He'll be calling back when the dedollarization hits. Well, it's happening concurrently with the new tariffs. But when his merry band of inept fuckwits figures it out and explains it to him like he's 5. Then he'll call back.
Hi. American here. Us losing our reserve currency status is all I've wanted for half my life. It will be the deathblow to this evil fking empire and I can't wait to see it happen.
I know I'm boned. But knowing that the world at large can finally move beyond the regressive pull of the US gives me hope for the future.
Shit man. Play in open just for the engagement. Random interdictions and negotiating with pirates is annoying when you're new and broke. But it's just part of doing business when you get a few ships and some coin under you. Breaks up the monotony of the trips. Most pirates are RPers. You give them like 10 units of beer or something and they'll let you go.
But then there's the straight up gankers. They just suck. Losing 2 hours of work because some scrub who can't pvp can feel better about himself never gets easier. At least it didn't for me. They did inspire me to build a revenge FDL and learn to use it tho.
Edit - One time I talked a couple RPers into flying block for me on a run into Jamison. They interdicted me and asked for x tons of something. I offered them 3x that to escort me to port and protect me from gankers. I got interdicted twice more on the way. They killed 4 otjer pilots protecting me. Was a good time.
Don't talk about 9/11 to me removed. I remember it all. The day of and all the authoritarian overreach and idiot racism afterwards. "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" on signs at fucking Walmart. Sihks being murdered in the street by ignorant fuckwits. All of it.
If fines aren't a percentage of quarterly or annual earnings they don't matter. Ten million to a company earning billions isn't even a rounding error. But 30% of their gross. They'd respect that. They'd have to.
You are under the mistaken impression that I give a fuck about "America's interests"
I hate this fucking place. And I'm glad I get to live long enough to see it fall. We'll be irrelevant in a few years. Like post-brexit England.
Can't trust us on any timetable longer than 4 years. The whole world rightfully hates us for nearly a century of warmongering and aggression. And that was before Chump's first term. His lunacy has just been nails in the coffin.
I'm ok with shuttering the NSA. It was just a domestic spying program from the jump. It never should have been allowed to exist. All that reactionary authoritarian post-9/11 bullshit.
Beans and rice in 5 gallon food safe buckets.
Same with all staple foods. Flour, cornmeal, oil, salt, etc.