The Gaming Den

@Kaelik It looks like you don't have any data for 2023? Stimulus Payments went out in 2020 and 2021. No stimulus payments went out in 2022. If you're doing a one-year lookback you'd expect that your income sans stimulus would be lower than your income with stimulus unless you took a new job or got ...

It would be nice if you shared your data. Official sources haven't completed their analysis of 2023, let alone 2024. I think it is a travesty that we discontinued social programs that worked to bring children out of poverty because of the inflation bogeyman, but the data I see looks like official p...

A fun fact is that americans are, in the lower 50%, materially less well off now then they were 2 and 3 years ago. "real wage growth is slighly outpacing inflation" would tell you if people had more money if wages were the only source of money, but they aren't! Fun fact! People have experi...

What some of you may know is that Alabama killed a man slowly over 32 minutes of torture with nitrogen replacing oxygen but apparently not very well. What fewer will know is that they accelerated their development of the process because they tried to kill the guy already with lethal injection and fa...

I mean the answer is that some have right wing goals, some are idiots, all of them are pushed by donors, and many are more then one. Yes, Joe biden has bad political instincts that make him want to compromise on the border because he yearns for the days of yore where he got credit in the 70s for bei...

I agree the bill is dead on arrival, but also the president and several senators doing a full court press about how the border is an existential crisis for our country and needs to be addressed by more cruelty 1) sets democratic policy goals in the wrong direction for a long time in ground we will h...

Joe Biden 2 months ago: I will offer republicans arming Israeli genocide in return for funding Ukraine. Joe Biden 1 month ago: I will offer the gop arming Israeli genocide AND psycho border murderathon for arming Ukraine. Joe Biden today: I will offer the gop amring psycho border murderation for my ...

Look, if a) you think you answered a question and I don't think you answered it and b) you think I'm an idiot, saying 'I already answered that' makes you look extra foolish. Are you now saying that a football player isn't earning money from their labor exactly the same way that a teacher is earning...

Clearly there is a difference between the average school teacher earning $66k annually and Warren Buffet with is $128 Billion net worth. But apparently we can't use a definition of proletariat that makes sure that a teacher qualifies and that Warren Buffett doesn't? The already existing definition ...

I mean on an extremely basic level the chronological progress of time means you can be both things. More relevantly you can collect income from multiple sources and still be clearly in the ownership class. You can under some definitions also be a worker at the same time. But this is already classifi...

If someone is 'two things' and those two things are 'proletariat' and 'bourgeois' that would make the term 'incoherent' which is what I said originally. And if we can't agree on a definition I don't know if I can answer the question. Barrack Obama didn't seem to be 'bourgeois' when we was elected a...

Owning intellectual property isn't actually the same thing as being paid for your labor. Labor is the thing you do. Ip is when the government shoots people if they don't pay you every time they do labor. Football players are clear workers until they start a health and fitness business, various peopl...

Remember back in 2019 when Biden tweeted that we don't need another war in the Middle East, in the context of complaining that then-President Bad Orange Man was behaving in a manner which might make this slightly more likely? No? Me neither. ok who am I kidding someone reposted a tweet that I proba...

Doesn't she (now) own her own music, so she's not alienated from the fruits of her labour? (Also...what's Taylor Swift got to do with the Biden administration again? I mean, excepting she's a psyop weapon to encourage people to register to vote or whatever.) Well yes and no. Technically, Taylor swi...

Wow, it's weird that deaddm has access to secret Taylor Swift financial data that no one else has that allows him to make broad statements no one else knows the answer to in his bad faith attempt to ignore the point being made. Please tell us deaddm. How much did 13 Management pay Taylor Swift as a ...

"Most 'rich people' have multiple income streams. They invest in stocks, bonds, businesses, real estate, and many of them have high-paying jobs, too." It's extremely funny to be like "Look they are bourgouise in so many different ways, and also some of them might have jobs like CEO or...

The ICJ specifically said that preventing aid from entering Gaza was one of the genocidal acts that Israel needed to stop doing. Since that ruling, the United States of America has taken over that genocidal act on behalf of Israel so Israel can stop doing it, upgrading the offical US position from a...

To add to the list of countries Israel has bombed thanks to US impunity, Belgium. See, unlike the US, Belgium did not cut all funding to the UN relief agency after a 60 hour torture session produced a confession that the unrwa is hamas. So Israel just bombed the Belgium agency for cooperation and de...

I'm going to put my hand up as someone who'd prefer to see Biden (or whomever is running for the Dems) win the next US federal election. Two parties, broken system, lesser evil, etc. But, c'mon, talking about maybe doing something isn't doing something. At best, at very best, it's a sign that not e...

Someone who is retired and living off Social Security isn't bourgeoise because they don't earn a salary for working. Someone who is working as at a top-flight law firm earning millions of dollars per day isn't a prole because they're a wage-earner. Imagine reading this paragraph and then trying to ...

Yeah, I'm willing to talk about the Biden Administration in this thread. So what the administration does in relation to Israel/Gaza is on-topic, but the larger issue including what actions Israel is taking seems like it belongs somewhere else. But you aren't though. Your response to "Here's a ...

In any case, I came by to say Biden Imposes Sanctions on Israeli Settlers Over West Bank Violence For a guy doesn't want to talk about Israel and Palestine in this thread, it's weird that you can't find it in yourself to talk about the US's many war crimes in support of genocide but can find time t...

So first off revolutions, just like any political movement aren't a single person doing a thing. Yeah it's pretty funny how deaddm is like "I actually oppose democracy if it's imposed by occupation and protest because fair election would inevitably result in Kaelik being dictator, and that's w...

Thanks Kaelik, you saved me from double-posting. Even though you're not really worth responding to. You're not even close to right. I don't think that MLK needed to be put down and stopped. I think that everything he did was within his Constitutionally protected rights and the laws that were used t...

Things that are not deal breakers: genocide. Declaring Greg Abbott the eternal president who decides what the border policy is. Saying that you would personally not let a single asylum seeker into the country or even give them hearings in violation of international law. Things that are deal breakers...