And the damage he did would drastically reduce the price and likely cost a lot in lawyers.

That’s what I mean, he’ll always do the worst thing possible.

Hell piss away millions after billions and won’t stop till he has negative wealth.

You assume he’d act rationally and invest in even more ridiculous wasted of money…

He’s not smart enough to keep a backup, because even if it’s just a million, he’ll think he can turn it into a billion.

As rich as he is, he’ll live another 40 years. More than enough time to burn all his money. Don’t forget everything is leveraged against each other, his money is built on stock prices, and he’s picking a fight with Brazil while using a shit ton of drugs

If Space X loses it’s governments contracts, literally everything would go up in smoke and he’d desperately try to make what he lost back.

A deat spiral isn’t implausible

Why won’t you respect their privacy?

https://youtu.be/lCqvJW1kIv8?si=M3lt9JHqaNSyD-Qp&t=47

Yep, people keep replying like it’s a choice to pay it or not…

For most Americans, that shit ain’t a choice, they just can’t.

Oh you earn the middle income? Too bad it’s 90% of your rent but don’t worry you’re still middle class! Nothing to be worried about here!

I’m not saying that’s fine, I’ve literally said multiple times it’s not, and that looking at like you are downplays the problem.

I’m sorry I couldn’t find a better way to explain it.

You have an idea in your head of a standard that is “middle class”.

That is not what I’m talking about.

If we’re splitting the classes by median income (assets could be done, but people in the middle class by median are lucky to even have a mortgage on a home) then it’s about 40k for an individual and 75k for a household.

Statistically speaking “middle class” is the median and a statistical deviation either way.

But that paints an incredibly depressing and realistic picture of what America’s “economy” is really like. So the wealthy have pushed the narrative you’re following that only a minority of people can obtain “middle class”.

Historically when shit gets organized like that, it doesn’t end well for the ones that hoarded all the wealth.

The harsh truth is that “middle class” is pretty fucking broke. It’s just what happens when you concentrate the wealth at one end of the distribution. And literally the only way to fix that, is by moving the wealth to people lower in the distribution.

So rather than that be the discussion, it benefits the wealthy if people do what you’re doing, and act like it just disappeared and can magically be made to reappear from thin air without taking wealth back from the people who have it now.

You’re talking “should” legally…

I’m talking “should” ethically, but really, they “should” have never made that wealth to begin with.

I mean, it should be median income/wealth, then a standard deviation either way.

But capitalism doesn’t care about people, it cares about money. That’s the only way the “middle class” can be defined differently.

Don’t let capitalism define words.

Middle class is paycheck to paycheck, has been for a while.

I’m lucky enough I can stack retirement and I got a house when it was (comparatively cheap).

If we’re splitting the classes by median income (assets could be done, but people in the middle class by median are lucky to even have a mortgage on a home) then it’s about 40k for an individual and 75k for a household. And I’m solidly “upper class” even though I’ll never amass more than a million in assets unless real estate inflation jumps past Ludacris and into plaid.

The fact that anyone with a million in assets, let alone cash/stocks would consider themselves “middle class” just tells you stupid people can luck out and become millionaires.

It’s a level of delusion that is actual impressive.

So the “middle class” that’s a single income, house in the burbs, two cars, vacations every year…

That shits gone. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a statistical middle class.

$150 a month for her dog’s health insurance…

And she’s calling herself “middle class” like she lives in the burbs…

The wealthy always think of themselves as “middle class” because they know people wealthier.

Just because billionaires exist doesn’t mean millionaires who take annual child free vacations are suddenly “middle class”.

They just don’t want to actually admit they’re wealthy and wasting a shit ton of money that should be going to taxes.

There’s some valid reasons to criticize Kamala, but they’re all about her being too far to the right.

Every bad thing about Kamala (and there are things bad about her) trump is objectively worse with.

It creates this weird situation where Republicans can’t criticize her for anything her voters don’t like without hurting trump worse, so they have to resort to random weird shit like demanding proof of a college job 40 fucking years ago.

That being said, SSA would actually have records to prove this, and if Republicans knew anything about how government works they’d never make a claim this easily disproven. We’re insanely lucky that Paul Ryan stepped back for politics and went to think-tanks. He’s still a problem, but if he ran in 2016 we’d all be incredibly fucked right now

A lot of the time they’re paid overtime rates by the company and not being paid by the city.

They’re private security but still wear cop uniforms, drive cop cars, and often sit in their cars burning gas we pay for with taxes.

Businesses are fine paying it, because it’s better than paying taxes for real policing and having to wait.

It’s moving to full on privatized policing, gated communities do the same shit rather than pay taxes.

When this stuff happens, it never ends well for anyone, but often eventually results in sociatial progress once the ashes settle.

Cuz cops aren’t here to help people, they’re here to defend the wealthy’s assests…

People have been learning this lesson for decades, it’s just most people never have to interact with police outside a rare traffic ticket.

The Navy changes their uniforms faster than the ship’s laundry can pretend to wash the last set.

Hold up…

You had laundry people?

We had to try and do that shit between 6/6 shifts…

Eventually we sneaked a washer/dryer into engineering to not wait in line with everyone else, but we still had to be there to switch it over

Fuck man, you’re right…

Article called them NWUs and I just assumed the website fucked up the picture.

But the new NWUs are green, not blue like the ones I was thinking of.

On the plus side, now if you go overboard you’re not camouflaged so you can’t be seen by anyone on board.

These have been in for over a decade…

I remember when they the first NWUs first came out the heavy coat wasn’t available, the only way was if some “fell off a truck” but at least that meant the were half price.

Real nice Gortex jackets, but half price was still 100s of dollars.

Ironically they went to these because they hide stains better, but because you can wear them off base, they can’t be stained…

Which sounds like what led to this shortage.

Yeah, as long as you don’t mind a refresh rate of 5 frames a second…

Imagine how tired he’d be if he was paying attention to the people making millions and millions of dollars selling opioids and other addictive drugs, especially when he finds out about how extended release was pushed thru despite corporations knowing an significant amount of people would metabolize too fast leading to over medication, under medication, and a situation that creates addicts faster than if you were intentionally trying to create addicts.

Or the judge can keep fucking with the victims because he’s too stupid to see what the underlying problem is.

It won’t solve anything, but that’s never stopped old assholes before.

Your flippant dismissal of what the IBA actually is was: a highly relevant intentional sporting organization for boxing

It’s not a Russian organization,

It wasn’t a Russian organization…

But most of it’s operations have been moved to Russia, and their sole sponsor is a Russian company…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Boxing_Association#2023–present

The guy has even canceled elections to replace him. By now it’s essentially a kidnapped organization, literally nothing prior to 2023 matters anymore. It is only the IBA still in name only.

Like the old NRA takeover in the 70s.