I assumed this one was satire, is that a real tweet?

The national debt has always been an imaginary bugbear. When compared against rates of inflation and the increasing gross tax revenue–it’s been a while since I’ve run these numbers–the national debt amounts to something similar to a car loan. It would take about five years to pay off and that chunk of it does get paid off. In those intervening five years, the nation acquires another “car-loan” of debt proportional to the rate of inflation and the rate of increasing tax revenue.

This analysis isn’t considering the trustworthiness of the United States’ credit. That’s another conversation.

Colorado Springs was last year trying to redirect several million dollars of tax refunds toward funding a cop-city to reinforce the police force “dwindling” since the 2020 riots. I went in during a period of public comment and pointed out how the crime rates had actually been reducing over the same period as they were fear-mongering the reduction in police force. I pointed out how conservatives always claim to want to stick with safe solutions, to keep doing what works instead of trying new ideas. I asked them why this was any different, why don’t you wanna keep trying what works now?

Hey, I’m in this graph!

What? This madness could never occur in this democratic divinity!

Shocked Pikachu

I had hoped my facetious tone would be apparent given the topic of this thread. Given the downvotes, that was probably not the case and in the case you felt I was attacking you, sorry. You’re doing language just fine

sport

Oh my god, fucking assholes ending sentences with prepositions!

I am being murdered at about the same rate as I’ve been.

FTFY fuckface

Jesus it makes me so angry I could fucking kill!

…Exposed Industry Greed…

“Exposed”?

Thank you for this recommendation!

I mean, but teaching them to respond to my various swears is so much fun

Capitalism in its end state would prevent the creation of small businesses. In present-day United States capitalism, if a dozen PhDs who’ve been working for decades in their own time and with their own money to discover something magical like cheap insulin or a cure for cancer, it is not possible for them to start an independent business selling such a product.