Greenleaf

This might be sincere, but as someone who worked in M&A in a past life, it’s pretty standard to say “I’m not interested in selling” to bluff the price up a bit.

Is this due to concerns about West Africans actually taking control of production within their borders?

This is entirely anecdotal, but a large part of my social circle leans conservative. Almost all of them vote GOP. And I don’t a single person under 40 who is supportive of Israel (not the same as pro-Palestine, but still); or for that matter, really want the see the pigs crack down on protestors (with one exception but that guy is hardcore tradcath who is deeply unwell). The over-50 crowd though, they are all in on support for Israel and would love to see another Kent State, by and large.

This guy (the American prof) actually has a video on YouTube of him giving a speech titled “The Case for Colonialism”.

Google Translate says Ukraine is also “Ukraine” in German, but I don’t see that on here. Am I missing it? I would think German involvement in Ukraine is getting more unpopular every day.

Reference to the fact that he and his son are “accountability partners” w/r/t looking at porn on their phones. I think they have an app that notifies the other if they look at porn on their phone.

I’m sure he was immediately surrounded by at least 50 pigs.

I called it (as did pretty much everyone on this site) back in 2020: the next major global pandemic is gonna come from a factory farm in the US. And everyone who wanted to blame China for COVID won’t say a peep about how their American carnist lifestyle is what made it happen.

I hope they refuse but honestly, just making TikTok difficult to access will be enough to kill it over time in the US. Maybe half the current users won’t even bother, and the rate new users will be coming in will slow down too because a lot of people who would have just downloaded TikTok with the push of a button won’t go through the hassle. And these social media apps need a constant inflow of new users.

I feel like American leftists have this notion that everyone in Ivy League schools are nepo babies from rich families. I mean, that’s definitely part of the reality. But there’s also a lot of relatively normal people who are just smart or good at sports and kinda smart.

I know one Ivy League grad and he’s just a pretty normal guy.

A minor criticism, but it seems the CPC views the CPUSA as the legitimate party of communism in the US :/

Notice how there’s no medians or dispersals of those gains in wealth among millennials in the data afaik. If that’s not included, then it’s intentional. Because I presume the data will show a small percent of millennials (say the top 10% or so) account for all the gains. If I can find the underlying data I’ll try and dig into it.

Edit: ok, I think I’ve found their secret sauce. First of all, look at their banner stat:

the average wealth of households under 40 was $259,000 in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2023, marking a 49 percent increase since the fourth quarter of 2019

Keep that $259k number in mind. Because that sounds crazy, right? The average under-40 year old adult has a quarter million in net worth?

They do get around to mentioning medians in an appendix:

Median inflation-adjusted wealth for households under 35 grew from $16,000 to $39,000—a 140 percent increase—from 2019 to 2022.

It’s not the same data set but holy moly, the average is over 6.5x higher than the median?! Ok fine, even the median has grown significantly. But the fact that there’s such a huge difference in median and average should raise alarm bells. That’s an unreal difference. They’re highlighting the growth in wealth while ignoring how the total wealth itself is split - because when an average is that much higher than a median, that means there’s a small number of people at the high end that are skewing the data to an incredible degree. “Hey, you poors, you technically grew what little you have, you should be happy. Just ignore the fact that the richest 1% of millennials hold all that generational wealth”.

And further, adjusting for inflation is not a precise science. You can incorporate some government approved inflation statistic and say you adjusted for inflation, but that doesn’t mean you actually incorporated inflation correctly. An easy way to play with the numbers. Also, net worth is an easily-manipulated number because it doesn’t really have a firm definition. Just because you’ve paid a little equity into a mortgage doesn’t mean you can realize that equity, especially in a declining real estate market.

Edit 2: They are counting estimated market price of a home versus mortgage paid as “net worth”. Which, fine, ok… but in real terms what they means is if you bought a house a couple years ago the market value of the house has gone up, but good luck selling that house and buying an equivalent. They’re not considering equity paid (a better indicator of actual wealth). They’re saying if you bought a house during the pandemic, the fact that the house is worth more is proof you are wealthier. This is 100% Democrat “happy days are here again” propaganda.

Edit 3: I need to make an addendum to Edit 2. Counting “market value minus mortgage” as a measure of net worth is 100% phony. Let’s say you bought a $400,000 house 2 years ago that’s now worth $500,000. These ass clowns are saying your net worth goes from $0 to $100,000 - Praise Be to Biden! But the only way to realize that net worth is to sell your house. And if you’re a millennial, that means you have to buy a house to replace it… and the equivalent house now costs $500k! So in order to keep your mortgage payment the same assuming the same interest rates, you have to give up that $100k, and your net worth falls from $100k down to zero. And the study cites house value as the largest driver of net worth growth. Total bs propaganda.