crashfrog
@crashfrog@lemm.ee
- Comment on Jordan Peele-Produced Horror Movie 'Goat' Has Been Renamed 'Him' for 2025 Release 2 months ago:
Joins the cinematic “hardest to trademark” pantheon alongside “She”, “Her”, and “Them”
- Comment on Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end? 2 months ago:
No ethnographic studies have shown that any present or past society has used barter without any other medium of exchange or measurement, and anthropologists have found no evidence that money emerged from barter.
What would be an example of the barter economy you’re certain exists? How do they overcome the need for double coincidence?
- Comment on Donald Trump latest: Former president scrambled to safety after shots fired on his golf course 3 months ago:
Well, he’s down in the polls again so why not do what works
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
I know you know you’re a loser
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
This is literally the first post where you’ve understood what question I even fucking asked, I think you’re obligated to give one attempt at an answer before you take your third place victory lap
- Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking? 3 months ago:
Why would anyone care about “tremors”?
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
No you asked why hadn’t they raised prices before.
Sorry, you’ve misunderstood the question. Obviously there have been price increases in the past.
If a company, on this present date, raises the price of a widget they sell to $X.XX, I’m asking you why it wasn’t already at that price. Why had they waited?
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
Oh you see, you could have asked that way up there.
I did.
Economics actually talks quite a lot about monopoly power and rent seeking.
Do you? This is the first you’ve mentioned either. What’s the “monopoly” in the situation we’re discussing?
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
No, I’m asking you to explain why you think prices are arbitrary in contravention of essential economics.
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
Socratic questioning goes back a lot longer than 5 years, stupid
- Comment on Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end? 3 months ago:
If trade occurs, then by definition they have currency; there are no barter economies.
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
I mean I am the chain, I’m asking you what the fuck you’re talking about and you’re really bad at having clear ideas
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
Who said anything about slavery? What are you talking about?
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
Sorry, what are you talking about? What “war”? What was made illegal?
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could.
What does “get away” with it mean? Why can’t they pay us nothing?
- Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking? 3 months ago:
Fracking is usually for natural gas I think
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
Why hadn’t they raised them before? Why don’t they keep raising them until prices are at infinity?
Why don’t they lower wages to zero, or negative?
- Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking? 3 months ago:
If you can’t believe the assistant gynecologist, who can you believe
- Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking? 3 months ago:
There isn’t any pollution from fracking, though.
- Comment on Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end? 3 months ago:
Weren’t they the ones that used shells as money?
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 3 months ago:
And then it happens why?
- Comment on How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion? 3 months ago:
If everyone knows Hamas won’t keep an agreement then why is Israel subject to such pressure to reach an agreement with them?
I’m not asking whether Israel is stupid - I’m asking whether you are.
- Comment on How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion? 3 months ago:
Did Israel expect them to?
Did Israel expect their negotiating partner to hold up their end of a negotiated ceasefire? Yes, they absolutely expected that.
If you don’t hold that Hamas will keep its agreements then how can they be negotiated with?
- Comment on Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end? 3 months ago:
There’s actually no such thing as humanity without money; it’s as key to our collective cognition as language.
- Comment on How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion? 3 months ago:
What entitles Palestinians to land they abandoned or never owned at all? What makes a Palestinian a “refugee” of a place they’ve never lived in their whole life?
- Comment on How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion? 3 months ago:
Conversely, the Palestinians have always been pissed at the so-called Zionists who just started showing up and claiming land.
How could the Jews “show up” in a place they always lived?
You’re truly a moron.
- Comment on How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion? 3 months ago:
Oh, sorry, when did you want history to start counting?
- Comment on How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion? 3 months ago:
Israel held up their end of a negotiated ceasefire that included these terms. Hamas’ terms included ending attacks on Jews.
Did they?
- Comment on How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion? 3 months ago:
Sure; it started hundreds of years ago via Arab colonization of Judea and Samaria.
Or did you intend history to only begin once the Jews hit back?
- Comment on How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion? 3 months ago:
Gaza doesn’t deserve buildings after Oct 7, but the Jews of Israel offer more grace to their enemies than I would