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I didn’t know idiocy was considered a mental illness.

Learn something new everyday.
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1 up, 3y
That sucks mine believes Biden did it
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imgflip's gonna have an allergic reaction when i say these words: price gouging
4 ups, 3y,
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Ya sure, cause the economy is so great and manufacturing is getting all their raw materials cheaper due to low gas and oil prices.
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"due to low gas and oil prices"

ahhh, if only shell and bp were actually suffering from inflation instead of just raising prices for no reason :)
0 ups, 3y,
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When you are a producer you get cheap gas, when you are an importer you pay more. It regardless of the greedy oil corporations. If they are gouging, Biden served up the excuse and cover on a silver platter.
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"If they are gouging, Biden served up the excuse and cover on a silver platter."

yes blame biden for the pipeline hackers and the ukraine bs. i don't like biden either, but i only blame him for the things he can control

the federal government now exists as an arm of the oil industry, so if they are behind the rising prices, it's only natural
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Why are they rising under more under Biden if Trump was the corrupt big business shill?
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'Why are they rising under more under Biden if Trump was the corrupt big business shill?"

why wouldn't they rise up? they're both the same
0 ups, 3y
So why the rise under Biden? You really think that Biden’s executive orders banning any new exploration, lease and exports helped the price?
1 up, 3y,
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Even after le grande tariff war with China Trumpie was having and this plague thing, the anti-faux Communist league is still complaining why our ready-to-fall-apart-in-two-months goods aren't stacked on the shelves so we can keep buying them for as cheap as they are worth,,,
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Oh no, I’m not anti faux Communist, I am anti-communist. Faux Communists are just dumb leftists. The quintessential useful idiots. Communism is a failure. Proven over and over again.
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And this portrays what? Your need to inject Trump into every conversation. Because you got nothing else except ….b…b..b..but Trump.
0 ups, 3y
Do I have to c/p what I said that you replied to 4 times again till what I said that you replied to finally sinks in? Or will scrolling up without being prompted suffice this time?

I'm not a Cult45er. He's your idol, not mine.
Don't like it? I'm totally cool with that.
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The National Debt is basically Santa Claus.
1 up, 3y
Just keep raising the debt limit and let the dollar cotinue to slowly weaken over time to help offset it,,,
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Your explanation makes literally no sense.
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case in point
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Don't you know inflation is a mysterious force of nature that only manifests itself when working people have too much money for their own good?

Don't you know profits grow on proffies in Profitland?

Right wing economics is basically praxeology on steroids.

I wonder where's Japan's lost decade and austerity bullshit? Ah yes, money is made up and it does what those with the most influence want it to do XD.

The neoliberal economics orthodoxy is literally a collective hallucination, empirical evidence shows their austerity policies are nothing but a con job to trickle up the sweat of the working class.

Even Ayn Rand knew the difference between her fantasies and real life, which is why she needs to use plot contrivances in Atlas Shrugged, like straight up Vibrani---I mean, sorry, rearden metal, or a secret enclave with all the resources needed for a small group of people to build a small civilization hidden from everybody else, in order for her objectivism fantasy world to even be possible.

A Green New Deal could make America less dependent on imported fossil fuels.

Besides, Trump prints trillions for a Covid Stimulus Pack that and it doesn't raise inflation? but doing that to renovate America's infrastructure warrants eternal discussions about the sex of the angels?

America is worse than a third world country with a Gucci belt, it's a straight up fluke XD
2 ups, 3y
Don't forget Trump's (aborted) infrastructure plan that was supposed to show Obama how it's done.
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The point of OP's cousing is having a childish, almost supernatural understanding of how inflation works.

Just like Echonservatives in this stream have a childish, almost supernatural understanding on how vaccines and viruses work.

I'm starting to see a pattern here...
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Oh you are so deep thinking. Op simply points out that under Biden we are paying more for everything. That this is directly relatable to Bidens decision and leadership is obvious. Please dispute that point and tell us how Biden has no control over our oil
Production and other factors that directly contribute. Your grand macro economic dissertation fails as do you.
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"Please dispute that point and tell us how Biden has no control over our oil
Production and other factors that directly contribute"

Thanks for proving my point even further.

Inflation is as easy as controlling prizes of products that disproportionately increase the inflation index, like oil, which is also controlled not just by prize control capping legislation, but also, like you said, production increases with Production Acts or any other executive power that presidents have to have positive material effects, and a more bread and butter approach, instead of convoluted politics to justify not doing your job as a president.

Or you know, you can also use that Production Act power to strengthen a properly done Green New Deal so you're less depending on oil, and labor and union protection laws to reduce business relocation overseas so, you know, don't depend on importing almost everything from sweatshop countries.

