Therefore they can continue to extract more from people than before. When you default, the amount owed increases significantly (doubles?).

This means more people are stuck with high payments and are required to work to continue to survive, less people getting retirement or other benefits, a larger workforce that is essentially captive to their debt and can be more easily manipulated because they are worried about making ends meet more than other things.

I see plenty of benefits for capitalists in a wide variety of industries if more people are beholden to more student debt.

I would only suspect anti-Stalin leftists of ignorance as I have yet to find an instance where someone talks about Stalin in this way and it isn't from a place of ignorance. Never seen it from someone who was informed and purposely pushing anti-Stalin Cold War propaganda...except fucking Trots.

Not that ignorance is a good excuse for their actions, but the amount of damage propaganda has done to the history surrounding Stalin is very difficult to break through and shouldn't be overlooked. If someone didn't grow up in a Western country, it seems they have a serious advantage in overcoming the challenge of looking at Stalin with a critical eye because they aren't constantly exposed to an overwhelming amount of trash heaped on his grave. Not only can it be difficult to find information that isn't Red Scare propaganda on your own, but you'll be ostracized when trying to speak to anyone about the subject from anything but an anti-comminist perspective. It makes having discussions on the subject difficult and I can't say I would have ever broken through this without the Internet.

Maybe I'm going too easy on them because overall I agree with you. I also want to give people the benefit of the doubt because I was once where they were and my anti-Soviet, anti-Stalin, and anti-China stances all came from a place of ignorance (and miseducation) that I only overcame once I began looking at the topics with a critical eye and put effort into learning about them from a different (and materialist) perspective.

At least five generations living outrageously opulent lifestyles while assuming they're shite with money.

I will, but this is an 8 hour series.

Time for us to pull an Uno reverse and foreclose on the banks. Time to convert those "investments" into homes again, the fucking leeches.

For real, the US committed a coup in Australia with Whitlam. They don't constrain the CIA to just poor countries.

Yeah, same. I installed UBlock Origin on my Firefox browser for free and gotta say that enjoying YouTube and YT Music Ad-Free is the way to do it!

Five other Group of Seven nations — Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. — and the European Union are also expected to send lower-ranking envoys to Nagasaki.

Envoys from those nations signed a joint letter expressing their shared concern about Israel's exclusion, saying treating the country on the same level as Russia and Belarus — the only other countries not invited — would be misleading.

You can say that again.

25% of all people are trans but haven't realized it yet.

He often does, so probably just forgot.

Unless they resort to arrows.

I wish you were wrong.