@charybdeez A communist will say that if a shop charges $X for something that the owner pocketed X dollars. When someone like me says that's not true we get to about the word "margin" and communists just say we're boot lickers
@charybdeez You say this as if it's right wing people that don't understand this
We talk like this to communists because you're mentally toddlers. If we start using terms like "margins" your eyes glaze over
That's a you problem
@IamApoplectic@ErwinHugger To be fair that was in no way Nixons decision. The US had been moving off the gold standard since the great depression, and during Nixons term the decisions the broader US government had been making for decades demanded either a full removal from the gold standard
@HomericFuturist@VirgilsQuill Says the person that would never in a million years live without the benefits of industry
You can do your part and shrink the demand for industry right now and go live in the woods like you think is noble. But you won't
@lanabeesfw@jangobadass For what specifically?
Watergate was tame by today's standards (and frankly even by its own times standards it was blown out of proportion, the Pentagon papers were much worse but nobody hates LBJ as much as Nixon, despite starting the Vietnam war on false pretenses)
@ElegabalusGroyp@Yuri_Is_XX You mean hormones and puberty exasperate sexual dimorphism, what a shock!
Oh wait we already knew that and that makes our point not yours...
@ramennnnoodle Acting shocked isn't an argument
Yes they are bloated. The "Education" budget has skyrocketed, the number of students has decreased, and still the quality of education has fallen. So it's not about a lack of funding