Message from @Dr.Wol
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you can't subsidise reckless behavioru and hope people get more responsible
Just want to disspell the conception that it was money just tossed at them.
tbh, the bailout should be both refunded AND come with interest given back to the people
for the banks screwups
wasn't there slight interest on it?
not good enough, I want free money! 😛
It does have interest, (Quite low though, 1-2% a year, only equalizes inflation)
I don't think it was enough interest to even mitigate inflation
Did it equalize it?
It was a little under inflation in practice i think
ok
I thought it was still in the negative, just slightly
but I'd need to go through all that shit
Regardless
irregardless
It was close
irreunregardless
The problem is more what you said, if they know that when the going gets rough they'll be bailed out
Then it encourages risky behaviour
It also gives them a unfair advantage against smaller banks that wouldnt be bailed out
but wasn't it also a thing that the banks were forced to loan to people buying houses or something by the state?
i recall something like that having been done
We should exile those who burn the national flag to Liberia
Nah, Amendments before offense
Flag burning has come up as a 1st amendment issue several times.
As detestable as it is, the argument does tend to ultimately hold that when done as a protest it's a free speech issue.
I think people who argue for abolishing free speech should be sent to Liberia
Or anywhere without Free Speech, really
Cuba, Venezuela
https://thoughtcatalog.com/joshua-goldberg/2014/12/college-students-asking-for-censorship-is-a-thing/
Bear in mind this was 2014.
ive heard of this really great protest in the vietnam war
done by veterans agaisnt vietnam
where they were gonna put all of their medals in a bodybag and bring it to the door of the white house
tricky dicky errected a fence around teh whitehouse to stop tehm
then they decided they would jsut throw their medals over the door of teh fence
LOL nixon accidentally gave them arguably one of the best photo opportunities of the vietnam war protests
"disrespectful loyalty"
The fence never came down.
Question for yall
UBI, what do you think about it?
I'm in favor of it, I think it's going to be necessary to sustain capitalism at some point.
Highly against it, it will destroy society