SpaceCowboy @ SpaceCowboy @lemmy.ca

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He was kinda shit to India and probably some other things. But that's just internet contrarian nitpicking stuff. When someone mentions Churchill everyone knows it means a leader that held strong against what seemed an impossible enemy to defeat.

He should come to the next meeting (if there is one) in a tan suit.

Sure but we're all used to that. But we've never seen a President deliberately sabotage US interests in this way.

Some drone strikes on some Al Qaeda guys I guess? But nothing of significant note. The rest has been a complete humiliation of the US.

Tee investor class has pretty much all of the money now, so the goal isn't to make a product that makes a company revenue anymore. The goal is to convince investors that other investors will put money into a company. Tesla is very successful at promoting itself as a company that's going to come out with some nebulous product that will be a game changer. They don't need to actually do this, or even be able to convince people they will do this. They only need to convince investors they've successfully convinced the Greater Fool that Tesla is going to do something big someday.

Just remember Trump, what comes around is all around.

Yup, and he also said he had powers some would consider unnatural... which is a reference to have dark side powers over life and death. Also some rebels mentioned cloning and magic as possible explanations (re-iterating it for people that didn't get the references) before Poe interrupted them to focus everyone on doing something.

You speak for only for yourself. You may be soft, but not everyone is the same as you.

Because Luke Skywalker said it's legit? https://youtu.be/jDEqM3-hQuQ

There was a Russian state media reporter in the room tho.

Watch the interview. Trump is scared shitless over the potential of WW3 and UK and France have nukes. If NATO (less US) decided to do something in Ukraine, the most Trump would do is impose tariffs, which is something he was going to do anyway.

This interview proved Trump to be a coward.

That's not how it works. MAD requires an existential threat to a country. Not simply the ability to maybe take out one city. You have to have the capability to completely destroy a country for MAD to take effect.

You also need second strike capability otherwise that one nuke is a target. Russia figures out where Ukraine's nuclear weapons are location, they do a first strike. There's a reason why most nuclear powers have submarines capable of nuclear strikes. Hard to take them out with a first strike.

Canada and Libya never had nuclear weapons.

Libya tried to develop nuclear weapons but never had them. Also they weren't invaded, there was an uprising that toppled Qaddafi.

Canada was involved with the Manhattan Project, and could have had nukes, but decided against it.

What about Musk makes you think he's polished? The time he randomly accused a diver of being a pedophile because he got his feelings hurt? Or when he told his customers to go fuck themselves? When he did a Nazi salute?

The dude is the the most idiotic and unpolished famous person ever.

Yeah no shit they're controlled by different groups of people.

Real currency is managed by a central bank which has as it's goal to keep it stable with slight inflation over time. Because that's what makes it good for doing loans with.

Cryptocurrency is controlled by speculators looking to make money from rug pulls.

Tickets at an arcade could be considered a currency because they only have value

You're still thinking currency is supposed to have value beyond being something that makes it convenient to conduct transactions in. Money is a simply an incomplete transaction. You're trading something of value for something else of value. You do labour you're owed something. You buy a product, you've completed the transaction, trading labour for a product. Money exists when that transaction is incomplete. It's a temporary thing that only exists because it's inconvenient to haul around chicken, bushels of grain, or anything else someone might want whenever you're making a trade.

Crypto currency operates on the premise that money is supposed to have value in and of itself and that value should be increasing. It's valued because people believe it will increase in value with some underlying belief that it will someday become a currency. But once everyone that could ever get suckered into buying into it has already put all of their money into it, it can no longer increase in value and those that invested into it to make a profit will sell, causing the value to crash.

There is no benefit to crypto other than for illegal activities like money laundering and for scamming people. It would be stupid to take out a loan denominated in crypto as it could increase in value. So businesses will never be financed in crypto which means it's inconvenient for business to pay employees in crypto, which means it's inconvenient for those employees to buy legit products in crypto. The whole point of currency is to make transactions more convenient and crypto fails at that because borrowing crypto would be stupid.

So it's not real currency and never will be because the libertarian concept of money that has increasing value doesn't work for financing and therefore won't work in a capitalist society.

Pope Francis made a bunch of new Cardinals from all over the world, so nobody knows what will happen.

Probably had to tweet a poop emoji at Musk.

Just make sure you get the Original Prongles

Yeah but now you can get citizenship by "investing" $5M in $TRUMP coin.

The survival of US democracy is dependent on whether Trump croaks before his term is up. If he's still alive when his term is up, he's not leaving. Then that's the end of US democracy and either it's a civil war or they become an authoritarian regime with a slow decline. In which case, yeah they'll be and adversary for Canada for decades.

But if he doesn't last the term (he's old and not all that healthy) my guess is JD Vance lacks the popularity to make authoritarianism stick and will either be voted out or there'd be a coup if he tries to quash democracy. Whoever replaces him would not want to continue the failed policies of that regime.

So it all depends on how long the Fanta Menace lives for.