Jmdatcs
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- Comment on Update! 🚨 3 weeks ago:
Peter Parker’s big friend from the most recent Spider-Man movies was photographed at an event looking dapper in a suit. It spawned a lot of memes, one of them calling him “the CEO of sex,” which itself spawned many spin-off memes. This one (which doesn’t include him in the suit) references spawn camping, a video game term where someone calls at a place where the opposing team "spawns’ after being killed to kill then again before they can get going, and uses it as a metaphor for going after underage girls. It then continues the video game metaphor with Sex 2.
So, The CEO of sex says Epstein can’t participate in the new sex because he rapes underage girls.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Last one then I got to go.
You try to excuse the wealth hoarding of China’s parasite class in part by taking about the rising standard of living of the poor.
That is no different than right-wingers saying wealth inequality isn’t a problem because poor people have a higher standard of living than decades ago. There was a famous example not too long ago (I guess not too famous because I forgot the details) where some republican in the U.S. minimized the struggles of the poor because they all had refrigerators now. What you do to minimize the struggles of the poor in China is no different.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Listen, this is not my choice. You decided to use my comment to vomit out your copypasta, which seems to be your entire life. And then demand I sink to your level of idiocy so you can beat me with experience. You could have just not done that. But now I will exercise my choice to go do something better. Maybe someone, someday can teach you the real meaning of socialism, but it won’t be me and it won’t be today, and it won’t be until you get some help.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I already said, I love China, it’s great and getting better. It could get even better if it actually worked toward socialism instead of falling into the trap the people that used to exploit it did, trying to exploit other poorer countries.
You haven’t done anything but list twisted versions of right-wing taking points. “Billionaires aren’t a problem because poor people have refrigerators.”
There is no defense for China’s system, at least not from a communist.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No. Again, I know this hard for your kind to understand, but you don’t to get to dictate how things go.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What points have you made? All you’ve done is fail to make any excuses for the staggering and growing wealth inequality in China and fail to drag me into an unproductive argument about definitions.
If I were an anti-communist (an actual anti-communist, not anti-whatever China calls communist)I would love it when people like you try to tie China to communism.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Win-win, where have I heard that before? Oh yes! It’s when imperial powers talk about the relationships with weaker “allies” that result in things like sweatshops. China will soon be getting their “fast-fashion” from African sweatshops raising their standard of living further and enriching the parasite class beyond their wildest dreams. China can teach them how to install anti-suicide nets in their factory dorms in return. A completely equal exchange.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No. I know this is hard for people like you to understand, but you don’t control this conversation. If I don’t want to discuss your definitions, which range from strategically incomplete to just plain wrong, you can not force it.
And it’s not an attack. If you are genuinely delusional I have nothing but sympathy for you and honestly hope that you live somewhere with access to resources that can help you. If you don’t have an agenda furthered by posting half-truths and lies and you honestly believe all this, you should talk to someone that can help you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
None of your circle jerk “theory” will change the fact that hundreds of millions of Chinese live in poverty to fuel the grotesquely lavish lifestyles of a few, and that those few are turning their exploitative efforts outward to accumulate even more wealth, while letting a little “trickle-down” to keep the plebs calm.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m more knowledgeable about this that you could ever hope to be (do you see how statements like that aren’t even remotely convincing?). I’m well aware of the cherry picked information you use to support your delusion.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, because I don’t want to. I’m not going to get involved in a discussion of definitions of words with someone that lives in a bubble with their own alternate definitions created to support their circular reasoning.
Their poverty is vanishing because they’re exporting it by exploiting others. If you look at China and honestly see “socialism,” or even “working toward socialism,” you’re either painfully ignorant or mentally ill.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Lol, Jesus dude! Are you just plagiarizing U.S. state department talking points from the mid 20th century on U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and other places in the global south?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Dude, neoliberalism is a huge range, not just those douches. Just because they’re not (currently) as bad as Regan/Thatcher doesn’t mean they’re not neolibs. I’m sure you’ve got tons of copypastas ready to go, but none of them change the fact that China is a great place to be rich and get richer but if you’re poor, the best you can hope for is that your grandchildren have a better life built on the backs of exploited Africans and others in the global south.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The measure they’re taking to address it is creating vassal states to turn into sweatshops.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No, what I, and everyone what that has actually been to factories and rural areas of China, has seen is what’s actually happening on the ground. You’re nothing more than a neolib apologist with an Eastern fetish.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They’re turning an entire continent into a sweatshop to feed their own greed and consumerism. They learned from the best! And they’re improving on it through the strength of single party central planning.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You can copy paste all the charts and quotes you want. None of that means anything next to the reality on the ground.
