Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Pahllus Maximus]

The biggest con is that like quark Pauli exclusion, when a job is eliminated another is instantly created of equal or better pay. Statistically though, even if we could raise IQ by say 20 points thanks a magic wand, and train people to build / service machines or program, there are still way too many bodies versus demand for bodies, and that does not factor whether a "job" has a living paycheck as distinct to precarious hours and income, and of those, the income is not enough. We have arranged our society on the assumption the 1960's employment model and need for labour, a model that is fast disappearing. Result: surplus humans useless for military fodder, have no money to pay tax and vote irrationally against self interest.

All besides the point. The point is a means of storing wealth to give to young women to enjoy their youth, beauty and sex. I agree with Pistons the USD is on borrowed time, and doubt the HKD will be able to or want to keep the peg. If China or Russia (read Syria and Iran) start pricing fossil fuels in a new currency, as they will, it will be game over, and with it the citadel of London and New York finding their loan book smashed. Most people I know in banking keep a major stash of wealth in stuff that has static demand, specific luxury land, artworks, precious metals and highly diversified companies with low correlation with accounting tricks or finance games. These are like unicorns. I very much doubt we will be mining asteroids unless we come across alien technology that has anti-gravity, space-time folding and other magic. So gold and silver should be pretty safe, but only actual physical gold, not bits of paper.

As to the point: fiat cash is a mind game. That's true. Offers gorilla a $100 note for some bananas. But so too is almost all of society and laws, just shared myths and symbols we have see throughout history. But for 2021, my read is that housing is mostly casino chips owned by capital markets via mortgages that depends on working stiff to sell labor in this thing called employment that is fast fading, and vast sections of the economy are linked to. Just look at Flint Michigan, Detroit and many UK cities and ex Soviet cities that went from middle class to rusted hulks in less than 50 years. The stock market is a QE driven gas bubble with very few fundamentals in the immediate or medium term.

Hard choices here. We need portable wealth to get no-obligation hot young women. Ideas?

[Mursenary]

I'm FAR from a Trump fanboy, but if this had been a BLM / Antifa protest then the entire Capitol would have been burned to the ground, just like they burned entire neighborhoods to the ground.

What neighborhood of which city was burned down?

[Rocky V]

Many unproven drama point about nothing. They had knives and guns? Really? How many people got killed? The only people that got killed were non-violent protestors shot by police, just like George Floyd by the way. They broke windows? Hahahaha! The richest country in the world can't replace a few broken windows?

5 killed, including a policeman.

I'm FAR from a Trump fanboy, but if this had been a BLM / Antifa protest then the entire Capitol would have been burned to the ground, just like they burned entire neighborhoods to the ground.

Small detail, this HAS NOT HAPPENED YET! Trumtards are so desperate for defending other trumptards that they are forced to compare Capitol riots with events that have never happened yet. What a coward whiny ***** must one be to get to this point?

A friend of mine has been to New York during the BLM protests there, in the entire city all shops were boarded up with plywood and all shops closed because of the arson attacks and the looting. How many businesses are closed and boarded up in DC because of a handful of pro-Trump clowns? How many DC shops were looted by Trump supporters? How many DC businesses and buildings were burned to the ground? How may DC police stations were attacked by violent mobs? Answer: none!

Except for the most important building in the US and looting important mails, laptops and documents.

[Pistons]

It has nothing to do with Asia. The same mechanics were there as far back as to the Phonecians (who I believe came from Atlantis), and even further back in history.

Economists don't fuck it up. The central bankers and the economic regulators are just put on an impossible task at controlling a system that is mathematically impossible to control. And so they keep exporting different types of inflation from one part of the global economy to another. And there are no places to store wealth. Not gold, not bitcoin, not housing, not fresh water. It is all just a mind game. We can mine an asteroid in the asteroid belt and the price of gold would become as cheap as sand. We can come up with a better type of blockchain currency, and bitcoin would be worth nothing. Or we can make everything bought with bitcoins worth 0 due to nano factories or foglites. Sure we are not there yet, but the road is basically paved if you follow recent darpa progress.

[Pistons]

I agree with 70% of what Phallus (Takedown) says about economy, and disagree with 30%.

Lets rather put it this way:

1. Outsourcing / automation is a side function of capitalism.

2. Karl Marx ultimate idea that capitalism leads to Marxism is 100% valid. Most people just love to misread him, and listen to other people who has misread him. We are just not at that ultimate stage yet in the evolution of society.

3. Politicians suck at understanding society, and usually blame the result instead of the cause.

4. A new type of Luddites (not neo-ludites as that term has been hijacked for the wrong reasons) believe labor are giving them power.

5. Capitalism in and of itself leads to crashes, and we are now maximum 4 years away from the collapse of the dollar.

5. 1 Helicopter money / basic income is the only thing that can postpone the collapse. And avoid riots like BLM and QAnon, both of which are results of the coming economic collapse of the dollar, and not the claimed political crap they write on their banners.

5. 2 Blockchain currencies coupled with basic income and less working hours is the new norm after the collapse of the fiat currencies. With tax on money itself, and all types of properties / goods through blockchains.

