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Should be a wild four years.

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Internet Wizard said:
I'm scared that things will just objectively get worse for the average American. Medicaid cuts, SNAP and other things are objectively happening and even if you pull the "durr it's meant to weed out illegals" I'm still just very unsure that it will 100% full stop negate actual citizens in the prosecution. This culture war is just a front to make QoL worse and make people in charge richer
I'm scared that I might not be able to afford doing things I wanted to just because of what this admin has done. It's making me really reconsider staying in the country if I'm being honest, something I genuinely never thought of a year ago.
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Things are already objectively worse for the average American. People voted for Trump because he's the only one who is actually doing things about that instead of making empty promises about the deficit or whatever the fuck. Biden and Harris presided over one of the worst US economies since the great depression and when Harris was asked if she'd do anything differently than Biden on the campaign trail, she said no.

Also I've heard the "XYZ is just a front to make the rich richer" take a million times and it's always a smoke screen. Asshole rich people are always going to be a problem, but the whole reason rich people have gotten more powerful over the last few years is because they can afford to employ illegals for poverty wages. You cannot "fix" abstract, innate human concepts like greed in rich people, but you can take away their toys and make things better for regular people that way. That's what the anti-immigration push is about and I can assure you it will be a net benefit for the country.

Even if things do get worse, you will adapt. You have been adapting your entire life. You are stronger than the US federal government.

Internet Wizard said:
It's hard to remember this since most of my IRL friends are liberal yet constantly mention how powerless they are in the face of all this
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Liberals see every Republican victory as a death spiral because they have attached their entire identity is their politics. Republicans and Democrats have taken turns being president for 250 years and the world hasn't ended. Tell them to stop being doomer faggots.
 
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Eventide said:
AI kinda already is?

Wouldn't be shocked if there's more major scandals/whistleblowers coming forward, and admitting major tech companies "AI models" are just a thousand jeets in an office tower. Like the Amazon AI "no cashiers" store.
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I hope this is the case, I really hope a jeet was payed pennies just to do degenerate ERPs with me.

 
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FILTH Tourist said:
I get the pragmatic reason for not releasing it in order to preserve the government's trust and authority domestically and abroad if the list is truely extensive. But Trump said he wanted to drain the swamp and he was given one hell of a tool to do it with. The swamp monsters and Epstein clients attached one in the same, Trump should pull the pin and enjoy the fireworks.
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There are campaign slogans, and then there is the reality of what would happen if he did. George Floyd would actually look peaceful. That is how bad it would be. Maybe in 50 years when everyone attached is gone it could be released. It's too early now.
 
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FILTH Tourist said:
I get the pragmatic reason for not releasing it in order to preserve the government's trust and authority domestically and abroad if the list is truely extensive. But Trump said he wanted to drain the swamp and he was given one hell of a tool to do it with. The swamp monsters and Epstein clients are one in the same, Trump should pull the pin and enjoy the fireworks.
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Perhaps it’s more so that if Trump releases the list, he will get JFK’d faster than you can say MAGA.
 
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Eventide said:
AI kinda already is?

Wouldn't be shocked if there's more major scandals/whistleblowers coming forward, and admitting major tech companies "AI models" are just a thousand jeets in an office tower. Like the Amazon AI "no cashiers" store.
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AI itself is already a problem in some areas, give it to jeets who by their nature scam and drive people insane. literal hellhole
 
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Romulus augustulus said:
name a single currency that can possibly compete. the Euro is the only one that comes close. The ruble, Rupee, Rand, Reale are not valued and the RMB is manipulated to hell and back to make China's industry competitive. Compared to these the USD is solid as a rock.

Since the currencies are not backed by gold/silver or something else the only thing that makes them valuable is trust. would you trust a Russian, Brazilian, South African, China man or Indian? If you can't trust the people you certainly cannot trust the government.

(China cannot back their currency because they HAVE to devalue the RMB to be competitive on exports.)
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The USD isn't backed by gold or silver either. The US has turbo sanctioned like 200 countries at this point which just creates more demand for an alternative.

There was a point in history not very long ago where there were other competing currencies. If a viable alternative pops up it doesn't necessarily mean the USD will go away but it will have a competitor finally. I think especially since the UK fell in status/power significantly this is the case

It being the world's "stable coin" effectively means the US has basically had a monopoly on things - competition will be good. Look at the way the US has been run economically for the past 10 years and it is very clear (at least to me) that competition is needed and will hopefully help the US to stabilize more. The election sperging has taken over the world stage at this point and the instability is a genuine cause for concern if you don't actually live in America.

People seem to very often forget that the population of the US isn't that big - an alternative currency to the USD could have billions of users overnight if it is more convenient and more stable than the dollar. Besides this technology now exists for currencies to be created and managed transparently - everyone says I'm stupid but they still haven't even done an audit on the federal reserve and can't even do audits on some of the largest government departments like the Pentagon. You act like the USA is some paragon of truth, trust and freedom but almost anyone can see through that shit pretty easily - most people can't even explain why Israel not only has a huge amount of power politically in the US but also why it gets so much fucking money. Do you seriously pht your "trust" in that?

And for what it's worth, at this point in time I am willing to put more trust in that list of countrismes that you mentioned compared to the US.
 
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Terrifik said:
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Fuck anyone who ever doubted me that this administration is a complete shitshow. The blackpill is the only pill that matters anymore and the Trump administration has officially lost any and all credibility.
JustSomeDong said:
Exactly. And I'd STILL release it.

This will probably be the only opportunity to clean house, and it just turned to ash in our collective mouths. I'll take a few years of chaos for justice. Any. Damned. Day.

But we just have to be happy that the pedoelites won't be punished, so this shitshow can keep pretending to work, and we get our funkopops and goyslop and just enjoy the encroaching techno-dystopian AI nightmare (controlled by those same exact pedoelites, but don't pay any attention to that) that is enfolding us all. After all, people depend on those politicians and CEOs. Whatever would we do if they weren't here to run things?

We're gonna ride a wave jingoism and nostalgia into the abyss. And we fucking deserve it for letting it have happened in the first place.
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Unironically, suicide is the only escape for us now. There is nothing left to look forward to and nothing left to live for. Dystopia is all that awaits us from now until the end of time.
 
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