You're buying something of value and you might be underestimating or overestimating the value of that thing but you're still getting the thing. Specifically you are buying ownership in a company.

That's not gambling. You don't get paid based on the outcome. You get paid based on the relative value of the company.

Now if that system isn't working very well for you no shit, we have been deregulating markets for the last 50 years what the fuck did you expect? But that's not a problem with the underlining system that's you refusing to do the maintenance the system needs to function properly. If you stop changing your car is oil it's going to break down.

Gambling is when you are paid based entirely on whether a predetermined outcome happens or not. That is definitely what gambling is. You do not own anything. So you only get paid if the event happens. And there is a specific event that has to happen for you to be paid. That is gambling.

Even without the context we all know who I'm talking about.

I bring it up because dear God this administration is corrupt and in light of the subject of this comment what the hell was anyone expecting?

I think the real problem is about 25% of the population of any given country or dyed in the wool assholes.

From there all you have to do is push people to enough desperation that their brain stop working right. People under enormous amounts of pressure don't suddenly get better or smarter. They make bad decisions and they make more of them.

Like believing a famous pedophile who bankrupts everything he touches is somehow going to reduce the cost of groceries. Somebody who can think straight knows better than that.

It could also just be money laundering. I've seen several of these absolutely enormous thefts and they're so large that it's basically impossible to get away with it. You can't move hundreds of millions let alone billions of dollars like this and not have it be readily traceable.

If they catch the guys who did this then yeah we will know but if they haven't caught these guys in a few months then it's either North Korea or one of the other nation states or it's just money laundering. Honestly the money laundering could easily involve nation states like Russia or Iran or North Korea.

You're not wrong in the sense that this is still a Federal crime and should be punished accordingly (not executions, that's insane) but here's your issue: now these same people are in charge of solving this crime and as this story gets at, these people are incompetent.

You go to the right schools and you meet the right people and you get to pretty much do whatever you want. And you get into the schools because your parents get you there and their parents got them there.

If the working class had half the solidarity of the Epstein class we would live in a Utopia

It's not a product it's capital. It's not something you sell the people it's something you use to make things.

It's a labor saving device. Automation. In other words a job killer.

There are studies that clearly indicate that factory automation is responsible for approximately 70% of the Lost middle class jobs since the 1980s.

We have been automating away high paying jobs as fast as we can for decades and AI is just another extension of that.

The Epstein class doesn't want to sell you products. They don't want to have you as an employee. They look back at the Kings and emperors of old and say, that should be me. I shouldn't be dependent on consumers and employees.

They are planning a new world and you're not part of it.

And because nobody gets it unless I say it this way, like George Carlin said it's a big club and you ain't in it.

For some reason one Carlin says that everybody understands but when I explain it it's right out the window.

Link me the MN statue that says non-citizens can vote in Federal elections

Link a source

For a major economic downturn. We are already deeply deeply in the major economic downturn due to the Republicans.

Just hoping we don't have a total complete collapse. You can't keep putting pedophiles in charge of everything and expect things to hold together.

On some level you have to know that.

As for why Democrats are the solution you're not Americans so you wouldn't understand this but we have winner-take-all first past the post voting and we don't have any kind of parliamentary system.

This means we inevitably get two parties because any attempt of the third party just pulls votes away from one of the other two and results in single party rule.

To fix this we would have to overhaul our entire voting and political system but that's easier said than done.

So we have a choice between the Republican party who are openly fascists and getting real comfy with actual Nazis not just the dog whistle kind or our conservative party which is the Democrats.

Remember fascists aren't conservative and the Republican party in America is not a conservative party. They are radical extremists because they will do whatever it takes to get what they want. That leaves the Democrat party as the de facto conservative party in America

Similarly one time I was able to visit Manufacturing Resources International (https://mri-inc.net/) as they specialize in rugged LCD displays and got to see their process and since they also did quite a bit of military work (displays for tanks, modern jets) and while they had to import LCD panel glass from LG (because nobody in the US makes it) everything else was in-house. Pick and place, PCB production, all the backlighting, lamination, they owned the equipment and did it all there. Of course we are talking scales of thousands instead of millions.

Very cool thing though was they modeled and placed every LCD backlight LED lamp in specific locations and pointing specific directions simulated inside the cockpit so the display would never reflect off the glass and would be resistant to glare. American can still build some crazy shit when we want to.

I mean TAA compliant computers exist already, even some manufactured in America:

https://www.onlogic.com/store/...

https://www.trentonsystems.com...

https://www.leonardodrs.com/wh...

Even specialized computers from defense contractors exist as well and have for a long time.

This might be good, particularly if it actually gets more kids in college to take up the manufacturing skills to build all the infrastructure to do it which would take a large public investment in education they would never ever do so coming from Trump/Luckey/Anduril I don't have much faith in any of it, this is just Neo-MIC slop imo.

You have 2 years.

There is absolutely a very simple way to enforce immigration without being racist, that's my point, this admin does it purposefully and is performative about it. They want to be racist and want their supporters to know that because that's what they voted for.

Again, if you don't want to called racist stop doing and saying racist stuff!

It's the only thing holding up the stock market. Frankly I don't want it to burst because when the stock market collapses they're going to take it out of my hide and yours like they always do. If we want to survive that we need a democrat in the White House and Democrats in charge of Congress when it happens and frankly I think we all know that but we'll be damned if we're going to let those highfalutin Washington insiders tell us what to do right?

Also the AI bubble in America is being used to loot our 401ks so we've got a ways to go before it pops. There is 10 trillion dollars there ripe for the taking and the Epstein class will be damned if they let you have it just because it's yours.

Maybe putting an orange pedophile famous for bankrupting businesses and ties to the Russian mafia in charge of your financial future was a bad idea but I'm not an expert.

Then maybe we need actual immigration reform, something which has not been done in about 4 decades now.

Turns out not all citizens want to be truck drivers either, it's not an easy job! The issue is administrative, migrants who want to drive trucks should have a path to do so and do it safely.

I've dealt with hundreds of truck deliveries in my line of work with hundreds of different drivers of all walks of life. They deliver where dispatch tells them, if the BOL says rundown old gas station that's where it has to go. Sometimes that's where it actually is supposed to go!