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2020-12-20 at 2:17 PM UTC in Willingness to take Covid-19 vaccine increases in inverse proportion to IQ, researchers found.
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2020-12-20 at 2:15 PM UTC in infiltrating a shitty rival shit forum
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2020-12-19 at 11:47 PM UTC in Miss NIS 2020
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2020-12-19 at 11:37 PM UTC in đŹđŹCandy~LandđŹđŹ
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2020-12-19 at 3:39 PM UTC in Willingness to take Covid-19 vaccine increases in inverse proportion to IQ, researchers found.
Originally posted by Nil Hmmmm, I think I'll opt for the best of both worlds and just see about acquiring the document that says I was injected.
what do chinks use vinny? you guys smoking ground up dried rhino dicks to cure it? Or do u use a leopard semen suppository?
theres no evidence that rhino horns cant cure covid19. -
2020-12-19 at 3:36 PM UTC in Willingness to take Covid-19 vaccine increases in inverse proportion to IQ, researchers found.
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2020-12-19 at 3:33 PM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..
Originally posted by CandyRein When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something without warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day
(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)
(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)
A lovely dayyyyyyyy!
(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)
(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)
đ„đ”
why is this chink looking niggress wearing a KN95 face mask? -
2020-12-19 at 3:27 PM UTC in Financial Experts: The Capital-Feudalism Benny Vader has been warning about is now here and fully entrenched.https://macro.economicblogs.org/zerohedge/2020/12/durden-americas-rigged-game-zero-capitalism/
Dying Capitalism & The New Feudalism
American exceptionalism, as current COVID and capitalism disasters confirm, has morphed into a distortion that resembles more of a comorbidity than a guiding light.
Despite a prior reputation for leading the world in innovation, problem solving and health care, the U.S. is witnessing record hospitalizations in a nation comprising 5% of the global population yet 25% of its COVID infections.
Regardless of oneâs politics, the COVID crisis is now an open symptom of failure, not exceptionalism.
The same is true of the current crisis facing American capitalism.
In its purest form, capitalism is an exceptional system, yet sadly one that is morphing into something that is anything but exceptional.
A CRITICAL TURNING POINT
Regardless of legitimately debatable views on how individuals and policy makers (from central bankers to health organizations) have handled the pandemic, we can all agree that COVID represents a turning point.
The question now is whether it will be a turning point for the worse or the better.
One way to forecast this direction is by tracking the current health of U.S. capitalism.
CAPITALISM RE-ASSESSED
Today, with central banks engaged in open Wall Street socialism wherein artificially repressed rates and unlimited QE have directly benefited the two largest asset classes in America, namely real estate and stocks, we canât deny the cause-and-effect powers (as well as beneficiaries) of such âaccommodation.â
Itâs an objective fact that 80 % of those assets are owned by the top 10%.
Does that feel like capitalism working at a national level, or something far more targeted and far less âfree-marketâ driven?
The very concept of central-bank supported (and Congress-lobbied) capitalism is itself an oxymoron, and requires on honest re-assessment (and some hard questions) regarding the true meaning of capitalism.
Can any system, market or sector, for example, that is directly and exclusively supported by trillions in fiat money creation and decades of artificially repressed (and unnaturally low) interest rates by definition be labeled âfree market,â ânaturalâ or even âcapitalisticâ?
Be honest.
And has the $6+ trillion in Fed money creation since 2008 truly âtrickled downâ to the real economy or has it primarily benefited risk asset markets like stocks on the S&P 500âŠ
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âŠor real estate owners and commission-based brokers:
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Again: Be honest.
Whether you be in the top 10% or the bottom 10%, the answer to such primary questions is empirically obvious.
Such asset price inflation (i.e. bubbles) in everything from tech stocks to beach front real estate is not symbolic of the lauded and natural âDarwinismâ of competitive, free-market capitalism.
Instead, such bubbles for the top 10% and the consequent wealth disparity that followed for the rest of the country are dangerous indicators of a kind of post-modern feudalism wherein a questionable cabal of policy makers subsidizes a distinct minority of beneficiaries and then calls the result âeconomic stimulusâ as the rest of the country gets poorer by the day.
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But again, is that capitalism?
Capitalism, whether defined by Adam Smith or abused by Gordon Gecko, is a dynamic, full-body contact sport of almost blood-thirsty competition played on a level playing field of new ideas, equal capital costs and individual effort.
In addition, true capitalism, the kind our fathers knew, was equally designed to create a broad rather than narrow class of winners and prosperity over time.
