There’s no reason to believe that our current levels of debt or spending are problematic. Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio is almost twice what ours is and they’re fighting off deflation.

Yeah, if you think this thinking is on its way out take a wade through the comments on Jezebel’s article about FOSTA. Self-identified, woke-enough-to-get-ungrayed avowed feminists hate sex workers, and believe that their deaths are a small price to pay for a law that pays lip service to preventing trafficking.

Folks here need to enter the post-gold standard world of fiat currency operations. e Nixon ended our participation in the international gold standard the U. S. Treasury never borrows. It exchanges interest-earning securities for non-interest earning dollars just like you do when you buy a CD.

And thus, quod erat demonstrandrum.

I dunno, sounds like my dude here shed his baggage pretty thoroughly.

They don’t need to be good. Or knowledgeable. Or truthful.

“There is always a risk that a zero-tolerance approach makes martyrs in a community that has shown itself very able to mobilize petty grievances and overwhelm the conversation,”

Yeah, the Guardian has consistently been pretty stellar in their reporting on the dumpster fire and the world’s horrified reaction to it.

Niall has always been a quack. He made his career coasting on privilege and spouting “controversial” ideas that garnered notoriety not for any merit but for simply not being mainstream. Needless to say, peer review has not been kind to him.

Just outside of the majority Native/Metis town I grew up in there is a stand of Cedar trees, these trees are thousands of miles from where they normally grow and have been there for hundreds of years. Scientists were mystified for decades by this until someone pointed out that our tribe holds Cedar as one of our four…

Hooray for the triumph of American Exceptionalism over actual history! You never have to apologise for anything if you never think you’ve done anything wrong.

Oh I know! They basically admitted their plan was to come here and try to illegally subvert democracy? Time and money to interfere with a foreign election? Fucking geniuses. Well done.

Does anyone else feel very emotional about this, even if they’re not Irish? Spent last night reading the #repealthe8th feed and crying. So happy that it looks like the right side won (for once).

Honestly, Haberman is on my permanent shit list.

despite showing up on St. Paddy’s screaming about being Irish

“White and bleach bottle blond is like the anti-ethnicity. I get why Fox likes that look so much. It’s devoid of any sort of history or culture. Manufactured.”

Fuck! Did I accidentally call her the right name? I’ve been calling her the wrong name so long I think accidentally called her the right one.

Guess how many “Irish/Scottish” (since they get mixed in a lot) festivals I’ve been to that actually had a word of Irish or Gaelic. One, total.

My immigrant father came here when he was 15, and according to my mother, who met him a few years later, he had the thickest accent, as his parents (my grandparents) did for the remainder of their lives. As my father wanted to shed his immigrant status as fast as he could, he told my grandparents they were not to…

We’ve seen this playbook before