Youtube comments of Ace1000ks1975 (@Ace1000ks19751982).

  1. People need to stop buying Elon's stuff, seriously.
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  2. If you shoot at a predator drone, it will fire hell fire missiles at you. LOL
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  3. There is no point in contributing to a country that despises you.
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  4. This was built by a civilization that existed before the flood.
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  5. What that woman said was racist.
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  6. China spent most of their money improving their infrastructure, spending money on educating its people, and building up the economy. On the other hand, in the past 22 years, the US spent over $5.3 trillion ($5300 billion) on two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. See the difference if you spend the money on improving peoples lives vs. wasteful wars that benefited a few big defense contracting companies?
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  7. Countries in Africa shouldn't forget what the west did to them. They would be better off working with the BRICS block. They would only benefit from trading with the BRICS block.
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  8. U.S. economic sanctions, and government mismanagement.
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  9. China needs to pivot more towards global south countries. These Western countries are being hostile to China, and Chinese people in general, so there is no need to buy from countries that are being hostile to China.
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  10. This battle is like the Battle of Kursk. The Ukrainians were waiting for their miracle weapons, like the Leopard 2 MBTs, Challengers, M1A1s, M2 Bradley AIFVs, and Marder 1 AIFVs to turn the tide. Just like Hitler was waiting for the Panther and Tiger tanks to run over the Russians in the Battle of Kursk. Looks like those weapons didn't turn the tide for Hitler or the Ukrainians.
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  11. When you have scientists, engineers, and scholars leading a country, you get good results like this. Compare that to the US where lawyers, finance people, and liberal arts majors lead a country, you get a regressive country. On the other hand, China is a progressive country.
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  12. Cut off their money, and the people who are ardent Trump supporters need to lose their jobs as well.
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  13. If they cannot compete, ban it. You can download it, and use it on your computer.
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  14. She was caught on camera, and she cannot lie about it.
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  15. China needs to continue to help Russia, because they're next.
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  16. This political correctness is going too far. People rewriting history now.
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  17. Stable genius huh? How about insane idiot.
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  18. China is being smart, they don't need to recycle their dollar surplus into US t-bonds. They can lend it out to other countries, that is a brilliant idea. They can also use it for international trade in their own banking system, which would made it impossible for the US to track.
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  19. Chinese engineering is actually pretty good. They can produce very cost effective products that people want.
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  20. The US and EU says China is subsidizing their industries, but they are doing the same thing. Industries in the EU and US are almost entirely subsidized by the government, because they are not profitable. On the other hand, China's industries are profitable.
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  21. If Iran wants to exist as a sovereign state then they better develop nuclear technology. Libya made the mistake of cancelling their nuclear program, and look what happened.
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  22. No more Biden, NOOOOOOOOOO.
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  23. China isn't starting these issues, it is the US.
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  24. China's foreign policies are very pragmatic, and long term.
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  25. Your money isn't safe in the US, so foreign investors should look elsewhere.
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  26. This reminds me of the Janissary Mutiny of 1826. The Janissary corp believed they would be replaced by the modern Ottoman Army, so they started a mutiny against the Sultan. Their mutiny failed, and the Janissary Corp was disbanded.
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  27. Looks like a modern day Nazi party rally.
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  28. In purchasing power parity, China is ahead of the US now. The US built less than 10 ships last year, and China built 1,400 ships last year.
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  29. These stupid people believed that Trump was going to help them. LOL
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  30. I am a overseas Chinese person, and I stopped buying European and US goods. I heard some people in China are doing the same. I don't see a reason to buy from people that want to hamper the progress of China.
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  31. The US is isolating themselves. At this point, the world should stop using the USD in international trade. China can get oil directly from countries that produce it without using USD. China is buying cocoa beans and coffee beans directly from countries in S. America and Africa at a better price. They can cut out the brokers, and get a better price by making long term contracts.
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  32. The world needs oil, but the world doesn't need dollars.
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  33. The US isn't banning Tiktok arbitrary, because Tiktok isn't violating any US laws. This is discriminatory in nature.
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  34. People are angry, and it is ultimately their anger that will destroy them. My father was like that, he always listened to right wing radio shows. He would blame other people for all the problems he had, he would abused alcohol, and he was abusive. Years of negativity, and abusing alcohol destroyed his health, had chemotherapy, two surgeries due to colon cancer + bladder, and still an asshole. Populism, being angry at everyone, blaming everyone, and substance abuse will not get you anywhere in life. He is paying for it now, living in chronic pain, living with a colostomy bag, and another bag for his urine. I did learn something from him, and that was not to be like him. Not to be a masochist, and not to believe in right wing bullshit. Populism, anger, and negativity is something snake oil salesmen sell to people blinded by rage.
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  35. I wish I could buy a Huawei phone here, but I can't because it is banned here. Back in the 1980s, the US govt tried to ban Japanese automobiles, because they were inexpensive and very high quality. The US automotive industry lobbied congress to put tariffs on Japanese automobiles, and they did. People still bought them, because they were reliable and inexpensive. Now instead of allowing in competition, they just ban it. They banned Huawei 5G telecomm equipment, Huawei phones, and now they are putting trade barriers on Chinese EVs. Trade barriers for Chinese EVs isn't enough, so they are trying to ban the import of those EVs. They are trying to ban TikTok. In the media, you just see a lot of anti-China, and anti-Chinese hysteria. They are just painting a negative image on Chinese people, and China as a whole. I don't see why people in China should buy American brands. In my humble opinion, they should stop buying US brands, because they are funding these politicians in the US by making US equity markets go up. These politicians want to play on the anti-China hysteria to win points, so the people of China shouldn't be funding people that harm them and their interests.
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  36. The world needs to ditch the US, they aren't offering anything in return.
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  37. Finally, someone who has backbone, I would vote for Donald Trump.
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  38. People in Argentina are crying, because they picked this stooge.
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  39. The petrodollar is no more. Now, we have the petroyuan. This will accelerate de dollarization.
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  40. China should be raising the incomes of average person in China more to encourage more consumption. Incomes have doubled from 2012 to the present; however, more could be done. After all, China could produce many of the things they produce, so this would reduce the dependence on exports. Chinese products are getting better, and they are competing directly with Western and Japanese brands. Now, US companies are complaining their businesses aren't profitable in China. I don't see anything wrong with Chinese people buying Chinese products which are getting better and better. You have 1.4 billion people living in China, and you still have room to grow the domestic market. I am a overseas Chinese person, and I am buying more Chinese products.
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  41. This is why countries around the world have to de dollarize. The less dependent countries are on the US the better.
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  42. More countries should join BRICS, competition is always a good thing.
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  43. It's getting dangerous out there. People like that need to be locked up in a prison in the middle of desert without any air conditioning.
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  44. Russia has a lot of natural resources, and the collective West has a lot of money from the printing press. Who do you think will win? Sure, the West can make tons of orders for things, but without a strong industrial base and resources. There will be a backlog of orders that can't be fulfilled. On the other hand, China produces real things, and Russia has tons of resources. Let's see who wins, the countries that print money, or the countries that produce real things.
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  45. Once you become a prisoner of war, you don't know what will happen. As for these Azov Battalion soldiers, they would be put on trial. After that, they can be sentenced to death, or sentenced to Siberia. They will not be exchanged for Russian prisoners.
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  46. That Ukrainian guy talks like a real Nazi, and this is the same thing the Nazis said when they invaded the USSR during WW2.
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  47. China could import grains from Brazil and Russia, because it is more price competitive. If you really think about it, the US needs China more than China needs the US by looking at the trade deficit the US has with China.
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  48. In China, the government didn't bail out the real estate speculators. As a result, the price of homes in China are going down. Back in 2008, our government bailed out the speculators, and now homes and rents aren't affordable. People can't start businesses renting commercial real estate, many people can't buy homes at these inflated prices, and rents had gone up a lot.
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  49. He is talking about blacks, yet he is a white guy. LOL.
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  50. This is what I expected, so I sold all my stocks after Trump won the election on November.
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  51. Trump is the worst president in the history of the United States of America, he is an embarrassment. He needs to be removed from office before he causes any more damage.
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  52. China has a history of innovations, look at all the things invented in China, like paper, gunpowder, trigger mechanisms, clockwork, wheel barrows, rockets, magnetic compass, seismometer, rudders for boats/ships, multi hulled ships, etc.
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  53. That's pretty clever. Continue to trade in USD, but don't use the banking system. ROFL
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  54. The US economy is inflated. In terms of PPP(Purchasing Power Parity) China is ahead. Everything costs 3 to 5 times more in the US. People pay more for everything in the US, more for vehicles, more for medical care, more for food, etc.
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  55. China can produce 28nm DUV lithography machines with 100% Chinese suppliers as of last year. There are very few countries in this world that can produce their own DUV lithography machines in this world. With every passing year, China will be producing more advanced DUV lithography machines, which means they will not have to buy Japanese and Dutch lithography machines in the future. Tsinghua university is developing a SSMB EUV light source, and this will enable China to produce 3 nm, and 5 nm chips in the future. It is actually a EUV lithography cannon. China has 14 nm lithography machines, and they can technically produce 7nm chips by using multi patterning. The yields are lower, but they can produce 7nm chips by using this method. China can produce 14 nm chips with their 28nm DUV lithography machines with multi patterning. As of today, China can produce, automotive chips, RISC processors for smartphones/mobile devices, chips for military equipment, X86 chips, 5G chips, etc. China produces 4 million engineers and scientists every single year while the US produces about 400,000/year. Producing something like a lithography machine is difficult, but if you have many scientists and engineers in the fields of optics, chemistry, electronics, electrical engineering, lasers, etc it will be possible to achieve those goals in the future. The outcome of all of this is, US semiconductor companies losing market share in the biggest chip market in the world. This will mean, US semiconductor companies will have less money to spend on R&D to produce better chips in the future. At the same time, Chinese semiconductor companies will make more money, and spend more of it on R&D producing better and better chips. Like Kevin said, those Chinese semiconductor chips will be selling their chips in the global market which will take more market share from US companies.
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  56. It's difficult to live in a country where there is a lot of hostility directed towards you. It doesn't matter how much money or what kind of position you have, your quality of life will be affected negatively.
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  57. Chump's always been a snowflake, he can't take hard questions, he can't go fight in Vietnam, he can't take criticism, and he is a loser.
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  58. That is amazing. Infrastructure improves the lives of people.
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  59. You can't take any of it back Trump, we know you are a traitor.
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  60. Don't trust 7-11s.
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  61. The asset seizing game, this will be interesting to watch. I guess, the West will get the point that they can't get away with seizing assets without consequences.
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  62. Alex Jones got banned for inciting violence and defamation.
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  63. Tariffs would increase costs of imports to the US, and a weak dollars would make imports more expensive. We are headed towards a major economic downturn.
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  64. Math and science education is really mediocre in the US. If you want to major in engineering, you have to be good in subjects, like math, physics, and chemistry. When I was going to university back in the mid 1990s, I would say about 80% of the people in the higher math(Calculus 1 - 3, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, etc), and physical science courses(physics, chemistry, thermodynamics) were mostly foreigners. In the US, you have more lawyers than scientists and engineers, so this is why the country is at the state that it is in now.
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  65. There are a lot of US brands in China, like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, Starbucks, Taco Bell, etc. People in China need to stop buying these brands, and send a message to these politicians in the US. By buying these brands, you are making the US stock market go up, and giving your money to these people.
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  66. There is no need to use the USD, because the petrodollar is over. Oil can be bought with other currencies, and oil is the life blood of the economy.
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  67. Trump should be sued for libel.
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  68. Go read about Stepan Bandera, he is a national hero in the Ukraine. He was a Nazi collaborator during WW2.
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  69. China should help Russia, because the West is helping Ukraine, and the US is encouraging EU countries to decouple from China.
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  70. The true value of the USD will be discovered when the true value of gold is discovered.
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  71. For a person who doesn't have any culture, he can criticize other countries on culture. LOL
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  72. If inflation isn't bad enough right now in the US, I think it will go out of control next year.
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  73. China has a very developed infrastructure when it comes to electrical power, railroads, canals, high speed rail, roads, highways, airports, and ports. The reason why Rome was able to conquer the world was because of their very good infrastructure. China will be able to be predominate in manufacturing because of its very good infrastructure.
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  74. Alex Jones need to take his meds. 
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  75. Running a small business is not easy, I took over my father's business in 2001, and I ran it for about 11 years. Running a small business requires a lot of time, at times you will be working 7 days a week 12 hours/day. You have to deal with all kinds of problems, like shoplifting, getting bad checks, taking losses for items that don't move, dealing with a economic downturn, paying fees to the city/state/federal government, etc.
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  76. If the US wants to be full protectionist then consumption will decline in the US. At the same time, consumption will increase in BRICS countries. People want and need things, like vehicles, farm machinery, parts for vehicles, parts for machines, appliances, bicycles, motor scooters, electronics, parts/components, apparel, etc. As a result, the standard of living will increase in the BRICS countries, and it will decline in the US. The imports will still be flowing into the US, because they cannot produce a lot of the stuff they are importing. However, these products will cost more, and the people in the US will have less disposable income.
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  77. This is what happens if you have a ignorant moron like Trump as president. We keep winning. LOL
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  78. Biff Tannen is president, what can you expect.
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  79. I live in the US, and it is getting bad. About a week ago, I went to CVS to buy some over the counter medications. I saw people shoplifting, people were putting one thing in the shopping basket, and another in their purse or under their shirt. Since prices have more than doubled since 2020, people are coping with the inflation by giving themselves a 5 finger discount. It is so bad, that some stores are locking up every item, like Rite Aid. If inflation gets worse, this problem can get worse.
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  80. It is illegal to sleep in your car, and it is illegal to sleep in the street. You will be harassed by the police if you do either.
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  81. Trump wants a investigation lead by yes men. He wants to be dictator.
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  82. I was reading about light in chips back in college in the mid 1990s. The book was published in the 1970s, it was largely theoretical. No one really solved the technical issues of getting one to work. The chips we have use electrons. Using electrons require more energy, and it is slower than using light. Intel developed silicon photonic optical transceivers which are used in data centers, they are much faster than using the electron based transceivers. This is why they have fiber optic cables, fiber optics also use light. If Chinese scientists can solve all the technical issues of developing a photonic chip then it would be ground breaking.
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  83. Speculators are gamblers, they aren't interested in living in those homes. In this case, the people won, and the speculators lost. The government of China liberated the people from the speculators. ROFL 🤣
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  84. US oil is expensive, and US products are expensive in general. Stop buying from mercia!!!!!!!!!
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  85. Is this a joke, chump can compare himself to Mussolini.
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  86. The end result is hyperinflation, there is no way around it. That is what happened to the USSR in the 1980s. They had a shortage of consumer goods, long lines in stores, inflation crisis, out of control defense spending, and a lot of unhappy people. The US is looking like this. When people can't make enough to survive then that empire is finished.
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  87. They want to buy the raw materials and assemble it there, and say it is made in the US, and made in the EU. They aren't able to produce these silicon wafers. I see a pattern here. Indonesia asked the West to build them a nickel processing plant, and the only country that did that for them was China. Nigeria wanted a oil refinery, and China did that for them as well. Zimbabwe wanted a lithium processing plant, and China helped with that as well. Now Western countries are angry, because they can't exploit countries for raw materials. China can simply raise the cost of those silicon wafers who knows, like 300% to 1000%. LOL 🤣
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  88. When your currency gets devalued, people are getting poorer. When I was growing up in the early 1980s, we had 1 cent candy, 5 cent candy, and 10¢ candy. When I went to the convenience store, I could buy a can of Coca-cola for 25¢, and a snickers bar for a quarter. Then, I would go to the frozen yogurt shop and buy a large frozen yogurt for 99¢. For less than 2 buck, you could enjoy the simple things in life as a kid. I used to own a convenience store back in the early 2000s, and I sold single eggs for 25 ¢, and a dozen eggs cost 1 buck back then. Today, a dozen eggs cost 8 to 11 bucks. All I can say is something is broken.
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  89. The hypocrisy and double speak from the West.
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  90. Covid-19 exposed the fakeness in our capitalist system.
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  91. All the money from the Chips Act is not working, because the US doesn't have a electronics industry. At the same time, the US govt is preventing the sale of these semiconductor chips to the country that consumes a lot of it. As a result, companies, like Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and others are seeing a reduction in sales. Less revenue means less profitability; therefore, people have to be laid off. This means less R&D for these semiconductor chips. Sure, the subsidies did go into hiring people, pay peoples wages, and add production capacity. However, without a market to sell those goods, most of the money is just being used to keep these semiconductor companies afloat. This makes these companies less competitive, it gives them no incentive to spend money on R&D to improve their products. As a result, these companies lose their competitive edge and fall behind.
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  92. The average American will have a difficult time living on loans and credit cards now.
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  93. The US doesn't have much of a ship building industry, it isn't even in the top 15.
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  94. I thought the next group that would be drafted would be the LGBT people.
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  95. They are a cult, and cults don't want their members to talk with outsiders. Cults don't care about their country, the members in the cult, their people, all they care about is their leader. Their leader is a conman, and they will do anything for money. The US govt is funding them, so they will take that money and spew anti-China propaganda.
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  96. When you have real scientists that understand the electromagnetic spectrum, they can figure out how to jam stuff. ROFL 🤣
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  97. It seems like the US and collective West are desperate. They know their financial system is surviving on borrowed time, so they are trying to start something big.
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  98. All China has to do is raise the standard of living for 300 million people in China. They can industrialize countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This will create more consumers for Chinese goods.
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  99. I am 48, and I never got married. I had many chances to get married, but I choose not to because I wanted my freedom. My mother keeps nagging me, and say I should get married. Says stuff like don't you want a woman to be near you and eat with you? I said no, I like being alone.
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  100. If US want other countries to do these things then they have to be forced to pay for it. Whatever sales revenues get affected, the US should pay for the shortfall, but they don't want to do that. At the same time, the US is subsidizing their industries, and they want their allies to eat the losses. What Gina is peddling is pure BS.
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  101. The Fakeral Reserve will buy those treasury bonds.
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  102. China should halt all exports for the US for 6 months, and let's see what happens to the US economy. At the same time, China should give full support to Russia, and sell them everything they need.
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  103. Fox News is the definition of barbarism.
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  104. I am a Chinese person that lives in the US, I am the eldest son in my family, so I have to take care of my parents. My siblings are pitching in some money to help.
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  105. I will never eat in a Chinese restaurant again!!
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  106. China is the largest market for semiconductor chips, because a lot of those chips were used to make all kinds of products, like computers, smartphones, automobiles, aircraft, drones, smart TVs, and other kinds of electronics. China no longer needs to import those chips, they can produce enough for themselves, and export the surplus production around the world. Some people may say, couldn't they use those chips in the US. The US doesn't have a electronics industry, so now they have a glut of chips they can't use. This increases the supply of chips around the world, and this drives down the price of chips. This made US chip companies less competitive losing the biggest market for chips in this world.
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  107. All I see are happy people celebrating. It is obvious what the Western MM was saying is not true.
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  108.  @quos3683  The Earth is billions of years old. It isn't unreasonable to come out with a hypothesis that there were civilizations that existed before our civilization. It doesn't take much for a civilization to go away. If there was a thermal nuclear conflict between the major powers, we would go back into the stone age or go back to square one. A major natural disaster can easily wipe out a civilization. It happened to other civilizations in recorded history, like the Roman Empire, Ming Dynasty, and others.
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  109. It's basically like an Indian phone scam. LOL
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  110. I remember this one episode of the Simpsons when Homer met his half brother who owned a successful automotive company. Herb asked Homer to design a car for him, and the Homer mobile put Herb's company out of business. This reminds me of Elon and his cybertruck. LOL
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  111. China never really had a history of colonizing other countries. China had tributaries which they regularly traded with other countries.
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  112. California needs to introduce the chain gang. The state needs work to be done, like wild fire fighting, community service, clearing dead trees, work in agriculture, mining, etc.
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  113. The middle class is the class of debtors. They need to get a loan to buy a home, vehicle, higher education, and credit cards to buy stuff.
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  114. China is becoming more self sufficient. Chinese chips powering Chinese smartphones with a Chinese operating system. Sounds good to me.
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  115. The US relies on China for a lot of things, like APIs for meds, legacy chips, circuit boards, rare earth minerals, car parts, parts for various machines, chemical compounds, various types of electronics, lithum batteries, monitors, etc. There is a trade surplus, so the US imports more than what is exported to China. The US needs China more than China needs the US. They can put these high tariffs on China, but most of these things cannot be produced in the US. Thus, they will keep importing it even with these high tariffs.
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  116. Western hegemony is over!
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  117. Using the government to shutdown the free press and free enterprise. Trump said, he will attack Harley Davidson, because they moved some factories overseas. Trump the dictator wants to use his executive powers to harm individuals and individual companies. This traitor wants to become a dictator like Putin.
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  118. Talk is cheap, and that is all US policy is about. China is offering tangible things, like infrastructure, factories, and things that can improve peoples lives. Talk and lecturing to other countries why we should be number one based on nothing.
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  119. News papers were replaced by websites, catalogues were replaced by websites as well, and snail mail was replaced by email. Analog phones with landlines were replaced with cellphones. How things change.
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  120. Zelensky is like an aggressive panhandler.
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  121. Saudi Arabia was the country that helped create the Petro Dollar in 1973, and Saudi Arabia will be the country that dismantles the Petro Dollar. The US got off the gold standard in 1971, and it looks like a gold backed currency is going to make a comeback in the future. It's the beginning of the end of US hegemony.
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  122. They are brave people, and a prime example of not letting evil prevail in these dark times.
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  123. That is right way to do business in this world now. Sourcing stuff from the US is too expensive. Sourcing the parts and components in China makes more sense, and it makes even more sense to have it assembled in China.
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  124. There is a solution, we can pool our resources together and control the means of productions. We can also support each other.
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  125. Xi Jinping clearly said houses are for living and not for speculating. I think that is a great policy, it gives young people a future.
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  126. It's simple, without the market for those advanced chips, research and development will regress, which is dependent on revenue from chip sales. At the same time, Chinese semiconductor companies will only get better, because they can supply Chinese companies, and they are also getting subsidies from the government. These Chinese chips can supply Chinese companies that make computers, smartphones, electronics, SBCs, industrial computers, network equipment, etc. As time goes by, Chinese chip companies will grow, while US chip companies will stagnate.
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  127. You will see a lot of blighted cities across America as the investment money dries up.
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  128. I think the EU and US isn't backing down, because Ukraine owes a lot of money to them. A historic example would be WW1, the US sold a lot of arms to the Allied Powers on credit, and if the Central Powers won the war they wouldn't get their debt paid. This is why the US sided with the Allied Powers, it was all about money. If Ru-ssia wins then Ukrain-e will default on their debts, so this is a similar case.
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  129. The US is preventing Chinese companies from investing in the US, so there is no need to keep US treasury bonds or use the USD.
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  130. China is being smart, gold is worth more than USDs. USDs are pieces of paper or digits on a computer screen, gold doesn't corrode, timeless, and it is a store of value.
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  131. Pundits on the internet were saying the US and EU navies could prevail in a few weeks. Somehow, I don't think they are exceptional as they believe they are.
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  132. I am a overseas Chinese, and they are treating us very poorly. I don't blame those executives from Microsoft for wanting to go to China.
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  133. This will create a lot of inflation in the US. We will see how much pressure the average murican can take. Stay tuned.
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  134. Now, those US chip companies are going to cry to the govt to give them a bail out. ROFL 🤣
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  135. Trusting Donald Chump, never trust a con man.
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  136. BOJ will have to sell off their US t-bonds to save their currency. Japan will do less trade with the US, and they will do more trade with China and other countries. The same thing will happen with countries in the EU, they will trade more with China and other countries. They will use less USD in conducting international trade. As for the US, they can make more stuff in the US, but very few countries around the world will buy them. Stuff made in the US is expensive due to the high cost of living there. Less people in the US can buy them as well, which will cause US financial markets to decline over time.
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  137. When most people can't afford to pay their rent, and buy basic needs, there is something wrong with the system.
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  138. People think the cost of living in the US is high now, I think it will ultimately lead to runaway inflation. The US is a country that doesn't produce much, so a tariffs would make the price of everything go up. Interest rates would have to go up, and this is will be a drag on the US economy. At the same time, the Fed govt will keep spending more and more, and borrow more and more. They will borrow more and more at higher and higher rates, because less countries are buying US debt. There will be a point when the interest payments will be more than the operating expenses of the entire US govt. That will trigger runaway inflation.
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  139. The RMB is used as a trade currency, countries around the world can use RMB to buy Chinese goods. The RMB has value because people can buy stuff with it.
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  140. This is bad for US farmers, US farm equipment manufacturers, and the US chemical fertilizer industry. I guess people that have investments in those firms are going to lose a lot of $.
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  141. In the EU, there is talk about putting high tariffs on Chinese EV companies, but they said they will not impose tariffs on Tesla EVs made in China. That is discriminatory.
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  142.  @mortiarty7842  It beats seeing legions of homeless people, and seeing lawlessness on a daily basis.
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  143. Zeihan and G. Chang have never been right with a track record like that why would anyone listen to those people?
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  144. Trump is a liar.
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  145. These far right bastards are criminals. They have blatant disregard for the law, and they always complain about government, because that is the only institution that can stop these criminals.
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  146. Looks like the John Deere isn't the only company that produces farm machinery in this world.
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  147. In war, you have to keep your enemies guessing on where you plan to attack. This way, you have a better chance of making a breakthrough.
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  148. If the US wants to become a protectionist nation by imposing high tariffs on imports then wouldn't that undermine the USD as the world reserve currency? If this happened then countries all over the world could simply raise the standard of living in their respective countries, and they can consume more. Instead of having an export oriented economy, they can have a better life by being consumers.
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  149. It is hard to say if US lawmakers will ever listen to what the voters want, because they only listen to lobbyists. Voters in the US has a very limited choice when it comes to voting. Oligopolistic industries often have both parties in their pockets.
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  150. Iran isn't playing around.
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  151. The US doesn't have much of a ship building industry.
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  152. Without the resources, you can't industrialize. They can build the factories in the US, but without graphene, germanium, gallium, rare earth minerals, cobalt, etc those factories can't produce anything.
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  153. Looks like the EU would have to buy US treasuries, and the EU also prints a lot of money. I wonder how that would play out? Both are having inflationary problems, so they will be buying bonds from each other by printing money. ROFL 🤣
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  154. Bernie Sanders makes a lot of sense, he talks about real issues, and he seems very genuine.
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  155. In other words, the real estate market is a credit market. It is similar to student loan debts, the more people that can get financing to go to college/university, the higher the tuition fees go up.
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  156. The US is a declining power, and you can see the signs of this by seeing the inept leadership of that country.
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  157. Thing reminds me of my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. I was the one paying for everything, and I was the one who the dough. She acted like I needed her, but in fact she needed me. I got tired of being treated poorly, so I left the relationship. When I tried to do that, she was trying everything to keep the relationship. The G7 needs the Global South more than the Global South needs G7. It's a fact.
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  158. Russian companies aren't buying weapons from China, they are buying components, like circuit boards, microcontrollers, chips, resistors, capacitors, rare earth minerals, and other electronic components to make whole weapons. The US is doing the same thing. When you see something that is made in the USA, it has components made in China.
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  159. My father made the mistake of handing over all of his money to my mother after they got married. My mom wasted all of his money, and now he is a broke old man. Now, I have to support my father.
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  160. You have to always watch em.
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  161. Now, China can be self sufficient, they can produce advanced semiconductor chips, jet engines for commercial jets, and have control of the top of the supply chain. As a Chinese person, I want China to do better and get stronger.
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  162. My father told me that Japan's economy benefited enormously from the Korean War, and he also told me that the Korean economy benefited a lot from the Vietnam War. When you have war, there are a lot of orders for everything, like rations, blankets, uniforms, military equipment, vehicles, parts for machines, etc. China is benefiting a lot from this conflict, because they supply Russia with everything, and they are making bank. At the same time, their competitors get shut out of this market. LOL
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  163. The U S A is supporting this.
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  164. This is what happens when you have a bunch of law makers that don't know what they are doing. The US is run by a bunch of lawyers, and China is run by scholars/scientists/engineers. Look at the difference.
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  165. Losers are going to blame other people for their failures.
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  166. Republicans are the enemies of the state, because they are against the interests of the average person!
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  167. I wonder what will happen to the stores in the US when they have empty shelves. How will chumpo collect his import taxes if that happens?
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  168. Europe benefited from cheap Russian energy, and the USA benefited from cheap Chinese manufacturing. Cheap energy is gone for Europe, and cheap manufacturing won't be cheap in the US in the not too distant future. We are going to see more inflation in the West in the foreseeable future. Globalization is over, what will follow will be an environment of higher inflation, higher interest rates, and sluggish growth or even negative growth. This is the future.
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  169. It isn't just women getting laid off, I lost my job in the IT industry about 2 year ago. For me, it didn't affect me as much, because I lived frugally for many years. Saved most of my money, invested it, paid off all my debts. I have enough to not work for a couple of decades. I was looking for another job that was similar to what I lost, but I tried for 8 months and nothing came of it. I just found 3 low paying jobs. These days, I work about 25 hours a week processing medical records, work 16 hours/week washing dishes, and 16 hours/week at a warehouse. I still need to make money to support my elderly parents, and I don't want to use my savings to do that. The demand for computer programmers is not very high right now. If you lost your job in this field, and trying to find another kind of job. You can keep looking for the job you lost, but don't spend 8 hours a day doing that.
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  170. Tariffs against Chinese increases costs, because many products that are manufactured in the US are assembled with parts and components from China. Imports from China are less expensive, so putting tariffs on those items causes inflation to go up. In a time when you have a lot of inflation, it just adds to the problem. There are high tariffs on trucks and farm equipment, and this adds to the cost for the production and transport cost of food. When you have more and more inflation, other costs go up, like insurance cost. If vehicles and parts for vehicles cost more, car insurance goes up as a result. This is why life is getting unaffordable in the US.
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  171. The Gig Economy sucks. I work in the Gig Economy, and it is really unstable. The cost of having full time workers is expensive. Employers bypassed that by reducing most of their workers to part time workers and independent contractors. Instead of having one job that gives you 40 hours a week, most people have 2 or more part time jobs. As a result, I work more than 60 hours a week or less than 40 hours in some weeks. This way, they don't have to pay your health insurance, and other benefits. You have to pay for your own health insurance. That is the reality now.
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  172. You do not need to go to college to be a businessman. My great grandfather never went to college, and he became a multi millionaire by age 30. You don't have to go to college to become wealthy, you have to have the right mindset, the right opportunities, and the right circumstances. If you want to become a MD, DDS, CPA, a mathematician/computer scientist, biologist, chemist, physicist, engineer, pharmacist, teacher, professor, or some kind of specialist you need to go to college. You don't need a degree in business administration to start a business. You can open a business with skills you learns from college. For example, if you studied engineering you can open a engineering firm, if you studied medicine you can open your own practice, etc. In this day and age, going to college and getting a skill helps. We don't live in the 1890s or the early 1900s where you can go to one part of the country and buy merchandise and sell it in another part of the country. Everything is developed, you have trade networks, and you have globalism. It is very difficult for a small business person to make it in the face of overwhelming competition.
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  173. These jets are bought with US taxpayer money, not with Israeli's money.
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  174. People who don't behave on airlines should be put on no fly lists.
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  175.  @topsuperseven7910  Is that why they are 3 times fatter?
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  176. The secretary of treasury of the US went to complain. Complaining about a productive country.
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  177. Back in the 1980s, there were tariffs placed on Japanese automobiles. Those cars were great in that they were reliable and inexpensive, but the automobile lobby in the US pushed to ban and limit Japanese automobiles. The semiconductor lobby did the same thing to Japanese semiconductors to limit imports from Japan. The same thing is happening to Chinese companies in the US. The US knows that they can't compete, so they are just banning Chinese products, like they did with Huawei smartphones back in 2018, Huawei telecommunication equipment, etc. The US can ban Chinese products from entering the US, but they cannot ban those imports to other countries. As a result, US companies are going to start losing in the export markets.
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  178. $12 billion isn't much compared to what these farmers will lose. The U.S. exported $140 billion in agricultural goods in 2017. About $80 billion worth of agricultural goods are exported to China, Mexico, Canada, and the European Union. $12 billion is a bandaid, what Trump caused with his trade war is leukemia.
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  179. The BRICS financial system will succeed, but it will take years. You have time to prepare for the fallout which is inevitable.
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  180. I remember back in 1987, a steak and lobster dinner used to cost $5.99 at Sizzler. If you want to go out and get a steak and lobster dinner, it will cost you $45 to $50 + tax + 20% tip. I took my nephew to Disneyland, and the ticket cost $105, back in 1988 that same ticked was $17. I spent about $300 in Disneyland, Buena Park last year. If you don't want to just eat Top Ramen everyday, and have a good life in the US, you need to make at least $150k/year.
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  181. Just tell em Yankee mind your own business.
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  182. Everything Dr. Wolff said about worker cooperatives makes sense. I am going to start my own cooperative with a group of my friends. We will all pitch in to start a business, and pool our resources together.
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  183. I visited China, and all of it isn't polluted and messed up. China is a big country and there are parts that are great, and there are parts which are not so great.
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  184. Trust and the U S mainstream media doesn't belong in the same sentence.
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  185. To summarize this, Wall Street lost to the Chinese government. ROFL 🤣
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  186. The Japanese make very good instruction manuals where everything is drawn out. Back in the 1980s, I used to buy Japanese model kits, like Tamiya, and Hasegawa. The instructions were very easy to follow. I didn't know Japanese soups were the same. LOL
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  187. Jimmy Lai confessed to it by telling people who funded him.
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  188. A currency is as valuable as what you can buy with it, so you can buy a lot of stuff with the RMB. In the future, there isn't much you can buy with the USD, because most countries will be doing bilateral trade using the RMB.
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  189. The South China Sea is called "China" for a reason. Historically, it had belonged to 中國(China), it belonged 中國 when the Philippines did even exist as a nation.
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  190. The Chinese system is based on meritocracy, so this is why China is dominating industries.
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  191. Yoon needs to be impeached for pulling a chump.
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  192. Germany produces about 35 to 50 Leopard 2 MBTs in a year, so 17 invincible Leopard 2s were destroyed that is about half of Germany's production in a year. Think about it. Those losses are sustained in a few weeks.
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  193. Didn't Trump say Trade Wars are easy to win? LOL
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  194. I live in the US, and i dated these. They only date Chinese guys that are above average, like men who are tall, look really handsome, have money, and have a good career. I was going to get married to a blonde, but I didn't get married after she said I only like you because you have money. If it wasn't fir that, you can be alone. That was enough for me to break that relationship.
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  195. China is going to come out on top, because China can produce most of what they need, so they can become self sufficient. If China transitions from a export oriented economy into a consumer based economy, they can do it, because they have a large population. China has access to growing markets in the Global South. The US. EU, and G7 countries have saturated markets. The US can build industries in the country, but these products will only be used domestically. It would be very difficult to sell expensive US produced goods in other countries. The US economy would have other problems, like less countries buying US debt, and this would cause interest rates to spike. It would also be inflationary. Producing and consuming expensive products is inflationary as well. Tariffs are inflationary as well, because the US still need to import things they don't produce.
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  196. When countries in the past tried to de-dollarize they got invaded, like Iraq in 2003, and Libya in 2011. The mistake those two countries made was that they didn't have strong armies or an alliance with other countries. When BRICS gets more members onboard, like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, and other countries they cannot be invaded and bullied. In order to de couple from the dollar, you have to have a united front. If Russia and China wants to de dollarize, there isn't anything the US can do about it but impose economic sanctions. They can't invade those countries, they have thermal nuclear weapons, a large industrial base, and armies that can match Western countries. When more countries join BRICS especially the resource rich countries, they can sanction the West by preventing them from getting essential minerals and resources. The West prints money, a lot of these BRICS countries have lots of resources and manufacturing capacity. Who will win, the countries that print paper and call it money, or the countries that produce the resources the world needs?
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  197. China helped Zimbabwe, Indonesia to build a lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe, and a nickel processing plant in Indonesia. This is a win win for both China and the countries China is working with. African countries can get more value from their natural resources, and this would help industrialize their economies. At the same time, China can get the resources China needs.
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  198. I thought Trump was a great business man? Not. LOL
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  199. I have all the criteria for getting married, like height, looks, money, home, car, stable job, etc. I got tired to pleasing women when I was dating them. These women are ungrateful, and too demanding. I just enjoy my life now, and I don't care about getting into any serious relationship. I have a lot of free time, and I can live a stress free life.
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  200. My mother is 83, and she and my father are living at my house.
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  201. Poor people have more stress. That is absolutely true. When I was a poor college student back in the mid 1990s, life was very hard. I had to work bad jobs, and it was stressful. Most of the lower paying jobs require you to move at a very fast pace, and the people you have to deal with can cause more stress.
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  202. Job hopping doesn't in an environment when jobs are scarce.
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  203. Looks like Youtube isn't a free speech platform.
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  204. The biggest expenses of owning a home in the US are property tax, homeowners insurance, and maintainenace. If you have a lot of inflation and a mortgage on top of that, life becomes very difficult. For me, my mortgage is paid off, so I am not really affected. Mortgage being the biggest debt, so without that you have more elasticity. Consumer spending is decreasing for unnecessary things, and this is why so many retail businesses are going out of business these days. People have less discretionary income, they can't afford to eat out, get a new smartphone every year, get more cosmetics, get more toys, etc.
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  205. Stop lying Trump. We know you're a liar.
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  206. Intel is having problems producing chips with nodes smaller than 7nm. I bought a I7-10700k cpu back in 2021, it was a 14 nm node based cpu, and I can tell you that it runs hot. When I use it to play games or CAD, the temperatures go up to 90 ° C to 100 ° C. Operating under such temperatures can reduce the lifespan on the processor. The I7-4790k processor I purchased in 2014 is a 22 nm node based CPU, and it heat is manageable on it. AMD uses TSMC to produce their chips, and their latest CPU is based on the 5nm node, while Intel's latest I7-14700K uses a 7nm node with multi patterning. The I7-14700K cpu has heat issues. AMD's chips has smaller transistors, so they emit less heat, and they are more powerful. They can put in smaller computers, and thinner laptops. Intel is losing money, because they can't produce good processors.
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  207. This is why I didn't get married 16 years ago. When the woman I wanted to get married with said, no more games for you. That is when I cancelled the marriage. LOL
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  208. E-Lon will try to market his cybertrucks as a overpriced military truck to the Pentagon. LOL
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  209. Illegal aliens can be exploited while citizens cannot due to labor laws.
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  210. They said China can't innovate, but throughout Chinese history you have a lot of innovation, like paper making, clock work, gunpowder, printing press, rockets, etc.
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  211. When an empire is collapsing, it is focusing outward. Before the U.S.S.R. collapsed, you had the same kind of problems that we face today, like rampant inflation, shortage of consumer goods, rising crime, and general unhappiness.
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  212. I am 48 and I live in the US. I would buy a Chinese EV, because it matches my requirements. I just need a vehicle to get to work and back, and do city driving. As for the older folks, you cannot change their ways, they are set on their ways. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
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  213.  @khairulhelmihashim2510  No one messes with N. Korea because they have nukes.
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  214. Most of us will be made redundant. Just gimme my welfare check. LOL
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  215. American life is stressful, and this is why people turn to substance abuse.
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  216. Chinese scientists and engineers keep making breakthroughs.
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  217. Apology not accepted.
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  218. When I was growing up in the 1980s, I saw what credit card debts, and home equity loans could do by observing my parent's life. It is ruinous. When I started my life, I said to myself I will do my best to pay off all my debts. After I graduated from university, I saved as much as I could pay that off. I did the same after I got a mortgage, and got that paid off in about decade. Today, I don't have any debts, but I still have to pay car insurance, property tax, homeowners insurance, utilities, health insurance, and other bills. My income today is less than 50k/year, because I am just working part time, but I can pretty much do what I want, like go on trips, and buy what I need and want. I think the problem what most people in the US has is a high level of debt, and that is what is dragging down most people. It is much more difficult to buy a home today compared to the 1990s when I bought my home.
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  219. Those experts were wrong so many times, that's why I stopped watching CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, CBS, and all of these alphabet news channels.
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  220. Did you guys ever see the episode of the Simpsons called the Serfsons? Homer the medieval serf had a hovel(home), and a family. The modern day serf doesn't even have home, or a family. They are sleeping in their vehicle, couch surfing, living in their parent's garage/basement, and skipping meals. Serfson has his own place, and serfson gets to eat three meals a day. Is the modern day peasant better off than a serf in medieval times?
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  221. When you have a bunch of clowns as politicians, they say and do things that don't make any sense.
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  222. Looks like Chump did 中国 a favor by allowing 中国 to build its own semiconductor industry. LOL
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  223. G8 is a club for the old colonial powers.
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  224. This is kind of like the Battle of Kursk 1943. The Nazis attacked a fortified Soviet defense line, which they had months to prepare for, and they took heavy losses.
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  225. China is solving all of its problems. China can buy food at a lower price from its allies. China can buy oil directly from BRICS member states, and countries in the Global South for less. At the same time, China can sell inexpensive farm equipment, so farmers in South America and Africa can grow more food. Those economies will benefit from this trade, and they will buy Chinese products. There is no need to use the USD, and all this will be bad for the US. US agri products will not be able to compete in international markets.
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  226. We have had continuous inflation from 1971 to the present. As for China, Chinese people don't spend a lot of money, they are good savers. It isn't that they are nervous of spending. I am a Chinese American, and I save more than 50% of my wage. A lot of Chinese people have a lot of savings. We like to try to get rid of debts as soon as possible. I don't have any debts, my home is paid off, no car debt, no student loan debt, and no credit card debts. If most people have this kind of mindset, the economy is quite different compared to Western economies.
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  227. They don't like any immigrants in Korea. My family immigrated from China to Korea centuries ago, and they don't accept me as Korean. That is why we immigrated out of there, and most of my relatives left that country. There are very few Chinese people living there. The Chinese people that had gone to S.Korea in recent years are Korean-Chinese or 朝鲜族(Chaoxianzu). My father has an identity crisis, he was never accepted by Korean people, and he hates being Chinese. My sister is also ashamed of being Chinese. For me, I just accept that I am of Chinese descent, and learned a lot about my culture, language, and history.
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  228. Chump will become desperate, remove him from power with the 25th Amendment.
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  229. Bit-coin is almost 100k. In the next four years, we will see a great depression like equities crash. It will be one loud pop.
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  230. The end result is hyperinflation, and that will signal the end of the US Empire. This is what happened to the Soviet Empire back in 1991.
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  231. Looks like the end of USD hegemony.
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  232. How can anyone survive doing any kind of business these days.
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  233. Inflation causes people to become poorer, and it leads to recessions. This is happening to a lot of Western countries including Germany.
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  234. It's ironic how they decoupled money from gold in 1971, and we are right back to where we started.
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  235. We all know that, the people who got themselves into too much debt will get hurt, and saved almost no money will suffer. In Debtmerica, if you miss 3 months of mortgage payments, your home will get foreclosed on. If you can't make your car payments, the repo man will use a GPS tracker to find your car and take it from you. I hope people learn something from this catastrophe that they must save money, don't fuck around in school, and don't get yourselves into too much debt. If they don't learn then they will suffer again when something like this happens again.
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  236. Africa would benefit greatly working with China, and abandoning the West.
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  237. China has a larger population than the US, EU, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand combined. Population of China: 1,411 million people Population of US, EU, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand: 566.36 million people As for vehicles, China has less vehicles than the US and EU combined, so the market for vehicles exists. China has 329.155 million vehicles Population of 1,411 million (2023) % of vehicles to population: 23.3% US has 283.4 million vehicles Population of 334.9 million (2023) % of vehicles to population: 84.6% EU has 256 million vehicles (2023) Population of 449.2 million (2024) % of vehicles to population: 57.0% Just the population of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam is about 537.5 million people. Plus, there are countries in South America, Russia, Eastern Europe, other parts of Asia, and Africa China can export to. The Global South has about 6 billion people, and the G7 has about 785 million people. It doesn't matter if they choose to put tariffs on Chinese goods, the world is a bigger place than the G7 countries. Therefore, China will not have a problem, and with even with tariffs the US will still be importing stuff from China, because they don't produce those things.
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  238. Dio Brando Sure people can be racist against whites, Louis Farakhan calls white people cave people and neanderthals. If you express disdain for any group, you are a racist. You don't have to be white to be racist. People who hate other races are in fact racists.
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  239. There is a more abundant food than insects, and that's fish. You can grow fish and crops with aquaponics, this is the future, not each cockroaches, maggots, and crickets. LOL
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  240. The nation that has the ability to produce real things will always prevail over the nation that prints money.
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  241. The US economy is falling apart, so they are just projecting their anxieties on a successful country.
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  242. You still need computer science and finance graduates; however, with AI one person can do the work of 5 to 10 people. Therefore, you don't have to hire as many people.
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  243. The US used to be the biggest food producer in the world, but that isn't the case anymore. Looks like US trade policies are backfiring. Putting tariffs on competing farm equipment only enables companies, like John Deere to sell their farm machinery at a inflated price. This a bad for farmers in the US, it drives up the cost of producing food. At the same time, farmers from around the world can simply buy Chinese farm equipment which is less expensive, and this allows them to produce more food at a lower cost. Flooding the world with cheap food, and this will put pressure on US farmers. When US farmers do poorly, they will buy less farm equipment from John Deere and other US farm equipment companies.
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  244. There are no human rights in the U S, we have civil rights. Example, human rights would be having the right to abundant and clean food, having the right to medical care, a right to have shelter/housing, and having the right to make a living. Civil rights is legislation that protects you from discrimination, having the right to vote, etc and that's the difference.
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  245. Chump is bonkers, he will accelerate de dollarization. In the future, the US will not be able to finance everything with unlimited QE.
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  246. If Russia captures POWs, Russia needs to put them in work camps until the war is over. There is a lot of work they can do to support the war effort.
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  247. I am a1st generation Chinese-Korean, I came to the US in the early 1980s. I experienced a lot of the mocking stuff. People in my generation didn't socialize with other ethnic groups. For me, all the people I knew were other Chinese people from China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, etc. The experiences from my childhood is the reason why I never wanted to make friends with anyone who wasn't Chinese. My family left South Korea because of discrimination there.
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  248. Those politicians don't represent the people, they represent big corporations. In this case, they represent the automotive industry.
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  249. You need a 4 year degree to be a engineer, medical doctor, scientist(this includes computer science), a brokerage license, teacher, professor, NP, registered nurse, law, etc. You learn science and advanced math in computer science, so you can become a better problem solver. Computer Science is not the same thing as a programmer, they can create a operating system, create artificial intelligence, apply advanced mathematics in programming. This man is ignorant.
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  250. Alex Jones has a history of inciting violence. Back in 1999, we had the Y2K scare, and Alex Jones tried to incite panic.
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  251. That Russian pilot scored a kill without using any weapons, and I would say only a great pilot could do that.
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  252. There is no way the US can win in the Pacific, China has too many ships, missiles, aircraft, drones, and they have the industrial capacity to replace losses.
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  253. I saw this documentary about geology about 30 years ago. The stuff that comes out of the ground, like natural gas, oil, uranium, geothermal, coal, etc is what raises the standard of living. People thought differently 30 to 50 years ago. People today believe printing money creates prosperity, and that is the difference. China produces real things, Russia has abundant natural resources, and the BRICS block has lots of people, and every resource on the periodic table.
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  254. This will be interesting. They can put 200% tariffs, but look at the things that are in your home. Where is it made in? Is there an alternative? When imports dry up, and there are no alternatives or the alternatives cost much more then they will complain again. The US needs the world, but the world really doesn't need the US.
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  255. More and more of this world will be driving EVs, while the US will be driving IC vehicles. China is investing in the future, while the US is regressing. China can buy factories in the EU, and they can use those factories to sell in the EU, Canada, and possibly to the US markets.
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  256. It costs too much to produce anything in the US. Rent, wages, insurance costs, utilities, etc. Taxes are much higher in the US. They can produce stuff in the US, but it will cost more. Thus, they will sell less in the US, and it will be almost impossible to sell in the export markets. You cannot force other countries to buy your products.
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  257. The world needs oil, but the world doesn't need paper Euros and paper dollars.
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  258. There isn't any permanent job in this day and age. I worked a number of jobs in my working life. I worked as a IT specialist, office worker, medical records specialist, web developer, and software engineer. I did a number of businesses, like retail business, and e-commerce. I saved my money, paid off my debts, like student loan debts, car debts, and mortgage over the years. I didn't waste my money on vacations and things I didn't need. I am semi retired at the age of 48. I just work a part time office job, and do business on the side.
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  259. Most Chinese men are about 1.71 meters tall. The average height for men in the US is about 1.75 meters. This prince charming these women are looking for are a very small minority of men. Tall, handsome, wealthy, and have excellent personalities. If a man is handsome, they may not be that nice. Wealthy guys don't date just one woman. What most of these women want is just not attainable. This is why they are old and single.
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  260. If millions of people don't have jobs, how can people keep those homes?
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  261. I am a Gen Xer, for me I am survive on an income of less than $50k/year, because my home is paid off, my car is paid off, I have no student loan debt, no credit card debts, or any other debts. Even working less than 30 hours/week, I can still have a high standard of living, because I have no debts. For younger people, this isn't the case, they may have a mortgage, car payments, student loan debts, credit card debts, and other debts. This is why they can't make it with $100k/year.
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  262. Roger Stone doesn't understand the seriousness of his indictment.
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  263. The Americans think their little drones will work against Russia. Fighting Russia is quite different from fighting the Taliban of Afghanistan, and the insurgents of Iraq. Russia has scientists and engineers that know how to jam US GPS signals, know how to jam radio signals, and employ electronic warfare. Most of those switchblade drones, Himars, other types of drones, JDAMs, and other GPS guided weaponry became worthless after the Russians started using various types of electronic jamming systems. Big drones can be shot down by fighter aircraft, and drone swarms can be jammed, and they can all fall out of the sky. GPS guided weapons might work against primitive enemies, but it will not work against pier to pier adversaries, like Russia or China.
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  264. My father gave all of his paycheck to my mother back in the 1970s. He was a simp and didn't manage his own money, he is in his 80s with a broken body, and is financially broke. You ever wonder why they came out with the television show called the Simpsons. This is because Homer is a simp.
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  265. People in Japan have a very high life expectancy. I saw in some videos a 83 year old Japanese woman cooking food at a restaurant. I saw a Japanese man who was 78 years old making and selling hotdogs. A lot of these old Japanese people are healthy enough to work. The story is different in the US, people here are old and cannot work.
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  266. China can still use the USD; however, they don't have to use the US SWIFT system. This way, China can accept any currency in the world, and the US will not know what is being bought with those dollars. There are a lot of countries that have dollar denominated debts in this world, so other countries that trade with China can accept USD. The USD will get phased out when USD denominated debt gets paid off around the world. US debt around the world is creating this demand for dollars, but in the future many countries will get loans in RMB. This will spells the end of the USD.
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  267. Full time jobs cost employers more, because they have to pay benefits, like health insurance, sick days, and worker protections. Part time jobs don't have any benefits, but part time workers tend to be temporary workers. A lot of people lost full time professional jobs, and they got pushed into lower paying part time jobs. You need at least 3 part time jobs to make a living in the US these days.
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  268. They can't afford to pay property tax and HOI(Homeowners Insurance). Property prices go up every year. When property values go up, HOI goes up, and property taxes go up. Rents also go up. My mortgage, property tax, and HOI back in 1998 was $810/month. Today, the property tax on my home and HOI are about $1052/month. That is more than my mortgage, property tax, and HOI back in 1998!!!!!!!
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  269.  @mickeydodds1  Commercial ships. The US cannot even maintain all the ships that they have as it stands.
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  270. I ran a small business for about 11 years, and it is almost impossible to make a profit. You have so many regulations, all kinds of fees, and taxes. On top of that, in the past 12 years, real estate prices and rents for commercial buildings have gone up a lot. The banks raised credit card transaction fees from 3.5% to 10%, so if you sold $10 in a credit card transaction they would take $1. Your profit margins keep shrinking by the year, because of competition from the Wall Street funded retail stores. Running a brick and mortar business isn't worth it. You also have shoplifting, and you lose about 15% to 20% of your inventory from that. Government taxes and regulations are bad enough, but if you factor the other things, like rent hikes, shoplifting, outrageous fees from banks, and other things make it worse. You can also write off a lot of stuff when you have a business, but there are too many adverse factors which makes it not worth doing.
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  271. US manufacturing can't compete in the world markets, because of the high cost of labor, strong currency, expensive real estate, and the high cost of living. China could definitely help its economy by lowering interest rates to prop up its economy, and it would help their exports with a weaker currency. China has a much lower cost of living compared to the G7 countries, and a complete supply chain for all the products that they produce. I am sure China will be fine, while the US goes through a inflationary crisis in the next 4 years.
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  272. The U S economy is dying.
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  273. Looks like U S farmers can't sell their crops at competitive prices due to all the high input costs. They might be selling their crops at a loss. The more supply there is, the more the price drops.
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  274. The price of these homes are more expnensive, but the quality is zero. The quality of cars had also gone down, quality of service, etc. They want to use the cheapest materials to maximize profits.
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  275. Anything less than 40% is failing. Trump is getting a F. LOL
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  276. My father told me back in the 1960s when Japanese people went to the Philippines. Filipino merchants used to charge Japanese tourists 2 times more than other tourists. This was because of what happened during WW2. Now Japanese merchants are doing this to 外国人. LOL
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  277. Back in the 1980s, Japan was the problem. Today, China is the problem. If it was a country from Europe doing it then it isn't a problem. In the 1980s, Japan was dumping cars, and today China is dumping EVs. You see the similarity.
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  278. The Japanese economy began to decline when computers, and smartphones became more and more popular. A smartphone can replace a number of electronic devices, like calculators, cameras, electronic organizers, televisions, tape/CD music players, analog phones, video camcorder, optical disc players(DVD-ROM), electronic typewriters, radios, voice recorder, scanner, electronic calendar, etc. Japan made a lot of those electronic devices, but with the advent of the smartphone, and computers all of these things became redundant.
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  279. I am afraid of getting married, because of the divorce laws.
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  280. I live in the US, and I lived here 41 years, and I can tell you it has gotten worse not better. The current literacy rate in the US is proof of that. The literacy rate as it stands in the US is 79%, and back in 1980, it was about 96%.
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  281. If I had to live like that, I would commit suicide.
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  282.  @amandakurtz7732  That is only on campus. You can't sleep anywhere else in the city.
