Blue Maga. That’s a new one to me, makes total sense. I am gonna use that now lol.

Yeah, they said all the cities looked ugly with parking lots so they just “pretend all parking is underground” and igore the costs/upkeep with something like that.

Something something China’s plan is just to wait for the USA to collapse something something.

All good comrade, it’s so hard to tell online haha. I figured it could have been (mostly) a joke.

I might peddle for donations once I work up the courage. Until then it’s on my mom’s credit card lol.

Absolutely no disrespect intended because anyone doing work like this is my comrade, but is this a joke?

I’d be cautious of trusting that things last a long time on here if the above quote is real.

Otherwise, if needed, I’m sure someone on here (unfortunettely not me atm, I don’t have the time, but in the future for sure, yes) could help with costs and maintenance.

Ehhhhh, kinda.

Some credit card companies make their information more public.

Almost all across the board take on-time payment history as their largest contributing factor of the credit score, 35% according to my report. This means that any missed payments on anything will dramatically reduce your credit score. These hits on your score last, I believe, five years.

Next, at 30%, is only utilizing a small amount of your total credit. Now in such a case, you can get a very low amount of credit and use very little of it. This is fine. But if you’re going to use your credit card for actual things, which takes advantage of getting points and bonuses and yada yada, then you need a lot of credit. As someone with a $15,000 limit on one credit card, I am able to keep my credit usage by percentage very low.

Next, add only 15% of your credit score, which is still big, but not as big as the others, is credit age. 0-2 years is only the starting place. Your credit age is average between three and seven years and it only becomes good when it’s over seven years. You can only achieve an excellent in this category with 25 or more years of continuous credit usage. This is by far the absolute hardest part of your credit score to increase. The best way to have a good credit score at a young age like in your 20s is if your parents opened one with you and put you on their good credit score when you were in your teens. This can be very dangerous for people who don’t have enough money to pay off their card every month and can spiral you into debt really fast.

Having $50,000 or more in credit limit is optimal for the highest credit scores. Considering they do income checks when you apply for a credit card, you absolutely will not have a high credit limit on any one card unless you make a lot of money.

Next and the smallest amount of effect on your credit score is new accounts and recent inquieries. This means you can’t go get a bunch of new credit cards all at once, or else your credit score will tank. And if you buy two cars and a house in one year, you should wait a good three years before applying for anything else, less you hit your credit score.

Sorry for the brain dump. I had experience with this as a liberal and learned a lot about it. Just the high credit limit, old credit age, and low utilization requirements, means that basically anybody who is poor is going to have a hard time getting high credit.

Mistakes at least do go off your credit history. I actually had defaulted on a loan when I was younger and really fucked things up and my credit score was garbage. But now it is routinely over 800 when I check it, and it’s been over 850 when companies have checked it. I got my morgage at 2.4%… Good credit is cheap to maintain once you have some money… But not impossible if you have less. Just really hard.

Yogthos answer is great, To add more context, and be a bit more negative… the credit score effectively incentivises spending a lot of money and taking out a lot of loans, and by taking out a lot of money and by paying them off, you get better credit, which means only the people who can take on big loans and pay them off get better credit. Basically only rich people have good credit, which means basically only rich people can buy houses and cars and things like that. It perpetuates a cycle for the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor.

Remember, in America, houses are an investment. You can use them to collect rent and, in general, line should go up, so your investment will gain in value over time on average.

I am a totally real person who actually has bought land in China and knows that the government is extremely authoritarian.

And it’s against the rules to lie in the internet and you can trust everyone for what they say… Certainly there isn’t any evidence of people lying on the internet…

Thick skulls indeed…

Go spread your fake conspiracy theory somewhere else, you fucking fascist. People here aren’t gonna buy your bullshit lies.

You don’t own the land underneath your feet in America, But in China, at least the land is owned collectively.

Oh, that’s right. In actuality, the government doesn’t own the land in China. The people do. The government just manages it for the people. So, in essence, every single person in China actually owns a part of the land they stand on. How interesting. Socialism is a very interesting system, isn’t it? And considering 94% of people own a home in China, I think their reputation for land ownership is significantly outpacing the United States reputation for land ownership.

