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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Assuming we have fair elections in the future, MAGA is screwed. Every demographic they made gains with last election is being targeted by this administration.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Still amazes me that this virus is virtually guaranteed to maim you in some way and yet no one seems to care about preventing infection with it anymore.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
This is just the cost of doing business as a social media company now. Either you bow to the whims of local government or you get replaced by someone who does. Pick your battles wisely.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
They were with Abrego Garcia case at least.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
You can just assume at this point that China will pull ahead of the US in all science and technology domains. They both have internal problems that will drag them down but the US’s problems far outweigh China’s.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
This is what happens when you elect a reality tv star as President.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
I expect most of these pledges to build factories in the US will turn out like the Foxconn deal from Trumps first term.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Remember this when studies purporting to find a link between vaccines and autism begin to come out of the NIH.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Glorification of democracy and decentralization looks increasingly silly in a world where modern China exists.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
I feel like this is a moot point since Apple also manufactures iPhones in India.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Give it time.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
It looks like Huang got shafted by Trump and this is retaliation. The timeline of events is: * Huang attends million dollar Mar-a-lago dinner * Trump admin says it will allow H20 sales to China * Nvidia announces $500 billion investment in
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" continues to be an undefeated aphorism.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Several of the samples in the chart came from other countries and also tested positive.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
It feels like the early days of Covid right now, where everyone is still living their lives normally but you know things are about to rapidly change for the worse.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
> But the bill sponsor, Republican Rep. Ben Koppelman of West Fargo, said the system prefers “vanilla” candidates who don't take hard stances Yes, it resists extremists gaining power, that’s the point.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
He is 100% going to imprison his political rivals in El Salvador if he gets away with the Garcia case.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
I too would like intelligent and qualified people to be president, but alas.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
No, the people who buy these are going to be rich oligarchs, they won’t be held to the same standard as the PhD students that are being deported by the dozens.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
It's beginning to feel like the US is to China as the Soviet Union was to the US. Our cars are like the Lada compared to theirs.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
> Notably, within minutes of DOGE personnel creating user accounts in NLRB systems, on multiple occasions someone or something within Russia attempted to login using all of the valid credentials (e.g. Usernames/Passwords) Looks like
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Both share the same core goal too: to drag their countries back to the mid 20th century. Putin wants the Soviet Union back, and Trump wants 50’s America back. China is immune to this because that time period was uniquely terrible for them.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
There’s something darkly funny about the US and Russia both facing economic obliteration in the same year caused by their own hubris.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Powell's term ends a year from now and Trump gets to appoint his successor. Trump will then have direct control over monetary policy.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
I don't think China cares one way or the other whether the US backs down. I think they see this moment as the US going rogue and finally decoupling from them completely. Trump could remove all tariffs tomorrow and I bet they would stil
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China orders its airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets(cbsnews.com)
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
This is a very different term from 2017.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Powell’s term ends a year from now and then Trump gets to appoint his successor. We’re going to get hyperinflation.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Trump is beginning to tick all the boxes in the grievances section of the Declaration of Independence: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip... > He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
This may have been tempting a few weeks ago before Trump cratered the US economy and the value of the dollar.

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