Yes, but this article is about the US specifically. There’s also a global right-wing propaganda machine contributing to this problem

I think the point is that unbridled capitalism is creating increasing wealth inequality that many straight, white men are feeling but aren’t accurately attributing to their being on the losing end of wealth inequality. This could be ameliorated with any number of policies in a capitalist system, such as a more progressive tax code, better labor protections, or universal healthcare, but the US employs none of these, and straight, white men are largely blaming women, immigrants, and LGBTQ people instead of the class of people keeping them poor.

What solutions do you recommend

Emergence of DeepSeek raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom

Is the “emergence of DeepSeek” really what raised doubts? Are we really sure there haven’t been lots of doubts raised previous to this? Doubts raised by intelligent people who know what they’re talking about?

The money went back into the hands of all the people and money managers who sold their stocks today.

Edit: I expected a bloodbath in the markets with the rhetoric in this article, but the NASDAQ only lost 3% and the DJIA was positive today…

Nvidia was significantly over-valued and was due for this. I think most people who are paying attention knew that

There are plenty old movies I have seen or would love to see, but very few of those were made before 1940, and 1940 won’t reach public domain for another 15 years.

Source? While they may have some corruption, they also have functioning judiciaries and laws in place to protect civil rights. It’s not like they just execute people for minor violations

According to the data in this article, the number of births in Alabama has remained pretty static since 2010, but there was a big jump up in deaths each year since 2020. I wonder what was behind that

I’m calling it now that he doesn’t get confirmed. He’s going to sound insane at his confirmation hearings because he’s insane, and he’s by no means a dyed-in-the-wool MAGA, so they will view it as not hurting one of their own.

Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand people from being murdered by Nazis only because he manipulated the system from within. He and everyone he saved would have been murdered if he had resisted the Nazi Party in a different way.

The world has a bit more to it than just automobiles

That’s because the polar vortex slid off the Arctic onto North America, allowing warmer air to creep northward on your side of the globe. I remember in '21, while we had record cold in the southern US, Siberia was on fire.

I know this is a joke, but snow along the Gulf Coast, while not common, is also not unprecedented in the dead of winter. It was actually more common a century ago

tariffs on Canada and Mexico

With lazy headlines like this, it’s no wonder the average person thinks he’s talking sense. The tariffs will be on imports into the US from these countries. The tariffs will be paid by the importers.

It’s hard to overstate how much money “2-3x what a run of the mill job makes” is over the course of a lifetime. I guess to you right now it doesn’t seem like much, but someone who makes three times more money than someone else is significantly more well off. There aren’t any wage jobs that are going to net you exponential salary growth. Your only hope there is to strike gold and found PayPal or Microsoft or something.

Houston, Little Rock, Orlando…

People need to remember Netanyahu wants Trump in power, so is going to make decisions that are good optics for Trump when he can. He similarly made decisions that are bad optics for Biden on purpose. While Biden did himself no favors, never forget Netanyahu is the one who put him in that position.

Look dude, I’m not here to argue about the US’s absolutely fucked foreign policy, and in absolutely no fucking way am I saying any one conflict is not driven in whole or in part by capitalism.

But “Capitalism is the primary driver of wars” is a fundamentally false statement. Just because it’s a driver of some or even most modern conflicts does not make it “the primary driver of wars.” War is a well documented and studied social phenomenon that predates capitalism by thousands of years, maybe millions. Fucking chimpanzee tribes war with each other. There are thousands upon thousands of wars throughout human history that prove your statement wrong.

Yes, every non-capitalist country throughout history has been a beacon of peace lmao

Humans are human. Capitalism is absolutely a driver of some conflict, but conflict is driven not only by economic interests, but also political, ethnic, religious, and other interests.

I’m from Louisiana/Texas with family in the Midwest. When we’d visit for the holidays, it was some disgusting shit. Green, opaque jello molds with random foods suspended in it, pickles and cream cheese on toothpicks, and random “salads” like the ones above. My mom (from the south) made macaroni and cheese casserole one year up there and everyone was floored