I love how our foreign policy is never mentioned when talking about immigration. 7.7m Venezuelans have left Venezuela since the sanctions under the trump admin. Want to reduce the number of asylum seekers? Lift the sanctions

Thank you comrade @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the Venezuelan election posting on the prior thread

Absolutely heartbreaking. Couldn't get through a single section without tearing up. Death to Israel

while losses like these are large and indicative of poor lending practices for mortgages, there was more at play for the 2008 market implosion. It wasnt just defaults on mortgage-backed securities, but the widespread failure (fraud imo) of rating agencies giving these MBS good ratings, the trillions of dollars of derivatives betting on those false ratings, and the failure (fraud imo) of regulatory bodies to identify and mitigate any of this. A mortgage crisis is surely happening but i doubt the fallout will be anywhere near 2008. but i stopped paying attention to financial regulatory policy in the early trump years after he undid the measly measures obama put in place post-crisis so your guess is as good as mine

deboonking

My wife's a hopeless radlib, maybe demsoc. I am very open about my politics and she doesn't care for the most part. I have tried to convert her but she's got somelib hangups and can't accept the historical necessity of violence. so we mostly agree until i say some shit, then she just sighs and calls me crazy. love her

Everything remotely bad is attributed to Russian/Chinese subterfuge. I'm reminded of the nordstream explosion. every liberal in my personal life was convinced russia sabotaged their own pipeline. no amount of common sense or evidence could override the decades of propaganda.

there are comments in this very thread that are doing that lol

It finally happened, today is a good day

My wife is a lib, and won't convert despite my best efforts. Her opinions are mostly good, but there are some real dogshit ones. I think it's a good reminder that people don't always agree, and you have to find a way to live with that

We are so happy, she's the best partner I've ever had. I shudder to think what my life would be like if I disqualified her for not being ml

Absolutely. The way that I have been able to break through with the liberals in my life has been by comparing it to the Nat Turner's rebellion, the Haitian slave revolt, or the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Sure, you can sit here comfortably in the imperial core and talk about how no violence is acceptable, but could you honestly blame the slave or the ghettoized for their violent uprisings? Especially since any attempts at negotiations or peaceful protest have been met with violence in this case - the 2005 ceasefire and the march of return.

Abhorring violence of this type is liberal idealism at its finest