Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]

The Bozos are completely out of touch with reality, but have read liberal economic books, so they do what feels right (Keynesian “the poor having jobs bad” - or monetarist “the poor having money bad”) regardless of the consequences as long as they’re not affected personally.

The Green Party probably would support accepting refugees since they’re deep into the neoliberal ideology of “multiculturalism and immigration good”, with the true motivation of (they say it openly) “gaining qualified/cheap workforce from abroad”

No, Keynesian Inflation Theory relies on the fact that prices rise because during periods of low unemployment, the bargaining power of the employee is increased and that supposedly drives wages upwards, causing prices to increase as well as lowering the profits of businesses and causing recessions.

Thus, the Keynesian solution to inflation is to increase the ranks of the reserve army of labor to drive down labor costs. Keynesianism sees the interventionist role of the state as necessary, but it is a capitalistic economic theory after all. Basically allowing people more consumerism and pulling the emergency break once demand gets too high and lowering prices. [“demand-side economics”]

On the other hand, Monetarists see the amount of money in circulation as the driving force behind inflation, so their solution is to drive down wages and have people buy less. Basically hold back demand while allowing the bourgeoisie to increase supply (they assume they don’t just hoard money and do the minimum necessary) so that prices fall because there’s overproduction. [“supply-side economics”]

You can see both approaches in action rn in the US (with attempts to increase unemployment) and the UK (with the crackdown on unions)

Though of course I might be wrong, so if anyone spotted me saying anything incorrect feel free to correct me.

both rely on the fact that consumption must rise forever as the line goes up, go figure.

I have an urge to rewatch DS9, but I’m halfway through Season 7 of TNG, which I haven’t seen before and there’s still most of TOS for me to watch…

Decisions, decisions

I liked the two-parter with Picard and Riker on the pirate ship, the infamous Deanna Troi cake one and the one where Picard and Dr. Crusher are captured and linked together telepathically. Otherwise, a pretty mid season.

S7E9 “Force of Nature” has huge lore implications, yet it’s never brought up again??

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

• Karl Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

Except this kind of fash riot already was a farce the first time around.

The game’s plot is basically a nazi dogwhistle.

German Libs call it “Wehrhafte Demokratie”, which translates roughly to “self-defensible democracy” and the current system as the “Freiheitlich-Demokratische Grundordnung” (Freedom-Democratic Basic Order)

But alas, it’s only the evil countries that use propagandistic language that doesn’t have any meaning except for use as dogma for true believers. Also, the evil countries’ governments use propaganda to highlight their own achievements, of course

I was looking at r/gundam yesterday after watching the episode and a theory I found somewhat convincing is that