Rep Katie Porter's Whiteboard for speaking truth to power. Her timeline of calling out industry insider's is epic.
Inflation from Money Printing, Survival, or Greed?
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Rep Katie Porter's Whiteboard for speaking truth to power. Her timeline of calling out industry insider's is epic.
Ah, verbiage straight from the Marxist Playbook for Fifth Column Marchers, 1962 edition. That will surely convey useful, truthful, and accurate information...
BTW, you'll want to review the definitions section of that manual: "Truth To Power" only applies when people NOT in power put themselves in danger - life, sacred honor, all that - by exposing secrets about those IN power over them. This in no way applies to a scummy politician pretending to be shocked by publicly available information in front of other scummy politicians in order to get some degree of leverage over them for deal-making. It's as boring as a hooker's thirtieth trick on payday; there's absolutely nothing "epic" about it.
Just wanted to say - after heartily agreeing with the rest - that this is pure gold.
I've had a couple of businesses of my own - quite the learning experience, given that my early upbringing in Russia contributed nothing useful to that process, and one hell of a lot of stumbling blocks - and I was blown away by the degree to which being a good, decent person was rewarded. Sure, there were a number of outliers... but in the main, it was an education in practical morality: the more value I brought to my customers, the happier both they and I were. It was A LOT of work, but the rewards were appropriate and highly satisfying.
Per the socialist dogma I grew up with, there were supposed to be whips, groans of the abused and tortured labor suffering in chains, and bags of money that I would cackle over... well, OK, the bags of money (medium-sized ones) were a part of the deal, but the guys who worked for me seemed pretty damn happy, and so were my customers. Maybe I was doing it wrong? Any of you Evil Capitalist Pigs here care to clue me in?
(It would have been nice if I'd managed to keep any of that dosh, but... I was rather young and clueless about budgets, investment, finance, or anything like that. Oh well. Trying to rebuild now, and maybe hold onto it this time.
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...Maybe I was doing it wrong? Any of you Evil Capitalist Pigs here care to clue me in?
(It would have been nice if I'd managed to keep any of that dosh, but... I was rather young and clueless about budgets, investment, finance, or anything like that. Oh well. Trying to rebuild now, and maybe hold onto it this time.
The only thing worse than an evil capitalist pig making money, is an evil capitalist commie that does not know how to hold onto it after making it, like the evil capitalist pigs who squanders it away like you did. I'd say you are par for the course, but are on the path for improvement. I can smell it in your messaging. You are here to kick ass and make money, and to hoard toilet paper. And you are all out of toilet paper.
Which is why you will make more money. Because as a commie you lack TP...And as a capitalist pig you will make the money to buy more TP...Umm...I don't know where I was going with this.
K, I shut up now *runs out of room and slams door*.
Right, the buyer at the high transaction price should be equally to blame, how dare they price me out. Somebody above mentioned DRAM price, however bitcoin miners and traders were part of the demand spike yet they get spared the indignation - no logic except for hatred of corporations. Just came here and I am blown away that traders of all people would be so sanctimonious and left thinking about this. Really?
so what? any seller sells higher if they can
BTW, highest growth in M2 in the last 100 years, who did that?
How about M1, who did that?
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That's basically it. The socialists here have been pumping that message ever since the 60s, and they've managed to take over a certain percentage of people's minds.
A bit of a view from the other side: when I was a kid growing up in the USSR, we all knew about the GRU-run program to take over the US colleges and universities in order to influence the Americans' minds, and we used to laugh about how naive "they" were... because all of us Russians were so cynical that we'd spot that kind of thing immediately. Anything that went counter to the "correct" context would instantly set off all kinds of alarm bells.
[sigh] It's rather bitter to me to note, after almost 50 years of living here, that that cynical take was correct. That - I don't want to call it "gullibility" - that kind, charming American willingness to give a stranger's viewpoint a hearing has allowed the poison they were trying to spread to penetrate and take root here.
So yeah, "evil" corporations and "greedy" capitalists and ALL that shit I grew up hearing. I recognize every bit of it, and it makes me shudder.
Very interesting background, I had a Chinese friend a while back who said the same thing, American leftists were reminding him of the cultural revolution. Western Marxism is a neat trick isn't it? Get people living an otherwise comfortable life to hate Apple for making profit off selling i-phones even though that activity has nothing to do with them, it would be funny if it wasn't so damned dangerous. I don't have your background but I can see these folks for what they are, masters of gaslighting, telling the rest of us how greedy and awful we are all the while it is their own envy and hate driving their thoughts. Geez really though, a marxian market trader, how the hell does one's brain not explode with that one? some of these folks must not be traders