Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

“You gotta understand the context of memes”

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Keep repeating "bad faith" and maybe it will become true.

Ok

money is only "real" when it's being used to help poor and working people

and i promise you in georgia not a single person was getting the message that electing Ossoff & Warnock meant $1400 rather than $2k.

Money is real.

just incredible

Yeah again we’re pretending it was $2000 in addition and not instead of the $600. But whatever just make it $2001 at this point

Make the entire plane out of the checks so it doesn’t crash

you are, needlessly, such a fucking prick

Money is real.

just incredible

imagine thinking this in United States of America in the year 2021

Money is real.

Time for a poll.

ehh, nothing to get polled about
"Money is real" forever.

Please Will give me your “not real” money. I’m the uhh...money inspector.

Map you’re out of line

welcome to ILX, Don

(also, I FP'd you)

Huh?

Huh?

more rib tickling ilx humor I suspect

money is "real" insofar as it is used to discipline poor people

tell me how real it is when when trillions are shoveled into the pockets of telecoms, fossil fuels, and defense contractors

It seems a bit, um, unreal to simultaneously argue that money has no reality at all, while at the same time the difference between $1400 and $2000 is extremely consequential.

Do I have to?

Xpost

Well i guess it would be nice
If i could
Start shitposting

i know not every poster
has a shitpost like me

holy shit they're actually going to deficit hawk us again and by god we're going to roll over for it

It seems a bit, um, unreal to simultaneously argue that money has no reality at all

look like we're going to have an obtuse-off, competition is fierce

We can probably categorize “Money isn’t real” as a shitpost guys

Playing dumb vs. concern trolling

Here's a proposition for you. It is imperative to send money to people whose lives are threatened by their current lack of money AND money is real. In fact, the second part is implied by the first.

legit pretending the objection to "money is real" is an ontological one jfc

Lol

legit pretending the objection to "money is real" is an ontological one jfc

Pig ignorance of money and banking is as common as ear wax. Saying "money isn't real", when it is not supplemented by some hint of genuine knowledge, is indistinguishable from pig ignorance.

bring back the gold standard!!!!

so we can have the pleasure of killing it all over again!!!

yes, "money isn't real" is shitpost-y, but if you can't appreciate how it looks and what it means for Democrats to be wringing their hands over $1400 or $2000 for someone who hasn't worked in 10 months, all while dousing Rolls Royce in 180 million of 'covid relief funds', all i can say is enjoy those midterms

oink oink

Money is a group hallucination
like time
But quite convincing though.

Likely to make people go cold turkey if they try to withdraw from it though innit.

taking more offense at the (imaginary) notion that "money isn't real" than at the insulting horseshit justification for paltry relief that "money is real" says everything anyone needs to know abt your politics

fuck off

Map you’re out of line

― “Big” Don Abernathy, Sunday, January 31, 2021 7:20 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

am i? you're a little bitch who still gets money from his parents

Money is a group hallucination
like time
But quite convincing though.

Add crime and a few other things to this list and we're good.

can't do the crime if there is no time

add gender to the list too, for some reason i didn't want to get involved in this convo so i posted in the "posts you had second thoughts about" thread

Map, that simply isn’t true.

Sorry if this was posted already, but Miller literally told the national guard they were not allowed to arrest or even search any protesters on 01/06 -- memo written TWO DAYS earlier.

Smoking gun: The orders from Miller to the DC National Guard for January 6 included in linked article— is a must read. The DC guard were allowed no helmets, no body armor, no weapons. They were not allowed to stop or arrest protesters. Letter orders no interference with rioters https://t.co/py9y17iw0U pic.twitter.com/tjsLBVcbPn

— Holly Brewer (@earlymodjustice) January 30, 2021

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dang yall grow tf up

what it means for Democrats to be wringing their hands over $1400 or $2000

I know what you're saying and it is probably closer to political reality than my perspective is.

It is a perspective that is totally blind to every single detail of how the US government works and reduces a complex situation down to two blobs called Republicans and Democrats playing tug of war. Except the Republicans don't really matter. As of Jan 20 the Democrats are Running Things Now, so whatever happens, it only happened because the Democrats wanted it that way. That's how the great blob called the Public sees politics, so that's The Truth.

Which is why the filibuster must be destroyed as soon as possible. Even then, nothing happens without at least 50 votes in the Senate, including Manchin and Sinema, or some Republican crossovers. Which I fucking hate, but that is the reality I see and live in.

power is real and power manifests itself as money because we have been taught it is so
a fun thought experiment is to replace with "money" with "power" whenever you see it
as in the democrat party has campaigned on giving a universal and relatively small amount of power to people but both internally and externally the interest is more in making sure it is exactly the right amount of power rather than in getting that power distributed
because if too much power goes out to too many people the people with lots of power are afraid the less powerful will keep their power rather than give it back

this thread needs $1400 real dollars worth of chill pills

wtf xp

xp, you mean... power pills?
https://www.google.com/search?q=play+pacman+doodle

Lol I'm the dude who said "money isn't real" and i can assure you i didn't mean it literally other than to say "lol who gives a fuck about the national debt rn when we're in a pandemic and much of the country was abandoned for much of last year and $600 isn't going to solve their problems but when trying to choose the amount to give our civilians maybe the HIGHER amount is the one to choose, not the smaller"

that sentiment is otm