Do the above charts suggest a broad class of winners?
Capitalism, of course, should reward executives. But by how much?
Since 1978, CEO compensation has grown by 940%, whereas worker compensation for the same period has grown by 12%. In 1965, the average ratio of CEO to median employee salaries was 21:1, today itâs over 320:1.
For Jeff Bezos at Amazon, the ratio is 1.2 million to 1.
Is such data a sign of an evolving capitalism or an indicator of something far more disturbing?
FAIR COMPETITION VS. A RIGGED GAME
Unfortunately, there are other and increasingly clear signs of rigged policies (from the Fed, Congress, SEC or White House) which have less to do with fair competition and compensationâthe keystones of healthy capitalismâand far more do with an extended yet media-ignored paradigm of favoritismâi.e. cheating.
Today, a kind of pseudo capitalism has emerged which is neither empathetic toward (or beneficial to) its host nation.
Instead, we have a distorted model of capitalism whose benefits and empathies are uniquely targeted to a singular (parasitic?) group of companies, individuals and markets.
For every member of Congress, for example, there are at least four financial lobbyists (from banks and big-tech) scurrying to influence (i.e. purchase) favorable policy decisions.
This suggests healthy capitalism is under the influence of bribery not policy, and backroom deals rather than fair competition.
Of course, any system that is inherently rigged, like the 1919 World Series, is inherently flawed.
Capitalism, when rigged, is no less disgraceful.
We see this rigged game playing out in real time as the weak majority get weaker and the strong minority get stronger in a backdrop that is not a capitalistic âsurvival of the fittest,â but rather a feudalistic survival of the best-connected.
Record breaking wealth disparity as well as the open and shameful disconnect between a tanking economy and a rising (Fed-supported) securities market is not an homage to capitalism, but rather open proof of its failure.
TESLA, APPLE AND AMAZONâTHE NEW CAPITALISM?
Take Tesla. Itâs a visionary company, but its stock has been skyrocketing on growth projections and historically low borrowing costs, easily managed by exaggerated share price inflation.
In March, it was the 4th most valuable auto company in the world, today it is now the most valuable, worth more than Daimler, Toyota and Volkswagen combined.
Or Apple. It took 12 years to get a $1 trillion market cap, but only 5 months to recently reach $2 trillion.
Are such growth stories a consequence of fair, legitimate and natural free-market capitalism, or have they enjoyed an unfair advantage from the policy jocks?
Consider Amazon.
With online sales skyrocketing as citizens are locked at home, Amazon has hired hundreds of thousands of minimum-wage warehouse workers to keep boxes coming to your doorsteps.
We can applaud Amazon for its job creation and raising of the minimum wage.
But let us not forget the larger picture in which AMAZON has gamified municipalities through its absurd HQ2 plan which transfers wealth from city police, fire and school districts to its shareholders.
Nor should we forget that despite years of a profitless balance sheet and legal tax avoidance, Amazonâs share price bubble has allowed it to literally kill, gut and bury small businesses across the nation.
At the same time, by owning the rails and engaging in anti-competitive behavior while dumping products and prices due to their access to cheap capital (against which no other companies can compete), Amazon has slaughtered rather than leveled the fair âplaying fieldâ upon which true capitalism was designed to be played.
Instead, names like Amazon, Tesla and Apple have prompted openly pro-capitalist thought leaders like Scott Galloway to question whether the pandemic was created, or at least co-opted, for taking the top 10% into the top 1% while sending the remaining 90% downward.
TWO AMERICAS, ZERO CAPITALISM
A recent study by the Robin Hood Foundation, for example, revealed that 32% of the people in New York, the homefield of Wall Street, have been forced to go to a food bank since the onset of the pandemic.
Thatâs more people in the Empire State seeking free food than those who possess a college degree.
Meanwhile, 1/3 of greater America is worried about paying their rent.
By pure math, we now live in a Dickinsonian backdrop by which it is the âbest of timesâ for a tiny minority (from Face-shot real estate brokers to Facebook tech investors) and the âworst of timesâ for the broader population.
Is it truly fair to castigate the real America as âlosersâ in a so-called Capitalistic competition whose rigged rules and policies ensured who the winners would be before the game could even start?
The rigged game playing right under our noses in the U.S. is not free market capitalism, just as an S&P sitting atop a big, fat, $7+ trillion Fed air-bag, sure as hell aint a free market.
Natural price discovery, as all honest Wall Street veterans know, died years ago. Nod to Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen and Powell.
