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nudityandnerdery: angrylittlesliceofpizza: wrangletangle: akire...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 02:17:14 -0400

angrylittlesliceofpizza:

wrangletangle:

akireyta:

sandandglass:

Kevin Bridges: A Whole Different Story

…where’s the lie?

From a macroeconomics standpoint, Bridges is completely accurate.

The problem with most Tories (and many Republicans in the US) is that they either have big business interests at heart or have bought the lie that government is like a business. Government is not a business! Microeconomic principles, even ones that apply to entire industries, don’t apply to governments!

Here’s the fundamental macroecomic model of an economy:

(image from tutor2u)

Notice that the system is circular. The model shows that the economy inherently needs to be balanced. If some households are making hundreds of times the income of other households, they will put the vast majority of that money into savings and investment.

This is bad for the economy.

Some savings and investment is necessary. But too much means the little green arrows are siphoning off vast portions of the peach demand arrow (”purchases of goods and services”). This means that companies are fighting over a smaller and smaller pie. Even if you heavily fund those companies, many will collapse due to lack of demand for their products, unless they become monopolies and the sole practical source of their product. Monopolies are technically illegal in the US, but we have them anyway because of this problem (and a lack of enforcement).

The other way you can damage the demand arrow is by shifting the proportions of the purple income arrow. Most people make money from wages, so if you significantly decrease those relative to dividends, interest, profits, and rent, you’ll harm the majority of households. In turn, this again decreases the peach arrow because many households only need a set amount of a given product in a year. The fewer households that can afford the products, the lower overall demand, because the remaining households won’t buy up the difference.

Households with average levels of income spend far more money than they save, of necessity, and they do so at a relatively steady rate. This is good for the economy.

Households with incredibly high levels of income - millionaires, etc. - save far more than they spend. They tend to make their money off of dividends, interest, profits, and rents - not wages. Therefore, to improve the economy, including increasing tax revenues for the government, two basic steps are urged by almost all macroeconomists:

1. Increase wages, especially at the lowest end. This expands the tax base and drives up demand for basic goods and services, stabilizing the industries necessary to a decent quality of life: agriculture and food production, clothing, housing, education, transportation, etc.

2. Use progressive taxes, in which those who make the most money, particularly off of dividends, interest, profits, and rents, pay a higher percentage of their income as taxes. This allows that money to be spent directly on goods and services or to be redistributed to poor households, who will in turn spend it on goods and services. In both cases, money that would have gone into savings and investment instead goes into demand. This makes businesses more successful and a large number of households more prosperous. Society as a whole benefits from decreased crime, lower health problems, and improved public goods like education, roads, emergency response, infrastructure, etc.

Macroeconomics is the opposite of an individual business. Individual businesses study how to take the most pie for themselves and keep it. Macroeconomists - and governments - study how to make the pie bigger and distribute it in such a way that society as a whole benefits from the growth.

Conservatives: doing economics wrong for the past several decades by deliberately pretending that knowing how to run a business is anything like knowing how to run a government. Being fiscally cautious and being uneducated do not have to go hand in hand. (I’m both, for example.) But the rhetoric for slashing budgets has been laden with errors and ideology since at least the 1930s, and I’m tired of it.

ONE MORE TIME FOR THE MORONS ~~AT THE BACK~~ IN OUR GOVERNMENTS

Remember this the next time someone says “I’ve never gotten a job from a poor person.”

revolutionaryeye: hookahbird: makeup-wonder-woman: rootbeergodd...

