Funfact: domestic abuse is strongly tied to a previous history of abuse, or simply put, the perpetrators learned to do it while they were the victims, often from their parents.

And in a society where mental health access is practically nonexistent, there aren’t many ways for someone to break the cycle. I guess pretending it’s just a personal failure instead of a societal one is nice because it eliminates any burden on oneself.

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oh, wait until I tell you about the NAP, no bombing anyone that so much as annoys you is completely within their manifesto, let alone strikers.

you do realize that this isn’t an Ayn Rand cosplay convention… right?

the “no bailouts and as little regulation as possible” is a fairy tale, unless you think that bombing the families of striking coal miners was a good thing.

PS: the no bailout/regulation shtick comes from the idea that you somehow are unaffected by the actions of others

what have regulation ever solved? they just make everything more expensive and difficult for the people actually driving progress, unlike you dirty parasite… oh wait, we aren’t in a libertarian Ayn Rand cosplay, are we?

nothing happens overnight, and even if everyone switched the smaller company does not have the capital to realize such a jump in demand, nor would it have the capital to protect its self from hostile market strategies the larger company can and generally will entail.

now please do try and vote with your wallet if 90+% of everything is owned and sold by some small group of companies

SSE is larger than just trickle down, and ironically not every school of economics accepts the supply/demand model, and some who do, also criticize it as being dysfunctional

supply and demand is econ 101, and in econ 102 you learn that econ 101 is about as predictive as Nostradamus

yet the cost to produce hasn’t gone up in any meaningful metric, and is nowhere even close to the price increase we saw in grocery goods.

rent isn’t much different, there is no shortage of rent, and the (evil leftist word that means you need a house and food to live) Material conditions are the main reason why companies jack p these prices, you can’t just not have a house and not have food

and pointing out that supply side economics in practice has just lead to an oligopoly increased cost of living, an increasing wealth gap, and a new class of super rich that make the fucking Rockefeller look poor. And the theoretical side is literally fairy tale beliefs that make revolutionary communists seem grounded with reality

most people with serious economic issues work minimum

like you don’t have some uncle that goes on about how Biden stole the election, or how taxation is theft

you think this is new or unique to Europe? downside of Eurocentric history education i guess.

Unions did shit when the corporations and government could literally shoot them, stop being a larper and get to work

partly because the German Aldi union forces them to abide by minimum standards around the world

fuck civility politics, if some “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” is calling for more bullshit, call them out on it.

no one remembers the “nice guys” in politics because they never accomplished anything.

eat in an economic context, and if shit gets bad enough, a literal one as well

dude, there is no evidence for supply side economics to have ever worked, the price has nothing to do with supply and demand

the myth of supply based economics, and other fairytales.

Realistically there is no reason for produce or rent to be increasing in price, there is not any actual reason for the hikes in COL other than “record profits”

the “vote with your wallet” stuff is bullshit, and it always was. there are very real limitations on what some small company can do in a near monopoly, that’s why we had antitrust in the first place.

you obviously haven’t gotten how unions work yet.

YOU don’t ask for a raise, you ALL ask for a raise, you alone need money to eat, have a house, and basically survive, the business will not die without your specific labor, unlike you.

The Union is the labor, without what the business WILL die, leveling the playing feild a bit.