I doubt he really cared about guns, he was an edgelord provocateur.

This is why I was glad that Kirk was the victim of the political violence he championed rather than some innocent bystander.

It’s the exception that proves the rule so there are a couple people who should remain without pity but Peterson isn’t the one in my book.

Man, they’re totally ready for Dawn of the Dead

I’m guessing IRL Jesus would have started rage flipping tables and whipping people with his belt.

Small town in Oklahoma…they’re probably blaming their misfortune on the people that sued.

Baking can be alot of work for the amount of product you have to sell at the end, it’s why baked good can be so expensive when not made in a factory. Try to be realistic and choose things that aren’t especially labor intensive.

Pro-tip: Add a little butter at the end right before the garnish (called mounting it with butter) but don’t fully mix it in.

The short answer (ba dum, tisssss) is that some forms of mutual funds buy a little bit of every stock rather than picking and choosing. Then, for reasons never really made clear, they let other investors borrow those stocks as long as they return them later.

Sears could have been what Amazon is today. Hell, it the 19th century, it WAS was Amazon is today. But the focus is so often on financial trickery over actual sound business practices

Alot of debt gets bundled into bonds or other investment vehicles and sold. So small retail investors, retirement funds, etc end up holding the bag. Sometimes the banks lose, but they can take tax write offs and if the loses are too great, they can often get bailed out by the government.

It’s not hard to use financial trickery to temporarily tank a stock price making it easier to buy up a company. When redditors went after gamestop shortsellers, the shortsellers used tricks to dip the stockprice just low enough just temporarily enough to trigger margin calls and crush the redditors.

Because bankers buy politicians and if people complain they buy news coverage to call the naysayers socialists

Kinda like how Uber and Lyft put cab companies out of business and then their prices skyrocketed?

Yes and No. Sears could have limped along for longer but the geriatric leadership they brought in made a bunch of stunningly bad decisions. Sears built their business on catalogs and shipping direct to consumers. With their huge distribution network, trusted name, and network of stores they could have embraced a hybrid model and been on the cutting edge of e-commerce but the geriatric fucks they put in charge doubled down on the retail model they had always known but with shittier service.

One of the reasons they have so much money is the financial trickery that private equity employs

Pretty much nothing in “the economy” works like it does in theory. It’s always way more complex so the people with the most power and money can squeeze more exploitation out of it. I really like how this guy explains it

https://www.facebook.com/reel/976701137942045

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1LcJjd6Wosw

He’s got a whole series on Private Equity

the big secret is that Democrats and Republicans are both on the political right and the mainstream media is owned by billionaires.

Then they came for Blöthar the Berserker

and I did not speak out

because I was not Gwar

Didn’t Jesus walk the holy land convincing god’s chosen people to break their covenant with god? Sounds like Jesus was the Anti-Christ