5. 3 Information technology has made all of this possible. Otherwise it is just a historically cyclical way of how money and capitalism work. But the paradigm change with IT leads to global Marxism.

6. The rise of AI and robotics and investments in these fields will leave labor costs moving towards lim 0. And the same can be said regarding energy. So a few decades later money will also disappear for good.

[Turgid]

The core issue is that labor has been devalued by automation....

I would suggest that that statement be altered to read: ¨some aspects of manual labor have been devalued by automation¨. There are not enough people to fill jobs requiring expertise in the fields of technology, computers, medicine, teaching, etc. Also the very nature of the field of automation requires manual workers to construct, maintain and repair machines. There are actually more jobs than there are people to fill them. The problem is that not enough people are educated to the level required to fill those vacancies. It would serve the Trump supporters better to educate themselves and seek employment. In any event if they were educated they would not support Trump. Trump appeals to the ignorant.

[Rocky V]

The question is rather why you are trying to deflect from the riots, murders and murder attempts caused by your fellow libtards like antifa and blm.

The violence has been escalated by left-wing extremists and the rhetoric of liberals, liberal media and liberal politicians.

If I was you I would look up the meaning of deflecting in relation to my post. When Biden supporters will break into the Capitol with the intention of vandalizing everything and take hostages, then we can talk about comparisons. I'm sorry your life sucks, but it is nobody's fault and, to billionaire people like Trump, you are just pure entertainment! Trump said he was going to March with those people down to the Capitol. Have you seen it marching with those people at all?

[Sirioja]

Now, seem more than 40.000 deaths in Germany really suffering under second wave, with more and more cases and cold weather. Not good for FKK in Germany. Let s see about Switzerland where few clubs are still open.

[HammerTime96]

Why is it so difficult for Trumptards to condemn the riots in Capitol? They always point out that people were fancy-dressing and waving flags, so they could not have possibly been dangerous! They seem to forget though that:

1) many of them were armed with knives and pistols.

2) they had electrical cable ties, probably not for some electrical repair, I suppose!

3) they trashed congressmen offices and they stole documents.

4) they were wearing white supremacist shirts and symbols.

5) there was a van with pipe bombs and molotovs parked nearby.

6) they broke windows and stole lecterns.

But it is obviously the liberals' fault. Trumtards commentators even had the courage to say that the rioters were Antifa members dressed as Trump supporters. Can you imagine a higher level of cowardice?

Many unproven drama point about nothing. They had knives and guns? Really? How many people got killed? The only people that got killed were non-violent protestors shot by police, just like George Floyd by the way. They broke windows? Hahahaha! The richest country in the world can't replace a few broken windows?

I'm FAR from a Trump fanboy, but if this had been a BLM / Antifa protest then the entire Capitol would have been burned to the ground, just like they burned entire neighborhoods to the ground. The most serious thing these Trump protestors did was trespassing and break a handful of windows.

A friend of mine has been to New York during the BLM protests there, in the entire city all shops were boarded up with plywood and all shops closed because of the arson attacks and the looting. How many businesses are closed and boarded up in DC because of a handful of pro-Trump clowns? How many DC shops were looted by Trump supporters? How many DC businesses and buildings were burned to the ground? How may DC police stations were attacked by violent mobs? Answer: none!

Again, the 'comparison' you make couldn't be further from being objective, but I suppose you just repeat the media narrative without thinking and looking at facts.

[ExpatLover]

I think US was in better health with more peace when Obama finished than what made Trump. A shameful racist can't lead a country with so many blacks, Latinas, Asians. I wish he can't be re elected, he is too dangerous, even making twitos banning one the highest ranked profile. Of course, we have many problems in France, but I think our government is one of those who help the most citizens under covid crisis, even I keep on taking risks to make and save my job, outside, checking before my guys work, much more complicated since March, but I would lose too much money if I waited at home close to heater to be paid by government, bad guy but with balls to deserve my money made and paying so big tax since so long time, I remember my mother who told me: are you sure there is no mistake, about my tax.

Great to see that you are still very active and doing your best, I didn't had the same energy and positive mindset that it is why I left France several decades back and most of my friends or family members regret not having done the same. Yes the French government is the most generous for the covid support but at the end who will pay? The French tax payers. Just published yesterday the criminal statistics from the gendarmerie, mostly rural areas: +10% in 1 year, you and me we perfectly know who are the people doing illegal acts, where they come from. Obama has solved 0 problem, Trump added more problems, Biden will solve nothing like Macron or Merkel.

[Mr Ho]

Sorry we don't know if the vaccine is still efficient against the different variants (including the UK one) that will pop up in the coming months, because most of the info are strictly controlled about that subject if there is any doubt the people will not get vaccinated. The name vaccine is also not correct in fact it is a RNA gene therapy put also this will afraid the people so let it name vaccine. The time will tell us if the vaccine is efficient and what are or not the side effects.

I am ok because I have been vaccinated every single past 17 years by drinking pussy juice of so many different girls that my immune got so strong LOL! Pussy juices are the best vaccines against virus LOL!

