Yeah obviously the president of the US and the Senate couldn't possibly be controlled by Democrats, because otherwise they would have the absolute ability to remake the supreme court. It's too bad, gosh it sucks that we live under the control of Republicans who control every arm of the federal government.
The followup:
"Sure I made it up, but isn't it scary that the dumbest people on planet earth believed it???"
Isn't that Dukakis?
"You've researched [Arachnids]. You were in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died."
The dunk here is not on MMT, it's that the head of Biden's council of economic advisors opposes MMT but can't even try to muster a reason why. The woman interviewing him in the video is Stephanie Kelton, author of the Deficit Myth and the main proponent of MMT. She describes (as shouldn't be shocking based on the name of her book) that deficit spending is actually a necessary good to keep the economy functioning, and in that way fits within the left as a counterpoint to criticism of progressive policies like universal healthcare or free college or reparations etc. as "unaffordable."
But your instinct is right, MMT isn't necessarily collaborative with leftist ideas since it isn't concerned with class or redistributive policies. It's basically just a way to explain why we can print so much money and see barely any inflation despite classical economics constantly warning about that exact scenario.
Since no one else will, here it is to ruin the fun:
Lol was this before or after he crushed the rail workers strike? Pretty funny that the most "left" thing you can attribute to Biden is performative bullshit while he has actively worked on behalf of capital to limit workers' actions. What level of "left" does that make him?
Biden has been president for 4 years. Can you give me exactly one (1) thing that he's done for the left in that time period?
love to see thisI thought it was like a meme but it's literally a still from the interview. That's the CTO of OpenAI saying she's not sure what data was used to train the models lmao.
on suicide watch after learning Argentina doesn't "use capitalism"
If the democratic party was at all interested in the opinion of the general public (which includes you and me), they would at least run some primaries and go through the motions of a western liberal democracy. Instead, they've decided to rerun 2020 on the hope that the bold message of "He's not Trump" will work again.
The election is in eleven months - if Biden loses the fault lands squarely on the democrats for covering their ears and saying "lalalala" any time someone suggests maybe actually doing something resembling democracy. Or hey you can continue to pre-blame the left for an election that hasn't happened yet and accuse us of actually being conservatives, certainly that will convince us to line up behind Genocide Joe.
Not me furiously searching "Henry kissinger assad" so I can post that the Lion of Damascus has done it agian
Trump winning (because progressives refuse to vote)
Gotta love how liberals portray progressives as simultaneously a large enough voting bloc to sway entire elections, but not large enough to ever enact a single progressive policy even when it's a campaign promise.
Here's the site for the puzzle hunt: https://www.timehop.com/greathalloweenpuzzlehunt. Getting them all right puts you in the running for $100 so hopefully a hexbear (or 3!) gets it in the end.
Each puzzle resolves with a 5 letter solution, in this case all part of a spooky halloween theme. I have solved 4 of the 6, but could use some help with the other two.
Here are the solutions I've found:
#1
The key here is seeing the little 'P', 'B', '1', and '4' under some of the moons. The "14" especially gives away that you are supposed to transpose the message on the card onto the moons starting with the top left. (The 'B' in "celebration" ends up being off by one space but they've made little mistakes like that before.) To find the 5 letter word, take the letter from each full moon and spell out:
#1 answer
SCARE
#2
Pretty obvious imo, take the word said during each of the flashes in the video and add them to the grid design in the bottom right, starting from the middle and working counter clockwise. The word is then in the vertical shaded section.
#2 answer
RAVEN
#4
The key here is in the little dots found on the cards first and second pages. Choose a color and start with the single dot, then connect that to the cluster of two dots of the same color, then the cluster of three, etc. until there aren't any more of the same color to connect. Each drawn figure is a letter (for instance, the black dots form an 'E'). To figure out the correct order of the letters to form the word, arrange the letters in the order that the colors appear in the poem.
#4 answer
COVEN
#6
This ones a pigeon cipher, looking at the 4 pictures shows a set of letters on the pumpkin. These can be listed out in order as 'LENTGAHI'. We can fill this out in the pigeon key already provided, starting with N in the top left and moving through the list clockwise. Then we use the code to find the answer.
#6 answer
NIGHT
#3 and #5 are still eluding me, so I if anyone wants to share a solution that'd be awesome.
Comrade HumanBehaviorByBjork solved #3, now #5 is the only one unsolved.
