Also, kudos to you for the attempt at dehumanization, you're a great asset to the Aryan race.

The return of the stock market since the early 1980s is precisely equal to the increase in government debt, yes.

What bad can I say about Xi?

He's the best tool the Western civilization has to stop China from taking over.

You should cherish him, think where China could have been with someone like FDR at the helm instead.

I see "rule of law" practiced by trumpistan every day.

I think it is the funniest joke since Mills wrote that funny treatise, "The Power Elite".

Oh please, the peddlers get paid based on the credibility of the bullshit a peddler can project to make money transfer from the marks to the management.

Nothing in the most highly valued companies in the world is even remotely related to their "value", and the fact that a comment can wipe a medium nation's GDP in a minute shows this ain't real value by any known definition.

Neither value in use, nor value in exchange, to use the proper leftist vocabulary ;)

I don't know if it was ever a "net positive", but even assuming it was, that's long gone. Now it is a complex machine tuned to massively siphon wealth off the masses into the hands of insiders and nothing more.

The most recent case, just from the oven:

https://newrepublic.com/post/2...

There's evidence, which you, the pedophile defender, continue to deny.

Do you also groom and fuck kids?

What a disgusting creature you are - a pedophile defender.

They actually have.

But disgusting pedophile lovers like yourself have kept the pedophile protected.

It's been a decade and a half. Just because a person knows how to compile a kernel doesn't mean they can't also be a Luddite at the same time.

Well that escalated quickly.

Yes, I completely agree. That requires one more factor that's undermining democracy worldwide to be solved - the eternal problem of the asymmetry of rewards and costs that makes public action by the many hard, as explained even here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Sure, Pete. It is always China's fault in your little part of the world.

Is that China with you now?

Show us on this doll where it is touching you.

Mars has everything it needs right now, and some garbage that it never asked for.

The question to ask, however, isn't what "Mars needs", the question is does the humanity need Mars, and the answer is "not really".

A few hundred or so people without real understanding of the shit, but control of the government money that props the "shareholder value" want to live forever and that the "AI" will let them, so they're completely willing to thrash the Earth for that.

Plus, the biggest moron among them believes he will get to live it out on Mars.