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05-08-25 04:27 #18114
Posts: 24515Funny, Tesla thinking about thermic engine for Europe? When down under sales, but because of Musk image. We had enough facists in Europe in past, we don't need him.
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05-08-25 04:24 #18113
Posts: 24515Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
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05-08-25 04:23 #18112
Posts: 3233Prof Elvis schools these fools AGAIN, well stated as per usual
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
RIP Winnie the Pooh.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...i-jinping.html
https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/chinas...-death-spiral/
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05-08-25 03:13 #18111
Posts: 3233We'd rather live in, what gay feminist nonsense, who the fuck is WE, certainly not me
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05-08-25 00:52 #18110
Posts: 5707Everything is for sale in the Dis-United States of America
Now Musk through a legal maneuver is attempting to gain control of a State Park in Texas: Boca Chica Beach.
Space X has proposed incorporating the area which would give them control of the State Park within their jurisdiction.
The vote has been approved. They are going to name their new town Spaceport.
How did Musk convince people to come live on his corporate plantation? Are my fellow citizens so dumb they dont realize they are economic slaves?.
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05-07-25 23:00 #18109
Posts: 5707The Decline of the US started WAY before the current POTUS!
You love rimming Xi so much why don't you live there
I like to ride motorcycles.
The Chinese Take Over
https://youtu.be/m7zShYw3Snw?si=ZJKtYYKuS12cP2Ob
But related to your point, A passport from China is currently better than the passport from the Dis-United State of America I currently hold.
https://youtu.be/151X9hkzD-I?si=4HJEZe8U7I8IJepi
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05-07-25 21:59 #18108
Posts: 4223Originally Posted by HotDog666 [View Original Post]
Most nations do not grant citizenship to women who have their children in their country. If you have your baby in Japan, unlike in the USA, the baby is not a Japanese citizen. The law that allowed pregnant Mexican women to cross the border and have their kids here and become American citizens is the 14th Amendment. The reason for the 14th Amendment was Southern states after the Civil war tried to deny citizenship to slaves. As they should have, lower courts have upheld the law giving citizenship to these birthed citizens as it is above their pay grade. Eventually, the Supreme Court will tackle this. To me, it is a no brainer to plug this hole. American citizenship has been valued in the millions and it should not just be given away as a right to a child whose parent is breaking the law.
The funny thing is I think Republicans are more pro-immigrant than Democrats. We just want legal and productive citizens and not the criminals that cross the border and whose only talents are selling drugs and voting Democrat.
As for China, a lot of countries have done well moving from the farm to the factory. China is in debt up to their eyeballs. Someone is paying for those empty cities, and the federal government of China has pushed the debt to the state and local level. Unlike Japan, there is no free flow of currency into the dollar and Euro, and the Chinese people have had little alternative other than to pile into real estate, and the Chinese lie their asses off with economic data, https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/be...nomic-collapse.
American savings are immense. They are just in the bond and stock market not banks, so I do not make that big of a deal with Americans and their lack of "savings".
While you acknowledge the real estate bubble, I do not think you get how bad it is. The rule of thumb used to be when buying a house you take your income and double it, so the price to income ratio should be 2. That is your house would cost double your income if you put every dollar you earned into your hose.
One reason and perhaps THE reason the great Biden economy is such a lie is that prices of stocks and real estate rose but not income with housing and not earnings with the stock market. When prices go up but not income or earnings, that is just money printing at work.
Now look at price to income ratios around the world. New York is fucking crazy at 14, but Shangai is at 34, and that is down from what it was. But you have Phoenix at 4 and Orlando and Dallas at 3, and you can see why everyone is moving there from New York and California. China is nowhere near done dealing with their real estate bubble.
Usually their home is the biggest asset most people own. You mention monetary policies and deflation but the root cause of deflation is falling demand, and that is a natural consequence of aging. Once people quit being parents, demand falls down. China is in the first inning of its deflationary bubble.
Japan and Western complacency? Come on, man. Japan kicked China's butt in WW2 and even today, Japan is way more organized, productive, and safe than China. Japan's issue is they are the oldest nation in the world. The first thing that happens when you go from the country to the city is kids go from being free labor to an expense. The USA has not followed that path. We have adjusted to lower births by allowing immigration. Like I said, the difference between Republicans and Democrats is not over immigration. It is over illegal immigration. For God's sake, Trump is on his second foreign wife.
And yeah, Japan made shit cars in the 1970's and upped their game in the 1980's. I remember being blown away by the Datsun 280 ZX in the 80's just like Chinese cars are blowing me away today. This is a wakeup call not just for American car companies but the world's car companies.
As for bringing home production, that was already happening after Covid. Trump is just accelerating that trend. I do not get this crap with stuff doubling in price. Iphones could be made in the USA for $30 more not double and with most goods, the cost of labor is tiny.
Some guy with TDS was saying the USA could not make shoes. I was laughing. Since when can the USA not make fucking shoes? Henry Ford invented the assembly line. A guy who looked into making shoes said an automated USA factory could produce shoes for 7% more than not China but even lower cost Vietnam. Once the right incentives are in place, I am sure the USA can produce not just equal but better quality shoes than Vietnam for less.
Do you think anyone in 2004 was saying the USA would be self sufficient in crude oil fifteen years later? How did that happen? Did Americans just trip over oil? We developed a new way to drill for crude which went from being expensive to cost effective. China has huge shale reserves, and they have not been able to tap into them in any meaningful way, and all you talk about is Western complacency.
