because they don’t buy it. it’s mostly tribute from oil companies from their offshore leases. royalties for the leases have been paid directly in oil since 1998.

many americans will experience the collapse simply as “one day the mcdonald’s ran out of hamburgers and they never got restocked”

the sheriffs are a few gangs at least

there should be a separate comm for sinbadposting

you can have it all

my empire of dort

i will vote you up

i will make you sort (by new)

well, normally it takes a good 6 to 8 weeks for the processing to go through at quantico and dispatch some agents

this bit is where the article really takes a turn into pure liberalism:

The assumption is that if you send people checks, they’ll find meaning in hobbies and community. They’ll paint. They’ll garden. They’ll finally write that novel. This is ahistorical bullshit. We don’t have to speculate about what happens when economic function disappears from communities. Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s research on “deaths of despair” tracks the rising tide of suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholic liver disease mortality concentrated in less-educated, formerly manufacturing-dependent populations. The mechanism isn’t just poverty. We lose any sense of economic purpose, and with that, social status and a perceived future. Communities organized around industries that left, where what replaced the jobs was opioids, domestic violence, and a life expectancy that dropped year over year in the richest country on earth.

yeah, the mechanism wasn’t “just” poverty, but it was mostly the crushing poverty. implying the opioid epidemic is the result of people simply being too bored or something is quite the take.

basic income won’t work because it doesn’t change the class interests involved, and so the rent-seeking class will always use their power to cut amenities, reduce basic income payments, and extract as much of the payments back into their own coffers as possible.

such a bizarre sleight-of-hand. case and deaton weren’t looking at the results of basic income programs, they were looking at the results of long-term unemployment in a capitalist system.

The psychological consequences of permanent economic precarity corrode social coherence regardless of whether the rent is paid.

the fuck does this even mean? if the rent is getting paid reliably, that’s not economic precarity. the “precariat” are experiencing economic precariousness precisely because they’re having trouble reliably paying the rent! why do they have to pay rent!?

strangely, my “drugs” shirt doesn’t raise as many questions, even though i feel like it doesn’t directly answer any of them

my “my ancestor” shirt has a few particular people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

“descent into” like that’s not where he crawled out from in the first place

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coming to hextube soon!

butte-gieg

i bet the mosquitoes are large and numerous

what this is in norwegian?

The insult Nimrod stems from an old looney toons cartoon in which Bugs Bunny refers to Marvin the Martian as “nimrod” in reference to his greek looking attire.

actually it was in reference to elmer fudd. the biblical nimrod is referred to as a great hunter. bugs sarcastically said, “this guy’s a regular nimrod” or something like that. kids watching thought nimrod referred to fudd’s buffoonish demeanor and speech impediment.

the onion’s strategic hyperbole reserve is running dangerously low these days, too

certainly true!

it reached 18% in '81, there’s a long way to go

ice to meet you