skells @skells@qoto.org

But even if we grant them that most charitable interpretation that the dog really did eat their homework. It's still their dog, which they created, when they lobbied for the gutting of the Glass-Steagall legislation in the late 1990s.

Some will argue that 2008 was an Unforeseeable Chain Reaction which Caught Everyone Off Guard.

I think this position is manifestly indefensible, and history will regard it as an arrogant and uninspired excuse.

Some accuse bankers of maintaining elite assassination squads to dispatch of politicians who dare to challenge them.

This is at best idle conjecture and at worst veiled racism, but one need not believe any of it to find private banking an unconscionable centralization of power.

Whether or not one man should enjoy so much power as a Long or a Jackson is a fair point of debate.

But a power far less discussed is the power to decide who is, and is not, worthy of credit. Who will be the great captain of industry and who will be the struggling businessman.

Both had their fights with Wall Street banks, with Jackson famously ending the charter of the Second Bank of the United States and ushering in a period of the US government not issuing any form of centralized paper currency - which lasted until the Civil War in 1863.

Though Long's program was diametrically opposed to that of Andrew Jackson, there are yet significant similarities between the two.

Both were highly popular, and have been called demagogues. Both fought for expanded suffrage and against monied aristocracy and monopolies.

If a potential employer attempts to make you take a pop psychology personality quiz it is not only the correct thing to do but also your duty to tell them to get fucked for one thousand years

Every time you personally allow something like this to happen to you you are letting the needle move further and further towards living in amazonpods

halo infinite jest

You must defend yourself from the constant and insidious psychological assault that is modern society no one will do it for you

remember: who controls the past, now controls the future. save things locally, the archives _will_ be corrupted.

Roman mosaic found beneath a vineyard in Verona, Italy
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@skells Its amazing, the other one not so much. How are your legs?