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Should be a wild four years.

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There is a chance that when the only way you engage with someones arguments is to point out spelling mistakes or to accuse them of inebriation your own point might appear lacking to a layman
You included a perfectly acceptable response to your points in your reply, RETARD, and there's also a chance others realise the response others of us gave is because all you did is make a bait post.
 
Talking with some people on YouTube about the ban on snacks and soda sales with SNAP another issue popped into my head. Not only will there probably be an impact on the company's profits that produce the snacks and soda which will lead to people losing their jobs there will also be an impact on the US agricultural industry. These snacks and drinks are produced with corn and potatoes two of the biggest crops in the US. If the companies lose profits due to lack of sales, they will also stop producing as much since they don't have enough people buying their products anymore. This means they won't be buying the stuff needed to make their products. This is going to affect American farms as well.

If anyone remembers from Trumps first term in office when he went after China over trade one of their responses was to stop buying soybeans and corn from US farmers. It was so bad Trump spent a week assuring the farmers that the US would protect them by subsidizing their loss in income. Basically, giving the farmers welfare for their crops that China stopped buying. It's going to look pretty stupid if the Republicans have to come out and talk about how they are subsidizing US farmers because they are seeing a decrease in profits because the snack food and soda companies stopped buying their products. Like I said most of the products are made with corn and potatoes. Corn chips popcorn potato chips. Even Cheetos and cheese curls are made with corn. Then you have the soda. What do they put in the soda? Corn syrup made with corn. This is going to have a wide ranging impact. The soda companies won't need to buy as much corn syrup anymore and the people who make the corn syrup won't need as much corn. You can see where this is going.

The only reason why the snack food and soda companies haven't come out bitching is probably because they don't want to talk about how much of their profits come from SNAP recipients. 5% would be bad but it could be even more. Like 20-25% of their profits could come from welfare.

I don't think the Republicans have any idea of the size of the shit pile they just stepped in.
 
They want to take over the fucking world. They still got a bone to pick with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, really they hate everything not named China.
Well that isn't going to work if it really is their plan. That never works.

Once China actually tries to do something big enough where the media can't hide failure, expext things to change. They have had the easiest ride the last 30 years and are sniffing their own farts.
 
It was how the Soviet invasion of the USA started in the game World in Conflict. A bunch of container ships park themselves in Seattle Harbor and then all of a sudden there's Hinds flying around mowing down cop cars before anyone can react.


Great game, too. The multiplayer is probably dead (the game is nearly two decades old) but the campaigns were amazing as well.
Just replayed World in Conflict and the expansion a few months back. Holds up well. The game seems to have dubious ownership anymore, the launcher directs you to a Chinese site.

Best pirate this one.

Back in the real world... Americans can calm down a bit as well. China and Russia growing stronger and more capable doesn't mean America goes back to zero. Neither of those countries wants war with America because America is still extremely strong and powerful. Even if it was much much less powerful like the European nations or even weaker, getting across the sea would be a real hassle.

Messing with the society is also not a great tactic because a huge number of the population will not play ball.

America is fine and will be for a long, long time. Relax a bit.

Europeans are totally fucked and should be extremely concerned, however. Between throwing punches at bigger fish and the tomfoolery going on in Germany and in the European Commission right now, the insanity is off the charts. They are a very disrespectful bunch of people.

Trump calling Putin crazy for the recent attacks is at least in character and can largely be ignored if the Russian response is any indication. Europe is actively trying to get other people into a war because they are upset... actually that is entirely in character for the Europeans.
 
These snacks and drinks are produced with corn and potatoes two of the biggest crops in the US. If the companies lose profits due to lack of sales, they will also stop producing as much since they don't have enough people buying their products anymore. This means they won't be buying the stuff needed to make their products. This is going to affect American farms as well.
You do realise that farmers and producers can be flexible with their volumes and products, no? It blatantly shows that you never set foot on a farm nor a factory. Honestly, get a fucking job and talk one-on-one with a production manager because your perspective is created from being inexperienced and the having the hubrus to think that arguing with Youtube commentors (lmao) serves as a good source of information about the industry.

If you want to be informed about the soda industry you can read the following basics (big reads, but you can just read the interesting parts):
1. Carbonated Soft Drinks Formulation and Manufacture (link) (About production and logistics)
2. A rapid review of stocking and marketing practices used to sell sugar-sweetened beverages in U.S. food stores (link) (About pricing, marketing and logistics)
3. A content analysis of the aims, strategies, and effects of food and nonalcoholic drink advertising based on advertising industry case studies (link) (Marketing)
 
Well that isn't going to work if it really is their plan. That never works.

Once China actually tries to do something big enough where the media can't hide failure, expext things to change. They have had the easiest ride the last 30 years and are sniffing their own farts.

