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Should be a wild four years.

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Your not wrong
I don't disagree
Why did you write all that just to tell me I'm right?
The Soviet union won both world war 1 and 2 why didn't everyone use the ruble ? Same with Great Britain why didn't they use pound sterling ?
The Soviet Union wasn't a navel power. Geography does have something to do with it. People used the pound sterling for 100 years. They stopped when America became the world navel power.
In WW2 America was the biggest everything manufacturer, producing more industrial output then the rest of the world combined that just isn't feasible anymore.
America put people on the fucking moon. We tamed this vast and powerful continent. I unironically think America could do anything if we just unfucked ourselves.
The working class are hurt most by tariffs as a rich person can afford to buy the more expensive goods and has the capital to invest in the new industries if they come to be
Until the working class get manufacturing jobs, which pay more. That's why we should use government stimulus to bring those manufacturing jobs back as quickly as possible.
 
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The Soviet union won both world war 1 and 2 why didn't everyone use the ruble ? Same with Great Britain why didn't they use pound sterling ?
The Soviet Union formed after the war. Russia bowed out in 1917 as they imploded.
technically not but there was the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic so close enough.
No. This is nonsense. The Russians bowed out and the Americans took their place.
 
In WW2 America was the biggest everything manufacturer, producing more industrial output then the rest of the world combined that just isn't feasible anymore.
The Soviet union won both world war 1 and 2 why didn't everyone use the ruble ? Same with Great Britain why didn't they use pound sterling ?
You answered your own question, the US was the everything manufacturer so usd being the world currency is the most pragmatic choice. It also helps that the depression, wars, and revolutions made everyone else's currency unstable in comparison.
 
Its rare to see but here is none other than RMS, Richard Stallman...the founder of GNU...calling for people to block an 8 billion dollar bill to israel.:
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If you didn't know...Richard is Ethnically Jewish.
This is literally a Rashida Tlaib attempt to scam email addresses for donation purposes presented as a petition to shit on Israel and Trump.

I hate retards.
 
technically not but there was the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic so close enough.
Its called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for a reason, dude. Soviet Russia wasn't really a party in WWI, for most of the fighting, because they were in the amidst of a civil war. If you're going to discuss this stuff, at least get the basic facts right.
 
So what you're saying is to solve the the global fertility crisis we just need women to go back to being illiterate? Sounds like a good solution, outside of Frankenstein they never wrote much worth a shit anyways.
D C Fontana was the voice behind basically all the good shit in TOS (and YES I AM EXCLUDING CITY), but yeah chicks are good for nerd shit
 
I'm seeing more shit like this on X lately

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Slight PL but (apart from the maxim of Don't Talk Politics With Your Family) one of the main reasons I don't talk to my father about some things is he has exactly that; an inbuilt belief that the institutions are Good™, that any decision made by a governing body or an institution of power had a good reason behind it, because he himself makes decisions with good reasoning when in postitions of power. It's a selective theory of mind blindness where an otherwise smart man has no pattern recognition, and can rage against how an institution makes a terrible decision or some agency-wide corruption or poisonous ideology story drops in the media and then the next day have unshakeable, unexamined faith in the decision-making processes of it and that the people in it are making good decisions for good reasons. It's frustrating.
I have something similar with my dad. He actually does get American affairs, but he cannot fathom how shit Britain Europe is.
 

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this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
I love you all, but I don't want to see our autistic screeching in real time. It will lift the veil of our perceived intelligence and show us for the hamsters we are... Just running in circles and going nowhere.
 
We are 70 days in
-Where's my cheap eggs?
-Why is the IRS still open?
-Why is the FBI still open?
-Why is the CIA not a husk?
-Why aren't payment processors in chains?
-Why are there still two million illegals still in my country?

Unless Donald Drumpf decides he's going to make himself dictator for life. This sloth is unacceptable. All he has to show for us is token gestures, propaganda, and the deaths of fictional aids babies in far away lands. Joe Biden at this point in his term deported more.
 
Tariffs are good because they piss off boomers, liberals, and billionaires. Those groups are trash and can be used as a gauge something is actually effective in regulating them.

Trump running for 3rd term is ultra smart. It has msdnc arguing agaisnt it being legal instead of arguing their person is a better choice. It puts them in a pickle of "if he's such a bad person all the Republicans regret voting for and all his plans are failing then and it's illegal then your guy should be a shoe in why oppose it?"
 
Tariffs are good because they piss off boomers, liberals, and billionaires. Those groups are trash and can be used as a gauge something is actually effective in regulating them.

Trump running for 3rd term is ultra smart. It has msdnc arguing agaisnt it being legal instead of arguing their person is a better choice. It puts them in a pickle of "if he's such a bad person all the Republicans regret voting for and all his plans are failing then and it's illegal then your guy should be a shoe in why oppose it?"
America produces a surprising amount of goods already. When Trump instituted limited tariffs the last time, it rebirthed the American steel industry. Limited pain, long term gain. Manufacturing is way more easy to reshore then it was fifteen years ago due to automation. It might take a year or two, with some subsidies and investment.

Tariffs are the one thing Trump has right.
 
The Soviet union won both world war 1 and 2 why didn't everyone use the ruble ?
you can't even really make the argument that Czarist Russia won ww1, much less the soviets. lol

The Russians had to pull out and sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to deal with internal matters as the communists started to gain influence thanks to the Germans sending Lenin back over.
 
you can't even really make the argument that Czarist Russia won ww1, much less the soviets. lol

The Russians had to pull out and sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to deal with internal matters as the communists started to gain influence thanks to the Germans sending Lenin back over.
Russian troops at the front took huge losses and kept fighting. The revolt was the rear area garrison which was huge of 1 million troops in the two capitals. There was bread shortages for keeping those troops there. Those troops revolted as they didn't want to get sent to the front. They also revolt again in October. Then they were pretty much all shoot by the communists after they stopped being useful.
 
We are 70 days in
-Where's my cheap eggs?
-Why is the IRS still open?
-Why is the FBI still open?
-Why is the CIA not a husk?
-Why aren't payment processors in chains?
-Why are there still two million illegals still in my country?

Unless Donald Drumpf decides he's going to make himself dictator for life. This sloth is unacceptable. All he has to show for us is token gestures, propaganda, and the deaths of fictional aids babies in far away lands. Joe Biden at this point in his term deported more.
George Lucas is way better at this bit.

Then they were pretty much all shoot by the communists after they stopped being useful.

Many such cases.
 
We are 70 days in
-Where's my cheap eggs?
-Why is the IRS still open?
-Why is the FBI still open?
-Why is the CIA not a husk?
-Why aren't payment processors in chains?
-Why are there still two million illegals still in my country?

Unless Donald Drumpf decides he's going to make himself dictator for life. This sloth is unacceptable. All he has to show for us is token gestures, propaganda, and the deaths of fictional aids babies in far away lands. Joe Biden at this point in his term deported more.
We are 70 days in and the only question I have is, where the fuck did my gardener go?
 
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