Like I said, a childish understanding of economics, inflation, and the real world.
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Yes everything has a macro connection, And communism and the green new bullsh*t would fix everything. No it won’t, as we can see it has exaggerated the problems. Just like leftist policies on crime. Before Biden everything was cheaper after Biden everything and I mean everything is more expensive. It’s that simple no matter how you try to deny it’s reality.
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So you don't know the difference between inflation and inflation index, and still think inflation is exclusively a President's responsibility, when it is only partially, his actual influence on inflation, already explained in the post you're nonsensically responding to.

Have a nice day.
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Very simply Biden reduced domestic production. When you produce you pay less and when you import you pay more. No need to deflect and obsfucate. Biden made the call and it’s hurting everyone who buys gas or uses petroleum products which is everyone.
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Everything you said there is completely and totally false.
I can only hope for your sake that that was by design, because it's just sad.
0 ups, 3y,
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Nope, all true. Even if you don’t want it to be and struggle with reality.
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You really have no clue how any of it works, do you?
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I don’t believe you know how it works. Explain to me how producers pay more than importers? Simple economics fails yoi cuz feelz get in the way I guess.
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Besides, you're still lying about leftist policies about crime.

Tell me one of those leftist policies and I'll tell you how little leftist they had.
Also, don't forget that laws and their actual enforcement, are two different things, remember: De iure is not the same as de facto.
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"Please try to keep it under 200 words if you can. I only got so much time for bullsh*#t theory from a commie."

There's a threshold of complexity that cannot be crossed, otherwise the essence is lost.

Again, calling everything left to Ronald Reagan "Bullsh^^ theory from a commie", isn't the ownage you might've led yourself to believe it is.

There's more to socialism than just "commie this, or commie that" bigly sad that you're kind of close to getting it.
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Well done for pointing out a lib policy that has the veneer of a leftist policy to the untrained eye, but what it only achieves is to maybe reduce some bureaucratic strain in the justice system (which an actual lefty solution for, is to stop underfunding public services because of literal inflation voodoo) and pressure on the prison/jail/bail system (again, don't be afraid of inflation voodoo and just properly fund the institutions that enforce the very laws that make for society to function).

Even further, is such a non leftist policy, it does nothing to actually address the causes of crime, it's little more than a Libbandaid that, btw, only makes cops' jobs harder, which in turn, primes police officers who get the brunt of it, for radicalization by white supremacist elements, which isn't something neither new, nor recent, as residents from Lynwood, amongst many many other places in America will tell you.

A lefty policy is socialist economic policies that address poverty at its source, labor exploitation, such as union protection, and printer going brrrrrr for the people whose labor and consumption demand makes modern life possible, since UBI and properly funded public institutions and offices are better than spending the same, or even more money, in giving it to a bunch of ghouls that use if to enrich themselves even more, instead of being able to afford not to fire people, and projecting their own laziness onto the people they betray after they bailed them out with their tax dollars.

Free your mind from Voodoo inflation economics of the neoliberal orthodoxy.
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These are progressive socialist policies. They are a huge failure as they promote crimes and criminality. Giving crack pipes to crackheads is another progressive policy.
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Lmao you're not defining what leftist is, no matter how hard you try and twist XD
0 ups, 3y
No leftist define insanity all by themselves. They don’t need anyones help.
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I gave you the leftist policies and you said they were liberal policies. No they weren’t, no bail policy, not prosecuting crimes or enhancements, one fool in New York said he wouldn’t prosecute resisting arrest. All these lead to emboldened criminals and they are progressive socialist policies. They are also failed policies.
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I've already explained why they're liberal,

Leftist policies is eliminating poverty so the vast majority of crimes aren't even conceived in the minds of people.

You can't decide what is and what is lefist.

You think China is Communist in more than just name and a few, key branding policies?
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China and Russia have both abandoned the failed Communist model and incorporated Commie capitalism that mimicks almost exactly Hitlers National Socialism of Corporations run by the government and suppression of independence of thought. Leftists eat that up and want to be just like that. Just ask Trudeau and the rest of the build back better globalists.
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"China and Russia have both abandoned the failed Communist model and incorporated Commie capitalism that mimicks almost exactly Hitlers National Socialism of Corporations run by the government and suppression of independence of thought. Leftists eat that up and want to be just like that. Just ask Trudeau and the rest of the build back better globalists."

"Commie Capitalism"

Yeah, you totally are not a complete poli science illiterate

You're literally a living "Communism is when capitalism" meme just by saying that.

The USSRR was state capitalism, companies run and owned by government bureaucrats and/or military officers, which gives the illusion of worker ownership when it is not, therefore, the USSR was only socialist in name, managing companies like a pseudo co-op where tho workers share profits, don't really own anything nor have any meaningful individual voice in controlling the means of production.

Nazi Germany was full blown neoliberal capitalist economy, and same as you purposely mistake the USSR's state capitalism with communism, you're also trying to purposely mistake State Capitalism, with both Communism and the Nazi War Economy, which was ran by very much privately owned and controlled companies, which were returning the nepotistic favors of Hitler's administration in the war effort by making engines for tanks instead of, say, farming tractors.

