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Yep, that’s also pretty fashy, but’s by no means the only fascist issue in this country.

That definitely makes it not fascism right? :P

And that’s also fascist. If we’re assembling a list of the fashy shit Trump has done one by one we might be here a while.

Except it’s not being able to be elected, because he’s served two terms and that limitation isn’t just a law, it’s an amendment. I don’t care how much of congress they control, changing it will require a new amendment and that’s just exceedingly unlikely to happen, much less happen before the end of his current term. So if he can’t change the rules, attempting to stay in power anyway is absolutely fascist dictatorship material.

Interesting, I didn’t know that. I was gonna say it certainly hasn’t been any of the recent ones.

Usually pick one of their own == have never not picked one of their own, right?

Because only cardinals can be pope and it takes a long time to work your way up through the priesthood into administration and such like any organization. Also, unlike most businesses or governments they never hire some young(-ish) new ceo or department head from outside.

Indeed. I mean I certainly didn’t believe them, but I didn’t know shit about the housing market in like 2006 or w/e. Boy did that change. Now the Big Short is one of my favorite movies.

That’s close, but the one I saw didn’t have post-2008 data (14 years ago was 2011.) The one I saw was definitely pre-2008, and also I think it was a steel coaster not a wooden one, but that was a long time ago.

The housing market almost never goes down year-over-year, so it’s reasonable to assume that when it starts to it signals big trouble in the future.

I remember a year or two before the 2008 crash watching a video someone had made where the housing market was modeled as a roller-coaster that you got to ride on, and toward the end it was just going up and up and up until it was miles above where it had been. And the comments were like ‘It’s gotta come down sometime, right? It can’t keep going like this?’ Yeah, they were off on their timing, but not about the prediction in general. As soon as we started seeing articles about the high cost of living and the housing crises in cities around the country and even world I started thinking about that roller-coaster again.

You can wait or you can learn how to operate google your damned self. :P I see you have chosen wisely.

LOL, nice.

“I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell!”

Oh, I misunderstood, sorry. Yeah, that’s what I was getting at too.

Yeah and my point is that any monopoly is harmful and should be busted, but the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.

It might be helpful to include in your title what the headline did not: where the fuck Irpin is and why I should care about it. If I have to google that shit to figure out what the article is even talking about I’m just not gonna read it.

That title, it has one too many, commas.

No. We already have a meaning assigned to ‘hydrogen bomb’ and this, as interesting as it is, is not a hydrogen bomb.

And Walmart isn’t? I bet Kroger and Aldi would have something to say about their entry into the grocery market.

Indeed. It’s frankly surprising that they’re pursuing antitrust cases against Google and Meta now, cause since the break-up of AT&T we’ve spent a lot of years not giving a shit about how anti-competitive giant corporations are.