rat87

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by rat87 1y ago
I think only thing likely to make US go broke is Trump's actions. DOGE doesn't save any money. Not only because it's created many legal messes that will take forever to work out in court but because most of those jobs are imp
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by rat87 1y ago
I mean these tarrifs will cause inflation. We already know that
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by rat87 1y ago
If they cared about inflation they wouldn't have instituted massive inflation causing tarrifs. Economists are saying there is a chance 70s style stagflation might come back into fashion https://www.bloomberg.com/news&#x
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by rat87 1y ago
Not being the world's reserve currency can be argued over but having these massive economy crushing tarrifs is just stupid
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by rat87 1y ago
If the goal was to decouple from China then tarrifs would only be on China and we would encourage trade to move from China to other countries. The administrations actions have the opposite effect. It says the US is untrustworthy even to it&
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by rat87 2y ago
I wouldn't consider Putins Russia a democracy especially in 2014 after the Medvedev shuffle. Putins dislike and lack of understanding of democracy and how it lead Ukraine in a different path towards the EU was probably a major factor i
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by rat87 2y ago
Yes but how much among democracies?
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by rat87 2y ago
I disagree the EU is peaceful because of democratic peace theory and because of the political union not because of trade. If it was just economic and some of those countries were authoritarian I could easily border conflicts turning into wa
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by rat87 2y ago
German Ostpolitik (eastern politics) goes back before independent Russia back to the 1960s attempt to cooperate and have peace with Eastern Germany and the Soviet Union. And peace with Russia (maybe even its transformation into a regular de
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by rat87 2y ago
I think it won't change much because frankly the peace trade theory has not worked out very well. I think it was first formulated around WW1 and didn't stop it or WW2. Most modern wars don't make financial sense when accounti
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by rat87 2y ago
I wouldn't put it past Teddy Roosevelt. When he was undersecretary of the navy that helped start the Spanish American war he resigned (despite his superiors asking him not to) to fight in the war. He also asked to fight in WW1 despite
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by rat87 2y ago
Cash is arguably more secure and likely less traceable and easier to use if you don't trust governments. I don't see much use case for crypto other then illegal activities (although possibly not always immoral)
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by rat87 2y ago
It already aired https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Bureaucrat_to_Villaines... > A bureaucrat named Kenzaburo Tondabayashi is killed by a passing truck after saving a boy and is reborn in the Otome game Magical Ac
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by rat87 2y ago
Japanese culture has quite a lot of sexism but so do many "western" countries some are better in some ways some are worse in some ways. And divide between "the West" and Japan isn't so huge Japan is fairly westerniz
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by rat87 2y ago
The tone of HN is something. For instance there always seems to be someone partisan enough to defend Trump no matter how ridiculous and terrible his actions are. It true that there are democrats who are more skeptical on free trade and I wo
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by rat87 2y ago
Why? That's what trade is for
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by rat87 2y ago
Actually doing positive things is hard. Good presidents like Biden can pass stuff like IRA. Wrecking shit when you don't care much about who suffers is much easier
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by rat87 2y ago
We tarrif Trucks because they tarrifed our chickens. Tarrifs are pretty complicated and often don't make sense. But no the idea that EU tarrifs on the US are much higher on average is unsupportable
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by rat87 2y ago
> Everyone is quick to deride this move as stupid. I don’t disagree that there are downsides to the approach, but there is a set of very real national problems that this might address. Because it is stupid. It's important to point o
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by rat87 2y ago
paul krugman isnt useful example because he is a liberal democrat and people will try to say thats why he said its stupid. even though hes right and it is stupid. plenty of conservative economists are basically saying wtf Bro to these tarr
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by rat87 2y ago
If we were in delicate peace negotiations then we should put more pressure on them. Tell them extra tarrifs will be removed if they agree. The main reason there is still war is Putins stubbornness in admitting he started an unwinnable war.
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by rat87 2y ago
It shouldn't be a vow of poverty but it shouldn't open corruption shouldn't be acceptable. Instead we should raise their wages a bit
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by rat87 2y ago
If that was actually the case Trump would have lost the primaries. Or they'd all be writing their Congressmen to impeach him yesterday. Trump is literally the most corrupt President in the history of our country. He makes most other po
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by rat87 2y ago
How does it compare to the other big foss e-book app, FBReader? Does the focus on eink mean it's mainly aimed at jail broken eink tablets? Or aimed at phones as well?
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by rat87 2y ago
Sure that would be preferable if Russia was willing to accept that. But they proved those experts wrong in 2022 and have not changed their ways since. Maybe you could argue in the 90s that NATO shouldn't exist but Russias actions prove
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by rat87 2y ago
He has no idea how US foreign policy works. Or any US policy really. Because he frankly doesn't care. People who try to inform him have talked about how difficult it is to get him to pay attention, that it requires cutting it very shor
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by rat87 2y ago
Americans do generally support Ukraine and Europe. Even most Republicans seem to oppose Trumps policy. A policy wbichseems to be based on whims and a personal appreciation for far right dictators who flatter him. But somehow we elected him
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by rat87 2y ago
> This would have led to Russia having an even bigger economic interest in playing nice with EU, and would not have feared NATO at all, because it wouldn't have included US. Ergo, no war in Ukraine. The Capitalist/free trade pe
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by rat87 2y ago
Those massively military bases exist to protect Europe. The countries can of course choose to tell soldiers to fuck off but now is not a particularly good time for that. The real danger is that Trump abandons our allies because a dictator f
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by rat87 2y ago
I think what altered Germany and the EU path was the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. It humiliated German politicians and their decades long policy of trying to appease and cooperate with Russia. Biden and Obama were right to warn t

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