@MisinfoFact He’s just hoping that if he licks flange then the powerful sugar mommy might throw him some cash. This has been Pavlou’s play from Day 1.
So predictable, so pathetic.
A grammar book walks into a bar
* An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
* A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
* A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
* An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
* Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
* A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
* Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
* A question mark walks into a bar?
* A non sequitur walks into a bar.
In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
* Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
* A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
* A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
* Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
* A synonym strolls into a tavern.
* At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
* A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
* Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
* A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
* An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
* The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
* A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
* The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
* A dyslexic walks into a bra.
* A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
* A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
* A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
* A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony .
– Jill Thomas Doyle
@cmkusher The price of housing is around 33% of after tax household income, give or take, so unless employers are going to start slashing salaries en masse, which they won’t, I don’t see any prospect for some massive correction. Not gonna happen.
@Gabbrielxzn That’s easy. Explanations are a kind of special lie about what happened you tell someone to make them better, whereas excuses are when you actually explain factually what happened in the false belief you are speaking with an actual adult, not a baby.
Norway pays entry level cashiers and gas station attendants over 20 dollars an hour, plus five weeks vacation, a pension, and a year of combined parental leave. A Harvard economist told Kristof the U.S. ran a similar model from the 1940s through the 1960s: strong unions, expanding education, an early experiment with universal child care. Then America changed course, and Kristof's explanation for why is specific rather than vague: safety net programs got recast as handouts for Black Americans, the welfare queen caricature did real political work, and the coalition supporting broad investment in workers came apart along racial lines instead of economic ones.
Kristof frames this through his own rural Oregon hometown, where mills closed, meth arrived, and three childhood friends died homeless. He says plainly he thinks they'd have survived being born into Norway's safety net instead.
The same story plays out in Indiana counties that lost manufacturing and never fully replaced it. It's the road not taken, with a body count attached to the version we picked instead.
YES, WE ARE THE BADDIES. The west and its global westernized political-journalistic classes are clearly the people with double standards. And this writer is also one of the baddies, having worked for the western MSM for decades.
On the Iran issue, how quickly people forget! It was just last summer that the western mainstream media widely admitted that Trump and Netanyahu had united the people of Iran.
“Patriotism gained new currency, and national pride was on most lips,” said Tehran-based academic Hossein Hamdieh in the UK Guardian newspaper in June, 2025. That included "dissidents", he said.
Even the wildly pro-west BBC admitted that Iranian dissidents were now supporting the government: “However, rather than triggering internal unrest, Israel's strikes have provoked a renewed surge of nationalist sentiment among some critics of the Islamic Republic.”
The New York Times quoted an Iranian man named Saeed: “Even the staunchest opponents of the Islamic Republic have been humiliated so much, that they wish we would attack American bases, even though they know harder days will follow.”
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ILLEGAL ATTACK
This dramatic flip in narrative occurred after Israel launched an illegal attack on Iran from June 13, 2025, continuing for 12 days, killing more than 900 people and injuring 4,700.
This was followed by a US bombing of three sites in Iran on June 22, 2025, on fictional WMD claims that were eerily similar to the false pretences under which the US invaded neighboring Iraq in 2003.
The United Kingdom, Germany, and France said they supported Israel, with German leader Friedrich Merz, saying: “This is dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us.” The west’s top military leader NATO secretary general Mark Rutte praised and thanked Donald Trump for bombing Iran, describing it as a “decisive action” that was "truly extraordinary and something no one else dared to do”. (Perhaps because most countries think that following international law is a good thing, Mr Rutte?)
China took an opposite stance, saying that killing people made things worse. Foreign minister Wang Yi said that such attacks “will only ignite wider conflict and deepen enmity”.
China got it right.
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THEN CAME THE REVERSE FLIP
When a Mossad/ CIA/ NED armed insurgency tried to topple the Iranian government in January of 2026, the western mainstream media then flipped back dramatically the other way – reverting to the idiotic earlier fiction that most people of Iran were united against their government.
Western journalists printed that “NGOs” had discovered that the government had slaughtered 36,500 (or 50,000 or 80,000) “peaceful protesters” in just two days, while going out of the way to hide the fact that these fictional figures came from propaganda groups financed by the US government.
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FLIPPING AGAIN
Now, this week, we can all see stunning videos of millions of people thronging the streets of Tehran to remember Ali Khamenei and his family, and once again parts of the western mainstream media are being forced to flip once more.
Again they are admitting that the people of Iran, in general, stand with their leadership.
In particular, Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday has openly said that the west has obvious double standards on international conflicts.
Yes, Mr Hitchens, we have all been saying that on a daily basis for years, while you and your employers worked really hard to cover up the truth. It's time for a media revolution.
How many missiles has the US fired into the Pacific — did Australia protest those?
🚀 Here are the dates that the US test fired nuclear-capable ICBM missiles 7,000kms into the mid-Pacific:
•2026: March 5, June tbc.
•2025: February 19, May 21, November 4.
•2024: June 4, June 6, September 4.
•2023: February 9, April 19, September 6, November 1.
•2022: August 16, September 7.
•2021: February 23, August 11.
•2020: February 5, August 4, September 2, October 29.
•2019: February 5, May 1, May 9, October 2.
•2018: April 25, May 14, July 31, November 7.
•2017: February 8, April 26, May 3, August 2.
•2016: February 20, February 25, September 5.
•2015: March 23, March 27, May 20, August 19, October 21.
•2014: May 22, September 23.
•2013: May 22, September 22, September 26.
•2012: February 25, November 14.
•2011: June 22, July 27.
•2010: June 16, September 17.
•2009: June 29, August 23.
•2008: May 22, August 13.
•2007: February 7, May 15, August 8.
•2006: February 16, June 14, July 20.
•2005: August 25, September 14.
•2004: July 23, September 15.
•2003: June 11, September 10.
•2002: September 18.
•2001: February 7, June 13.
•2000: June 8, September 27.
That’s about 70 or so from my count. Probably an undercount, btw.
👉 How many condemnations or protests to the American government were made?
#auspol @ABCnews@guardian@smh@SBSNews
China's national bourgeoisie always knew this day would come. They knew what they were getting into. They knew who they ultimately served. They may have received that one golden star on China's national flag, but they never forgot what the large one represents.
The sorest losers of China's real estate "crash" is the western bourgeoisie, including firms like Blackstone. Indeed they were some of its main targets. They spent decades "investing" in China's housing boom, salivating over the prospect that China's housing market would financialize. That China would ultimately do to itself what they had already done to the US - treat houses like a tradable commodity, and benefit from the endless cycle of buying and selling. To turn people's homes into casino chips - to be endlessly bought, sold, inflated, leveraged, and over-leveraged, until the end of time.
Instead, they discovered the hard way who actually governs China.
In all countries, the property market is an important facet of class struggle. And almost everywhere, the wrong class wins. In China, the right one did. The state controls finance capital, not the other way round. The western mind cannot comprehend this.
This also explains why western media and "economists" have been decrying China's "crash" so viciously. They are simply expressing the frustrations and hysteria of the class they serve, the class whose dreams now lie in ruins. That's the real crash.
@cmkusher The natural floor is land + build. Contingent on location that’s 4-600k plus 570k. Most housing won’t fall much in price except for the more speculative (=overinvested) suburbs.
There is no halving of house prices incoming.