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Posted by one of my acquaintances that claims to be an ANCAP but also thinks Fucker Carlson has good ideas, and that trans people and poor people are ruining America. Also worships Elon. I hate these people.
It literally can't be reversed...
Like, that time has passed, literally. Historically this is one of the ways society tries to self correct. Shitty times means less people have kids, less kids means less workers a generation later.
Less workers mean workers have more power, wages go up, housing goes down, and they feel secure and have a "baby boom". It's not even unique to humans, other animals and even plants go thru similar cycles with resources.
We're just cycling really fucking fast these days, and it won't take many generations for AI to actually be able to replace an average human. We kind of need to fix shit and hold onto it for as long as possible.
I know it always feels like "this is the last fight" but we're coming dangerously close to it actually being true.
Reversing a trajectory (a speed and direction) does not require you to change the past. What a bizarre way to read that
Hnnnnnnnnnnmnnnnngt
FEWER
Otherwise, spot on.
I'm a firm believer that grammar rules should describe a language, not control it:
This isn't an example of how modern English is going to the dogs. Less has been used this way for well over a thousand years—nearly as long as there's been a written English language. But for more than 200 years almost every usage writer and English teacher has declared such use to be wrong. The received rule seems to have originated with the critic Robert Baker, who expressed it not as a law but as a matter of personal preference. Somewhere along the way—it's not clear how—his preference was generalized and elevated to an absolute, inviolable rule.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/fewer-vs-less
English is a peasant language standardized by Dutch printing press operators who could barely speak English and whose work wasn't proofed.
If something is completely nonsensical, we can just disregard it.
Makes scents benjamin franklin said its a pore mind that can not think of more than won weigh to spell a word but he didnt say anything about formatting punctuation or grammar to make things more readable
I mean, I slip up, or at least try to write with a little style sometimes, but seeing consistent incorrect usage rubs me the wrong way. It's hard enough to get clarity in writing, throwing out structure and "rules" probably won't improve it.
I wonder what Marjorie thinks the solution to low home ownership is
Feed the homeless people to the hungry, obviously. Two world problems solved right there. No need to thank me.
Jewish space lasers
Ooh! Someone make a graph of the average price for a home over the same time period, then the federal minimum wage, then do the math on how many hours you have to work to get that much money...
Median price of a home in the USA from Q2 2025: $410,800.
US minimum wage: $7.25
56,662 hours of work (roughly, we're not taking into account taxes and whatnot)....
Which is approximately 1,416.5 weeks at full time (40 hrs per week)
Which is 27.24 years of work.
Average length of a mortgage is still 25 years. So working full time, at minimum wage, and paying no taxes, and spending zero dollars of your money towards stuff you need in the mean time, like... IDK.... Food?
It will take you 2.24 years longer to pay off the house than you have time to pay it off.
The system is working as intended.
Bear with me, but what if we start calling billionaires by the derogatory names of the people the right hates?
Like ‘groomers’? I mean… if the shoe fits, but I think they might be proud. 🤢 🤮
I'm of the opinion that the stock market is the real problem. Companies that are publicly traded just always continue to increase and increase and grow and grow, otherwise investors will sell their stock and lose interest. These companies can't even like, break even at a reasonable, even profitable revenue — they have to continually increase their profit margin. That is the cause for enshittification and greed. It's grow or die. And it's disgusting. It forces greed upon those who might not have that in them in the first place.
That is my take. Avoid the stock market if you can.
Its a devils bargian if you want to retire. The abstraction of that demented system into index funds and other financial objects make it so your money does not lose relative value to inflation as time goes on (due to the magic of compounding interest). Sorta damned if you do, damned if you dont...
What happened in 1991?
The pressure to compete with the Soviet Union on improving the quality of life vanished.
The consequences of Reganomics and trickle down took hold
LMFAO. Trickle down.
I don't think it's physically possible for the wealthy, who got tax breaks from Regan, to spend enough of the money they "earn" every year, for anything to "trickle" anywhere.
The whole thing was always a sham.
The fact that anyone fell for it was incredible.
He was hated by my parents
Millennials, they ruined the home owning and marriage market as soon as they were born.
Damn millennials!
As a millennial, on behalf of my generation, I accept the blame and your criticism.
I also couldn't possibly give any less of a shit. :)
The 30 year olds were born
The 90s
Perhaps the congresswoman from Georgia should focus on that and not Jewish space lasers.
