If a country owes in its own currency, it can inflate away the debt (pay all its bills with monopoly money). Lockdowns are the new tool to shut down protest over inflation (or anything else) If you owe in a currency you cant print....you might have to sell your infrastructure (oil, ports) On the oth...

You're right, but If the US military-industrial complex wants bases on the Chinese and Russian borders, then the Russian and Chinese MIC want bases in Canada and Mexico, to the extent that they can afford it. I want those fights on the other side of the world from my house. Slightly related, with th...

> There ought to be a civilized but firm way to just say no That would be mean. ie not the "woke" communist utopia we're heading for. ofc there was a plan for a pandemic and it had nothing to do with house arrest for healthy people. https://old.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/zltn...

Nothing is blank and white, and its an emergent phenomenon. Zuckerberg for example is heavily invested in the S&P and needs that to go up, despite that it might contain competitors.

https://ritholtz.com/2020/07/should-ind ... illegal-2/

Just as long as the fighting stays far away from me. Here's your pic btw

"There is one major problem though: more than 150 million people are eligible for a fall booster in the U.S. and have yet to get one." That's THEIR problem. Not mine or yours. Get your jabs and masks and protect yourself. edit1: oh she's one of those cheerleaders https://www.instagram.com/...

Oh is Dore is far right, flat-earth qAnon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldvDzQdIuY

https://www.youtube.com/@thejimmydoreshow/videos

Florida real estate has strong legal protections, and you can live in it. + No country/state seems more libertarian at the moment.

heh, Canadian state media just posted this, and are getting roasted "Increased heart failure linked to extreme hot and cold" https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1602418095431290883 I dunno, if you give billions of injections, and many hit a blood vessel, you'll have some problems https://ww...

Sounds quite conspiratorial and might undermine the reasonable (and abundant) anti-mandate arguments

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/23/die ... ew-peters/

Sorta related, a debate with Gladwell about trusting Leftist media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vkgROIINEs

Gov wont allow it to get popular. They want their seigniorage

34 page thread. OK I'm convinced, Putin is bad. Is he a bigger ideological threat to the American way of life than Communism? (which requires authoritarianism to "work") 2weeks-to-sufficiently-fund-hospitals.png ^ However, Sun Tzu: "A losing army with a gap to escape will be busy tryi...

Term limits
Ranked choice voting
Maybe random selection for certain positions, from qualified pools
No stock trading by congress or family

Unless that Central Planner is a nice guy. Who hustles M-F 9-5 for the public good, before enriching his family http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/396819-1/Current-reality-in-China.jpg http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/396817-1/Goalposts-moved-masks-for-RSV.png http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/396821-1/2018-pandem...

World's getting better by every metric. Except increasingly powerful tech in the hands of oligarchs...will they use it to benefit us or them https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/zgq64t/china_reveals_digital_yuan_with_expiry_date_where/ ofc your money will get shut off if you dont get your an...

Went to bed at 6am. But probly didnt stay in bed till 3 or 4 like me xD

> favorable to conservatives and libertarians

Oh no!

Mostly right. Relax zoning and drop rent control before asking the government to build housing. Remove unfair tax treatment. Also negative rates/financial repression forces savers into real estate and stocks. In China they could mostly only buy property. Now that real estate is imploding because of ...

AllAmerica and Redneck Bank: 4.00% APY Money Market, 4.25% Rewards Checking

https://www.mymoneyblog.com/allamerica- ... eview.html

Not trusting your own government opens a can of worms most people dont want to think about. Also, we have to pick a tribe, Red or Blue. No sports have three teams competing at once. We're not wired to want that. Our guys and bad guys. And the system works for most Americans. Home prices and 401ks go...

$200 eScooter via a Slickdeals alert. Try one, its the last mile solution ive needed for 20 years

The Regime is the global oligarchs, folks with 10+ million who buy politicians. Haves vs have-nots. No war but the class war. Who knows what Trump actually wants other than to be fawned over at rallies. Covid martial law happened on his watch, and he's still living like a king. Kabuki theater https:...