It taught me everything. We rigged their side of town with radioactive bombs. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan!

There is no problem, they have their part of town and we have ours.

Fun fact, in this kind of war, the last thing you do is tell the bad guys you know what they’re doing. That’s some Hollywood shit.

All of that still happens in countries with deflation.

You mean all those people who thought housing was an investment would get caught with a bad investment?

Oh shucks. Well, I better get back in line for the organ grinding machine then.

Both cycles have their downsides. Nobody is saying they don’t. But having one without the other is unsustainable. You’re afraid salaries will go down. Guess what? They went down anyways. They show a higher number, but every year they don’t beat inflation is a year they went down. If wages drop during inflation and deflation, in real and gross terms, then I would venture to guess that inflation or deflation isn’t the core problem there, but letting corporations rig the game so they always win over the workers. Also if 2% inflation is stabilization, why isn’t 2% deflation? There’s no magic thing about crossing the line that makes the economy crash.

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Lmao. Nope. I’ve seen that one before. Didn’t get me that time either.

The median sits around 80k these days. Everyone should be cheering, right?

What nobody wants to acknowledge is that the mode is still high 30’s. Until that changes, we’re leaving people behind.

That’s not really true though. The only way to maintain infinite inflation is with infinite growth. But we only have finite resources. We also have modern examples of countries that experience deflation and they aren’t the horror shows that the finance industry wants about. For example, Japan.

Japan has had deflation for 25 years and the zombies haven’t shown up yet. In fact it’s a really nice place.

Turns out deflation isn’t so horrible if it’s only moderate, kind of like inflation.

Inflation can happen for a bunch of reasons. It’s just always cited in arguments against raising wages. The proper answer to which is, prices went up last year anyways, why can’t prices go up a cent so I can have a dollar?

But it’s also because inflation is a measurement of velocity, not a static indicator. If you have a year with ten percent inflation, that doesn’t go away without deflation happening and the finance industry would rather nuke the stock exchange than allow deflation.

Their point is that standard is only applied to white people.

Actual reckless driving needs to be enforced though. It needs to be something you go to jail for, your car gets towed, and you can’t drive again until the fine is paid, and you take Driver’s Ed. There are people out here doing 20+ mph faster than everyone else and weaving through the merge lane and shoulder because the HOV lane and farthest travel lane are flowing at 80 and that’s just too slow for them. This is not, “every fucking inconvenience”. These people are driving like they’re the object of a police chase already and police aren’t allowed to do it anymore because it’s so dangerous to other people on the road.

So while I get you don’t like the police, I’m not sure how else you’re going to stop McFuckStick from swiping that family of four into the back of a semi truck.

And who are you? You’re out here defending something awfully close to stochastic terrorism by assuming all the worst stuff about the people someone else was talking about. They literally said,

You can’t prosecute the meth out of a redneck, America has tried for decades.

There are people who have the basic mammalian capability for aversion association, and people who don’t, these morons are no more capable of >learning than ants.

Don’t bother trying to set an example, just use enforced attrition.

And you’re out here like, they’re obviously talking about the locking up criminals. And you blow right by the fact that long sentences are the traditional means of setting an example, it’s already a thing to lock people up in way they never come back to the street, as an example. So what’s next? What’s further down the path? Beyond long sentences to set an example? Well your bestest buddy here uses the words, “enforced attrition.” Let’s have a look at the definitions for those words.

Enforced - To cause something to happen by force.

Attrition - The action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure.

So we’re going cause the reduction in strength of rednecks by force. And lest you think we would be talking about forcing them to eat less, this is a specific example in the dictionary for attrition,

The gradual reduction of a workforce by employees’ leaving and not being replaced rather than by their being laid off.

So I don’t know where you went to school, but at mine they taught us critical reading. And this reads like some shit Goebbels would say. And that’s proving Godwin’s Law.

It wasn’t great though, the American Gilded age translation would be, “Let them eat sawdust bread”.

These signs were too close to balloting area right?

Right guys?

Straight to jail. Oh what am I saying, this is Raleigh, they’re going to give him an award.

The Atlantic current is going to collapse soon though. Which will drop temperatures in Northern Europe. Everything from about Germany up on that coastline is going to to get colder.

So while it certainly isn’t going to be like the movie, it is going to create a colder area.

Wisconsin, Georgia, Montana, and Nebraska all have contentious races and Republican run election systems.

Also this could be a sign they’re backing State Legislature Independence theory where the legislature is the sole controller of sending delegates, representatives, and senators to Washington.

They usually don’t for an off schedule fast ruling. But that also means they knew they wouldn’t need to explain themselves.

You don’t need to emigrate. Look at the Ukraine war. Most people in the actual fighting areas didn’t leave until days before the Russians arrived. Although if that happens, a civil war is pretty much instant refugee status anywhere in the western world.

Also, while SCOTUS has clearly cast their ballot, Virginia wasn’t a state on the Democratic party path to victory. So all is not yet lost.

In the case it does happen and you’re not in a safe zone; what you need to do is pay attention, and be ready to move away from the fighting. Keep a go bag of all your documents, 72 hours of non perishable food, changes of clothes, and weather gear. Figure out what you need to walk, (I need a walking stick these days). The primary method of evacuation is usually walking because if you’ve waited too long then cars become targets. If you can’t walk then figure out the helper organizations. They will exist, they will give rides with drivers who voluntarily and often drive into the bad areas so they’ll have the experience necessary. If you have to shelter in place, plan to have weeks of non perishable food on hand. The Russians kept a 24 hour curfew in Bucha for over a week. It’s a war crime to do so, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

Normally I would say follow all directions from soldiers of either side, but the Republicans have been open with some very violent tendencies. So I would hide from them and follow all instructions from friendly soldiers, no matter how weird they seem. (Walk on this path 50m to the left of the road being a common one for everyone’s protection)

I sincerely hope you need none of this advice, we’re not there yet, but if it comes to an actual civil war you can survive.