Everyone except the already very wealthy yes.
Elect Republicans, get republican policies.
The country still hadnt really recovered from Reagan, then we got Bush, then we got Trump.
Obama and Biden could only do so much to stop the dumpster fire, and Nazis are famously bad for the economy.
2 or 3 reasons that Banks give out VP titles like candy.
Some regulation after Bush’s recession tried to tie shady shit at banks to VPs, at the time, that would have tied the shady practices to the actual people doing them. Since the actual people in charge wanted to have scapegoats, they just gave the title to everyone.
It makes people feel important, if they can call the bank and get a VP on the line, it makes them feel heard if they can complain to a VP etc.
Its another form of wage reduction, basically they give people the VP title so the people with the title feel like they are going somewhere, but they don’t actually give out raises to go with. It lets them keep people around for a bit longer without giving them any more money.
The last one has kind of stopped working since everybody knows what’s going on, and once you have 5 VPs at one branch, becoming a VP becomes a lot less important, but its part of why the title became so widespread.
The narrative could be worse, but a “factual” headline can very much be used to drive a fake narrative.
In this case, the headline (while factual) is guiding the reader to think that somebody high up at Bank of America (not some random branch manager) was stabbed because she was a wealthy banker.
Its then pushing the idea that violence against wealthy bankers is terrible because they could be a mother.
Everything about the headline is driving a really bad narrative.
Look, I get that people hate bankers.
But as far as I can tell, everything about this is just media pushing a really dumb narrative.
The lady who stabbed her was not targeting bankers, it was just a crazy person with a knife.
Banks give out VP titles to fucking everybody, this is the rough equivalent of stabbing a General Manager at Costco.
Thats fairly rare.
Even with tenure, professors just dont make that much money generally.
Conservatives arent actually interested in learning, or in science for its own sake.
Without the grift, why would conservatives bother
Depending on how you define “academic”
There are certainly people who can get doctorates while still being right wing, those are the ones that get paid a lot of money to tell poor people to stop complaining about being poor.
Yeah, if you don’t do any political activism, and you don’t say things that are unapproved too loudly, and you don’t end up at one of those slave labor (BYD) or corpo plants with the suicide netting, then you can certainly get by with the way things are.
Is this America or is this propaganda about what China is supposed to be like?
But political activism and freedom of speech and the bill of rights is also how we make things better. Without those, and without people who fought for those, we wouldn’t have “the weekend” as a concept.
China also has the concept of the weekend…
And with how much efficiency has risen over the last hundred years, we should be able to do better than just the weekend.
But we live under capitalism, so the most likely result is that the weekend is going to only be for those born wealthy.
So on one hand, I have propagandists who I know have been lying to me for years.
On the other hand I have friends over to my house who occasionally talk about China, and say that while its not particularly amazing, its really not much worse than growing up poor and black in America (and we live in areas of America that aren’t batshit).
I don’t think China is some bastion of democracy, but I am increasingly skeptical when Capitalists tell me how awful China is supposed to be…and by “Awful” they mean that China might do the same shit that America does, except they actually arrest government officials who are too corrupt.
Trump’s overextended the military and can’t do much more besides putting tariffs on allies soon.
Trump is in the process of destroying the military sure, but America still has the 1st second and 3rd largest Air forces in the world, we have more supercarriers than the rest of the world combined.
And the Nazis managed to do a lot of damage before they got stopped.
China is content to simply watch America destroy itself (and democracy around the world), China has always been good at the long game.
Ah, you seem to have a problem with reading comprehension.
Perhaps you want to try again?
(the whole “I know you are but what am I” thing stopped working sometime around high school btw, but it was a cute callback)
If China hears them talking shit…in my house…
Do you think Chinese spies are listening at the windows?
Is China there? I know that Conservatives like to say that it is, but Republicans always lie.
Ive got friends who came from China, they disagree.
Imagine still deep throating propaganda after its been demonstrated false so many times.
had some bad losses in trading lately, took a short break and now trying to actually fix my risk management before going back in
Unless you have insider trading knowledge, start with a huge amount of money, or find some other way to cheat, Trading is just gambling.
If you want to invest, put your money in index funds. I used to say the SP500 or 100, but unfortunately Musk has been allowed to just offload his losses into those funds.
SP500 High Dividend Yield (Other companies have similar) are a decent option, they focus on the 500 companies with historically high dividends.
if you’re older and already been through your 20s, what do you wish someone told you back then? like what actually mattered vs what you thought mattered at the time.
Stay active, you don’t need to be in the gym 24/7, but find something athletic that you enjoy doing, try to stay in the habit of doing something athletic for an hour every other day at a minimum.
Avoid the sugar trap. I get it, soda tasts good, cookies taste good, but the more sugar you eat, the harder it is to avoid sugar later. Get in the habit of eating healthy while you are 20, it will save your life later.
Learn to snack better (if you are a snacker). Snacking is fine, snacking on poptarts, mini doughnuts and soda will kill you. I use chia-seed pudding when I am getting snacky, very low calorie, and as a bonus it has a lot of fiber. Make it with a nice tea, and its a tasty, healthy snack that can last the whole time between lunch and dinner.
Avoid the manosphere/redpill/Christian Values/Alpha Male trap. It doesnt impress the ladies, it wont make you friends, it just makes you miserable (and then telling you that its everyone elses fault, but they totally see how great you can be if you just buy this 69.99 protein powder).
(And this is probably the most important) Learn to not be a an asshole, the bar is literally so low for men that just being a decent human being will get you plenty of attention. Learn to be respectful when women say no, learn to not care if somebody else is gay/trans/black/fat/bald etc, and especially learn to not make fun of people for it. Learn to talk to people, and hang out without putting them down. Learn to be genuinly happy for others successes, and how to build up others.
This will make you actual friends that stay with you, will impress the ladies (seriously, im of average looks and build, and I have a GF, 2 FWB and 2 more sometimes partners, all just from being an actually kind, decent, safe person), and will set you up to have a much more fulfilling life.
You say China, you mean Republicans
You say Chinese, but you mean Republican.
Its another fad/advertising thing.
At another point, when the Keto Diet was everywhere, there was a restaurant near me that proudly announced that 100% of its menu was “Keto Diet”. There where Keto diet snacks and Keto diet frozen meals etc.
Then there was the fat free phase, I dunno if you remember the fat free cookies that you could buy, or fat free salad dressing, or fat free bread etc.
This trend seems to come from the rise of fitness influencers, and in this case its based in some kind of truth. You need protein if you are working out a lot, you cant built real muscle without it. And so fitness influencers started making videos about the food they ate, and the big thing about it was how much protein it had because that’s what they cared about.
And since influencer driven sales are huge now, you see a lot of companies wanting to cash in on the protein craze, so the packaging shifts towards showing off the protein content, because thats what everyone (or enough people) are tracking right now.
Standwithus is a pro-zionist group, thats best known for ah, massaging the facts…deep tissue massaging the facts.
Frankly, they border on being a hate group, and they have done more damage to the cause of jews worldwide than anybody but perhaps Israel itself.
If Standwithus is saying that anti-Semitism has increased, its a pretty good bet that actual anti-semitism has gone down (and no, saying that the IDF should stop raping Palestinians isnt anti-Semitic.)
Amusingly, as a Jew.
I actually have seen a massive decrease in actual antisemitism.
Muslims are being demonized in much the same way Jews where in Nazi Germany, by much the same people, for much the same reason.
Nazis will