ComradeSalad @ ComradeSalad @lemmygrad.ml

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But you post this as a source, which quite literally states that the growth is coming from oil exports, and increasingly high levels of government spending (One can only wonder towards what). So is the source wrong?

If you go the IMF source this is drawing from, along with the Carniege Endowment shudder, both those sources that the BBC are drawing from describe the increase as coming from surging prices in oil and government investment into the MIC.

This increase also follows nearly a year of negative GDP growth in 2022, so if anything, Russia is simply regaining already lost ground.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009056/gdp-growth-rate-russia/

Doesn't massive investment into the military present generate an enormous, but false, short-term economic boost that quickly dissipates as the military has very little economic follow-through?

Allende was an express DemSoc. He never claimed to be a Marxist-type socialist. He was a very moderate member of the socialist party.

Had he lived longer he most likely would have committed to the more Marxist and radical wing of the socialist party.

I knew I messed it up somehow : (

Oh, I know, I’m sorry. I was just giving a typical smarmy liberal response.

The Persian Empire was an Empire of course.

An example of a person who should have been under care in a psychiatric facility, where they could be cared for and treated, but instead they were exploited and tortured as an internet lolcow.

Isn’treal

I hope everyone is having a good day today : )

Anything nice or interesting going on in your lives?

Bad Soviet-Afghanistan vibes though.

Extremely likely that all the Nazis go into the woods and marshes and launch a guerrilla and terror campaign.

Would be a wonderful next step…

What is the median? Average is a bad bad number because you’re going to have people totaling their $45,000 dollar trucks and cars that drag up the average. Or people hitting 3 other cars and having them cover all the vehicles.

The vast majority of those “accidents” are fender benders or minor collisions with less then 1-3 thousand dollars in claims at most.

If you are submitting a $19,000 claim every EIGHT YEARS. Your insurance rates are going to be astronomical. The vast majority is accidents are single car low damage accidents, so at most you are submitting a 1-3k claim every 10 or so years. A wonderful return on investment for insurance. Plus you don’t take into account that your rates will increase every time something happens. DUI, speeding ticket, lapse in coverage, collisions, will all raise your premium. $150 is only for clean records.

Plus just because the average for claims is $19,000 doesn’t actually mean that insurance will give you what you need. They will fight tooth and nail to shortchange you.

Also if you want to go by averages. The average car insurance payment is $145-195.

Edit: What is your source for the 19k??? The highest I could find is the subcategory of bodily harm who’s claims average around 20k, but collisions only average around 3k, with a median of $1,995.

What’s your source?

Yes, settlers leaving settlements to go join Native American tribes was such a large problem that both the British and French issued a decree to make that illegal.

There is evidence throughout “early-mid colonial history” (1700-late 1800’s) of people from a multitude of backgrounds joining Native American tribes.

But I could answer a bit better if you were a bit more specific with your question. Did you have a time period in mind? Also people don’t really join Native American tribes to fight for them, it’s for other reasons that culminate in a person simply defending their new home. Much like an immigrant joining their new home country’s military.

If you mean in the modern day, then there’s no barriers or gate keeping as to who can join or volunteer at Native American organizations that assist in protecting Native American rights and autonomy.

But even your source says:

or for his life

The argument this is making is that if you sentence a person for 20-40 years, then they’ll be entirely unable to reintegrate back into society once they finish their term; so there’s no point giving someone with an armed robbery charge 25 years, as you inevitably do more social harm then good.

So we’re still back at square one as even your source states that you might as well imprison someone for life.

Also, the source isn’t arguing for or against the death penalty, and they explicitly state that they don’t want to make a stance on it. Instead, they’re saying that a judge should either sentence for 10 years or under, or simply execute a person as there is no societal difference between 25 years in prison or death.

Wouldn’t life in prison be a better option under socialism/communism instead of the death penalty? I understand the reasoning, but I don’t really see the purpose in executing someone in general, especially over such a crime.

“Setting an example”. Wouldn’t life in prison accomplish the same exact thing?

Why not just let them rot?

Aquilae…. Would you mind explaining to the class what happens in 2026 in the Star Trek timeline?

What happens when an emergency occurs? Where does the company get funds to replace vital broken equipment, pay for a worker to take paid sick leave? Or a number of other emergencies?

How does the company expand operations? Where do they get the funds to hire and train additional workers? Open a new branch? Etc?

Do you take on debt? How do you pay off creditors if you’re breaking even? Do you issue bonds? Do you issue bonds? Then how do you pay the premium?

If your company is breaking even, then your company is dead. You are one small emergency from insolvency.

It is.

Profit is quite literally only the money left over after a business accounts for all expenses. Reinvestment is not seen as an expense, as it can only happen in the business cycle after the money was generated.

It doesn’t really matter what you define it as, profit has two distinct purposes, and the first is for reinvestment into the company that created it. The second is to pay shareholders and generate wealth. The second purpose is what socialism and sane people are opposed too, but you cannot run a profitless firm, it is not possible.

A worker can never receive 100% of the value they generate, as it would not be materially possible even without profit because of taxes. They should receive as much as possible, however a portion must be divided out for investment back into the labour.

That’s why socialism advocates for coops owned by the workers who can make those decisions themselves, and state ownership, as the state is not motivated by greed.

Yes it does. How does it grow? How do you expand operations or upgrade equipment? If you’re breaking even and something breaks, how do you replace it?

My splurge is buying a bag of pretzel bread rolls once every 2 weeks for $4 for four rolls. My groceries are milk, bread, eggs, and potatoes. Frozen broccoli if I can afford it.

I am starving send help.

Yes, as they did it mainly out of survival and wanting to “please their new masters” as the vast majority came from POW and concentration camps. Few were probably true ideological Nazies, they were just scum.