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Wawa

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  1. The complexity of filing taxes is intentional by design--yet another way of transferring more wealth from the working class (wage earners) to parasites. The Fair Tax Act has no shot of passing if it has real substance in helping the poor and undermining the wealthy, it will only pass under the guise of such if the reverse is true. Thanks to the lobbying of corporate interests, the latter scenario is the most feasible.
  2. Bots are broken on the map gg_docks, they stop functioning once they get in the water. I like the gungame configurations though, I can see this being a fun server once it gets off the ground.
  3. We're back!

    It's not CSGO, it still has an active player base, and it's not toxic. Sounds like a win either way you cut it; same as 1.6.
  4. I’d consider playing on the servers again if CSS came back, I’d strongly consider playing if a CS 1.6 (yes it’s still popular) was thrown into the mix as well. In my case, it would be an understatement to say how tired I am of CSGO. Also, it’s great to see you Revenga and I wish you nothing but the best. I know you’ll be a great presidente.
  5. ARGENTINA WINS...

    That game literally had everything you'd want to see in a finals match...incredible. Argentina winning was the icing though, I can't stand France.
  6. Paul, Bread, and Vick, otherwise known as the ghosts of minigames past, will be visiting you next month Dominic.
  7. Fits in quite nicely with everything Liz Truss represents.
  8. Someone notify Psyche immediately.
  9. This just seems like a lot of words to congratulate Vick on his promotion to CA.
  10. I wouldn't say that the point of Keynesian economics is to make the economy succeed though, its purpose is more so to serve as guard rails to ensure it doesn't cause a depression as painful and severe as in the 1930s. Business cycles are inherent in the system, so while Keynesian economics are far from perfect, they still serve as a tool to 'soften the blow' of the impact recessions have on the working class. What you then begin to list off are symptoms of the capitalist system as it relates to the US, not Keynesian economics: imperialism over developing countries via export finance capital and military force, slave labor in the global south due to said imperialism, selling arms via proxy wars, organizing coup d'etats in countries that directly challenge US global hegemony, and so on. So yeah, it seems easy for me to blame capitalism when it comes to the US, but that's only after you do your homework on US history. Even when it doesn't boil down to how a single country uses it, capitalism is a system based on exploitation, which would explain why it exacerbates any human tendencies of greed. There's nothing free market about any country's economies--Laissez-Faire capitalism doesn't exist. The free market is used in economics for the sole purpose of being a model, if it was to be the actual economic system of a sovereign country, I'd imagine that country's culture being 'survival of the fittest' on steroids. There's nothing fundamentally problematic with government intervention in economics, what is problematic is how the government operates. In the US, the government operates at the behest of corporations, or capital, as evidenced in how I interpreted your listing above, and how corporations are still enjoying record profits despite high inflation. In a country like China, their government isn't held hostage to capital, so they are able to take decisive action in order to maintain low inflation rates despite COVID lockdowns. To sum up, Keynesian economics has its flaws, especially when it comes to inflation, but the underlying issue is the system that it seeks to protect. Peeling away that protection will only make matters worse, and I have yet to see a scientific argument that suggests otherwise. To me, it feels like just a lot of side stepping because we in the West don't want to admit that a better alternative to our current economic system exists due to the exhausting amount of propaganda being spewed over decades.
  11. I'd argue that if the Keynesian economical approach wasn't applied in the context of COVID, we'd potentially be in a worse-off situation than we are in right now; we'll never know for sure because the last pandemic predates Keynes. The entire premise of Keynesian Economics is to stabilize the volatile nature of capitalism by focusing on aggregate demand to avoid crises like The Great Depression. In our current situation, I wouldn't call it a 'backfire', but more like a failure due to State incompetence and corporate greed (both which are intertwined in US politics).
  12. Stray...

    The one where you have to disable the power source for the fan to stop. I'm pretty sure it's a bug where the notebook might not spawn because it wasn't showing up, I had to reset the game via my last checkpoint for it to finally spawn.
  13. Stray...

    I’m bad at video games, took me like 2 hours just to find one fucking notebook.
  14. Stray...

    Going to pick it up sometime this week or so. Only real con for me is it only takes 5 hours or so to beat from what I've heard. Still, it's not like the price tag is $59.99 or anywhere close.
  15. 7875 hours total, would have thought it would be much higher than that considering I've had Steam ever since it was released in 2003. I wonder when it started tracking hours played.
  16. Bernie ride or die 2024.
  17. Meanwhile... ' Clinton News Network baby letsgooooo
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