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47·2 days agoRemoved by mod
For some of it. I assume some of it is him on Reddit.
Me seeing girls with flannel shirts over ratty jeans
16·4 days agoEigenvergarakung is fucking hilarious
26·10 days agoI used to own a house free and clear. If the value dropped by half, I would still feel a lot poorer.
When the price of assets held as a store of value drops, the holders of those assets are impoverished. That’s already bad.
Now, when a fall in the price of assets held as a store of value drops, and that triggers a series of defaults that ripples across the financial system, that’s even worse.
I can’t see from the outside the degree to which Chinese society has been financialized, but I’m betting it’s more than the CCP wants to let on.
As I understand it, housing speculation has filled a similar role to 401(k)s in the US, the relatively illiquid asset that “always goes up”.
People will feel a lot poorer when their apartment loses 70% of its value, and I don’t think that’s exactly the same as, say, a big leveraged builder going out of business.
You’re right of course the US won’t let one rich man go broke so it is worse there.
2·10 days agoDoes he have enough brandy though
7·10 days agoStreeting is actually worse than Starmer! Shocking.
It’s like China has a few smart people left in their government!
They’ve fucked up plenty, their asset bubble is going to be crippling just like everybody else, but overall they are in a vastly better position than the US to advance their imperialistic goals.
Charlie 3 reading out Keir Starmer’s speech.
This are so many levels of depressing undead bullshit going on here.
2·11 days agoTrue life lessons often hurt at the time.
6·14 days agoThis is gonna be bad
Terry Gilliam turned out to be queerphobic too.
Eric Idle and Michael Palin are cool.
5·14 days agoIt’s essentially the founding myth of Brazil.
For an American, think about the cultural significance of Thanksgiving, that’s Carnaval.
Watch a couple of Carnaval parades on Sapucai and you’ll see this default theme over and over again, the browns were here, caravels bring the white, then the black, and all three mix to make Brazil’s distinctive food, music, and population (and our neighborhood is the coolest).
To give you an idea of how baked into the national mindset that is, I started hearing parade drums while typing that last paragraph.
Miscegenation and syncretism are explicitly celebrated every year in the week long festival of national identity.
Now, the framing of it is super white centric, the starting event is the arrival of white Magalhães, and there has never been anything even close to political or economic equality.
When I was growing up there in the 80s, there was practically zero social concern around people with different skin colors dating. It was strange to move to the states and have people tell me that Brazil was “more” racist than the US.
Haven’t been to Portugal but my brother says there are three lines at the airport: EU, lusophone country, and everybody else.
Man who grew your weed they’re a genius.
The one on the top left doesn’t even look like him.
Gigantic Goblin Dildoes
Wow they picked the most sinister looking pic they could find