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I mean, using the GDP as a metric for the economy is usually fine, just right now that it's failing really badly. It's a very good number telling how well business is doing. It's highly correlated with a number of different other metrics such as poverty, job losses, etc. It's understandable...

That's definitely the case right now. Right now, the GDP is doing great, but people are suffering. One of the main drivers of this, IMO, is inflation. The people that benefit from inflation are the "middle class", defined as far as this post is concerned as those with a significant mortgage...

... Inflation is literally how the cost of living is tracked. That's literally how inflation is calculated. Do you not know what inflation is? They literally come up with a basket of goods based on what people buy (including housing), then track the price of that basket of goods. And I mean...

It absolutely hasn't. This is simply a wrong take. US median real (i.e. inflation adjusted) income rose a huge amount since the 60s. Taxes were also drastically reduced, so that more people get more of their money. The 60s was actually a time of drastically unfucking our economy from the...

Again, your conclusion was correct. The issue is with how you got there. That 'glorified slave labor'? That will help the economy a lot. It's free labor practically, how could it not help the economy? Also, commies have traditionally opposed immigration on the basis of losing power of the...

This point is based on commie logic. Economics is not a zero sum game, I don't know how many times this needs to be yelled. Elon Musk is an immigrant, and he has improved America. Not because he stole Good? Fuck those countries, I want all the Musks in America. Quite simply, you made a really...

The old weird question of who is asian (with a side of who is hispanic, and who is black). These are actually hard questions according to the US government. For example, the US does the following: Egyptians aren't black, even though when it's called African American, you'd think they'd qualify...

No, I never should have expected you to be an honest person. Thanks for admitting it. I am shocked you consider honesty to be a fringe view though. See above, where you constantly deride things like debating honestly, or owning statements you said before. That sorta truth. Anyway, on relevant...

I said it's vanishingly rare for a judge to not accept stuff. There has to be something crazy wrong for that to happen, not just a side being stupid on purpose. Imprecision? Try basic facts of how the US justice system works. There are two sides to every case. The judge is never one of those...

Literally no they wouldn't. You don't understand what a judge can and can't do. But then you don't seem to understand anything. In short, I'm Why I feel good about myself right now: I'm arguing with a clown. > Be Marduk, claim to know about the US legal system > Think that a settlement means...

Both parties are those suing and those being sued, not the judge. The judge saying "No" to a settlement is incredibly rare. It's rarer than them refusing a plea bargain, and that's very rare also. See, this is common knowledge to people who actually know the bare basics of the US justice...

You. You are the reason, as you keep citing irrelevant things thinking it proves stuff. Literally I could match your arguments by citing Dr Suess, it's about as relevant. Here's a great example: Guess what? That's not a judge's fault AGAIN! That's Biden (the executive branch) fucking people...

This whole conversation began because you accused the courts and legislatures of doing the problem. That's exactly what I objected to. It's not a technicality. It's an important point of how to fix the problem. Spoiler alert: the US and Europe are different. I read Supreme Court opinions for...

Wow, none of that was at all relevant to the problem at hand. No relevant laws got passed by Obama. In fact, he kept failing at immigration laws. He got one rule change (DACA, basically Dream but a rule not a law), DACA isn't really relevant to the problem of the mass migration, and Obama did...

Yes. But that's not because of any reinterpretation of a law. It's that a system is being tested by an out of context problem. Please don't opine on US law, you keep shouting how little of it you know every time you do so. It would be like me shouting about Polish law. The LIRS literally works...

Again, you don't seem to understand US law at all. Them being taken at their word for the first hearing is a standard process for all civil litigation. Random claims of 'Human Rights' don't even matter in the US legal system either, you need to be explicit about where a right comes from the...

In the US, the law wasn't reinterpreted. The same interpretation was used in the US, but it was designed for people to use it honestly. And for decades it worked, and was a huge help in defeating the USSR. We definitely want legitimate asylum seekers from communist countries who will grow up to...

Let's compare a chess tournament to a chess cash game (like you'd see on the street). In a tournament, the first so many places earn cash, everyone else earns nothing. In a chess cash game, you gamble, either earning the bet amount or losing it. Both of these have limited resources, but only...

It's still not zero sum. First, because an economy has production. When stuff is produced/made, the total amount of wealth in the world goes up. Quite simply, the pie grows. We know this because world GDP is positive. If it was truly a zero sum game, the world GDP would have to be zero. Second...

This shows more problems with your claims of deep knowledge of economics. A fundamental problem is vastly different than a Fundamental Theorem. Patterns is basically what math studies. But no one says "Patterns are a fundamental theorem of Math". No, we say stuff like "Every integer greater than...