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  283. Milei is just a another sock puppet clown, like Enlensky.
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  284. 40 years of deregulation, neo-liberal economic policies, and selective enforcement of regulations lead to all of this.
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  285. The Russian Su-27 jet survived, and the Reaper drone got shot down. You can say that is a win for the Russians.
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  286. Having it too good for too long leads to indolence, complacency, and mediocrity. It's the beginning of the end of western hegemony, and the world will be a lot better off in the long run.
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  287. These people will be the first to be affected by the Trump welfare cuts. I can't believe how stupid these people are. Getting government benefits and voting for someone who wants to make deep cuts in public services. They deserve everything they get. Don't help any of these people, let them starve.
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  288. That black man wasn't too bright.
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  289. +superskiier50 If you point you small arms and shoot at a predator drone, you will go to Federal prison. Even if you can't hit it, just pointing your gun at it and firing at it is enough to get you locked up boy.
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  290.  @fredfrond6148 You couldn't buy a $12,500 internal combustion car in the US. $12,500 is very affordable, and I am sure many people around the world will buy them.
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  291. When you are stuck working crappy jobs for low pay, people don't see much of a future.
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  292. Doing business in China is profitable, because you have access to a market with 1.412 billion people that can buy your products and services. A country where people buy stuff, and having honest customers unlike the US where you have more shoplifters than shoppers.
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  293. They should have never acted like they did back in 2019. Maybe, they can find a job as a farm worker picking fruits and vegetables.
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  294. Corporate welfare was practice since the 1980s with president Reagan. At the same time, Republicans would criticize people who received welfare back in the 1980s, and made many cuts to welfare programs. LOL
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  295. China has a complete supply chain.
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  296. Donald Chump really screwed up.
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  297. I think Chump will be the last emperor for murican empire. LOL
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  298. This time around the govt will confiscate your wealth by keeping interest rates lower than the rate of inflation. In 1933, the govt seized the peoples gold. Today, it is easier to confiscate wealth or transfer wealth from the people to the govt, they can keep interest rates under the real inflation rate. At the same time, they can use their spokes people that interest rates are only 3% when in reality it is double digits. The people that have assets that go up, like stocks, real estate, and other assets that go up with inflation invest in real estate. This makes homes and rents more unaffordable. Congress can borrow unlimited amounts of money; however, out of control of inflation can cause much bigger problems in the future. The US never experienced hyperinflation for 248 years, so we are going into uncharted territory. Historically, governments fell when they mismanaged the economy, and there is no exception for this.
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  299. I don't understand, why don't these Chinese people just stay in China?
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  300. These people who work in religious institutions have the easiest job in the world. Making your own interpretations about religious texts, and getting people to believe it. Then, getting people to pay up every Sunday.
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  301.  @hokantjoa2682  I think he was being sarcastic.
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  302. China can wait more than 5 years, the longer they want the more powerful they will get. They will only have more ships, more aircraft, and more military equipment. The Chinese economy isn't fully geared up for a war economy, and when it is they can simply overwhelm them. Formosa is part of China, and it has always been.
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  303. Yet, he didn't cut taxes for the middle class who are the cream of his support. Taxes went up for middle class people. LOL
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  304. Even communist countries, like China and Vietnam resorted to free market capitalism.
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  305. We will see who wins this game, the countries that produce real goods vs. the countries that print currencies. It is like that game, rocks, paper, and scissors.
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  306. When you have a reality show TV host as Prez, there is drama everyday in an environment where there shouldn't be any.
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  307. I have a home, car, and savings, but I didn't get married 17 years ago, because I was afraid of losing my freedom. I don't have a mortgage, student loan debts, car debt, or any debt. Still not interested in marriage, and I stopped dating. These days, I only work about 20 to 25 hours a week. My life is easy and stress free. I get pressures to get married by my mother, but i don't care.
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  308. It is hard. I lost my main job 2 years ago, and now I have 3 part time jobs. One processing medical records, another washing dishes, and another as a waiter. All low paying jobs, and the income from all 3 is a quarter of what I earned 2 years ago. I am glad, I didn't get married and have children. I was 48, so it is very difficult to find a good job at my age. Also, the economy is bad now.
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  309. It isn't part of our culture, so I never really cared much for it.
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  310. Xi Jinping said, Homes are for living, they aren't investments.
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  311. It's actually a bankrupt country. Most people in the US don't have $1,000 in their bank accounts.
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  312. Giving rotten food to poor people, and getting a tax deduction. How kind and thoughtful. LOL
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  313. In the West, the model is let us think for you, and let us decide what you want. That is a real democracy isn't it? LOL🤣
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  314. Alex Jones definitely has some mental issues.
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  315. Higher interest rates are good for people like me who has a lot of savings, and have no debts. However, it is bad for people who have a lot of debts and no savings, which is the majority of murican people.
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  316. Looks like the SWIFT banking system is becoming redundant, and the USD is surviving on borrowed time.
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  317.  @BureaucracyWorld  I shop in stores that appreciate my business, and I don't shop in stores where they treat me poorly. Perhaps, the phrase of treating people like how you want to be treated is something that is alien to these people in power.
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  318. Kornets aren't just used to take out tanks, they have HE(High Explosive) warheads as well.
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  319. Angry white men without college degrees with guns are a danger to society? It sure does seem like it; after all, they voted for Donald Trump. They conduct most of the mass shootings. The important thing is to adapt to changes. Instead they blame other people for the problems they are having. Well, by scapegoating others won't solve your problems, because you will still have the problems. The problem is capitalism and these fools can't see it.
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  320. During the Roman period, the Romans treated a lot of people very badly when they conquered many different nations to create the Roman Empire. In the 5th century, so many nations and tribes were pushing back against the Romans. This eventually lead to the sack of Rome, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE/AD. I think, the same thing is happening to the American Empire.
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  321. The US was fighting wars with small weak countries that didn't have much technology or resources. It's a different story when you fight a country that has more engineers and scientists than the USA, and a industrial capacity to engage a war of attrition.
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  322. There a lot of openings in the agricultural industry, they need people to pick fruits + vegetables, dishwashers, construction workers, food processing, fishing industry, etc.
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  323. China is playing chess, and the US is playing tic tac toe.
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  324. The US can get those resources by re industrializing, and this can take decades. Gallium is a byproduct of aluminum production. China produces 41,500,000 tons of aluminum in a year, while the US produces 1,100,000 tons of aluminum per year. As for gallium production 98% of it is produced in China, so China has a monopoly on gallium. China controls 60% of germanium production in the world. China produces 48% of the world's antimony. Other countries that produce significant amounts of antimony are Tajikistan, Burma, and Russia which aren't countries that are friendly to the US. What will the US MIC do? Will they just ask their leaders to print more money to buy more? Buy more stuff that doesn't exist.
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  325. In a socialist economy, you will always have some kind of job even if robots take most of those jobs. In a purely capitalist economy, your job security isn't there if a robot can do it. Think about it.
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  326. There really isn't much freedom. People vote for the same crappy two parties which aren't much different from each other. People are given a choice of bad or worse. People can't buy what they want, because of import bans and tariffs. People have to buy low quality machines produced in the US at inflated prices. There isn't much choice when it comes to medical care or medications, these are monopolistic industries, so these healthcare providers, hospitals, medical equipment producers, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical industries can charge whatever they want.
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  327. My brother lost his job at B of A as a loan officer. He asked me if he and his wife can live with me for a while. I said yes, you can come hang with me until you get back on your feet.
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  328. The robber wanted money, but he shot the clerk first. Usually robbers ask for the money first, they don't shoot the clerk first. He took the cigarettes and bag of chips when he couldn't get the cash register open. This guy isn't very bright.
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  329. The stock market goes up with inflation, just look at the stock market during Weimar Germany in the 1920s, Zimbabwe 2008, etc. Real estate values also go up with inflation as well, and all tangible assets. The govt will not let the equity markets go down, so they will keep cutting rates. It doesn't matter who wins next year, they will both pressure the fed to make more rate cuts. Govt will keep increasing govt spending, and they will keep propping up the equities market, because it gives the illusion that the economy is good.
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  330. The trajectory of hypersonic missiles are very difficult to predict, because hypersonics have a unpredictable trajectory ICBMs have a very predicable trajectory, so you can use a computer to predict where the projectile will be at a certain point and time in space. China has invented many things in its 5,000 year history, so innovation isn't something China lacks.
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  331. China has no US troops in its borders; therefore, China is a sovereign country while Japan is not.
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  332. I guess the Germans are going to sell their Leopard 2 mbts at a discount. They charged a premium price, because they believed their mbt was the best tanks ever made. Just like German cars, they are just overrated.
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  333. That is some aggressive panhandling on the part of Zelensky.
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  334.  @gwills9337  The kind of populism that Bernie Sanders is promoting is good, but the kind of populism from the right which got Trump elected is bad. That kind of populism only promotes scapegoating people, and it isn't about finding solutions.
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  335. Don't negotiate with terrorists.
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  336. Cpu speeds reached its apex in 2008 and 2009. My I7-960 which is a 2009 cpu is still being used by me. It is slightly slower than my I5-3570k which I got in late 2013. You can do all the office work with that I7-960. I have a AMD Phenom II 945 which I got in 2009, and it is being used in my office. It is still a pretty fast computer for a office computer, and it is more than adequate for office use. In 1987 to 1996 there were big leaps in cpu technology at the time. We had the 286 8 mhzs, 286 12 mhzs, 386 sx-16 mhzs, 386 dx-33, 386 sx-20, 386 sx-25, 386 sx-33, 486 dx 25 mhzs, 486 dx 33 mhzs, 486 dx2 66 mhzs, 486 dx4-75 mhzs, 486 dx4 100 mhzs, Pentium 60 mhzs, Pentium 75 mhzs, Pentium 90 mhzs, Pentium 100 mhzs, Pentium 120 mhzs, Pentium 133 mhzs, Pentium mmx 166 mhzs, & Pentium 200. From 2001 to 2014, there hasn't been a big leap in cpu technology. In 2001, I had Pentium 4 1800 mhzs cpu, and in 2014 I have a I7 4790 at 3600 mhzs. In a 13 year period, the core speed went up 2 times; however, the cpu manufacturers increased the number of cores to 4. The performance difference between a I7 4790 and a Pentium 4 1800 mhzs is about 6 to 8 times faster. The cpu performance improvement in 1987 to 1996 was like 16 to 20 times. CPU technology reached its zenith with transistor technology. The more transistors they add, the bigger the cpu gets, and the hotter it gets. That is the problem engineers are facing  now.
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  337. 1.6 petabits is equal to 0.2 petabytes. One ODS disc can hold approximately 200 Terabytes. The largest hard drive you can buy is 30 Terabytes, so one ODS 5.25" disc can hold 6.67 times the capacity of hard drive. The thickness of a ODS disc is about 1.2mm, while the thickness of a 3.5" hard drive is 20mm to 26mm. A ODS disc is 16.7 times to 21.7 times thinner than 3.5" hard drive. Hard drives, and SSDs consume power, but ODS discs don't consume any energy. This means, data centers will be smaller, and consume less energy. China is making some breakthroughs in technology.
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  338. I like candidates who aren't con artists, grifters, or criminals.
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  339. Republicans and Trump love the uneducated don't they? This way, they can have more voters for the future. LOL
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  340. I wonder what would happen when all the shelves in US stores become empty due to chump's policies?
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  341. The US is doomed.
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  342. Socialism can work if it is done right.
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  343.  @leetshots  I live in the US, and prices of everything has risen sharply in the past 4 years. This is a direct result of de-dollarization, and many people here don't get it either. This is why there are so many strikes in the US now. Companies can give into the demands from these strikes, but they will be forced to lay people off or raise prices which will cause more inflation. It's tough. We are headed to stagflation, and it will eventually lead to hyperinflation.
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  344. It's called military Keynesian. They are also making money from selling LNG and oil to Europe, which is much more expensive compared to the energy they were getting from their previous supplier.
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  345. Trump is an old man with dementia. A 1951 mile wall isn't going to work, it didn't work in China holding back the barbarians. It won't work here either. That border is way too long, you need to put 100,000 to 150,000 men to reinforce that wall, and the cost of that along would be more as much as $10 billion to $20 billion per year to maintain that wall with that kind of man power, along with the logistics to support that many people.
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  346. In the US, every service man's oath was to the constitution of the U.S.A., not to the president of the U.S.A.. If the head of state violates the constitution then you will more than likely have a civil wa-r.
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  347. We all know how civilized the Germans are when we saw what they did during WW2.
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  348. He won't because most his ardent supporters are racists and anti-Semites.
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  349. Most right wingers are chicken hawks. Most have never been in the military, but they like military style firearms, because it makes them feel powerful. They are a bunch of wannabes. If these cowards did start a civil war would not last 5 minutes. The government isn't scared of their little guns. They would probably shoot at a tank with their rifle then get mowed down by a 50 cal from the tank in less than a second, LOL.
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  350. He hits a country with a tariff, they strike back. He hits them with more tariffs, and Trumpo starts a trade war. This proves Trumpo is a big baby.
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  351. These mercs are going to be running back after they get shelled and bombed day and night. They will say something stupid, like it wasn't like that in Afghanistan or Iraq. When I was in those countries I called air support, and no one was calling air support and artillery support on us. How unfair, I want to go home now.
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  352. Sounds like exploitation. We live in a exploitation economy.
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  353. They tried to cancel China, and China is just becoming more resilient. China can just use their own chips after they build up their own semiconductor industry. It will take 5 to 10 years, or it can happen sooner. China will make every kind of chip, like legacy chips, automotive chips, AI chips, X86/X64 chips, RISC-V chips, etc. Less of these chips will be imported from hostile countries, and China will export these chips to other countries which will take market share away from Western companies.
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  354. Most of the people who get displaced by automation will not have the education or skills to transition. The jobs that are being created are for computer nerds and engineers, I don't think a truck driver, Uber driver, warehouse worker, cashier, or day laborer will be able to become a software engineer, electrical engineer, electronic engineers, robotic engineers, or a data analyst.
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  355. The gall of these people saying seizing assets isn't theft when it is. These people can't be trusted at all.
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  356. Large firms getting together to fix prices are called cartels.
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  357. Without the resources, you don't have an industry. Looks like companies will be laying off a lot of people.
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  358. I was making a 6 figure income about 2 and a half years ago, and now I work a couple of part time jobs making 17 bucks per hour. One job is processing medical records at a physician's office, and another is being a waiter. I had given up looking for a similar job, because I tried looking for one and spent hours on it. I am still looking for a better job, but I spend like 25 to 40 minutes a day. I spend the rest of the day working part time jobs, and doing other things on the side. For me, it isn't that bad, because I paid off my mortgage, and don't have any other debts. What I make pays my bills, so I am content with that.
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  359. Building anything in the US is very expensive, because of the high cost of living and wages. Tax cuts won't be enough. The US must import a lot of things to manufacture complex machines, and tariffs would drive up the cost of those things. Very few companies will go to the US, because it would make them less competitive in the global markets. Some companies will go to the US, but the net effect would be negative overall.
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  360. Looks like China can export more of their goods to the Global South as the G7 countries try to restrict Chinese exports. China also has a huge internal market, and Chinese people can buy from local brands. So, most of the profits can stay in China instead of flowing out of the country.
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  361. If the economy was stable, we wouldn't have all this turbulence. When people have all their basic needs met then people can be content. When those basic needs are not met then people will be anxious and irritated. When large corporate interests monopolize the necessities of life, like healthcare, homes, utilities, and food. You have instability. In the US people with a lot of wealth can pay lobbyists to get what they want even if it is bad for the public.
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  362. Looks like we have a two tier justice system, it should be obvious to everyone by now.
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  363. There are many other things people can eat, like chickens, fish, and pigs which are abundant. Fish are the most abundant form of protein there is in the world.
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  364. I live in L.A. County, and shoplifting is out of control. I guess if people cannot buy what they need then they will steal what they need.
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  365. I remember back in the 1980s, my father ordered Show Time, and the Movie Channel on cable. Those channels didn't have any commercials on it, and I wondered why that was when I was young. The reason why there were no advertisements was because you had to pay for those channels on a monthly basis.
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  366. They will always need, plumbers, carpenters, craftsman, mechanics, technicians, chimney sweepers, dog walkers, butlers, gardeners, barbers, dog sitters, babysitters, waiters, vegetable and fruit pickers
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  367. I lost my computer job 2 years ago. I just found a few part time jobs. One working at a medical office processing medical records, and another one working at some warehouse. The pay is less, but I have a home that is paid off so it is okay I guess.
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  368. Progressives fight for the people. The Republicans and the status quo does everything to milk us for every cent we have and rip us off. This is why they are dismissive of progressives, because they don't care about us.
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  369. Cost of manufacturing has gone up a lot due to Germany no longer having cheap energy. It is going to come more money to produce these tanks.
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  370. Musk likes the mustache man. That is no surprise, he is from South Afrika.
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  371. The people in China need to start boycotting US brands. They make money in China, and this makes the stock market goes up in the US. Why should people in China, make these people rich when they discriminate against Chinese companies doing business in the US?
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  372. I can't wait to see the faces of Trump supporters who lose their jobs and get thrown out in the street due to the coming trade war.
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  373. A 30 million dollar drone becomes scrap. LOL
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  374. Let's see what happens in a month or so. Only time will tell.
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  375. If Silicon Valley cannot sell their chips to China, they will lose a big market share. As a result, you have a glut of chips in the market which is causing the profitability of these companies dropping. This in turn is causing these semiconductor companies laying off people. At the same time, you are encouraging China to develop their own chips and semiconductors. The Chinese are developing RISC-V, and they are improving their X86 Zhaoxin processors.
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  376. You have to understand that the literacy rate in the US is about 79%.
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  377. Pirates.
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  378. Looks like the Chinese economy will grow and grow, while the US economy is headed towards h-y-p-e-r-inflation.
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  379. When you can no longer compete, the only thing you can do is lie.
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  380. All those legends and mythologies do point a common theme. The Gods came down from the heavens and gave us enlightenment and knowledge. In the Bible, the story was told in the form of a serpent seducing Eve to take a bite from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In Greek mythology, it was Prometheus giving fire to mankind with this fire. There are countless stories like this all over this world. You also have countless stories of a great deluge which is a universal thing.
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  381. A recession means when the economy is in a downturn. When you went to elementary school, you had recess. This is when you took a break. Think of it like this..... When you have an economic boom, you save your money. You can work as many jobs as you want in a boom economy, you get to accumulate your savings. When you have a recession like this, your purchasing power goes up. This in turn allows you to get more for your money, you can buy up cheap assets. Wait 3 to 5 years, and the economy gets inflated again. Repeat and rinse. That's how you become wealthy.
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  382. This show was on PBS during the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. Those were the days, laptops used to cost $4000 to $8000.
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  383. The only thing the US has that China doesn't have is advanced semiconductor chips. In 5 to 10 years, that will change. China will start producing their own lithography machines and advanced chips.
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  384. I hope all these Trumpkins lose their businesses, jobs, and go bankrupt!
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  385. Boeing will ask the government for a bailout, and Boeing will tell the government to pressure Airbus to stop selling aircraft to China. ROFL 🤣
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  386. I don't see why China can't produce passenger aircraft. China is one of few countries in this world that can produce jet engines. The most difficult part to produce in an airplane is the engine. China can produce engines for military aircraft, and it will be possible for them to build jet engines for passenger aircraft. If you put enough money and R&D in it, I am sure China can produce their own domestically produced passenger jet engine in the future. When China starts producing airframes, parts, and engines. China will be able to compete with Airbus, and Boeing. They can produce aircraft that costs less, and compete in the global market.
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  387. Chump is such a snowflake, I don't like the questions, so I say fake news.
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  388. My gosh, Yellen said seizing assets isn't theft????? These people are delusional.
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  389. It's war, and when your enemy has as much firepower as Russia, a lot of things get destroyed.
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  390. The Nazis tried in the Battle of the Buldge, and they got decimated.
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  391. All that hate makes you age faster. LOL
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  392. We can blame the Republicans for this. They had been defunding education for years, and this is the result. It seems to me that is what they wanted, because a lot of these Republicans including Trump are stupid.
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  393. Even with all this, Trump is losing a lot of money. The Republican way is to steal from the treasury and enrich themselves. After all, Republicans came up with corporate welfare, yet they tell everyone to pull yourselves by your bootstraps. Tariffs to protect private businesses, giving subsidies to farmers, and giving subsidies to failing businesses Republicans have connections to. Republicans the hypocrites that attack the government, and they are the ones who use the government to get what they want. I say vote all the Republicans out. In 2020, make sure you vote out ALL Republican politicians from the local to the Federal level!
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  394. Ukraine should understand the consequences of their actions.
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  395. They don't care, because they don't have to worry about it.
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  396. When you have a financialized economy, speculation becomes rampant.
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  397.  @borisnegrarosa9113  You don't even understand how the Chinese banking system works. The banking system is owned by the government, so any of the bad debts can simply be discharged every year. This means bad debts just disappear.
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  398. It's prison not a 5 star restaurant.
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  399. By now, anyone with a IQ higher than 95 knows who the evil side is.
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  400. A small country like S. Korea can produce a jet that is amazing. There are two other small countries that can produce jets, like Sweden and Taiwan. Jets are produced by big countries that have the infrastructure and technology to produce them, like the U.S.A., Russia, China, Germany, India, France & Japan.
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  401. I am not, and I never did. I knew Trump was a conman.
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  402. People these days are shameless. I belong to the generation x cohort, and I had this issue back in 2008. I was going to get married in 2008, and the woman didn't want to get married. She returned the money to me. This is a generational difference, younger people don't have the same standard as older generations.
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  403. If Amazon is having problems then you know we will have a big problem in a year from now.
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  404. Sounds good, we need a competing financial system. Countries that sell natural resources can get fair prices.
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  405. At work I had a person who was jealous of me, because I was focused on doing my job. I always did a good job. This person who didn't like me spent so much time and effort trying to destroy me. Bullies projecting their inadequacies on other people don't get things done that they have to get done. Just look at the infrastructure in the USA? It's underfunded, it's falling apart. Instead, all these resources are being used to make weapons to cause chaos and mayhem on this world. You have a collapsing infrastructure, many people that are becoming homeless, high rates of inflation, many more that have problems paying their bills, etc. You have corruption on a grand sale where financial institutions and corporations borrowed money from the fed and bought equities with it. Instead of using this money to hire people and do research and development. You had banks using deposits of account holders to buy equities and treasury bonds. Now that interest rates are going up, you have all of these problems in the banking industry.
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  406. From makeup to beauty filters. Makeup makes women look better than they are, and beauty filters make women look like celebrities.
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  407. When the economy gets bad, you have to be very careful. People get fired and laid off in bad times. Some people just can't take it.
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  408.  @pabloc.282  Dinosaurs existed hundreds of millions of years ago. I am talking about in the past 250,000 to 500,000 years.
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  409.  @TheMasterhomaster  This is why the Republicans aren't doing a thing about illegal immigration. They spew anti-illegal immigration rhetoric to their ignorant base, but they rarely do a thing about it. When the Democrats are in power, they deport far more illegal immigrants than Republican administrations.
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  410.  @larryc1616  Many of the advanced weapons used in the Ukraine are being jammed. When you have an adversary that has a lot of scientists, engineers, technologists, and technicians, they can do some amazing things, like making your technologically sophisticated weapons not function. Radio waves can be jammed, and any Scientist or engineer knows that.
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  411. We are now in 2019, there are less human tellers, and there are more computerized kiosks.
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  412. There are worse jobs now compared to the jobs we had in the 1990s, like Gig economy jobs that pay less than minimum wage.
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  413. I guess Biden's inflation reduction act is in itself inflationary, what an oxymoron. ROFL 🤣
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  414. I got laid off 3 years ago, but I have enough dough to not work. I just work a part time job for 20 to 25 hours a week, collect interest on my bonds, and play video games all day.
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  415.  @MrSteeDoo  Let's so a math here. Date Wages Item Price 1985 $8/hr Spam $0.35 2025 $19/hr Spam $4.50 1985 $8/hr Sirloin Stk $2.17/lb 2025 $19/hr Sirloin Stk $11.65/lb 1985 --- Gasoline $1.15/gal 2025 --- Gasoline $4.50/gal In 1985, you could buy 22.85 cans of spam, and in 2025 you can buy 4.22 cans of spam. In 1985, you could buy 3.68 lbs of sirloin steak, and today you can buy 1.63 lbs of sirloin steak. In 1985, you could buy 6.96 gallons of gasoline, and today you can buy 4.22 gallons of gasoline. You have less purchasing power today.
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  416. In an age where automation and AI threaten hundreds of millions of jobs, having a large population isn't an asset it is a liability. It's better to have a smaller population with a highly educated work force, and more people becoming part of the middle class. This way, you have a higher per capita income, and a much larger consumer economy.
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  417. What kind of trash person attacks a senior citizen like that?
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  418.  @prakorngirodkunkid7877  That puts pressure on the US population. Home prices going up isn't good, it makes property taxes and homeowner's insurance go up.
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  419. I don't want to live in a Trumptatorship, Trump needs to go.
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  420. Saudis Arabia was the first country to accept the USD for oil in 1973 in return for protection from the US.
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  421. Alex Jones is a crazy fat idiot who believes in conspiracy theories, LOL. Hey Alex Jim Jones, why didn't you wear your tin foil hat to the CNN studio?
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  422. Trump would say, don't drink coke.
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  423. Looks absolutely stunning.
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  424. With all this inflation, people who don't make enough or have deep pockets simply use credit cards to survive.
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  425.  @JCSY1  What happens when inept politicians destroy major businesses? That results in the economy getting bad. LOL
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  426.  @williamho1976  China is doing just fine. The property market crash is only going to hurt rich speculators, but it will be good for most ordinary people. The average person can now buy homes at lower prices, while the speculators and foreign speculators cry.
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  427. People are desperate, so they want to believe in something even if it isn't real.
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  428. Trump needs to be canned, he shouldn't be allowed to speak.
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  429. 春节快乐
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  430. If you know someone is scum, you just don't have to deal with em anymore. That's the best way.
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  431. Russia can use dollars to trade with China, India, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries. However, they can also use Chinese Yuans, Brazilian Rials, Indian Rupees, and other currencies to buy what they need. If Russia wants to buy sugar, Tata motor vehicles, rice, pharma, spices, textiles, cotton, rubber, software, etc, they can use Indian Rupees to buy them. If Russia wants to buy electronics, computers, broadcast equipment, communication equipment, rare earths, tires, television monitors, trucks, automobiles, electrical transformers, etc, they can use Chinese Yuan to buy them. If Russia wants to buy diamonds, gold, platinum, rubber, fruits, wool, corn, etc, Russia can buy them with South African Rands. What you forget is that the dollar is just a medium of trade. The Russian, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, and South African economies do produce things of value. The money will have value, because those economies do produce things. With de globalization and a multi polar world, it is going to get a lot more difficult to get stuff at the lowest prices. You may even see shortages of certain goods due to countries not being able to get the materials or having the access to technology. As time goes by, the dollar will be used less, but in the immediate future the dollar will still be used.
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  432.  @gregwang8628 That's why US automakers produce expensive vehicles very few people want or can afford. This goes with the philosophy of maximizing profits. I don't think free markets really exist in the US anymore. It isn't about what the people want anymore, it is about taking away choices and forming monopolies to make the most profit. This isn't the way you make a strong and sustainable economy.
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  433. Stalin said about quantity over quality. Quantity in itself is quality. The country that can produce more stuff will win. The US can produce a drone that fits in the palm of your hand for $140,000, and China can produce the same drone for $100. I wonder who would win. The US is used to fighting against people that were living in caves or insurgents that don't have much. You saw how pathetic those US mercs were in Ukraine when they got hit by heavy stuff, they said how dare they do this. This wasn't suppose to happen, this isn't fair. ROFL 🤣
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  434. Imagine being a Amazon, UPS, or Post Office delivery man today.
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  435. Intel didn't really innovate for many years, they still at 10nm. Intel chips also get really hot, and they had been having some issues with their 13th and 14th gen CPUs failing within a few months.
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  436. On this channel, you get information that you get nowhere else.
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  437. It's a start. There isn't a lot of countries in this world that can make a microprocessor from designing a chip to producing a chip from a fab.
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  438.  @RazorKane22  Right wing politics is pointless. Sure they talk about the problems that exist in our society, but they never talk about solutions. You would be better off using that to refine your skills, or go to school to find a better career to improve your life than to listen to such bullshit.
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  439. Who cares about that CEO.
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  440. This is why it is difficult to live in the USA, you never know when this kind of barbarism will happen.
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  441. Putting import taxes on inputs to manufacturing is a bad idea.
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  442. The government of China cares about its people to safely evaluate its people. Compare this to what happened 3 years ago with the US.
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  443. The US is headed towards high inflation and hyperinflation. All of chump's economic policies will lead to more inflation. All I can say is, when the cost of living exceeds the ability of the people to make a living then everything will grind to a halt. If you can't make a living working 24 hours a day then that system is no longer viable. It happened many times in history, it happened in ancient Rome, the various dynasties in China, French Revolution, Weimar Republic, USSR in 1991, and countless times in many countries and empires throughout history. It isn't going to be any different with the US Empire. You're over extend, you're over tax the people, and the people demand a new system.
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  444.  @blacksinclair2113  They both benefit from trading with each other. China can buy natural resources from Russia at a very competitive prices, and Russia can buy stuff, like electronics, vehicles, computers, smartphones, etc.
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  445. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies has been tried in the past. Before we had a central banking system, you had small banks that issued receipts for gold which was money. You had problems of these banks issuing more receipts than they had gold in the vaults. As a result, you had massive inflation. You have people who make their own cryptocurrencies putting whatever value on it, they can increase or decrease the number of cryptcurrencies creating it out of thin air! Cryptocurrencies have absolutely no utility whatsoever, they are speculative assets and that is all they are. You cannot use cryptocurrencies to buy anything in the real economy, because not many businesses will take them. Bitcoin and its derivatives has scaling problems in that they can only support up to 3 to 20 transactions per second. Visa can do about 15,000 to 20,000 transactions per second at 50 cents to $1 per transaction opposed to 19 to 20% transaction fee for Bitcoin. It is a big Ponzi Scheme, more than 90% of the Bitcoins is owned by less than 1% of the people who hold Bitcoins. The people who mine Bitcoins and the people who hold most of the Bitcoins are making all the money. It is a pyramid scheme.
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  446. I don't think any Western country definitely said they would give Ukraine any F-16s. They said they would not object to any NATO country giving Ukraine F-16s. A F-16 costs about $72 million a piece, and this is why every NATO country that had them are hesitant about giving them to the Ukrainians. They aren't hesitant about giving them outdated weapons.
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  447. I saw this one drone called a Black Hornet Nano which is used by the Pentagon, it costs $150k for a small toy like drone.
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  448. It is mighty difficult to send supplies and equipment on a single road which is surrounded by two sides. When a lot of the supplies and equipment never arrive then it is a matter of time until Bakhmut falls.
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  449. This is no surprise, because anyone with a brain knows chump and his chumps are fascists.
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  450. This collapse is going to be very deep indeed.
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  451. When more people lose their jobs then they will not even have health insurance.
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  452. When you have a country that is run by incompetent people this is what you get. Most people that live in the US can see the country is in a decline, except for the people who are in the political class and the billionaires that aren't affected by inflation.
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  453. Chump and Musk are similar. Both are very good at marketing, and they are good at making outlandish claims. Musk said, his EVs would be fully autonomous by 2019. When chump was running his businesses, he said chump water was the best water ever. This water was filtered tap water in plastic bottles, it was so good a bottle of this is worth $5. Chump vodka, the best vodka in the world. Remember when Musk pumped up Dogecoin and dumped it. Both are drama queens.
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  454. Yoon is a mini-chump. I think chump will try the same thing when he gets into office.
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  455. Chinese businesses aren't moving to Mexico, they are moving to countries in Southeast Asia, and Africa.
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  456. Their evil plans backfired. LOL🤣
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  457. We are going into Great Depression 3.0.
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  458. I wonder what jobs were actually created? Gig jobs, part time jobs, where you have to have 4 to 6 of these to make enough to make a living? LOL
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  459.  @hasithakumarasiri8343  Your mother?
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  460. The US is incompetent.
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  461. Automation and robotics will reduce the need for people in the future, so population decline might not be a bad thing.
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  462. According to Trump, you can't flip on me even if I commit crimes, and it should be illegal even if what I do is illegal. Trump is saying this because he is a criminal, and anyone who can't see that is in denial.
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  463. Your grocery bills are higher than your mortgage. My mortgage was about $2,500/month. I spent about $400/month for grocery bill.
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  464. It is as invincible as a Leopard 2A4, and look at all the wrecked hulls of Leopard 2A4s in Syria.
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  465. China produces 4.7 million STEM majors per year, and the US produces 430,000 STEM majors. China has a much bigger industrial base, so it will be impossible for the U S to win militarily.
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  466. From my experience, many of the dates I went on didn't lead to much. Some did, but 90% of those dates were just one time dates. There are many reasons for it, maybe the woman said something I didn't like, she is only interested in men with deep pockets, we didn't have similar interests and goals in life, it wasn't a match, you didn't like how the other person looked, you didn't like their personality, etc. For me, I didn't care if the dates did yield anything. It was mostly about going out to have fun, like going out to eat, going to an amusement park, or going to the movies. I still go on dates, but I am not looking for any kind of relationship.
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  467. Infinite growth isn't possible in a world where you have finite resources.
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  468. A lot of people can't adapt for a lot of reasons. They may not have the education, skills, intelligence, or they are too old to learn new things. In this economic environment, you just have to diversify. Don't rely on one job, and learn new skills in your spare time, like programming languages, learn how to make things, it can be furniture to software, find a way to sell it online, this way you can make an income.
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  469. Chump is full of contradictions in his statements. Remove him from office, and throw him and jail.
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  470.  @danielhealy9725  Exactly. The only people that are paying for it are the people of the U S. We have a lot more homeless people, more people are under a tremendous amount of stress paying these inflated mortgages, rents, and inflation. Some people say my home is paid off so it doesn't affect me. Tell that to my parents who have difficulty paying property tax and homeowners insurance due to property values going up for the past 16 years.
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  471. Reminds me of a episode from the Simpsons called the Serfsons when Lisa Simpson was criticizing feudalism, and Homer said "I told you to lay off of feudalism. It's the only system we know, and it is the best". A lot of people in the USA are like Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin in many ways in that they are ignorant, and they are proud of being ignorant. LOL
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  472. With all these layoffs, I wonder how high unemployment is now.
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  473. @rogerstarkey5390  When hyperinflation happens here, it will turn into the wild west if you know what I mean.
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  474. This is a good thing for China, because China could not ban chips with tariffs before due to WTO rules. The US govt banning the sale of their advanced semiconductor chips allows local companies in China to get the funds they need to do more R&D. Sure, these products aren't as good as Nvidia, Intel, or AMD chips; however, Chinese semiconductor companies having access to more capital will allow them to put more of their money into R&D. It is only a matter of time until Chinese semiconductor companies catch up. Who knows, it can take 5 to 10 years if not sooner, and they may even surpass US semiconductor companies. Look at BYD, they produce the most advanced EVs in this world.
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  475. 70 cents more for a Big Mac, yet a fast food worker makes almost double the wage of a fast food worker in the U.S.A.. This implies that conservatives are ass backward. They are cheap mean people who will get angry if the price of their fast food goes up a 70 cents to 1 dollar. I don't know why people vote Republican or Libertarian. Maybe some people enjoy their slavery.
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  476. China doesn't depend on the US market as much as it did compared to 2018. China has access to more markets than just the US.
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  477.  @rgen28  If you look at a map of the Ming Dynasty, you can see the boundaries of the South China Sea. That is what I mean by historic.
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  478. Capitalism and the magic of the market isn't working for most people. It always results in market saturation, lower prices, and lower wages. If a libertarian tells you the magic of the market works, they are lying. If a libertarian says the government is the blame for everything, they are lying. If a libertarian says socialism is bad, they are lying. Don't believe these frauds.
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  479.  @rodiculous9464  The US has a literacy rate of 79%, so people like that will believe anything. LOL
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  480.  @fongponto  That is true, because China helped Zimbabwe produce a lithium processing plant, and China are assisting Nigeria in producing a oil refinery there.
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  481. A transformer car, that is awesome. I think you will need a pilots license to fly it.
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  482. The professor makes a lot of sense.
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  483. You cannot have a logical argument with a insane person.
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  484. It is just hard to get married, because women's demands are too high. Even if you get married, life will get more difficult for most men. You have to work more to provide for your family, and that can be stressful. I've been living alone for about 12 years, and it isn't too bad.
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  485. Isn't that what the Vietnamese people said, Yankee go home from 1955 to 1975. Isn't that what Afghanistan said from 2001 to 2021? LOL
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  486. That is because Trump is a moron.
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  487. In a recession, your good grades, your work history, and all of that doesn't matter.
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  488. This spells the end of the petrodollar, and the death of the IC engine export car industry.
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  489.  @etow8034  Exactly, that is why other countries are able to grow food inexpensively, they import inexpensive Chinese farm equipment.
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  490.  @henrytaverner1803  There are a lot of things I didn't mention, like kites, bellows for blast furnaces, folding fans, umbrellas, belt drive, iron casting, porcelain, etc.
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  491. These people never change, the 8 nations alliance rings a bell back in the 19th century. The G7 is a modern version of the 8 nations alliance.
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  492. Try sanctioning a country that has a lot of natural resources, like Russia. Russia having an ally that has the 2nd largest economy in the world could easily negate and replace the goods the EU was sending to the Russian Federation. Russia can get everything it needs to make guided missiles and other advanced weapons from electronic components from China. Russian oil, natural gas, and other resources can be sold to China, India, and other countries. They don't need the EU to buy their natural resources.
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  493.  @Member00101  The same people that outsourced everything in the past 40 years?
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  494. There are plenty of jobs that pay $16 to $20 per hour. If you lost your high paying job, you can simply get 3 of these jobs and work 100 to 130 hours per week. Problem solved.
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  495. The most powerful person in the world acting like an imbecile.
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  496. Republicans are Nazis.
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  497. The price of nonessential goods is going down, but all the essential things, like insurance, food, fuel, rents, vehicles, etc are going up.
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  498.  @stevev4863  The cost of living is much higher in the US. That's the reason why manufacturing left the US back in the 1970s. No one said, you cannot produce stuff in the US. You can hire people in the US and hire people. Why doesn't many people do it? Because wages, energy, rent, health insurance, etc are all more expensive. You can produce stuff in the US, but very few people outside of the US would buy it.
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  499. I think this is a product inbreeding. You know Alex Jones and the people he associates with are into incest and they believe in preserving the white race. ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  500. Computers were very expensive in the late 1980s. A 386 sx-16 mhzs computer with a monitor, keyboard, 1 mb of ram, 40 mb hdd, and a dot matrix monitor cost about $2400. A Microsoft mouse cost me about $100 in 1990!
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  501. The Georgia Guide Stones implies that the world population is too much; therefore, people need to have less children and the population should go down to more sustainable levels. IS THAT SO EVIL?
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  502. I think more Chinese scientists and engineers that work in the semiconductor industries in the West should return to China to develop China's semiconductor industry. Why help countries that don't like China or Chinese people in general. Working for Western companies has limitations, you have something called the glass ceiling. There is no such a thing in China for Chinese people working for Chinese companies and corporations.
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  503. This is what happens when you pander to the hobos. No one should be allowed to camp under a freeway underpass. It is the job of the authorities to do their jobs, what are we paying them for!!!!!!!!
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  504.  @解思思  What I meant having a choice. Competition is better than monopoly.
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  505. The end result is very high inflation if not hyperinflation.
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  506. Chump was reading a script there, he didn't mean any of it. He still needs to be punished for what he did.
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  507. It's worse than Afghanistan. LOL
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  508. The Russians need to employ electronic warfare, like jamming GPS signals, because these drones and missiles are guided by GPS.
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  509. I am 48 and I never got married. I was just too busy focusing on my career. Did get into relationships, but all of them fell apart in a few months, because I spent too much time working. Now, I have a lot of money, and no family. That was the trade off for me.
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  510.  @rap3208  The only reason why the world was forced to use the USD after 1971 was because the US was backed by oil. All oil transactions was in USD, today that isn't the case. More and more countries are working out deals to transact in their own currencies. Why does the world need your USDs to be the intermediary? A good analogy would be, the consumer can bypass the retailer by shopping online. Consumers that want better prices can bypass online businesses and buy directly from China. They don't need the middle man, they can simply cut them out and buy products for less money.
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  511. Vote Newsome out of office.
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  512.  @dennispoolspaservicetdcigl746  This isn't the 1990s.
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  513.  @Deviousboy  ROFL 🤣
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  514. This will only accelerate what chump is trying to avert.
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  515. Building it in China means, they don't have to import parts from China to assemble their products. Shipping stuff costs a lot of money. It is much simpler to assemble finished products in a country where you can get access to all the parts. Kevin said, it is less expensive to produce in China than producing stuff in another country, like Vietnam. Wages are lower in Vietnam.
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  516.  @crystalstar9676  Perhaps, the mythological stories told in the past has a connection to these Fallen Angels. Perhaps, these Fallen Angels were the gods of antiquity.
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  517. This insanity can end with the impeachment of Trump. Using the office of president to threaten individuals, and private companies is what dictators do. No president in the history of the USA ever did what Trump did. He is overstepping his authority. Private companies can do whatever they want, and people who don't agree with you don't deserve to be punished by people in government. That is what happens in totalitarian regimes.
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  518. The US is the USSR, and I am sure it will have the same fate as the USSR.
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  519. If I was in a jury, I would say that guy is innocent.
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  520. China will have flying cars. China is a country that is moving forward.
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  521. That is a lot of ramen for 70 cents. I can't find a deal like that in the US. Even when I give money to people that beg in the streets, they expect at least $5.
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  522.  @dee-vee  They can believe what they want to believe, but it doesn't mean it is true.
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  523. India and America are similar. They have the same kind of problems, except India is much worse. Let them work together, they will still be 3rd world 20 years down the line.
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  524. Greed, stupidity, insanity, and pride that sums up the America of today.
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  525.  @tondematongo32  It's called cooking the books.
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  526. Even if he doesn't realize, reality will show up 6 months to a year after it is imposed.
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  527. The difference between the Western and Chinese mindset is the Chinese have a long term strategy.
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  528.  @greentea8852  They will say that.
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  529. Chinese brands are good now, so I buy more Chinese brands now.
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  530. Taiwan = ROC (Republic of China) Republic of China was founded in 1912. In 1949 when the CPC won the Civil War on the mainland of China, the ROC fled to Taiwan. Technically, they are still belong to the same country, and the conflict has not been resolved.
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  531.  @lance8080  What you call manufacturing in the US has parts imported from China and other countries. LOL
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  532. China doesn't just have to buy gold, they can buy copper, silver, platinum, tungsten, bauxite, palladium, and other minerals they can use.
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  533. I am a semi retired 47 year old man, who made all the right investments, and always got out at the right time. The dollar isn't going to zero, but you will continue to see more and more inflation. I will be buying only two things. Real estate when the price crashes, and gold to save my purchasing power. That's it.
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  534. When a country has a vital resource that the world needs then it can't be sanctioned. The world needs manufactured goods, and natural resources. On the other hand, the world doesn't need Euros and USD. The whole reason why every country in the world needed the USD was because oil was only sold in USD. Today, that is not the case anymore. Countries can buy oil in RMB, and other currencies.
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  535. Interest rates going up from 0.20% to 5.5% in two years can do that. People are tapped out due to inflation, and interest rates going up a lot.
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  536. The US can't compete, so they are complaining.
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  537. When I ran a brick a mortar business decades ago, people would complain about the price. I would take the items back and refund the customer. I didn't think my prices were outrageous; never the less, I would refund the money. This woman has a serious problem when dealing with customers. It didn't have to get out of hand like that.
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  538. In the US, it is all about making money. Quality, durability, and value aren't baked into it. It is all about profit. Produce something that costs $2 and sell it for $20.
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  539. China is a leading manufacturing country, so they use a lot of copper. The highest demand for copper is in China, and producing copper in the US is more expensive. Therefore, where would the US sell this expensive copper to? Very few countries would buy their expensive copper, and there is very little demand for it in the US. Thus, it is meaningless.
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  540. What is wrong with these women? I am a 48 single man, and I made my decision to be single for the rest my life. I didn't decide to become a monk, because of the choice I made. Why can't these women just keep it to themselves, like most men like me do? Women just want attention, but most men don't care.
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  541. If we go into a recession, Trump is going to go on Twitter and blame Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Obama. LOL
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  542.  Juan Jose  A lot of people in the USA have firearms, but very few of em behave like that man acted.
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  543. What an idiot, Trump is a known con man. This donor didn't know that, because they refused to believe it. Now HE KNOWS IT.
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  544.  @daveburkitt5287  The USSR spent too much money on their military, and what happened?
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  545. She has anger issues, and racial issues.
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  546. Trump is a criminal, I hope Trump rots in prison after his presidency.
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  547. A country that has a lot of scientists and engineers is a progressive nation, and a country that has a lot of lawyers, and financial people is a regressive nation. Therefore, China is more progressive than the US.
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  548.  @DJs021  The image that people get about the US is from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. Today, it is a very different place.
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  549.  @jolookstothestars6358  The atmosphere of the Earth was different in antediluvian times, there was more oxygen.
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  550. F-16s need an airbase, so when the Russians locate that base or bases, they can send cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and drones. Those F-16s will most likely be piloted by Western mercenaries, like what happened before World War 2, like the flying tigers in China, or Sovet Mig-15 pilots with Chinese and North Korean marking during the Korean War.
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  551. It would be nice to have a new CPU architecture, because X86/X64 is reaching its limits. RISC-V looks promising, it could be used in a large number of applications in the future as it becomes more mature. It could be used in smartphones, desktop computers, microcontrollers, video game consoles, drones, other types of electronic devices, automotive industry, aviation industry, etc.
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  552. This is real history, this really happened.
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  553.  @dee-vee  They can be arrogant and entitled when they are sleeping on a cardboard box on the sidewalk or living under a bridge. LOL
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  554. This guy thought he was Superman or something. 🤣
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  555. Alex Jones is already very crazy, you can't become crazier than he already is.
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  556.  @gsismaet5385  Now the EU and the US can buy bonds from each other. It is like two vampires sucking each others blood. LOL 😆
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  557. Paychecks are still flat for most people, and jobs are still being outsourced. The only difference is the rich are getting richer as a result of these tax cuts, and everyone else didn't get anything! Old people and people with student loan debts are still screwed!
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  558. This guy must be a Republican. If these morons want to kill themselves then let them. They choose to be stupid then it is their own faults. Look at the bright side, there will be a lot less of these conservatives in this world.
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  559. The game is about blaming everyone except the people who are really causing the problems. LOL
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  560. There will be plenty of jobs. They still need farm workers, fast food workers, warehouse workers, dock workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, driving for rideshare, waiters/waitresses, butlers, dog walkers, etc. You can find a job working for extremely rich people who may want to use you as a chess piece in a game where they use people as chess pieces. There will be plenty of jobs, but most of these jobs are going to be temporary Gig type of work. You will have work, and you will be able to eat. That's it. That's the future for most people.
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  561.  @thejarjosh  sure, the diversity in the Trump rallies. 95% white Christian people, and 5% other people. The Republican party being 90% white.
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  562. This is the reason why fewer and fewer people are going to church.
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  563. My expenses in the US • Mortgage: $2,500/month (I don't have a mortgage now) • Homeowners Insurance: $375/month • Car Insurance: $350/month • Health Insurance: $450/month • Groceries: $400/month • Utilities: $250/month • Cellphone: $59/month • Internet: $90/month • Fuel: $250/month • Property Tax: $650/month • Disposable Expenses(eating out, electronics, etc): $300/month • Car Maintenance: $29.17/month _____________________________________________________ Total Expenses per month: $5,703.17/month The cost of living in Japan is much lower than the US.
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  564.  @RazorKane22  So, you gave up on life, because you don't like paying taxes. You are going to pay taxes regardless of which economic system you live in. You will be forced to pay taxes in a monarchy, a Republic, or a Socialist Republic. As long as you live in this world, you will pay taxes. Most people just try to do the best they can under their current circumstances.
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  565. Chump is a moron, and his hardcore supporters are chumps.
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  566. China used the surplus from their trade to buy U.S. treasury bonds, and this lowered interest rates in the U.S.A.. As a result, if China decides to stop buying U.S. treasury bonds, this will cause interest rates to spike. Not only did China buy U.S. debt, the European Union, Canada, and other countries also bought U.S. debt. Trump doesn't know what he is doing. He doesn't understand international trade or the economy. He could cause some serious damage to the economy, and we can see the fallout in a year or two.
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  567.  @lance8080  Really, what do you make?
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  568. Vietnam has more to benefit having better relations with China than the U S . Besides, China really provided a lot of support for Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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  569. Looks like consumerism isn't working when you have this lock down.
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  570. You need to own some kind of weapon if you live in the US.
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  571. He stabbed someone with his 12 inch knife, you cannot let that guy get away after he stabbed someone for no reason.
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  572. Poor baby, chump can't handle it. I want to see Donald chump's face when he loses.
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  573. Trump supporters are Nazis. Back in the 1930s, Nazis acted like this.
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  574. @gerardflynn7382  The countries in the West said they are moving away from oil, and natural gas, yet they still consume a lot of it.
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  575.  @tigading2177  It will only accelerate the demise of the US Empire.
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  576. Eventually, you will get it, who knows maybe in 2050 or something. ROFL 😆
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  577. I am 48 and I am not married. Never had any problem getting dates, and I never asked any woman out. They would approach me most of the time. I could have gotten married many times, but I didn't because I was afraid of the commitment, and losing my freedom. I am just lucky none of the women I went out with got pregnant, or I would have had to marry one. The women I went out with wanted more than just friendship, they wanted a serious relationship. They even showed me to their parents. These women were spoiled, bad tempered, and demanding. That's why I didn't marry em.
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  578. "Obeying the devil's law" LOL
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  579. It is safer than the US.
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  580.  @MusehanaH  People in the USA aren't used to living under this kind of pressure. I wonder how they will behave when we have hyperinflation, this is something the US never experienced since the 1770s.
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  581. If the people can fund their own candidates then the candidates will do what the voters want them to do. Brilliant!
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  582.  @jolookstothestars6358  That's why animals and plants grew to a very large size. They use hyperbaric oxygen therapy to accelerate healing in patients. The air that we breath is about 78% Nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.934% Argon, and 0.035% Carbon Dioxide. The oxygen content in air was much higher before the flood.
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  583. The middle class pays for all the taxes, and the wealthy get away with not paying many taxes. The Democrats heavily tax the middle class, but they let the upper class not pay many taxes. The Republicans cut taxes for the very wealthy, and they cut social services. The Republicans pit the middle class against the poor, and the Democrats pit the poor against the middle class. While all this happens, the filthy rich just watch the two fight it out. They reap all the benefits while the middle class and the poor get shafted. LOL
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  584. That Game and Watch Legend of Zelda is a real classic.
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  585. The average American better get used to working 80 hours/week, because inflation ain't going away!
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  586. The UAE couldn't beat the Houthi even when they were backed by the U S. What makes you think the U S and U K can do it?
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  587. 让中华再次伟大！
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  588. You need Palladium to make real things like catalytic converters, electroplating parts, aircraft spark plugs, etc. You need titanium to make vital parts for jet engines, aircraft frames, etc. You cannot create, like printing money. The world doesn't need more fiat currencies from the G7.
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  589. Trump would say, it is getting worser. LOL I mean worse, not worser. Only Trump would say that. LOL
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  590. Dio Brando people are people, and it is not good to hate and demonize any race. People should be judged based on their actions not based on who they are. That is the point.
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  591. Brandon will not be power next year, so they can safely ignore him without any consequence. Besides, ole Brandon might forget in the next day or two. ROFL🤣
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  592. This is something I never knew, thanks for sharing it with us. You are the real deal.
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  593. When you have a country that is run by political science majors, this is what you get.
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  594. When people get supervised by computer algorithms, they have to work at the pace of the machine. If people can't meet the quotas then they are punished. Corporations will simply say if you don't like it then get outta here, we have thousands of people who can do your job. That's the dilemma for most of these unskilled workers.
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  595. Chump is going to try to lower interest rates to boost the equities market, because it makes him look good. Lower rates will make it more difficult to buy a home, and push up the price of homes.
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  596. Bain capital or Meat Romney's corporation destroyed Kay-Bee Toys in 2009, and the same bastards destroyed Toy R Us! My parents used to buy me toys from those stores when I was growing up!
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  597. He is doing good business, he gets paid to catch lizards, and he sells those lizards.
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  598. You know women are like that. When I went on a date with a woman I met online, she asked me to buy her a diamond ring to show her commitment. I did. I was inexperienced, and a bit naive back then. If a woman asked me to buy her something on the first date, I would say no.
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  599. You have the same problem in every Western country. High real estate prices, high cost of living, temporary work, no job security, and all of this leads to a stressful life.
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  600. 70 cents for a sushi roll, that is a great deal. I didn't see prices like that in the US since 1986. LOL
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  601. It is $6850 now.
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  602. That is real Nazi behavior, not surprising. LOL😆
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  603. Then, everyone would know he is guilty.
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  604. Those pieces of paper are going to become worthless. LOL 😆
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  605. They need to impeach and arrest this clown.
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  606. India has structural problems, like the caste system, gender inequalities, poor infrastructure, income inequalities, ethnic problems, corruption, and lack of mastery of core technologies.
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  607. People just pay for the brand, and believe it is a status symbol. In reality, it is just a electronic device.
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  608. When the dollar becomes toilet paper, precious metals will have value again.
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  609. ​@vwk3851 China has allies that produce oil and everything in the periodic table.
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  610. They can't, but the reality can't be ignored. You see the sign of decline in the US everywhere, like the lawlessness, rampant inflation in essential goods, stagnant wages, rampant substance abuse, and a lot of unhappy people.
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  611. Those automotive techs need to start their own businesses.
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  612. The US economy isn't efficient anymore, it is about maximizing profits. So, instead of producing more items efficiently at lower prices, it is more profitable to produce less and charge a higher price.
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  613. They need to make a new law. If you're a patient and own guns, and if your kid uses your gun to kill people; the parent should be responsible. After all, it is the parent's gun, and it was their negligence that caused this to happen. The parent should be sued in civil court, and they should be thrown in prison as well. Strip them of all their assets and throw them in prison. It will send a clear message to America.