Mon, 28 May 2018 00:12:40 -0400

revolutionaryeye:

hookahbird:

makeup-wonder-woman:

rootbeergoddess:

wildlythoughtfulsquid:

SERIOUSLY

I am going to print this out and plaster it everywhere I go

my heart just broke

Not gonna lie; I’m on the verge of tears right now.
Because this is what I see every night when I come into work. I work at a Jewish-run elder care non-profit. Even in the memory care unit, we’re seeing a rise in the residents’ anxiety levels, to the point where they’ve had to stop turning on the TV news stations (and these residents still love the news). Multiple residents are direct survivors of the Shoah; some barely escaped, and almost all of them lost family members in death camps. One resident was one of the children saved by the Kindertransport. Many other residents tell me stories of when they were kids, how their neighborhoods were destroyed and relocated and of the siblings and parents they no longer have. One newer resident was finally starting to settle in when Charlottesville happened. Even though we immediately changed the channel, she was shaken. She was inconsolable for hours. When I left for the night, she was still crying and refused to leave her room. Even now, weeks after the direct event, she still is wary to come to programs, fearing that if she is away from her room too long that her possessions and place will be stolen from her like they were in 1938. Even with dementia, even with Alzheimers, these residents remember what happened. They cannot forget their lost loved ones. They cannot forget the things stolen from them. They cannot forget, period.
Because this fight against Neo-Nazis isn’t just a theoretical thing. These groups know that people are forgetting about Shoah; they take great strength knowing that people from that generation are dying. When they regard WWII as a “dark cloud” hanging over the heads of this generation, it is not with a solemn regard, with they knowledge that we must not forget lest we repeat our mistakes. These White supremacists, these White Neo-Nazis, see Shoah remembrance as something they will gladly eradicate. When people gladly throw out the Nazi salute, chant the 14 words, or march under the banner of “hail victory,” they are two things and two things only – Nazi apologists and Nazi supporters.
Shoah survivors are not gone. They are still here. We need to stop ignoring that this normalization of Nazis marching in the street harms real people. It’s not just ideas. It’s not just “free speech”.
We cannot forget. We cannot forget. We cannot forget.

Remembering is not enough.
Sorrow is not enough.
They are in our midst again

We need to know how to stop them:- https://socialistworker.org/2017/07/03/what-strategies-will-stop-the-far-right

Photo

Sun, 13 May 2018 15:10:32 -0400

pammie-yammie: the team: thanks, but we don’t want this plot hook Matt: That’s fine, guess you...

Fri, 11 May 2018 02:43:55 -0400

pammie-yammie:

the team: thanks, but we don’t want this plot hook

Matt: That’s fine, guess you don’t want to track done the Hawker

the team: the what now

supagirl:You’re family. Family shows up.

Mon, 07 May 2018 01:46:48 -0400

supagirl:

_{You’re family. Family shows up.}

wonderytho: meirl

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:55:30 -0400

wonderytho:

meirl

spideyjlaw:THIS HOLY TRINITY OF BADASS WOMEN NEEDS MORE...

Sat, 28 Apr 2018 17:54:50 -0400

spideyjlaw:

THIS HOLY TRINITY OF BADASS WOMEN NEEDS MORE APPRECIATION

millacm:I am so excited for the new season of Heroes and...

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 22:13:37 -0400

first battle!

geoff the spider! I mean Wendell...

boys rescue a dog! (i drew this just a second before Io (griffin) took Tib)

The gang!!! Rand, Thimble, Tib, Io and...pyromaniac girl? (she's an npc dont blame me for forgetting her name)

the bois with more accurate heights

mr troublemaker and friend

best distraction in history

millacm:

I am so excited for the new season of Heroes and Halfwits!!
I’m loving the characters and the world so far and this rag tag group can only fall into to so much trouble which i am SO here for!

twentyonelizards: lostwednesdays: Guys who think periods are...

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:21:13 -0400

twentyonelizards:

lostwednesdays:

Guys who think periods are nbd are my favorite guys.

Also:

I wanna add as well that he didn’t write ‘women’, he wrote ‘people who menstruate’. Dude is cool on every conceivable level.

montygreen: While wearing a wedding dress you lept over a couch,...