As a 30 year old trans person, I wish my wife and I could afford a house
Maybe it’s because all oldies fucked up our economy so much, we can AFFORD house, let alone a damn child, or even a damn car at this rate! Our wages are trash, healthcare for all is abysmal, and taxes are up the ass! Not to mention now… TARIFFS. It’s asinine to think that anyone would wanna bring a child into this garbage US economy!
We threw tea into the ocean when the king tried to tax it but now it’s okay with Americans that we can get taxes of almost 30% of our HARD EARNED income!! What in the absolute fuck?! DRUMPF hasn’t “worked” a day in his life! All he’s proven is failed businesses and shitting his pants! Embarrassing America!
DO FUCKING BETTER! Fucking VOTE, you lazy ass fucking clowns!
Of all the descriptors you gave that acquaintance, ANCAP is the one that marks them as an asshole the most.
I think believing trans people are ruining America is even worse.
Idk, it’s a tough call. Ancaps support a governance system which will, by design, oppress marginalized people.
Whether that’s worse than personally hating marginalized people is kinda open to interpretation.
“I want there to be a perpetual oppression machine” vs “I want to do some oppressing”
I think it's better to be greedy and go "yay no more taxes" and not realize how large the detriments are instead of I HATE YOU WHY DO YOU EXIST
ANCAP is not just "no more taxes". They specifically advocate against any sort of regulation on business and commerce, thinking that "the free market" will self regulate all the bad stuff away. Regulations such as bans on asbestos, or making sure that developers build structurally sound houses, or even just "you have to actually do business with someone before they can charge you money".
Oh they are the EPITOME of "i cant wait for the collapse so MY idealogy can rise"
In fox news country this is a super common sentiment. I know people who were actualling having breakdowns a few months ago that in new York they were killing babies and also Kamala was planning to start ww3 and have a draft.
Im dead serious. They absolutely believed it.
On my last visit, a close family member declared that "Democrats are murdering babies". "WHAT?!?" I told them, "That's called infanticide and I can guarantee you that it is illegal in every state in the US and most of the developed world."
They later looked it up online and figure out it is not true.
People I used to think have basic sense are off the deep end believing whatever shit they see.
These (old) people are also terrified of Russia and putin, but think nothing of ut that drumpf is his best buddy. I cannot comprehend.
They rail against the poor yet they're 1 paycheck away from being homeless. Also they dont think libraries should exist.
And they listen to Jordan Peterson all day. Im not for certain but they probably liked Andy Tate as well. I'd guess they do.
Hey! I'm in this graphic. Namely 30 yo and nowhere close to married or a homeowner.
Ancaps are feudalists that are aware of the branding.
How is anything your party is doing helping to solve the problem bitch?
I think she's stupid, but just smart enough to know how to point out the damage and apportion that to her belief system of scapegoats including non white, non hetero, etc.
As a millennial, partly responsible for the big dip around the 2000s:
LOL. GFL.
I think this is not a comment on economics. She is implying that people are not "pure enough" to settle down now or something like that. The statement gives off the impression that people are willingly choosing this behavior without outside influence.
Weird how a graph of wealth held by middle+lower class is almost identical to this and a wealth held by top 1% graph shows who owns all these houses now
When the answer has been staring you in the face for so long that it has resorted to just slapping you in the face, but you're still not getting it.
Whenever I see MAGAts talk about how important family is, it’s hard not to forget that “pro-family” was the euphemism used by anti-gay marriage campaigners ten short years ago. She’s blaming the gays for income inequality.
"There's something frustratingly wrong with the world; I'm being told that if I work hard I'll get rich but the harder I work the more I seem to be slipping into debt. I feel like my labor value is worth more than the amount I get paid for it. I have a growing distrust in the media because social media content conflicts with mainstream news because profit-seeking platforms prioritize engagement over fact-checking and I feel more and more disconnected from reality every day and the problem is ~~capitalism~~ a Jewish deep state pedo cabal that's intentionally lying to you via hidden amendments in the constitution and NASA images of the curvature of the Earth to cover up the fact that they're torturing children to extract adrenochrome from their blood and using farmed babies foreskin to live forever while worshipping Satan in the basement of a pizza shop" —Münecat
They are such idiots. She is as much a tool as her sycophants.
We could fix it but feckless monsters like her would have to get cool with a lot of things really quickly or get put down.