China is great, it’s one of my favorite places to visit. But that’s because I have the money to enjoy it. As soon as you travel a little way away from the glitz of the major cities, leave behind the Michelin starred restaurants, five star hotels, and bullet trains, the poverty is crushing. More so than many other neolib places where you can go to a more rural area to chill. But that’s mostly due to time. Give China a little more time and they’ll continue to make their welfare state more robust through progressive transaction (as is the hallmark of neoliberalism), and it seems like they’ll cleave close to the social democracy side of things, at least for now.
Anyone who looks at the crushing poverty a large percentage of Chinese live in and the rate they are minting new billionaires and then tries to say their system is in the same universe as socialism is delusional at best and cynically promoting lies to advance an agenda at worst.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Give them a few years. The belt and road initiative is set to bring levels of exploration and wealth extraction never before seen. China gets shit done when it wants to and understands the long game.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
China is a neolib paradise, regardless of the name of the single party in control.
- Comment on How do.contires that use commas for decimals read such numbers aloud? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t think that’s common knowledge. I never knew it was called that until I got into my profession. And I think it’s only called that there because it’s been around since before “forward slash” entered the vernacular.
- Comment on How do.contires that use commas for decimals read such numbers aloud? 3 weeks ago:
In French. In English a virgule is a forward slash.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 weeks ago:
I like a scotch finished in port casks so you contribute!
- Comment on Share with those less fortunate 2 years ago:
For the sake of anyone in the future that might be subjected to the inane bullshit that issues from your deficient mind. I really hope you do feel that way. Sometimes valuable lessons are hard to hear. Good luck applying them, I’m sure everyone in your life would appreciate it.
- Comment on Share with those less fortunate 2 years ago:
I’m not trying to win by insulting you, I’m doing that because you deserve it. You should feel bad about what you are. If you feel shame for it maybe you’ll keep your mouth shut like a good little halfwit instead of vomiting out bullshit that might influence others to make a bad decision.
You can’t win so you keep putting words in my mouth. I never said mortgages are a risk and I absolutely didn’t say they were a loss in value. I’d say I didn’t know where you’re getting that, but it’s probably right out of your ass like everything else. I not saying now that there aren’t risks involved in buying a house but I never said there were, because that’s not what I’ve been talking about. I’ve just been refuting your nonsense about home equity as it applies to net worth and the rate you gain equity after buying.
In case you forgot, once again:
You said you have to pay off 50% of a house before it’s positive to your net worth. That’s not just wrong, it’s dumb as fuck.
You said it takes years or decades to break even selling a house. That’s not just wrong, it’s dumb as fuck.
- Comment on Share with those less fortunate 2 years ago:
Are you mentally impaired? Like diagnosed? I don’t want to make fun of you if you are, that would be mean.
Stop putting words in my mouth and stop moving the goalposts.
You said you have to pay 50% of your mortgage before a house adds to your net worth. That isn’t just wrong, it’s dumb as fuck.
You said it takes years or decades to be able to break even selling a house. That’s not just wrong, it’s dumb as fuck.
Weather or not is a smart idea for a particular person to buy a particular house or if it’s a good idea to invest in real estate vs something else are different discussions. I would bet it’s a bad idea for you because you seem unable to grasp even the most basic concepts.
- Comment on Share with those less fortunate 2 years ago:
Bro, you need to take the L here.
I’ll ignore you obviously having no idea what net worth means and trying to move the goalposts from your dip shit 50% comment again and just say this:
Even in a buyer’s market where the seller pays their realtor fees, the buyer’s realtor fees, and closing costs, you’re talking 7-8% tops. If your home hasn’t decreased in value and it takes you decades, or even just years, to have 7-8% in equity, you are a class-A fuckup.
- Comment on Share with those less fortunate 2 years ago:
I wasn’t taking about that guy, he said he’s underwater.
I was responding to your bullshit about needing to pay off 50%+ for your home to be a net positive to your net worth.
“New mortgage” doesn’t matter, as soon as you make the down payment, before you make a single mortgage payment, as long as the house hasn’t decreased in value you have equity and that adds to your net worth.
As long as you can sell and have $1 left over after leins and expenses, it adds to your net worth. It’s the value of the home less any leins, not your equity less any leins when determining what it means to your net worth.
- Comment on Share with those less fortunate 2 years ago:
TF you taking about? You use the whole price of the asset for net worth. If your mortgage is $1 less than what you would get from selling it that’s +$1 to your net worth.
If you’re house sells for 500k after expenses and you owe 300k you don’t just get the 200k and still owe 300k.
My house is worth ~1.8mm and I owe ~140k, that’s +1.66mm to my net worth. Even if I owed 1mm, I’d have +800k.
Unless the house is worth less than you owe, having a mortgage on your house isn’t a negative to your net worth.
- Comment on Stranger Than Fiction should have been Will Ferrell’s big dramatic break 2 years ago:
Nominated, won, and gave one of the best acceptance speeches of all time.