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:42:46 -0400

montygreen:

While wearing a wedding dress you lept over a couch, sprinted down an alley, and jumped off a car to subdue the crap out a perp like you were Wonder Woman. Was pretty cool, wasn’t it?

silent-world-of-a-deaf-boi: ladynorbert: autisticheatherduke: autisticheatherduke: Dear hearing...

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:48:01 -0400

silent-world-of-a-deaf-boi:

ladynorbert:

autisticheatherduke:

autisticheatherduke:

Dear hearing aid providers: stop only advertising your hearing aids for old people - from a deaf 19 year old who’s used hearing aids since she was 7

Note: you don’t have to use hearing aids, or have any form of hearing loss to be able to reblog this

Deaf people using hearing aids should be as normalized as people with vision loss wearing glasses.

Before I got a hearing aid I didn’t like the idea of it because I associated it with only old people having them. But when I actually got news that I was able to have a hearing aid and then got one I was so excited and happy and I now I am all for showing off that I have one.

So to my fellow deaf/hard of hearing people who have a hearing aid or are going to have one, don’t be ashamed. It’s normal, it’s beneficial if you think it will be. No one will really actuallt comment about you havinf one but if someone does say shit, you can just turn it off and shut them out.

babypinkmermaid: canisinculta: kaijuno: I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water...

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:44:45 -0400

babypinkmermaid:

canisinculta:

kaijuno:

I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem

I would like to add that the people of Flint cannot sell their houses, because selling a house with leaded water is illegal. Additionally, households with children can’t stop paying for the water because living in a house without running water is cause for CPS to take their kids. Flint has been living this way for over two years.

The people of Flint are trapped by the legal system. And it is only the most high profile case out many cities with a similar problem.

Because the government has abandoned them, they are dependant on help from the outside. Donate here

If u can’t donate, reblog so someone else can!!!

personblogging: So it’s occurred to me that a lot of people want to play Dungeons & Dragons but...

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:48:59 -0400

personblogging:

So it’s occurred to me that a lot of people want to play Dungeons & Dragons but never have be it they don’t know anyone who plays or they haven’t had the courage to try yet

So… I was thinking of starting a network for people who want to play DnD (or even other RPGs) but don’t have anyone to play with. Still working out the details, but message me or reblog/like/reply if you’d be interested

Not the greatest with people, so this sounds great.

appsa:Lmao i dont even have a smartass comment to make about ep 71 that was just plain devastating

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 22:07:51 -0400

appsa:

Lmao i dont even have a smartass comment to make about ep 71 that was just plain devastating

catsi: a-thesis-film-destroyed-me: wizardshark: catsi: pretty fucked up how christian beliefs are...

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:06:07 -0400

catsi:

a-thesis-film-destroyed-me:

wizardshark:

catsi:

pretty fucked up how christian beliefs are referred to as “stories” but indigenous beliefs are referred to as “mythology”

im gonna start calling it all “christian mythology” now and watch people literally melt in fury

I call it Christian mythology and the amount of angry looks I get from old people in public when I say it is honestly baffling and hysterical.

how come everyone here saw a post clearly meant to point out how people treat indigenous peoples’ religions with disrespect and decided to make it all about pissing off Christians?

the point of this post was very obviously “treat indigenous peoples better” but you have chosen to read it as “treat Christian religious beliefs more poorly”. i wanted people to reflect on the language they use to talk about the religions of indigenous peoples but that intent was apparently lost on many people.

i want you to ask yourself why you are more willing to make the effort to treat certain people unkindly than to treat other people with respect.

k-eke: Hello everyone. So today I have sad news to bring to...

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:11:35 -0400

k-eke:

Hello everyone.

So today I have sad news to bring to you, I’ve been plagied.

I had some messages there telling me if I made a game that I released lastly, knowing I didn’t I asked no and wanted to know why many people asked me this, then they gave me a link to the Facebook page of the company :

https://www.facebook.com/fortafygames

I looked on it, and directly saw the icon that is, quasi my little pigeons I animate bouncing, then I was like “ mmm … maybe they were inspired but they could ask for permission because it’s way too similar for my taste, it’s really like my animations” then I saw the videos and it was terrible.