Part of those nepotistic favors in exchange for full support in a War Economy, was systematically busting independent leftist unions, replacing them with the German Labour Front.

He didn't controlled companies, what he controlled was unionization itself so companies could have more control over their workforce (as long as they remained racially and ideologically pure, and didn't get cartoonishly exploitative with Aryan workers, the German Labour Front is bad for conscience, but good for stonks like Franco's Sindicato Vertical)

"Suppression of independent thought"

Can you get more generic? suppression of independent thought is just a tactic used by every single dictatorship of every single ideological flavor.

National Socialism is neoliberal war economy.

The USSR is state capitalism.

The CCP is neoliberalism with selective state ownership and cherry picked nepotism, all of it carefully packaged with enough Marxist Aesthetics to get your brain panties in a twist.

Private companies collectively owned by employees, that's what socialism boils down to.
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"Name a successful socialist country that has companies owned by workers."

I'm not talking about countries in those Cold War terms buddy XD.

I'm talking about a country's legal free market framework.

I'm talking about companies like these

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1 CrŽdit Agricole Group France Banking / Credit Unions 103.58
2 Groupe Caisse D'Epargne France Banking / Credit Unions 58.54
3 Zen-Noh (National Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives) Japan Agriculture / Forestry 56.99
4 ConfŽdŽration Nationale du CrŽdit Mutuel France Banking / Credit Unions 56.69
5 Zenkyoren Japan Agriculture / Forestry 52.33
6 ReWe Group (Zentral-AktiengesellschaFU) Germany Consumer / Retail 49.6
7 E. Leclerc (S.C. Galec) France Consumer / Retail 48.3
8 Rabobank Group Netherlands Banking / Credit Unions 43
9 National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF) Korea Agriculture / Forestry 32.39
10 CHS Inc United States Agriculture / Forestry 32.17
11 DZ Bank Group Germany Banking / Credit Unions 30.76
12 Groupe Banques Populaires France Banking / Credit Unions 29.39
13 Eureko Netherlands Insurance 28.39
14 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company United States Insurance 26.42
15 Syst�me U France Consumer / Retail 24.95
16 Migros Switzerland Consumer / Retail 24.12
17 Mondragon Corporation Spain Workers / Industrial 23.34
18 Edeka Zentrale AG Germany Consumer / Retail 22.21
19 Groupama France Insurance 21.72
20 Covea France Agriculture / Forestry 17.74
21 Coop Swiss Switzerland Consumer / Retail 17.12
22 The Co-operative Group United Kingdom Consumer / Retail 15.25
23 Nationwide Building Society United Kingdom Banking / Credit Unions 14.88
24 RZB Austria Banking / Credit Unions 14.83
25 R+V Versicherung AG Germany Insurance 13.9
26 Royal Friesland Campina Netherlands Other 13.16
27 SOK Corporation Finland Consumer / Retail 12.41
28 VGZ-IZA-Trias Netherlands Health 12.3
29 BayWa Group Germany Agriculture / Forestry 12.24
30 Land O'Lakes United States Agriculture / Forestry 12.04

Those companies are only the top 30 most important Co-ops in the world.

Look at the number 17 XD.

What part of "I'm a Market Socialist" you still don't quite grasp?
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Name a successful socialist country that has companies owned by workers.
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Well, I can only suspect their point. I’m assuming it’s being filtered through an obvious strawman.

If the OP’s cousin is serious then yes, the OP is somewhat correct. If the OP thought the economy was thriving under Trump, then they are a hypocrite.
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How do read all that into a simple I was paying less for everything before. It’s that simple. Everything was cheaper before Biden.
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Because 2020 never happened...
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Drastically reducing domestic production didn’t happen in 2020. I know that was your favorite year but it’s 2022, catch up.
1 up, 3y,
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What country do you live in again?
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I’m from The land of the free and the home of the brave. Where are all your alts from?
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No you're not.
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Yup, I am from the Communist state of California. That’s still a state and not a territory. What Territory are you from?
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The trade war is just one of many causes of the current inflation we are going through. The pandemic is another, and Biden's policies also played a role. So yes, inflation would still be here if Biden wasn't president (or if Perdue or Loeffler won the Georgia senate runoff elections), but it wouldn't be as bad as it is now.
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Saying it would still be here but not as bad seems childish to me.

Unless you can come up with percentages, I must remain skeptical.

Otherwise, it just sounds like people are blaming Biden just for the sake of it.

As if that is the appropriate response for the overly-reactive reaction from the Left.

Doing something just because the OTHER side did, just leads to escalation. Escalation benefits no one.
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Is there any history of mental illness in your family? I have a cousin that says the record breaking inflation and empty shelves we are experiencing is the result of a great economy