You think the USA cannot build phone and shoe factories but China can get off oil and coal at break net speed? Please! Here are the numbers.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64544 China's refiners imported 11.1 million be / the of crude oil and processed 14.2 million be / the. Both crude oil imports and refinery runs decreased in China from record levels in 2023, when the country imported 11.3 million be / the of crude oil and processed 14.8 million be / the.
In 2023, China's coal consumption reached 91.94 exajoules, marking a new high. In 2022, China's coal consumption grew by 4. 6 percent to a new all-time high of 4. 5 billion metric tons, nearly nine times higher than the United States.
Coal consumption went down in 2024 like oil did but there is nothing break net about that reduction, and China is the biggest coal importer in the world. If China invades Taiwan, the American navy cuts off China's crude and coal and their economy tanks in days.
I think I am realistic on China. It has huge issues that the USA does not have. Most of American's foreign policy was based on energy security and oil importation. We no longer have that issue and China does, and for some reason, you just want to blow that off. What happened with American oil production will happen in manufacturing. There were more cynics on oil production, I called them the peak oil nuts, then there are cynics on manufacturing. If Americans have the right incentive system, we can do almost anything better than anyone.
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05-07-25 11:03 #18107
Posts: 1509How to manufacture a moral panic over 'political correctness'...
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Very well explained and narrated, how the role of the right-wing billionaire robber baron class, is there to amplify the backlash, w/r to the progress and success, for example of President Obama and minority groups, with their dark money funded, political PACs and right-wing think tanks (ie. Heritage Foundation or Manhattan Institute) and media propaganda outlets, like Fox News.
From the 1990's manufactured moral panic over “political correctness”, to 2025's D.E.I. backlash, it's one ginned-up, boogeyman culture-war after another:
• Political Correctness (PC)
• Cancel Culture
• Wokeism
• Critical Race Theory (CRT)
And the latest, pejorative assault, on minorities;
• D.E.I.
The rinse and repeat cycle of the right-wing "culture-wars" and PC boogeyman merry-go-around, perpetrated by the billionaire robber baron class, so as to easily "pick-the-pockets" of the gullible MAGA/Repub working class, while further enriching themselves, from the ensuing polarization and things like failed Trump Tariff Taxes (TTT).
Before Wokeness, There Was “Political Correctness”, June 16, 2022
https://inthesetimes.com/article/wok...ntity-politics
This cycle thrives on manufactured outrage to obscure economic grievances. As Barbara Epstein, observed in the 1990s, fears about "American culture disintegrating" were channeled into anti-PC rhetoric rather than critiques of capitalism and a greater, better and more egalitarian society, we'd rather live in.
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05-07-25 05:41 #18106
Posts: 6864It is so obvious now
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
Yes, you will pass through a painful period of feeling utterly betrayed by one of the most blatantly obvious numbskull grifters in history. As you should. But eventually you will no doubt emerge from that as a much more discerning self-destructive lemming. LOL.
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05-07-25 05:31 #18105
Posts: 6864Haha
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
It turns out there was never an "emergency" at the border to justify ultra warmonger Trump declaring War Against Venezuela or any other country.
In fact, that blithering, blathering, fat fuck liar just totally destroyed his entire case for deporting USA Constitutionally-protected persons in America to El Salvador concentration camps in that hilariously pathetic Meet The Press interview when he rhapsodized about how wonderfully safe the border is now, "unlike any safe border anyone has ever seen. ".
Lololol.
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05-07-25 03:01 #18104
Posts: 1509Robber Barons would love to get their hands on Social Security (SS)...
Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]
No doubt in privatized hands, IMHO, it would be, tantamount to an insidious financial ruin of SS and in spectacular fashion. Much like the elder, being short changed, and bamboozled by so called Medicare Advantage and healthcare insurance.
But the idea to privatize SS, under the typical guise that "the private financial industry would better manage SS" has been a long standing "honey pot", they'd love to get their greedy, malicious, pilfering, grifting and inevitable bankruptcy hands on.
The ravenous, greedy robber barons, under their Fuhrer's institution gutting admin, may well get their wish w/r to social security. But like the "too big to fail" banks, the robber barons know, that should they get their ugly mitts on SS, that after the inevitably gutting, raping and pillaging of SS, the gov't would bail them out, in a "too big to fail" bank like fashion.
After every financial intermediary, management and administrative accountant has "pick the pockets" of SS and taken "their cut" or "fees", for so called "managing" Social Security, all that left in the end, is a hallowed husk, on their way out the door.
This is how, for many libertarians or conservatives, privatizing SS is a step toward dismantling "the welfare state" entirely and the so called "handouts"!
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05-06-25 23:24 #18103
Posts: 5707A Permanent Resident is a guest!
Originally Posted by HotDog666 [View Original Post]
I have an attorney in every country where I am engaged in activities of a legal nature. In other words, where I am not JUST a tourist. That number totals 4 different countries at this point in my life.
Originally Posted by HotDog666 [View Original Post]
ROTFLMAO!
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05-06-25 22:59 #18102
Posts: 5707Trator Musk strikes again!
Musk has caused problems at Newark Airport for a week now. Decreasing staff and cutting off funding for new equipment that would shore up the technology that the Air Traffic Controllers use to keep planes separated and safe in the air. FAA is putting ground holds on planes leaving from and leaving for Newark. Causing a snarl in the movement of aircraft that was a well oiled machine before Musk took his chainsaw to FAA operations.
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05-06-25 20:44 #18101
Posts: 3233WTF you told us so? Lololol NO I told you so, I told you he is a LIVING GOD
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Allahu Akbar MOFOS.
Donald J Trump 2025 aka Blitzkrieg on steroids.
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05-06-25 19:50 #18100
Posts: 3233Bangkok Bob at your worst
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]