what kills me about Schumer et al is that i was always taught that dual loyalty is an antisemitic trope because it’s founded on essentialism. The idea that someone might hold a loyalty to another country over their own based on their ethnicity is an unjust assumption, and it hurts American Jews (and their communities, and by extension yourself, as a member of their community) because as a group they really just want to get by, same as anyone else. They are our neighbors and our friends, and they want whats good for their homeland just like you and me. Jewish Americans are just Americans who happen to be Jewish.

But it seems like everyone in the ruling class has decided that actually dual loyalty is part of being Jewish, and that actually you’re the antisemitic one for pointing it out, and that furthermore antizionist jews are antisemitic for their unjewish behavior.

The Man Who Was Thursday

easy, you do it on purpose to defraud your marks

this reads like something a TI would post.

Eugene Debs got a million votes from a prison cell.

the casino folded but he walked away with his investors’ money. hey wait a minute

sure!

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thats a 29kb comment right there

if im feeling fat and sassy i hit em with the silly little guy with a nose :^)

napkin math time. some of what follows i looked up but will not cite because i am on my phone and find text editing on this infernal contraption to be torment. some of it is pure conjecture because multitasking is also torment. when possible i will return and amend the numbers, but for now intend to favor cars whenever possible.

Richmond has 108,990 households. Let’s round that down to a nice even 100k. If the average household has 2 cars, that gives 200k cars.

Something like 30% of all cars carry a loan in the US. Let’s be nice and pretend everyone in richmond got a killer deal on financing their cars and the average payment is lower than it really is. We’ll go with the $525 average used car payment cited in the article.

60k*$525/mo=$31.5m/mo. Call it $30m and we get an eyewatering $360m/y, just in loan payments. this does not include insurance, fuel, and taxes, or paper costs like depreciation, or shared costs like infrastructure, or abstract costs like hours of their lives stuck in traffic, or externalities like healthcare spending caused by sedentary lifestyle and exposure to pollution.

Richmond, a city of 230k with a median annual income of about $65k, spends $360m every year on paying banks back for the privilege to incur all those other costs a real analysis would have factored in. Greater Richmond Transit Company’s approved budget for FY2027 is just over $100m.

I can very confidently assert that Richmond spends more than $3.60 on car loans for every $1.00 it spends on its entirely free transit system. Perhaps some of those households are genuinely better served by this expense, but I’d wager the vast majority of them are much poorer than they need to be, just because they reckon cars are a necessity.

they are in this very thread

It’s manipulative, but if any of them stop doing it their customers punish them for it.

About 15 years ago JCPenney’s new CEO had a radical idea: pricing transparency. They were going to do right by their customers by reducing the sticker price to the “sale” price. The company lost billions of dollars because consumers valued the feeling of getting a deal over being charged a fair price.

heavier than 2 dimes?

jokes on them, eventually it’ll actually make britain colder and too dry to grow food

People have been asking for an engine update for quite a while. There are certainly more pressing issues, like the ones you highlighted, but UE5 has been a request since Psyonix still had a soul.

any landing you can- nvm

y is lifetime earnings in abkhazian apsar

x is PK% for the Worcestershire railers

you can’t tell me what to do

my question is how are you gonna be an astronaut without getting high?