Just replayed World in Conflict and the expansion a few months back. Holds up well. The game seems to have dubious ownership anymore, the launcher directs you to a Chinese site.

Best pirate this one.

Back in the real world... Americans can calm down a bit as well. China and Russia growing stronger and more capable doesn't mean America goes back to zero. Neither of those countries wants war with America because America is still extremely strong and powerful. Even if it was much much less powerful like the European nations or even weaker, getting across the sea would be a real hassle.

Messing with the society is also not a great tactic because a huge number of the population will not play ball.

America is fine and will be for a long, long time. Relax a bit.

Europeans are totally fucked and should be extremely concerned, however. Between throwing punches at bigger fish and the tomfoolery going on in Germany and in the European Commission right now, the insanity is off the charts. They are a very disrespectful bunch of people.

Trump calling Putin crazy for the recent attacks is at least in character and can largely be ignored if the Russian response is any indication. Europe is actively trying to get other people into a war because they are upset... actually that is entirely in character for the Europeans.


My dawgie dawg dog, listen up. 3,000 people biffed it in downtown Manhattan and we spent 3 decades in the sand trying to make ourselves feel better

If fucking LA, New York, and Chicago get glassed day 0 by cargo ships with JDAMS on them there is no counterattack but nukes, we sign our own species death warrant to save our own ego.

We have been outmaneuvered militarily, we spent 7 decades fighting fuckers in flip flops and now our idea of warfare is fucked in the extreme. Our numbers are meaningless, mass troop concentrations are tactical nuke sites, CSG's are now target rich environments for drone swarms, and to top it off our cybersecurity is 3 decades behind the enemy.
 
My dawgie dawg dog, listen up. 3,000 people biffed it in downtown Manhattan and we spent 3 decades in the sand trying to make ourselves feel better

If fucking LA, New York, and Chicago get glassed day 0 by cargo ships with JDAMS on them there is no counterattack but nukes, we sign our own species death warrant to save our own ego.

We have been outmaneuvered militarily, we spent 7 decades fighting fuckers in flip flops and now our idea of warfare is fucked in the extreme. Our numbers are meaningless, mass troop concentrations are tactical nuke sites, CSG's are now target rich environments for drone swarms, and to top it off our cybersecurity is 3 decades behind the enemy.

Let this be a warning:

If the ability for the average American to eat cheeseburgers is disrupted, the human race will witness THE holocaust. It will be so great, so furious, so terrifying, so horrible, so all encompassing, all of humanity will be carried to the edge of extinction, a never ending genocide. The very genetics of the human race will be altered and it will be carved into the few survivors bones.
 
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ICYMI, Trump is rolling back a lot of the "disparate impact" bullshit which, among other things, kept ferals from being disciplined in school.

Huh.

Public schools will have a chance to become decent institutions at this rate. Rate me optimistic but I don't think it's impossible to bring this Nation's public schools up to a reasonable standard. This is a step in the right direction.
 
It was hilarious.

We promised that we wouldn't fuck out kids up the way our parents fucked us up and instead we fucked them up in new and incredibly interesting ways.

Then you had all of a sudden the Boomers didn't want their grandkids treated like they treated their kids so laws started slamming down keeping you from even telling your kid "no" or anything like that. Fucking CPS had a field day.

Then Millenials fucked up Gen-Z in horrifically interesting ways.
All I know is my Boomer parents would smack me for doing half the shit that Zoomers do as a matter of course. Corporal punishment needs to come back because some of these broccoli-haired idiots simply won't learn unless physical pain is involved.
 
All I know is my Boomer parents would smack me for doing half the shit that Zoomers do as a matter of course. Corporal punishment needs to come back because some of these broccoli-haired idiots simply won't learn unless physical pain is involved.
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you think this was all Gen z and the zoomers fucking everything up or did 60 years of not-give-a-shit lead to a fucked up world?
 
Just wondering - has China anything to gain from promoting Antisemitism and White nationalism/separatism within the US?
Theoretically they could do it in order to fuel infighting among the American national population? A more divided United States may perhaps benefit them. Not like they have to worry about such things backfiring for them domestically.
 
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Isn't basically all of that meant for civilian shipping? China has to keep pumping out ships in order to keep it's foot on the back of world shipping. Do most of their shipyards even have capability to build or service Navy vessels?

Lets put it this way..the Bohai shipyard alone, which produces china's nuclear submarines has 6 times tonnage capacity of the entire american shipbuilding capacity, and china has several more of these military capable shipyards
 
Lets put it this way..the Bohai shipyard alone, which produces china's nuclear submarines has 6 times tonnage capacity of the entire american shipbuilding capacity, and china has several more of these military capable shipyards
Fortunately they're stuck using Chinese steel to build those rust buckets to their famously-strict safety and reliability standards.
 
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