satanistgoblin
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satanistgoblin
9hr ago
If it's all China then it's none of America's business. Imagine if China stepped to protect Alaskan independence from the lower 48 - madness!
satanistgoblin
13hr ago
Official US position is that Taiwan is part of China, "One China policy".
satanistgoblin
14hr ago
OK, how does average US citizen benefit? I get that it looks good on some general's map.
What substantial benefits does US currently get from ruling over Puerto Rico, American Samoa and Guam? I would guess none.
Don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity/ineptitude.
That's terrible advice when there's lots of malice around (like there is now).
satanistgoblin
22hr ago
They have been also advancing leftist causes abroad, whether that benefits US is pretty dubiuos.
satanistgoblin
1d ago
Trump is putting higher tariffs on Canada than on China (25% vs 10%).
Tariffs on EU were also promised to come soon. Allegedly, EU doesn't import enough american agrocultural produce and cars.
Tariffs aren't Austrian economics, that's accursed mercantilism.
satanistgoblin
1d ago
That kind of shock value performance art is more of a leftwing thing.
I mean in the controversies he got in before, like, whether George Bush cares about black people or not, for example.
Kanye is definitely a weird guy, but that doesn't mean he's wrong about everything.
satanistgoblin
2d ago
fragility as our entire industrial base moves overseas
We can talk about industry being shipped to countries with lower wages and laxer environmental regulations, but none of that really applies to Canada.
Initial stock market crash was in 1929 but it didn't have to cause such a long term disaster by itself.
Cost cutting would involve actually cutting defense spending which they're not going to do. This is pure misplaced populist resentment. Folks intuitively know they're getting screwed by Millitary Industrial Complex but they don't want to be seen as pinko pacifists so they resent Canada or Belgium, or whomever, instead of Lockheed/Boeing lobbyists.
That's Juche.
Economic self-sufficiency (자립; jarip) is required to achieve political independence, according to adherents of Juche.
In On the Juche Idea, Kim Jong Il argues that a state can achieve economic self-sufficiency only when it has created an "independent national economy" based on heavy industry, as this sector will drive the rest of the economy. He also emphasizes the importance of technological independence and self-sufficiency in resources.
Jacking up the tariffs in 1930 likely caused the Great depression. Other countries retaliated, international trade slowed down, companies reliant on exports for large part of revenue started losing money, market panicked, which led to more interventions in the economy, so on and on...
Wasn't the original point of bitcoin not to require financial intermediaries?
Of course majority of them don't, but that doesn't mean that it was worthwhile to let them in. African immigrants are a net drag on public resources in general.
Rwandans.
Literally the only thing that country is known for is hacking each other with machetes.
I don't think that's worth the possibility of going to prison though.
satanistgoblin
9d ago
Also, when covid started to spread you officially were a weirdo for being concerned. Pelosi told people to go to Chinatown and hug an asian.
satanistgoblin
9d ago
In Britain you can get fired AND get arrested/fined, in US only get fired (except in case of specific actionable threats).
Chilling effects apply in UK too, obviously. Major point of these laws is to get people to shut up.
I am not claiming any particular conspiracy. I am disputing the general principle.
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