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  • He also died 235 years ago…

    Like, if you asked any of those “great thinkers” if people 200+ years in the future should still be relying on their opinion and not a single one would agree.

    Humanity’s greatest strength is exchanging ideas and building on them, the rate we do so has skyrocketed since then. So much shit has changed that what people said back then should really only be useful on trivia night or when learning history.

    If it’s still applicable it means we stagnated, and that’s a bad sign for society.

    We should understand the framework and what came before, but under no circumstances looking to them for literal guidance from the ancients type shit. We live in drastically different worlds.


  • do it as explicitly

    They won’t, Nintendo is one of the few companies who can get away with saying it.

    But just because other companies won’t say it, won’t mean they won’t do it.

    The alternative is they sell less and make the same profit margin. That means profits don’t just fail to increase by the desired percentage, profits could go down. Profits must never go down, because the global economic system is a house of cards and it could cause a healthy company to make very stupid decisions due to stock price and spiral into bankruptcy.

    Stock price is only random people’s opinion at the end of the day, they won’t risk profits going down, everyone will see higher prices to compensate for a reduction in the American market

    Nintendo can just say it because you can’t play Zelda or Mario Kart anywhere else than their hardware, in a way they’re a monopoly.



  • Will the whole mess involve only the USA or everyone cause globalization?

    A couple companies have outright said to make up for lost profits from tariffs they’re increasing prices everywhere else.

    So Euro customers will pay more for a Switch 2 because due to tarrifs Americans will buy less.

    I haven’t heard AMD or Nvidia say they’ll do it, but everyone is going to do it. If they don’t, stock prices go down.


  • Then you are overly optimistic about the state of the American insurance system…

    You think the people owning millions of dollars of stock don’t understand that their profits come from denying claims and people dying?

    They’ve normalized that and their social circles 100% do not have us in their “in group” because since birth they have never interacted with people who aren’t wealthy.

    We are not people to trust fund babies

    We usually talk about the in-group/out group split like that with ethnicity or even religion, but it can develop along any line, and for generations has been there a long economic lines.

    They would see nothing wrong with making the statement:

    the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.

    For a recent example, look at feudalism, the royalty were separated from commoners due to privilege and for pretty much all of them they started looking at them as a cop.pletely different species with zero innate value.

    It only ended because wealth inequality started to decrease leading to the merchant class providing an opportunity for social mobility that rivaled lesser nobility.

    But wealth inequality has been going the other way for a while, we’re already seeing the wealthy act like feudal lords again. I know I went on a rant, but c’mon, the rich are 100% out of touch enough in 2025 to make that statement and genuinely not expect anyone to be upset. It takes effort for them to acknowledge we’re also human, so sometimes they just fucking forget.


  • The group, which is seeking unspecified damages, argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.

    “As such, the Company was deliberately reckless in doubling down on its previously issued guidance,” the suit reads.

    They really just fucking said it…

    This economic system is openly hostile to the vast majority of us, the only choice we have is if we participate in it, and that’s not really a choice. Inflation is used to force people into investing, it’s literally there so people don’t just put money under the mattress to save for retirement.

    There’s other ways than letting the wealthy do anything and everything they want to everyone else. But it gets harder every day to change it



  • I was under the impression Isreal was Jewish. If they are all of the same faith why the infighting

    Lacking on details but first of all, not everyone who follows a religion agrees, it’s widely assumed to be a bogted statement when someone implies the opposite.

    But there’s two scenarios:

    1. The students are some kind of rightwing sect and the people who are actually being drafted to commit genocide got upset

    2. The students were just honestly celebrate but identified as “other” by rightwing Israelis and attacked.

    Also:

    understand. I was under the impression Isreal was Jewish. If they are all of the same faith why the infighting? Was this just a matter of children becoming too rowdy in which case why bring up ethnicity at all.

    None of this has anything to do with ethnicity, a lot of Israelis (and certainly a lot of Jewish folk) are not ethnicity Jewish.

    You’re asking questions, which is good.

    But you’re asking very basic questions, and almost all of them are assuming the same stance as white supremacists when talking about Israel.

    So wherever you’ve been getting your info, find a new way


  • Article only takes it back to 2008…

    Around 2003 Cincy had the largest race riots since 92 in LA. But it goes back waaaaay farther.

    After the civil war the fighting didn’t stop in border states, but most of the people who fought were over the fighting. So ex confederate soldiers moved from Kentucky to Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan.

    They largely put the war behind them when they moved.

    However some didn’t and founded racist groups in those areas, and generations later all someone knew was grandpappy fought for the South and they’re manipulated into the “heritage not hate” excuse them fullblown white supremacism.

    But that’s the reason the Midwest has oversized issues despite being Union states.

    Quick edit:

    That Hatfield and McCoy drama started because each family fought for a different side, and one killed another after they returned to the same area.

    Most people have heard of that feud, but aren’t aware it was happening all over in border states where it really was neighbor versus neighbor, and sometimes brother versus brother.