As much as I hate to use this term because of the most prominent person associated with it:
This literally is an infowar, this is an actual psyop.
Targetted and fairly convincing mis and disinformation deployed at exactly the moment it would generate the most chaos and distrust in your own ability to evaluate reality?
Yeah. Yeah.
Thats a psyop, that is what an actual psyop is.
This also means that home prices, their actual prices, have to go down, if they actually want to sell.
But, the market could remain half frozen, as it roughly has been for a while.
I saw another report, I wouldn't be able to post it as a news article because it isn't a news article... basically, in the last month, something like 50% of houses that get pulled off market (delisted) are being pulled off by incredulous boomers who can't believe that no one can afford to buy their house at the price that 'they think its worth'.
So... yeah, basically, the Boomers get to enjoy a housing crash right as its time for them to retire and downsize, after spending the last ~20 years making it near impossible for anyone currently under 40 to be able to afford a home.
Great work, thanks everyone.
Wave bye bye to your 'oh, we'll leave you the house' inheritance.
Yeah the uh... median new home buyer age is now like... 38.
It was 28, in the 1980s.
Almost all our cars and all our major manufacturers are awful, any American that knows anything about cars knows this.
Just overpriced, shittily constructed, designed to fail right after the warranty expires fucking 'luxury' garbage... Ford broke GM's previous all time record for how many recalls they've had to issue this year...
... and that was in July, with half the year to still go.
American manufacturing is fucking joke.
(Well, outside of firearms, we're still fairly good at that, what a surprise.)
I also would rather buy a Chinese car.
I guess Trump is actively trying to scare off Hyundai... hopefully Toyota and Honda stick around... also pre-emptive RIP to Nissan.
Broad tariffs are basically a sales tax with many extra steps and massive inefficiencies.
Sales taxes are of course, regressive, they disproportionately harm the poor.
Why would Ben Shapiro do this?
Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...
This is psycopathy?
Having actual competence in one's field?
Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.
EDIT:
Welp, I'm sure thats a good sign, lol.
Meanwhile, FEMA emergency disaster shelter funds are currently being redirected (by noted puppy executioner Kristi 'ICE Barbie' Noem) toward building the 'Alligator Alcatraz' concentration camp by the Trump regime.
Nope, not making that up.
They are literally building a concentration camp in the middle of a swamp, with a literal alligator infested moat, reasoning that the alligators will eat anyone who tries to escape.
They're doing this with the money that is supposed to go toward flood and hurricane shelters.
Yeah, why would anyone come to a discussion thread for relevant or useful information, to ask questions with helpful clarifications and answers?
Clearly it makes more sense to be an obstuse, smarmy asshole, that really helps the community seem welcoming and grow, makes everything seem jovial and friendly.
Its truly incredible.
Their response will just be to fold, to literally sell the farm, and also at the same time never even be cognizant of the fact that they got exactly what they voted for, that Trump repeatedly said he was going to do exactly this, that lefties screamed about Project 2025 and the resounding response was basically 'pff, he's just bluffing,' and then making up a fan fiction version of what Dear Leader will actually do.
They're just gonna revert back to the 'no one wants to work' mantra untill we just literally put our incarcerated prisoners to work in the fields, going full circle all the way back to slavery.
These idiots didn't even realize how dependant they were on so many massive subsidy programs untill they poofed out of existence, again, 100% in line with Trump's platform.
Has any nation in history fucking autolobotomized as hard and as fast as we have?
Literally the world's sole super power 20/30 years ago, and in a single generation we have destroyed ourselves in almost every way possible, short of just nuking ourselves.
Ok.
So, when people throw around the phrase 'rubber bullet'... it tends to conjure in most people's minds... a projectile, made of rubber, that is about the same size as a bullet.
They are not the same size as a bullet.
They are the same size as a grenade launcher round, between 30mm and 40mm, generally speaking.... which is about 3x to 5x the size of most actual bullets from a pistol or rifle, albeit not travelling as fast as either of those.
They also tend to have a metal inner core.
So its more like a slug round from an 8 to 4 gauge shotgun, with rubber coating, were you to roughly extrapolate existing shotgun gauge size/naming conventions:
Also, the actual usage manuals for these things state that... you are not to fire them directly at someone closer than approximately 200-400 feet, what you are supposed to do is fire them at the ground at a shallow angle, such that they bounce or ricochet upward at a shallow angle...
... because there is so much energy in one of these rounds that they need to be dissapated by that bounce, otherwise they are quite likely to cause serious injury or even kill someone.
That is to say, 'less than lethal' means 'potentially lethal' when used improperly, and cops routinely use them improperly all the time.
This cop who fired that round, at that range (under 200 feet, under the minimum safe distance for any kind of firing)... not only was he too close to safely fire the thing at all, it looks like he just fired it directly at her, between her knees and hip, without a bounce.
When cops say, when people say cops 'need better training', the technical details I have just outlined are part of that better training... which, in practice, they disregard all the time.
Similar wild deviations exist between manufacturer suggested usage guidelines for tasers, and how they are routinely, actually used by cops.
Another example of intentional bullshit perversion of proper use procedures is the cop 'at ease' stance, where elbows are bent and each hand is roughly up at each pectoral... this is a common, general 'idle' stance... and it often is used to obscure the view of chest mounted body cams.
In conclusion: Yes, this absolutely was an intentional attempt to murder or grievously injure a journalist, basically 2nd degree attempted murder if this was done by not-a-cop.
For those that don't get the joke here...
This is an iconic scene that is intentionally designed to portray a very, very boring lecture from a teacher, which none of the kids want to pay attention to, that they are right to percieve this as boredom-torture.
The motherfucking actual literal topic of the lecture is how the Smoot Hawley tariffs of the 1930s massively worsened the Great Depression.
... god, Damnit.
From the American POV:
Clear and accurate pricing for digital transactions in a hypercapitalist system?
... believe it or not, 'socialism', straight to the antifa terrorist gulag for you.
Christ I hate living here.