As a member of the Wall Street elite who benefited from such anti-capitalistic capitalism, I canât ignore facts to alleviate a fake conscience.
The simple truth is that current U.S. markets, competition and politics have nothing to do with fair competition and hence nothing to do with capitalism.
THE NEW FEUDALISM
As Galloway recently observed, âwe are barreling toward a nation where 3 million lords are being served by 350 million serfs,â simply because US policy decided to favor corporations over populations as capitalism âcollapses upon itself.â
Nor can this modern version of so-called capitalism rely on the âbetter angelâ generosities of billionaires like Bezos or Musk to save the system.
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The moral character of overpaid CEOâs will not bring the dying middle class back to its glory days.
Frankly, itâs up to the citizens themselves to get informed rather than angry.
Knowledge begets better results than pitch forks.
America is falling not just because capitalism lost its way or policy-supported CEOâs lack the character and accountabilities of the past.
Itâs because citizens and their lobbied (bribed) leadersâred, blue and purpleâhave lost their sanity and are screaming at each other rather than opening a single economics, math, ethics, history or anti-trust book.
Today, the crowd gets its education from tweets and twits, not informed thoughts, sound leadership and patient knowledge or actual book reading.
BREAD & CIRCUS, FEAR & DIVISION
This, of course, makes the mal-informed majority (i.e. the bottom 90%) easier to trick and manipulate.
Decision-makers on top, from ancient Rome to Herr Goebbels, have always understood, and hence exploited, such wide-spread ignorance.
In short, policy anti-heroes serve a mal-informed population a mixed cocktail of either: 1) bread & circus (from Netflix to celebrity virtue-signaling) or 2) fear (from âsocial-distancingâ to COVID death rates) to keep the crowd ignorant, divided and afraid.
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Today, most U.S. citizens are blind to the rudimentary basics of Fed policy, currency debasement, lobbying tricks, anti-trust principles, or even viral facts.
Thus, as the middle-class flounders and a new financial feudalism replaces genuine capitalism, the mad crowd has no idea where to place its madness other than at each other in an historically divisive era of identity politics replacing anything resembling informed and unifying politics or policies.
Meanwhile, Amazonâs stock climbs as true capitalism crawls, and ancient assets like gold rise, as broken currencies like the dollar, fall.
Such are the symptoms of modern feudalism. Get ready for more. -
2020-12-19 at 2:28 PM UTC in Willingness to take Covid-19 vaccine increases in inverse proportion to IQ, researchers found.https://www.africanews.com/2020/12/18/80-of-africans-will-take-covid-19-vaccine-survey/
as much as 80% of africans surveyed said they're more than happy to take whatever the white men want to inject them with.
80. %.
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2020-12-18 at 11:41 PM UTC in Cock nose Hiki keeps messaging me
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2020-12-18 at 11:28 PM UTC in What is the rarest item you own?
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2020-12-18 at 11:21 PM UTC in wisdom of the rascalanyone can speak truth to power but only the strong can speak power to truth.
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2020-12-18 at 10:59 PM UTC in RabbitNonce thought he would return to a welcome
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2020-12-18 at 10:58 PM UTC in RabbitNonce thought he would return to a welcome
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2020-12-18 at 3:24 PM UTC in đŹđŹCandy~LandđŹđŹ
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2020-12-18 at 3:17 PM UTC in What is the rarest item you own?
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Um wrong…talk to a rock collector.
But that illustrates my point exactly…$$$ doesn't always go hand in hand with rarity.
I have a few rare computers for example that I enjoy owning..but they are quite valueless because not many other people in the world give a fuck about them.
i see that you dont understand the concept of rarity, or the distinction bewteen antique cars and old junks.
or vintage jeans and old rags for that matter.
what determines "rarity" is the amount of value people put on it, and generally $ worth is the single most obvious indicator of value. and value, as some of you may already know, is derived from the desires of the people have for an object.
something is of value when many people desire it, and when desire for that object outnumbered supply of the said object, it starts to become "rare".
which is also why your mom isnt comsidered rare despite theres only one of her in the entire world. shes a penny a dozen, and there are millions of unwanted, unfuckable female just like her lingering around and refusing to go away. -
2020-12-18 at 3:04 PM UTC in Anyone here into Yugioh?now i wonder what a spectral card looks like.
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2020-12-18 at 3:03 PM UTC in Anyone here into Yugioh?
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2020-12-18 at 2:22 PM UTC in What's the deal with Polecat?
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2020-12-18 at 2:18 PM UTC in What is the rarest item you own?