You may already what I animate, but when I saw the video of the gameplay, I had no words.

All of my motions, bouncing animals, Dancing frames are exactly the sames !!

They totally copied my art !!!

So I contacted them, I wanted to be sure, they replied me that it’s for game and that my art is for animation so it’s not the same. Sigh

So I told my friends about it, many tried tu put messages to discuss with them, no success. Some even were blocked when they put proof of my work.

I’m lost, I didn’t sleep last night because of this, I contacted lawyers and got some explanation, so it’s still going but I have to deal with it and I wanted you to know my current situation.

I share this with you because I’m an artist, this kind of thing happen to us WAY too often and I want to act, for me, for you, for any artists on the internet!

It have to stop!

I have so many proofs on my blog, but also you know me and my art well.

I can’t let this pass and stay there.

Please be aware of this and tell people that it’s total plagiat of my art.

Thank you.

micdotcom: silkktheshocka: thesaltgod: urnaturalbae: trebled-n...

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 16:08:54 -0500

micdotcom:

silkktheshocka:

thesaltgod:

urnaturalbae:

trebled-negrita-princess:

micdotcom:

Watch: This is the talk that could save a young black man’s life

my chest is hurting

Currently crying outside of class

😢😭

Heard my Mom give this speech to my nephews when they were about 8 and 9 my heart is so heavy I resisted the urge to cry at work when I saw this

Thanks to everyone who wrote in about how moving this is. We absolutely agree and hope for a future where parents won’t have to give this talk to their children.

shrrrr1mp: savemebybts: lietliet: redsatinsheets: feminism never taught me to hate men but it did...

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:53:43 -0500

shrrrr1mp:

savemebybts:

lietliet:

redsatinsheets:

feminism never taught me to hate men but it did help me realize that i shouldn’t prioritize them over women & it turns out that alot of men consider that to be hatred lmao.

So if you were in a room with two prisoners; a man and a woman, you’d never met, and the gender neutral soldier with the big gun told you to kill one of them, you’d automatically shoot the man?

tag yourselves I’m the gender neutral soldier

i cannot tell you how many times this EXACT situation has happened to me

drst: noctumsolis: BINGO.

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 19:11:21 -0500

drst:

noctumsolis:

BINGO.

makethelastonecount: the-real-seebs: jumpingjacktrash: newvagabond: infiniteragequit: sothisisth...

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:28:07 -0500

makethelastonecount:

the-real-seebs:

jumpingjacktrash:

newvagabond:

infiniteragequit:

sothisistherapy:

ericfvckingharris:

Growing up in an abusive household is a fucking trip dude……If you’ve never had someone angrily wash a dish at you or fold a sock in your direction then how are you gonna understand why I get nervous when you quietly do the laundry, or why I ask “are you mad at me?” when you set the bag of groceries down too hard? It’s a totally different way of living and it impacts you long after you’ve left the situation.

This is so important.

Abused kids speak a language you can’t learn

My heart races when I hear someone sigh and then the adrenaline takes forever to wear off. I hate having these reactions even when I know I am safe.

@ my friends who relate to this: please feel free to ask me for confirmation at any time that we are ok. i won’t get mad. go ahead and test me, try it out, prove it. however many times you need to hear me go “huh? nah, all’s well!” is however many times i’ll say it.

and i promise that if we are not ok i’ll be honest about that too, and it won’t be the end of the world. i may go like “meh, i’m actually pretty grumpy right now about [thing]” and you can be like “sorry i will fix [thing]” and i will be like “thank you i appreciate”and then we’ll be ok again. i won’t hold a grudge and i definitely will not angrily fold a sock at you.

again, as many times as this needs to happen, i’m up for that. i love you and i’m in it for the long haul. our friendship is worth it.

agreed

Literally THIS