[-] hexi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Pizza is healthy. It is bread, vegetables, cheese, and meat. A balanced diet in every slice.

[-] hexi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Carl Marks had hair on his neck, and many other places.

Being built for winter is nothing to be ashamed of.

[-] hexi@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Why would that be on a millenial's post? Why not a gen x post?

[-] hexi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ted started off as a smart guy, but the MKULTRA abuse he experienced left him with a broken ideology.

Many parts of his manifesto are problematic, and I hope people don't think it's good theory.

Some excerpts:

The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

The leftist seeks to satisfy his feeling of inferiority by cultivating attitudes of superiority. He is not the only one to do this, but he is the one who goes furthest in this direction.

Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good, and successful.

The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority make him a braggart, an egotist, a bully, a self-promoter, a ruthless competitor. This kind of person is too eager to seize the initiative and too insensitive to feel guilty for his aggression. The leftist is as prone to manipulating others as the more right-wing person, but his main goal is to avoid straining his own conscience.

Ted also has some jabs at reactionaries, but he's not a leftist for sure. There's better literature out there, from an actual leftist perspective that people could be reading instead.

[-] hexi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Colleges act like Scientology in the states. Equating education with how much money you've handed them.

Meanwhile anything can be learned online, but it counts for nothing because corporations treat purchases credentials as the only legitimate form of "education".

[-] hexi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

The wealthy don't just put it under the mattress.

If they do some big ego projects, the people they hire take that money and increase their own consumption.

If they park it in investments, some company takes the capital injection and increases their spending.

All that money chases labor, and labor can be reapportioned to meet different needs. A billionaire can buy a slightly bigger yacht with their share of the Fed printing. That bigger yacht needs a little more labor, and someone ends up building more cabinets for the interior rather than building housing for the poor.

The billionaire doesn't blame themselves for inflation, and someone at the bottom can't figure out why suddenly a full time job doesn't pay for housing. But that Fed decision moved labor from benefiting the poor, to benefiting the 1%.

[-] hexi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

. The fed printing money created more liquidity, but that doesn't directly create inflation which is the rise in prices of goods and service. That's done by people who control pricing which are the business owners.

It absolutely affects inflation because there's more money chasing the same number of goods/services.

If business owners don't raise their prices at all, the real price of those goods would drop, because each dollar is worth less when you pump up the money supply.

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