Jerboa works for me.

Israel was never interested in a Palestinian state.

You can’t ethnically cleanse people and build Jewish settlements while proclaiming you want peace.

Have you always been an insufferable wanker?

All these solutions (tax breaks, etc.) don’t appear to fix the more fundamental problem of it is too expensive to have a kid, work / life balance does not allow it and homes are too expensive.

I thought I was going to be rickrolled but this is better.

I pay $79 AUD for 250Mb download / 20Mb upload.

This makes so much sense.

I always thought, surely their higher ups must know this is utter garbage?

They do but it’s just to scam investors.

I didn’t miss that.

But I do miss the content, structure and vastness of the old internet.

Now it has been turned into a strip mall dominated by Facebook, Google, etc. and enshittenification.

This really applies to all industries.

Boeing used to put time, effort and care into building good planes. They stopped doing that, things went to shit and people died.

Airbus didn’t go down the Boeing route and are doing a lot better.

Sail the high seas.

John Brown did nothing wrong.

I really miss the early internet.

Gaming “journalism” was always mostly crap.

Even in 1990s and 00s.

There was a huge moral panic about dungeons and dragons.

This was the UK electorate with Boris Johnson.

It takes an absolute economic shitshow for people to stop wanting “change” and wanting simple good governance.

I know.

I asked if there were sources on his improvement of social services?

I know the Nazis did cut back on Weimar Republic era house building subsidies.

The common claim is they improved the economy, which I addressed above.

I’m not sure how true that is in terms of housing, healthcare, etc. Do you have any sources?

He did claim to have ended the Great Depression in Germany. While people have pointed to projects like the Autobahn, these projects only had a modest effect on unemployment.

What really brought down unemployment was massive deficit spending on expanding the army / rearmament and combined with conscription.

In addition, women, Jews, etc. were forced out of the workforce.

The problem was this was unsustainable. Nazi Germany began WW2 with a debt to GDP ratio greater than what the USA ended the war with.

It narrowly avoided a balance of payments crisis in 1934.

If it hadn’t invaded much of Europe and looted it’s wealth, the economy would have collapsed.

Source: Wages of Destruction: The making and breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze.

There may not be any need for that.

The United States, China, etc. all have trade policies that are fundamentally unsustainable and result in persistent trade imbalances.

This causes all sorts of poor economic outcomes for large sectors of those countries. For example, an anaemic household sector in China and over investments in housing, huge private and public sector deficits in the United States, etc.

In the free market world of Adam Smith and comparative advantage, persistent trade imbalances should not exist.

Over the medium to long term, imports are meant to pay for exports.

If there are persistent trade imbalances, it means there is persistent under consumption (China) or over consumption (United States).

Note: This is not just limited to these countries.

At some point, there is going to be an economic crisis because it can’t continue forever.

Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.

• George Carlin

Because he is a white conservative.