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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 17h

There's been an enormous one at the front here attached to a high window ledge and the wheelie bin below, two weeks now. I decided not to put out the bin because I didn't want to destroy it.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Or put more bluntly: "Please use public spending to help maintain our current profit margin". Hard-faced b'stards.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just did not understand. I thought perhaps the second iteration of 'word' was meant to be another word!

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, I'm here to tell illiterate simpletons like you that no matter how it is distributed (which was the very point I made) they are not a 'failure' by the GDP measure which was the measure put forward.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The thing is GDP is not actually divided per person, anywhere. It's a poor measure of national income and doesn't show where it is spent. Russia could use its resources better, but is not a 'failed economy'.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia also maintains a large military and its land area is nearly twice the size, yet it maintains a larger economy. It could use its labour resources better, but the point is it is hardly a 'failure'.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia's economy is about the size of Canada's (it's actually bigger) and they are also similarly large areas. So is Canada an economic failure? Carlson is wrong on the basic point, but Mogg's claim Russia's economy is a 'failure' is wrong.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know you do. It's why I responded. Glad you finally worked it out.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Obviously because your response was the one I wanted to address. It's not a hard thing to work out.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You got it nevertheless. As is normal on social media. No-one asked for yours either.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

BG music is unnecessary and overdone. I like things without it.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Since nothing is really ever revealed about people taken away like this, they could be abducted and murdered and who would know? It's madness. Maybe with all those millions of guns allegedly to 'stop the govt', it's time to form militias? Filming isn't stopping anything.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, the little dogs are always the bullies.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The stock market is not the driver of the economy. It is a parasitic element which exists because government sells bonds. And it's chief result is not money being spent, but saved.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This assumes private investment is the sole engine of the economy, but it is not. There are many reasons people don't spend, whether it is taxed or tax-free. In principle dividends are income.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Justice is supposed to be neutral, but they've taken to cranking up the plight of the victims to the point where it is the victims demanding blood. Everyone understand s the victim's loss and anger, but the justice system was set up to obviate mob justice.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet the boyfriend got life with possibility of parole. Killing her won't bring the victim back. And now she's getting 'life-saving care' in a hospital with a likely brain injury. Why? If they were adamant on executing her. The death penalty is the sign of a backward society.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've met a lot of people like you. Wanting it both ways,pretending to 'care about stuff' so long as it doesn't get in the way of all the things you just 'want'. Then when it's revealed acting tough with 'despise me if you want'. You're a fraud.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And all the buildings where these were housed! Now they're renting premises and even buildings they once owned. It's ridiculous.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Must be frustrating having to share important time with these half-witted clowns.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EU neoliberals doing what they do.. "Specifically, the countries want to spend more on defence and innovative businesses, and less on subsidising farmers and poorer regions, the Financial Times reported." nltimes.nl/2026/09/29/n...

nltimes.nl

Netherlands joins Germany in EU budget overhaul demands

The Netherlands and four other countries have joined Germany’s demand that the European Union cut “hundreds of billions” in planned spending, or they will not support the bloc’s next seven-year budget...

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To limit 'borrowing'? Make sure you explain that 'borrowing' is only misleading terminology.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

... or why it uses that terminology. My 'point of view' exactly explains how anything is purchased and invested in by such a government. You would need to grasp a number of facts for it to dawn on you. Your current misunderstandings prevent this.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is a money user, but also the issuer. That is the crucial difference. It doesn't need to 'earn' what it spends. It also doesn't 'borrow' what it can issue at will; be assured that every payment govt makes is made that way. You say 'borrow' because you don't understand that mechanism...

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also govt bidding against the private sector is an inflation risk. If they argue they have a self-imposed funding cap then the very mechanism proposed to temper private sector mayhem just evaporates. A non-private grid providing privatised energy with support/funds is privatisation consolidation.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You don't really know what you're talking about. The utterances 'find funds' and 'print money' in relation to govt is not coherent. Updating infrastructure, or any investment, is a real resources issue, not a financial one for govt. They are not a simple money user, they don't make 'profits'.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are many fronts. The one which has closed down the right to protest and pass on information is hers and the other people there. Everyone engaged in civil disobedience knows there's an arrest risk. As is happens no 'taxpayers paid for anything, but that's another discussion.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's probably very nice. I'm not knocking it, just saying it looks like a tart.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That looks like a pumpkin tart or something.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No, they're not using 'taxpayer dollars' but it's getting boring explaining why.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And what do you posit as her motivation?

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You might ask why it was really lost in the first place.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You need to identify an actual justifiably credible 'threat' before 'modelling' it.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This thread will turn out to be a nice circle jerk party for the centrist blockheads.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Making a wild assumption is not a valid position from which to then posit 'no evidence to the contrary'.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just initiate a job guarantee you neoliberal numpty. 'Matching' people to employers is just a silly idea paying employers to take on employees. Do a JG and they'll soon be competing for employees, as the economy develops. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Best thing we can offer young people is a job, not benefits, says chancellor

John Healey's speech comes ahead of next month's Budget, as he faces pressure to bring down government borrowing costs.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bastards. While rolling out the red carpet any time anyone whines about 'growing anti-Semitism on campuses'. Universities are very money-motivated now acting like businesses, which they are effectively.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the system makes it awkward. My brother is also a carer with a similar problem. He works minimum hours.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know where tax money comes from and I agree with your overall point. What I am saying is that the spending used for subsidising low wages (or spending for anything) is not 'tax money'. Tax is what the govt redeems, a portion of prior spending, to cancel it, to make way for new, targeted spending.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a simple way to raise wages. A job guarantee with a set 'living wage'. Which sets a wage floor. If the private sector wants to employ people from that pool it must match or better the wage. And there's no reason for anyone to accept a low wage when a JG offers a living wage.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A higher wage means you can earn the same or more working fewer hours.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pushing costs to the consumer is a business decision not inevitable. They choose it to maintain a particular profit margin. No 'taxpayers' subsidise anything, 'taxpayers' are not the source of govt spending. It is simply that public spending goes to subsidise business decisions.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And widely adopted by New Labour, who haven't gone away.

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Jacques Riverain @jacquesriverain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, plenty of Weider fixes during those early Arnold Olympias.

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