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Wouldn't Republican EMPIRE still be a monarchy? Emperor is a hereditary title as well.
Yes, it would still be monarchy but each body of the system will act as check and balances. Technically Britain is still a monarchy but the king/queen is lameduck waste of garbage.

Republican Empire is what founding fathers wanted in the end. George Washington could have been a king but he refused.
 
Ok I got to call out the populist Trump types here and ask some questions.

1: You say that Elon's comment about giving every American 5000 dollars would not cause inflation and would not be a big deal, but republicans kept saying how the war in Ukraine was costing America to much money even though giving every American 5000 would cost more then America has spent on Ukraine the entire war.

2: How does America giving up on Ukraine benefit America ? ?Ukraine talked about a 500 billion dollar mineral deal meanwhile giving up would on America nothing and make all the previous money spent a waste.

3: Be honest why do you hate European countries so much ? The majority of Americans are European and even if you are not as an American Europe is your spiritual motherland. If you want to be able to keep up with China at a time when China is making inroads with other countries for deals you can't alienate your base, if you want to support Israel (I don't know why you would but the majority of Trump voters do) then you shouldn't alienate Europe t a time when more and more are getting stick of Israel and recognizing Palestinian state hood.
1. 1.5 trillion to give 5k to every adult. 834 billion to give 5k to every tax payer. The latter is more than twice than what was given to Ukraine, but would benefit the American people infinitely more, no?

2. Helping Ukraine fight a war they couldn't ever hope to win by grinding their male population into paste with the help of the American taxpayer does more damage to both Ukraine and the USA than the USA forcing a peace by threatening to cut off support. And what's Ukraine going to do? Not to business with America because they were a bit mean? That's cutting off your nose to spite your own face.

3. I can't answer for Americans, but it's very easy to deduce why. In the UK, everyone outside of London hates London. The population are the most full of themselves, adhere to hyper progressive politics and look down on the rest of the country. Now imagine the insufferable capitals of every European nation speaking in unison, emphasising their own arrogance and perceived superiority whilst being dismissive of America, so immersed in their own pride that they are not only ignorant to how the rest of their own country perceives them, how restrictive their lives actually are, and how their political causes are contributing to the downfall of their nation, but also of how interlinked their country is with the United states and how much America contributes to their quality of life, even if indirectly. I haven't even touched on the politicians who often come from these people, such as the Germans who laughed at Trump when he told them that an energy crisis was incoming way back when. I like to think - and hope - that the combination of insufferable haters, liberals and politicians hasn't completely marred people's opinions here of all Europeans, and that when they speak with disdain, it's about those people, not all of us.
 
i found your problem
Yup. Money gets cheaper the more of it you already have.

We are now witnessing streamers responding to the reponses to the responses to the responses.
Youtube used to have a "video response" feature baked right into the UI. Reaction/response video exchanges used to have their own dedicated "pipeline."
 
I'm talking about for manned deep space flight, a heavy lift vehicle and a deep space suits. Both of which have been shelved for so long that we had to start from scratch.

The problems you listed earlier of the difficulty of manned deep space missions would be further along of being solved, mitigated, or tackled if there was an active monetary and immediate need, imo.

Honestly, I'm still struggling to get my point across right. I don't think this did it either. Should I just PM you later about it or do you want me to drop it.
It probably deserves its own thread somewhere, to be honest. There are plenty of people on this website who would love to sperg about outer space and NASA.
 
Whoa, if this is real than really, holy shit.

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8% compunded over 5 years is like 50%.
Alright, I'm yielding again. I know there was a huge highlight post of mine that got clowned on, but another Kiwi made me curious and I did my research and I found out I was completely wrong about federal funding for public education in many states so bear with me.

But I might at least be neutral or passively supportive of this administration now. Assuming they actually follow through with what is essentially a threat to the cushiony military establishment and reallocate the funds appropriately, this will be one of the biggest reinvestments in our people I've ever seen.

I'll double down and just go full Trump if he cedes more power to the States and relegates the fed to being a bipartisan mediator between the states with federal law being something all states can unanimously, or as closely as unanimously, agree upon.

Holy shit.
 
2: How does America giving up on Ukraine benefit America ? ?Ukraine talked about a 500 billion dollar mineral deal meanwhile giving up would on America nothing and make all the previous money spent a waste.
How does the US burning more money on Ukraine benefit the US?
There is no amount of money you can spend that can make Ukraine win this war. Russia simply has more men than Ukraine. Russia has a pop of 140 million, Ukraine has 40 million. Ukraine needs a 3.5 to 1 K/D and haven't achieve that except at the very start of the war and hasn't been repeated since.
There is no further benefit from weakening Russia as Russia is still too weak to threaten NATO states. And should Russia get too weak it may lead to China taking over parts of Russia or a balkanization of a nuclear power.
Keeping the war going achieves nothing more than wasting money for the US and getting Ukrainians and Russians killed. The only people who benefit from the war sustaining is weapons manufacturers and maybe China.
 
I know there's a lot of talk about wanting to ban junk food and soda from being able to be purchased on EBT. The problem with regulating what the peasant class can and can't do is that when does it stop? First they'll say you can't buy shit with EBT. Then they'll start regulating what you can and can't use Social Security funds for.

Look. I get the idea of wanting to make food and other shit healthy again, but shotgunning and going all militant about it is a good way to get the people (who were initially on your side) pissed off all over again. In the end, no one will do shit. You need to give people a choice. You can give them the information, it's up to them exercising their own free will over it. You can't just force someone into a new way of living and expect it to go well. See what happened with Prohibition?
 