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  614. Yugoslavia had a system like China. They allowed ownership of businesses to individuals, and had a export market also. Back in 1980s, you had Yugo cars in the USA, and furniture from Yugoslavia as well.
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  615. Back in 1999, my history professor said one of the reasons the Sovet Union collapsed in 1991 was because the China was an ally of the USA in 1975. This forced the USSR to spend too much money for the military, and this caused the Sovet economy to collapse in the 1980s. You had high inflation, shortage of consumer goods, and long lines in the 1980s in the USSR. This Russian Chinese alliance is forcing the US to spend massive amounts of money in the military, and forcing the USA to neglect its consumer economy. This is resulting in high inflation, and this will cause the US economy to collapse. At the same time, these sanctions are bad for US companies by destroying their market share in China which is the biggest market for US goods.
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  616. The point is to lead to the creation of monopolies.
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  617. @DearSX  You are suppose to impose tariffs if you already have the factories and supply chains genius.
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  618. The reason why US companies left was, because the high cost of doing business there. The problems with moving industries in the US is the high cost of production. They can sell their stuff in the US market; however, it will be extremely difficult to sell outside the US. Those companies have to compete with Chinese companies that can sell stuff at a much lower price. Companies want access to global markets, and lower costs. This will weaken US companies with Trump's policies.
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  619. People robbing restaurants that is something I could never imagine. When I was a teenager, I used to work in my father's convenience store back in the early 1990s. Someone pointed a gun at me and told my father to open the cash register. Convenience stores always got robbed, but a sandwich shop getting robbed. We are living in the Twilight Zone.
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  620.  @somastic69  They are able to do that with debt, like credit cards.
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  621. For the Ukraine, they have to look good to get more support from the West. If you want to launch an offensive, you need a number of conditions to succeed, like having air superiority, and a numerical superiority in heavy weapons. Ukraine doesn't have this. You have to concentrate your forces to launch an offensive, so when this happens they will get spotted by Russian drones. Then, artillery and air strikes are sent inbound to break up these Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian forces get stuck against Russian defenses, and the Ukraine forces get decimated by Russian defenders, heavy artillery and air support.
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  622. Tiktok isn't for sale, and Greenland isn't for sale either.
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  623. You must be a alt right scumbag. Why don't u go to Alex Jones site and listen to his bullshit.
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  624. In the USA, almost everything is for profit. It is all about money, money, and more money. As a result, our society is sick. We had for profit schools, like ITT Tech, Devries University, and others that sold degrees which weren't worth the paper they were printed on. We have con artists on the internet making false claims that traditional universities are worthless, because we have Google Alexa. Google Alexa can give you answer to trivial things, so universities aren't needed. You learn a lot of things in a university, and you learn things in a lot of depth. For example, if you learn physics, chemistry, biochemistry, economics, computer science, engineering, law, medicine, etc. We don't go to university to learn trivial things, we go there to learn real things that we can apply in the real world.
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  625. If everyone makes a run for it, they cannot be stopped. After that happens, how will the plantation owner make a living? The plantation owner is finished.
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  626. The US can put tariffs on Chinese products, but it will make US companies less competitive. As a result, they will lose in export markets. The world is a bigger market than the US. Lower priced and high quality Chinese goods can compete in the world markets, while US goods cannot.
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  627.  @Whiteraiment1000  This video shows empirical evidence, like how it is very difficult to reproduce the kind of work that was done on those ancient stone blocks. The weight of those stones, and the level of precision in workmanship is very difficult to replicate with the tools we have today. Andesite is a very difficult stone to work with, and the way andesite was cut at the quarry looks like it was cut by a laser or something. It was a precision laser like cut.
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  628.  @trestabernae7250  After 100,000 years, just about everything will decompose, rust, and corrode. Plastic takes about 200 to 500 years to decompose, steel rusts and corrode, aluminum corrodes, bricks can last a few hundred years, etc. Stuff doesn't last forever. After 100,000 years, a lot of stuff would vanish without a trace.
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  629. Just look at the trade surplus between the US and China, last year alone was about $500 billion. The US is sending less goods and services to China. In other words, the US sends more green pieces of paper for real things. Think about it.
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  630. There is a reason why prices are dropping in China. One of the reasons are, they are producing a lot of goods. It's just supply and demand. They have access to inexpensive energy from Russia, Iran, Venezuela, other countries. They can get natural gas, oil, uranium, and coal at lower prices. As for food, China is supply countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America with inexpensive farm machinery. This allows China to buy inexpensive food. The deflation is due to China's strong economy.
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  631. You cannot get rid of a constitutional amendment with a executive order. The only way you can do that is by getting a 2/3 majority in the senate and the house of representatives, or by instituting martial law.
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  632. @ The price of a average home in 1985 was about $100k, and today it is about $450k. Date Home Price Wage 1985 $100k $16.64k/yr 2025 $450k $39.5k/yr In 1985, it would take 6 years worth of wages to buy a home. Today, it would take 11 years, 4 months, and 21 days worth of wages to buy a home.
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  633. All the more reason why getting a university education in the U S doesn't matter.
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  634. There is a difference between Vietnam and the Philippines. The Vietnamese people fought against colonialism, they tried to push the French out, and when the French failed to suppress the Vietnamese People's Revolt, the U S came in.
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  635. Trump is so inconsistent, he wants votes to stop being counted in the states he is winning in, and votes to be counted in states he is losing in?????? Do you know how stupid sounds.
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  636. Why don't these people put tariffs on chemical precursors for meds, processed rare earths, circuit boards, etc. It would be funny when chump becomes prez and puts 200% tariffs on those things. The US economy would grind to a halt. ROFL 🤣
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  637. Trickle down economics does not work. It is bullshit.
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  638. It wouldn't matter if minimum wages are raised or not. The argument that raising the minimum wage will result in more jobs being automated is false, because they will be automated regardless. Raising the minimum wage will result in jobs being automated faster. Not every job can be automated, nor can every business afford to buy the equipment to automate everything. In some cases, automating things can cause more problems. For example, self checkouts. People who use self checkouts aren't always honest, and they will not scan everything. This causes thousands of dollars in losses per day for a business that employs this system.
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  639.  @jaykiller4510  They are going to find out when the stuff they were able to buy for reasonable prices go up a lot.
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  640. Without a market for the goods you are producing, it doesn't matter how many subsidies companies get from the government.
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  641.  @vamsig1530  LOL
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  642. Anything can happen, there is no such a thing as a permanent job in this economy.
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  643. I thought Trump was a master negotiator, and he boasted about his book Art of the Deal. The man is a con artist, and if you haven't figured that out, you're a sucker.
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  644. The 7-11 franchise owner is going to go to prison for 20 years, and they will get a chance to make 10 cents a hour for 20 years. Serves them right.
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  645. Slavery is good if you enjoy BDSM. I mean if you enjoy wearing collars, chains, and getting lashed. Most people don't enjoy such treatment. ROFL!
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  646. He said he didn't want to work with China, so China shouldn't give them another chance.
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  647.  @johnsch1988  Most likely.
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  648. In the plantation, the plantation owner makes the rules, and break the rules. The slaves on the plantation have to follow the rules or else. It is the same as being an employee, the boss can break the rules, but you must follow it or get fired.
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  649.  @lance8080  The US does make chips, but what about the motherboard, case, and the other parts? Where is that made in? Chips are just one part of a computer or electronic device.
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  650. Great news, I hope the senate will impeach him too.
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  651. This is what barbarism looks like. Money isn't collected from corporations, but it is taken out of poor citizens.
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  652.  @Zakaius Exactly. Plus, most people here are always try to blame other people for their problems rather than solving problems.
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  653. Trump is a con man.
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  654.  @haniahannslew4108  I came to the US in 1982 when I was 6, and most people in my generation know that they don't like us. Most of us Chinese-Americans just stuck around with others like us. I met Chinese people from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Cambodia, etc. We know that this discrimination was always there, but in the past 4 years it became more apparent.
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  655.  @robertbradbury7921  You will get all your industries back and have a closed economy. There will be a backlash. If you impose tariffs on other countries, they will impose it on you too.
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  656. He made some poor decisions, because he didn't have to be there. No one asked him and his gun totting buddies to protect anything.
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  657. My parents bought a new Whirlpool refrigerator in 2018, and it broke down 2 years later. The reason why it broke was, because the circuit board died on it. The refrigerator my parents got rid of was bought in 1983, but they decided to get rid of it, because they wanted a new one. They should have just kept what they had. Stuff they make break much faster than they used to.
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  658. This is absolutely true.
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  659. That Chevy sedan was probably stolen.
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  660. I hope these investigations bankrupt Trump, he will need to hire a lot of lawyers to protect him. LOL
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  661.  @backinblackskin23  The man could have used a baseball bat on his bro, a crowbar, a knife, an axe, a chainsaw, or anything else. It isn't the tool that is bad. If someone wants to commit evil on another person, they can with pretty much anything.
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  662. Gold is the kryptonite of the USD and the Euro. LOL
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  663.  @HaitianHallow  I never got married, because I refused to hand over the money. I wouldn't pretend like my father did. I was going to get married many years ago, and one of the things I couldn't accept was that the woman was deeply religious. My father said, you could just pretend to be religious and change after you get married. I said NO WAY. This is why my father's marriage was a failure. He likes to hide things. If you want to get into a relationship with a woman, you have to be honest. My father would always criticize me that I was a simpleton, because I was always honest.
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  664. Disinformation and counterfeiting. ROFL 🤣
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  665. When I was growing up in the late 1970s to the 1980s, one income was enough to sustain a family. From the late 1980s, I saw a transition from one job to two people working to sustain a family. When we got to the 2000s, people had multiple part time jobs. Now, we have the gig economy where incomes keep going down. Back in the 1980s, $16k/year to $25k/year was considered to be middle class. Upper middle class was $26k/year to $50k/year. Today, $115k/year to $125k/year is considered middle class, and upper middle class if $126k/year to $200k/year.
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  666. Is it such a bad thing for housing prices to go down?
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  667. Common sense? I call it fake news, fear porn, sensationalism, and yellow journalism.
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  668. I like how Prof. Marandi calls DC a regime. I think it is correct. LOL
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  669. Don't go to college if you don't want to become a specialist, like a medical doctor, dentist, pharmacist, engineer, or some other technical expert. Other than that, it is fucking worthless.
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  670. Why do you even bother trying to warn people, they won't listen to you. Most of these fools will find out they were played 3 to 4 years from now.
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  671. The US got rich after WW2 when industries of most major countries got decimated during WW2. In a world where you have a lot of competition, it doesn't work. You can isolate yourself, but the GDP will shrink as a result of it. The solution is simple, decouple from the US system, and find new markets.
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  672. Intel currently sells photonic silicon modules for data centers, and these are much faster than silicon based ones. Making a computer chip is more complicated, and it is still years away. Nevertheless, it is possible, and when that happens these photonic silicon chips will be thousands of times faster. Back in the 1990s, they replaced copper with fiber optic cables, because using light allows you to transfer more data at greater distances at higher bandwidths compared to electrons.
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  673. Canada and Mexico produce most things that are made in the US. On the other hand, the stuff that the US imports from China aren't produced in the US. US manufacturing depends on imports from China, so a 60% or 100% tariffs on all Chinese imports will cripple US manufacturing. The US doesn't produce the parts, components, and raw materials. Most of what we call US manufacturing is using the supply chains from other countries.
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  674.  @sola4393  Didn't the U S lose in Iraq, and Afghanistan? I wonder why they want to start more problems?
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  675. In capitalism, you have to exploit others. It is the nature of the game.
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  676. The money will run out when the trade war starts, and stocks will go down.
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  677.  @ohyeahminecraft  This is what happens when the government turns into a oligarchy. You have corruption, incompetence, and nepotism.
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  678. Canada's total exports was about $534.93 billion in total, and the US accounted for $439.6 billion. The US accounts for 82.2% of Canada's total exports. Canada's GDP in 2023 was $2,140 billion, so trade with the US accounts for 25% of Canada's GDP. For China, exports to the US accounts for 14.8% at $501 billion in 2023. China exported about $3.385 trillion in 2023. China's GDP in 2023 was $17,790 billion, so trade with the US accounted for 2.82% of China's GDP. China can find other markets for their goods, but Canada will have a much more difficult time doing the same.
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  679. You saw the way African students were treated by Ukrainian authorities when the war started.
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  680. Trump is like Jim Jones.
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  681. Chump is an idiot, he talks like a con man. He is a empty headed moron.
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  682. He's a natural born liar, so people like that never blink when they lie. ROFL 😂
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  683.  @davidphua1083  They are two bad choices, that is why I didn't vote for either of em.
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  684. With a leader like 习近平, China will have prosperous future.
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  685. The demand for EVs has been going down in the US, because they are too expensive. Auto manufacturers are building expensive SUVs, trucks, and EVs. At the same time, they stopped producing inexpensive IC sedans, because those are less profitable to produce. As a result, the average person cannot afford to buy inexpensive vehicles. That is what you call monopoly.
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  686. They are both Han Chinese people.
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  687. You play dumb games, you get dumb prizes.
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  688. It is a pity we have so many ignorant and stupid people in the USA. If they don't get it, they will get it when they lose everything and end up in the streets.
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  689. Trump is responsible for this, and he has to pay for it.
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  690. Fox news is fascist propaganda, and Laura is a Nazi, like Joseph Goebbels.
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  691. The trailer parks are going to get mad that their government assistance gets cut, while they will be forced to work in the fields doing hard labor. LOL
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  692. He doesn't belong there, he has the wrong skin tone.
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  693. That is because they believe they are exceptional. They believe it is the best thing ever created, because they made it when it is not. LOL
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  694. We are living in the Twilight Zone. If you hurt the feeling of a general, they will go after you. 😆
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  695. So much fakeness. I like women who don't wear a lot of makeup and have no cosmetic surgery. My ex-girlfriend had breast surgery, and wore a lot of makeup. She did look really good, but a silicon implant isn't real, and without markup she didn't look so good.
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  696. They need cheap labor. You saw what happened with what Tyson Foods did. They hired those people for half the wage, and laid off the existing workers there. Both parties benefit, the politicians and big business people that need this inexpensive labor.
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  697. Don Rutter, Here are characteristics of dictatorships. 1. Dictators censor the free press and attacks the free press for criticizing them.2. Cabinet ministers are all yes men. They don't criticize the leader. This is why so many White House cabinet members resigned under Trump.3. Make changes in the law to give themselves more and more power. Isn't that what Trump is doing with the FART Act. He wants to appoint judges who will be his puppets. 4. Has blatant disregard for the law. 5. Scapegoats different races to build a base of supporters. We know president Trump is a criminal. You can look into his history and find that out. No U.S. bank would lend this deadbeat debtor any money, so he borrowed money from Russian banks. This is a fact.
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  698. The West is good at marketing. Just look at the exaggeration advertisers make, like Trumps saying his filtered tap water in plastic bottles is the best bottled water in the world, so I will charge $5 for a bottle of my water.
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  699. @ It's different. For the US, de dollarization will be the catalyst for it. Along with bad economic policies, like a blanket tariff on all foreign imports. It is more or less self inflicted. For most people in the US, housing, vehicles, and healthcare are not affordable. The price of food is only getting higher and higher.
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  700. Looks like Japan is a territory of the US, like Puerto Rico. Japan is a defacto territory of the US, and so is S.Korea.
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  701. In the US wage scales are different. Upper class greater than equal to $250k/year Upper Middle Class is greater than equal to $150k/year Middle Class is greater than equal to $55k/year Lower Middle Class is greater than equal to $35k/year Lower Class is greater than equal to $25k/year.
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  702. Looks like Apple is just a hollow shell. LOL
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  703. The Haitians revolted against their white Masters and Mistresses, and all the white nations decided to get together and teach these people a lesson. Back in the 18th century, European countries pretty much controlled most of the countries in the Americas.
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  704.  @L98fiero  It's the beginning of the end.
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  705. The problem is the MIC is not interested in producing basic munitions, because it isn't profitable. It is more profitable to produce precision munitions. It's just business.
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  706. Since you don't know anything about firearms, you make such BS claims. First of all bullpup designs suck, because they have terrible triggers. Having a bad trigger can affect your accuracy. Anyone who knows anything about firearms knows that. 2ndly, you can't easily mount optics on bullpup stocks. The way a bullpup rifle is designed, you have to mount the optics at a higher elevation. This is a problem.
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  707.  @caveapex8391  I bought and tried some canned insects called silkworm pupae, and it made me sick. Humans aren't suppose to eat bugs. I go fishing at least 4 times a year, and I use insects and worms as bait. Use those insects to catch fish which taste 10 times better than bugs!
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  708. China just released a 14 nm DUV lithography machine late this year. They are currently working on a EUV lithography machine, and when they do make one they can produce 3nm, and 5nm nodes.
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  709.  @WizardHarry69  The whole US economy is based on servicing debt. Think about, mortgages, home equity loans, student loans, car notes, subprime loans, derivatives, credit cards, etc. It is highly financialized.
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  710. Trump will do anything to get himself out of this. The man is shameless.
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  711. They can keep rushing in reinforcements through a road that is surrounded by two sides, where the Russians can concentrate a lot of firepower in a small narrow corridor. Keeping that one road open would be a great way to destroy a lot of equipment and supplies, like shooting fish in a barrel.
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  712. I actually enjoy having a job even though I am mostly retired. It is fun going to places, playing video games, going out to eat, but if you are spending all your time on leisure life gets boring. I work at least 20 to 28 hours a week to make life more bearable.
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  713. who cares. LOL
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  714. The US thinks their stuff is so exceptional when it isn't. They believe it is so exceptional that they can charge 6 to 10 times the price of comparable unit produced in another country. LOL
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  715. Japan has been a occupied nation since Sept 02, 1945.
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  716. Trump is making a lot of money being president. Selling his Donald Trump hats, shirts, cigars, mugs, etc. Using tax payers money to pay for his overpriced hotels and resorts.
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  717. China is just more efficient at producing things, because they have more engineering graduates per year compared to the USA. China produces about 600,000 to 700,000 engineering undergraduates/year, while the USA produces about 70,000 to 90,000 engineering undergraduates/year. Engineers figure out how to parts for machines efficiently, they make the machines that make parts for machinery, and they streamline production lines. The more engineers you have in a country, the productive the manufacturing industry is going to be.
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  718. There is a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment here, and the U S has a history of this. It is very difficult being Chinese in the U S.
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  719. There will be a lot of homeless people in the future, so a lot of people will be criminalized because of this law.
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  720. Unvaccinated Covid-19 patients should be put in the back of the line. The person who elderly person who fell down, got shot, need emergency surgery, got a heart attack, stroke, fell off a building, etc should be treated first.
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  721.  @gvs5318  Your numbers are way off. Oil Production by country in 2023 1. USA: 21.91 million barrels/day Oil consumption in USA: 20.25 million barrels/day The amount of oil the US exported would be 21.91 million barrels/day - 20.25 million/day = 1.66 million barrels/day. The average price of a barrel of oil in 2023 was $82.49/barrel. Therefore, the US exported about $49.98 billion in crude oil in 2023, not $323 billion in 2023. You muricans sure are bad in math.
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  722. Competition is always good. We need a competing financial system, this is better for humanity as a whole. : )
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  723.  @rodiculous9464  Not really because wages in the US are 3 to 10 times more compared to other parts of the world.
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  724. Interesting to see how the urban landscape looks like in Japan.
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  725. He was guilty of taking out the trash.
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  726. The stock market will crash in 2 more years. Let Trump serve out his term. In two more years the economy will crash because of Trump, and he will be a one term president. Then, the F.B.I. will come after him after he out of office, no one will pardon him. LOL
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  727.  @mikewardrop5962  I bet he has a picture of Stepan Bandera and Hitler in his office.
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  728.  @kookietherapy9398  I don't think he and his wife have anything to be depressed about at the moment. I promised my father I would take care of my little brother. I usually keep my promises.
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  729. All this harm to people just to make money, that is truly evil.
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  730. Trump is a professional bullshitter, most people who has a IQ of higher than 100 know what Trump said was a lie. Only hardcore Maga hat wearing maggots believe that lie. LOL
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  731. This will be interesting to watch. The US will need to start developing its own resources, because they will no longer be able to buy them with those green pieces of paper they get out of a printing press. This is more difficult than printing money. Building power plants, mines, factories, high speed rail, improving infrastructure, and developing industries is much more difficult than being able to buy it with dollars from a printing press. Let's see if the US got what it takes in the next 4 years.
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  732.  @golanheights9000  That is true, because Japan really wasn't a independent after WW2.
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  733.  @toyvillageandtrains.2420  We will never know what was lost. I don't think the Inca understood or had knowledge of replicating the megalithic structures in their lands. The publisher of this video clearly shows the patch work the Inca did on top of the existing megalithic structures. The Inca never said they did built it. Those things existed before they settled there. The same can be said about the Aztecs. They said those pyramids in Teotihuacán were there before they came. There is a lot of enigmas that archeologists can't explain, like the ruins in Baalbek which weigh 1,000 tons or more. The Romans did build on top of the existing foundations, but they didn't have anything to do with those 700 ton to 1000 ton stone blocks that exist there.
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  734. The US is such a free place. LOL
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  735. Having a financialized economy is based on profit maximization results in stuff like this. Products can be built better, and they can last a long time. The faster things wear out, the more profitable it is. This is America today. Bad service, bad products, and high prices.
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  736. Electric vehicles are easier to produce, because they have less moving parts. They don't need a lot of maintenance either, so car mechanics will also be out of a job when EVs become popular. You don't have to have finely machined parts, like internal combustion engine cars. China also has a complete supply chain for battery technologies which makes it the ideal country to mass produce EVs.
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  737. That is quite an achievement for 中国 .
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  738. I stopped using HP's products more than a decade ago.
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  739.  @peetsnort  Western weapon contractors, like Western companies are good at advertising. If you want to be a good advertiser or marketer, you have to be good at lying. Make a false claim and charge the highest price possible. LOL
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  740.  @ivan200804  That is probably true, but the point is F-16s or any other aircraft is not invincible in a war time scenario.
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  741. Libertarians are scam artists.
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  742. Trolls like to project their inadequacies on others.
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  743. Municipalities can make laws to reverse this. If a individual or a corporation owns more than 2 homes in a locality then they can be charged a 30% property tax per year. This would force these greedy people to sell their assets, or they can pay 30% property tax per year.
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  744. Petro dollar is no more, and this is the beginning of the end of USD. USD will still be used, but less of it will be used. This will cause a inflation crisis in the US.
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  745. Trump is a unstable idiot.
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  746. I am sure China's commercial aircraft will be #1 by 2035.
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  747. The Gig Economy is a way to merciless exploit people. Look at all the people who were boasting about how much money they were making on Uber, Youtube, Amazon Flex, Deliveroo, etc. At first, they pay you good then they pay you less and less every single year. Those people who were making a good living making Youtube videos are complaining how their revenues dropped more than 80% from one year ago. They all expect you to use your own equipment, your own insurance, your own utility bills, and they expect you to take all the risks. They just take a cut out of your work. It is a good business model, they have no liabilities.
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  748. They can't hit many targets in the Ukraine, because of the GPS jamming system Russia has there. They are just hollow threats. LOL
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  749. A lot of them do believe the earth is flat. LOL
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  750.  @peanut0brain  Look at the way US MM was covering the U-War. These exceptional pieces of military hardware are going to be so exceptional once the Rus see them, they will just run away. Just the mere sight of such perfection will make them give up. ROFL 🤣
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  751. The US can print all that money, but I assure you they cannot produce all that stuff. The US cannot produce enough howitzer shells. They can't produce enough Javelins, Stingers, etc. At most, the production rate for Patriots is about 400 to 500 per year at a cost of $2 million per unit. If they can't produce more than they can raise the price. A Javelin costs $190k per unit, so they can raise the price to $380k when the defense budget is doubled.
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  752. Intel used some clever tricks on their chips in recent years, they overclocked it to the point it started damaging them. They couldn't reduce their nodes, so their chips used more power and got hotter. 10nm is the best they can do, while AMD chips have 4nm nodes. This makes AMD chips use less energy, run cooler, and faster. AMD chips can be used in smaller computers, which consume less energy as well. Intel is no longer competitive.
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  753. In PPP(Purchasing Power Parity) China already surpassed the US about eight years ago. China is ahead of the US in 37 out of 44 key technologies. In 5 years, China will be producing high end semiconductors, and jet engines for passenger aircraft. China already leads in EV production.
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  754. Sounds like a great idea. I think people in China should start doing that. No one in China should be supporting Western, US, S.Korean, and US brands.
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  755. Tariffs usually don't get levied on products that aren't produced in the country or even exist. What is wrong with these people in government? They are totally inept, and make problems that exist even worse.
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  756.  @unknowndriller4964  It's chump, chump.
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  757. In a barbaric environment that might work, but you also take big risks. Your life may also be very short. LOL
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  758.  @tasijones6715  His uneducated followers will not believe it even when this is true. 😆
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  759.  @one4change4thebetter  A lot, and those are expensive. My father had cancer treatment and two surgeries. It cost well over $350k.
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  760.  @cristo6007  Are you scared?
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  761. That man might have had some grievances against UHC.
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  762. A lot of politicians are old people, and they live in rich neighborhoods. They never see what is really going on in our country.
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  763. Domestic terrorists of South Africa. I wonder how long they would last against the South African army?
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  764. Looks like we are nearing the end of the petrodollar. Back in the 1970s, the US backed its currency by forcing Saudi Arabia to sell their oil in dollars. Every country in the world needs oil, and they would have to acquire dollars to buy it. As a result, the US eased on their tariffs, sacrificed domestic production, and the US had a surplus of goods due to imports. The problems we face in the future are the following, like imports getting more and more expensive, and this will result in more and more inflation for goods. Since we don't produce a lot of the things we use, shortage of parts for farm equipment, vehicles, electronic components, electronics, semiconductors, etc can be bad for the economy. Trucks have to move to transport goods from point A to point B. Parts are needed in automated manufacturing plants to keep it running. Parts are needed to get oil rigs to pump oil. People who work in the transportation industry, like ride share need smartphones, automobiles, and parts for their automobiles to do what they do. People who write software for a living need computers. Data centers need servers, workstations, storage devices, and network equipment to keep these facilities running. Offices need computers, toners for printers, printers, paper, and other things. If stores can't get goods then they can't do business. Most of the stuff we use to make money is imported, because we have a service economy.
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  765. Right after I graduated from high school in 1993, finding any job was hard. When I was going to college, I found a job at Teletech for $6/hour working part time, and I thought I was lucky. I was doing other stuff on the side, like tutoring math courses, like Trigonometry as well.
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  766.  @j.c.4192  You are 100% correct that is what it is.
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  767. Empty calories with no nutritional value whatsoever.
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  768. The war on terror initiated it. After Sept 11th 2001, if you have any deposit over $10k, it is reported to the IRS. After a while, the IRS required all banks to report structuring.
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  769.  @rgen28  The 9 dash line was declared by the Republic of China from 1912 to 1949. After the 中國國民黨(Kuomintang) lost to the CCP in 1949, these same boundaries aren't respected by the new government took the reigns of power in 1949? It's still the same country, but with a different government. This is why these claims are legitimate.
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  770. When you are dealing Mr. Chump, it is a win lose deal. He wins, and you are suppose to lose and accept it. It is like an abusive relationship. Maybe, the EU likes this kind of relationship.
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  771. Russia must win this, the faster the world de dollarizes the better.
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  772. $7,000 USD for a car, that is very inexpensive. Even a small car Toyota Corona costs $29k. I was looking for a new Acura Integra, and the dealer wanted $39k.
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  773. Back in the 1980s, I saw a movie called I was Born in East L.A. (1987), and in that movie the main character didn't have his ID. He was detained by the INS, and he was deported. He said, I was born in L.A..
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  774. PBD is so slow, he is one of those things that don't get it. Some people just lack some common sense.
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  775. I say send him back to India.
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  776. There is a sucker born every minute.
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  777.  @fresatx  The US and the EU has a $40 trillion economy, and Russia has a $1.77 trillion economy. I don't think they will stop supplying Ukraine with weapons anytime soon. LOL
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  778.  @fannyalbi9040  The US founded the WTO, so there is no way they aren't going to be biased.
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  779. If the U S embargo's Iran's oil then the price of a barrel of oil would skyrocket. That would affect the U S economy as well, it will cause higher inflation. This would destabilize the U S economy. People think it is bad now with all the crime we are seeing now, just imagine how much worse it can get if inflation gets out of control.
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  780. Japan isn't going to disappear, there will be a lot less people in Japan in the next 50 years. There really is no need for so many people, because of AI, robotics, and automation. People will have a higher standard of living in the future, that is what I see.
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  781. They can sell it to the US in the form of batteries. ROFL 🤣
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  782. When the stock market crashes, I am sure Trump will fold. He will say, I was just kidding about the tariffs. The only thing Trump cares about is the stock market. If that goes down, this narcissist will start getting scared.
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  783. Reminds me of this scene from Terminator 2 when the T-1000 copied the voice of John Connor's mom.
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  784. It is all a house of cards, this coming recession will be very bad indeed.
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  785.  @alrent2992  This would be like having a choice of buying Frosted Flakes cereal vs. buying Corn Pops. Both are owned by Kellogg's.
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  786. Navarro is an idiot, and anyone with a brain knows it.
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  787. You notice a lot of Trump supporters are baby boomers?
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  788. I don't know how anyone can be a cop when you have to deal with psychopaths like that.
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  789. He isn't a real billionaire you know, that is why he is hiding his tax returns. Lol
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  790.  @superkd7030  That is true. Not everything made in China is cheap. I don't think Chinese products are cheap in terms of quality or price. More Chinese companies are producing their own brands, which can compete with international brands these days.
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  791. Stop supplying long range drones and advanced weapon to Ukraine which is enabling Ukraine to do these things.
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  792. I wouldn't take a Tesla even if it was free.
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  793.  @rogerstarkey5390  People use their vehicles for different purposes, for me a EV is fine, but I can't say the same for everyone else.
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  794.  @krizzle4087  How would you like it if there was a Russian, or Chinese drone flying in international waters near the coast of New York, or California?
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  795. US precision munitions are expensive, and they don't work. It's better to produce legacy munitions and use modern technology, like drones, and kits to make them more effective. Technological superiority can be overcome with mass production, just look at WW2. The Soviets and US were able to overwhelm advanced German military tech.
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  796. Trump saying stupid things, and people believing it. LOL
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  797. It costs too much to produce anything in the US, wages are too high, property values are too high, and you have too much inflation in the US. TSMC first stated they would make a chip fab in Arizona in 2024, and now they are saying it will be ready in 2028. I don't think they want to build it there. In 2018, Foxconn planned to build a factory in Wisconsin, but in 2021 they abandoned that idea. I think TSMC chip fab in Arizona will encounter the same fate.
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  798. If he didn't get tested, he wouldn't know that he had it. He would just have symptoms. LOL
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  799. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone. For me, I just went to college and finished college, worked 9 to 5 jobs, and also ran my own business as well. I can't say entrepreneurship paid off, I had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars running businesses. I had also made 6 figure incomes working a stable corporate job. A lot of my friends graduated from university, they went to graduate school, and some pursued doctorate degrees. Their lives are good, they live well. I also know people that pursued entrepreneurship, and they are dirt poor.
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  800. That is a very good explanation of capitalism. It makes a lot of sense.
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  801. Looks like Peter Schiff was right.
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  802. This man is talking about processors, like X86 and X64 based processors. He isn't talking about ARM RISC based processors which are in everything from simple micro controllers to smartphones.
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  803. There are a lot of 16 to 20 buck per hour jobs. They will always need people to wash dishes, be waiters, pick fruits, pick vegetables, work in construction, walk dogs, etc. I lost my very good job in 2022, I am washing dishes 4 hours a day, and processing medical records. I am also doing Youtube, affiliate marketing, dog sitting, and other things on the side. When you lose your 6 figure job, you better find something to do. LOL
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  804. I don't think the cost of labor in China is cheap anymore, but the Chinese are still able to produce a lot of stuff there, because they are still able to produce it at the lowest cost.
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  805. If he fires Mueller, Trump will be charged with Obstruction of Justice.
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  806.  @luvanime1986  China today, and Japan in the 1980s aren't anything alike. China is a sovereign nation that has its own economic policies. They had been diversifying their trade with the BRI(belt and roads initiative). They also been diversifying their sources for food, and fuel over the years. In the next 10 years, you are going to see more growth in the developing world. China still need to urbanize 300 million people, and they will be consumers. India will be adding hundreds of millions of consumers, Pakistan, Indonesia, countries in Africa, and countries in South America as well. As this happens, the trade with the US will become less and less significant. If the US thinks they are the center of the world, they are going to understand that they aren't in the future. You will have billions of people from developing countries that also become consumers. China is helping a lot of those countries develop. Zimbabwe asked China to build them a Lithium processing plant, and China did that. Indonesia asked China to help build them a nickel processing plant, and China did that too. As those developing countries become more industrialized, they will have more people with more disposable income. They will buy Chinese goods, like Chinese EVs, Chinese TVs, Chinese com equipment, etc.
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  807. The gold ETF markets help manipulate the price of gold, because ETFs is a paper market. They can create unlimited amounts of gold ETF, but they cannot create unlimited amounts of physical gold.
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  808. Working at 70+ years old, it must be tough.
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  809. What if we aren't interested in getting married, and having all the responsibilities that go along with it? What can they do to us? Make us get married?
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  810. I remember using computers with CRT monitors, I felt a lot of fatigue when using computers back in those days. After LCD monitors became mainstream starting in the early 2000s, I felt less fatigue when I used computers for a long period of time.
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  811. The Leopard 1A5 was the last variant of the Leopard 1 used in the 1980s. All variants of this mbt doesn't have much armor, these machines were designed to be defensive weapons. That's why they have very little armor and very good reverse speeds. They don't have any type of composite armor, so they are vulnerable to RPG-7s, 25mm automatic cannons(from the front), so they could be taken out by Russian AIFVs. The only thing this tank has going for it is that it has thermal optics, and very good mobility. The 105mm L7A3 gun can't survive any head on battles with any Russian mbts including the T-72.
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  812. I guess, the average person who is depends on government assistance, or entitlement benefits will lose their purchasing value every year.
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  813. Russia has a lot of arable land, and China has a large population. It is a mutually beneficial relationship. Plus, Russian agricultural commodities are less expensive, so this is good for China.
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  814.  @ijatpingrhyb  Not every country in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are in BRICS. The BRI encompasses non-BRICS bloc countries as well.
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  815. They already have a new operating system in China, it's called Harmony OS.
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  816. Looks like drones are the perfect weapon system to conduct stealth operations.
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  817. The US banning Gazprombank benefits the US, because they can block their competitor from selling their LNG. They can sell higher priced LNG from the US. There is a way around it. The EU can get rubles by sending things in exchange for rubles. They can also trade with China and sell their goods for ¥, and buy Russian LNG with Yuan. There is no way to block the flow of goods.
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  818.  @bobronsons5780  That is not a surprise to hear from someone who lives in a country that has 79% literacy rate.
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  819. In a recession, life gets difficult for debtors.
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  820. Desperate people often get conned by hope.
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  821. He is a coward.
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  822. Looks like Target is becoming a target for shoplifters.
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  823. You remember Delta Force (1986) when Chuck Norris used his specialized motorcycle.
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  824.  @thinkingtoomuch7974  Back in the early 1990s, we had a lot dystopian movies, like Prayer of the Rollerboys, Escape from LA, and others. Looks like that has become a reality.
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  825. It happened before WW2 with the Flying Tigers in China fighting against Imperial Japan.
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  826. It happened in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan gave tax cuts to wealthy corporations. Reagan said, trickle down economics will work, but it didn't work back then. It won't work now either. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. LOL
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  827. They said it was going to be a spring offensive, but it's summer already. LOL
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  828. From 1945 to today, how many wars did the US win and lose. Korean War 1950 to 1953 : Stalemate Vietnam War 1955 to 1975: Defeat 1st Persian Gulf War 1990 to 1991: Win The U.S. War in Afghanistan 1999 to 2021: Defeat Iraq War 2003 to 2011: Defeat So much money spent on weaponry, but not much winning.
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  829. Joe Nome fairness is the issue here. If whites aren't being treated fairly by the Democrats, they will support people like Trump that tell them what they want to hear. The Dems shouldn't ignore the plight of working class whites.
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  830. Perversion should not be tolerated.
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  831. A lot of frustrated incels who want to cause massive upheaval. LOL
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  832. That Chinese guy at 4:06 thinks he can save money in the U S. I live in the U S, and most people can't save any money due to the crazy inflation.
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  833. People must take back what was taken. The people united will never be defeated!
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  834. No one forced them to get into debt to go to school. It is their fault.
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  835. This shooter probably watched t he Alex Jones Channel. He didn't have a job, he didn't have a life, and he blamed all of his woes on blacks, because he was a loser.
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  836. Trump is your typical baby boomer, he is a narcissist. To him everything is marvelous only I matter screw everyone else.
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  837. Stats: Chinese Navy: • Total Ships: 780+ ships • Aircraft: 712 aircraft Breakdown of Ships ◙ Aircraft Carriers: 3 ◙ 4 helicopter carriers ◙ 62 destroyers ◙ 58 frigates ◙ 77 corvettes ◙ 83 submarines • 6 nuclear ballistic missile subs • 9 nuclear missile subs • 1 conventional ballistic missile sub • 67 conventional subs ◙ 30 submarine chasers ◙ 150 missile boats PLA Air Force: 3500+ aircraft Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force • Total Ships: 150+ ships • Aircraft: 346 Breakdown of Ships ◙ Light Carriers: 2 ◙ 2 helicopter carriers ◙ 36 destroyers ◙ 10 frigate ◙ 6 destroyer escorts ◙ 6 patrol boats Japanese Air Self-Defense Force : 750 aircraft China's economy is #2 @ $18 trillion, and Japan's economy is #3 @ $4.2 trillion.
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  838.  @darkcloud5830  Exactly.
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  839. What an idiot chump is.
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  840. There is a way to remedy this. China could simply have those countries that have loans with China pay back those loans in Chinese Yuan. This way, those countries that have these debts can pay it back by trading with China.
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  841. Countries, like China, Russia, and other countries aren't buying U.S. treasury bonds. This is why interest rates are going up and have been going up for more than a year. As more countries stop using the dollar for international trade, less countries will be buying US treasury bonds. Dollars will be used in international transactions, but you will have competition. That will cause inflation to go up in the USA, inflation isn't going anywhere.
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  842. It is about time the world has an alternative.
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  843. Most Republicans are just a bunch of corrupt lying idiots.
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  844. Back in the 1990s, the car factory in my town got closed down. When that happened, there were a lot of problems, like alcohol abuse, drug abuse, crime, domestic abuse, etc. People who have good jobs, and make enough $$$$$ don't abuse alcohol and drugs. Not having enough money leads to depression, and depression leads to substance abuse.
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  845. They have to funnel the money into the next BIG THING that's how the economy works. Back in the 1990s, the internet and websites were the big thing. In the 1920s, putting money in any shell company was the BIG THING. In the 2000s, buying a home with zero down and low interest rates was the big thing. All these big things crashed, and people came out with the next BIG THING. LOL
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  846. I haven't gotten any pay raise.
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  847.  @markharcourt2214  The USD is on it's way out as a currency for international trade.
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  848. It is just Sinophobia.
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  849.  huckle berry  the FBI doesn't indict people based on your beliefs. They indict people with evidence that could hold up in the court room. Witness tampering is a crime, intimidating a witness is a charge that will stick in court. On the other hand, conspiracy theories which are based on your beliefs don't mean anything in the judicial system.
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  850.  @brianliew5901  That explains why the most corrupt people are the wealthiest in our society.
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  851. Last voyage of the U.S.S. Trumptanic. LOL
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  852. Get out of debt, save your money, and learn marketable skills.
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  853.  @itsalllies4102  Stop making up stuff.
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  854. Donald chump and his cronies don't care about his chumps that got arrested.
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  855. The US spent $118,000,000,000 on the police, so the US is a militarized police state. 🤣
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  856.  @earthbind83  I tried to apply for remote jobs, but the salary that I want isn't competitive. I am competing against people from India that will work for much less. To do that kind of work for $15 to $20 per hour isn't worth it, because I am making that right now with those low paying jobs I have now. Plus, it isn't stressful or anything.
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  857. Alex Jones is mentally ill.
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  858. That's because software engineering is neglected in Japan. Only hardware engineers get respect in big Japanese corporations and companies. Most of the software end of it is outsourced.
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  859. BeiDou is better than GPS, and it is safer. This is why more countries should be using it.
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  860. @ The muricans will have to learn to wipe with leaves, like they did in Egyptian times. LOL
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  861. Chump did say he likes the uneducated.
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  862.  @billykulim5202  You don't have to detect drones, you can put a GPS jamming array near the flight path of a drone, and that is enough to make a drone crash.
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  863. My friend tried, and they just garnished his wages on every paycheck. The debt just gets bigger and bigger due to compounding interest. They track you down with your social security, because when you apply for a job they require this.
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  864. Successful people work hard and get things done. Losers, blame other people, and stick their noses in other peoples businesses.
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  865.  serriajohn  The US is becoming irrelevant. Countries can simply conduct bilateral trade, they don't need the US dollar. There are a lot of US dollars in circulation in this world. I do agree the US dollar will be used for sometime, but it will not be used indefinitely. Countries that are friendly to the US will continue to use US dollars, and countries that want to conduct bilateral trade will do that too. One thing is certain, the dollar will greatly be diminished as a world reserve currency in the next 10 years.
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  866.  @remarkablehairdo3110  Japan made great products starting from the 1970s, and in the 1980s they made excellent products. From 1945 to the 1960s Japanese products weren't that great. I grew up in the 1980s, so I remember Japan products having very good instructions. Everything was explained very well on how to setup stuff.
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  867. The solution is simple for Colombia, they can sell their stuff to the BRICS bloc. China has a huge market, and they export their coffee, and other products there. They can tell the US to shove it.
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  868. You mean Richard Spencer is infamous, not famous. LOL
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  869. He is innocent, they got the wrong man.
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  870. We live in a lawless country.
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  871.  @smcdonald9991  My mom said, you graduated from university, and you wash dishes!!!!!! This isn't the first time I did menial jobs. Back in 2009, I found 2 part time jobs after I got laid off. I found a part time job at a warehouse and another one as a waiter.
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  872. Los Angeles is becoming a slum.
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  873. Chump will say the stores are responsible.
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  874. The USA is becoming like the USSR in the 1980s. We are seeing so many shortages of goods these days due to the pandemic, supply chain problems, and worker shortages.
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  875.  @hihoe1882  Most of the handouts and bailouts were given to big corporations, not to any groups of people.
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  876. @OVOD.net Before the 1960s, homosexuality was diagnosed as a mental illness in the West. Alan Turing, who was a famous mathematician was charged with homosexuality in the United Kingdom in 1954. He was chemically castrated, and he committed suicide shortly after. Even in the USA, homosexuality was diagnosed as a mental illness.
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  877. There will no more credits to buy EVs next year, so wouldn't Tesla sales go down?
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  878. He owes $250,000,000 for tax fraud. I bet he will be asking his followers to pay it. LOL
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  879. Most the progressive reforms made in the late 19th century and early 21st century have been and are being destroyed. It is getting tougher and tougher to make a living these days. Rents are high, most people are underpaid in relation to their skill sets, education, and abilities. We have inflation year to year, and the cost of living keeps going up. At the same time, wages aren't going up, and in some cases they are going down. Just to survive these days, I have to try to find different ways to make an income even on weekends. I buy and sell things on craigslist and on E-bay. I have to learn new skills to keep up with my profession. You don't get a break anymore.
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  880. Wouldn't adding more tariffs contribute to even more inflation?
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  881. Silver will go up to $50 when a loaf of bread costs $15.
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  882. I read about the practical use of light in computer processors when I was going to university back in the mid 1990s. All of this was just theoretical stuff. The argument was using light instead of electrons, because light moves much faster than electrons. Fiber optics is using light to transfer data across vast distances. Before we had fiber optic cables, we had copper cables which transfers electrons, and this has a lot less bandwidth and has more signal loss when transferring data long distances. Photonic chips use light instead of electronics which is much faster, and uses less electricity. It also generates less heat. If China can produce such a chip, it would be groundbreaking.
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  883. I am glad I never bought a Apple I-phone, so I am not trapped in the Apple ecosystem.
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  884. They need to start moving a lot of factories and production facilities out of China. This coronavirus caused a huge supply disruption.
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  885. Thanks uncle Joe, I really need it!
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  886.  @cadvisors  The most peaceful time in history was during the Cold War from March 12, 1947 to December 25, 1991, because you had two super powers with lotsa nukes. No one side dared to start a conflict for the fear of Armageddon.
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  887. Their stupidity will result in millions of Americans getting this, and millions dying from Covid-19.
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  888.  @michaelrouppas9646  They are stupid uneducated morons who believe in conspiracy theories made up by people like Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, and other right wing propagandists.
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  889. In this system we have, the big capitalists get socialism, but everyone else have to live with capitalism. For everyone else, they have to live with insecurities, and uncertainties of the future.
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  890.  @beyondthehorizon1474  It definitely is. Capitalism leads to monopolies in the end. For everyone else who isn't too big to fail, life is just a struggle in a capitalist system. Most people cannot afford to buy a home without getting into debt, most cannot afford to go to college/university without a student loan debt, most cannot afford to buy a car without a car loan, etc. The people at the very top are manipulating the markets, driving up the price of real estate, commodities, etc. If these big businesses and corporations screw up, they get bailed out. They can continue to make the same mistakes over and over again, while everyone else pays for it.
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  891. I give my parents an allowance every month.
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  892.  @-wotiu_77  The only thing that will remain after 10,000 to 50,000 years would be stone structures. Everything else would be oxidized and corrode into dust.
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  893.  @m.j.debruin3041  That sounds about right. LOL
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  894. China should sell all of their US treasuries. There is a lot of things they can buy with those dollars, like gold, palladium, platinum, bauxite, lumber, potash, grains, natural gas, coal, oil, silver, copper, lithium, rare earth minerals, cadmium, and just about every other element in the periodic table. They can buy mines in friendly countries. They can buy all this stuff and stockpile in, these resources are as good as gold, because they can be used. They are a lot more valuable than worthless pieces of paper that we call US dollars.
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  895. Most of the problems in the US cannot be solved, so they focus on external things. Put the focus away from themselves and deflect the blame.
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  896. When a lot of money is funneled into any sector, it usually results in prices going up. For example when, it was very easy to get loans to buy homes from 2000 to 2007.
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  897. Russia was able to produce about 1,200 main battle tanks, like T-72s, and T-90s last year. Germany can produce about 16 Leopard 2 MBTs in a month, so that comes out to 192 Leopard 2 MBTs/year. The West is a paper tiger.
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  898. What do you expect from a conman, cheat, and liar?
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  899.  @elliekwong3180  I did vote, but I voted for Stein.
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  900. awakeningSheep, he was elected by the desperate people who believed his lies. Trump told these people what they wanted to hear, and they got duped. They made a TV show back in the 1950s about Trump the con man. Is it a coincidence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mcFCS_hYs
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  901.  @brendanlittle842  Marty Mcfly will take down Biff Tannen, and we can call that the Blue Wave.
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  902.  @Shay416  It is 24/7. If you get a call from the alarm company, you have to go back to the business in the middle of the night.
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  903. Western brands will be pushed out of China, go brandon did a great job. Now, their precious equities market that depended on the China market is going to be affected.
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  904. If you have no means of deriving an income, they will need another stimulus in the very near future. What a mess.
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  905. China is the largest market for German car brands. If the EU wants to levy tariffs on Chinese imports, I don't see why China cannot levy tariffs on EU imports.
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  906.  @michaele4830  To know people, you have to look at their history.
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  907. This is what happens if you vote for stupid, greedy, selfish, and incompetent people.
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  908. Didn't chump say he is going to start his own social media, and he said it will be the best ever? LOL
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  909. If I am impeached the world will end. The irony is the stock market and the economy will tank in a few years from now. Then, what is Donald Trump going to say. He is going to blame Hillary Clinton or Obama for it? LOL
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  910. It is a waste of time trying to educate muricans. For me, I am preparing by buying items that I need in the next 4 years, like getting a new smartphone, computer, tires, consumer goods, etc.
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  911.  @measlesplease1266  Higher interest rates is what broke the job market. Interest rates had been near zero percent since 2009, and in the last two years it went from 0.20% to 5.5%.
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  912. Russia is a dictatorship. People on either the right or left have no right to rewrite history to suit their political agendas.
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  913. Howard Schultz is a spokesman for the billionaire class.
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  914. The tax system in the US is unfair for sure. In the end, the poor and middle class pay for most of the taxes. That tax can be income tax, property tax, or inflation. There is no way to escape it.
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  915.  @Corkfish1  Back in 2009 after I lost my job as an engineer. My father asked me to help him with his small business. I helped him, and I looked at the books. One year into the recession, the revenue for the store went down 65%. The business wasn't run poorly or anything. My dad had to lay off all the people that worked there. I was able to find a way to run the store all by myself. My father's health was failing, so he couldn't help me from 2009 to the time I decided to close the business down in 2012. It wasn't a profitable business. When you deducted the revenue from the expenses, you would make less than minimum wage. You also had competition from big Wall Street firms that was selling items for below cost. It wasn't my fault, it was the bad economy, and competition from Wall Street firms that had access to unlimited amounts of money.
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  916. Chump thinks people are as stupid as he is.
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  917. India has the right idea.
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  918. Hard times are coming to the US in the next 4 years. Hopefully, this will be a wake up call to all those people that voted against their interests.
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  919. Another ponzi scheme, people never learn. LOL
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  920. Are you saying Neo-Nazis, and white nationalists aren't terrorists?
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  921. The problem is once you are in prison, you don't know what can happen in there.
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  922. Trumpo would be the first person who bows down. LOL
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  923. What a bunch of sluts.
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  924. Typical snake oil salesman, like his friend Lindsey Williams who tells people he talks to the elite, and he tells people to buy his DVDs. Talks to imaginary people called the elites, LOL.
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  925.  @rgen28  These boundaries were drawn without China's consent; therefore, they don't mean anything.
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  926. If chump increases tariffs to 60% then the price of automobiles will go up 60%, because most of the parts for automobiles are made in China. Just imagine a Toyota Camry that goes up from $25,000 to $62,500!
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  927. They used to use puppets. Now they are putting themselves out there.
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  928.  @lientruong2500  LOL
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  929. That sums it up. LOL
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  930. The only growth we've seen in the USA in the past 21 years was in asset inflation.
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  931. It's getting lawless. This is why you all need to have firearms.
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  932. Looks like the US dollar is going to see some competition. Competition is always a good thing, but it will not be good for the USA. We will just see more inflation down the road as a result of these changes, and shortages of goods.
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  933. We are living in the Twilight Zone, when will this nightmare end?
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  934. People have to call out these Karens and Kevins. If they try to attack you, just fight back like that guy did in the 3rd video. Most of these male Karens are just bullies and cowards.
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  935. @ 4:13 You stated, someone paid ¥15.62 for 38 kWh. That would give someone a range of 114 miles or 183.54 kilometers That comes out to ¥0.085/kilometer or ¥0.137/mile Price of gasoline in China is ¥8.24/liter, or ¥31.23/gallon. Gas mileage for a IC car is about 25 miles/gallon That comes out to ¥1.25/mile $1 = ¥7.12 $0.18/mile EV = ¥0.137/mile IC = ¥1.25/mile Therefore, a IC vehicle costs 9.12 times more to operate compared to a IC vehicle. Your audience may not be good in math, but I am. I just proved you to be a liar.
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  936. That is a great toy to have to relieve stress. LOL
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  937. Rodney King II that is what it is. Police chase, and police losing their tempers and a severe beating.
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  938. China is playing the long game. China is playing chess, and the US is playing checkers. ROFL 🤣
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  939.  @mauricelee77  Not enough money is used on education.
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  940. Looks like Japan is going to have a very bad year. The Sun is setting on Japan.
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  941. They are cowardly thugs.
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  942. Sounds good to me. Now chump is going to raise more money from his chumps to pay for all his financial problems.
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  943.  @fresatx  You're pretty funny. The only ones that will be disappointed in Russia. This is good for defense contractors that make weaponry and weapon systems in the West and the USA. The governments of the West will send their old equipment such as Leopard 1 MBTs, Leopard 2A4 MBTs, M113 APCs, missiles of all types, various types of small arms, stockpiles of munitions of all types, drones, howitzers, etc. All these orders need to be filled, so that will get the defense factories running again. $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$ The West can produce everything they need from small arms ammo to multi billion dollar aircraft carriers. Why? Because they control all the core technologies, like advanced processors, jet engines, etc. The West will never run out of weapons.
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  944. Multi-core processing computers became mainstream around 2006 with the core2duo based processors. Now, we have quad-core cpus, hexa-core cpus, and octa-core cpu based personal computers.
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  945. In the next four years, China could do more to help Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and countries in the global South. If the conflict in Europe ramps up then China could produce everything Russia needs. China could become a consuming nation, and soak up most of the production from its trade partners. China could export more of what they exported to the US to its trade partners. China has a large domestic market, so they can replace Western imports with Chinese brands.
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  946. That's why China was investing billions of dollars in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Productivity and efficiency can be increased with technology. Don't believe me? Look at what one person can do with ChatGPT. A automated manufacturing plant requires less workers, and provide greater production capacity.
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  947. Trump was never a good businessman, he is a criminal.
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  948.  @jochen7393  What I meant was, China will use their great infrastructure to become the manufacturer to the world.
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  949. Very little has changed. LOL
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  950. The US will go down this time, because of de dollarization and dis investment in the US. It will be different this time, because the US will have less countries buying their debt which they depend on.
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  951. Bassett wants more tariffs, and he wants US trading partners to buy more treasury bonds? Tariffs would mean countries that trade with the US would have less USD; therefore, they will not be able to buy more US debt. This is a oxymoron, so it is a policy that will not work. US is putting put trade barriers, so the logical thing for countries to do is to trade more with other countries and use other currencies.
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  952.  @Kasadoll  Compared to 40 years ago, I feel like we are living in a developing country. I didn't see the number of homeless people that I see now 40 years ago. You couldn't see any homeless people squatting in the parks. You couldn't see homeless people with their tents in the streets in broad daylight. Now, it is literally everywhere. Crime is rampant, it isn't even safe to go to the supermarket without someone vandalizing or stealing your vehicle. It's simple, government policies failed the average person, and made a handful of rich corporations richer in the past 50 years. I am working harder than I was in the late 1990s, or even the early 2000s. I am making less money and working more hours in any given week.
