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It's also interesting for California and other blue states.

Since Trump is attacking the blue states especially, there's a form of warfare there. As we all know, wars are really expensive and are often decided by who can stay solvent longer.

Normally, that would be California and other blue states, because they have the better economy. If they stopped paying taxes, that would severely harm Trump.

However, through the federal reserve, Trump can just print infinite amounts of dollars, and that effectively overrides the blue states' strong economy.

So the blue states have a serious interest in de-dollarization, sothat Trump's money-printing federal reserve becomes meaningless.

lol i was talking about the person, not the food :D but i guess it's both

The rise in gay people since then reminds me of this diagram:

in general i would agree but many people were tricked into it.

are people in general for or against secession (i.e. splitting up the US into jesusland and the blue states)? poll by upvoting (pro secession) or downvoting (against secession) this comment.

I’d be annoyed too if someone kept sticking their hand in my food every single day.

i'd say it depends on how hot they are, honestly

and I had to desperately fight falling in love right then and there

but why fight against it?

flirting? at the workplace? at this time and age?

Kolanaki, i guess you're not really getting the point here. The point is intentional cruelty to demotivate these people to ever come to the US again.

i honestly find all of these sex replacement things rather funny. it definitely shows some creativity

too many people nowadays are brainwashed by public media. we have to somehow get people off facebook

what show is that from?

but is it really shit if it makes a stockholder a lot of money? /s

yeah exactly

do you think that they are alive somewhere else, and will continue to be for a long time?

yeah but MAGAts do, at least about the idea they have about the country or rather how they think it was in the past.

it's maybe some kind of stockhold syndrome? the 1950s were shit but people remember them well.

so they think that they want to go back to that.

and the loss of that is causing an emotional toll on the people.

We could lose more than our democracy. We could lose the very idea of America and, with it, the peaceful world we’ve anchored since 1945.

This is essentially nationalism.

I'm just trying to understand people's sentiments here. Is "preserving America" something that the people in general want? Just trying to understand the situation here. Or would people prefer to live in their own, local communities?

The article is very well written, IMO, and i encourage people to read it.

First, let’s get back to basics. There are only two primary ways to grow a nation’s wealth: by extracting resources from the earth or by manufacturing goods, adding value to those resources. Everything else — lawns getting mowed, nails getting done, stocks getting traded — may move money around or improve quality of life, but don’t grow the actual wealth of a nation.

I agree and i call that "actual wealth of the nation" the real economy, while painting nails and mowing lawns is entertainment.

The Democratic Party has largely understood this since the industrial revolution, as did the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw construction of the transcontinental railroad and funded over 70 free “Land Grant” colleges like MSU across the nation.

From FDR through Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden, Democratic presidents have consistently invested in the physical and human infrastructure that powers wealth creation. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the GI Bill, the WPA and CCC, the Clean Air and Water Acts, and most recently, the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS Act all fit this pattern.

Even Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, got it, although he was his party’s modern exception. He built the Interstate Highway System and warned Americans against the possibility that the military-industrial complex could corrupt Congress. His vision was of a balanced, productive America, not one dominated by war profiteers and Wall Street gamblers.

But the Republican Party since the 1920s (with the exception of Eisenhower) has marched in the opposite direction. [...]

In a healthy economy, windfalls get invested in productivity: roads, R&D, education, healthcare for working people. In today’s GOP-run economy, however, they’re getting funneled into yachts, stock buybacks, and political influence. Economists call this the “voracity effect”; a dynamic where powerful groups extract so much from the economy that they ultimately destabilize and then crash it. It’s economic cancer.

Exactly what i say. The rich skim so much wealth from the economy that it simply starves to death. A wealth tax would be a systemic counter-measure to that development, and it's bitterly needed.

only a systemic treatment can help. treating individual cases isn't enough.

we need a good social safety net, including wealth tax and UBI.

while most people in the west will think that trump is finally coming to his senses about ukraine,

to trump, it's just a distraction scheme from his problems at home. he thinks that if he starts a war with russia, the people at home will forget about the bullshit policies he's implemented domestically.