I know there's a lot of talk about wanting to ban junk food and soda from being able to be purchased on EBT. The problem with regulating what the peasant class can and can't do is that when does it stop?
When they use their own money
First they'll say you can't buy shit with EBT. Then they'll start regulating what you can and can't use Social Security funds for.

Look. I get the idea of wanting to make food and other shit healthy again, but shotgunning and going all militant about it is a good way to get the people (who were initially on your side) pissed off all over again. In the end, no one will do shit. You need to give people a choice. You can give them the information, it's up to them exercising their own free will over it. You can't just force someone into a new way of living and expect it to go well. See what happened with Prohibition?
 
3: Be honest why do you hate European countries so much ? The majority of Americans are European and even if you are not as an American Europe is your spiritual motherland. If you want to be able to keep up with China at a time when China is making inroads with other countries for deals you can't alienate your base, if you want to support Israel (I don't know why you would but the majority of Trump voters do) then you shouldn't alienate Europe t a time when more and more are getting stick of Israel and recognizing Palestinian state hood.
A lot of people (especially Europeans) seem to be unable to distinguish the character of a country from the character of it's ruling elite. When America (the regime) does something, Europeans will attribute the actions taken by the Trump admin, Biden admin, Obama admin, etc. to America (the nation state). I don't give a fuck about Israel or Palestine or the entirety of the Middle East, but Euros wouldn't assume that. To them, I'm an American, so that means I must give a shit about the foreskin eating desert people.

I like Europe a lot. I do not, however, love the EU or the regimes that currently govern nearly every EU country. They are totalitarian, they are anti-native, they are just as obsessed with pushing globohomo as the American neolibs and are somehow even more obsessed with waging hot wars on the dime of the US than the fucking American neocons. These gay ass regimes need to fall on their own sword enough until they can't get back up or be ousted by the angry natives.
 
You can tell who has a "conservative brain" when the idea of giving all US citizens $5000 in response to finding government fraud is "No! Don't give the money! Some people don't deserve it!"

"Good things must only happen to people who have earned it. Wageslaves deserve rewards. If you didn't send the IRS money you shouldn't get any back."


No thought of strategy or tactics. First thought... spite.

Every US citizen has been a victim of USAID propaganda; fentanyl flooding the country; illegals taking jobs and driving wages down; Biden-era inflation; housing bubble; ect, etc.


With student loans, if conservatives were smart they would use forgiveness strategically. Give loan forgiveness, but take the money from universities. You could for example tie alumni employment rates to the universities ability to receive government grants and loans. You could seize endowment funds under the premise that the university fraudulently mislead youth with unrealistic job prospects.

An additional option is to expand the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Allow jobs "important to US national interests" to qualify for it. Fuck it, just automatically enroll all federal college loans in an Income Based Repayment program that caps payments at 10% of income and forgives the loan after 10 years of full employment. If the person got a dumb overpriced degree and worked as a janitor, then punish the university for the forgiveness amount.


Edit: P.S. I reread my post. Clarification: I did not intend to hate on "conservative brain" people. Spite and enforced meritocracy have their place in society (I understand welfare leeches are very real).
 
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How does the US burning more money on Ukraine benefit the US?
There is no amount of money you can spend that can make Ukraine win this war. Russia simply has more men than Ukraine. Russia has a pop of 140 million, Ukraine has 40 million. Ukraine needs a 3.5 to 1 K/D and haven't achieve that except at the very start of the war and hasn't been repeated since.
There is no further benefit from weakening Russia as Russia is still too weak to threaten NATO states. And should Russia get too weak it may lead to China taking over parts of Russia or a balkanization of a nuclear power.
Keeping the war going achieves nothing more than wasting money for the US and getting Ukrainians and Russians killed. The only people who benefit from the war sustaining is weapons manufacturers and maybe China.
Russian and American cooperation is mutually beneficial. Russia is now facing regional competition from Turkey. They lost important allies in the Middle East and now have to guard their border. Iran no longer has the flex it used to have in Syria, Gaza, and Lebanon.

Russia needs this peace to regroup and reorganize. Working with US for rapid oil production and trade normalization. One, bring the oil price down to 40-50$ a barrel. It will immediately drop all inflation. Two, immediate investments and technical specialists back into the country for both countries & most importantly, REMOVE Chinese encroachment into Russian economy.

You are most likely going to see ALOT of American automotive export into Russia now. GM, Ford and maybe even Stellantis may gain enormous market share in Russia.

And thank God, because Chinese cars are so dog shit. China will lose their economic monopoly in Russia completely.
 
I know there's a lot of talk about wanting to ban junk food and soda from being able to be purchased on EBT. The problem with regulating what the peasant class can and can't do is that when does it stop? First they'll say you can't buy shit with EBT. Then they'll start regulating what you can and can't use Social Security funds for.

Look. I get the idea of wanting to make food and other shit healthy again, but shotgunning and going all militant about it is a good way to get the people (who were initially on your side) pissed off all over again. In the end, no one will do shit. You need to give people a choice. You can give them the information, it's up to them exercising their own free will over it. You can't just force someone into a new way of living and expect it to go well. See what happened with Prohibition?
That is a pretty good point actually. On the other hand however I see the issue being that this sector specifically is also very strongly lobbied so they might try to go on the offensive early to be able to resolve it at the end of this term. Maybe even speculating and banking on the fact that the needle will effectively not be moved until after the midterms. Then again I am not well versed in how much time such an operation would take.
 
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