People really saying “just connect to the internet not a big deal” my brother in Christ that���s not the point. God forbid a natural disaster happens or you can’t pay your WiFi bill one month and just can’t play games you PAID for until you reconnect.
It doesn’t matter if you have internet, it’s a matter of principle. You shouldn’t be okay with PS arbitrarily taking away access to games you spent your hard earned money on. The more comfortable you get with this the worse it will get.
We’re frogs in the pot and they’re slowly raising the heat and some of yall aren’t noticing.
California's unrealized wealth tax has officially qualified and will be on the ballot…
If it passes, anyone with a net worth of $1B+ will have to give 5% of their assets to the state. Soon there will be no one left to take from. Just corrupt politicians and illegal immigrants.
My aunt, a blue-chip boomer, listed her house for 800k+ last year.
Prospective buyer has her down to < 600k after months of 0 activity and 0 takers.
Markets are a game of patience and pain.
Articles like this are frustrating because they manage to list every single hesitation homebuyers have (all justifiable) except for the biggest one -- THE PRICE
Sellers would have no issues moving homes if they accepted the fact that they just aren't worth what they think.
Try telling your liberal neighbor that “California is spending tax dollars to import trans migrants with AIDS” and tell me what they say, genuinely curious to see reactions
White Fox is the ban y'all think CnD and Invis still are.
She can actually 1v1 half the tanks and majority of the DPS.
But that's fine. Keep banning everyone but her. 😁
Don't care how much groceries cost at Publix.
They never make you wait to check-out plus they insta-hijack your cart at the parking lot once you're done offloading your bags.
Patriots🫡😤🔥
🔥NEW: Clarence Thomas — full remarks on progressivism, its foundations, history, and impact from his appearance at University of Texas at Austin:
“Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao were all intertwined with the rise of progressivism, and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our Declaration is based.”
"Many progressives expressed admiration for each of them shortly before their governments killed tens of millions of people."
"It comes as no surprise that the progressives embraced eugenics... It was only a small step for Wilson to resegregate the federal workforce."
"It was only another step for the government to launch sterilization programs on those deemed by the experts of the day to be unfit to reproduce."
“European thinkers have long criticized America for remaining trapped in a Lockean world, with its weakened, decentralized government and strong individual rights. They say our 18th-century Declaration has prevented us from progressing to higher forms of government."
"But we were fortunate not to trade our Lockean bonds for the supposedly enlightened world of Hegel, Marx, and their followers. Fascism, which after all was national socialism, triggered wars in Europe and Asia that killed tens of millions."
"The socialism of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China proceeded to kill tens of millions more of their own people. This is what happens when natural rights give way to higher-good notions of history or progress, or, as Thomas Sowell has written, the visions of the anointed."
"None of this, of course, was an improvement on the principles of the Declaration. Tocqueville's Democracy in America is largely about how America owed its superiority over Europe to its conscious decision to reject central planning and administrative rule, root and branch."
"Progressivism, in other words, is retrogressive.”
As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.
That’s why we’ve been told for far too long that tax reform is politically infeasible, too complex, and too radical.
Taxing billionaires is not radical.
What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship — and where billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible.
https://t.co/0YCVZJk7ib
SCOOP: California is giving free sex-change procedures to homeless illegal aliens. Our team went into the shelters and discovered that trans migrants are coming into the state for hormones, breast implants, and "bottom surgeries"—all on the taxpayer dime. https://t.co/mDs7ivwjG5
I like how Zoomers treat you like your ancient, when you are in your mid 30s, they be asking stuff like “ What mattered the most in the long run? “ , “what do you regret most in life that you didn’t do”
Like chill, I don’t even have a house.
Too many boomers have this really toxic assumption that young people are unable to afford a house because they’re lazy and don’t work hard.
Most young people I know are working full time specialised jobs, having the majority of their salary swallowed by renting (despite it being a flatshare) taxes and cost of living.
It’s almost impossible for young people nowadays, without the help of their family, to afford a house.
And then they get blamed for having a Netflix subscription or getting the odd takeaway as if saving that £300 a year would let them afford a £20,000 deposit.
US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"
my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable
the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point
we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it
the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive
Last weekend, I met a guy who is living in a two-bedroom apartment at 70th and Broadway for $2380.
That would cost ~$10k on the free market.
So the man essentially gets $7k/month from his landlord, mandated by the state government.
Rent control is why the rent is so high.