[Pahllus Maximus]

The core issue is that labor has been devalued by automation, efficiency and productivity and offshoring for about 30-40 years. Selling labor is hard, very little pricing power because more people than properly paid jobs. This is on a collision course with lifestyle expectations and ability to afford housing and food. More can be said about wealth bubbling up to Wall Street that can borrow at 0. 25% and lend for 3% on mortgages (1200% gross margin) and credit cards at say 18% (7200% gross margin). Even if 25% per year is lost by bad debt it is still absurdly profitable and they have turned housing into casino chips.

The Trump supporters want their lifestyle back. Ability to sell labor and have enough. Their screaming and blaming immigrants etc masks the real issue, lifestyle and income insecurity brought about by automation and the like. Globalization is really the indirect import of Asian poverty. The cities are screwed because they are losing or lost a market to sell labor at a decent price that undermines their very existence.

The USD is kaput. The hardest challenge is finding a store of wealth the financial industry cannot fuck up, and right now it is water rights, certain utilities, precious metals and a few inherently valuable assets. We need this to sprinkle money on hot women who will suck and fuck us. I so miss the BJ bars, so direct, I see a pretty girl and get a hard on just seeing her smile and knowing she is an expert at sucking and happily taking a mouth of hot cum and we both know it, no shame, guilt or pretense. When I am scanning balance sheets or playing with swaps and currency pairs, I imagine their hot, oily soft mouth. Creates a lot of motivation and energy and a smile.

[Beijing4987]

I always thought that part of Trump's appeal amongst his base is that he is not eloquent, but a straight-shooter that speaks using plain language. He says exactly what he is thinking, which would at least in the eyes of his base make him appear more "authentic". My assumption is that evangelical Christians and upper-class elite Republicans tolerate him due to the fact that he can command influence, and help them achieve their political objectives.

It's mostly about celebrity. Face the fact that we are all star fuckers in one way or another. The right wing puts down Hollywood because most of it's stars are big mouth lefties. DJT craved attention there and In NY but was spurned. Christians want a 1950's Disney world fantasy. NBA. "Shut up and dribble" Fox News entertainers would love to have a right wing version of the red carpet.

[Sirioja]

All my radar flashes, when I was never caught overspeeding in Switzerland, were under 120 km / h, in 100 or 80 limited zones, so I can easily have business phone calls, or send WhatsApp or emails when my job don't wait snails. Game I enjoy on Swiss autobahns where snails, is when traffic, then I put on M1 to a bit more than 4000 tours, then S1 and kick down at same time, making sliding 4 quattro wheels even on dry, and others seem stopped, and this is legal in Switzerland. With all time spent in my car, with about 90000 kms per year, when my job can't wait and this is my performance at job to be fast to find solutions or answers, I work the same in Germany at double speed, but are you used to high speed? Meaning much over 200, when I m used to clean German autobahn from Basel // Weil am Rhein, when I ran after Porsche at only 18, making sliding, pushing to limit my mother Renault 5. When you drove a RS500 Cosworth and on wet, then you are really easy when driving, even full speed. The fastest, the more I relax. When I woke up at 5 am, running whole day at work without taking time to eat since I left bed, to leave at 4/5 pm to go to my regulars who sent me message: where would you come? I was exhausted and stressed in traffic around Paris, but as soon I could, I pushed to relax. I think I drove at least 1,5 million kilometers since 35 years, I never crashed anybody else than me and my cars and I rebuilt them each time because I m faithful.

Just to add, when you make sports which help in bed and also to be more easy in life, cleaning German autobahns pushing in Germans back, can't compete for sensations with going downhill on a bicycle with narrow tires at 70 km / h, or on skis at 100 . After Adel. Ch la plus belle on this week end, with Lauberhorn. Ch with Michkante will be on next week end where guys take 160 km / h on 2 skis, so, even Germany is so easy.

[Sirioja]

Who made Trump possible? Obama and Biden both were the President and Vice President during 8 years before Trump. Both completely destroyed the American middle class. The problem of the US can t be restrict to the place of the black people, it is exactly the same problem as in France can you reduce French problems to the Muslim and the banlieus. How many billions were injected in France for the social system, for des banlieus, for the education. But the problems are still more and more increasing. In France every year arrive 400000 new migrants mostly Muslim, speaking poor French, uneducated, poor and 200000 French people leave the country mostly educated, belonging to the middle or upper classes. Like in the US, France also destroyed the middle class giving like in the US poor future for most of the French people and even worse for the new comers.

I think US was in better health with more peace when Obama finished than what made Trump. A shameful racist can't lead a country with so many blacks, Latinas, Asians. I wish he can't be re elected, he is too dangerous, even making twitos banning one the highest ranked profile. Of course, we have many problems in France, but I think our government is one of those who help the most citizens under covid crisis, even I keep on taking risks to make and save my job, outside, checking before my guys work, much more complicated since March, but I would lose too much money if I waited at home close to heater to be paid by government, bad guy but with balls to deserve my money made and paying so big tax since so long time, I remember my mother who told me: are you sure there is no mistake, about my tax.