisted by Maxwell (daughter of Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch), Weinstein, Allen (Konigsberg) completely failed to rape a single jewish girl between them?

You'd think in New York it would be impossible to throw a stone without hitting a jewish girl who'd suck a mile of dick to get ahead but no, it just didn't happen.

It would be like setting off a bomb in Detroit and hitting hundreds of white people and not a single black person, very spooky.
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uziq
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is that really your fucking takeaway from this? that they were evil jews?

why deadname robert maxwell, when that's the name everyone else has always referred to him by, and indeed the name with which he attained a career and prominence in british society? no, instead you want to emphasize his jewish european extraction.

you are a fucking crackpot and i really think you should seek help.
Dilbert_X
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Why do jews change their names and rape non-jewish girls by the hundreds?
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SuperJail Warden
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I assume over 50% of the males who closely follow this Epstein stuff are weird about sex and/or children.

Your interest are who you are. Following this case says you have an interest in sex stuff that I don't want to know about. I watch people suffer and die online. I am weird about that stuff. I own it. These Epstein and QAnon people...I know your sins. God knows your sins.
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Dilbert_X
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There's a multitude of reasons why people would be interested in this.

One of my sister's classmates worked for Epstein and is potentially next in line to be prosecuted, for one.

Any parent would be glad to see these creeps dead or imprisoned.

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uziq
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Dilbert_X wrote:

There's a multitude of reasons why people would be interested in this.

One of my sister's classmates worked for Epstein and is potentially next in line to be prosecuted, for one.

Any parent would be glad to see these creeps dead or imprisoned.
yes and there’s a multitude of reasons why mid-century jewish emigres changed their names. you fucking asshole.

jews were the most persecuted people in europe during this time, you know, and british society was extremely anti-semitic. to become part of accepted or established society, jews have been changing their surnames for generations. in the case of the US, for many poor immigrants arriving from eastern europe, for e.g., changing your surname to a 'westernized' version was practically encouraged when disembarking and registering at places like ellis island, NY. (and a lot of first-generation immigrants painfully felt this loss of identity.)

it’s amazing. on the one hand, you blame foreign cultures for never assimilating. on the other, if someone points to all of the ‘secular’ jews who changed their names, dropped their religious practice, went on to careers in academia/business/industry/etc, you only see shadowy conspiracy.

you are absolutely nuts. half of the best american physicists of the last century were jewish emigres, and half of those changed their surnames. grow the fuck up dilbert.

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uziq
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Dilbert_X wrote:

Why do jews change their names and rape non-jewish girls by the hundreds?
er most of the people in epstein’s little black book of contacts weren’t jewish.

is bill clinton jewish? was jimmy savile jewish?

pedophile rings aren’t limited to jews. muslims aren’t the only rapists in the U.K. as ever, your particular fascination seems to be with any crime with an inter-racial dimension. like most sexless eunuchs, you are obsessed with white women being fucked by blacks/jews/muslims/etc. as macbeth said, this prurient interest says a lot more about you than about ‘the plight of abuse victims’ or whatever hack excuse you use to pile on with your anti-semitic or islamophobic tropes. (lol and ironically you spend half your time perving at asian women online.)

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Dilbert_X
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uziq wrote:

jews were the most persecuted people in europe
Everywhere jews have been in time and space they have been 'persecuted'.

Maybe its because they have no compunction about robbing and abusing non-jews.

Why do so many jews make it their life's work to rob non-jews of their life savings and pensions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Saunders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Green

Thats pretty well the top five financial thefts of all time.
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uziq
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please seek help dilbert. your bitterness and obsessions make you seem like a very sad, lonely and repugnant sort.

anyone can cherry-pick some legal cases and construct a terrible, racist, malign generalization.

the biggest corporate frauds of all time:

Enron (under Jeffrey Skilling's direction, who saw serious prison time)
WorldCom, the biggest corporate bankrupcty ever until Lehman's collapse in 2008 (Bernie Ebbers as CEO)
Wirecard in germany (CEO markus braun)
Luckin Coffee in china
Well Fargo (CEO, john stumpf, resigned; a host of c-level executives were responsible)
Volkswagen's 2015 'diesel dupe' (CEO martin winterkorn resigned)

... i could go on. not a single jew on the list. wowsers! what are all these anglo-saxon protestants and chinese doing committing so much grave financial crime?
Dilbert_X
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Corporate bankruptcies and dishonest conduct are not the same as outright theft.
None of those involve the theft of people's pensions and savings, robbery from the little people of their investments.

Why do jews hate non-jews?
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SuperJail Warden
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Some Jews really took that "God's Chosen People" thing to heart.
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uziq
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Dilbert_X wrote:

Corporate bankruptcies and dishonest conduct are not the same as outright theft.
None of those involve the theft of people's pensions and savings, robbery from the little people of their investments.
wtf? erm yes they did? do you understand how the banking system works? and how things like the wells fargo fraud or enron collapse directly affected peoples' savings, pensions and mortgages, for that matter? jesus fucking christ. what about all the 'little guys' who are persuaded in good faith to invest or buy stocks in these giant entities and lose their money as a result?

how is large-scale, intentional corporate fraud different from 'theft'? so volkswagen knowingly selling a faulty product and taking people's money isn't the same as theft?

you live in a weird reality, dilbert. white-collar crime is white-collar crime. both are forms of swindling where you shake someone's hand, smile in their face, or better yet, never see the victims eye-to-eye at all. both are motivated by greed. please get the fuck out of here trying to pretend to me 'jewish financial crime is worse than anglo-saxon financial crime'.

to quote you in the pandemic thread, "yes and it will be different when someone you know gets financially wiped out by one of these corporate frauds".

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SuperJail Warden
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So this book is interesting.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51lRHE38T6S.jpg
Look past the fact it is about Zombies for just a moment.

I am very surpirsed by the book's willingness to bring up controversial stuff and its diverse cast of characters. An autistic woman, a blue collar white lady from Brooklyn, a gay black guy, an illegal immigrant, a Muslim teen, a racist cop, a Mexican health worker. These are all of the named characters from the first 80ish pages. The book just doesn't drop them into a Zombie apocalypse to be fodder. It actually follows shows their thoughts and feelings on stuff that would make many people uncomfortable. I could see MAGA people being turned off having to read about a lot of the stuff and characters that come up if they go into this expecting a basic zombie story like I did.

I assume you guys know who George Romero was. He was working on this book before his death. It was unfinished and another author had to finish. I really wonder how much of this almost WoKe stuff was his idea vs how much of it is the second author. Romero might have rode out this Zombie thing to exhaustion. And his later movies kind of suck. But he was way ahead on some of this stuff going all the way back to the 60's.




The 1978 Dawn of the Dead, which is available in HD on Youtube for free, was much more on the nose about its social commentary.

So maybe Romero's intent was to make a good Zombie book about average Americans in the 21st century. Pretty interesting way to go with the book that was guaranteed to sell based on his name alone.
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Dilbert_X
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Zombie films have long been about othering and fear of others.

Its not a coincidence that survivalists/preppers talk about everyone else as 'zombies'.

This isn't marketed and bought for actual zombies, its for fending off the starving hordes come the apocalypse.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0042/1039/3158/products/090255902624_1_377x400.jpg?v=1619504142
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uziq
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lmao, wow dilbert detected a very obvious allegory and subtext in the zombie phenomenon.

you could have been a critic and got an english PhD with interpretative skills like that.

next you'll be telling us that vampires were about capitalism or witch-hunt hysterias were about gender politics.
Dilbert_X
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I haven't really given much thought to vampire movies TBH
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