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  953. If you have some kind of passive income in the US, you can move to another country and have a much higher standard of living.
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  954. She was caught.
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  955. The advantage the US had with the reserve currency status was commodities could be priced in dollars. With countries using other banking and monetary systems, prices can be set to different currencies. Like Kevin said, this is bad for US companies, because they can't track global trade.
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  956.  @jaydenstickler1703  that may happen, but the FBI can still indict Trump if he loses the 2020 election and loses his executive immunity. When Trump is no longer president, who will pardon him?
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  957. Most of these mercenaries are going to go home in a body bag, or with missing limbs.
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  958.  @joebob978  It is easier to save money if you are a generation xer. College/University was largely subsidized by the government back in the 1990s. When we bought our homes in the late 1990s, and early 2000s, the price of homes was much less inexpensive than it is now. If you are a Baby Boomer then it was easier, because the price of homes was very inexpensive back in the 1960s, and 1970s. Baby Boomers didn't need advanced degrees to get good jobs. If you're a millennial, most of them have a lot of student loan debts which cannot be defaulted. In addition, the price of housing is very expensive now. The price of new cars are also expensive. A lot of jobs we have now are Gig jobs, and most of those don't pay a lot or they are not stable. Most millennials can't save money.
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  959. Back in university, my professor said something about NATURAL ECONOMY, and this is basically bartering. Natural wealth are precious metals, it had been safe for thousands of years. If you were a immortal, gold would be the place where you would want to park your wealth. It isn't affected by inflation, deflation, or a collapse of the system. If the country you live in becomes the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe, you can take your gold and move to another country. In the next 4 years, I believe the US will become like the 1930s. When that happens, a 75 to 95 year old retired person would have to go back to work. The average person who is working 40 hrs/week will have to work 80 to 120 hrs/week to just survive. Chump will make murica 1930s again. LOL
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  960.  @itsalllies4102  I live in the US, and there are a lot more homeless people today compared to 4 years ago. Things are pretty bad in the US. You don't see a lot of homeless people in China.
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  961. Most of those people will be given a choice to join the U S military for citizenship, or risk being sent back. Most will opt for military service.
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  962.  @Elementaldomain  I am also Chinese, and I lived in the US for about 43 years. People in the US live on debt, this is part of the culture of the US.
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  963. The fascists who support Trump are the ones who are coming after Social Security and Medicare.
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  964. You can protest in front of their homes or storefronts, but you cannot vandalize their property. Don't threaten people either, just expose these fascists for who they are.
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  965.  @yurichtube1162  They will be going home in wooden crates.
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  966. Let's all celebrate. LOL
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  967. Expensive overpriced junk hyped to make people believe it is the best. LOL
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  968. What makes you think Communism is liberal?
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  969. Not much is made in the US, and what is made in the US is just mediocre. Made in China is very good these days, look at Chinese EVs, 2d nand chips, televisions, SBCs, smartphone, etc.
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  970.  @mikeyc7072  Because we live in a country where our leaders can't fix a single problem. Name one problem any political leader fixed in this country name one?????
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  971. All the people that resigned from their jobs during 2020 to 2023 and found new jobs at very high wages are the ones that are getting laid off now. We are living in a deflationary period, so inflated wages cannot be paid in this kind of economic environment.
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  972. They had movie called, "I was born in East L.A. (1987)" Cheech Marin didn't have his I.D., and he got deported by a racist INS agent even though he was a born in East L.A..
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  973. There are many inland provinces that need to be developed, so there is still a lot of room to grow in China.
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  974.  @QualityPen  I guess Russian scientists and engineers figured out the problem of dealing with drones, and other GPS guided weapons. I am sure Chinese engineers and scientists figured this out also and have equipment mounted on vehicles that can jam drones.
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  975. This is all Trump's fault, and he is going to blame the Democrats! LOL
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  976. Of course not, he is a narcissist.
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  977. A lot of my friends who are married and have families are all complaining about inflation these days. I never got married, so I don't have any issues with inflation.
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  978.  serriajohn  I am sorry, but China doesn't have to bail out the US again. Back in 2005, China's exports to the US was about 50%, and today China's exports to the US is about 15%. China is diversifying by sending their goods to markets in Asia, Africa, and South America. As time goes by, China's exports to the US will go down as China's exports to other countries increase.
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  979.  @blackbelt2000  I plan to leave the US, and move to East Asia. Plan to buy a small condo, not have a automobile, and live a fairly simple life. If I can get a permanent residence, I will apply for a citizenship. When that happens, I plan to throw my US citizenship in the trash.
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  980. I didn't get any until I was in my early 30s. When I turned 18, I was too busy working full time and going to college full time. After I graduated, I was working too many hours and didn't have to go on any dates. When I made enough to buy a house, a car, had savings, and financial stability I had time for women.
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  981. That means Trump owes something to Putin.
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  982. Too many people are trying to file, so it is backed up.
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  983. I use Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Mint. Linux Batocera, And Windows XP across 19 computers and SBCs. 8 computers are servers, 2 are gaming computers, 2 are retro gaming consoles, 2 I use to run older program and play WinXP games, one is a laptop, 2 I have at my office at work, and one I use for remote work at home.
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  984. They don't like to fight fairly either. If the US army fought a peer to peer country, the US army will complain no fair you used air strikes against us, no fair you use heavy artillery on us, if a satellite gets knocked out, no fair you can't do that. ROFL
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  985. The US would cry Monroe Doctrine. ROFL
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  986. People better get used to eating ramen and porridge.
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  987. There are a lot of countries that have dollar denominated debts; however, they don't have to use dollars in the future.
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  988. Countries can just use their own currencies to conduct trade, they don't have to use USDs.
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  989.  @AllBackToOne  The Russian defense ministry was going to dissolve Wagner on July 1st, 2023. The head of Wagner saw this as a threat, like the Janissary corp saw this as a threat. It happened a lot in history. You had the Satsuma Revolt of 1877, because the Samurai lost all their privileges due to the new government coming into power. The government had a modernized army instead of a feudal army which didn't require the services of the Samurai or the Janissary corps. As the Russia army got more and more effective, they didn't need Wagner anymore. I guess the head of Wagner saw this as a threat.
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  990. Those drones cost thousands of dollars, and those US missiles cost millions of dollars.
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  991.  @AdmKadmon  If you follow a loser, you don't win, you lose. LOL
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  992. I don't think this fat orange pig will resign, nor will he leave the White House. They will have to drag him out of the White House on Jan 21, 2021.
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  993.  @truthaboveall7988  It costs a lot of money to do any kind of business in the US. Land prices are inflated, wages are too high, taxes are too high, employers have to pay for health insurance for employees, because there is no national healthcare system. Just look at how much it costs to make EVs in the US, it costs about $44k, so it would be impossible to export it to other countries. No one outside the US would buy an American EV. If they setup a computer or smartphone manufacturing facility in the US, no one would buy that either, because it would cost too much produce. That's why they don't exist in the US.
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  994. Trump is actually a very weak and pathetic person. He watches the stock market very closely, closer than any president in history, so when stocks started to go down. He lies and says, we are close to making a deal to China. What a damn blowhard. His white nationalist supporters are as cowardly, whiny, and cowardly as he is.
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  995.  @alfredoibarra3240  With the world de dollarizing, the US may not be able to print their way out of the next economic crisis, like they did in 2008. Sure, the US can print money without selling their debt, but this will only lead to higher and higher inflation. How would you like to pay $15/gallon for gasoline, $10 for a loaf of bread, etc.
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  996. The EU better go green faster, or they better learn to walk and ride bicycles.
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  997. It also has to do with the nature of my work. I work in the computer industry, so they only use me when they need me. The hours are shitty, the pay is alright, but the odd hours made me a bachelor. My part time jobs require me to use my own equipment, but that is no big deal for me. I work as a programmer, but I am also a computer technician who can work on computers as well. I buy broken computers repair them and use them at my many work sites. The unskilled Gig jobs must be terrible, they are really underpaid. They expect you to take all the risks, and they take all the benefits. Uber doesn't pay you to pick the person up, they only pay when the passenger is in your car. It is a new type of serfdom.
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  998. He's always been a loser, just look at all of his previous business failures.
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  999. The MIC is big business in the US, and they might be pushing for this. No one wants this thing to go out of control, because the consequences are unimaginable.
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  1000. I prefer Bach. LOL
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  1001. I am a overseas Chinese person, and I would like to visit China.
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  1002. Iran needs thermal nuclear devices. If China didn't have them, do you think the US would have left them alone?
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  1003. Most of these jobs are part time jobs, so you need to get 3 to 4 of these part time jobs to make enough to survive.
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  1004. South Korea is overpopulated, you have 52 million people living in a country that is 2 times more than Australia, but it is 77 times smaller than Australia in land area.
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  1005.  @pusanghalaw  the paradox of capitalism is as follows. 1. Capitalists will use automation to lower costs and increase profits. That will pretty much destroy the consumer economy which capitalism depends on. 2. Capitalists will try to increase profits by paying their workers the lowest wage possible. They do that by hiring undocumented workers, and outsourcing labor intensive jobs out of the country. This destroys jobs and reducing purchasing power in the country. In a capitalist economy, you are suppose to have a vibrant consumer economy, so people can buy everything capitalists can produce, right? Trumpkins are bitching about how their jobs had been outsourced to other countries, and they are unaware of how many jobs were automated out of existence. Sure, a lot of jobs were created, a lot of jobs like working for Uber, delivering packages, delivering food, and other things as independent contracts. Good jobs were created in the tech field, like programming devices, computers, robotic arms, robots, etc. Those jobs are out of the reach of most ordinary people.
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  1006. If the US does this, it will only accelerate de dollarization.
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  1007. Japan can defeat China today?????? ROFL 🤣
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  1008. It isn't about replacing the dollar with Chinese Yuan, it is all about having bilateral trade. People can buy real things with Chinese Yuan. Let me give you an example of Chinese production capacities. ________________________________________ Steel Production (2022) China: 1,032.8 million tons (1st place) USA: 86 million tons ________________________________________ Titanium Production (2021) China: 3.4 million tons (1st place) Kenya: 253,000 tons (10th place) ________________________________________ Aluminum Production (2022) China: 40 million tons (1st place) USA: 0.860 million tons (9th place) ________________________________________ Car Production by Country (2021) China: 26.08 million motor vehicles (1st place) USA: 9.17 million motor vehicles (2nd place) ________________________________________ Rare Earth Minerals (2022) China: 210,000 Metric Tons (1st place) USA: 43,000 Metric Tons (2nd place) ________________________________________ Ship building by country (2020) South Korea: 49.6 million tons China: 43.9 million tons Japan: 13.005 million tons All other countries: 5 million tons (The US isn't even in the top 10) ________________________________________ Back in 1971, the US was the leading producer of steel, rare earth minerals, electronics, automobile, aluminum production and everything else. After World War 2, the US produced more of everything, and during World War 2, the US beat the Axis powers and was able to supply its Allies, which helped the Allies win WW2. This is why the US dollar became a world reserve currency after World War 2. Today, most of what we do is sell debt to other countries. People can simply cut out the middle man and trade with their own currencies.
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  1009. They were captured by the Soviets, employed in Siberia becoming miners, and lumberjacks. Unfortunately, many of em died on the job while they were in Siberia, they died due to work related injuries. LOL
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  1010.  @plau2007  The Chinese will have no problem building EV assembly plants in the US. The Chinese had no problems of building up all the infrastructure for TikTok. The problem is, US politicians and business leaders don't want to compete with Chinese firms. They said Chinese EVs are essentially dangerous, so it doesn't matter if they build a assembly plant in the US, because they said they are fundamentally bad whether they are built in China or in the USA.
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  1011.  @plau2007  Doesn't really matter at this point, 300 million Chinese people will be moved into cities, and they will easily fill the demand for these EVs. There are more than a billion people in countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa that will be entering the middle class that will buy these Chinese EVs. The US is going to matter less and less in the future.
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  1012. US economic policies are bipolar.
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  1013. Someone needs to develop a computerized anti-drone scope for assault rifles. The chip in the scope can get information, like the range of the drone with a laser range finder. It can put that information into the computer to calculate where the aim point is on the scope. The hardest thing about hitting air borne targets is getting the right vertical point of aim. It is different from shooting a target that is on a horizontal plane, because the bullet tends to drop more when you aim upwards. The computer can calculate the parabolic trajectory to see where the bullet would impact a a certain height in relation to the muzzle velocity of the bullet.
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  1014. Poor countries may have a lot of resources, but they don't have the technology to extract those resources.
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  1015. The cops used a M-16/M4 rifle, and the bullets fired from that rifle will go through walls. They should have used a pistol.
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  1016.  @questionablebackyardmeows  Police in the USA kill more people than any other country on Earth. The USA has got to be the most violent country on this planet.
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  1017. California is a majority democratic state, so Larry Elder never had a chance. Maybe, he and his Republican cohorts should just leave California.
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  1018. The equities markets aren't real, it is being propped up by the plunge protection team.
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  1019.  @FrostWing-k5u  Electricity can be produced in many ways, like wind power, solar power, hydro electric power, nuclear power, natural gas, geothermal, etc.
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  1020. I don't get it, why doesn't most Americans just drive a fuel efficient sedan instead of driving a SUV? You are using your vehicle to get from point A to point, so using a fuel efficient sedan saves you more money in the long run. I guess, this is why a lot of Americans are living with a lot of debts, they never think about saving money. It is the mindset of the average American. When fuel prices start to spike up, most people will want sedans. LOL
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  1021. The world is doing a favor to the US by accepting their currency, so they can buy real things.
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  1022. Farfiman, when Alex Jones spun that Pizzagate conspiracy theory about children being eaten by so called pedofile elites. One of Alex Jones listeners went to the Pizza parlor which he alleged was involved in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory shot up the pizza parlor. Alex Jones was responsible for inciting violence. The white supremacist Tom Metzger who incited his followers to harm minorities killed a Ethiopian man in 1988. There was a civil lawsuit against Metzger, and he and his organization lost the lawsuit. They were forced to pay $12.5 million. If what you say results in violence or harassment to others, it isn't protected free speech. You Alex Jones followers are so damn uneducated and ignorant. Alex Jones saying the Sandy Hook incident was staged resulted in the family members of the victims being harassed. There are lawsuits pending AGAINST ALEX JONES, it isn't over. The decision Youtube/Google made was purely a business decision, they don't want to get sued for hosting fake news pundits like Alex Jones.
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  1023. These tariffs caused more inflation. For example, the price of cars cost 25% to 30% more due to these tariffs. Most of the parts that go into producing more complex machines, like automobiles are imported from China and other countries. As a result of car prices going up, less people can afford to buy it. If you have to repair stuff, most of those parts are from China.Now, it costs more to repair your air conditioner to your car. All of this contributes to inflation, and this makes people poorer.
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  1024.  @connork9745  People in the US will have a 80 to 120 hours week instead of a 40 hours week. Then, people can make enough to keep their standard of living. There is hope. : )
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  1025. Ash Roskell, how can this happen. There is enough evidence to prove Trump was bought out by Russian money. Trump is a failed business man who defaulted on his loans. No U.S. bank would give this guy any money, so he got it from the Russians. He owes the Russians, so that is why he is compromised.
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  1026. ToBe Fair, they aren't real patriots. They are idiots who got duped. Trump told them what they wanted to hear, and they believe it. Belief is a strong word, you don't have to think critically to believe anything. Believe means the LIE THAT BE.
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  1027. Not everyone in Shanghai behaves like that. You have some people that behave poorly like that in every society.
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  1028. Chump wants to be a dictator, the military has every right to remove this would be dictator if he refuses to leave office. Everyone in the armed forces take an oath on the constitution, not on the president.
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  1029.  @danieltrejo6330  I don't think Apple and Google will allow him to put chump social media app in their stores.
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  1030. It wasn't just outsourced many more were simply automated out of existence. Back in the 1960s, you had people working in a factory stamping parts, doing repetitive things over and over again, or doing a task like picking up something from a conveyor belt and putting it in a box. Starting from the early 1980s, you had programmable computers, microcontrollers, robotic arms, and other machines that got ride of all those repetitive jobs. The digital age started in the mid 1970s. The more labor intensive jobs no one wanted to do, like making clothing, cleaning fish, and non essential stuff was outsourced. At the present, the white collar jobs are being threatened by artificial intelligence with stuff like ChatGPT. Factory jobs do exist, but we don't need so many factory workers today. With the current level of technology, one industrial worker can do the job of 10 to 15 people. As a result, we don't need so many people working in factories. For example, in a soda factory, the entire process is automated. In a brewery, the entire process from brewing the beer to packaging the beer is automated. Car plants are automated, sure we have workers, but we need less workers that produce 5 to 10 times more. This means we need 5 to 10 times less people working in those automotive assembly plants. Humans are becoming redundant. Ask any employer, company, or corporation if they wouldn't replace people to make more of $$$$$, and more than 80% will say HELL YES!!! Job cuts are coming for the white collar jobs, like job cuts came for blue collared workers in the 1980s and 1990s.
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  1031.  @katisugarbaker7349  The value of one dollar is about a quarter these days.
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  1032. Gascon is going to condemn the officers who did the right thing.
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  1033. Landlords still have to pay property taxes, utilities, mortgage(if it isn't paid off), and maintenance fees. None of those costs are being deferred by local governments, or lenders. If this is allowed to continue then these landlords will be driven into foreclosure, lose their homes to the county for not paying property taxes, or they will be forced to sell. This will enable large investment firms to buy homes for cheap.
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  1034. I don't think about the future, because I can't do anything about it. This way, I have my peace of mind.
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  1035. Costs millions of dollars and gets destroyed by a cheap artillery round, or by low cost anti-tank missiles.
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  1036. The emperor has no clothes. Inflation is the real problem in the US now. The more the govt spends, and the more deficits it incurs the less valuable the currency becomes. The bond yields get higher, which makes borrowing more expensive. You can't get out of this by papering over the debt.
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  1037. In China, you have malls full of people, and it is vibrant and alive. In the USA, malls are dead, and decrepit. It is quite a contrast, yet you have US media touting that the US is the best country on this planet.
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  1038. F-16s are vulnerable to S-400 air defense systems. We shall see if the Ukrainian air force can get air superiority 18 months from now. LOL
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  1039. Is someone who is under 18 allowed to have a rifle?
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  1040.  @epatrick70  Nope, you can't, you can believe whatever you like, but you cannot own long guns until you are 18 years of age.
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  1041. ​ @epatrick70  It states it on the ATF's website dumbass, that you cannot own long guns until you are 18 years of age. It is explicit. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-customer-have-be-certain-age-buy-firearms-or-ammunition-licensee
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  1042. Most of those groups got assimilated into Han Chinese culture and civilization, they still have their customs. Look at what happened to the native Americans, they got wiped out. The population of Xinjiang, and Tibet actually grew. In 1951, the population of Tibet was 1 million people, and today the population of Tibet is 3,640,000 people. In Xinjiang, the population was 4.33 million people, and today there are 25.8 million people. Out of the 25.8 million, there are 15.48 million Uyghurs. Can you say the same about the native Americans in the U S?
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  1043. Seeing this stuff is very nostalgic, and it reminds you of the 1980s.
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  1044. China has a electronics industry that uses semiconductors to build all kinds of products, like computers, smartphones, automobiles, smart TVs, drones, sbcs, microcontrollers, network equipment, etc. The US doesn't have a electronics industry, so what will these US semiconductor companies, like Qualcomm, AMD and Intel do with these chips?
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  1045.  @twistedspine7300  It simply means, foreigners can afford to pay it. If you don't like it then don't buy it or come to Japan. That is what it means.
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  1046.  @TheMarcuslindberg  Besides, we won't buy any of the products on those Youtube adverts. LOL
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  1047. The developing world will need a lot of things in the future, and they will buy Chinese products, because it is a better value. The quality of Chinese products will get better as more and more get sold.
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  1048. A lot of people say that during a recession, and they still go out of business thinking that.
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  1049.  @Corkfish1  It's just reality. It would be like a soldier going into a battle believing he is invincible. I know that isn't realistic.
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  1050.  @stephentan7881  People can choose to use other currencies other than the dollar, which is a good thing.
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  1051.  @crisiswhatcrisis9124  The petrodollar died when Saudi Arabia entered the BRICS bloc.
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  1052.  @touavue4528  This is true, but the world needs less arms and more peace.
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  1053.  @LunaLapin-ho5tk  That's right, they export inflation to the world. Inflation and war, both are bad things for humanity. 🤣
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  1054. Your life isn't meaningless. I am 48, I am financially secure, but I live alone. You have a family, so your life is less meaningless than my life.
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  1055. What is this the Palestinian version of the knockout game?
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  1056. Zelensky is calling Steiner on why his tank battalions aren't attacking the Russians. LOL
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  1057. They did it to themselves with bad policies.
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  1058. I will tell you the situation in the US, because I live here. A lot of people that worked very good jobs had lost their jobs in the past 2 years; however, there are a lot of low paying jobs. If you are a regular person, you could take one of these jobs, like working as a ride share driver, delivery man, working at a restaurant, working at a warehouse, painting houses, working as a construction worker, etc. The problem is finding a decent place to live, because the cost of living is very expensive. It is very common thing these days for 3 people to share a studio or a one bedroom apartment. If you don't have much skills or education, your standard of living will be very low. You will be working more than 70 hours a week, and you will be living in a small room. Even though wages are lower in China, basic things are cheaper in China, like food, rent, utilities, etc. You are better off living in China in my opinion.
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  1059. I lost a job that paid over $150,000/year about 7 years ago, and now I just work part time jobs, do free lance work, and I make about than 1/3 of what I used to make. No benefits or anything, thankfully I have no debt, and I don't have any kids or a wife to support. This is the reality of American life now. Just had to scale down a lot.
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  1060.  Westsude Granny  Establishment Democrats haven't done much to help people, they are too focused on trivial issues. The Republicans just spread fear mongering to get people to vote for them. I just don't think capitalism is working for most people.
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  1061.  @spiritualanarchist8162  There is a reason why a lot of people are angry, and the main reason is that the lives of most people aren't improving. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, and I experienced the decline in the standard of living first hand. First it was this Reaganomics BS about this trickle down economics, and a lot of people who experienced it know that it didn't work. The public educational system starting from the 1980s started to go downhill. In the 1970s, only the man of the house had to work. In the 1980s through the 1990s, the husband and wife had to work. This kind of change not only happened in the USA, it happened in other developed/industrialized countries. The printed circuit board became mainstream in the mid 1970s, and this gave rise to programmable computers and micro controllers. This was used in industry, and may people got displaced all over the world in the 1980s to the present. In addition to that, you had outsourcing of jobs to countries where the cost of labor was much less than in developed countries. As a result of all these factors, you had a decline in the standard of living. People had to get into debt to buy what they were able to buy. You had the rise of credit cards in the 1980s to the present. Since a lot of good jobs were outsourced or automated out of existence, people had to use stuff like credit cards or debt to buy things. After that, they inflated the dot com bubble, and the asset bubbles in equities and stocks. We had student loan debts balloon, and the cost of college/university education sky rocket in the 2000s. As a result of blowing asset bubbles, the price of homes became expensive for many, so they had to get a mortgage to buy them. Putting people into more debt. At the same time, the economy didn't have enough good paying jobs. Instead, the economy provided more part time, and low wage Gig type of jobs. This is where we are at, a lot of people heavily in debt, paying high rents, and not having a lot of savings. To compound that, you have this Covid-19 pandemic which makes it even worse. The government isn't helping the people, so people are angry.
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  1062.  @woundedpawz  There will be a worker shortage as well. I wonder how the economy would even function.
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  1063. Gascon is the type of person who will punish law abiding people who defend themselves, and release criminals that commit crimes.
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  1064. Makes sense, 美国 has a first use policy. It is the only country that used these devices.
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  1065. It can happen here in the next 4 years.
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  1066. Most of the stuff American companies, like Apple, HP, and Dell sell are produced by factories owned by Chinese companies in China, like Foxconn for example. American companies just put their brand on these products. We will just pay higher prices for everything from things made of aluminum to smartphones. The price of everything that is imported will go up. We do have factories in the USA, but most of those factories are highly automated. The stuff that require a lot of human hands to produce, like electronics and textiles are produced overseas where labor is cheaper than here. We have a failed business man and an idiot running this country, and I know he will run this economy into the ground just like how he ran his businesses into the ground.
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  1067. There can be no revolution in the United States of America, because you have a lot of polarity here. People are divided along racial, ethnic, religious, and political lines. The country was designed that way from the ground up. If one group got too united, more immigrants would be allowed in. This was used as a way to create division. At the same time, these different races and ethnic groups distrust each other.
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  1068. Jihadi John is the type of person you would want society to have 0:19 to 0:26 ,  LOL. Are you kidding me.
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  1069. $500 back in 1988 is about $2500. The average IBM or Apple computer back in the 1980s cost anywhere from $1200 to $3000 that translates to $6000 to $18000 in today's money! This was when a gallon of gasoline cost $0.75/gallon! The average computer user will not pay over $400 for a computer these days, and most average users buy laptops. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, computer hardware was expensive. Now computer hardware is really cheap. The average computer I have built for my personal use costs me about $1500 to $2000, but it is still a lot cheaper than what computers used to be!
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  1070. superskiier50 It wouldn't stop them from trying.
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  1071. The U.S.A., and the U.K. oil companies coordinate with OPEC? I don't think so. OPEC has no interest with working with the West to move oil prices up to help U.S. shale oil companies. If OPEC did that, they would lose their market shares. Besides, it costs countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait $20 to produce one barrel of oil. On the other hand, shale oil costs $70 to $80 to produce. The reason why oil prices are dropping is because the demand for the oil isn't there, and you have new players like U.S. shale oil producers. As a result, you have too much supply and not enough demand. Hence, the prices are dropping.
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  1072. xXwachabackXx Alex Jones is crazy. He believes in imaginary people, just like his friend Lindsey Williams who talks to imaginary people who he calls the elites.
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  1073.  @random2829  Their goal is to turn you into a good serf.
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  1074.  @mna7308  The US will end up like the USSR. LOL
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  1075. I live in California, and gasoline is about $7.00/gallon where I live. People were complaining about gasoline being high when it was about $4.00/gallon back in 2008. Just about everything went up in these inflationary times. The only way to survive is by working 2 to 3 jobs.
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  1076. Speculators are doing it. We have an economy where money isn't being invested in productive assets, like infrastructure, power plants, production facilities, affordable housing, but being used to gamble it in the equities markets, and real estate markets. All this does is create large asset bubbles.
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  1077. He sure is strange, I think he is suffering from dementia. LOL
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  1078. China already has the best infrastructure, and the most advanced cellular communication system in the world.
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  1079. They did it to themselves. The farmers in the developing world will be able to sell their food at lower prices.
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  1080. They are saying stop resisting when they are giving him a beat down. Stop resisting, stop resisting. It's funny how they say that when they aren't resisting.
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  1081. They don't care, because trade with the US only accounts for less than 3% of China's GDP. China exported about $427 billion in goods in 2023, and China's GDP in 2023 was $17,790 billion. That's about 2.4% of China's GDP.
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  1082.  @pipiqiqi4010  There are too many countries that don't want to be in that system anymore. There is a viable alternative now.
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  1083. The average computer user will not be able to buy a quantum computer, because it operates at -459 °F or -273.15 °C. You call that absolute zero. You will be able to connect to a quantum computer and use it, but no one is going to have one in their homes. Quantum computers can be used to breaking encryption, cyber security, scientific modeling, scientific modeling, AI, etc.
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  1084. Which world is Beavis living in?
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  1085.  @CarpsterKing  I think so. China is put all their pieces in the right places on the board, and the US is wondering what is happening.
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  1086.  @Kukaboora  I played both. I have 围棋 wéiqí board at home. wéiqí is a lot more difficult.
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  1087. The gold and dollar cannot rise together, they are inverse of each other. When the dollar is weak, commodity prices and gold go up. When the dollar is strong commodity prices and gold go down. After 1971, the US government took the US dollar off the gold standard. In 1973, the US government made a deal with the Saudi government to get them to sell their oil in dollars, and no other currency. Russia is a big oil producing country, and they are taking other currencies for their oil, like Indian Rupees, Chinese Yuan, and even taking Russian Rubles for it. You have Saudi Arabia talking about accepting Chinese Yuan for their oil. The West doesn't have a lot of resources, the only power they have is in the financial industry. What will happen when all these countries that produce a lot of the worlds resources decide to trade in their own currencies by doing bilateral trade, or use a basket of currencies to conduct trade? These countries that produce resources have a place to go to, they can sell their resources to China which is a major industrial country. These resource rich countries might be technologically backward, so they have a place to buy finished goods. They can buy the finished goods from China. China and India have a combined total of 2.8 billion people, so they can easy soak up the resources, like oil, natural gas, copper, aluminum, tin, iron, etc. They just have to change from a exporting economy to a consumption based economy. They can raise the standard of living of their people, and starve the resources to the West.
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  1088. I know you're jealous, this is why you are trolling.
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  1089. Ghetto means it sounds black.
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  1090.  @arctan64  ROFL. We will all be using central bank digital currency, not Bitcoin.
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  1091. If the U S does decouple, inflation would spiral out of control.
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  1092. That Bible verse is very true, it was true thousands of years ago, and it is true today.
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  1093. The word Trump and promise can't exist in the same sentence. LOL
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  1094. I saw that article. I can't believe those donors were stupid enough to give Trump $2.5 million. This is what you get when you give money to a known con man. There are so many damn stupid people in this country. LOL
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  1095. Trump is cancer.
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  1096. At least ramen is still affordable.
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  1097. Businesses that have 50 to 500 employees are going to need $100,000 to $1 million each. You have 30 million self employed people and small businesses in the USA. Of course $250 billion isn't enough. $350 billion will not be enough. If they want to cover everyone's expenses for 2 to 3 months that is a astronomical amount of money.
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  1098. It's like a mafia racket. LOL
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  1099. I saw some expensive weapons in there, like $120,000 Javelin, $40,000 NLAWs, $20,000 Skif AT missiles, $38,000 FIM-92 Stinger missiles, Soviet era machine guns, etc.
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  1100. These arrogant people need to start minding their own business. They always had history of imposing things on other people, like imposing their religion, economic system, beliefs, etc. Can't people just co-exist with differences in this world?
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  1101. This is what happens when you have someone who isn't qualified to be president be president. You have idiots like Navarro come out and believe he is as qualified as a scientist or doctor to talk about medications.
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  1102. Unions didn't make outsourcing to happen. Greedy CEOs, CFOs, and the members of the board of directors did that. It's just business. Wages are the most expensive input to any business, so these people figured out if you go to a country where people make $2/day they could make a boatload of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. It's all about the profits : ) .
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  1103. The Chinese government is responsible for this, they tried to cover this up by silencing people, and expelling foreign journalists. We need to shift production of vital things, like medical equipment, and medicines to other countries and stop relying on China.
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  1104. That sounds about right. It has always been like that, but I thought the USA was suppose to be different. When you had absolute monarchies, and modern day dictatorships you can expect such things to happen. I thought living in a constitutional republic was suppose to be different, like everyone was suppose to be equal under the law. I guess, this is what happens when the uber rich people in our society buys up our government, and staff it with their own people. There is still hope. We can take this government back, that is if we form a 3rd party. Fund these candidates with our own money by crowd funding them. I am saying it can be done, there are more of us than there are of them. We can take the government back and change the laws, change the tax policies, and have a government that is truly a government of the people, by the people, and of the people.
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  1105. E-commerce is very slow, so there is less demand for package deliveries.
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  1106. Canada and the EU will have to pivot towards the BRICS if they want to survive. The EU can have a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship with BRICS and Global South countries. If they want to persist with having an unequal relationship, they will find it very difficult to survive. In the next 4 years, the US is going to a isolated country. It might even lose most of its bases around the world as it finds it more and more difficult to finance them. If less countries trade with the US, less and less countries will be buying US T-bonds.
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  1107. 21 Rubles/month, and people made 400 Rubles/month. That isn't bad. For me, my rent in a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles city is about $2850/month, and this isn't including utilities. Utilities cost $125 per month. The average wage in the USA is about $2500/month. My wage is about $5500/month before taxes. I am spending $2975/month for rent and utilities a month. That eats up 54.1% of my wage per month. In the USSR, people spent 5.25% to 7% of their income per month that is a lot less than what the average American pays for rent or their mortgage per month.
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  1108.  @jasontome8050  China never lost to Japan during WW2. It managed to survive and take the surrender of all Japanese Imperial forces in China after Sept 2nd, 1945.
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  1109. Without the resources, it is impossible to produce things. LOL
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  1110. All out war could break out.
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  1111. I met some old Republican guys who were very wealthy, and they owned some businesses. He was my friend's friend, and he got invited to eat with them. My friend asked me if I wanted to go. These people are just business people, and they use a lot of migrants, because US workers in their opinion are unreliable and slackers. I don't think they have anything against immigrants, because they use a lot of them in their companies. My last employer was a hardcore Republican man, when I passed by his office, he was always watching FOX News. When I worked there, I would get a big bonus at the end of the year, and he didn't give other employees a extra bonus like I received. It was a substantial amount of money. He liked me because I got all my assignments done on time. A lot of these Republicans use immigrant workers, because they have better work ethics. These people just want to make money, but Republican politicians use anti-immigrant rhetoric to get elected. In reality, they don't do anything about immigration enforcement.
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  1112.  @Armeddragon12  He still stabbed someone who was nearly killed.
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  1113. I am from the Far East, and population going down is a good thing in my opinion. Living in East Asia is very competitive. From junior high school, everyone competes to try to get into the best high school, so they can get into the best university. If you get into the best university in the country, you can find a good job working for a large company, or the government. If you fail to get into a good university or don't go to college, your life will be very difficult. You will working long hours for little pay, or doing very hard work. This is why a lot of people with money in East Asia send their kids to study abroad. If they cannot get into the top university in the country, a degree from overseas would help them find jobs after they finish and return. If your parent's don't have much, you will be working jobs that are Gwarosa(Korean), Karoshi(Japanese), Guolaosi(Chinese). There are people that work so hard that they expire from it in East Asia.
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  1114. Modern main battle tank production rate is pretty low. For example, Germany produces about 2 Leopard 2A7s a month. The US produces about 30 to 40 new M1A2 main battle tanks in a year. Most of the M1 Abrams tanks the US uses were produced in the 1980s and 1990s. These were upgraded over the years by adding new armor packages, new fire control systems, new thermal optics, new types of ammo, etc.
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  1115. That is why my friend left the country, he lives abroad now.
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  1116. None whatsoever. Their values are deplorable. Racism, sexism, propaganda, and falsehoods.
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  1117.  @easternrebel1061  They don't deserve any, and they will pay the piper.
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  1118. They did say this... The Japanese live in fear, the Chinese are driven by ambition to become rich, the Koreans are prideful. I guess, that is why you have the Hikikomori in Japan. Young men who are afraid of rejection, and afraid of conforming with societal norms.
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  1119. It is a good thing, China didn't have a dynasty, like N. Korea, or China would have been run into the ground, like N. Korea. Mao Xinyu isn't very bright. LOL
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  1120.  @arjanyou7310  That is worst thing that can happen. Now, I am just tired, and I don't want to have relationships with women. Women require a lot of time and effort.
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  1121.  @andrewcruz1931  Money can't buy happiness. I remember this one episode in the Simpson's when Homer met his long lost brother Herb. Herb was very a very successful person, but he didn't get married and had no family. Herb having a lot of wealth does envy Homer, because he has a family.
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  1122. The trump name is toxic, most of trump's chumps can't afford to stay in trump's hotels.
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  1123. Why did that man commit such acts of barbarism against his brother and his family?
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  1124.  @helenpauls1496  If my bro stole from me, I wouldn't do that to him. I would beat the heck out of him, but to do that. What is this country coming to. It seems like the moral fiber of this society is breaking down. Crime is rampant these days, the homelessness, the bad behavior, etc.
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  1125. Yep, the banks will get bailed out, but the regular person will not.
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  1126.  @juanshaftpatel7488  The worst thing that can happen now is running out of money when you can't work. That $1200 will take 3 to 4 weeks to arrive. I am afraid a lot of people are going to run out of money before that.
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  1127. It depends on the type of Asian. A lot of Koreans have guns, Chinese for some reason don't like owning guns, but now they are buying it because they can be victimized.
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  1128. Ukraine has no real men left. 😆
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  1129. Newsom is clueless, they need to vote this clown out.
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  1130. Consumerism and materialism just get you deeply into debt. A lot of people are good at wasting their money on things they don't need. For me, I buy stuff and get my money's worth out of it. When I buy a automobile, I usually keep it for about 8 to 10 years. When I buy shoes I use it for about 2 years, etc, etc. A lot of people just buy more than what they need. You have women who have 50 to 100 pairs of shoes, people who replace a automobile every 3 years because it is a new model. People refuse to cook, and eat out almost every day or every other day. People are complicit to capitalism, and it creates a lot of waste. I don't always buy the cheapest stuff. If I can DIY it and produce it myself, I usually do. The stuff I produce for myself usually lasts a lot longer than the commercially bought stuff. The food that you can cook yourself is a lot healthier than the stuff you buy at any restaurant. You see the point.
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  1131. Not good enough, because they can print more Euros to buy it. Better yet, Germany can buy Russian oil in Rubles only. LOL 😆
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  1132. This man got his head stomped when he was down.
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  1133. What a great businessman, and now this great businessman runs this country. He will most likely run it into the ground. LOL
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  1134. You don't understand how the Chinese banking system works. All the banks are owned by the government, so all they have to do is write off these debts every year. These debts aren't owed to other countries, or private interests. The real estate market will not be bailed out by the government, the losses are all borne by foreign investors, and people in the country that are in the millionaire and billionaire class. If the price of real estate crashes then ordinary people can afford to live in them.
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  1135. The ones that want to can't afford to, and the ones that can afford it don't want to.
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  1136.  Eugene Fisher  A lot of people have to borrow money to buy a home, buy a automobile, and everything else. They need to use a credit card to buy food, buy gifts, and many other things. It would be okay to use a credit card if you pay off the full balance every month, but a lot of Americans don't that. Instead, they carry the balance and pay interest for it. For me, I try to live a very Spartan life, and spend money if I have to. If I have to buy something I use for work, or stuff I use everyday I will buy it. If my pet gets sick, I take him to the vet. If I have to buy prescription drugs, I have to do that. I just use my money to buy what I need. My computer is about 6 years old, I keep it running by making small upgrades. Other than that, I live very frugally. When I buy a car, I usually keep it for 8 to 10 years. Getting married and having a family is something that is out of reach now a days. There is no way to know if you will get axed from your job tomorrow, next week, next year, 2 years from now, who knows. You buy a house with a mortgage today, and you will surely lose it when you lose your job. Capitalism is so damn unstable.
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  1137. If you inherited millions of dollars, it isn't difficult to make money. The problem is getting enough money to start a business.
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  1138. It's sad to see something like this. People work really hard to start a business like that, and someone steals everything.
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  1139.  @claydog6422  wtf does that mean you stupid rump supporter?
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  1140.  @freedomfortheworld904  When the media exposed Rump of the things he did in the past, like not paying contractors who worked for him, making racist statements, lying in public, slandering people, report his 6 bankruptcies, reporting on his fake Trump University, diverting money from the Trump foundation and using it for himself, using campaign contributions to fund his lawyers, etc are fake reports? This is why anyone with less than a college/university degree should not be able to vote. The definition of libel is when you make a false statement, and that false statement results in someone getting hurt or killed.
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  1141. Exactly. If they learned a viable skill, they would be able to make a living. Unless you go to college to become a MD, accountant, engineer, scientist, teacher, pilot, officer in the army, a broker that requires a 4 year degree, lawyer, psychologist, or something that requires one there is no reason why you need to go to a 4 year college.
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  1142.  @vcnolechetcong7742  I live in Los Angeles, California. The homeless crisis leads to many other problems, like burglaries, people breaking into cars, muggings, assaults, people stealing cars, people breaking into stores at night(happens almost every week now), women being assaulted, etc. Like living in the U S is like living in paradise. You must be kidding.
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  1143. Argentina is a liability, so BRICS doesn't need em.
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  1144. It was. It was also a crime in Maoist China, and Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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  1145. Those protesters are the same morons who don't believe Global Warming exists, the Apollo Moon landing was fake, and believe they are turning the frogs gay. They don't believe in science, because they don't understand it. Even though science requires no belief, these people will be the idiots who help spread Covid-19 to 330 million Americans.
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  1146. They made the right choice. I plan to leave the US in the future.
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  1147. Chump is stupid.
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  1148. My mom said I am an idiot, because I didn't take a job in NYC. She said you will make more there. She doesn't understand how much it costs to live in NYC. I make 35% less in the state where I live, but the cost of living is much lower. The people in China have a significant advantage, because the there is NO LAND SPECULATION. Land speculation causes inflation. Prices are determined by the price of real estate. Businesses have to pay more rent, or lease. People have to pay more for rents and mortgages. This causes the price of labor to go up, and this causes the prices to go up.
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  1149. It is all Trump's fault, all of you who got affected by this must remember this always, and in 2020 vote this MFer out.
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  1150. China doesn't have to buy their agriculture goods from the US, they can buy it from Australia or Brazil. Everyone wants to buy Chinese laptops, computers, and electronics.
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  1151. You can believe in Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies all you want, but I am not going to pay $16,000 per Bitcoin. If anyone is dumb enough to buy it at $16,000/BTC you are taking huge risk. There are no guarantees the price of Bitcoin will go to $1,000,000/BTC. The only people who are promoting this are the ones who want you to believe in it, so you would depart with your money. Fiat currencies are used everyday by almost everyone in every country to buy and sell things. In the United States of America alone, there are hundreds of millions of dollar transactions per day. That comes out to 1500 to 3000 transactions per second. In the world, you have billions of transactions with fiat currencies per year. That would be about 69,400 to 90,000 transactions per second. You telling me a inefficient system like Bitcoin which uses a enormous amount of energy, like it uses as much energy as a country like Nigeria. This energy efficient system which can at max do about 20 transactions per second, or 1,720,000 transactions in a day can be used as a global currencies??????? If Bitcoin in its current form was used as a global currency to replace all fiat currencies, you would have a serious shortage of energy. Governments will shutdown Bitcoin mining operations which disrupt power directed to essential things in the economy. Fiat dollars have value, because government have the ability to tax assets and land. If you want to buy or a rent a place to live, it will be go through fiat currencies. If you want to get a loan to buy real estate, it will be bought in fiat currencies. If you want to rent property, it will be paid for in fiat currencies. If you own and land, the taxes will be paid in fiat currencies in the form of property tax which must be paid every year. I am advocating people invest in Wall Street, people can do whatever they want with their money. I don't want to see people get hurt and lose everything they have believing that Bitcoin will go to $50,000, $100,000, $1,000,000 per Bitcoin. Making such claims can cause foolish people to sell everything they have to take such foolish risks.
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  1152. F-16s were great combat aircraft back in the 1980s and 1990s, but today they are just another 4th generation fighter. They can be shot down by modern air defense systems, and more modern Russian aircraft or comparable aircraft, like the Mig-29, Su-27, or Su-35.
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  1153.  @olderchin1558  X86 is reaching its limit. The problem RISC processors had in the past due to expensive RAM chips. Today, that is not a problem. RISC processors have less transistors, but they require more ram. This is why RISC processors generate less heat, and they are used in mobile devices/microcontrollers/SBCs. RISC-V looks promising. China is developing RISC-V, and there are many applications for it. It can do everything ARM based RISC processors can do. Plus, it isn't proprietary, so there will be no licensing fees.
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  1154. Perhaps, China needs to put tariffs on Europe's over capacity of luxury goods.
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  1155.  @verone272  Humanoid robots will be widely available in less than a decade, they will take care of elderly people. Automation and AI will decrease the need for workers, so there is no need to have a lot of population growth in the future.
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  1156. James Gravil, that is what happens when you listen to too much fake news(Alex Jones Infowars) and are not very well educated.
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  1157. He is full of shit.
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  1158. I guess, the Euro Zone wants higher inflation then. LOL
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  1159. Endless deficit spending will lead to hyperinflation if less and less countries buy US debt in the form of treasury bonds. If this happens, the US will go down like the Soviet Union did in 1991.
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  1160.  @adamsnelson4689  Life isn't that simple. I've experienced a point in my life when my father was a director of a large corporation back in the 1970s, he made a lot of money. He bought a big house, he had all these luxuries, and he lost his job. Then, we feel into a downward spiral from there. I've seen my father abuse alcohol and turn really ugly. I experienced living a high life to living in poverty. When I was in my 20s and 30s, I was making a lot of money, bought a nice place to live, bought luxury automobiles, and when the recession hit in 2008. I got into a divorce, and lost almost everything. I was depressed, but I am educated, I have a electrical engineering degree, and I am resourceful so I got back on my feet again. Some people may not have higher education, marketable skills, and have no way out. When and if that happens people tend to get depressed, and this depression leads to substance abuse.
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  1161. The US is a vampire.
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  1162.  @donHooligan  The reason why the U S doesn't want to get in a direct war with N. Korea, China, Russia, India, or Pakistan is because they all have nuclear technology.
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  1163. He is a locust.
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  1164. I live in Los Angeles, and there are a lot of homeless people. When you drive to go anywhere, you can see them just about everywhere.
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  1165.  @michaelrouppas9646  I saw some wearing maggot hats, and they all look like they have down syndrome. They must be republican retards.
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  1166.  @michaelrouppas9646  A few months from now, these idiots will get the coronavirus, and start dying from it. A lot of those hard core Republicans are old white men.
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  1167. NRA = National Republican Association.
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  1168. We live in a broken country with a broken system.
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  1169. That is what the USA does. LOL
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  1170.  @Metapharsical  China had abandoned real communism after 1979. They have a free market system there. They don't have entitlement systems like they do in the West. The oldest son is responsible for taking care of their elderly parents.
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  1171.  @choopa1670  Why should rich investors get bailed out by the government? If I make bad investments, I don't get bailed out. Whether that investment be in starting business, buying equities, investing in my education, etc. The ordinary person doesn't get bailed out if they make choices that don't pan out.
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  1172. Artificial intelligence, computer programs, and humanoid robots will take most redundant jobs. Capitalism and automation are mutually exclusive, it will result in massive job loss and social disintegration. There is no incentive for any businesses to keep people if they can be replaced with machines. More and more people will become socially excluded in the near future.
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  1173.  @NoWonderDragon  We did have the Ice Age about 10,000+ years ago. Maybe, when the Ice melted sea levels rose so much, that many civilizations perished. In the Yonaguni islands, there is a big megalithic structure that is underwater. It's not natural, it is man made for sure. No one knows who built this, and when it was built. One thing is for sure, it was there before people settled on the island.
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  1174. This reminds me of this scene from Ghostbusters (1984) when they got kicked out of the university. One of them said, in the private sector, they expect to see results. That is something they didn't have to do when they got government grants in the university. Starting a business and making money is not easy, but getting research grants from the government is easy. LOL
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  1175. They are practicing their 1st Amendment rights.
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  1176. The quality of jobs have gone down over the past 50 years. [1970s to 1980s] full time jobs with benefits. [1990s to 2013] Part time jobs without benefits [2013 to present] Gig jobs that pay less than minimum wage, and no benefits.
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  1177. Trump doesn't understand economics this is why he went bankrupt 6 times, he sounds like a big idiot.
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  1178. Right wing media is what it is, Fake News, and Yellow Journalism.
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  1179. Michael Allen, I am pretty sure you are brain damaged.
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  1180. Trump is a thief.
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  1181. The Republican way is ignoring the real issues, changing the subject, and breaking promises. This isn't new, it happened in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president, and in 2000 to 2008 when George W Bush was president. People never learn. They believe this time it will be different. This is the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. LOL
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  1182. Bad people get punished for their crimes unlike the US.
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  1183. I don't think Alex cares, all that matters is he took your money and got wealthier. He won't go to prison, and after this all blows over he can go to Israel.
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  1184. @ That is what happens when you have a highly financialized economy.
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  1185. In Japan, they sure do eat a lot of ramen. I used to eat a lot of ramen when I was in university, because I didn't have a lot of money, and it was the cheapest thing to eat. These days, I don't eat ramen that much.
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  1186. This is one of many reasons why less and less people are going to church.
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  1187. This is happening a lot lately. Other times, the Tesla suddenly accelerates to a very high speed without the driver applying pressure to the accelerator.
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  1188.  @loktom4068  We shall see, I am sick and tired of the old people, like Trump or Biden. I want someone young, like in their 40s or 50s.
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  1189. @Kuku Bird Singing It is sleepy Joe's fault. I just think some as old as Biden shouldn't be in politics. The same goes for every old person, like Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Lindlen Graham, and the other old folks who had been in office for too many years.
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  1190. People can do this now, but they have to pool their resources together.
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  1191.  @Mr_Banker222  It isn't worth it these days. There is too much crime now. I plan to move to China and do business there in the near future.
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  1192. Maybe, Ukrainian soldiers can do the Ukrainian Banzai attack when they run out of ammo, like Japanese soldiers did in Okinawa. Just do a Banzai charge when you run out of ammo with your bayonets against Russian howitzers, automatic cannons, and machine guns. LOL
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  1193. In the background, you see a Hawk SAM, which is about 65 years old. I don't think you will be defending much with that, and that show of force isn't scaring anyone.
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  1194.  @swojnowski453  You can believe that until countries stop accepting it.
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  1195.  StopThemNow08  Didn't your great orange wannabe dictator ask magatards like you for help. He invited you to the White House when it was surrounded by protesters last night. How come you didn't show up boy?
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  1196.  StopThemNow08  If you went to one of these protests being pro-chump, we would screw you up. Come on show up, and show your support for chump. We will be there, so I hope you be there too. I would love to meet you.
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  1197. This is why capitalism sucks. Socialism is much better in that it benefits more people than capitalism.
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  1198. The only jobs you will be able to get in the future is working for the rich. You can be a house keeper, butler, a gardener, landscaper, pool man, or a prop as a chess piece. If some rich woman likes you, you could be her pet or something. ROFL
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  1199.  @glendaridings8634  Aren't you on the wrong channel? Now run along to Infowhores, and listen to Alex Jones, and buy his tooth paste and medicines that cure the coronavirus.
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  1200.  @stvdmc2011  Exactly.
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  1201.  @borisnegrarosa9113  I am not a moderator here.
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  1202.  @Motocentrick  Then, you better work more than 3, and work 120 hours a week.
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  1203. For me, I like the higher interest rates. Interest rates were near zero from 2008 to 2020, and starting from 2020 to 2024(1.5% to 5.5%). I am happy, because all the money I have is actually earning a good rate of interest. Before interest rates were too low, and there was no point in buying bonds, because the payout was too low. I used the money to buy equities and did business with that money. Today, I put most of money in bonds and just collect interest. For savers, higher interest rates are good, but for debtors it is very bad.
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  1204. These people are mildly retarded. If you detonate 5000 lbs of fireworks in a populated area will be safe? Duh........
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  1205. What an idiot, getting out of his car with a bow and arrow. LOL
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  1206. Back in the 1980s, programmable computers, microcontroller, robotic arms, and other types of machinery replaced millions on manufacturing and factory jobs. Corporations implemented this as fast as possible to increase profitability. I don't see a reason why big Corporations will not do the same with AI today? My high school economic teacher told our class, Corporations exist to be efficient.
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  1207. The world needs energy, not worthless US currency.
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  1208.  @chongdi6140  LOL
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  1209. If the little people play by the rules, and win they are called cheaters. Looks like we have two sets of rules in this country.
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  1210. A hobo arsonist. They need to keep him in a cage for 10 years.
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  1211. What if Houston increased demand? Then, the price would go up. LOL
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  1212.  @mudshovel289  Your claims of the leopard never changes its spots is false. The Chinese government of today isn't the same government of dynastic China. The two things are totally unrelated. If you want to talk about imperialism in the 20th century to the 21st century, we can see the list of countries the U S invaded. 1. Korea (1951) 2. Vietnam (1955) 3. Grenada (1983) 4. Panama (1989) 5. Iraq (1990) 6. Afghanistan (2001) 7. Iraq (2003)
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  1213.  @Lock2002ful  That kind of behavior is 3rd world, that is the point.
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  1214. Chump would have accepted the results if he won, but he would never accept it if he lost.
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  1215. GOP conservative neanderthals, me hate, me burn Nike shoes, me boycott, argggggg. Just a bunch of whiny cry babies, life is not fair.
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  1216. US govt policies have a very very low success rate, because these are designed to benefit a few people.
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  1217. If you own your own home without a mortgage then you have more control than most people.
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  1218. They need them to join the army. They will give citizenship in exchange for military service.
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  1219. So if you pay taxes and it goes to national defense, a interstate highway system, or maintaining bridges in some small town anywhere USA. That is called theft? How is that theft? If a M1A2 Abrams tank is bought with tax payers money, it doesn't matter which part of the country it is deployed at. The point is, it is being used to defend the country as a whole no matter where it is deployed. If a bridge is being maintained in some small town in the Mid West, even if I don't see the benefit from it. I am happy to see that the money is being used to maintain the infrastructure of the country as a whole. This is why Liberatarianism is a bullshit ideology based on narrow minded self interest.
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  1220. Don Rutter, didn't Hitler Trump say he would jail Hillary Clinton? 6. Imprisoning and killing political dissenters. Trump wants to be a dictator. That is why he is friends with dictators. Ain't going to happen in the USA. He and his corrupt family will be rotting in a Federal prison before that happens.
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  1221. Trump's biggest supporters are white nationalists.
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  1222. I just go to a expensive restaurant every Friday night, order a some alcohol alone.
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  1223. All that spending on national defense, and money isn't spent on basic things, like infrastructure. On the other hand, China is spending billions in infrastructure, and moving their people into the middle class. At the same time, many Americans are falling from the middle class to poverty and homelessness.
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  1224. If the cops didn't put their knees on Mr. Floyd's back and neck, he would still be alive.
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  1225. When have these clowns ever been right about anything?
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  1226. Tom Neave, we live in a global economy. American companies have to sell things overseas. Trump and his ignorant followers believe they can bring back jobs by imposing tariffs. They are sadly mistaken. All large companies and corporations depend on international trade, and partially outsourcing was a strategy for these companies to remain competitive and survive. The corporations and companies don't have to produce stuff in America. They can move their production to Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, Madagascar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, etc. Those countries will not be affected by tariffs while the cost of labor is very low as well. Trump doesn't seem to understand economics. A lot of his retarded supporters believe he is rich, because he is a good businessman. That is simply is not true, he is a bad businessman, and his history of bankruptcies prove that.
