US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked
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@pydsigner said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
There wouldn't be state laws banning city laws requiring businesses to accomodate bi/trans people in their restrooms if there weren't the city laws in the first place.
But why there were city laws there in the first place? According to your logic, it's because the population of transgender people is big enough to accomodate laws to them. Except there's about the same number of transgender people as there are murderers, yet we don't have special laws to make murderers' lives easier.
@Lorne-Kates said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
Speaking of Brexit, should I buy a bunch of GBP and cash them back to real money in a year? Or did the crumpet economy bounce back already?
The economy rebounded on day 2 IIRC.
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@Gąska if a trans person comes out as trans, they don't get locked up.
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@Gąska said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
there's about the same number of transgender people as there are murderers
[citation needed]
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@Jaloopa said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
@Gąska if a trans person comes out as trans, they don't get locked up.
Was it <abbr title=""I mean after WW2">ever different? Also, how is it related to the discussion?
@Jaloopa said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
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@Gąska said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
there's about the same number of transgender people as there are murderers
[citation needed]
OK, I lied. It's very hard to find concrete numbers - much less believable ones, so I gave up on that aspect - but from what I found, there are between 0.5 and 3 million people in USA who identify as transgender (not to be confused with transgender people). Whereas a rough estimate of number of murderers is (total reported murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases in the US = 15,000) * (years = 20) / (murders per person = 2) ~ 150,000. Both are quite bullshit numbers, but I must admit that trans-bullshit is significantly larger than kill-bullshit.
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@Lorne-Kates said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
Speaking of Brexit, should I buy a bunch of GBP and cash them back to real money in a year? Or did the crumpet economy bounce back already?
You're Canadian. You don't ever get to do that. Your exchange rate sucks everywhere but Zimbabwe.
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@Gąska said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
Except there's about the same number of transgender people as there are murderers, yet we don't have special laws to make murderers' lives easier.
Bad comparison. Murderers have huge amounts of laws specifically made for them.
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@anonymous234 said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
@Gąska said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
Except there's about the same number of transgender people as there are murderers, yet we don't have special laws to make murderers' lives easier.
Bad comparison. Murderers have huge amounts of laws specifically made for them.
But not to make their lives easier.
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@anonymous234 said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
Bad comparison. Murderers have huge amounts of laws specifically made for them.
Not for them. Against them.
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@Gąska said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
@anonymous234 said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
Bad comparison. Murderers have huge amounts of laws specifically made for them.
Not for them. Against them.
I don't know what you mean, veterans have tons of laws to help them
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@Lathun much less than trespassers, from what I heard on /r/the_donald
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@Lorne-Kates said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
Speaking of Brexit, should I buy a bunch of GBP and cash them back to real money in a year?
It's up to you to guess on this — currency speculation is master-grade capitalism, and very dog-eats-dog indeed as it really is a zero-sum game — but I'm guessing that things will get worse. We're starting to see the first hints in the economic data (especially the fast-reacting ones such as purchasing managers indices, etc.) that Brexit was at least a short term terrible idea, a Bad Ideas Thread special edition. There's a lot of other indicators that are slower to respond to shocks, but there are some truly ominous rumblings coming out on the government policy front; I'd guess that we'll see some major projects cancelled in the near to medium term, and that'll have major long-term repercussions in terms of reduced levels of effective economic stimulus. The cause? Merely negotiating Brexit itself will be another one of these major projects, in terms of the requirement on skilled civil servants to oversee it if nothing else, yet there's not much direct spend in the rest of the economy from the negotiation process; something's gotta give. In short, I really wouldn't expect things to get better, nor do I think there's the scope for the kinds of monetary shenanigans that would elevate the value of the pound for a whole year. That money has already been mostly spent.
If you want to speculate, do so; it's your privilege. But I think it's a horrible gamble with rotten odds; the US$ and CA$ are more likely to be better holdings. Provided no idiot president kicks off another not-properly-funded war…
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@Gąska said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
The economy rebounded on day 2 IIRC.
Yeah, but nothing's actually been done on Brexit yet. The real question is what effect it will have in the medium to long term after the Brits actually leave, to which the answer is "nobody knows or cares, because by then Brexit will have fallen out of the public discussion and it's not like we were ever going to be able to specifically pinpoint the exact benefit or damage attributable to Brexit anyway, so both sides will pretty much just make up whatever numbers they like."
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked:
The real question is
what effect it will have in the medium to long term afterif the Brits actually leaveFTFY