But as a totally real person who actually bought land in China, you already know these facts, don’t you?

If americans own their land, what are taxes for?

Ahhh americans, can’t get through their thick skulls.

I am disappointed that China is still behind in this regard. I don’t think anybody gets punished for it or anything. I think it’s just a cultural thing. But still.

The two previous top comments of this thread are contravorsial, so I’d just like to say that I thought this comic was very funny :D made me laugh.

Trudeau looks like he’s posting for a picture and he’s totally holding it the wrong way, but at least that’s kind of meh.

But is sunak like mid flipping the hammer around? How stupid can you be? This is Patrick Star level of dumb.

This is a fantastic resource comrade. Thank you. Off the top of your head, do you know of a place I can find more textbooks or classroom-like material from communist countries available in the US? Either in print or digital?

That’s because you’re a nobody.

I know this guy’s already been banned and he can’t respond to this, but I just had to fucking say it.

What liberals don’t get is that you’re only allowed to exist and argue against the state if you are effectively not a real threat.

They don’t have to kill anybody in the CPUSA because they aren’t a very effective group at making political change (right now), but the Black Panthers? Well, that was a different story…

A regular old citizen of Germany was arrested for posting on a social media post “from the river to the sea”, They didn’t even have to finish it. That was the only thing they said. Capitalist states disappear people all the time, It just depends on how fascist they are. And Germany is pretty fascist right now. The United States is in fact trying to destroy TikTok for its freedom of speech (I’m sure for other reasons too, as they probably just want an American bourgeois to make money off of it.).

This weak ass liberal may not be reading anything, but I am eating up all these sources. Thank you, everyone. Also, God damn it, now I have hours more of reading any to do. At least I’ve covered some of these topics before, so some of them might be review.

I think others have covered it well, but I hope you know that you don’t have to suffer for the cause. I have private health insurance, because fuck the system, but in the meantime I and my family don’t need to suffer.

Shoot, I don’t have it offhand but you should send the Ben Norton video back, where he talked about how China is letting their property sector fail in order to shift their economy to being focused on green energy and tech.

As well, he mentions how morally corrupt it is to use property as an investment and how shifting where your investments are is actually a better idea.

As a communist, I gravitate like a moth to the light towards any anti-capitalist news media. So thank you for posting that this was fake, because I also like to believe real things, and it’s frustrating with stuff like this happens.

On the other hand, it is also frustrating that capitalist news media takes these stories and runs with it without doing any research whatsoever.

How many times has an “onion” story been reported on by some news media?

Okay, unrelated but I gotta ask because it’s the first time I’ve seen this. What’s up with the hammer and sickle hamburger? Lol.

Yeah, this was a quick and dirty thought, but effectively that’s exactly what I mean. An application built from scratch today using modern high-level programming libraries will take more RAM and more CPU to do the same thing than an app written in 2005 does, generally speaking.

Of course, for those people who still write C, C++, or choose to write Rust or Go, or some of the other low-level languages, or even Java, but without major frameworks, can still achieve the type of performance an app written in 2005 could. But for people coming out of college and/or code schools nowadays, you just reach for a big fat framework like spring or use a high level language like JavaScript or Python or Ruby with big frameworks, and your application will by default use more resources.

Though the application might still be fast enough, I’m not even saying that an application written in Python will be slow, but I will say that an application written in Python will by default use about 10x more CPU in RAM than a similar application written in Rust. I mean, maybe the application only uses 10 megabytes of RAM. When the equivalent efficient application would use 1 megabyte of RAM, both of those are very efficient and very fast and would be just fine. But when the difference is between 10 gigabytes of RAM and 1 gigabyte of RAM, yeah, at that point in time, you’re pretty much just taking advantage of RAM being cheap.

And it’s not even necessarily a bad thing that we do this. There’s just a balance to be had. It’s okay to write in higher level language if it means you can get some stuff done faster. But major applications nowadays choose to ship an entire browser to be the base layer of their Application. Just because it’s more convenient to write cross-platform code that way. That’s too much and there’s already a lot of work going towards fixing this problem as well. We’re just sort of seeing the worst of it right now.