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  1227.  @prakorngirodkunkid7877  You can assume whatever you want, or believe what you want.
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  1228. The US needs Turkey more than Turkey needs the US. The US needs them to have bases in the region.
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  1229.  @inkbold8511  I don't have anything to inherit from them.
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  1230.  @spiritualanarchist8162  The partial solution would be a UBI(Universal Basic Income), people should be given enough money to survive. The government should provide subsidized housing for people, and some basic income. We should have some kind of universal medicare, and the government should provide basic things to people. That would be a long term solution. People should be encouraged to pursue the kind of things they enjoy. This would make the country more productive, instead of having people work jobs that pay meager wages, like what we have with this Gig economy.
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  1231.  Wado Waleli  My father always watched FOX News, and listened to right wing radio stations, like Sean Hannity and others like him. I used to watch FOX News and listen to right wing propaganda radio stations when I was in my mid 20s. After seeing what Republicans do, and what they preach don't seem to line up. It is just hypocrisy, they will loot the government and enrich their associates and themselves at the expense of the people. Right wing propaganda are not based on facts, they are fear based. If you really think about it, what contributes to the general welfare is very important. Not many people want to see a lot of homeless people in the streets, people don't want to be victims of crime, people don't want to get contagious diseases, people don't want to be exposed to pollution, etc. Right wing policies did more to impoverish and ruin the overall quality of life. For right wingers, the solution to crime is buy guns. Build more prisons, and hire more police. This isn't a solution. If people were well educated, had good jobs/careers, and lived comfortable lives they wouldn't be committing crimes. Investing in public education, and creating jobs and opportunities for people. Right wingers see homeless people, and push for laws in cities and counties to arrest people for vagrancy. That doesn't stop more people from becoming homeless. When it gets out of control, those laws will not even work. They simply choose to ignore that the problem even exists. The solution would be to make a law to prohibit investment firms from owning too many homes, or make these investment firms pay a very high property tax for owning more than 3 homes. That would prevent them from jacking up the price of real estate. The right never gets at the root of any problems that is why right wing ideology is morally bankrupt.
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  1232. Chump is finished, but he and his followers are too ignorant to know it.
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  1233.  @JaeyGim-jk2zt  Sure troll. LOL
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  1234. $860,000 USD to buy an apartment?????? That is nuts.
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  1235.  @MundaneDave  Saudi Arabia saved the dollar in 1973, and what they do will destroy the dollar. That's the irony.
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  1236. 春节快乐
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  1237. Only an idiot like Trump would. LOL
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  1238. Kokesh is an idiot, the only thing that will happen is mass arrests. Once these idiots get arrested, they will be charged with a FELONY, and they will never be able to own a firearm again. Not only that, they will be totally disenfranchised as a FELON for the rest of their lives. Kokesh is an idiot who can get a lot of people in trouble.
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  1239. The greedy capitalist lobbyists are worried that if cooperatives became a mainstream, they would face some serious competition. Perhaps, people should get together and start profitable cooperatives, and buy lobbyists of their own to compete with the capitalist pigs!
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  1240. It was created by the Republicans during the Reagan Era or 1980s to fight the war on drugs.
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  1241. She is an old woman, she is used to it. Younger people will prefer self checkout and computerization, because they grew up with the technology.
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  1242. People are trying to leave North Korea, and idiots like him go visit a failed state like that?
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  1243. Steve is an idiot millennial, Ray C is a responsible millennial.
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  1244. Tom Ryan He is a fine product our Abomination(Obamanation).
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  1245. Tom Ryan It isn't Hillary, it is HITLERY!
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  1246. It doesn't exist. We can thank the Republicans for this. It started during the Reagan era with asset forfeiture to fight the war on drugs. Every time the Republicans get power in the executive branch, our civil liberties are eroded more and more.
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  1247. This guy is a tool for the insurance companies. He is incompetent.
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  1248.  @annabelle2760  Well, no one wanted to join in, so I am running it by myself.
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  1249. The Republicans are slavers, they are the party of greed.
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  1250. American citizens who commit crimes in other countries are subject to the laws of that country. The U.S. embassy is not going to bail you out. There are many American citizens rotting and being tortured in foreign jails.
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  1251. Chump is a criminal, so this is no surprise.
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  1252. Most of the defenders in that steel plant are members of the Azov battalion. The Russians won't take any of em prisoner, and if they do they would send them to Siberia.
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  1253. Making life more difficult for Trump makes me laugh, and smile. : )
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  1254. Trump caused his own problems, because of his criminal misconducts.
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  1255.  @imjashingyou3461  I don't think J-10s, J-11s, and J-20s are old. Even the JH-7 attack aircraft which are old are still very capable naval attack aircraft.
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  1256. Having a lot of debts is never a good idea. I learned this back in the early 1990s, and we had a major stock market crash in 1987. This was followed by a very severe recession in the early 1990s, and a lot of people I knew including my father had a very tough time. At the same time, a lot of people lost their jobs, a lot of people lost their businesses, and there were a lot of foreclosures. Ever since then, I said to myself, I would never get myself into a lot of debt. You always have to have a big cash cushion, because we will always have crashes like this.
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  1257.  @alexfigueroa1812  Just like these exceptional people who get jobs in companies, like Google without college degrees. The aren't going to just look at your certifications and hire you. They want to see the kind of projects that you did. If it is impressive, they will hire you. Most likely, if you are just a regular person, they will hire someone who graduated from a IVY League school, MIT, Cal Tech, or any of these top universities over someone who doesn't have a degree.
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  1258. That's true, because chump usually writes and talks like a 6 year old. LOL
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  1259. Pruitt, and all the people Trump appointed including Trump are big swamp creatures!!!!
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  1260.  @HanS662  It will eventually lead to de dollarization.
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  1261. It's more like a territory of the US, like Puerto Rico. In the future, it will become as poor as Puerto Rico.
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  1262.  monipenny408  You can choose that system if you want, but the US has no right to impose their system of governance on other countries.
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  1263. I think Ukraine wasted a lot of resources in Bakhmut. I doubt they have enough resources to pull off a successful offensive. Pulling off an offensive without having air superiority is a disaster waiting to happen.
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  1264. Peter Schiff is telling the truth, and Fox has to be a cheer leader for a failed businessman, criminal, and con man!!!
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  1265.  @yaiburanakul8505  EVs have less moving parts, so they will last longer than IC vehicles which has hundreds of moving parts.
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  1266. Nancy Pelosi is really getting under Trump's skin, I like that. LOL
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  1267. That person looks like another person that belongs to the stein tribe if you know what I mean.
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  1268.  @jogana6909  Then, there is no need to buy American wheat is there. LOL 🤣
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  1269. At least we know the facts. A lot of these small mom and pop businesses are going to a unpleasant surprise.
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  1270. My father took 2 Covid Vacs and 2 boosters. He is about 80 years old, and he is having heart problems now. He has to take expensive medications to keep his heart from failing. I stopped taking the vacs after 2 Covid shots and 1 booster. My sister wanted me to get another booster, but I said no thanks. I ain't going to take any more shots, and I ain't buying their bs anymore. A lot of the people I know who took these vacs are getting sick from common colds including my sister. Colds that last for weeks, and this has never happened before. Colds lasts for a few days.
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  1271. It's called prison for a reason. Don't commit crimes, and you won't end up in prison. It's that simple.
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  1272. The US doesn't have much of a shipbuilding industry, so investing more money in a sector that where the production capacity doesn't exist is meaningless. They don't need other countries to invest money in building up US industries, they can create money out of thin air and put it in there. The US forgets that having the world reserve currency does have its limitations, you cannot create unlimited money out of thin air and build real industries overnight.
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  1273.  @seanm3226  Either way, I am in position to buy cheap assets. I have a lot of 💰 and 🧈 . If the Fed keeps raising rates, because very few countries around the world don't buy US debt in the form of treasuries then I will use 💰 to buy real estate at a deep discount. Real estate is a debt market, and when interest rates spike very few people can afford to buy it. This will in turn tank the real estate market.
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  1274. Looks like the USD will become as valuable as a Zimbabawe dollar in the future. LOL
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  1275. Such slow aircraft are vulnerable to machine guns mounted on main battle tanks, and other armored vehicles. They are also vulnerable to small arms fire from infantry men.
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  1276.  @fresatx  If Ukraine does start losing then the West will just send better weapons, like M1 Abrams tanks, Leopard 2 tanks, advanced SAMs, etc.
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  1277. Ohio has a 3rd world police force, this is how police in underdeveloped countries behave.
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  1278.  @operationzenith6030  I don't think they knew the people they were targeting were mercenaries. In a war zone, if they aren't on your side, they are just TARGETS.
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  1279. LOL
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  1280. Trump is a pathetic cowardly little man. He is the worst president in the history of the U.S.A..
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  1281. In the next 4 years, Americans are going to cry, cry, and cry some more. LOL
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  1282.  @josepablolunasanchez1283  The US started it.
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  1283.  @pbworld7858  Exactly.
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  1284. I don't believe chump, I will feel safer when he is no longer president.
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  1285. Capitalism is a pretty heartless system.
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  1286. Because Russia helped Trump get elected in 2016, this is why Trump is under investigation from the FBI.
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  1287. Big businesses that have a lot of debt.
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  1288.  @stevenhughes1110  There isn't enough money to bail out all these small businesses, and banks aren't going to give this money to small businesses that don't have debts with them. That is debts in the form of car payments, mortgages, business debts, credit card debts, etc. If you are a small business that has less than 500 employees, you will probably not get anything. May small businesses will go under, and millions of people will get thrown into the street.
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  1289. Didn't you hear, Trump lifted the ban on Huawei. China already has the technology, and they are developing their own technology now. It is a little too late.
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  1290. This is what happens when everyone lives on leverage, and save no money.
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  1291.  @jogana6909  That is true.
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  1292.  @johnsmith1474  John Smith is a troll. Just say OK BOOMER to him.
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  1293.  @Kasadoll  Being the best country, best in what way? People are stressed working multiple vrappy jobs without benefits. Most jobs that exist now are part time jobs without any benefits. As a result, people have to buy their own health insurance, which is pretty expensive.
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  1294.  @SaundraRaynor  Every empire in history that neglected its populace and spent too much money on militarism all ended up collapsing, there are no exceptions. It's the classic guns and butter argument. If you produce more guns you cannot produce more butter. This will cause a shortage of consumer goods, and cause inflation.
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  1295. Back in 1988, we had the saving and loans scandal. My father lost the money he had in the bank that failed, so the FDIC stepped in, and he got all of his money back after 3 years. Today, money is more or less electronic, they can create a unlimited amount of money with computer entries. It doesn't matter if a bank fails, the Feds will take them over and recapitalize them.
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  1296.  @reed7562  he will find out how serious it all is when he ends up in Federal prison. The more stuff he says about the FBI, the worse it will get for him. They may put Stone in a prison with other hardened criminals.
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  1297. You mean richly in debt. LOL
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  1298.  @gloriousspark3850  Claim down, and take your medications(opioids). LOL
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  1299. RISC processors are used today for smartphones, tablets, and controllers for various devices. RISC processors might be used for servers in the future.
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  1300. A Public Forum for Discussion, unless you are ignorant of history. Nixon used the Southern strategy to get Republicans and Democrats to switch sides. The Republicans of today were the Democrats of the 1860s.
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  1301. Don't give me that bullshit that Republicans aren't racist. I used to be Republican, and I know most of them are racist. Not only are they racist pigs, they are hypocrites. I guess, the Republicans support the NRA because they want people to be exposed to lead so they would become more brain damaged. I know a lot of them are brain damaged already, but making them into morons only helps Republicans and their aims. This is why Trump became president. LOL
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  1302. Chinese people that live in China, and Chinese people that live overseas save more than 50% of their income. Somehow, the Western MM think this is bad. I am sorry, but our cultural values are different from Western values.
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  1303. You know what, we should all boycott Trump's brand. Now, the price of everything is going to go up thanks to Donald Duck Trump!
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  1304.  @joebob978  I already paid taxes on the money that I have already.
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  1305. Because he is guilty, and we all know it.
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  1306.  @UshankaShow  The trade off is like this. Today, we can buy cheap goods from overseas from places, like China, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, South America, etc. The costs of the stuff we need, like housing, medical care, education, child care, insurance, & various services have gone up a lot. It is a trade off. If you own your own home without any debt, you are probably doing good. If you have a mortgage, pay rent, or have other kinds of debt life isn't so rosy. In the USA, everything we need to survive has gone up a lot, and everything we want has dropped in price. Back in the 1970s to early 1990s, electronics and imported items were expensive. The cost of living was relatively low back then. We can have all the toys and trinkets, but people have a lot of difficulty paying their rent. This is the difference.
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  1307. We still use 3.5" hdds.
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  1308.  @darkcloud5830  LOL
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  1309. The US founded the UN, and it is based in the US. LOL
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  1310. Communist nations don't let people out, like East Germany, North Korea, Cuba, and other communist countries during the Soviet period. All the information that enters the country is strictly controlled as is the case of mainland China. If you try to leave a communist country, they will get shot, or sent to a gulag if you get caught.
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  1311. What Russia and China is doing is friend shoring.
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  1312. Sue that joker and make him into a homeless person.
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  1313. Wages in China is more than $3/day, it is like $8/hour, not $0.07/hour.
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  1314. China should buy all their wheat from Russia, and China should just order coal from Russia as well.
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  1315. If you lose your job, and lose your home then you need new skills. People need homeless skills, they need to be able to survive in the streets. There are more homeless Youtubers making an income these days. My new skills are dishwashimg skills, making video game consoles, electronic devices, assembling furniture, selling used computers, fixing broken electronics and reselling it, and playing video games and posting it on Youtube.
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  1316. Pretty soon, people who become jobless and homeless will have to share their experiences on Youtube on their experiences. Then, they could make a living on Youtube telling their sob stories.
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  1317. He thought it would be like fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq. The types war where you can call air strikes, drone, and howitzer strikes against insurgents armed with small arms and RPGs. Fighting a major power, like Russia is going to be a war where you get shelled and bombed 24/7. It's the type of war where people are fed into a meat grinder, and more people are constantly fed into the meat grinder. Fighting a war with a major power is like fighting another person who will knock out a few of your teeth or break a few bones when you engage with em.
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  1318. Made in Germany will now be made in China. LOL
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  1319. In summary, it will take too long, and cost too much to build up this supply chain for lithium batteries. Thanks Kevin for providing us with this information. Merry Christmas and happy new years.
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  1320. The approach 蔣介石(Chiang Kai-Shek) took was less effective compared to the approach 毛泽东(Mao Tse-Tung) took. 毛泽东 improved the lives of the people by fixing the basic problems, like being able to produce enough food, building the infrastructure of the country, and building up basic industries.
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  1321. When one door closes another one opens. what can I say.
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  1322. That will be funny if one of these trolls gets the coronavirus and get ARDS(Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome). LOL
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  1323.  @loktom4068  A lot of the inputs that go into making more complex machines are from China. Whatever the US is producing to support the Ukrainians have parts and components from China. It would be very difficult and expensive to produce all this equipment. The US empire reminds me of the Byzantine Empire in the later years. They lost the ability to produce stuff like Greek Fire, because they couldn't get the essential resources to produce it due to territorial losses and loss of trade routes.
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  1324. When someone acts like a crazy person, report em. The authorities can find out if they have firearms or not, and if they have em. Take em away from nutty people!
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  1325. Amazon doesn't have a monopoly, you can order directly from China which costs much less. You can order direct from the manufacturer. For example, if you want a Sony Playstation V, you can order it directly from Sony's website.
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  1326.  Kim Jong-un  You are entitled to your opinion, but we are due for a recession.
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  1327. Reminds me of Roman history, the last century of the Roman Empire when you had bar-barian invasions. ROFL
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  1328. Brad Christy is a troll, ignore him.
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  1329. There is no escape.
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  1330.  @janlampert5688  I really don't care where products come from. I care about two things, how much it costs, and the level of quality of the product. Quality of products made in China used to be bad, but it has gotten much better over the years. As for electronics, I use a lot of electronic components from China to build more complicated machines.
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  1331. When you are single, there is no point in going out to restaurants. Some people do, but after I became single about 12 years ago. I went out less, saved, and invested more money.
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  1332. No rocket can cause that kind of damage, it was from a aircraft bomb.
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  1333. Most of the parts from US made drones are from China that is why they take longer and cost more. Chinese companies can just jack up the price of drone parts to US drone makers. LOL
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  1334.  @kenw.4539  That's why Chinese suppliers need to charge them more for these parts.
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  1335.  @JohnFarmer-yt8cf  I don't want to get married and start a family. It is a lot of work, and I don't want to bother with it. My mother was pressuring me to get to know her friends daughters, but she gave up now, because the answer was always no.
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  1336. Science and technology will save us.
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  1337. There is a reason why the US can't build enough munitions and other ordinances. It is because FOR PROFIT corporations have no incentive to produce anything at scale to bring down the cost. In fact, this would work against their interests. Their motive is to produce less and charge the highest price possible, because it is more profitable to do so. This is at the expense of the tax payer.
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  1338. You aren't going to do anything like that in another country.
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  1339. LOL
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  1340.  @MarioCrosby  When a society or a civilization is falling apart people's morals are inverted. Up is down, down is up, wrong is right, etc.
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  1341. Now, that is a government that cares about its people.
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  1342. China was a poor and underdeveloped country in 1894, and in 1937. You mean round 3. You had two Sino-Japanese Wars (1894 to 1895), and (1937 to 1945). Today China is not poor, nor is it underdeveloped. Let's see how well the Japanese fight in a fair fight.
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  1343.  @larryc1616  Fort Knox has not been audited for 50 years, so no one knows.
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  1344.  @TakeThis-z7v  Even what that over capacity, they won't be able to export it, because there are similar products that cost much less. LOL
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  1345.  @mandrews1245  US foreign and domestic policies seem a bit schizophrenic to me. The people in power seem to have lost touch with reality, and rational thinking. The US recently lost two wars, one with Afghanistan, and another with Iraq which cost the US trillions of dollars. At the same time, you have crumbling infrastructure where trillions of dollars are needed to maintain it. In the cities of the US, you have insane laws that let people get away with breaking the law, which destroys the tax revenues of cities by driving away businesses and residents. Starting more conflicts when the last two conflicts ended in failure, and the more conflicts the US starts the more it leads to de dollarization. Something is wrong with these people in power. If they keep continuing on this path of insanity then the whole country can disintegrate.
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  1346. $0.40 for a meal that is very inexpensive. The lunch buffet I had last Saturday cost me almost $50.
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  1347. When Republicans lose elections, they blame it on voter fraud. When they lose an election in red states, they make legislation to cheat so they can win. California is a blue state, so they can whine about voter fraud all they want. They can go to every state where they lost and claim it was voter fraud. The fact is states that vote blue have Democratic majorities. Now that the Republican party is being exposed as the charlatans that they are, they are going to play dirty to win. Imposing your will on people who don't want you in power is tyranny.
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  1348. After you graduate from university, it does require on site job training, this is true for engineering graduates as well.
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  1349. BYD already made it clear that they would not be exporting to the US, so what is the point of this? There are other countries BYD can produce car plants in.
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  1350. Ukraine is going to ask the US for tactical nuclear weapons at this rate. LOL
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  1351. China has competent business and political leadership, so it will continue to grow.
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  1352.  @tuber6382  Exactly. China sells stuff the world wants, and there is no need to pay for it with USD.
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  1353. Currencies should be backed by GDP, it doesn't have to be backed by gold. There is this one scene from Lord of War when Nicholas Cage traded with an African warlord by taking diamonds for his arms. It's a form of barter. Most countries produce things of value whether that be oil, refined gasoline, wines, automobiles, sugar, cotton, platinum, gold, silver, rare earth minerals, manufactured goods, tools, LNG, coffee, etc. The point of trade is to get the stuff you don't have, so both sides benefit in theory. The US dollar became the world reserve currency, because it had stuff that the world wanted, like television sets, radios, motor vehicles, agricultural goods, military hardware, aircraft, steel, manufactured goods of all kinds, oil, coal, etc. The US is no longer the leading producer of anything, and it exports a lot more green pieces of paper than actual goods. Countries around the world can trade for the sake of getting what they need without a middle man.
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  1354.  @HaitianHallow  He admitted to me that he made a big mistake about 12 years ago.
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  1355. Your life is what you make it, you have to make it meaningful.
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  1356.  @mirror452  That will not be good when the USD losses its reserve status. LOL
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  1357. I think the economy is saturated, so there is no much room for real growth. Growth is about compounding interest and asset inflation. The price of everything goes up every year. From 1971 to today prices went up for everything, like housing, food, rent, consumer goods, insurance, etc.
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  1358. Banks should not be discriminatory. Another thing, don't bank with Wells Fargo.
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  1359. @Motorcitymadman I have bad news for you. The Federal Reserve will not let banks collapse. If a bank does go under, the Federal Reserve just takes it over and re-capitalizes it. Back in the late 1980s, a lot of banks collapsed due to the saving and loans scandal, and the bank my father banked with collapsed. The FDIC gave my father all his money back in a couple of years. I know a lot of people are hurting economically, and they are frustrated that they aren't getting anywhere economically. They want to escape in a world of fantasy and that genre being the prepper collapse cult. Believing that if the system and civilization totally collapses, I will not have my creditors hounding me everyday, and I will be free. You're debts will stay with you for the rest of your life. If you don't pay your mortgage, the banks will use the law enforcement to evict you from your home with a foreclosure. If you don't pay your property tax, the county will put a lien on your home and seize it in a few years. Banks will get bailed out, because everyone depends on it. As for you, no one gives a shit about you, not even Donald Trump. That is the reality. For most of you who are heavily indebted, your future is very clear when all the bubbles pop. You will lose your livelihoods, you will lose your home, lose your car or cars, lose your wife, lose your kids, and live in the streets. There will be no total collapse scenario where you get to use your Ar-15 on hoards of people. Once you lose your home, all the preps you made will not mean anything. Where are you going to put all your guns, ammo, gallons of water, stocks of food, and equipment. Are you going to put it all in your shopping cart. Preppers think they are smart, but I think they are the biggest idiots out there.
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  1360.  @tigading2177  It was a slow and gradual process. Then, it happened in 476 CE/AD. I don't plan to be there when it happens. I tried to convince my parents to leave, but they are entrench in their beliefs. I am preparing to leave.
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  1361. 这个人是一位真正的爱国者，保卫我们的祖国，反对那些想玷污中国形象的人。
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  1362. Racist people will always exist.
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  1363.  aaronasencio9459  Having an education does have a value. You telling me a professional with his/her education doesn't have any value. It costs millions of dollars to train a combat pilot in any air force in this world. The combat aircraft costs $50 to $85 million, but without a person to fly it, it is a worthless object. The same goes with a scientist, or engineer. You may have a multi million dollar research facility or a plant, but without the highly skilled people in those institutions those institutions aren't anything.
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  1364.  @lynnwood7205  I live in Los Angeles, and rents are pretty high here. I pay about $2500 for a 1 bedroom apartment. If you live in Los Angeles, you need to make at least $75,000/year. If you have a family of 4 people, you need to make at least $100,000/year. There are a lot of homeless people where I live, you can see them when you're driving around. I see a lot of em when I drive to work and back. You're right there are a lot of people who aren't paying their mortgages, but they aren't being foreclosed. You are right about them not being foreclosed on due to it causing the price real estate to drop. I have to pay high rents, and these delinquent people with mortgages get to live rent free!!!!! When the next recession comes, the government should not bailout these banks. If they become insolvent, the government can take them over. That is what happens to failed banks, the government takes them over and recapitalize them. As a matter of fact, we should have state banks, and banks owned by the federal government. The federal government owns the post office, so why can't we have a public federal bank?
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  1365.  @lynnwood7205  This is why we all need to get actively involved in politics, and we the people need to push back against these private special interest groups. There are more of us than there are of them. This is a representative democracy, so people need to get organized. The only reason why we are getting screwed like this.
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  1366. Every incident that happens in the country isn't reported, so what you say doesn't mean anything.
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  1367. We all know the US government is being evil.
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  1368.  @philiprufus4427  If you believe in the cause so much, go sign up as a mercenary for the Ukrainian army.
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  1369. He is one of Gascon's people, I wonder if Gascon will release him by making some sorry excuse?
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  1370. This is a great idea, because batteries can get damaged. By making it easier to swap batteries, these can be checked by technicians and replaced. This will make fire hazards less likely. When I was a kid I had a remote control car, and when the batteries ran dry I put in new ones. This way, people can be ready to go in a few minutes instead of waiting 30 minutes to a few hours for their batteries to charge.
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  1371. The evils of capitalism. These poor chaps are forced to reach unrealistic goals, so they have to commit fraud to keep their jobs. The sorry state of our economy. At the same time, people are using mobile banking and ATMs. So, in order for these human tellers to keep their jobs, they have to prey on the old people who still use human tellers. Very sad.
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  1372. Republicans make sorry excuses for everything. You should wear headphones, because it is dangerous. WTF! People shouldn't be doing mass shootings in the first place. If gun control laws were more strict, the number of mass shootings would be less!
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  1373.  @xiaoka  They will stop fighting when they are surrounded and run out of fuel, munition, and supplies.
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  1374.  @rickkrockstar  Chump said it is okay to drink bleach, so why don't you do it? don't you trust chump?
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  1375. We need more than 10 rounds for sure.
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  1376. @Gralin James Pritchard In the current system we have, efficiency is never rewarded with higher pay. It simply doesn't happen. The employee or employees are paid the same, and in some cases the number of employees are reduced due to this efficiency as well.
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  1377.  @randomsandwichian  those blue collared white males who got hurt by globalization voted for Trump, because they believe he will bring these factory jobs back. It won't happen, because I know for certain most factory jobs we have here producing everything from tooth brushes to automobiles are highly automated by computerized control systems. The people that are needed in factories are highly skilled programmers, engineers, technologists, and technicians. Those blue collared workers with skills aren't really needed. Skilled and educated workers are way more productive than unskilled and uneducated workers. As for labor intensive jobs, these are just outsourced to any country where labor is much lower than it is in the U.S.A.. Countries, like Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, South America, and large parts of Africa. Wages in Bangladesh is as 40 cents an hour, and in Vietnam the wage of a average worker is about 75 cents an hour. The average American worker who wasn't well educated or highly skilled has lost the most since globalization started in the mid 1970s. I can imagine, people who voted for Trump wanted to see something different. The U.S. economy is able to produce everything it needs with less people year over year.
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  1378.  @lemonke5341  600,000 people go missing in the U S every year. That comes out to 1.14 people per minute.
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  1379.  @lemonke5341  You said 1,051,200 people go missing in a year, and this is out of a population of 1,400,000,000 people. That is about That is 0.075% of the population. In the U S , 600,000 people going missing out of 331,000,000 people. That is 0.18% of the population. 2.4 times more people go missing in the U S in relation to the population. LOL
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  1380. Impeach the orange haired charlatan.
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  1381. Trump is a paranoid conspiracy theorist, like Alex Jones.
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  1382.  @gang3576  I agree with that 100%, we have a lot of m-o-r-o-n-s in this country. The educational system produces a lot of dolts.
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  1383. Not everything can be automated. There are jobs that are labor intensive, like making clothes, and ripping the heads off of shrimps to name a few.
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  1384. If that does happen, imagine paying $50,000 to $60,000 for a average sedan, like a Toyota Camry.
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  1385. I don't think Russia has to negotiate, because the US doesn't have anything to offer. Trump said, he would stop sending aid, so Russia could just continue to do what it is doing. Russia could decide when to end it.
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  1386. It will be game over when we have hyperinflation. They can kick the can down the road, but it can't go on forever.
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  1387.  @thinkoutsidethecontainer  Actually, I date women who are in their 20s and 30s. Younger women are attracted to older guys who have money. I guess that is why younger men that are broke are having a difficult time getting hot chicks. I already have kids, and I am divorced. My son and daughter are all grown up. My son graduated from University and got a degree in Electrical Engineering, like his old man. My daughter graduated from high school last year.
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  1388. She was arrested, her mug shot is on the internet. LOL
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  1389. Billionaires and millionaires can exist, but they just have to pay their fair share of taxes.
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  1390. Chump makes a lot of hollow threats.
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  1391.  @tommyboss4067  The US is a regime, it isn't really democratic at all. I know, I live there.
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  1392. The interests rates have not gone up enough, it has to go up to at least 10% if not more.
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  1393.  @verone272  I am from East Asia, and life is tough there. It is a very competitive society, and the reason for this is due to overpopulation.
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  1394.  @pusanghalaw  Except for capitalism due to the contradictions and paradoxes in it.
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  1395. James Gravil, that would be ideal, but stupid people have representation in a Republican form of government along with smart people. Unfortunately, there are more dumb people than smart people. LOL
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  1396. Looks like Germany is going down. LOL
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  1397. Trump is one bad role model. LOL
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  1398.  @claybrown1258  we will never build it here, we can simply move it to Vietnam, India, and other countries where the cost of labor is much lower. China will have to answer for this, because they tried to cover it up. Now, it is all over the world. A lot of foreign and US companies will leave China after this is all over. We cannot trust China anymore.
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  1399. Most of the weapon systems the U S produces is very expensive, because of corruption, and a lack of industrial capacity. If less products are produced then the price is much higher than mass producing it.
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  1400. @Worst Case ScenarioThere is no time limit, I got divorced about 14 years ago, so I live in my house with my son. He is about 16 years old now, so i have plenty of room at my home. I will let my bro stay until he gets back on his feet.
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  1401.  @kookietherapy9398  People get depressed and fall into despair when they don't have anyone to turn to.
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  1402. Trump is pathetic, he is a criminal and conman pure and simple. A one sided deal can only be negotiated if you win a war. Trump isn't in any position of power to ask for such demands.
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  1403. They can always import those Tesla EVs to the US. Opps, I forgot, most liberal types don't want to drive Teslas anymore. LOL
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  1404. We are all expendable workers, this is why so many jobs are part time or independent contractor jobs.
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  1405. If you saved enough dough, while you were working at these companies then you should be alright. If you bought a home, cars, and have a family then you are in big trouble. You and your wife have to get 6 part time jobs and work 80 to 120 hours a week ti make up for it.
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  1406.  @robinfleet7094  Republicans are just good at making stuff up. They will say something stupid, like we have 330,000,000 people, and only 28,000 have died from it. If 330 milllion people had it, 4 % of them would die. 13.2 million would die.
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  1407.  @michaelrouppas9646  Republicans are the party of anger, hate, and blame. Ever watch Fox News? Alex Jones? It sounds like Nazi rhetoric from the 1920s and 1930s.
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  1408.  @sloeberdoet  In capitalism, you get exploited by individuals, and Communism you get exploited by the Communist party or the state. That's the difference, you will get exploited in this world if you are weak. In the past, we had slaves owned by individuals, and we had slaves owned by the government.
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  1409. With all this bad news, including 1700+ people dying in the USA per day from the coronavirus, yet the stock market keeps going up? Do you people see something wrong here?
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  1410. A lot of people left California, and more are leaving because of problems like this. There are other problems, like high prices, high real estate prices, traffic, etc.
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  1411.  @plau2007  We aren't going to play this game. TSMC is realizing that building a semiconductor fab is trap, so they are delaying and delaying in building their Arizona plant. Eventually, they will cancel it, like Foxconn canceled their display panel plant.
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  1412. Chump can't lie and b.s. his way out of this. Everything he said was documented.
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  1413. The only Apple product I owned was the Apple IIc , and Apple IIe. I never owned any other Apple product, and I will never own one in the future either.
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  1414. They have nothing lose. Russia, North Korea, and Iran are under economic sanctions. This idea of saving Iran is violating sanctions by selling drones to Russia doesn't make any sense. The same goes with North Korea selling artillery rounds to Russia, they are also under economic sanctions.
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  1415.  @putler965  They aren't going to lift sanctions, and they know it. Besides, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are all currently have economic sanctions against em. This is why they are cooperating with each other. China isn't helping Russia, because they aren't under economic sanctions. However, if economic sanctions are imposed on China then they will not hold back in supporting Russia with anything they need from artillery rounds, munitions of all types, armored vehicles, chips, etc.
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  1416.  @itsallminor6133  Mr. American exceptionalism, the US doesn't have a exceptional advantage over other major powers in this world when it comes to military technology. A war between China or Russia vs. the USA isn't going to lopsided war, like the 1st Iraq War in the early 1990s. They have the same stuff that you have, like doppler radars, thermal imaging equipment, jamming equipment, drones, satellites, weapons that can take out satellites, warheads tipped with depleted uranium, etc. If a war with a major power happens, both sides will lose a lot of people, it will be a meat grinder. Whoever has more industrial might will win, it is as simple as that. One American soldier isn't going to kill 100 Chinese, Russians, or Iranians. It isn't a Hollywood movie.
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  1417. Another Trump flipout, he made another tariff because he felt like it. No reason, just because he felt like causing more chaos. This man clearly has dementia, he needs to removed from office!!!!
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  1418. You didn't hear about WMDs in Iraq? Putting innocent people in prison, that is 100% American.
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  1419. Chump is a criminal.
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  1420. China and all of these countries the US are trading with hold U.S. treasury bonds. They also own a lot of U.S. real estate and equities. If a trade war starts, interest rates are going to spike. A home mortgage that was 4% can go up to 18%. Your credit interest was 30% can go to 200%. The car loan you needed to get a car can go from 3% to 10%. The stock market will crash, the real estate market will also crash, and business will get worse. This will all lead to a economic depression. Since Trump cut welfare spending, Medicare, and Social Security, when you lose your job or your business. You might have to turn to social services, but they won't be there. Then, you can live in the streets, sleep in a cardboard box, and eat out of the trash can. That will be future for most people if a full fledge trade war starts. The old people who retired. Well, they can't get their checks every month, because the investments that paid for their pensions will have collapsed. If the stock market, and real estate market crashes, pensions will collapse as well. You're a very simple minded person. This will be interesting to see, I am financially well off, I don't really care. If interest rates spike, I will put my money in the bank, and it will accrue higher interest rates. As for the rest of you ignorant morons, enjoy eating out of the trash can.
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  1421.  @Tychoxi  The Gig economy is basically modern day sharecropping.
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  1422. This video explains everything in the most scientific and scholarly way. We will never know how the Olmecs used magnetism in their giant head statues. That will be lost to history. Perhaps, they used had of using this magnetism to move these giant statues, like this video illustrates.
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  1423. It's excessive force. Beating someone 18 times in the head when the suspect is on the ground?????
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  1424. Japan lead the way in semiconductor technology back in the late 1970s through the 1980s with NEC and other Japanese firms in the forefront. They had a lot of different computer manufacturers in Japan in the 1980s, but most of them never became mainstream, like MSX, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM Towns Computer, and the Sharp 68000. All of these platforms were replaced with Microsoft O.S. based computers using the x86 architecture.
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  1425. It costs $62/barrel in the US for new wells. The cost of production of existing US oil wells is $38/barrel. If the price of oil drops to $36/barrel oil companies would lose $2/barrel for existing oil wells, and $26/barrel for new oil wells. This excess production would have to be exported at a loss, which would immediately lead to a net negative balance of trade. This expensive US oil would be hit with tariffs, so very few countries will buy it. Countries around the world can buy it from other countries where the cost of production is much less and not use US dollars to conduct this trade. The US govt will be subsidizing US oil companies to produce this expensive oil, which would increase the national debt. The writing on the wall, so countries that have US t-bonds will be paying for this. It would be a very good idea for them to sell US t-bonds, and not buy anymore in the future. This will cause a currency crisis in the US.
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  1426. Navarro looks like Beavis from Beavis and Butthead. LOL
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  1427.  Jacob Dahl  The world may be debt driven, but if you live within your means you can get out of debt.
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  1428.  @kingvisuals6070  A lot of people live above their means, they could be someone who makes $200,000/year to someone who makes $35,000/year. If someone makes $35k/year, they will buy a home worth $300,000 with a 30 year mortgage. If someone makes $200k to $300k/year, they will buy a house that is worth $3.5 million to $5 million. Why would you want to slave away paying a mortgage which you have to pay every single month for the next 30 years? Wouldn't it be better to buy a smaller place, and have a piece of mind that you own that home free and clear? Anything can happen in 30 years, you could lose your job, the company you work for might go out of business, you might get chronically sick and become disabled, you could get into a divorce, etc. Recessions like this happen every 6 to 8 years. Life isn't all about materialism, and getting things. I am perfectly happy with my 6 year old desktop computer that I put together. I don't need to buy a Apple I-Mac for $7000. I really don't care about what other people think of me, because trying to impress people is all fake. Having your piece of mind, and living a stress free life is more important. You can enjoy life without the stress, and worries that come with being fake.
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  1429.  @kingvisuals6070  After you have the nice fancy car, lived in a large house, had all these material excesses, it starts to get boring. It ends up becoming meaningless. I just want the simpler things in life, like inviting my friends over to play some board games. Taking my kids out to Chucky Cheese with their friends, watching them play in the playground, reading some good books, talking to people, drinking tea or coffee with people, etc.
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  1430.  @GRIPANDSLIP  I know what Jordan Peterson is advocating, he just wants people who are unable to make it to just die out. People aren't going to die out willingly. People will do what they have to do survive. Higher level jobs can also be automated with more advanced computers, like quantum computers, deep learning, and other forms of artificial intelligence. If a super computer can defeat a Go champion, video game champion, or a combat pilot, I am sure it goes deeper than just unskilled workers. Most of the jobs we do even as professionals are routine tasks, but we do tasks that are creative from time to time. Most of the time, they are routine tasks we repeat over and over again. The first computers required you to type in commands to use, and look at the computers we have now with GUIs(graphical user interfaces). Anyone can use a computer. Programming will also become simplified where less skilled people can do it. You will have machines designing machines in the future. When A.I. and computing reaches a very high level of development, more than 50% of the jobs will not be there. This technology is just at its infancy now, and as time goes by. It will get cheaper and better. It will be used in every facet of society, it may be used in the military and law enforcement as well.
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  1431. Anyone with a IQ of over 90 knows that, so hard core Trump supports must be mildly retarded to still be supporting this con man.
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  1432. Also, you will run out of consumers, because most of them will become too poor to buy the goods that are produced.
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  1433.  @Drewstefer  That is the funniest thing I ever heard. 😆
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  1434.  @mistyfrogchannel  I don't think wages doubled in the US in 12 years.
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  1435. Whatever.
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  1436. Trump isn't going to stop with this. Trump wants to be a dictator. I wouldn't be surprised if they make concentration camps for people who are against Trump and his administration.
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  1437.  @OnceUponADoctor  They have to import almost everything, so I can imagine food being expensive in Japan.
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  1438. He won the stupid prize. LOL
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  1439. Gold and precious metals are better than paper and digits that can be inflated without limits.
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  1440. People who do stuff like this need to have their kids taken away by CPS.
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  1441.  @paulsawczyc5019  That's pretty bad.
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  1442. Inflation is actually good for gold, and hyperinflation is even better for gold. Peter is talking about the bigger picture, and the consequences of these reckless monetary policies. As inflation gets out of control, it will affect everyone, like crime going up, more people becoming homeless, more people going into poverty, and the US dollar losing its reserve currency status.
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  1443. @ Every country doesn't have oil.
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  1444. It isn't worth investing in the US.
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  1445. How convenient, the Republicans are corrupt. At this point, all the Republicans who side with Trump at this point are all swamp creatures.
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  1446. Kid told on his father to the Soviet state, and his father got sent to Siberia. LOL
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  1447. The US is not a democracy, it is more like two party totalitarianism.
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  1448. Doesn't Musk have companies to run?
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  1449. LOL
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  1450. chump and his chumps are incompetent.
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  1451.  @516Mel  They know where these cargo ships are headed. All you need is a laptop, and a internet connection. Use a drone to get the Automatic Identification System (AIS) number. Duh.
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  1452.  @shgalagalaa  The Saigon regime in Vietnam was also a puppet regime, and that collapsed, because it was corrupt despotic regime!
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  1453. Makeup can smooth out all the imperfections in your face. LOL
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  1454. This will just result in the annexation of the Ukrai-ne.
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  1455. This is going to be a bad year. Happy Chinese New Years Sean.
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  1456. Mortgage rates are too high, and the price of homes are too expensive as well.
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  1457. It is the land of opportunity if you believe in survival of the fittest.
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  1458.  @andrewleblanc1670  Were your ancestors plantation owners?
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  1459.  @davidphua1083  Everyone was criticizing me, and said to me if you don't vote for either of these bad choices. You are just wasting your vote.
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  1460. The True Texan American, you support a coward who was a draft dodger, and Trump criticizes Mueller who actually who served his country and fought in Vietnam. LOL You people are full of shit, a bunch of chicken hawks. You morons love to play militia men in the forest wearing camo with your guns in the forest. LOL
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  1461. Trump surrendered by delaying his trade war on China. LOL
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  1462. A wall made of steel, people make fences out of steel not walls. Steel rusts, and Trump doesn't know that. LOL
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  1463. I guess, he looked in the mirror and realized he doesn't belong there.
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  1464. @user-mu4cz6hc8s I am afraid the system in the U S is broken beyond the point of repair. The Constitution cannot be changed very easily. It was designed to be the way it is. People who run for office need a lot of $$$$$, and they need people to fund their campaigns. The people who fund political campaigns are the people who get what they want, and the voters just get a few choices from other candidates that do the same thing. As a result, the voters always get shafted, and they wonder why those politicians never keep their promises once they get elected to office.
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  1465.  @whompbiscuits8930  In this country, your civil rights are respected if you have the money to hire a lawyer. Essentially, we live in plutocracy. It doesn't matter what the majority of the people want, because the people that fund political campaigns get their voices heard. As for the people that vote, they get played and ignored. As a result, our society is falling apart. You see the rampant lawlessness, homelessness, substance abuse, and wealth inequalities. It's completely broken.
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  1466. Looks like everyone that got vaccinated got poisoned, and what makes this worse is that it was forced upon people with mandates.
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  1467. Looks like the Battle of the Bulge when the Germans threw everything they had starting in late 1944. It was a disaster, the Germans lost their last reserves. They could have use those reserves to defend the Siegfried line, which could have bought Germany a little more time.
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  1468. It is the nature of capitalism, it is all about increasing profitability and lowering costs.
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  1469. How can you call this bastard a businessman, he is a cheater!
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  1470. It isn't law enforcement's job to torture people, their job is to detain people. They can use deadly force if their lives are threaten, but this was not the case in this video.
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  1471.  @dansingmuch  You telling me resources, like wood, iron ore, bauxite, copper, coal, lithium, titanium, etc aren't finite? Going into space? It costs a lot of money to launch anything into space. What are smoking? That's why we are having these supply chain problems you dope. Human resources have limits as well.
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  1472.  StopThemNow08  We all know chump is a coward, you don't know anything about me.
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  1473. He is simply an idiot.
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  1474. Americans need to eat more, because China isn't buying American farm products anymore. LOL
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  1475. When other countries aren't buying US debt, you cannot keep printing money and funneling it into the equities market without consequence. There will be a big correction, and this is what muricans need to wake up.
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  1476. Go after who, imaginary people?
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  1477.  @TechnoGears-2023  That is true.
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  1478.  @amonone399  Cleopatra was a daughter of King Ptolemy, who was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great's general.
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  1479. If it took 12 years to pump these bubbles up, it will quite a while to recover from this.
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  1480. We need a candidate like Dr. Stein.
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  1481. All the isolated and sanctioned nations are forming a block. This kind of reminds me of what happened to the Roman Empire, they pushed around so many people. Near the end of the Roman Empire, so many people were pushing back Rome collapsed under those pressures.
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  1482. A 1st grader. LOL
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  1483.  @Sean-giang  Sure there were some conflicts in the past between China and Vietnam in T’ang dynasty period, and the Ming dynasty period. It is undeniable us Chinese had given civilization and culture to places, like Vietnam, Korea, and other parts of Asia.
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  1484.  @Sean-giang  Vietnam under French rule was far worse than being under Chinese Suzerainty. Most historians can agree with that statement.
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  1485. The Ukr was well prepared militarily compared to Phi, so they wouldn't last very long.
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  1486. We have a for profit capitalist system. In this kind of system, one person can have 150,000 houses, and 600,000 people could live in abject poverty.
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  1487.  @ksanghue5340  The world doesn't need the USD to conduct trade.
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  1488. Defense ministers don't go to the front line that isn't their job.
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  1489. Impeach him!
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  1490. Russia doesn't have to physically attack any ships going to the Ukrainian port, all they have to do is lay a lot of sea mines around that port.
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  1491. Japan can just import more immigrants, like they do in the US. They can do what S.Korea is doing, importing people from Vietnam and the Philippines. In the US, you can have the new American, and in South Korea, you can have the new Korean. Me and my father was joking about this. LOL
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  1492. Marriages in the modern era is based more on mutual respect, not on any kind of dominance from either sexes. For most families, both the man and the woman have to work to make enough to pay the mortgage/rent, and all the bills. Back in the 1970s, men worked and women were house wives that didn't have to work. In most marriages, both the man and woman do household choirs. Most men don't demand women do all the choirs in the house, like they did during the 1950s, 1960s, or 1970s.
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  1493. You have a lot of uneducated people living in the USA.
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  1494. I always ask the customer for a deposit fee of 20% if they want to order products.
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  1495. That depends on your age. If you have a home that is paid off, and no debts then you can retire early. For me, I worked very hard in my 20s and 30s, and I paid off my debts in my prime working years. I saved and invested my money, so I was able to be semi retired now. I still work, but I work about 20 to 30 hours a week. I also do stuff on the side, but my life is stress free. Never got married, but my life is stable and easy.
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  1496.  @johnburt7935  These conservative meatheads live in fantasy land, they live in a world of MAKE BELIEVE. I believe I can carry my gun anywhere even though it is a offensive military style semi-automatic rifle. Even if you show your gun and threaten people is a felony. You can be charged with aggravated assault. If you got into a road rage incident and waved your handgun in a threatening matter is aggravated assault. The person who was threatened only needs to correctly identify the gun they were threatened with to law enforcement.
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  1497. Ukraine doesn't have much of a navy.
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  1498. They let this guy out with a long rap sheet like that? That man should be in prison for the rest of his life.
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  1499. Chump is no normal politician, he is an idiot who believes the presidency enables him to act like a dictator.
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  1500. Stuff like this does happen there. I live in California, and it is a pretty dystopian place.
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  1501. Darius Truxton, you people don't believe in real scholarship, real journalism, real science, real medicine, real fiance, or in facts. You make up conspiracy theories, like bankers are evil, vaccinations are bad for you, buying Alex Jones medicines will cure or treat medical problems, global warming does not exist, there is a Illuminati conspiracy for world domination, the deep state, etc. There is a reason why we go to universities and colleges and study, the physical sciences, economics, history, law, political science, pharmacy, engineering, finance, dentistry, mathematics, architecture, computer science, journalism, and other things. We go to university to study real things. If you go to the emergency room, a ER doctor has the skills and knowledge to save your life. Journalists site all their sources, and they report the news based on these sources. Alternative media doesn't site sources accurately, and in a lot of cases they make stuff up out of thin air. That is not real journalism. Alex Jones making claims that his fake medicines treat or cure diseases is snake oil 101. If a medicine is to be approved for sale to the public, it has to go through the FDA and be tested. When you come up with theories as a scientist, you have to prove your theories in experiments. You quacks believe the whole system is evil, because they don't believe what you believe. In fact, we don't have to BELIEVE anything, we just have to know the facts. Just because you don't like the facts, and just because you refuse to believe in it does not make it false. This is why you morons never win in court. You believe it is true, but you can't prove it with evidence or facts. The F.B.I. has the evidence and the facts to make a case, and they won't be doing it because they don't like Donald Trump. The F.B.I. can get everything they need from other Federal agencies. If they want to get Donald Rump's tax records, they can go to the IRS and get it. The IRS in turn can get all of Donald Rumps bank records. If Trump thinks he can get away with this bullshit, you are wrong. They have to follow the money trail, and if the bank records show Trump took money from Russians they can find a lot more.
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  1502.  @sgfinancial3854  The writing is on the wall, most Americans don't have much savings, and a lot of debt. They have long term debt obligations which they cannot pay when they lose their jobs. My hours have been cut 80%, and there are many people who just got laid off. It all boils down to seige warfare, how long can you hold out? Because I know people who invest in silver aren't rich folks, they are people who live paycheck to paycheck. People will sell their stuff whatever it is to raise cash to pay their bills, they will sell their wedding rings, silver coins, automobiles, & junk around their home. If the paychecks don't come in, they don't have money. They need money to buy food, pay their utilities, pay their mortgages/rents, pay property tax(if they own a home), pay car registration fees, pay their internet bill, pay their cell phone bill, etc. Trust me, PEOPLE NEED MONEY, and they will sell everything they have to raise cash. No hyperinflation is coming.
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  1503.  @stoneeh  Yes, you can. Since it is a manipulated market, it is easy to predict. Today, the Dow went down 200 points, in a few days it will go up 300 points.
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  1504. Brad Christy is a troll ignore him.
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  1505. Those protesters are Chumpkins.
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  1506. I thought all of America's weapon systems were invincible. What happened here? ROFL 🤣
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  1507. The West has a very checkered history, and trusting them is not a good idea.
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  1508.  @josephconley2647  At this point attacking Russia, and making the Russians more angry wouldn't matter.
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  1509. Good riddance, those people are the kind of trash this country needs less of.
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  1510. I installed Windows 11 on a 6 computers that didn't meet the Windows 11 hardware requirements. I also have two computers that are newer that I bought in 2021, and 2024, that have Windows 11 on it. There is a difference. The computers that have Windows 11 without the hardware requirements aren't updating, while the newer ones are updating.
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  1511.  @SrdjanBasaric-w2s  These CEOS, CFOS, and the board of directors don't care. All they care about is making money for themselves and their shareholders.
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  1512. Starting business is futile, you will never be able to compete with the corporate megaliths. Before the recession, I made about $150,000 a year as a programmer working for a big corporation. Now, I work as a independent contractor, and I make far less than what I used to make. I have to supplement my income with other things, like trading stocks, selling real estate, making videos, selling software to companies, buying and selling computers/servers, setting up servers, etc. Having your own business is not a easy thing, you need to have the experience, the skills, and the money to do it. Most of the times, you will be barely putting your head above water.
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  1513. If you are a small hardware store, there is no way you can compete with a Home Depot. I was thinking about opening a online store to sell computer parts, but one of my friends told me that you can sell on Amazon. You pay like $30 to $40 and sell on Amazon. Everyone knows what Amazon is, and you don't have to build your own infrastructure. That is what I do on the side. Everything is just saturated. Too many people with the same skills you have, and not enough demand for it. In order to survive in this new economy is by diversification. You have to keep learning new things and stay ahead of the technology.
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  1514. LOL. He is a deadbeat. He is just another selfish me me Libertarian. He wants to reap all the benefits of living in a civilization, but he doesn't want to pay for it. Maybe, people like this should be banished where there is no piped water, electricity, sewer systems, roads, etc. I bet he preps for the total collapse of society, collects a arsenal of weapons, canned food, ammo, and waits for something to happen. LOL
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  1515. It is profit driven, but so is medicare and every other government program. Medical doctors don't run their practices as a charity, they are for profit corporations. They get medicare money. The insurance companies sell insurance to people who need Obamacare. The people defense contractors who produce the various types of weapon systems are doing it for profit. The various contractors who sell everything from toilet paper to air conditioners to the government are doing it for profit. Ford motor company that sells cars to the government are doing it for profit. YES, IT IS ALL PROFIT DRIVEN.
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  1516. Tell me, who are these so called masters?
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  1517. Tomato Pa Most people are pretty ignorant, so people play lotteries, get themselves into debt by living beyond their means, and make ignorant Joe the plumber troll comments here. LOL
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  1518. The US will lose its unlimited credit card. Now, it will have to produce real things instead of printing money to buy everything.
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  1519.  @yaoliang1580  That is true.
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  1520. There are a lot of things in the horizon that will lead to more unemployment, like artificial intelligence, a good example is ChatGPT, kiosks employed in movie theaters, fast food restaurants, bus stations, train stations, airport self check ins, hotels, warehouse robots, robotic equipment in manufacturing plants, AI used in call centers, AI used in customer service centers, etc. All these things are going to lead to a reduction in employment. If one person can do the work of let's say 3 to 5 people in a company using something, like ChatGPT or some other kind of AI algorithm then it will lead to 3 to 5 people being laid off. You cannot very well stay at a company just standing around can you? These people would be let go. There is a lot of things that are happening now which is going to shape the future 1 or 2 years down the line. We have geopolitical shifts which is causing interest rates to rise, inflation, currency devaluation due to de dollarization, climate change, war, etc. The US still has trade deficits with China, but China stopped buying US treasury bonds. This in turn is causing interest rates to rise, right? If China was buying US treasury bonds, it would lead to lower interest rates. Instead of buying treasury bonds, they can just buy up commodities and that causes the price of commodities to go up in price. You have de dollarization which is causing the value of the dollar to go down in value, and this is contributing to inflation here. We have a reduction in global trade due to sanctions, like the chip ban on China. As a result, companies, like Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others have a glut of chips they cannot sell. This is causing those companies to lay people off as a result. People get laid off, this affects the local economy, because those people lose their jobs, they lose their homes, they can't spend money in the local economy. This causes tax revenues to dry up in that locality. The businesses in the local area lose customers which causes those businesses to close down or lay people off. Inflation is causing people not to spend money on things they don't need. As a result, you are seeing the ripple effect of store closings, reduction in hours of work, and layoffs. Companies like Best Buys, Bed Bath and Beyond, Foot Locker, and others are closing stores. Amazon reducing the number of employees, they are closing distribution centers, etc. When you don't have a employment then you can't make your mortgage payments. This will lead to foreclosures in the future. It's inevitable.
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  1521. qqwg12345, gets his news from Infowars which is fake news.
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  1522.  @jamberry8026  Exactly.
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  1523. Once China gets its own EUV lithography machine, or EUV light source it will be able to produce 3 nm chips and below at a much lower cost. Meanwhile, 3nm chips are being produced with DUV lithography machines using multi patterning. This process is complicated and expensive. Never the less, it is possible to make chips under 7 nm using this method. It has been done using 14 nm lithography machines to make 7 nm chips by using double patterning. They may be using quad patterning to make 3 nm chips with 14 nm DUV lithography machines.
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  1524.  Michael Whitted  Mussolini was a hot headed buffoon, like chump. Near the end of the war, he was beaten to death along with his wife, and hung upside down.
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  1525. "Ultraman will not be coming to save the day this time." 😆
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  1526.  @ancientengineer798  There are people in this country who are as stupid as Chump is, and those people might drink clorox, because El Presidente said so.
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  1527.  @ancientengineer798  We have a lot of ignorant and uneducated people living in many red states. A lot of em collect welfare checks from the government, yet they say government is evil. LOL
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  1528. STFU you Trumptard.
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  1529. Emily Fox, can you back up those statements with facts?
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  1530. They seem to be going after people one at a time, and loading them on buses. They seem to know who to go after.
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  1531. I am a Chinese, so I know China is not a aggressive nation. Japan has the history of being aggressive.
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  1532.  @jermainemyrn19  Companies tend to lay off the people who make the most money, and the oldest workers.
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  1533. Your channel is very interesting, and it is informative.
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  1534.  John Deere  All the conditions for fascism are there, like a stagnant and depressed economy. Most people were just 1 or 2 paychecks from losing everything, and we had this Coronavirus pandemic and the shutdown of the economy. You have people like Trump telling people what they want to hear, and other politicians that do the same. I am afraid if something isn't done to help people directly in the form of a UBI(universal basic income) or direct assistance to the masses of desperate people, Donald Trump will not be the end of it.
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  1535. I pay over $3000 for a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles!!!
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  1536. Recessions happen, and people become unemployed. It isn't anything new. As for white collar workers, most of them will get replaced by outsourcing and also by artificial intelligence. All those remote workers could easily be replaced by someone that lives in India, Poland, The Philippines, Pakistan, etc. Call center workers can be outsourced, programmers can be outsourced, people who do office work can be outsourced or automated with AI. There are other factors that will drive down wages, like outsourcing remote work, and technology. The higher interest rates will help with that as well.
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  1537. Doing business in LA isn't worth it.
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  1538. He went bankrupt 6 times, so this will be his 7th bankruptcy. LOL
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  1539. You're a typical Alt-Right Trump supporter that is why you made this racist statement. You just proved my point, you are one of those people in the basket of deplorables.
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  1540.  @bobjohnson9820  White Nationalists are domestic terrorists, and they aren't fine people like Trump said. After all, tRump is a trash person, that is why he said that.
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  1541.  @dalyphish6448  Who knows if he will pressure the next fed chairman to move it to negative rates, but I can say for sure it will go down to 2% or lower.
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  1542.  @JaeyGim-jk2zt  There are Chinese people living in Korea.
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  1543. Jack Sprat, go get a life you tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist. LOL
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  1544. It's really simple, cities and municipalities need to make laws to prohibit investment capital from buying up single family homes, condos, and townhouses. If you own more than 1 homes in a city or county, you get taxed 25% property tax. This would solve the housing shortage. If you have 50 people owning 50,000 homes in a county then you have will have a shortage of homes. The math is that simple.
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  1545. I thought these heroes were going to fight to the death. I thought when they ran out of munitions and supplies, they would do what the Japanese did during WW2. They would scream BANZAI, and charge Russian armored vehicles, gunship helicopters, main battle tanks, and machine guns armed with their bayonets. I thought that was how it was going to end, but I guess I was wrong. They turned out to be a bunch of cowards after all. Cowards hiding behind civilians and taking shots at Russian soldiers. Their fate is sealed now.
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  1546.  @kgyapper  I am actually taking care of my parents who are in their early 80s.
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  1547.  @BigJoe-g3o  I still go on dates with men or women.
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  1548.  @TanyaAbah  During WW2 when the Japanese soldiers ran out of ammo, they did Banzai charges.
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  1549.  @Gareths-Travels  It is much more difficult to build real things than printing money. The US does have rare earth minerals, and they can mine for those resources in the US. It will take years to open up those mines, and build the industrial infrastructure to process those resources. It is much more difficult than printing money and buying it with green pieces of paper. When much of the world de dollarizes, you better have a way of getting those resources that you need. You aren't going to build this up in 6 months or 1 year. This can take 5 to 15 years.
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  1550. Another stein, or berg got elected.
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  1551. Using the US fiancial system incurs fees, so China using their own financial system would save China a lot of money. The US will not be able to track these dollar transactions. Sounds perfect.
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  1552.  @WorldVidzz  The trick is, you need to make all the money when you are young, save it, and invest it later. Live off the investments after you have a lot of money. A lot of my friends made the mistake of blowing all of their money in their young age. They were medical doctors, engineers, lawyers, directors of companies, scientists, CPAs, etc. Those guys have a lot of debts, and they will have to work until they pay off all their debts.
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  1553. Most Gig jobs pay below minimum wage if you subtract all the expenses.
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  1554. Here is the problem....... If so many people are being replaced with AI and automation then how can the economy survive. When you have structural unemployment then you have less and less consumers. The result is a severe recession or depression.
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  1555. Mr. Schiff, how is there going to be inflation if the money is going to a handful of billionaires and millionaires? The majority or 90% isn't getting this money, and rich people are very stingy people. In other words, most of this money that is being flooded into the stock market is going to the very top. If the masses got the money, we would see inflation; however, if a few people get most of the money there will be very little inflation. For example, if there was $10 trillion circulating in the economy, and 10 people had $5 trillion, 3,000,000 people had $4 trillion, and 300,000,000 had 1 trillion dollars. How can there be inflation? The 300,000,000 people have more debts than they have assets, so they will be busy paying the bills, paying off their debts, paying their mortgage/rent/lease, etc. They will have very little disposable income to cause inflation!
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  1556. ***** Defending your rights by trying to get you arrested???? Then, having your rights stripped away from you for the rest of your life???? Carrying guns in Washington D.C. is a felony, once you have a felony your life is ruined.
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  1557. Those Chinese who came to the West Coast of the USA in the 1860 to the 1880s weren't slaves. They were paid. After their contract was up, they were free to stay in the U.S.A. or leave the U.S.A..
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  1558. We are talking about hand to hand combat.
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  1559. +notpcone I wouldn't believe everything Peter Schiff is saying either. After all, he told us to buy silver when it was $50/oz. He told us to buy oil when it was $150/barrel in 2008.
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  1560. How much do they want? How about $75,000, and a 2 bedroom house for every black family. The trade off is, no more affirmative action.
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  1561. These bitches need to be sent to Siberia.
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  1562.  @MonicaHolly143  I don't live in your 3rd world country, the USA is a 1st world country, and $20k isn't enough here.
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  1563.  @daryehl5910  I am not mediocre, I am a electrical engineer. Yes, I am lazy, I like to automate everything, and I will keep automating jobs away.
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  1564. How we have evolved from 27 years ago, we use smartphones which has more power than the most powerful computer in 1990.
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  1565. Tom Ryan Stop feeding this troll, he isn't worth a second of your time. : ) I am sure Trump will win the next election!
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  1566. HuckFinn Shut up fuckfinn.
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  1567. Tom Ryan He is a typical liberal communist douchebag. The kind of brainless morons, u would find in occupy Wall Street.
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  1568. HuckFinn So....
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  1569. HuckFinn So...
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  1570. There will be no need for any cashiers in the future. Most will be self checkouts or kiosks. The people that are required are the people who can program computers, repair computers, fix software problems, repair printers, service machinery, etc. Engineers will also be doing fine as well. Those people will be able to make a living until they are replaced. They will be at the highest point of the mountain before it submerges into the water. The unskilled people will be affected first.
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  1571.  @sunbeam8866  Everyone knows Ronald Reagan the Republican who pretty much gutted the middle class in 1980s started the war on drugs. He and his cohorts were responsible for dismantling the social welfare program in the USA, and championing his proposal of trickle down economics. Trickle down economics didn't work. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, I pretty much experienced Republican dismantling of the middle class by outsourcing jobs outta the country, and making the middle class pay more of the taxes. Reagan's relentless attacks on labor unions, and his dismantling of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to help his fat rich buddies. Anyways, you Republicans are a bunch of charlatans and snake oil salesmen.
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  1572.  @sunbeam8866  Reagan ran up the biggest deficit in U.S. history, and back in the 1980s there was a lot of talk about if the US economy would collapse. It didn't happen, but we did see a big start market crash in 1987 which resulted in a very bad recession from 1988 to 1993. The Republican party, the party that scapegoats against minorities, blames other people, blames other countries, and enriches themselves and steals from the public. Republicans scum.
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  1573.  Keven Dudgeon  I know both parties don't care about the people, but the Republicans are worse.
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  1574. All of these movies were box office hits!
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  1575. Paul Watson is justifying what Dyann Roof did. Although blacks may commit more crimes than whites, you seem to be supporting Dyann Roof. Is it because Mr. Roof watched the Infowars? Anyways, almost everyone knows this whole truth conspiracy movement is full of scam artists who want to make a quick buck, race baiters, losers who don't anything with their lives and most likely are unemployed, people with mental problems who see imaginary people and things, and there isn't anything real about your worthless movement. There is no conspiracy, the conspiracy is that human beings are terribly flawed. It is human nature to want to control others, & manipulate others. So there are no conspiracies and there is no Illuminati!
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  1576.  @hopedream11  They aren't easy, because people can never agree on certain things. In addition to that, you have competition from corporations that have unlimited amounts of money. You have millions of people who lost their jobs due to this Covid-19 virus. As a result, a lot of people simply don't have a lot or any disposable income.
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  1577. Most of those low wage Chinese workers are going to get replaced with automation.
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  1578. Tanks will continue to be used in combine arms tactics.
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  1579. Sports Illustrated still exists? LOL
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  1580. A lot of jobs are being created in Russia in fields, like mining, processing of minerals, heavy industry, war manufacturing, automotive manufacturing, etc. Now, Russia can uses its resources to for benefits of its people.
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  1581. If inflation isn't bad enough, this orange man will make it worse.
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  1582. People never learn.
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  1583. Chump is an idiot.
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  1584. We live in a plutocracy and that man was a plutocrat, so yes.
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  1585. The Trump youth.
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  1586. We aren't jealous. Those people never seen someone like that.
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  1587.  @williamcarter9066  Most East Asian people never seen black people. They didn't harm this man, or do anything to him not like whyte people did.
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  1588. This Covid-19 virus was from the Wuhan lab. If that is true then they need to make that public, so this kind of mistake isn't made again. Gain of function research to make viruses more dangerous to humans accidentally release a deadly virus to the public which killed millions of people. That is so damn ridiculous.
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  1589. He is most likely a Maga hat wearing Trump supporter. LOL
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  1590.  @imjashingyou3461  Only 4 out of the 62 destroyers in the PLA navy are the outdated types. The Rest are Type 052 to Type 055 destroyers which are pretty modern.
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  1591.  @42VS42  China can make semiconductor chips which is based on its own technology, like the Loongson family of semiconductors. China just released the Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE) 28nm DUV lithography machine to make semiconductors. Only 3 countries in this world can produce ballpoints for pens. China, Japan, and Switzerland. China isn't technologically backward. The Japanese economy has been anemic for the past 33 years.
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  1592. That is what conservative do. Pit one group of people against another, just look at Fox News.
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  1593.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  They both do it, but the Republicans use race to divide people, and the Dems use class to divide people.
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  1594. @Paul B Blaming people who have too much power and wealth is legitimate, because they have the power to affect the lives of others. On the other hand, blaming poor people of color is just a form of scapegoating.
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  1595. If WW3 happens, we will be living in the new dark age.
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  1596. I am 48, and I haven't figured it out. My home is paid off, and I have no other debts. I ain't a multi millionaire, and I am trying to figure out what I will do in the next 17 years.
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  1597. The Ukraine can draft the transgendered folks, I think this is how a lot of Ukrainians tried to get out of being drafted. ROFL 😆
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  1598.  @I-LOVE-NORTHEAST-13-TIMES  That man has no shame, he isn't really sorry. He needs to be removed from office.
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  1599. Most people cannot survive working 8 hours a day now. A lot of people work 2 to 3 part time jobs working 12 to 14 hours a day.
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  1600. @SkyLight119 I don't know if you ever been poor, but I have when I was in my teenage years growing up in the late 1980s to the early 1990s. I lived with an alcoholic father, and I lived in abject poverty for a number of years. You can be in a situation where you are a child and your parents are poor. You may have lost your livelihood in a economic down turn. Living in abject poverty isn't fun, it is misery. In this next recession we are in results in millions of people being losing their livelihoods due to business bankruptcies, layoffs, etc. Who knows what people will do, but you are seeing it now, like rampant crime, and this is just the beginning.
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  1601. China could absorb all their EV production. The total number of vehicles in China is about 420 million vehicles as of 2023, and out of that 20.4 million of them are EVs. Only about 29% of the Chinese population has vehicles. China produces about 5.5 million EVs per year, so they can absorb all their EV production. This will be bad for foreign companies that export their vehicles to China, they would lose market share like Sean said. China is the biggest market for vehicles in the world, and it is no problem for China to absorb all their EV production. China could setup EV plants in Global South countries, like Brazil to sell there and in the South American market. China could setup EV factories in Russia. They can even have those EV factories in those countries ship production to China, because the Chinese vehicle market is large enough to absorb it.
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  1602.  @LiteralH2O  exactly, you need a degree from a real 4 year degree in science. Then, you have to go to graduate school.
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  1603.  @christopherbelanger6612  You won't get a job in a big corporation, or government institution without at least a Bachelor's degree.
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  1604.  TheKnowerseeker  It also depends on the individual company, a lot of them do require 4 year degrees; however, if you are a genius and you can prove it there are always exceptions. If you're not exceptional or anything special, chances are, most companies will not hire you if you don't have at least a Bachelor's degree.
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  1605. I was buying gold from 2006 to 2012. I didn't buy any since 2012.
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  1606. Ken93, the U.S. accounts for about 13 to 17% of the world economic output in terms of GDP. The U.S. is no longer the center of the world. A lot of foreign money came into the U.S.A. before Trump, and with Trump being a xenophobe. It could draw a lot of foreign money out of the U.S. equities markets, real estate markets, and bond markets. You poorly educated mind doesn't understand how the global economy works.
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  1607. Ken93, if you are a Baby Boomer, I got news for you. The economy will tank if a full blown trade war extends past a year. $13 billion for relief for farmers isn't much compared to the $80 billion they will lose per year. The U.S. exports about $140 billion worth of agricultural goods to the world, and China, Canada, European Union, and Mexico accounts for $80 billion worth of trade. It will not only result in massive bankruptcies and foreclosures for farmers, it will affect the people who loan money to the farmers, the farm equipment manufacturers, the chemical fertilizer industry, the petro-chemical industries that sell pesticides to farmers, and the local economy of those rural areas. You are as clueless as Trump. When it hits, and if it does affect you, I could laugh in your face.
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  1608.  @GS-pg5qz  Nope, you can't vote in Puerto Rico, because it is a territory.
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  1609. Trumpvilles. LOL
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  1610. The US will go down like the USSR in 1991. All the signs are there.
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  1611.  Truth  STFU tooth.
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  1612. Belief makes people stupid.
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  1613.  John Lyons  I don't expect any of these Republican red meat heads to understand anything. They vote against their own interests by voting in these corrupt Republican representatives who use demagoguery, fear, and tribalism to get elected.
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  1614.  @joeyboombatz9959  There is no way to know that until it passes through the senate. The better move the Democrats can do is just to not release it to the senate until after the next election. If Trump does win, and the Democrats get a majority in both the senate and the house of representatives then they can send it to the senate then. We will give get rid of your orange haired fake con man of president, we won't stop. We will do everything to his supporters and Trump himself.
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  1615.  @joeyboombatz9959  Sure we can do things. Activists got rid of Alex Jones from Youtube, and other social networking sites, like Twitter and Facebooks. If racists like you make racists statements on social networking sites, we can document it and flag your accounts, and get you removed.
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  1616.  @joeyboombatz9959  Other activists can use hackers, find out your IP addresses if you make fascist remarks, or threaten people. Find out where you work, and get asses fired.
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  1617.  @joeyboombatz9959  most of us on the left do work in the tech industry, working in software development, and the information technology field. We know more about being hacktivists than you meatheads.
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  1618.  @yaiburanakul8505  We are talking about the figures this publisher posted. I just proved his claims to be false that gasoline costs less than electricity.
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  1619. Chump doesn't take any responsibility, but he has all the authority? LOL
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  1620. Fox News is propaganda.
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  1621. I personally don't care about smartphones. I don't consider them to be computers, they are just media consumption devices.
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  1622. You can believe whatever you like, but others don't have to believe it.
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  1623. The rule of the internet is simple, don't troll, bully people, and be mean.
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  1624. He will try, but he will not get away with it. You saw what happened to that CEO? Don't think it can't happen to chump and his cronies.
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  1625. That woman is crazy.
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  1626.  @TheFettMan  China's government is pursuing high technology, not low end manufacturing. That is why the USA is trying to prevent them from doing it by putting all these restrictions, like shipping lithography EUV machines to China. It will slow the Chinese down in their pursuits, but it will not stop em. If they want to develop their own technology then they will develop it. It will take time. They slowed down their development of advanced chip technology, because they could buy the stuff for much less from US firms. I don't think the Chinese are interested in wanting their money to become the world reserve currency. In the USA, you just have the US dollar. In China, you have the Yuan, and the Renminbi. Yuan is used for international trade, and the Renminbi is the currency people use within the borders of China.
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  1627.  googlerocks206  You wish if it was, but it is actually on the rise.
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  1628. California state does not have enough money in their budget to provide UBI to their population. Only the Federal government can implement UBI.
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  1629.  @alanmcbride6658  Electromagnetic spectrum doesn't have anything to do with electricity. It is has to do with different types of waves from radio waves to gamma rays. Radio waves having longer wave lengths, and gamma waves having very high frequencies that can damage a your DNA.
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  1630. Confederates were rebels, so they were traitors.
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  1631. It's a pity so many people in the US are heavily indebted, because they have to go into debt to buy something now. People have to get the latest thing to show off to other people. Oh well, these fools who were over leveraged, and have too much debt are going to have to pay the piper.
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  1632.  @MustyBastard  There are homes like that in the hillbilly woods in the USA, but you may have additional cost, like getting your own septic tank, you may have to have your own well for water, have a water purification system, and other additional costs. It is probably an area, no one wants to live in, or it is very far from the nearest conveniences, like a supermarket, shopping center, etc. You might have a small market to buy your supplies at inflated prices, and a small town setting where 500 people may live there.
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  1633.  @marvinmallette6795  That is a pretty good deal.
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  1634.  @fresatx  lol
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  1635. Trump = Failed Business man and big time debtor
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  1636.  @nemogotti4920  If Sanders or Yang doesn't win the Democratic nomination, I think people need to seriously consider starting a 3rd party. The Republicans and the Democrats are just establishment, and they will not reform this system which needs to be updated for the 21st century.
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  1637. The shopkeeper don't order excessive amounts of food. What people eat everyday is finite, you can only eat so much. I look at the expiration date when I buy meats. It is dangerous to eat expired pork, it is full of parasites as it is.
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  1638. Those were the golden days of flight simulators.
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  1639. Twitter isn't stupid, chump is stupid and irrelevant.
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  1640.  @vegamoonlight  Right, Chinese invented those things, and countless other things I didn't mention. It is a 5,000 year old civilization, the oldest in the world.
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  1641.  @dojocho1894  It seems like we have more monopolies these days, let's say compared to 43 years ago. If there is more competition then it is better. Think about it. About 40 years ago, you had more mom and pop pharmacies, and today we have the CVSs, Walgreens, and other corporate retail pharmacies. We had small electronic retail stores, small coffee shops/cafes, medium sized supermarkets, hardware stores, etc. We have Best Buys, Starbucks, Walmart, Home Depot, etc. On top of all that, you have monopolies, like Amazon, Ebay, and others that dominate the online retail space. People can sell their own stuff on their websites, but not many people know about these small websites, people know Amazon and Ebay. Throughout the years, these big corporate entities charged higher and higher rates for their sellers. The same thing that happened with Uber/Lyft, they destroyed the Taxi cab industry, now they pay their drivers poorly, and they charge their riders outrageous prices.
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  1642. Poor people don't have much wealth to hide to begin with. LOL
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  1643. They like guns for some reason, and they like to practice their 2nd Amendment rights on innocent people.
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  1644. Sipaktli, this is why most of these conservatards are doomed.
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  1645. Those aren't tanks, they are BMP-1 armored infantry fighting vehicles.
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  1646. If you majored in something like engineering, you have to develop something, and start a business with it. That is what I did with my major after I graduated. I used it to make real things and go into business for myself.
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  1647. We still have a lot of manufacturing in the USA, but this is fully automated production or very high stuff, like the manufacture of fixed wing aircraft, rotor aircraft, jet engines, guided missiles, high tech weaponry, etc. All of those cans and bottles of soda and beer are produced here in the USA in an automated factory. Parts for machines are also produced in automated manufacturing plants. Ever since programmable computers and micro controllers came into the scene in the mid 1970s, the need for unskilled labor started to diminish in the 1980s and 1990s.
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  1648. Then, Trump should resign if he can't do this job. Just like he went bankrupt 6 times, because he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
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  1649. Remember folks, inflation is a compounding problem. If it is 3%, it is 3% on top of 5% the year before, and 10% from the year before that. It is a compounding problem, and this is why prices rarely go down.
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  1650.  @jgodawa13  Hey, you aren't going to get something for nothing in this world. If Republitards want something, they will have to give something in return. Another $1,200 for every American with that $350 million small business loan will be a fair trade.
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  1651. Today, the people who believed in cryptocurrencies are crying. Looks like Warren Buffet was correct after all.
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  1652. Punk deserved it.
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  1653.  @michaelgunn9883  Not that isn't the point. Who gave the Federal Reserve the right to lend money that they create out of thin air to the government at interest?
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  1654.  @boi_benji6431  That is subjective, and it would depend on your point of view.
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  1655.  @ODoyleYourFamilysGoingDown  I bought a LG refrigerator in 2006, and it stopped working in 2016. I tried to get it repaired, and the repairman took a look at it. He said, it needed a circuit board, and they don't make it anymore. He couldn't repair it, and I had to buy a new refrigerator. There wasn't anything wrong with the compressor, condenser, or any of the parts that make a refrigerator work. The circuit board died which is the brains of the unit. The next refrigerator I bought was a relatively cheap one, a very simple refrigerator which cost about $500 back in 2016. It still working good. The simpler the machine, the less likely it will break down. Today, they make things so complex. Maybe, they do it on purpose, so things break faster. This allows them to sell more units.
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  1656. Natural disasters happen. Did you ever hear about Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. Are you feeling good about people suffering such misfortune due to a natural disaster?
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  1657.  @SaundraRaynor  The best military in the world that can't supply enough munitions to Ukraine????? You must be old.
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  1658. People who talk about race all the time are the true racists, because they want to divide people up based on race.
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  1659. When you have a good job, good career, or a profitable business, you just have to save most of your money, and pay off your debt with it. That is what I did. I don't have a full time job now, but I am able to survive on a part time job that doesn't pay much, passive income from bank CDs and bonds, and doing some side gigs. If you didn't do what I did then you must be going through hard times now. Next time, you know what to do.
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  1660. They will be wearing their Maga hats in skid row.
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  1661.  @bonafidetruckingpresentsea8222  You can believe that, but the US doesn't have all the elements on the periodic table.
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  1662. These drones are cheap, like $2000 a piece, the missiles the U S navy uses to shoot them down costs about $2 million per missile.
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  1663.  @pjeng1  People never see their own flaws.
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  1664. Automation can work if the workers that get displaced can find new jobs, but if they cannot it leads to structural unemployment which is very bad.
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  1665. They can leave there if they surrender unconditionally.
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  1666. It's a strategic position. That's why the Ukrainian army was fortifying this area before the Russian assaults started.
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  1667. The US is the evil empire.
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  1668.  @Emilio-sq6gb  Not really troll.
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  1669.  @geoforamorio  That is very true.
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  1670. Chinese New Year is Chinese New Year, it is called that in Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.
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  1671. Electric cars with lithium batteries aren't profitable.
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  1672.  Mark Evans  The system is definitely rigged, but why run away from your problems? We can simply vote in politicians who represent our interests. I think people will eventually wake up when they realize the two party system isn't doing anything to protect them and their interests. As for me, I don't believe in running away, I will stay here and fight.
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  1673.  Mark Evans  Max Keiser is a conman. He was involved in a large pump and dump scheme with silver with his stupid slogan buy silver and crash JP Morgan. He and his cronies pumped silver up to $50/oz. A Libertarian con man is what he is. Now, he is telling you to move out of the USA. We don't need losers like you anyways, get out and stay out.
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  1674. The Su-27 aircraft survived, and the drone got destroyed. That is one for the Russians.
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  1675.  @RCsFinest  We can make China pay for it. China just shot themselves in the feet. After this debacle passes, a lot of foreign companies will leave China. They will move their production to other countries. China will become a international outcast.
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  1676. There were no supply disruptions or a war that was interrupting the supply of oil back in 2008.
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  1677.  @heruking4391  That's the reason why I don't go to 7-11s, and the don't give you back the right change as well.
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  1678. Wouldn't that make Trump's Baby Boomer supporters angry? Baby Boomers rely on their saving accounts to pay them a annual return. If interest rates goes into negative territory, you will be charged the negative interest rate per year. So, if rates moved to -2%, you will lose 2% of your balance per year, and it will compound every year at 2%. In year one if you had $50,000, you will have $49,000 after a year, and next year you will have $48,020 in year two, and in year three you will have $47,059.60. The longer you keep your money in the bank, the poorer you get. In addition to that, this coronavirus will affect Trump's boomer supporters, because it will be fatal to people in that age group.
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  1679.  @jasontome8050  China and the U.S.S.R. contributed greatly to the Allied war effort during WW2. More than 480,000 to 700,000 Japanese died in China, and as many as 1.9 million wounded and missing. From July 7, 1937 to Sept 2, 1945. The Soviets wiped out as many as 5.1 million Axis soldiers from Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and other Axis allied nations. This was from June 22, 1941 to May 8, 1945. China never lost to Japan during WW2, and they like the Soviets did contribute to the Allied victory and Axis defeat.
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  1680.  Justoutofcuriosity Ohwell  If chump goes to prison then he can't run again in 2024. LOL
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  1681.  @sovertiginous3297  If Biden has to prove that 100% of the people who voted for him were valid then chump would have to do the same. Trump lost pure and simple, and if he tries to stay in the White House after Jan 20, 2021, he will simply be removed by the Secret Service and White House staff. The End. In other countries if a president committed many crimes while they were in office, they may get away with becoming a dictator. This is the USA where we have a constitution, and every member of the armed forces from the average grunt to high ranking officers take an oath on the constitution of the USA. They don't take an oath on the president. If chump thinks, he can use the military to keep power, he is sadly mistaken. If he tries to do that, it would be the obligation of everyone in the military to remove his sorry orange ass from the White House and put him on trial for treason.
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  1682.  @daweller  Chump is a liar, you can't trust anything he says. Did you hear about a chump donor who is suing Donald Chump to get his money back. He donated $2.5 million to Trump to overturn the election. Chump's people couldn't give the donor any evidence of election fraud. Here is the article. https://fox59.com/news/politics/pro-trump-donor-suing-houston-group-over-failure-to-prove-voter-fraud-in-2020-election/ A rich pro chump idiot got scammed. LOL
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  1683. A top loading shotgun, that is so unique. Why hasn't anyone thought of it?
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  1684.  @rogerburn5132  That is what Vance said, not Sean.
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  1685. Rare earth minerals aren't rare, but only a few countries can process it.
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  1686. Rumpo sounds like a con man.
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  1687. Every country has the right to extradite criminals, so you need to stop spreading false information.
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  1688. Tecums3h, exactly. Most of those guns were owned by the parents of the kids who conducted the mass shootings. It would be better if the parents go to prison and get sued. Everything they owned can be used to pay for the victims losses.
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  1689. Because he is.
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  1690.  @alabamaart  I don't have to use violence. If I see a red meat moron with his military surplus uniform playing army men in the forest, I can simply call the police. : ) LOL
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  1691.  @kevinkohlman9884  What did Trump really do to improve the economy? Give tax cuts to the people who didn't really need it. Asked the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. If Trump didn't behave like a criminal then he wouldn't have faced impeachment. I don't understand why people like you give Trump so much credit, because he hasn't done anything.
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  1692.  @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне  When Stalin was the leader of the USSR, gold was money not just in the USSR, but it was money all over the world. Gold was money until 1971 when president Nixon decoupled the US dollar from gold. We had this 52 year experiment, and it was very inflationary which led to income inequalities, and inflation rising faster than wages. The price of a average home in 1971 was about $30,000 for a 3 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms. Today, that same house costs about $450,000. Did wages go up 15 times from 1971. The world could go back to a gold backed or a commodities based system. People can trade without money. Ever see the movie Lord of War when Nicholas Cage and the African warlord was trading, like arms for diamonds. Trade can be conducted this way too. We had this
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  1693.  @billykulim5202  These jammers can be anywhere, the commanders will decide where they will be deployed, it isn't up to you to decide.
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  1694. The West is no longer democratic, it isn't doing what the people want. The US doesn't follow international law, treaties, or follow trade rules. It acting like a rogue state.
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  1695. Police show up for something as stupid as this. There are better uses of police resources than wasting it on something like this. People who call the police for things like this should be pay a fee for wasting the cities resources.
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  1696. ATTACKEMs. LOL
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  1697.  @gotakazawa408  Most products don't have instructions now. You will get QR code that will link you to a video, or there isn't any instructions at all.
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  1698.  @Direkte_Demokratie  No wonder more countries are moving to the BRICS block.
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  1699. Restaurants close all the time, so who cares?
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  1700.  @zuzanazuscinova5209  Here the break down. Lower class • People who are blue collared workers. People who have a high school degree or less. Middle class • People who have a 4 year college degree or more. People who are working in middle management. College educated professionals. White collared workers. Upper class • People who own a lot of assets, like land, equities, big businesses, vital industries, patents, and people who don't need to work.
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  1701. The capitalists needs workers, so if working people could simply cut out the middle man. They could be self sufficient. Further more, these capitalist companies could be boycotted, because there is competition.
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  1702. After chump is no longer president, we should do everything to get this criminal locked up for the rest of his pathetic life.
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  1703. The EU will do what the US says, and they will bear the consequences of it. As for Chinese students studying in the West and returning to China is, because of what happened in 2020 to 2022. Now, they know first hand how intolerant these people can be. The people that experienced it told everyone on Chinese social media, and now they all know it.
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  1704. The West doesn't care, because they done it in the past.
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  1705.  @iron4177  Yeah, chump.
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  1706. It is simple. If you don't make enough or have any savings then you will have have to use a credit card to get by. If you run out of credit then you just have to skip meals everyday, or go beg people for food.
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  1707. Throw him in prison for 30 years, and deport him to Vietnam.
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  1708. The price of homes and interest rates are out of sync. You have a large number with a compounding interest of 7%. Think about it.
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  1709. LOL
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  1710. The G7 consists of the 8 Nations Alliance that ganged up on China in the 19th Century. Now, they are ganging up on China again.
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  1711. When the technology goes into a recession, layoffs are inevitable.
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  1712.  @Ric_Roar  That is why they are single in their mid 30s and early 40s.
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  1713. No m🤣ore money for murica. Let's see them print themselves out of this.
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  1714. There is no catch, we just want trade relations.
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  1715. The last administration thought it was a good idea to restrict Intel CPUs to China.
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  1716.  @johnchow  I was working as a computer programmer 2 years ago, and now I am washing dishes, and processing medical records. I don't see why people without any skills can't work on farms.
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  1717. They want to recruit them into the military in exchange for a permanent residence or citizenship.
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  1718. Most people have to work a full time job, and do a number of side hustles to just survive these days. Other people have 3 to 5 part time jobs, and they just barely make enough. If most people are struggling to survive, the last thing on their mind is thinking about the future, like getting married and starting a family. Most people can't even buy a home, it is a luxury which is out of reach of most people.
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  1719. China was the only country that agreed to build processing plants for developing countries in return for natural resources. Zimbabwe wanted foreign companies to develop their lithium mines, but they wanted them to build them a processing plant. This was requested, so they can sell processed lithium for more money. No W e s t e r n mining company would do it. Only Chinese mining companies granted their request. In Indonesia is the 2nd largest producer of Nickel. Only China agreed to build them a processing plant, and no other country would grant that request.
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  1720. They don't think is fair because their girlfriends left them, or they couldn't find a girlfriend because they have no jobs. What a bunch of snowflakes. Stuff like this happens in life. I got divorced about 7 years ago, I didn't have any suicidal thoughts. I didn't get angry and blame everyone for it. What is wrong with these young punks???
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  1721. We have a lot of homeless across the entire country, because the US is a declining empire. When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, homelessness wasn't as visible as it is now. A lot of manufacturing got automated out of existence or got out sourced in the 1980s and 1990s. From the 1970s to the 2000s, programmable computers, microcontrollers, high level computer programming languages, and robotics replaced a lot of blue collared jobs. As for the remote workers, a lot of them are getting replaced with AI, and their jobs are being outsourced to other countries. With the rapid development of more powerful computers, and artificial intelligence, you are going to see a lot of white collared workers get replaced. Humans aren't going to be replaced entirely, but you will have one white collared worker using AI to do the work of 4 to 7 people. Just like during the 1970s to the 1990s, you had technology enabling one worker with the aid of technology being able to be 5 times more productive. This means, you will need 5 times less people in a factory, plant, cargo vessel, etc. In the system that we have, you cannot have idol workers. If people aren't producing something for a company then YOU ARE OUTTA HERE!!!!!
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  1722. Women like to waste money.
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  1723. America is good at printing money, so they can print more of these too. LOL
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  1724. That is because they are uneducated and ill informed.
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  1725.  @agoodchow  The US had the biggest ship building industry back WW2.
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  1726. That Binkov plush toy looks cute, I gotta get one.
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  1727. In the near future, employers are going to hire people who can do the work of 3 to 10 people. They will hire people that can leverage technology to be the most efficient. For example, someone that can use AI, like ChatGPT, use their engineering skills to automate a process or processes, using an algorithm to get someone to work at a inhumane pace, or setup a technique where one worker can do the work of 3 to 10 people. That's going to be the future. Everyone isn't going to be replaced, but the people that remain will get burnt out.
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  1728.  @kanscopeichel491  I am justifying shoplifting. This is what I see in the area where I live.
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  1729.  @kanscopeichel491  I don't even go out much anymore. If I have to go shopping for groceries, I do it once every 4 months. I just buy a ton of supplies at one time. I order most of what I want or need from websites. It's not worth going to store anymore, you car get carjacked, car can get vandalized, you could get robbed. Plus, the prices are very high due to all the shoplifting and high price of rent.
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  1730.  @kattiepenn  I am a nerd, so I never went out much anyways. Besides, it's too expensive to go out these days. Gasoline in my local area is almost $5/gallon for premium that's what my car takes. I lost my main job, so there is no reason to go out and spend money. I just have to live off of my savings until this economy recovers. Meanwhile, I am just working some low end jobs, like working at a convenience store, and working at a waiter in a restaurant.
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  1731.  @-Size-  shut up dolt.
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  1732. There are a lot of good men, but unfortunately a lot of them aren't very wealthy, very tall, or are very handsome. They exist, but real people and what people idolize are two different things.
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  1733.  Bestoink Dooley  Sean McGinnis is lying.
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  1734.  Eugene Fisher  Credit is used as a substitute for money. Life is a lot easier if you don't have any debt, you don't have to work like a slave to pay off those debts every single month.
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  1735.  Eugene Fisher  I don't think you can force anyone to do anything. If people make bad choices in this system, they will just be living on the sidewalk in a tent or tent city. If you have a high enough education and skills, you have more options. If you don't have a lot of education or skills, you have less options. We just have to make the best of what we got, and make good choices to stay afloat.
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  1736.  @juniorgod321  This is why 5 people live in a one bedroom apartment, or 10 people live in a 3 bedroom family home.
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  1737.  @juniorgod321  https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/11/forget-sharing-an-apartment-renters-are-sharing-rooms-to-save-money.html
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  1738.  @juniorgod321  my rent in Los Angeles for a one room apartment is about $2500/month. My neighbor has 4 people living with her. When I visit my parents who live in a 3 bedroom family home in the suburbs, it is almost impossible to get street parking. Before, it as possible to get street parking. You see a lot of people renting out rooms, or living with their kids who are over 20 years old. As many as 7 to 10 people could live in a 3 to 4 bedroom home in the suburbs. Not uncommon these days.
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  1739. Chump is a liar. Most people still can't figure this out?
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  1740.  @rickkrockstar  everyone knows that stupid.
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  1741.  @rickkrockstar  Do you know why abortions are good? Because we need less people like you.
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  1742.  @toma2897  Businesses try to get their money's worth out of their workers, it's capitalism. Businesses don't hire people, so they can have a lot of idle time on their hands. It's a conflict of interests for both parties, the workers want better working conditions, and the businesses want efficiency. If a compromise can't be reached then the big businesses can do one of two things, shut down in that city, and set up somewhere else. Or, they can automate as many jobs as possible, and keep a few workers. That's it.
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  1743. A bunch of nothing happened.
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  1744. The Ruger AC-556 has more muzzle climb compared to a M-16A1, because of the design.
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  1745. Chump is the idiot who makes things worse and worse.
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  1746.  @Denzel_Watchington  your mom?
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  1747.  @dalecox5928  Trump or his retarded supporters. LOL
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  1748. Exactly, only Alex Jim Jones from Infowhores can come up with such nonsense. Ever since Trump started to listen to Alex Jones, he became a more toxic individual. LOL
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  1749.  @adamgardiner5869  Tom Metzger got sued by the SPLC for inciting hate which resulted in the death of a Ethiopian man in 1989. He lost everything.
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  1750.  @adamgardiner5869  I don't know what we can do to this demagogue legally. As long as the GOP controls the house of reps, and the senate, it will be very difficult to get anything done. The first thing the media could do is to do a media blackout against Trump, don't give him any attention. He seems to indulge in negative publicity. Do a media blackout on people who support him in the alternative media. Those people don't deserve to use a free platform, like Youtube, Facebook, Tweeter, or other social media outlets to have their fake news heard by unsuspecting people. If these people want their Nazi propaganda heard, they can pay for the servers, bandwidth, and host it. Get their members to pay for it. Publicly traded corporations should not enable them to spread their vile propaganda. Once these people and Trump get complete cut off, they will become irrelevant wither away and die.
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  1751.  @pcm1997  stfu
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  1752.  @pcm1997  lol, you are nuts. Now go to Infowhores.com now.
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  1753. Life is cheap in A m e r i c a as well. You see all those homeless people that d i e in the streets of merica.
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  1754. Mr. Wannabet.
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  1755. Even the most elite units could be ground into dust in the face of overwhelming firepower.
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  1756.  @CarlosRodriguez-un1ip  That was a weather balloon.
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  1757.  @duggydugg3937  That does happen, not all of these Catholic priests and Protestant pastors are good people. Some do some pretty nasty things to children.
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  1758. Price controls only cause shortages happened every time in any point in history. The results were the same during the Roman Empire, and hundreds of other countries in the last 2000 years.
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  1759. Who said any of this was free, if you believe that you must be silly.
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  1760. After the 1970s, you had the computer revolution with printed circuit boards, programmable computers and micro controllers, and this enabled industries to automate. In addition to that, you had outsourcing from the 1970s to the present. It was inexpensive to produce things abroad where there was less regulations, and lower wages. In addition to all these things, you had credit cards for everyone in the 1980s. Now a lot of people are tapped out, heavily indebted, and working many low wage gig jobs. Working long hours with very little pay, this is America today in a nutshell.
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  1761.  @heldermoura6151  Isn't the US and the world going back to the Gilded Age of the late 19th century? We have a handful of very wealthy tech giants, and masses of people who work for very low wages. A lot of people working 3 to 5 Gig and part-time jobs to make enough to make a living. Most people don't have a future, most just live hand to mouth pretty much. It is too expensive to live in a home which everyone was able to buy back in the 1970s, and 1980s. I pretty much witnessed the decline when I was growing up in the 1970s, and 1980s.
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  1762. This is why you need a gun.
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  1763. This was after he killed someone.
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  1764.  @J-k1248-u6n  You cannot kill someone who makes a verbal threat against you if they aren't armed.
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  1765.  @snipman8067  Once you pull the trigger, discharge a firearm, and serious injure or kill someone. You are in trouble.
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  1766.  @psychopathgains2510  Having a affordable home is a good thing. Look at the mess we are in because of what happened in 2008 and 2009. The real estate market got bailed out, and now homes are unaffordable for most people.
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  1767.  @Berelo320  Who cares about the investors.
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  1768.  @Berelo320  You're saying investors who make risky bets should be bailed out? Bailing out investors is free market capitalism?
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  1769. When more people get Covid 19 and start dying from this, people will realize Trump is a loser.
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  1770. Whyte women are easier, I dated some that were 3 to 6 years older than me. There is no dowry, and they like you who you are.
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  1771. In simple terms, the low interest environment would be equivalent to letting someone operate a business without making a profit, or paying for overhead. Now that interest rates are going up, these corporations have to make a profit, and they have to start paying rent! Before, they didn't have to pay rent. They could simply borrow the money at near zero interest rates, and do stuff like buy treasury bonds to make a profit. They also borrowed this cheap money to buy back their own stocks. That doesn't work anymore!
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  1772. The last time I bought gold, platinum, palladium, and silver was from 2006 to 2012. It's nice to have, but it isn't an investment in anyway. Nice shiny bullion coins, and bars. The only thing that provided large returns for me was buying stocks from 2009 to 2018. By the way, silver and gold isn't money, they are commodities. It is a inflation hedging commodity, so if I bought $50,000 in gold in 2008 then it will have $50,000 in value in 2008 money today. That's all folks.
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  1773. There are a lot of uneducated, ignorant, and stupid people in America.
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  1774. 12 hours/day is a lot. I work about 5 hours/day for 5 days. You have a toilet like that, and you are miserable? You have a family, a house, and a stable job, so you have no reason to be unhappy. As for me, I don't have a family, I do own my home, have a car, and I have a unstable job. On top of that, I use a regular toilet. You need to get over your depression.
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  1775.  @thinkoutsidethecontainer  Buying a pretty girl a drink is the same as letting them use your credit card. LOL
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  1776. It is funny how MSNBC, and CNN aren't covering this. LOL
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  1777. It depends on what you major in, but if you don't have a college or a 4 year Bachelor's degree then you won't get any salaried position. If you go to trade school from high school then you will have the skills to make a decent living. You can also apply for a government job, but a lot of these jobs do require a 4 year college degree or more. If you went into the job market straight from high school then your options are limited. All you can get is low wage work, or Gig app work which pays less than minimum wage.
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  1778. This looks interesting. I remember back in the 1980s, we had so many different platforms, like BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Spectrum ZX, Apple ProDOS, Apple Mac OS, MSX, Amtrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, MS-DOS, Fujitsu FM-7, Sharp X68000, etc. None of these were compatible with each other. We need more players, because the PC industry had been stagnant for years.
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  1779. Republicans don't believe in science, because they refuse to learn it.
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  1780.  @kevinjackson4457  That too, they are too stupid to understand it, or they refuse to learn it. This is why they have to believe in things. Republicans say stuff, like I don't believe in climate change, they said the media was using the coronavirus to undermine Trump. Just look at a lot of these red states, they are some of the poorest states in the union. Those states have a lot of ignorant, and uneducated people living in them.
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  1781.  @kevinjackson4457  Republican church goers refused to be vaccinated, so they spread preventable diseases in church. LOL
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  1782. It isn't being built in the US, because of physician lobbyists. If they let it get built in the US, a lot of these people would be out of a job.
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  1783. The youth unemployment in the US is pretty high, and there are a lot more people that are underemployed.
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  1784.  @Wumao50centarmy  Crime is a major problem. I live in the US, it is a barbaric place to live.
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  1785.  @Wumao50centarmy  There is no reason to visit the US, it is a miserable place. I don't go out these days, because it is dangerous. You need to be armed with something when you go outside of your home, and in your home you need to have something to defend yourself with.
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  1786. If Armenians want to leave Karabakh, they are choosing to do this. It isn't because of the Azeri government.
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  1787.  @radiozvrk6784  I guess that is why the Eastern half of the Roman Empire collapsed in 1453.
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  1788. Most Trump supporters are racists and anti-Semitic.
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  1789.  @swojnowski453  They made their bed.
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  1790.  UMBRELLA CORP  We will see what happens.
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  1791. Chump is conning people. This is no surprise, the same person who refused to give stimulus to the people. It still will not get him out of all the legal problems he is in.
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  1792. I think this economy sucks, because my wages haven't gone up. At the same time, the price of everything from a carton of eggs to the price of durable goods have gone up a lot. In a strong economy, the price of goods and services go down, and the opposite is true in a weak economy. If the economy is productive, there are no shortages and prices stay low. Supply and demand.
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  1793. Chump's speech is idiotic.
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  1794. Buy it from ourselves.... The reason why manufacturing was automated and outsourced was, because it costs too much to make it here. LOL
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  1795.  @BarkusMuhl  companies, corporations, and capitalists in general have different interests than working people. Capitalists want to capture the global market, so they can increase their profits. Workers only care about keeping their jobs. The corporations have the $$$$$, so they can have the laws changed. Back when tariffs were high income taxes were very low. In the 1900s, income tax was as low as 5%. That was offset with high tariffs. Today, income tax is 15% Federal and 15% state, so we have pay about 30% in income tax every year. If you are a business, you can pay less than that, because you can write off a lot as business expenses. If you are a working class stiff, I don't know how you will survive this kind of economic environment. You're still going to pay income tax which is pretty high, you will be hit with tariffs which is just about everything we buy. In addition to inflation spiking up due to the Chinese not buying up our treasuries anymore.
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  1796. India falls behind when it comes to infrastructure, a educated population, and income equality.
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  1797. Only a naive person would believe it.
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  1798. Chump likes people that are like him in every way, inept. Looks like chump isn't getting his way, because there are a lot of safe guards in the US that will prevent him from becoming a chumptator.
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  1799. If you want a Taiwanese factory then you must have workers that will work like Taiwanese workers, or it will not work.
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  1800. DC is run by incompetent people, so all the policies they make never seems to work. On the other hand, China's govt makes policies that work.
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  1801. When you have someone as corrupt as Trump running the country this will happen.
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  1802.  @InfernosReaper  When you had cable TV, you had a subscription service that you had to pay for. A lot of the channels that came with this cable TV subscription had commercials on it, like A&E, Nickelodeon, etc. If you paid on top of the regular cable TV subscription, like for HBO, Cinemax, the Movie Channel, or Showtime, there were no commercials.
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  1803.  @pusanghalaw  Capitalism will not work when most of the jobs get automated out of existence, it's coming. I know it, I work in the tech industry.
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  1804. I have a degree in applied mathematics, and I work as a programmer, and I also have a vocation as a computer technologist. All mathematicians are computer scientists by the way. A computer science major is just a math degree that is why a lot of people can't do it. They can't pass the hard science and math courses, like physics for engineers and scientists, 2 quarters of general chemistry, calculus 1 to 3, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations. All science majors whether they be a chemistry major or a physics major can also become programmers.
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  1805. Trump is a criminal even Steve Bannon stated Trump and his criminal enterprise. LOL
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  1806.  @SamWilkinsonn  We are living in a declining country. What happens next is just looting everything before it all goes down.
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  1807. That wasn't self defense. The man backed away, and the assailant shot him. If the man was attacking continuously then you can shoot. That wasn't the case, so it was cold blooded murder. In any other state that didn't have that law, he would be charged with murder.
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  1808.  @ramieskola7845  Sure hitler.
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  1809.  @claybrown1258  If you don't have the money then you have to go to work. For me, I don't have to work for years, I am just going to take 4 months off, because I can afford to. If you can't afford it then you will just have to be exposed to it. Like all viruses, they mutate as they go from person to person, and get stronger and deadlier. Good luck.
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  1810. Trump wants you to BELIEVE IT. He doesn't use logic or reasoning. LOL
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  1811. I still like the Big Mac at McDonald's. It costs about $6 to $7 per Big Mac, and I have to eat 2 to 3 of them to feel full.
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  1812. The war between Russia and the Ukraine is like the American Civil W-ar. At the beginning, the South was winning a lot of battles, but they lost because they didn't have the industrial might of the North.
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  1813. The U S is good at double speak.
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  1814.  @Andy-P  Why do you come on this channel? Why don't you watch BBC, or other Western MM outlets. I don't watch any Western MM, but you here saying untrue things. If you think what is being said is untrue what is the point of listening to it? I think everything said by Western MM is false, so I don't listen to it. It's that simple.
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  1815. The US doesn't have the industrial capacity to build a lot of aircraft, main battle tanks, artillery, and other heavy weapons. That's why it is taking so long.
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  1816. Renewable energy isn't enough to meet the needs of a country, like Germany.
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  1817. If your skills get redundant then learn new skills.
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  1818. For women age is everything, so women age like milk. On the other hand, the value of men go up with age, like wine.
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  1819. They are too expensive.
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  1820. Madness. A homeless man was riding his bicycle around my garage, and when I tried to get out of the car. He went towards me, I pulled out a pistol, and he went the other way.
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  1821. I hope the Trumpers lose everything believing their fake leader. LOL
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  1822. When I was in my 20s, I found a regular 9 to 8 job after I graduated from university. It wasn't no 9 to 5, it was 9 to 8. It was 9-8-5, 9 am to 8 pm 5 days a week. After I did that for 23 years, I got laid off. Luckily, I made enough and saved enough to retire early. Just go get a regular job, and you can do that part time stuff later after you have the dough. This is what I am doing now.
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  1823. I think China is shifting from a export oriented economy into a consumer based economy, like the U.S.A. and other developed industrialized nations. As a result, they have more people consuming goods producing a large amount of waste on their own. This reduces the need to import massive amounts of waste like they used to which were used for industrial output. Wages in China has been going up very quickly, so a lot of factories are leaving China to other countries where the cost of labor is much lower, like in Vietnam, India, and other countries. Less factories in China means less need for raw materials.
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  1824.  @mariomills  That might happen if things get bad enough.
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  1825.  @Megatron-sl5us  That is so true.
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  1826.  @michaelrouppas9646  I have to say, the Republicans did a great job of dumbing people down to the point where they vote against their own interests. Years of defunding public education is what caused this mess. I know a lot of people are angry due to structural unemployment caused by automation which started in the late 1970s. We went from a industrialized economy to the information age starting from the 1980s to the present. If you did get a good education and finished college, life is better in general. For those that didn't, they are stuck in life of part time, temporary, and Gig work with no future. A lot of people got angry enough to vote for a known con man, like Trump. In the information age, the more you know the more opportunities you have. It is what it is.
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  1827.  @michaelrouppas9646  Haywood Jablowme is a troll, just ignore him.
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  1828. Essential worker mean slave. In slavery, slaves were essential workers. In feudalism, serfs were essential workers. In capitalism, the people who get paid very low wages do all the essential jobs.
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  1829.  @bimapringgo  Because he got his money's worth out of people.
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  1830.  @Hystericall  Ironically, those are the people that are voting for him.
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  1831.  @darrellross1  This investigation will not go away, it will go to another investigative team. Also, Trump's term of office is limited, so after his term is up the FBI will come after him. It will be easy to prosecute Trump after he is no longer president. Trump knows his days are numbered.
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  1832.  @darrellross1 I am just afraid Trump might do something really stupid and start a big war or something when he gets cornered. Just like how he started a trade war for no reason.
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  1833. It is getting pretty close to it. What is next, anyone who disagrees with Rump will be imprisoned?
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  1834.  @plau2007  Intel already has semiconductor fabs in the US, but the problems they can't seem to get their nodes below 7 nanometers. Their latest CPU is the I7-14700K which still a 7nm chip.
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  1835.  @MonkeyBlueAss  So much for American exceptionalism. The Afghan War shows the US isn't all that. ROFL
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  1836. Brad Christy is a joe the plumber type of Republican, ignore him.
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  1837. Brad Fuck, I am warn everyone on Dr. Wolff's channel about who you are, and we are just going to ignore you.
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  1838.  @HoboKing2011  Despite you bad mouthing communist and socialist governments, at least they didn't have to pay 60% to 80% of their income in paying the rent or mortgage!
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  1839. Chump is all talk, when the rubber meets the road he won't do anything to help anyone.
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  1840. I don't think they care, because they won't sell those sedans in the USA, they will sell them in Mexico, China, and other countries. They produce those cars in those countries and sell them there.
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  1841.  @michaellim4165  I don't so, South Korean companies don't the ability to make those chemicals.
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  1842.  @sangwoo9686  ARM is a fabless chip company which licenses out its intellectual property to companies, like Samsung, Apple, Renesas, Google, and others. Samsung pays licensing rights to produce ARM chips. It isn't South Korean technology.
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  1843.  @sangwoo9686  ARM is not a GPU company, ARM owns the right to a RISC CPU architecture, just Intel owns the rights to CISC CPU architecture. Just because Samsung makes a laptop computer doesn't mean the main components of that computer is made by Samsung. Samsung buys AMD and Intel CPUs to make those computers, so the core technology in all computers is based on American companies, like AMD and Intel.
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  1844. I live in LA county, and when I go out a lot of people look stressed and disheveled. Not only that, there is a lot crime, and it happens in broad daylight these days. Sad times we live in these days.
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  1845. Repugicunts, all they do is lie, lie, defect blame, and tell more lies.
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  1846.  @Pluscelamemechose  There are a lot of factors, like how much you make every month, and what kind of lifestyle you want to live. For me, I experienced extreme poverty back in the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. I never forgot what having a lot of debt did to people after the crash of 1987. As a result, I had a habit of living below my means. When I buy a new car, I usually get one with the fewest options. It could nice car, like a Mercedes, BMW, Acura, or a Lexus. I usually keep cars for 8 to 10 years. I am making good money now as an engineer, and I typically save about 60% to 80% of my income. When I was married it was tough, my ex-wife wanted a new car every 2 to 3 years, she wanted a bigger house, a new smartphone every time a new one came out, a Louie Vuitton purse every year, and she spent 100% of her income and she used most of my income. I've been divorced for about 12 years, I paid off all my debts, and pretty much live a simple life. Without debt, you can live a free life. You can work as little as you want, and be content with life.
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  1847.  @GRIPANDSLIP  What I meant by them not going quietly means, doing crazy things like mass shootings, and committing crimes with firearms. I live in the U.S.A., so firearms are as common as smartphones. What I am afraid of is people getting violent and committing random acts of violence out of desperation.
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  1848.  @CelyoMatteo-yi4bw  The food was richer, because the atmosphere at the time had more oxygen concentrations than what we have now. My friend is a Pulmonologist, and they have something called oxygen therapy. It is used to increase healing, because high oxygen concentrations can increase cell generation. It is also used to treat COPD.
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  1849.  @TCP147  There are 4 states of matter. Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Let's say, I have a block of ice when I put it in a pot and turn on the gas, it turns into a liquid. That liquid turns into a gas if the temperature gets high enough. If I trap this gas and heat it to a high enough temperature, I can turn it into plasma. The only way I can see people doing something like this is by melting the stone, and reforming it into blocks. If you get stone to a high enough temperature, you can melt stone into lava. You need a enormous amount of energy to turn stone into molten stone, like 600 °C to 1,300 °C or (1,000 °F to 2,400 °F). The melting point of copper is about 1,085 °C or 1,984 °F. The melting point of steel is about 1,371 °C or 2,500 °F. We are talking about stone age people here that didn't have the knowledge of bronze, or iron. Melting a 300 ton block of stone would take a lot of energy. Just imagine trying to melt a 300 ton block of ice. The temperature has to be high enough to melt it, you need some kind of fuel for that. What kind of fuel would these people use? Would they use wood? These people didn't have a blast furnace.
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  1850.  @TCP147  Done arguing with you troll. LOL
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  1851.  @PrinceArthur636  That history is lost to us forever; however, it was preserved through oral legends. You hear folk legends of Atlantis in the West, and Lemuria in the East. There must be an element of truth to it.
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  1852.  @blankjohnson6934  He won't get enough votes to win this time you imbecile, because we know he is a fraud.
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  1853. Simon, the BRICS nations can produce most of the important things that most countries need, like oil, LNG, all kinds of minerals(bauxite to platinum), military equipment + munitions(China/Russia), consumer goods(China), chemical fertilizers(China/Russia), communication equipment(China), automobiles(China/India), all kinds of food stuffs(Russia/India/Brazil), etc. There isn't anything that they need from the West. This idea that the world has to depend on the US dollar to survive is false, the West needs resources from other countries to survive.
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  1854.  @SomeUserNameBlahBlah  I was working in an engineering firm from 2002 to 2006, some of my colleagues made statements, like the Indians can never replace me. I am so special, no one can do what I can do. He ate those words later. The company I worked for, replaced most of the engineers with pseudo engineers using computer programs in India. This smugness that most Americans think they are entitled to is just hilarious. The people in the IT department said no one can replace me, because I am valuable. Most of those jobs got automated out of existence. ROFL
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  1855.  @McVaio  The last CRT monitor that I had was a 17" NEC CRT Monitor rated at 85 hz back in 1997.
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  1856.  @faithford9143  I don't know why people believe this liar and conman. Maybe, people are desperate. Merry Christmas
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  1857. In the US making long term investments isn't done, because it isn't profitable. Investing in education, not profitable. Investing in plants, factories, etc not profitable in the 1st quarter.
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  1858. If your home is paid off, 300k in cash or more, and no debts then you will be alright. If you don't then you are in big trouble in the next four years.
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  1859.  @jazmaj6417  The T-64 has a lot more armor than a Leopard 1, they also have better main guns than the Leopard 1. The only thing the T-64 lacks is thermal optics. If I was in the armed forces, I wouldn't want to be in a Leopard 1. It doesn't take much to knock one out, a BMP-2 can knock it out.
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  1860. This is the world must de dollarize.
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  1861.  @vyor8837  Trump could have gotten money for his wall in 2017 to 2018 when the Republicans had a majority in both houses, but he did not. If these hypocrites really wanted to do something about it, people like Trump would check the legal status of their workers with a computerized system. Trump and his rich Republican donors benefit from the labor of undocumented workers. At the same time, they spew all this hate filled and racist rhetoric against them.
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  1862.  @thomaskim3128  That's how things work in the US. Lobbyists give money to politicians, and big corps make bank. LOL
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  1863. Jimmy Lai is a traitor.
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  1864.  @paulsherman51  I think these changes are going to move faster than most people can adjust to it. Most people are going to be thrown in the deep end of the pool, so they will have to learn how to swim or they will drown. This is the world we live in.
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  1865. China could produce jet engines for military aircraft. The Comac C919 is currently using the LEAP-1C jet engine, but it will be replaced with a Chinese CJ-1000A engine in the future.
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  1866. Chump is a clown, he is a failed businessman, he bankrupted a casino which is something that is hard to do. By charging a 200% tariff on farm equipment will make food in the US more expensive. This clown would decimate the US economy. LOL
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  1867. You can't sanction a country that produces resources everyone needs, like oil, natural gas, coal, palladium, platinum, nitrite based fertilizers, etc.
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  1868. Exactly, tax cuts don't work. I lived through Reaganomics. Trickle down is bullshit.
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  1869. Gothicfan51, Brad Christy is a Joe the plumber type of person, so there it is fruitless to argue with such an idiot. He comes on here and trolls people.
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  1870.  @jeremygibson6063  A gallon of gasoline, regular unleaded is about $4.25/gal.
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  1871.  @jeremygibson6063  Sales taxes are high, like almost 10%, state income tax is about 15%(If you make less than $100k, they will take much less than 15%), and those are the only taxes you have to worry about. Property taxes can be high if you bought your home for $500k to $1 million. The % of that tax is about 1.07%. If you bought your home for $500,000, you will pay about $5350/year. The traffic congestion is also pretty bad in California. I still live in California, because I paid off my home. Once that is paid off, the other expenses really aren't that much.
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  1872.  @jeremygibson6063  The cost of living is what drives people out of California, not taxes. Apartment rent costs about $1500 to $1800 for a one bedroom apartment.
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  1873.  @hyung6999  Wages in China went up from 8000 USD/year(¥56,800/year) to 16,000(¥ 113,600/year)USD/year from 2012 to 2024. There is no indication of that. The Chinese govt will have to implement policies in the future which promote more domestic consumption, because export markets to the West will be limited.
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  1874. The MM makes up stuff, and this is why I don't watch them anymore.
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  1875. You will see plenty of demonstrations in a few days, few weeks, and few months from now. A lot of Chumpkins will try it out when they get Covid-19. LOL
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  1876. Japan's economy had been stalling since 1990, and it really had not recovered. Japanese exports had been losing market share for many years. Back in 1987, Japan was number two in terms of GDP rankings in the world. US Japan China US to Japan GDP Ratio US to China GDP Ratio Growth in the last 38 years 1987 $4.85 trillion $2.85 trillion $0.273 trillion 1 to 1.70 1 to 17.76 0.52 X (Japan) 2024 $29.167 trillion $4.32 trillion $18.273 trillion 1 to 6.75 1 to 1.60 65.93 X (China) Japan's economy only grew 0.52 times in the past 38 years, and China's economy grew 65.93 times in the past 38 years. The US economy grew 5.01 times in the past 38 years. Japan's economy got demolished in 1985 with the Plaza Accord, so that is country that doesn't have much of future. It doesn't have a cutting edge technology, it can't produce products at a competitive price, so it is stagnant. It will be more stagnant in the next 4 years.
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  1877. They are USPS contractors, not USPS employees. You can signup to be a USPS contractor. https://www.uspsoig.gov/contractor-opportunities .
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  1878. Chinese history is very different from Western history. The template for Western Empires is based on the Roman Empire. That is about annexation, and exploitation. China's history is based on trading with other countries. During the Ming Dynasty, you had Chinese ships exploring as far as the coasts of East Africa. The Chinese never went there and colonized anyone.
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  1879. Chump is under IRS audit.
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  1880. America in chump's mind was great in the 1930s.
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  1881. I wonder if the US government will bail out these Wall Street speculators? These people are now going to cry to the media, and say China bad, Chinese bad, and they will be crying foul to the US media. LOL
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  1882. Send him to a Texas prison, he deserves to fed rotten food, and sit in a hot cell without air conditioning.
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  1883. Trump is appealing to his white nationalist supporters, those are his hardcore supporters.
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  1884. If you want to get married and have a family, you have to make at least $150,000/year to have a middle class life that people had back in the 1980s. If you don't make enough money then you cannot have a family, it's as simple as that.
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  1885. Because they make things that people want.
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  1886.  @sagatuppercut2960  Not all Asian students get good grades. I am Chinese, and I knew a lot of other Chinese people in high school. We didn't get all As, I did know one guy who did get all As. Most of us were just average students. I got mostly As and Bs, others got Bs and Cs. I never really studied that much when I was going to high school, and college. My parents were surprised after I graduated university. They thought someone who spends so much time playing video games couldn't graduate college. LOL
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  1887.  @MarioLopez-rn2bs  That is simply not true.
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  1888. Kellyanne Conway is an air head.
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  1889. Mr. Happy Guy, since you have a very low I.Q., let me explain it to you. A ISP is a utility, because it enables you to go on the internet. A website is on the internet, and there are many websites. If one website bans you, it doesn't prevent you from going on the internet. Therefore, it isn't a utility stupid. You can argue that in court, and you will lose. If you don't like Youtube or Facebook go to another website. Go make your own website.
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  1890. Trump is a moron and a deceiver. His diehard supporters are gullible.
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  1891. Trump Airlines was overpriced, so not many people wanted to fly it. Trump steak isn't that great, so not many people ate it. It is simple, Trump believes he can put his name on something and charge outrageous prices. Meaning what he was selling was a rip off.
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  1892. How many of those elite Ukrainian units exist after this battle? LOL
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  1893.  @karinbackstrom9556  Donald is a foolish old man, he needs to resign before he sends the global economy into a depression.
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  1894. A lot of people who become illegal immigrants fly over here, and they over stay their visa. Then, they become undocumented or illegal. That border wall is too damn long, people can find a weak point anywhere along the 1951 miles of the US Mexico border. They can dig a tunnels like they did in San Diego, or breach the weakest point in the wall and get threw. This wall would have to be maintained every single year, like all infrastructure projects. Donald Trump just wants to pick on Mexicans and Central Americans, because his racist base doesn't like em. He is catering to his uneducated, ignorant, xenophobic, and racist base. This is why Trump said, we have fine people on both sides in the Charlottesville, Va Unit the Right Rally. Neo Nazis, KKK, and other racist types are fine people according to Trumpo. LOL
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  1895. Gold definitely has real value.
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  1896.  @nox5555  The U S couldn't beat sandal wearing insurgents from Vietnam or pajama wearing insurgents from Iraq or Afghanistan. What makes you think this time is any different?
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  1897.  @welsonma3911  What a lot of hollow words. The U S is a declining power.
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  1898. This looks like a scene from the Great Depression in the 1930s, it looks like a Hooverville.
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  1899. @Hazmat Geiger you have more opportunities here than living in most countries around the globe. A lot of people in the West get themselves into trouble with playing with debt. People living beyond their means, buying a more expensive car they fiance, getting mortgages for homes that are beyond their budgets, getting loans for expensive universities with easy majors, etc. You just have to make the right choices to make it. As for me, I don't have a wife or kids. I have zero debt, my home is paid off, no college debt, no car loans, no credit card debts, or any other debts. If you marry the wrong person, and if they have refuse to live with in their means it leads to all kind of problems. My ex girlfriend thought it was more important to buy a expensive purse than to get her car maintained. Getting her hair done, and going shopping was more important than paying her bills. As a result of trying to please their spouses, some men get home equity loans out of their homes to do this. Others try to keep up with the Jones, and buy things they can't afford with credit(debt). This is the world we live in. A world with finite resources, and infinite wants. People who envy others, because they have more and trying to emulate that fake reality.
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  1900.  @noidontlikeu  Once you fall into the cracks, it is almost impossible to get out of it.
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  1901.  @tomassandoval2805  that maybe true if you are one of the lucky people who are still employed. With these machines, one man can do the work of 50 people.
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  1902.  @jaytea1591  Yep, I wouldn't have voted for Ralph Nader if he was on the ballet.
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  1903. Justin Abramson, that protest in London with that baby Trump balloon sums up what Trump is.
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  1904. WarWolf 1, we know Trump is a con man, and a liar. We should give a new name, like he gave names to other people, like lying Ted, Crooked Hillary, etc. We can call Trump backtrack Trump.
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  1905. The democrat party is an inept party. We need a new party.
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  1906. @woodliceworm4565  They buy everything they need directly from the source. If they need coffee, cocoa, oil, cadmium, zinc, etc. They go directly to the country where it is produced, and buy it. This way, there is no middleman. They can get a deal by buying it in bulk in long term contracts. If you have access to energy and resources at low prices then you have less inflation in the economy.
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  1907. Except, he became president of the USA which makes it even worse.
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  1908. This crisis can be averted if Mueller finds something and throws Trump in prison.
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  1909. What a joke. More taxpayers money going into scam funds that will not do anything but siphon money from the public, like the Inflation Reduction Act, Build Back Better, or other gimmicks that never materialized. LOL
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  1910. China can still make the low end ARM RISC chips, and they can produce CISC processor it is called the Zhaoxin. The Zhaoxin isn't as good as Intel or AMD, but they still have the technology and license to produce a X86/X64 based chip. They are producing the Zhaoxin Yongfeng KH-40000 which uses the 16 nm process. Without advanced EUV machines, Zhaoxin will have some problems mass producing 5 nm process chips. We shall see if China can develop their own EUV machines to produce more advanced chips.
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  1911. The US is violating the One China Policy which it recognized in 1978. US foreign policy is very duplicitous.
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  1912. What evidence?
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  1913. Kind of like what Apple is doing. Since we made it, we are the only ones allowed to fix it. LOL
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  1914. @user-mu4cz6hc8s You are right on all accounts. Unfortunately, we have a dumbed down population, who don't understand what is really going on. I was thinking about leaving the U S, and my father called me an idiot. He said, this is the best country on the planet, so why would you want to live anywhere else? The quality of life has gone down a lot in the US in the past 50 years. When you go to the part to relax, you see homeless people taking drugs. You see homeless people laying in the streets, camping near a bus stop, sleeping near the library, etc. Crime is so rampant, people just load up a shopping cart and walk out without paying for it. What kind of quality of life is this?
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  1915. It is Jun, and it still isn't gone. I just want chump gone next year.
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  1916.  @TacticalMayo  What's that? Your mom's name?
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  1917.  @rockycomet4587  Mr. Magatard. Your strong leader Trump delayed the trade war against China, because the Dow Jones went down for a few days? What the hell is wrong with your strong leader? When people hit back, he can't seem to take it. Just like when China struck back with tariffs against US agricultural goods. He was using Twitter and crying to his base that China is hurting the farmers. Hey, he is the one who started it. If you want war, go through it, be a man, stop acting like a child. In real war, if you shoot at your enemy with your assault rifle, they will throw a hand grenade at you, you can call in a mortar barrage, and they will call in close air support, etc. When it happens, you don't go complain about it, like the big baby Trump.
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  1918. We all need one to defend ourselves against barbarism.
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  1919. Nothing happened.
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  1920. If you live in the US, you aren't going to get out of the dollar. You have to pay your taxes in dollars, you have to pay your bills in dollars, and you have to buy things in dollars. As for the other countries, they can get out of the dollar if their leaders choose to, and you cannot do anything about it. If other countries want to form alliances with each other to trade with each other, they can. The fact is, the less influence the dollar has will affect people who are living in the USA. If less and less people are buying US debt then interest rates will go up, and inflation will also keep going up. That's it. If you have something to hedge against inflation, like precious metals, and real estate then good for you. If you don't have assets that appreciate with the inflation then you are going to have a tough time. That's it.
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  1921. Good news, I wonder if chump will survive it. He is 74 years old, and obese. He said the Chinnnnah Virus was just like the flu. Let's see if that is true or not. LOL
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  1922. The innocent always suffer, and evil people get away with it. This is the world we live in.
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  1923. This cult is loosely based on the cult of pastor Moon. Pastor Moon's cult was based on Jim Jones's model, and this one is based on guns and right wing politics.
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  1924. You need to go out more.
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  1925. He's a good kid, but he is very naive. For me, I was taught by my father to never get involved. My background is from a upper class family, so my father worked for big corporations as a director. He told me that getting yourself in stuff that is none of your business. He didn't teach me about doing the right thing, it was more about you have to survive and care about yourself.
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  1926. I don't think he will. He will use his retarded supporters to stay in power as long as possible, because those are the only people he can rely on.
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  1927.  @Member00101  The same clueless people thought they could beat Russia?
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  1928.  @johnsmith1474  OK BOOMER.
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  1929. Chump is a tax cheat.
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  1930.  @geoffreyzhao4378  In the broken country I live under, rationalism, common sense, and sanity don't exist anymore. I don't think the politicians care about the people, or the people's livelihoods. These clowns in power just want to score political points, but if they really did do something insane, like impose a 100% tariff on all Chinese imports, limit refining capacity, or force people to buy expensive EVs made in the US. I don't think the people in the US will be silent anymore. Once you make it impossible for people to make a living then its obvious what will happen next. Happened every time in history when empires over extended and taxed their people heavily. The US is no different to the other empires that don't exist anymore.
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  1931.  @fairryalp.-de5qb  BYD's plant in Mexico got cancelled. Never the less, BYD has a car plant in Brazil.
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  1932. A patriot missile costs $4 million a piece. A Russian cruise missile costs about $1 million, so you do the math.
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  1933. That is because Trump is a criminal.
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  1934. That is why Mr. Trump never showed his tax returns.
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  1935. At least we know who pulls the strings in our government.
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  1936. Poor Finian, if the Trump and the Republicans do that, they will increase the national deficit to a record high. As a result, interest rates will spike, and the rest of the economy will suffer for it. Then, Trump will blame the Federal Reserve Banking system, and say things like the Federal Reserve Bank is not being fair to me. Just like how he complains about the media not being fair to him. The Federal Reserve Bank's job is to adjust interest rates to stop runaway inflation and deflation. Donald Trump is blaming the media for reporting the news which they are suppose to do. The mainstream media is doing their job, and Trump doesn't like them because they are reporting the facts about him. Trump complains about the F.B.I. investigation, because it is directed toward him. This is why Trump is just a big baby, if he does not get his way he whines about it. You can't just do whatever you want with the monetary policy of a country and not expect consequences for those actions. Bailing out farmers by buying their excess production of goods will be a total waste of money. Agricultural goods have a expiration date, and people can eat so much food in a given amount of time. If the government bought the farmers crops and sold it to the open market, it will cause the price of farm products to drop.This will make it worse for farmers.
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  1937.  @bmanagement4657  There is no inflation problem in China. The price of food actually went down there.
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  1938. I guess, all these commercial buildings will have to be demolished, and apartment buildings have to be built on top of it. This is in a period of high inflation in the US, so it will cost a lot of money to build new apartment buildings. When these buildings are put up, the price of rent will be very high, and it will be out of reach of most people.
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  1939.  @senorverde09  I don't think the Commodore 64 or the Commodore Amiga ever became business computers. Business computers were IBMs and IBM compatible computers back in the 1980s.
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  1940. What will happens when they run out of 155 mm cluster munitions? Will they send tactical nuclear weapons?
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  1941. This is why you need to study computer science and engineering folks.
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  1942.  @elultimosonador3958  Most Americans don't have $500 in emergency savings. A lot of these chumps will realize they had been screwed by this conman.
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  1943. Trump committed bank fraud, this is a serious crime. He borrowed money from a bank to pay a prostitute. I thought Mr. Trump was a billionaire????? He couldn't pay her with his own money?????
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  1944. When the bubbles pop, you will see a lot of paupers.
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  1945. That means Trump is dumber than 7th graders. LOL
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  1946. Ivar Hagen, I don't think someone who is a welfare queen can be a Trump supporter. She just didn't like Mexicans. All minorities don't get along with each other. You have conflicts in Los Angeles, like Mexican and black conflicts, black and Korean conflicts, black and Jewish conflicts, white and black conflicts, white and Mexican conflicts, etc.
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  1947. A lot of those angry working class white men voted for Trump expecting some kind of change, because Trump told them what they wanted to hear. Looks like Trump turned out to be a conman after all. Now, they will vote Trump out.
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  1948. An arms industry that can't produce weapons, but sells small amounts of weapons at inflated prices. LOL
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  1949. This is what happens to an empire when it is declining. Just read about the history of any empire in the last 2000 years.
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  1950. In China, you have 600,000 engineering graduates in a year, and in the USA you have 70,000 to 100,000 engineering graduates in a year. In Russia, you have about 500,000 engineering graduates a year. A country's technological progress depends on the number of scientists and engineers you have in the country. The educational system in the US really sucks when it comes to proficiency in math and science. When I was going to university back in the mid 1990s, I took a lot of advanced math and science courses, like Physics, Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Number Theory, Chemistry, engineering courses about thermal dynamics, etc. There really weren't that many people taking those courses, and most of the people in those classes were foreigners. I saw people from Taiwan, China, Eastern European countries(Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republics, etc), etc. I didn't see many Americans in those classes.
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  1951.  @bigbasil1908  That's why the Ukraine can't blockade any Russian ports. You have to have a decent navy to do that.
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  1952. Mike C, you believe the whole system is Satanic and corrupt. You believe in this New World Conspiracy bullshit, so you believe that. I am a realistic, I don't live in my mom's basement listening to Alex Jones. I have a real profession with a real university degree, and I do real things. With my skills I make real money working in a real corporation.
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  1953. The developing world is waking up that they have power, they no longer have to sell their resources for rock bottom prices. There is an alternative, they can turn to PRC for real assistance. The PRC will help them industrialize, so they can get more for their resources. This is why you are having these problems in the collective west.
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  1954.  @mudshovel289  Yes, I know that happened, and everyone that knows about Chinese history knows that. So what? Every country had an imperial past. We are talking about modern China from 1949 to the present. What has China done from 1949 to 2024, was China a imperialist country from that timeline?
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  1955. Krooksbane, Brad Christy is proud of the fact that he didn't graduate from college, and he calls college graduates stupid. There is no point in arguing with an idiot like that.
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  1956. Krooksbane, I am insulting him, because he is coming on this channel and bragging about what a successful business man he is. He stated that he makes $60,000 a year and $100,000 in his business. He is coming here and trolling every popular comment. There is no point trying to have an honest discussion with this troll.
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  1957. Who knows how high gold can go, it will be much higher than what it is now. I can bet that the price of a median home will be over a million bucks. The Dow would be over 80,000+. The price of everything would double or quadruple from what it is now. In a world like that, I can see gold go up. I can't say what the number will be, but it will be a very high number for sure.
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  1958. That's good, China has a lot of things the world wants, and EVs are one of them.
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  1959. I don't think Russians will be crying about this. If I was a Ukrainian, I would be worried about the Russian response from this.
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  1960. Libertarians are fascists.
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  1961.  @lktan224  South Korea has US soldiers on it.
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  1962.  @northrockboy  Isn't that what they are doing in those countries Kevin mentioned?
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  1963.  @capnkirk5528  Most farmers in the US don't have a choice.
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  1964. The government does employ a great many people, and you can find a government job. You can join the armed forces, the Pentagon is still hiring. This one branch of the government you can anyways find employment in.
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  1965. The Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in 455 C.E., but the eastern half remained solvent until 1453.
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  1966. You can find other government jobs. You can be a social worker, engineer, inspector, web developer, etc. People can be hired to do all kinds of work for the Federal government.
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  1967. That is a big problem. The workers are stuck between a rock and a hard place for sure.
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  1968. MrHigherplane Sure Homer SIMPson. LoL
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  1969. Tomato Pa This is why Republicans get elected, they lie to their Joe the Plumber audience and they believe it. They believe in reptilian people, conspiracy theories about Jewish bankers, UFOs, Satan, demons, the world is 6000 years old, and other fairytale stories.
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  1970. MrHigherplane You just proved my point Joe the plumber type person.
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  1971. Sessions is a evil racist little elf. LOL
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  1972.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  China will be the manufacturing hub, and Russia will provide stuff, like defense products. The other states will provide natural resources.
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  1973. Chump will sue big tech and lose again. LOL
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  1974.  @nyquil762  When you have institutional investors from Wall Street funding these Wall Street listed corporations, like Amazon, Best Buys, Target, CVS, Walgreens, etc, they could sell their products at cost or sometimes even below cost. This helped them destroy most of the small and medium sized businesses. It is like what Uber and Lyft did to the Taxi industry. Many of these independently owned Taxi companies went under. Uber and Lyft got money from Wall Street investors to offer very cheap services. As a result, a lot of these taxi companies went under. Now that Uber and Lyft have near monopolies, they screw the people that drive for them by increasing their percentage of what they take from the driver, and they charge the passengers more for their services. This is the same stuff big companies did back in the late 1800s. Hence, they were called ROBBER BARONS.
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  1975.  @stephentan7881  Competition is always a good thing.
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  1976. I am a introvert and a loner. I am about 46 years old, and I never thought of harming people. I am divorced, and I have been living alone for 18 years. The difference between me and Crimo is, I did everything I had to do, and I am not a snowflake.
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  1977. Government fees had been going up in the past 5 years, so that does make sense.
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  1978. That is it, and we will punish him and his enablers when he leaves next year.
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  1979. The US Empire is crumbling, and the vultures are coming to take everything. After it is all said and done, muricans will be living in a third world country. Many industries will return when the standard of living gets low enough. I can imagine, people making 50 bucks an hour working 12 to 14 hours a day in a factory. However, gasoline would cost 20 bucks, a hamburger would cost 30 bucks, and the purchasing power would be much lower than it is now.
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  1980. If that happened, he would be sending 1000 Tweets an hour.
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  1981. You mean vote Trump out?
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  1982. Wow, you accurately predicted these events before it even happened.
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  1983.  @glen6945  A lot of these right wing channels and conspiracy theory channels are peddling a lot of nonsense. It is ironic how a lot of these right wing conspiracy channels have listeners who are poor people, yet most of the speaking points are squarely against their interests. It is just funny how many ignorant and uneducated people we have in this country. Some of these right wing conspiracy channel promote things, like flat earth, the moon landing never happened, reptilian people exist, bankers are conspiring to take over the world, science can't be believed, and other nonsense. Thanks to the Republicans who were largely responsible for defunding public education, we have masses of ignorant fools who will believe any lie out there. Also, there are those who make a lot of money from these foolish people as well.
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  1984. We will be living in a multi-polar world. The US dollar didn't have competition before, but now it has real competition. Can you buy stuff with Russian Rubles, Chinese Yuan, or Indian Rupees? Yes, you can buy stuff with it, because those countries produce stuff that other countries need and want. If you want to buy oil, LNG, palladium, lumber, agricultural goods, nitrite based fertilizers, Su-27 jets, parts for combat aircraft, radars, etc you can buy it from Russia with Russian Rubles. If you want to buy clothing, electronic components, electronics , computing devices, ships, toys, refined petroleum products, monitors, televisions, electric vehicles, automobiles, parts for automobiles, etc you can buy it from China with Chinese Yuan. If you want to buy ingredients for medications, spices, sugar, jewelry, agricultural goods, refined petroleum products, granite, etc you can buy it from India with Indian Rupees. If you want to buy crude oil, iron ore, sugar, animal feed, beef, chicken, and other agricultural goods you can buy it from Brazil with Brazilian Reals. As more countries join the BRICS union, the less they will need the US dollar. Will the US dollar be used? It will, but less of it will be used which will lead to more inflation in the US.
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  1985. Zelensky was a comedian before the war. He used to play the piano with his peter.
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  1986.  @thevorpalone1045  If we want America to be a progressive nation, we need to repeal the electoral college. It gives too much power to ignorant hicks, they are the ones who voted this clown into office.
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  1987. We are headed towards a great depression. My younger brother lost his job last year. His wife is still working, but he isn't. He, his wife, and his child are living with me. I retired, and I am not married. This is why this can happen. If I had a wife it wouldn't happen.
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  1988. He wants the country 1890s again. No labor rights, no civil rights, no minimum wage, no child labor laws, no regulations, no social welfare programs, etc.
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  1989. Tom Neave, they will change their minds when they get directly affected by Trump's retarded policies.
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  1990. Miragexl007, you must have graduated from Trump university, or ITT tech. LOL
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  1991. Lana2k6, that was the result of Bush's policies. Obama took over a economy that was in a severe recession.
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  1992.  @markdowse3572  Nope.
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  1993.  @zero1action27  China has never invaded Japan, but Japan did invade China.
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  1994.  @Thoughtcaster-six  Mao developed Pinyin which made Chinese easier to learn, and all the policies the CPC made helped turn China into the country that it is.
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  1995. He is in another country, so people are curious.
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  1996.  @blackolantern5666  Those people in the video were in a rural part of China.
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  1997. Wouldn't it be better to let these white farmers stay, and just charge them high taxes?
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  1998. This means more inexpensive exports from China. You can buy directly from websites from China to get the savings, instead of giving to retailers.
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  1999. Better yet, vote Moscow Mitch out of office.
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  2000. If I manufacture computers, now that I have to buy more expensive steel for my cases, I have to sell these computers at a higher price. You're being very selfish, because now we all have to pay higher prices for everything from a can of coke to a airplane.
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  2001. What about the farmers who exports corn, meat products, rice, soybeans, and other agricultural goods to places, like China? Their goods will be hit with tariffs by the Chinese, so it affects people who are working in agribusiness.
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  2002. Not every American works in the steel or coal industry. Others of us work in industries that are dependent on international trade.
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  2003. China isn't the only country importing aluminum, and steel. You have Japan, South Korea, European Union, India, Taiwan, Ukraine, Brazil, Turkey, and others that produce steel and import it to the U.S.A.. China is the largest producer of steel, but if the manufacturers who use steel can't find a cheaper source of steel they will just jack up the prices of good. As a result, Dr. Trump is subsidizing the U.S. steel industry at the expense of American businesses that use these resources and the U.S. consumer who will be negatively affected by this.
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  2004. I really don't give a fuck if the Chinese stole your copyright, you did business with them and you got screwed. Fuck you.
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  2005. That isn't what I said stupid. Boeing hires about 137,000 people, and they make passenger jets. Most of their orders come from China, and China is their biggest customer. Boeing hires more people than the steel and aluminum industries in the USA. You telling me shit for brains, if a trade war is stared with China and other countries. That isn't going to affect the people who are employed at Boeing? What the other orders for military aircraft. South Korea bought about 50 F-15 fighters for about $100 million a piece. Saudi Arabia buys a lot of F-15s from the USA, and other aircraft. You telling me, we need to sacrifice other industries which hire millions of people, so we can subsidize an industry that hires about 130,000 people?????? You are a fucking stupid Trump supporter.
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  2006. What about the other armaments in these military aircraft sold to our allies? One AIM-120 radar guided missile costs about $120,000. Those are armaments our allies buy from us along with the multi-million dollar aircraft we sell to them. Not to mention the parts we sell to them for those aircraft. What about cars? The price of cars are going to go up as a result of Trump's retarded policies? How many people are hired by the automotive industry? You have the people who sell the cars, the banks that finance the loans for the cars, the people who manufacture those vehicles, etc. That industry alone hires more people than your precious piece of shit aluminum and steel industries. This is why most Republicans and Democrats support his retarded trade policies. I hope that Drumpf gets impeached soon, he need to go. I hope Mueller reaches a conclusion and throws his orange haired man in a orange jump suit!!!
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  2007. Let me get something clear..... You are doing business in China, so you could get away from paying taxes in the U.S.. You care about your fellow Americans. LOL You're the hypocrite and liar. You believe starting a trade war is going to help Americans? You're one stupid fuck. Manufacturing jobs can be sacrificed if it would benefit the rest of the country. I live on West Coast of the USA, and most of the industries we have are either aerospace, computer technology, export/import oriented, medical, robotics, real estate, etc. It would affect us badly. Most of those so called manufacturing jobs in China are going to other countries, like Vietnam, India, and other countries where labor is less expensive. Those manufacturing jobs are shit jobs. I don't care of manufacturing jobs, you can find better jobs now. Learn computer programming, and you can get a job that pays $35/hr or more. If you're too stupid to learn it, it is your own damn fault. Learn about computer technology, and you will find a better paying job than working in some factory. You can study and take an exam to be a real estate salesman or a real estate broker. You will make more money than working in a factory.
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  2008. You believe in trickle down economics?? That's bullshit. I lived through Reaganomics and trickle down. It didn't work. Stop lying.
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  2009.  @araonna  You have first hand experience, so you can see what a crumbling society looks like.
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  2010.  @cent-ns1lm  Oil from Iran and Russia aren't traded in dollar based world markets. Oil prices in Iran and Russia is much lower than oil from US exchanges.
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  2011.  @robocop581  I live by myself.
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  2012.  @PhiloSurfer  Exactly.
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  2013.  @112313  The relationship between China and the nomads changed many times Chinese history. The power dynamics would flip. The Han Dynasty won the Sino–Xiongnu War.
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  2014.  @jermainemyrn19  that is the very definition of temporary work.
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  2015. She is lying.
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  2016.  Wado Waleli  It is a pity so many people in the USA aren't well educated, and they listen to such propaganda and believe it. Good luck man.
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  2017.  @wesleygordon1645  Us left wingers aren't self destructive. This is why we pursue higher education, and become engineers, computer scientists, professors, and try to be productive citizens. On the other hand, right wingers have to believe in things, like chump, religion, and other BS. YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE in BS. People who pursue higher education don't have to BELIEVE. We just to know things.
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  2018.  @italythroughmyeyes  Sorry to hear about your husband. Living in this economy, you really cannot expect any kind of stability. If you expect a stable and happy life, you will get disappointed. For me, I grew up with change, and pretty much witnessed it when I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. When people fail in business, or lose their jobs. People fall into despair, and they turn to drugs or alcohol. They become self destructive. The pace of change in the last 40 years has been rapid. From the 1980s, we had a lot of good jobs get automated out of existence with programmable machines. We had a lot of deregulation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 with Reaganomics. This caused big businesses to grow bigger, and a lot of small and medium sized businesses got decimated. In the 1990s to the 2000s, we moved to a service oriented economy with a lot of Mc jobs. From 2009 to the present we have the era of the Gig economy. People get paid very low rates to be independent contractors with smartphone apps. To make it these days, you have to be pretty multi-faceted. I work 3 part time jobs, 1 as a computer technician, another one as a software developer, and the 3rd as a electronic file clerk. I also do a lot of things on the side, like selling stuff on Ebay/Amazon/Craigslist, doing affiliate stuff, making websites for people, selling computers + computer services, etc. Even by doing all this, I am just getting by. I guess, the more education and skills will make your life easier, but for people who don't will have a very difficult time. I am about 44, but I have to constantly learn new things. I need to learn new programming languages, I need to learn about the new computer technology that is out there, I need to learn about different operating systems, learn about single board computers, learn about new types of micro controllers, learn about the economy, etc. This is why you have so many dysfunctional families, and substance abuse these days. The difficulty of trying to make ends meet is so much harder now then it was compared to 50 years ago.
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  2019.  @doloresreynolds8145  Militant Kane is a troll, it is best to ignore people like that. Having a dialogue with people like that is totally meaningless.
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  2020.  @doloresreynolds8145  I know the Republicans don't care about the people, they only care about big businesses that line their pockets. I don't understand why the people keep voting in Republicans when they don't give a damn about em.
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  2021. I would have to say your videos report the real news, it's very objective.
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  2022.  @spaceantelope1  The reason why land prices are high in blue states is because we most of the good jobs.
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  2023.  @glennlongoria9952  The ideas of chumpkindom are outdated, like going back to the 1950s or some other bullshit. This is 2020, and if you don't have skills that are required in the 21st century, you will be left behind. Most trumpkins want to look back in time when we didn't computers that automated jobs away. We been automating jobs away for the past 45 years. Of course, the standard of living for most working class Americans have greatly diminished. We are going to return to sanity next year with Joe Biden being our president, and it will return to the status quo. There isn't anything you can do about it.
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  2024.  @blackworldtraveler3711  Property tax and HOI goes up with property values. I bought my home for about $120k in 1997, and today that same home costs $665k.
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  2025. @ Property tax is a percentage of the value of your property, like 1% to 2%. Property tax for a $120k home is about $1,200/year, and HOI is based on the value of the home. For a $120k home, the HOI is about $1,000/year. For a $650k/year, 1% of that is $6,500/year, and the HOI is about $4,500 to $5,000/year.
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  2026. He is just talking a lot bs. LOL
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  2027. Vehicles are things people need, this is not optional. Servicing your car will cost more. Interest rates are higher, so financing one will cost more. People will have less disposable income which will make the economy worse.
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  2028.  @fomori2  If you don't have a lot of education or skills then you don't have a lot of choices. When I was a university student back in the mid 1990s, I took crappy jobs, like working at super markets, McDonald's, a customer service company, etc. I can tell you that it was crappy. After you get a university degree, and some skills life does get better.
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  2029.  @fomori2  It isn't like people have any other choices. In the USA, we don't have a good welfare system. If you don't find any work even if it is crappy work then there is very little the government can do for you. This is why we have so many homeless people in the streets of America.
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  2030.  @fomori2  The system is definitely broken, and it is a race to the bottom. If workers don't have protections then they will be exploited like they had been for the past 30 years.
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  2031. It is socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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  2032. Economic stress is what causes substance abuse.
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  2033. Chump is a dummy.
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  2034.  @Lu-MingPan-b5w  I am a afraid you're right. I guess, this country isn't going to be number one anymore.
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  2035.  @Lu-MingPan-b5w  All I can say is, it feels more and more like living in a 3rd world country living in the US now.
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  2036. Resources, like oil is more important than money created out of thin air. There is no substitute for oil, but there is a substitute for currencies. Countries can use their own currencies to conduct trade, or use gold to trade with each other. There is no need to use Western currencies. We all need oil to survive, we need it to grow our food(farm machinery), transport goods, go to work, travel, etc. The arrogance of the West will be their undoing.
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  2037. If I was in a grand jury, I would say Mr. Penny is 100% innocent.
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  2038. Chump is that filthy.
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  2039.  @kgyapper  I have friends, but I don't want to live with another person male or female.
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  2040. You need a FFL license to sell weapons, and he didn't have it. That's why he was arrested.
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  2041. Now we know why Nato and the US are sending armored vehicles, like M2 Bradley AIFVs, Challenger 2 MBTs, M1A2 MBTs, and Leopard 2 MBTs. If Ukraine was doing so well then they wouldn't need this kind of support. Former Warsaw Pact countries in Eastern Europe sent hundreds of T-72 variants to the Ukraine already, so I can safely assume most of those were destroyed or heavily damaged. They are also running out of parts for those vehicles. Without maintenance, you can't keep tanks and armored vehicles in working condition.
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  2042. Hilbert's Inn, they are not a fad. I am not that young, I am about 42, and I lived through the technological transitions. First used Apple II based systems in the early 1980s, used computers that didn't have graphical user interfaces, used Dos and Unix based computers with no GUIs(graphical user interfaces). Computers have caused a lot of disruptions in the 1980s. Programmable robots replaced hundreds of thousands of automotive workers in the 1980s. Most of the factories in the USA are highly automated, they employ a fraction of the people they employed compared to the 1950s. I work in the computer field, I program devices, computers, controllers, etc. I setup servers, setup the network for offices, etc. Computers are a integral part of the modern world. Information can be accessed in seconds. No need for physical file cabinets. All the information can be accessed in a centralized location or on a cloud network. No need to remember file locations, everything can be sent with a computer entry on a menu. I understand why a lot of older people are against it. It is all a progression of technology. From clay tablets and stylus, paper and ink, printing press, punch card based storage, and magnetic storage devices and programmable computers. Each innovation being more efficient and effective than the last. The computers, work stations, and servers aren't a fad. They are a integral part of everything now. For example, a nuclear power plant is highly computerized. The traffic network is also computerized. The power grid is computerized. The water infrastructure, like the pumping stations are computerized. Factories and manufacturing plants are computerized and automated. People using smartphones is not fad, it is actually practical. The smartphone is a communication device to call people, text, and check my emails. It is also video camera, and a digital camera. It is a memo pad. It is a GPS device when I enable navigation. It has internet capability, so I can search for the nearest hotel if I need it. A fad is something like Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, a thing that doesn't have much utility which is speculated. Something that has utility is not a fad.
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  2043. Trump is responsible for these violent incidents, because of his rhetoric.
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  2044. It's called capitalism. The people with a lot of money are allowed to buy up assets and drive up the price of those assets. Local governments can make laws to prevent it, like spiking up the property tax for people who own two homes or more. Let's say a property tax of 20% for people who own more than 2 homes.
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  2045. China needs to be more energy independent!
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  2046. No, China's industrial capacity is the key to China's success. We can produce more things than Endia.
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  2047. Rabishankar Pal, it is almost impossible to boycott a vulture capitalist firm, because they don't anything of value. We cannot boycott them in anyways, but we can make laws to companies that exist solely for the purpose of conducting leveraged buyouts. They buy firms that are having some financial difficulties or in distress, they load them up with debt while selling off all their real assets. Add more debt to the company until they max out the debts then they declare bankruptcy. This kind of stuff should be illegal, because the vulture capitalist firm committed bank fraud. Why? Because it was their intention to run the company into the ground, and borrow tons of money from the bank. It is different from a legitimate company borrowing money to invest in the company which can benefit the company. Instead, all the money goes into the pocket of these crooks who looted the company and turned it into an empty shell.
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  2048. I did that to insult him. MEAT ROMNEY. LOL
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  2049. I got it from a Simpson's episode. Broccoli Obama or Meat Romney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltCIEbLMaQg
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  2050. No he is not. He is point out that tariffs will lead to a net loss of jobs. If manufacturing does return here, most of it will not use blue collared workers without college degrees. It will use highly skilled people with college/university degrees who know how to program, and with engineering degrees. One skilled worker can replace 50 unskilled blue collared workers.
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  2051. Aircraft Carriers work against opponents non peer to peer opponents. It doesn't work against countries that have similar or better capabilities. The defense system from Aegis destroyers can defend against conventional missiles, but they will not work against hypersonics. Even if you use conventional missiles, you can simply overwhelm any air defense if you launch a large number of them. You can keep launching until your opponents run out of munitions.
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  2052.  @UneducatedEconomist  Manufacturing is comparable to a low end job, like working in a fast food, or retail job. You can say, it is a introductory job. The point of luring manufacturing jobs in underdeveloped countries is to learn the technology. After that, you can develop your own technology. For example, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, South Korea, Taiwan, were all in the same place China was in 50 to 73 years ago. The point is to be able to learn the core technologies, and control the higher end of the manufacturing supply chain. For example, being able to develop jet engines, high microprocessors, the chemicals used to process semi-conductors, metallurgical technologies, etc. After that, you have capital investments from labor intensive investments. Then, you have a consumer based economy. That's the goal. It isn't to be a low end manufacturing country till the end of time.
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  2053. I grew up watching those movies, and I didn't think it was freaky.
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  2054. You got that right, they don't have anyone to blame but themselves. These whiny kids need to take responsibility for their actions.
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  2055. You millennials don't have to buy the homes, foreign investors and hedge funds are buying it up.
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  2056. Casey Sasaki Capitalism and automation technology aren't compatible. Capitalism requires people to be owners of capitol, and the people who are employed under them to be units of labor. The people who control the existing system will not willingly relinquish their power. They will come up with some hair brain schemes. They already made the legislation to lock people up for causing subversion and rebellion, like the Patriot Acts, National Defense Authorization Acts, etc. These people will setup a quasi-socialist system where the people who can't find jobs will get enough to eat, and setup a healthcare system which will make it impossible for the poor to get any medical care. Like Obamacare where the people under the silver and bronze plan has $5000 in deductibles. This means, they have to pay $5000 before their insurance starts to cover them. People who are unemployed or people who live paycheck by paycheck don't have much money. This means, they will be denied care, it is just a rip off. If they can't care then they will die off.
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  2057. Don't be a criminal then you won't be a slave to the state.
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  2058. Pay your bills, and you will get your water.
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  2059. ***** Go tell that to the judge. In the real world, there are real laws, and there are real consequences for breaking those laws.
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  2060. That black guy acted like idiot, because the police can ask for anyone's I.D..
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  2061. This is where you are wrong. A Federal judge declared that is is perfectly okay to levy a tax on the sale of every gun. The governor of the Mariana Islands tried to ban handguns, and he failed. So, he came out with another idea, he came out with a $1000 tax per handgun bill. It passed, and the Federal judge said it is CONSTITUTIONAL!
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  2062. It is brainwashing like what Rev. Jim Jones was doing. Those two are similar in that they actually built up a economic base to support themselves.
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  2063. ***** The only thing that was lacking in the Amiga 500 was the 8 bit sound. Other than that, it had great graphics. The animation on the games was choppy on flight simulators.
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  2064. Computer technology changed a lot from 1988 to 1999. That is when you had big changes. In 1988, the average person would have a Intel 80286 12 mhzs computer, and in 1999 a Pentium 3 500 or 800 mhz was the norm. From 1989 to 1999, I had the 80386 sx-16, Pentium 100, Pentium 166 MMX, AMD K6-2 350, AMD K6-3 450, Celeron 400A, Pentium 2 400, Pentium 3 550, and a Pentium 3 800. I went through more computers in the 1990s than any other time. From 2000 to 2005, I had the Pentium 4 1.8, Pentium 4 3.0D, & AMD Athlon 64 3200+. From 2009 to the present, I had the Intel I7-960, Regor 245, Phenom II 945, I7-3570k, and I7-4790. I went through more computers in the 1990s than I did during the last 17 years.
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  2065. tripletwentyy If you kept your home from 2003 to 2015, it would still be worth more than when you bought silver at $50/oz. Silver lost 71% of its value. If you bought a home in 2007 for let's say $500,000, it is worth about $480,000 today. You would have only lost 4% vs. 71% listening to Peter Schiff poor advice. If you would have invested in the Chinese economy when Peter recommended it to you in 2009, YOU WOULD UNDER WATER NOW. Good advice my ASS.
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  2066. Espeonage the Espeon Spy Ok, great.
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  2067. You must be a Republican fascist, so this is why you are defending civil forfeiture.
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  2068. Portable computers still have less power than a comparable desktop. The only reason why laptops are cheap now are because of the availability of LCD screens. This occurred around 2000 to 2004; at that time, LCD monitors became very cheap after Samsung started to mass produce these things.
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  2069. A laptop that comes with a Geforce 980M with a Intel I7 4980HQ costs almost $3800+tax or $4151 with tax. A laptop with that kind of graphics card and GPU can beat a lot of desktop systems, but it costs too much.
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  2070. I owned businesses in the past. As long as you have a product that sells, a distribution network, and a customer base, you can make steady income without debt. If you have a steady revenue, you can budget accordingly. I sold alcohol, tobacco, sodas, gum, candy, coffee, computers, guns, etc. It is better to have a job when the economy isn't good. I work for others in the computer field. I write software, I build computers, I repair computers, I setup networks, I solve all kinds of computer problems, I scan documents, etc. Nothing wrong with working for others. Doesn't mean you are a slave. Maybe, you don't understand economics. I studied both macro and micro economics when I was going to university about 22 years ago. If you print money without creating products and services to back up that money, you will have inflation, like Zimbabwe. Professor Wolff is a educated person, you should listen to him. You want a Communist Revolution?
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  2071. We need money to buy things we need and want. It is the medium of exchange. We could barter, but it is difficult to do that. If I have 10 computers, and someone had 300 eggs how would we trade? 1 computer is worth let's say 300 eggs let's say, I could not eat 300 eggs. At most, I could eat 2 eggs per day, and by the end of the month all of those 240 eggs would be thrown away. You see the point.
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  2072. Matthew L'Herault That is true, more processor cores were added, but the clock speeds can't exceed 3.8 ghzs. The problem with transistor based microprocessors are reaching a peak. If you increase the clock speed, you increase the heat, and you increase the chances of burning out a processor more quickly. The solution offered was adding more cores to divide the work load among many cores without raising the clock speed, or using multi processors. In graphics cards, they use a technology called by SLI which was invented by 3dfx in the late 1990s. This technology allowed parallel processing among multi-gpus on a single card to using multiple video cards on a single motherboard. The problem with such a system is that it is expensive. As for me, I prefer to use a system with a single powerful GPU, and a power single CPU. I don't want to put 2 to 3 graphics cards and have a dual CPU board. Such a system could cost $4000. Most of the power is a waste, you will never ever use all that power.
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  2073. You are absolutely right. Franchise businesses are bullshit. I used to be an independent business man for about 15 years, and the grass is greener on that side.
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  2074. Trump isn't? 2 years later, everyone who said Trump is a con man and a fraud has been proven to be correct. Everyone who criticized Trump from the Democrats to the Republicans were all right about Trump, he is a bullshit artist. He didn't keep any of his promises, and you people who voted for him only made his rich friends richer. LOL
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  2075.  @MonicaHolly143  If you live in the USA, and depending on the city you live in, $19,000/year isn't enough money. I live in Los Angeles, and I am a skilled worker with a university degree. Rent here is anywhere from $2500 to $3900/month depending on which part of town you live. As for my rent, it is about $3200/month, and I have 5 part time jobs. One part time job working as a software developer, another job working as a computer technician, driving for Uber part time, selling stuff on craigslist/ebay, and working as a freelancer making websites/setting up servers. $19,000/year won't be enough to pay rent in the city that I live in. This idea of most people making enough from one job doesn't cut it anymore. Maybe in my parent's generation, it may have worked.
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  2076.  @MonicaHolly143  Actually, I am lazy you stupid troll, I work about 75 hours a week, and I have to work that many hours because I have a family and elderly parents to support.
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  2077. It is inevitable, a lot of these mutual funds, and 401ks will collapse. You are seeing state pensions collapsing in places, like Detroit, and other parts of the country. In the rust belt states are having problems paying out pensions. The Babyboomers gutted the country. They will get what they deserve. One day, they will find out their pensions and 401ks can no longer send them a large check every month. What they get now will be reduced, or not come altogether.
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  2078. HuckFinn So
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  2079. Neon Effect So.
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  2080. There are no guarantees a 401k will save you.
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  2081.  @sunbeam8866  Richard Nixon initiated the war on drugs, not Carter. Richard Nixon was a Republican and a criminal who had to resign due to the Watergate scandal.
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  2082.  @sunbeam8866  Jimmy Carter platformed on decriminalizing marijuana, and Richard Nixon was the one who criminalized it FDR threw Italians and German nationals into internment camps too.
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  2083.  @dominichutchison1322  In addition to that, police have qualified immunity, and police unions. You have rotten cops who can literally get a way with murder. You can't blame the police, you just need to change the policies and the laws. Government makes policies which affect people, and if these policies are bad it will impact society in a negative way.
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  2084.  @dominichutchison1322  Bad laws and policies definitely have to be amended.
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  2085. The Sharp X68000 was only available in Japan, and it cost about $3000 in 1988.
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  2086. They are domestic terrorists.
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  2087. Making $35 a day with a college degree?????? That is nothing man.
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  2088. 75% of medical practices don't take Obamacare in California, the state I live in. So, what good is the insurance most MDs don't take?
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  2089. Obamacare would work in theory if most young workers bought into it; however, most young workers are part time and temp workers who make very little money. If most of these young workers who had jobs that paid a living wage and full time positions, they could afford it, and it would bring down the cost. This is not the case now. Most 21 to 35 year old people have a lot of debt from college/university, a portion of them are underemployed. At the same time, the Fed Reserves 0% interest policy drove up the price of real estate and rent prices. A lot of these young people have a lot of debt, jobs that don't pay well, temporary jobs, and sky high rent. On top of that, they are forced to pay health insurance. So, this is why they aren't enrolling in Obamacare.
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  2090. LibertyMan The number of workers that are needed to run a fast food restaurant are the same regardless of which country it is in. They need a minimum amount of people to run the fast food restaurant. They don't use automated systems in fast food restaurants.
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  2091. I visited countries like the United Kingdom, and the minimum wage is 10 pounds/hr. That is about $15.70/hr US dollars. Gasoline prices are almost double of what it is in the United States of America, and general merchandise is more in the U.K. as well. The minimum wage in the U.S. should be at least $10 to $12/hr. The government should use tax payers money to subsidize housing for the people who have low incomes. The government should heavily tax U.S. companies that oursource jobs overseas. If the product that was produced overseas for $2/hr or $2/day, the tariffs should be about 400%.
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  2092. LibertyMan I vote for either party, I have no party loyalties. It all depends on what I am doing and how much I make at the time.
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  2093. It is really simple. Don't commit a crime.
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  2094. 800lb Gorilla If you adjust minimum wage according to inflation based on the fact that the minimum wage was $3.35 in 1986, and a gallon of gasoline was $1.10. Now, a gallon of gasoline is about $3.50, so the minimum wage should be about $10.65/hr.
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  2095. eugene bell All Republicans aren't business owners. The Republicans are in opposition to raising the minimum wage. Since most of the jobs were outsourced out of the country due to the Republicans, and now we have a largely service sector economy. Don't you think it would be fair for businesses to pay a living wage in the service sector economy? I know, I know, there will be a backlash to it. Companies and corporations will try to automate more of their businesses, because they don't want to pay a higher wage. That's all fine and dandy, they would have had to do it sooner or later anyways. The government should do more to give free housing to people who don't make enough money, and give benefits to working poor people. The government should build up the mass transit system in every major American city, so the average person can get to work without paying car insurance, buying gasoline, and car maintenance. This way, the nation as a whole would benefit.
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  2096. I've been single for more than 13 years, and I didn't have sex for years. I also lost my business in 2012, I own guns, and I didn't commit mass shootings. I am a loner by nature, so I don't feel anything.
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  2097. That is true. I was really poor in my teenage years, and I was so poor in fact I couldn't even afford to buy shoes. Some people are stronger I mean mentally, so they can take a lot of hardships. Ever since I lost my business about 4 years ago, I work pretty hard now. I work 3 part time jobs, and I work about 65 hrs per week. I make about $65,000/year, and before I made about $200,000+/year. A lot of people who go through devastating circumstances just lose it, people like that do crazy things like mass shootings or commit suicide. I just have a positive attitude no matter what kind of circumstances I am in, and I always find away. I always live within my means, because I did live a life of extreme austerity in my teenage years to my twenties.
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  2098. David Walsh We live in a world where you have fierce global competition. These big corporations want to maximize their profits, like Dr. Wolff said. As a result, peoples wages go down, and the people in the developed world are not needed. In addition to this, you have technology replacing many jobs. Most manufacturing plants and factories in the USA use a lot of automation technology and computers. Not only that, you have computer programming replacing jobs. You have speech recognition software which can take jobs of most customer service reps, & dictation services. You have translation software which can replace a lot of translators. You have smartphones which have translation software, speech recognition software, and navigation. You don't tour guides anymore. You have kiosks in movie theaters and airports which took the jobs of ticketing booth people. You see what I mean. People just aren't needed. As for the jobs that are being created, they require a high degree of education and skill. You need to go to university. In addition, almost every job requires a university degree now. People have to get into a lot of debt to get a job that doesn't pay much. The problems steam from too many people, too much competition, free trade policies, and technology. All contributing to poverty and unemployment.
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  2099. The average person will pay 45%, and on top of that you still have to pay income tax. About 100 years ago, tariffs made up the majority of the tax revenue, so we didn't have much income tax. Now, most people pay anywhere from 25% to 30% for income tax that is state and federal. From 1945 and onward, income went up and tariffs went down. As a result, we got cheap imports and higher income tax. If you have high tariffs and high income tax, PEOPLE WILL GET HURT.
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  2100. That is false. When we had a lot of tariffs in US history, WE DID NOT HAVE INCOME TAX. Most people pay anywhere from 25% to 30% in income tax every year. We have other taxes too, like property tax, sales tax, excise taxes, etc. This is why most people don't have a lot money, and this is why most people live paycheck to paycheck. If you want to add an import tax on top of all these other taxes, you will put a serious strain on the middle class and the poor.
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  2101. S. Korea is just a beginner when it comes to aerospace. They did produce a propeller airplane called a KT-1. They produced the T-50 Golden Eagle about 15 years ago. The engine is built with a license from GE by Samsung aerospace. I am sure they will be able to design their own engine in a decade or earlier. The hardest part of making a jet turbine engine is using the right kind of metals. Most of the parts for the engine are probably imported from the United States. It is assembled in S. Korea.
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  2102. I had a 3do, and the games on it were alright. I liked Street Fighter 2, and Wing Commander on it. The problem with this system was the price being $699.99 in late 1993. $699.99 is about $2799.96 in today's money. The graphics and sounds on the system was really good at the time being a 32 bit system. The arcade games ported to the 3do were as good as the arcade. The only problem with the 3do was that it was optimized for 3d games and it why it could not compete with the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn released a year later.
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  2103. China is an example that socialism works.
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  2104. Ukraine asked for main battle tanks, and heavy artillery. They said that would be enough. I guess it isn't. If the Ukrainians get F-16s, and if that fails. What's next. Give us tactical nuclear weapons?
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  2105. The world is a big place, China can start conducting more trade with the other 164 countries around the world.
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  2106. No it's not. If the mortgage rates go up that much, most people won't be able to afford to buy no home period. That is unless you're an individual that makes a high income, and most people don't make over $100k/year.
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  2107.  @omegabulldog5001  Some people like getting slapped around, like my mom. My mom was in a abusive relationship with my dad.
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  2108. By their evil deeds, you will know them. We all know which side is evil, the main stream media can paint the Azov Battalion as patriots. Anyone with a brain knows they are hardened neo Nazis.
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  2109. That is really amazing. It must have been a reservoir of some sort.
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  2110. Companies can force their workers to go back to the office, and if they refuse then they can be replaced with remote workers from other countries. Companies can save a lot of money by hiring someone from a country where the cost of living is lower. LOL
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  2111. China has a giant industrial capacity, I am sure they can build millions of drones while the US can build thousands of drones. LOL
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  2112. These days, it isn't uncommon to have two people the household working 3 to 5 part time jobs each. Most of these part time jobs are Gig jobs, so they are low pay, and there are no worker protections. Compare this to 52 years ago when one income was enough pay for a middle class lifestyle. A man could support his family with one income, have a 3 bedroom + 2 bath home, 2 cars, and a white picket fence. If you want that today, you need to make about $150,000+/year or more. That kind of lifestyle isn't possible for most people today.
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  2113. Did you know the constitution can be suspended in times of rebellion, war, and emergencies?
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  2114. Trump wants to revert the US back to the 1890s.
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  2115. The EU and the US are part of the same team. China needs to help industrialize countries in the Global South, and start building up their middle class. Then, they can create new markets for their products in the future.
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  2116. Trump is a con man, a professional bullshitter.
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  2117. Happened to me a few times. I was on dating sites, and saw pictures of different women. When I met them, they don't look like what they looked on those touched up photos.
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  2118. It is expensive to have kids, you need to pay for childcare which is about $1k per month for two kids. It costs about $330k to raise a kid for 18 years, or about $18.33k/year. With the cost of living rising faster than wages, it is a matter of time will have to work 70 to 90 hours a week to pay all their expenses.
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  2119.  @katydid2877  It's more like $18.33k/year, not $80k/year. Sending your kids to school is daycare for most people. You still have to feed your kids, buy them clothes, computers, smartphones, school supplies, and everything else they need. All of that costs money.
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  2120. We are headed towards another depression for sure. Millions of layoffs are going to happen this year.
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  2121. Thermal runaway caused it from a EV.
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  2122. Which Leopard 2s are the Germans going to send? The Leopard 2A4, Leopard 2A5, or the Leopard 2A6?
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  2123.  @kevinvandal8595  Leopard 2A4s didn't do very well in Syria, but we will see how good the Leopard 2A6s are against Russian T-72Ms, T-80s, and T-90 tanks.
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  2124. Good and bad are arbitrary and subjective. It isn't a fact.
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  2125. How pathetic, Trump is a pathetic little man. The race is over period.
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  2126. 中国 is an sovereign country, while Japan is not.
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  2127. That guy just didn't have to buy it.
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  2128. Assaulting with infantry and artillery, looks like World War 1 tactics used in a 21st century battlefield. In WW1, they didn't have drone spotters, aircraft that could drop thousands of kgs of bombs, attack helicopters, and attack drones. The defenders clearly have the advantage here.
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  2129.  @sjay67  No one wants nuclear war. If you think you can get regime change in Russia or China, you are sadly mistaken. If you push these despots into a corner, they will use nuclear weapons. I guarantee it. It isn't going to be like Iraq, Syria, or Libya. Pushing around little countries without nuclear weapons is one thing, but pushing a country that has nuclear warheads, nuclear submarines, ICBMs, tactical nuclear weapons, bombers, and hypersonic missile is another thing.
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  2130. You believe in Ron Paul's bullshit. Ron Paul is a Republican; therefore, he is a conservative. You believe that Jewish bankers control this world? Libertarians are fucking Nazis.
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  2131. Libertarians are ultra right wing Republicans who believe in conspiracy theories and make believe stuff. LOL
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  2132. Trump will do anything to stay in power, and he will fabricate any story to avoid prosecution from the FBI.
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  2133. Shenzhen was a special economic zone set up by 邓小平(Deng Xiaoping).
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  2134. Chump should not be allowed to run for office again. It was bad enough, he tried to turn the US into a fascist dictatorship. They shouldn't give him another chance.
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  2135. This rifle was based on the AR-18, the later models look like M-16A2s, but these rifles use a piston operating system. On the other hand, the M-16/Ar-15 uses a direct impingement operating system. The piston operating system in my opinion is better than the direct impingement system, because the action remains cleaner.
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  2136. Wes-tern Hegemony is over. That is a good thing for the world.
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  2137.  @25vesel  There are a lot of natural resources in Siberia. A lot of Nazi P.O.W.s were gainfully employed in Siberia as miners and lumberjacks after WW2. I think a lot of these Azov people can also be gainfully employed there, like the Nazis of WW2 they admire.
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  2138.  @JJ-mh3hb  It means have a nice day, and enjoy the turmoil.
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  2139. What was the purpose of getting these vaccine if it never stopped you from getting CV-19?
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  2140. Chinese tourists and students need to reconsider coming to the U S. The U S MM is doing everything to create a hostile atmosphere for China and Chinese people.
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  2141. Maxwell Montgomery, it costs money to buy bandwidth, hard drive storage on the cloud, electricity, servers, staff to maintain the servers, and other costs associated with running your own website. Most websites don't host all their videos, because it costs a lot of money to do so. They usually link videos to free platforms, like Youtube, because it is free. Youtube has been losing money for years. Alex Jones will not be able to post as much content as he did before, because hosting your own servers and all the costs associated with it, buying the bandwidth, or renting servers from another company is rather expensive.
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  2142. In other words, Rump gave rich people tax cuts, and they used the excess money to buy back their stocks. In turn, they make even more money by giving themselves raises when the stocks go up! The rich gave themselves bonuses to themselves, and they said fuck you to the American people.
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  2143.  @gordo3582  There is a difference between a computer scientist and a programmer. If you are a programmer, you don't need to learn assembly language. It does require a lot of mathematics to make a graphics engine. Computer scientists produce stuff like operating systems, like Windows 10, Linux, Unix, etc. They integrate weapon systems with the software in defense firms. If you get a degree in computer science, you have to take as much science as any science major in the first 2 years. That is why its called computer SCIENCE. We do more than just programming bud.
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  2144.  @alexfigueroa1812  You need a degree to prove that you are a scientist, just like you need degrees to prove that you are a medical doctor, architect, engineer, pharmacist, etc. You can believe whatever you want to believe, but you need to show people you are qualified. No one has to believe you.
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  2145.  @alexfigueroa1812  I know you can learn math and science on your own, but the people who you apply for jobs to will not believe you without grades from university, or a degree from a accredited university.
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  2146.  @alexfigueroa1812  You're not going to get a license from the state to practice medicine, law, architecture, engineering, nursing, or get a government job that requires you have a 4 year degree or higher from a accredited university.
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  2147.  @sscaliosas80s  Computer scientists are the ones who develop artificial intelligence, and algorithms. I assure you, they will still have their jobs. They are the ones who will be developing the AI. There is a reason why they make you take physics, and advanced mathematics for those who major in science and engineering. Because engineering is difficult, and sometimes you have to spend 13 to 18 hours a day trying to solve problems. It can be frustrating at times. If you can't pass those science and math courses with decent grades, you won't be able to hack it trying to solve real world problems. You also have deadlines you have to meet, because you will be working for a for profit organization.
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  2148.  @sscaliosas80s  It depends on the company. If it is a large company, like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Chase, General Dynamics, etc, they will want to hire the best people. Big companies like that are going to want to see your academic achievements in school. If you work for one of these large corporations, they will squeeze you. In other words, they will try to get their money's worth out of you. They are expecting results, and high productivity. If you cannot offer that then you are out of luck.
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  2149.  @thalesnemo2841  The system is dysfunctional as it is. Just look at the explosion in the number of people who are becoming homeless compared to 40 years ago.
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  2150. You have to have a lawyer that can understand governmentese. As with any government program, the paperwork has to be 100% correct, so if you don't have a good accountant or lawyer, you're out of luck.
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  2151.  @adamhalcyon3393  If you want to get things done, you need lawyers. This is why rich people have a lot of lawyers.
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  2152.  @adamhalcyon3393  I am not a multi-millionaire, but I have one lawyer I pay a retainer fee to, and a accountant who helps me with my taxes.
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  2153. bongo155, the Federal Reserve Bank buys U.S. treasury bonds. Sure other people will buy it. Why would they buy it? To fund record deficit spending? Is that what your fuhrur is doing? Gave tax cuts to the richest Americans, so big corporations could buy back their stocks. Let the Federal government operate at a deficit. Trump has a brain the size of a peanut, and a IQ of less than 3 digits. The king of debt will operate the Federal government at a deficit when he will lose bond holders. Then, he will borrow directly from the Federal Reserve Banking system. This causes inflation dumb ass. In addition to the other inflationary policies your dumb ass president enacted, like tariffs. Inflation for the price of imports due to tariffs, and monetary inflation due to a reckless fiscal policy.
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  2154. Kosh 963, there are billions of hungry people in the world who will work for $6.00 a day. Products from China are hit with tariffs. No problem. China will export their goods to countries that haven't been hit by tariffs, like Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa, Indonesia, etc. Re label the brand was made in those countries instead of China, and ship it to the U.S. to avoid tariffs. As a matter of fact, China is no longer the cheapest place on the planet to manufacture stuff. It costs much less to make stuff in Nepal, India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, parts of Africa, etc. If you want Trump to give you a factory job assembly widgets, I have news for you. It ain't happening. You can get much better jobs now. You can get a job as a computer programmer, working in an office, working in the information technology field, being a mechanic, working for the government, etc.
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  2155. He could pay all of it, but it is enough to bankrupt Jones.
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  2156. The times live in, how low can people go?
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  2157. LOL
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  2158. More money is flowing into the US which is causing more inflation in the US. This money that is being brought back is going into real estate, commodities, government spending, etc which is all inflationary in nature.
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  2159. When a society falls apart is when adults start acting like children.
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  2160. $0, but that is because I don't use Twitter. People who have a lot of followers on Twitter should consider paying what Elon is asking for.
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  2161.  @wsmithe2209  The U S is behind it!
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  2162. Look at the bright side, our reservoirs levels are going up. No more water shortage. On the other hand, we are having natural disasters, like floods and cyclones like this.
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  2163. Truth, you are moron. US GDP is about 17% of the total GDP of the world. US GDP is about $19 trillion per year, and world GDP is about $107 trillion per year. The world can do without the USA. Countries in Asia, and Europe can trade with each other. Most of the foreign and U.S. companies that produce things here export it to other countries. Since Trump wants to be isolationist, those companies will have to shift production overseas to get around the tariffs. You must be a trailer park trash, I doubt you even have a college education. LOL
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  2164.  @WASD-MVME  I still go out and eat, but it just costs more these days.
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  2165.  @larsnystrom6698  There was this talk about universal basic income. Isn't that socialism? As a business person, I would automate and replace workers, because it is more profitable to do so. The biggest cost of any business is payroll. Also if other businesses automate and offer lower prices, how can other businesses not afford to do that?
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  2166. He's a Trump cheerleader.
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  2167. @Eric If you don't live in the USA, it doesn't apply to you.
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  2168. This isn't going to happen, they will spend that money on defense spending. Everything else is being neglected in the country, like infrastructure, education, healthcare, so this idea that they will spend $584 billion is just a pipe dream.
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  2169. I guess, CNBC was trying to down play it by saying the US imported only $200 million of these resources. LOL
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  2170.  @dustingenovese4576  More deflection. No one is saying anything that wasn't said.
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  2171.  @betunia98  I think it's Daren and Karen.
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  2172. The average person is just like cattle, it is a fact. They tend to get attracted to assets that go up fast, and they believe they will get rich. From my experience when an asset price goes up very fast that is a red flag. You should start selling that asset.
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  2173. Western strategists are pretty inept. They are products of nepotism, this is why the people in power in the US are so incompetent.
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  2174. China produces 4.7 million STEM graduates per year, so 80,000 engineers working for BYD is reality. The US produces about 440,000 STEM graduates per year.
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  2175. The US lost its industrial capacity to wage a pier to pier war. In war, the country that can produce more weapons wins, look at World War 2. The US was able to produce enough weapons and equipment to supply themselves, and all of their allies. Can the US do this now? The US is begging South Korea for 155mm artillery shells, because it can't produce enough basic weapons as these.
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  2176.  @duckens2001  Belief in anything requires no evidence. People tell me that I believe in science, but that is false. Science requires no belief, it requires understanding and knowledge.
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  2177. Trump's family has a history of running away. Trump got out of the Vietnam War by lying about bone spurs
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  2178.  @Marxist2  The question is how much can your spouse take after a divorce? I have a lot to lose if I get into a divorce.
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  2179. I gave up, because it was too much drama. Always trying to get me into a fight with other people, the chaos, and bad attitudes in general.
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  2180. Houses are for living, not a speculative asset. Housing prices going down is good.
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  2181.  @gargalash9191  They are better. Most of the h8rs don't understand basic math. The people that publish this kind of propaganda are doing this intentionally. EVs cost less to maintain, they have less moving parts. You don't need to get an oil change, and there are less chances of parts breaking, because electric motors are robust.
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  2182.  @gagamba9198  ¥0.41/kwh 1 kwh = 3 miles or 4.83 kilometers $1 = ¥7.12 Therefore, ¥0.0848/km or ¥0.137/mile or $0.0192/mile or 1.92 ¢/mile. 中国每千瓦时的电价确实上涨了，但仍然比使用普通汽车便宜。 Price of petro or gasoline in China is $0.93/liter or ¥6.62/liter. That is ¥25.08/gallon or $3.52/gallon. A typical IC car gets about 25 miles to a gallon, so that comes out to ¥1.003/mile or $0.141/mile. EV: 1.92 ¢/mile or ¥0.137/mile or ¥0.0851/km ICV: 14.1 ¢/mile or ¥1.003/mile or ¥0.623/km A EV is about 7.3 times less expensive to operate compared to a IC vehicle.
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  2183.  @askjapan9669  I like the boxing toy, I've never seen a toy like that.
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  2184. I have a solution, don't shop at Target if you don't want to be a target. LOL
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  2185.  @chow-chihuang4903  Chump is going to try what the mustache man did in 1933.
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  2186. This should clear up all the misconceptions of Xinjiang.
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  2187. Don't buy Korean EVs. Samsung and LG was guilty of placing their capacitors in a way their televisions failed faster than other brands. I guess, the Koreans did another shortcut, and caused problems for themselves.
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  2188. Produce less and charge more, it looks like a winning strategy.
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  2189.  jim meeks  They beat him half to death, tasered him a number of times, dragged his face on the asphalt, and who knows what. They might have even body slammed him a few times.
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  2190. Only in America, this can only happen in America.
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  2191. At this rate, the West is going to run out of weapons. Zelensky is like the kind of person who borrows money from people, wastes it, and asks for more.
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  2192. These magtards are like the people you would meet at a Amway seminar.
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  2193. It's better than being homeless and eating out of the trash can.
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  2194. @@TH-dr1kg I bet that is what you do.
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  2195. I don't get it, why would these higher caste people rate someone who is untouchable? A untouchable person is someone who does dirty jobs, so if they rape them wouldn't they become polluted? LOL
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  2196. 2:58 , LOL
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  2197. We have a lot of manufacturing in the USA, but a lot of manufacturing plants that produce stuff, like cans of Coca-cola, canned goods, small parts, automotive engines, many types of consumer goods, etc. The more labor incentive industries, like textiles, soldering circuit boards, and others were shipping overseas due to lower costs. Also highly skilled jobs that are required to build stuff, like jet engines, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, manufacturing machinery, internal combustion engines, commercial aircraft, military aircraft, helicopters, predator drones, and other big ticked items are still produced in the USA.
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  2198.  @SewTubular  The more tracking systems you use, the more difficult it is to jam anything really.
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  2199. In addition to that, he is bailing out his allies in the coal industry, and money for farmers who are getting hurt by the trade war he started.
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  2200. Nearing the end of the Roman Empire, the Senate sold the position of emperor to the highest bidder. Marcus Didius Severus Julianus bought the position of emperor in 193 CE, and he emperor for 66 days. Murica is becoming a circus. Chump isn't interested in keeping any of his promises, he and his billionaire buddies are interested in one thing only. How to take everything before it all goes down. That's it.
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  2201. Elon Musk got booed LOL
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  2202. ​ @americanharleyrider8  Getting a new car is okay, but people change their cars, like every 2 to 4 years. You also see people who upgrade their smartphones every 6 months, and I think that is wasteful. The longer you use something without replacing it means, the more money you will save. When a recession happens, you will need all that money to get you through a recession.
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  2203. Germany and Japan are largely dependent on internal combustion engine vehicles. IC vehicles are competing against Chinese EVs that are less expensive in the world markets. I don't see a way out for either of those two countries. Plus, the cost of living and wages are higher in those two countries. Therefore, they will not be able to compete against Chinese industries.
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  2204. The US is irrelevant.
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  2205. The side that produces more weapons and munitions always wins. Quantity is more important than quality, just look at WW2. The Germans had better quality equipment, but lost due to the Allies out producing them.
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  2206. I had the first Athlon XP based computer back in 2001, there were some problems with it. The chipset wasn't very stable. I did have AMD products before this, like a AMD K6-2 350 MHz, and AMD K6-3 450 MHz, but those products didn't offer the performance of a Pentium 2 or 3. I changed to a Pentium 2, and Pentium 3 in 1998 and 1999. I tried a Athlon XP, but it wasn't very stable and crashed a lot for some reason. Then, I changed to Penitum 4 1.8 GHz . The last AMD product I used was in 2009, and it was AMD Phenom II 945 Denab, and I switched to a Intel I7-960. After that I just used Intel products ever since. A lot of people are saying AMD stuff is better now, and when I have to get a new computer next time it will be a AMD product.
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  2207. China does not need to use the US or EU banking systems. They can still accept Euros and USDs, but they can simply use their own banking system. I don't think China will not use USD or Euros, because a lot of debt is denominated in those currencies. This safe guards China's assets.
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  2208. Maybe, they just let it happen, so they can get the excuse to wipe out the Palestinians.
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  2209. It is more like neo-feudalism. LOL
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  2210. Yes, and idiots voted for him, and they deserve everything they get.
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  2211. I think Argentina is in the western sphere of influence, so China can still trade with them but they don't need to rely on their exports. China should put tariffs on goods from Argentina, just because.
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  2212.  @nemogotti4920  That is the problem, candidates like Bernie Sanders and people like him never win the nominations. I guarantee you if Sanders or Yang doesn't win the Democratic nomination, Trump might become president again. I hope the Democrats learn from their last mistake about putting in a unpopular candidate.
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  2213.  @sachsgs2509  It is in Los Angeles. You cannot sleep in your car parked on public streets. It is okay to sleep on a tent on the sidewalk, but you have to clear it out in the morning. You can sleep in your car if you are parked on a private lot. If you don't have permission to park your car near a private business, and the property owner calls the cops. Then, they will impound your vehicle.
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  2214. huntlywestside, your idea of Americans eating up the surplus of food farmers can't export overseas is nonsense. During the Great Depression due to the Taft Hartley Act, a lot of the excess surplus of food farmers could not export due to the tariffs was just left to rot in the field.
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  2215. huntlywestside, you don't know anything about farming or the economy. The profit margins are small, like 2 to 3%. Farmers need to buy a lot of things, like tractors, harvesters, seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc. They have to borrow money to buy these things. If they have a bad season, they can go bankrupt just like that. We will see what happens in a year that's it. I am 100% sure, this economy will crash.
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  2216. Those people are delusional. Before they can achieve their crazy dreams, the US economy is going to collapse.
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  2217. In the next 4 years, there will be no reason to buy US t bonds. This will cause interest rates to spike in the US, and this will make it very difficult to borrow money to open factories/manufacturing plants/infrastructure upgrades in the US.
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  2218. It is slavery. Brad Christy is a troll by the way, ignore him or block him.
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  2219. I hear so many problems with this shot, we will never know how many people got affected by it. The media will never talk about it. Sorry to hear about what happened to your friend.
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  2220. It all depends on who you attack. If the people you are attacking have a lot of power then they can mess you up.
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  2221.  @mysticmadman5961  Hey Trump said, he made the stock market go up, so stop lying you trumpkin!
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  2222. That suspect got one hell of a beating, I don't think they could have done a better job than they did beating that murdering thug. LOL
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  2223. LOL. This will be quite a surprise to the Democrats that the Communists didn't like gays. I saw a documentary about Fidel Castro, and he hated homosexuals as well. LOL
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  2224. China is really a progressive nation, while the US is a regressive nation.
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  2225.  @V20758  That true.
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  2226. There are a lot of people who were pushed from full time jobs that had benefits and paid well to part time jobs. Employers don't have to pay health insurance, and other benefits.
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  2227.  @dojocho1894  You have big corporate food processing monopolies that try to pay the lowest rates to farmers that affects the bottom line for farmers as well. Government regulation and taxes are an expense, but the bigger problem is gigantic corporate food companies that don't pay fair rates.
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  2228.  @yurichtube1162  When the dollar loses its world reserve status then you will see a Great Reset. Even if the Great Reset happens, you will lose less if you had more solid assets, like real estate, precious metals, precious stones, real businesses that produce things people need, patents, etc. If all your assets are in paper assets then you will probably lose everything when this happens.
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  2229.  @WarpedSpeed  Government isn't the biggest problem, it is unfair competition from monopolistic industries and companies.
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  2230. What a unstable society we live in today. Most people who weren't born with a lot of money are two paychecks away from losing everything. After that, they will lose their minds.
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  2231. Sipaktli 13, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. These conservatives expect Republicans to save them, and they get screwed over and over again. LOL
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  2232. What about the people who don't have cars?
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  2233. The US is good at using the media as a propaganda tool(lying), and printing money. Putin is right, the West is an EMPIRE OF LIES. 😆
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  2234. You can't really win much if you follow a loser like Trump. LOL
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  2235.  @182Nutty  It was caused by a 500 lb to 2000 lb aircraft bomb from the Israeli air force.
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  2236.  @geocam2 To people who don't know anything about military vehicles, it may look like that. If you saw a Zsu-23, you would call that a tank, because it has tracks. It is a self propelled AA gun.
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  2237.  @geocam2  You don't have to use a $80,000 anti-tank missile to knock out a BMP-1, truck, or BTR-80, you can knock it em out with 50 caliber machine guns, or 20mm automatic cannons.
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  2238. That is what the FBI is investigating, and Trump keeps dodging Mueller on doing a face to face interview with Mueller. Why? Because DRUMPF is FUCKING GUILTY!!!!
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  2239. This is the beginning of the end of the petrodollar system.
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  2240. Kay's Critters. Wrong, a pardon is forgiving someone for a offense. It is an admission of guilt. You must be a Trumpkin, you sound like an ignorant buffoon.
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  2241.  @basook6116  The Federal Reserve will buy it by creating money out of thin air.
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  2242.  @basook6116  What Trump is doing with levying tariffs on everyone is going to only accelerate the decline of the US dollar. The way it worked before was like this..... Other countries would trade with the USA, and the US didn't have a lot of trade barriers, because the USA had the world reserve currency. During World War 2, it was agreed through the Bretton Woods Agreement signed in July 1944, the become the world reserve currency with having a fixed value of $35/ounce of gold. After all, the US won World War 2. From 1945 to the present tariffs were replaced with income tax more and more. The situation we have today is very complicated, and I don't think Trump is smart enough to understand what could happen due to his reckless actions. If tariffs are increased, it will put another burden on the average American who are already heavily taxed with income tax. Putting tariffs on top of that would be too much, and it could put a serious strain on the economy. In addition to that, there is no need for countries that traded with the USA to buy treasuries when tariffs are being levied on them. As a result, interest rates will go up, and they try to suppress it by artificially lower interest rates without having other countries buy US treasury bonds will only cause inflation to spike. That would put more burden on the average American who is already heavily in debt. Something is going to break in the future.
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  2243.  @basook6116  Yes, it is affecting mostly American companies to import to the USA, trading companies. American companies sell a lot of components to Chinese companies, like Huawei. It is hurting companies that sell components for computers and electronics to Chinese companies. It will force these Chinese companies to develop their own operating systems, CPUs in the future, and become more self sufficient. People don't forget these incidents. Everything Trump is doing is for show. He wants to get tough on China, and other countries. This is a sign of weakness. Often times weak people are the loudest, but just because someone is quiet doesn't mean they are weak.
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  2244.  @basook6116  Trump is really an anomaly, he isn't qualified to be president. He wasn't even qualified to be a business leader, because most of the businesses he ran went bankrupt. I have a feeling when this Trump presidency ends in 2020, or 2024, he will do more damage than any other president in the history of the USA. A lot of countries are decoupling from the US dollar. The people who get hurt from the fallout will be Trump's hardcore supporters, most of whom aren't well educated. I don't think it will take China that many years to catch up to the US technologically. The educational system we have in the U.S. is a joke. The educational system has been neglected and has been in a state of decline for decades. China is graduating more engineers, and scientists than the USA. Trump's pathetic attempts to try to stop China is what it is, it is just form of desperation. The writing is on the wall. If China, Russia, or India decouple from the dollar, there is no way the US is going to start a war with any of those countries. The US is good at fighting wars against smaller nations, like Iraq. I don't think the US is equipped to fight large countries with large armies and nuclear weapons.
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  2245.  @basook6116  Republicans seem to love to uneducated people, because they can be fooled and tricked. It isn't imaginable someone like Trump could become president, but I can understand the frustration a lot of people feel. These Democrats pretty much neglected the working class people of the US for years. Both the Republicans and Democrats are focused on very trivial issues. For the Democrats, LGBT rights, please..... I am sure there are more important issues than that. Republicans are good at scapegoating against minorities saying they are the problem. Blaming minorities and Democrats of all the ills of our society. Neither party offers any real solutions. Look at the rail system in China compared to the antiquated rail system in the USA. They have bullet trains in China that are connected to almost every part of that country. What do we have??? Infrastructure that is falling apart, bridges collapsing, over passes collapsing, roads with pot holes in it, bridges in a state of disrepair, etc. You telling me this isn't a state of decline?
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  2246.  @basook6116  Like all empires in the past that behaved in this manner all fell by the waste bin of history. The collapse of any civilization happens from within, and those fracture eventually leads to collapse. It happened many times in history. In order for you to have a strong country, everything within the country should be strong, like the educational system, the infrastructure, the economy, culture, scientific achievements, etc. The U.S. may think they can dominate the world forever with their aircraft carriers, but technology always changes. Just like the Roman legion became less effective against the cavalry armies of the Goths and Huns in the 4th century. Some engineer or scientist will figure out how to make a ballistic or hypersonic cruise missile to take out a aircraft carrier. During the 1st Gulf War, the US had a technology edge when it faced off against Iraq. In the present, US armored forces have no such advantage. Most major powers have thermal optics, night vision, GPS, sophisticated tanks with advance fire control systems, advance radar on aircraft, advanced ground based radar, electronic warfare equipment, and everything the US has. If all out war breaks out, the only thing that will matter is who can produce more. If China or Russia could produce 15 main battle tanks for 1 Abrams tank the US can produce. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know who is going to win. Sure, the Abrams tank might be a little better, but tanks aren't invincible. Tanks have weak spots, the sides and the rear of any tank has less armor. China and Russia might lose 3 to 4 tanks for every Abrams they take out. Just like in World War 2, the Nazis had better tanks than the allies. The Soviets and the Americans could produce 20 tanks for every Tiger or Panther tank the Germans could produce. Eventually the allies won that conflict.
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  2247. The Japanese are very conservative. This is why they lost the smartphone race, and they will lose the EV race.
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  2248.  @MyMovie5858  China will just have to grow its own consumer economy. Chinese industry needs to create products the Chinese people want, and restructure the economy from a export oriented economy to a consumer based one. Most countries go through industrialization, and they move to capital investments in machines to automate industry as much as possible. Then, they move to a consumer economy. When you move to a consumer economy, you need more white collar jobs. I saw what ChatGPT could do, and it really worries me. A lot of these white collar jobs can be replaced with something like ChatGPT and its derivatives in the future. AI could really make a lot of white collared jobs redundant in the future in every part of the world. We will see a labor crisis in the world in the next 5 years. They will still need people to work in white collared employment, but they will need a lot less people in the future.
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  2249.  @ahmedzakikhan7639  ChatGPT like programs will displace white collared workers. The blue collared workers were largely replaced by programmable microcontrollers tied to industrial machinery back in the 1980s to the 2000s. In a modern factory, you don't need a lot of people. For example, a beer brewery, everything from brewing the beer to canning/bottling to packaging the beer is a totally automated process. Same with a cannery, it's also mostly automated needing VERY FEW people. The same can be said about automobiles. Automotive production uses robotic arms and some people, a modern manufacturing plant doesn't employ as many people as it did compared to the 1960s or 1970s.
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  2250. He will be bankrupt when the entire equity market crashes, it's all a ponzi.
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  2251. Since most of it was going to Europe, Europeans will pay higher prices and add more inflation.
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  2252.  @jlindsey1991  There will no middle class in the future in most countries, because lower and mid level workers won't be needed. It will be a technologically advanced world with much less people populating it.
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  2253. Tamika Hodges, corn is used as feed for livestock. Soy is also used also. There is no doubt soy can be used as feed. If U.S. farmers cannot sell it abroad, they will sell it in the USA. This will lead to a influx of supply and cause the price to drop. Since farmers operate on very narrow margins, it could hurt their bottom line.
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  2254. Chinese people don't eat a lot of dairy products and that includes me as well.
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  2255. You sound like a troll.
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  2256.  @ZweiZwolf  A military jet engine has different requirements compared to a commercial aircraft. For military aircraft fuel economy isn't important. For commercial aircraft fuel economy is important, because companies that operate these things need to remain profitable.
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  2257. Don't engage em, because these folks don't have anything to lose. Always, carry some pepper spray just in case.
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  2258. Exactly, that is why Tesla Motors is building a electric car plant in China. This way, they don't have to pay a 25% tariff fee which China would charge him if he produced the Teslas in the USA, and exported it to China. Also, the cost of producing Tesla EVs would cost less in China, so Tesla could not only sell in China. They could sell it to other parts of the world as well, and this will enable them to be more profitable.
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  2259. Dumb and dumber.
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  2260.  @susieq9801  The rump brothers.
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  2261. That is a good deal.
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  2262. She is racist, that is why she isn't answering that question.
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  2263. Chump is a traitor, let's get rid of it this November.
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  2264. I wonder how many U.S. hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and 401ks are invested in the Chinese bond markets?
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  2265.  @johnsmith1474  OK BOOMER.
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  2266.  @johnsmith1474  SO WHAT BOOMER.
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  2267. In 2020 to 2022, we got bashed a lot. Now, it is your turn.
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  2268. Republicans think we are all stupid like maga hat wearing morons.
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  2269. It is called genocide of the poor.
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  2270. I wonder how much coffee is going to cost?
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  2271.  @danialhillmann5374  If you live in a state where that is not permitted then there isn't anything you can do about it.
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  2272.  @TyranntX  hehehehehehe
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  2273.  @bonafidetruckingpresentsea8222  Sure troll, sure. LOL
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  2274. America must have a lot of losers if they keep voting for this loser.
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  2275. Some people are masochists.
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  2276. Chump and Musk will work out a deal. Chump will force the US govt to buy Elon's trucks. LOL
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  2277. If chumpler gets elected, he is going to accelerate de dollarization. The US is a consumer based economy, so I wonder how those stores will stay open when you have empty shelves?
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  2278.  @PitofDoom666  I don't think it matters who gets in, the policies will be similar. I just don't like Donald Duck Chump.
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  2279. Chump is the most infamous president in US history.
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  2280. Not trading in the USD is causing inflation in the US, while it causes deflation in the BRICS bloc. Makes perfect sense. This is why the US isn't happy, and Muricans are paying more.
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  2281.  @veroniquendambo3242  Most people that are struggling like that are just living paycheck to paycheck.
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  2282. Unemployed behavior. 😆
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  2283. Over the years, many manufacturing jobs simply got automated over the past 42 years. This was due to programmable computers, cheap printed circuitboards, integrated circuits, manufacturing machinery, robotic arms, etc. The more labor intensive jobs were outsourced where companies could pay a fraction of the cost. Computers also made workers more productive, so companies try to make one worker do the work of let's say 2 to 4 people if not more.
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  2284. drdrecker1, the GNP of the USA is about $19 trillion/year, and world GNP is about $107 trillion. Therefore, the USA accounts for 17.75% of the GNP in relation to the world GNP. Are you telling me, a factory or manufacturing plant that was producing 400,000 vehicles per year which sold excess production as exports is going to keep the same number of workers? The answer is no stupid. Now, those companies cannot sell their vehicles to overseas markets, because everything that was produced in those US factories will be hit with 20 to 30% tariffs. As a result, those companies will have to lay off the number of workers and close some U.S. factories. They would have to move their operations overseas to get around the tariffs. This is how clueless you are. It is just economics, and you are too stupid understand it.
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  2285.  @dragonore2009  A corporation is a capitalist entity which exists to make profit. All businesses exist to make profit. In capitalism, businesses exist to make profit, so if you believe corporatism isn't capitalism then you are ignorant.
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  2286.  @dragonore2009  We don't produce surgical masks here, because it isn't profitable to do so. It doesn't have anything to do with government regulations. It just has to do with the cost of producing it overseas is much less expensive than producing it here. You do have regulations in more advanced countries, like the U.S.A., E.U., Canada, Australia, and other developed economies. We have environmental protection laws to prevent companies from dumping toxic waste into the environment. That does add to the cost of doing business here. Are you saying , we should get rid of all regulations, so we can have a purely free market economy? If that is true then anyone with money should be able any weapon from land mines to combat aircraft. You can't freely buy narcotics, and sell it to private parties. If we had a truly free market economy then there should be no restrictions, and no country in this world is like that. Just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean you can buy a main battle tank and drive it on the street. Women should be able to prostitute themselves for money. We should just get rid of the child labor laws, abolish the minimum wage, and do away with all the protections that people fought for. A truly free market system simply doesn't work, it would lead to anarchy.
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  2287.  @shobvious  Capitalism leads to monopolies, I'll give you some examples. Back in the 1920s to the 1960s, you had a lot more automobile manufacturers than you have now. You had Studebaker, Hudson Motor Co., Packard Motor Co., Crosley Motors, Kaiser-Frazer Corp, Tucker, Nash Kelvinator Corp, etc. Now you have Ford, GM, & Chrysler-Fiat. Companies merge, and larger corporation buy out smaller competitors. Back in the 1980s, you had a lot of different computer manufacturers, like Atari, Commodore, Radio Shack, Tandon, Texas Instruments, Zenith, RCA, Leading Edge, Packard Bell, e-Machines, Gateway, Everex, General Electric, Amstrad, Hyundai, Compaq, Leading Technology, CompuAdd, Bell & Howell, Sinclair, Elonex, Mitsubishi, Philips, Xerox, and many more with their own operating systems. Fast forward 30 to 40 years, you have Apple, Hewlett Packard, Dell, Asus, and Acer that manufacture whole computers. On the parts side, you have AMD and Intel that make the CPUs/processors. On the operating system side, you have Microsoft that dominates this aspect of the PC business. We do have other operating systems, like Linux, but not many people use them to software limitations. Capitalism will lead to mergers, and monopolies. This is why we have monopolies now. It takes a lot of capital investment, and know how to start a car business, a brewery, silicon wafer foundry, etc. You can say the same about land, you have big corporations with a lot of money, like McDonalds that bought up a lot of land. You have hedge funds that bought up a lot of land and caused the price of real estate to go up. Again that is another example of a monopoly. Lobbies are part of the capitalist system, companies make money, and they pay politicians to do their bidding. It was that way in the 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, and the 21st century. You will continue to get screwed by the people who have the money, and power who will use their wealth to get an advantage. It has always been that way in the capitalism, and it will not change. Most people will buy from Amazon corporation, because they offer very inexpensive products. They will continue to drive Uber, because they offer very cheap fares. Many Americans will continue to shop at Walmart, because they offer competitive prices. You can complain about all you want, but you aren't going to change it. In capitalism, people vote with their money. I don't care if you believe in mom and pop businesses, most people will not go to them because they don't offer the best prices.
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  2288.  @shobvious  From what I can see, the government is doing everything to keep these large corporations alive. These corporations aren't sharing their profits with the public, yet the public is forced to bail them out. As for Amazon, it is largely funded by people who buy Amazon stock. The same with Tesla, Facebook, and others. If the Dow Jones tanked to 5000 points, Amazon, Tesla, Facebook, Uber, Lyft, and others will probably go under. A lot of 401ks, private pensions, and mutual funds would also go under. A lot of public pensions will be affected negatively as well. This is why Amazon, and Tesla don't make any profit. They get people to believe in the hype to give them liquidity. A massive implosion in the stock market will expose this illusion of false prosperity.
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  2289.  @shobvious  Let's say I had a company, and I had all the requirements to make my company go public, and sell stocks on Wall Street. Let's say my stock value was 50 cents per share when I did my IPO(Initial Public Offering). Let's say I paid people to go on social media to promote my product or service. People start buying my products and stock shares from my company. Let's say after 10 years, my stock went from 50 cents to $2000/share. I would be billionaire. I could simply liquidate all my stocks, and retire. As a matter of fact, I could use this extra capital to drive other smaller companies out of business. I could subsidize my losses with my stock holdings. The smaller guy is making very small profit margins to survive while I could take the losses.
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  2290. I am in my mid 40s, and I remember back in the 1970s and early 1980s my father earned enough income to support everyone in the family. My mom didn't have to work. Today, the wife and husband both have to work, and they have to work at least two jobs to just pay the bills. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, we had stable jobs that paid good wages. Today, we have Gig jobs and part time jobs which are just temporary jobs, or jobs that pay very low wages. It is tough even if you have a university degree and skills, so I can image it would be nearly impossible to get ahead if you don't have either.
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  2291. For those politicians in Washington D.C., they will be fine no matter what. For the common person that is a different story.
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  2292. I started buying the stuff back in 2006, and it was the best investment I ever made.
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  2293.  @lucius1976  RISC processors are more efficient, and they would be ideal for servers and data centers. They aren't ideal for scientists and engineers who use modeling applications, CISC based processors are much better at crunching float numbers.
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  2294.  Ops Blac  You can't live without clean water for more than 3 days.
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  2295. This decision will be applied all over the country, not just in Detroit.
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  2296. Gil Martin, that is right. This is why Republicans had been defunding public education for years. They want people to be like Homer Simpson, or Peter Griffin. Dumb, ignorant, and uneducated, so they can have the vote against their interests.
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  2297. This is bad news for US and EU workers. Companies would not hesitate to replace workers with robots, and AI. It saves them a lot of money, and makes their companies more profitable.
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  2298. Bail ins will be used when the banks and financial institutions don't get a bail out.
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  2299. Aren't you on the wrong channel WB?
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  2300. The UK and the US are both fine examples of neoliberal economic policies.
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  2301. That's right, this is why Trump went bankrupt 6 times. Trump is an idiot who doesn't understand trade or economics.
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  2302. When China enters the market, they always seem to win. China can produce products people want at a reasonable price, and the West can't.
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  2303. Isn't this ironic. LOL
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  2304. Chinese talent should develop industries in China.
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  2305. They are morons, and Donald Trump isn't good at business either. LOL
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  2306. This is the reason why Intel isn't doing so well. China was the biggest market for Intel chips, and Intel lost that market. I think this is why Intel tried to save money by taking shortcuts by overclocking their cpus instead of putting R&D in producing better nodes for their chips. This would have enabled them to produce chips with smaller transistors that ran cooler. Without money, they can't put it into R&D, so the easiest solution is using microCode in their CPUs to overclock it. Intel CPUs still use the 10nm process, which means those chips have larger transistors and run hotter. The smaller the nodes the cooler the cpus run, just look at early computers that used vacuum tubes, those computers were gigantic and used a lot of energy.
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  2307.  @UshankaShow  Still, if you had two people in the USA earning a combined salary of $5000/month, it would still eat up 59% of that couples income living in the city I live in. Rents have gone up a lot in most major cities in the USA for over the past 10 to 12 years.
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  2308.  @halaheleu7013  If you live in fly by country, there aren't that many jobs or opportunities to make a living. This is why people leave Rust Belts states, and farming areas.
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  2309.  @MrAnonymousRandom  If investment firms decide to put all their money into buying up real estate then that will push up the price of real estate. Since Wall Street has most of the money in the economy, the can buy up most of the real estate pushing the price up artificially. As a result, regular people suffer as a result. People who don't make enough get pushed out of the area, or they end up in the streets. This is why we are seeing a surge of homelessness in cities, like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and other cities. You are saying capitalism doesn't have problems? Capitalism and socialism both have problems. In the end, if the price of real estate rise at a level where it cannot keep up with wages then we have a big real estate bubble. We have a bubble in other parts of the economy, like the equities market inflated by artificially low interest rates for the past 11 years. When it does pop, like it did in 2008, these guys on Wall Street will get bailed out again, right? Because they have all the right connections in Washington DC. LOL This idea that capitalism is perfect is BS.
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  2310. The Russians want a buffer zone, like Eastern Europe was a buffer zone during Sovet times.
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  2311.  @jasontome8050  I think Japan lost WW2.
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  2312. He will be facing foreclosures when his creditors come to collect.
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  2313. You're pretty good at retro video games, I am 48 and I cannot play video games as well as you do. You are young in body in mind.
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  2314. If your can get replaced by a machine then you need to find another job.
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  2315. He just wants to make money selling Jesus.
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  2316. @Jacket off Gym Jordan In addition to that, obese people are seriously at risk from this coronavirus, and red states have a lot of fat and ignorant people in them. LOL
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  2317. This is what happens when you have a old fogey running the government, he is so clueless.
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  2318.  @YOUR_MOTHER_WENT_TO_COLLEGE  In every state, there are criminals in every state. If someone wants to hurt me, I want to be able to defend myself.
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  2319.  @ck-bs2ms  Japan isn't a sovereign country.
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  2320. Europe wants to go green right. Maybe Russia can make that into reality by cutting off oil to Europe. LOL
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  2321. Was it really worth it? Living in a slum in the U.K. Giving up a bright future, and a comfortable life?
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  2322.  @darkcloud5830  They are going home in plastic bags in wooden crates. LOL
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  2323.  @johnjames5712  Mercenaries are expendable. Most armies put their mercenaries in the toughest spots on the battlefield. If they die then they don't get paid, while conserving regular military units.
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  2324. These F-22s and F-35s will be expensive scrap.
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  2325.  @fagreed3938  Maybe, he got bored of working at McDonald's or something. He thought getting shelled by Russian artillery and hit by Russian air strikes was going to make his life more exciting.
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  2326.  @fagreed3938  Yes, it does. That is what is fueling the war in the Ukraine.
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  2327. Exactly, white nationalist militias who have this fantasy of starting a race war. They just want to use their 2nd Amendment rights on people that don't agree with them, or look like them.
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  2328.  @fatdoi003  No one knows the future. We can only wait and see.
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  2329. The USA is a country of contradictions.
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  2330. I live in the US, and I just have one part time job, and I do other things on the side, like buy bonds and collect interest on it, buy and sell stocks, e-commerce, make furniture, make electronic devices, social media, etc. Even with all these things, my income is a lot less than what I made from one full time job.
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  2331. How about throw the parent in jail if the guns belonged to the parents of the shooters. Throw their parents in jail for negligence, and strip them of all their assets in civil court. Make them homeless and throw them in prison. That will work. Your child used your gun to kill people, and it was due your negligence that caused the death of these people. If you take everything a person owns including their freedom, they will think twice about being negligent.
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  2332. The parents are responsible for not locking up their firearms where a kid could have access to it. The parent should be sued, have all of his assets stripped from them in civil court, and also the parents should face criminal charges. After all, it was the parent's gun and the parent is the legal guardian of the child. Throw em in prison and make them homeless after they get out of prison. LOL!
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  2333. That is because the Russians helped him into power. Trump is a traitor!
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  2334. As a matter of fact I do, Trump said he wanted to pardon himself from the investigation. His meddling in the investigation is evidence that he is guilty. I hope they impeach Dr. Zaius(Donald Trump).
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  2335. I don't argue with stupid people.
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  2336. The U.S. armed forces didn't take an oath on the president, the members of the U.S. armed forces took an oath on the constitution of the United States of America. If Trump violates the constitution, the armed forces will not defend Trump. The U.S. armed forces, the F.B.I, the C.I.A., I.R.S., U.S. Marshals, B.A.T.F., D.E.A., & the N.S.A. are part of the Federal government. You idiots can do something stupid, most of you will end up in rotting in a Federal prison working for 10 cents a hour for the 30 years of your life.
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  2337. It's not worth a penny, it is worth like 0.0128 pennies. With 1 penny you can buy 78.13 Terra Luna coins. LOL
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  2338. As long as Trump tells those white nationalist scumbags what they want to hear, they will continue to support him.
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  2339. The Trumpkins are so predictable on what they will say. LOL
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  2340.  @davidmordan  Sure, Ivan Kamakov.
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  2341. It is very difficult to immigrate to any country in East Asia, they don't want immigrants.
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  2342. That pretty much sums it up. 100 people can own 300,000 homes, and 1,200,000 people could live pay check to pay check.
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  2343. You being involved in Falun Gong makes you lose all your credibility.
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  2344. They aren't going to make any deals with Trump, they will wait until Trump is no longer president.
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  2345. Good. They need to transfer all 4 of these thugs to a prison in Texas, or Florida. Somewhere it is hot and humid, in a prison that doesn't have any air conditioning, and in a state that forces prisoners to work in hot weather. ROFL
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  2346.  @freespeech515  China was the cheapest place to produce stuff. China isn't the cheapest place to produce goods today. The only thing China has going for it is their access to lithium, rare earth minerals, and a industrial base for producing electronics and electronic components of all types.
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  2347.  @user-gk1nt6sm2z  No, I observed it in 2008, and also in 1987.
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  2348. Running over suspects should be legal, they shouldn't run from the cops.
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  2349. Too bad they didn't get the thugs. At least that animal was arrested by the police, now they need to put him in a cage.
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  2350. I agree 100%.
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  2351. Those territories belonged to China, and where did you learn English Mr. Narty Nart?
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  2352. I thought Trump said, this is the greatest economy in the history of the USA??? LOL
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  2353.  @SavageStephen  Why are you here? Go to the trailer park channel where you belong. This channel is for those who wish to invest in the equities markets, and in gold.
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  2354. The government can't stop spending, so the end result will be like Argentina, but at a much bigger scale in the future. Runaway inflation is coming to a state and a city near you.
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  2355. Musk will sell his cyber trucks to the DOD.
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  2356. Zeihan doesn't know anything, he just makes stuff up. This idea China is going to go down because of demography is false. We have technologies that will replace millions of jobs in the near future, like AI, and automation. The CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang said, “everyone can be a programmer". What he is implying is, you will be able to tell the computer what you want it to do with simple English. You don't have to learn programming languages to do that in the future. One of my friends back in university was a computer science major, and he told me in the future people will not have to learn programming languages. I said why? He said, because computers will be able to understand human language. He also said, computer programming is basically about telling the computer what you want it to do. We will have robots, and robots can be trained with AI by demonstrating what you want it to do, like you would do with a human worker. If and when that happens, you will not need to have 5,000 people in a company. You will be able to get the work of 10 to 15 people done with one person, so that labor for will be more like 333 to 500 people. If you don't think big corporations in the U S and other countries won't employ this technology to replace millions of people then you don't understand how corporations work. Corporations exist to be efficient. Efficient in the way of employing technology, machinery, and equipment to increase profitability. All this population growth will be a burden on the economy, because you will have millions of people who aren't contributing to the economy, because they are redundant. It will drain the social security system, state resources, municipal resources, and the national economy. It isn't about having a huge population, it is about having a highly educated, and highly skilled work force which is more productive than having tons of people.
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  2357. As for the housing crisis, they need to build more condos and apartment buildings. That's the only solution, but that is difficult to do in the US due to zoning restrictions. In most parts of the world, you have less single family homes and more high rise apartment buildings + condos. It's a supply and demand issue.
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  2358. Musk is aut-istic.
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  2359.  @ianchu8232  Selling stuff to the government isn't the free market, it is a monopolistic industry.
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  2360. Neo Nazis, KKK, and Alt-right people are fine people according to Trump. LOL
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  2361. Jack Ripper, I guess you wouldn't mind paying $50,000 for a Ford Fusion then? The supply chain for car parts, electronic equipment, etc are imported. I guess, you wouldn't mind paying $4000 for a I-phone. You must be rich, but I couldn't afford it.
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  2362. I have degrees in economics and computer science. I worked in a manufacturing plant a few years ago. Most of the work I was doing was programming controllers, robotic arms, conveyor belts, and automating the processes for manufacturing. After I was done programming most of the machines, the company laid off 800 out of the 900 workers in the plant. People like me who are highly skilled in technology and designing systems that replace workers are valuable.
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  2363.  @yuhno808  That is subjective.
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  2364. They put a Donald Trump ad on this video, so I left it on and played it through. Everyone should do the same, we need to take money from Trump sponsors and give it to Young Turks and other media outlets.
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  2365. The system is fundamentally corrupt and rotten.
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  2366. Chump is a big loser and cheater.
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  2367.  @DV-dt9sq  Everyone reverse engineers everything, it is no big deal. It applies with any machine. The first gas operated machine gun was invented by Hiram Maxim, the principles of Mr. Maxim's gas operated machine gun was applied to make the Browning Automatic rifle, the Lewis machine gun, Mg-34 machine gun, M2 Browning heavy machine gun, Degtyaryov machine gun, the Bren gun, VZ-26, the Ak-47, the M-16A1, etc. Just imagine if some asshole put a copyright on paper, and no one can make paper without paying licensing fees. There isn't anything wrong with copying, engineers do it all the time. Samsung roughly copied the Iphone, and made the Samsung Galaxy line of smartphones.
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  2368. It doesn't matter, the China men already have the technology, because American companies gave it to them in exchange for cheap labor. Now, they are using what they learned to build up their own technology. LOL
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  2369. When I was running my fathers store about 16 years ago, the products that kept the store going were a handful that sold really well. That was the bread and butter of the store. Having a store that doesn't specialize in a specific number of items is not a profitable store.
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  2370.  @colberthunter12  Shut up.
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  2371.  @VILLANELLE-gx8hr  At the moment, USD is needed to pay off debts in USD. After all or most of these debts get paid off, most countries in the world can borrow money from BRICS intead of the IMF.
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  2372. Nothing ever gets done in the US, because there is no unified economic policy. You have 3 branches of government, local(municipal), state, and federal. It just takes one branch to derail economic projects.
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  2373. Who cares what America wants, the world knows the US is full of bs.
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  2374.  @dannylandrum7899  I think they will become homeless and die from the Coronavirus.
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  2375. This gives these psychos the right to kill people????? They need to ban every gun channel on Youtube.
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  2376. That is so true. Trump is the biggest clown out there. LOL
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  2377. People in China don't have to buy US brands, because the US govt is banning Chinese companies, and Chinese companies are getting better. These US companies can continue to make their products in China, but they can export their products to the EU and the US. It's as simple as that. This means, the US isn't really decoupling from China.
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  2378. We had the saving and loans scandal in the late 1980s, I remember. We also had a very bad stock market crash in 1987, and a major stock crash. We had a severe recession from 1987 to 1995. Then, we had a major stock market crash in 2000, and another one in Sept 11th 2001. The stock market didn't go down after the crash in 1987 to 2000. The stock market went up from 2000 to Oct. 2008. The recession is over buddy, the printed dollars will stimulate the economy!
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  2379. How can you let a kid like that travel that far by herself in this dangerous world!!!!!
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  2380. Japanese video game consoles were built to last. That Famicom must be at least 41 years old. Stuff made in Japan was very high quality stuff. I still have a Sony Walkman from the 1989, and it still works.
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  2381.  @DD-vf9ow  It does, and that is why the US politicians are preventing Chinese EVs from entering the US market.
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  2382.  @juanshaftpatel7488  Not really, because I don't have any debt.
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  2383. People who live under financial stress resort to substance abuse, and it is a downward spiral from there.
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  2384.  @ffjsb  We all need to protect ourselves during turbulent times like this.
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  2385. Back in the 1980s, they sold semi-automatic UZIs in gunshops.
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  2386.  @RadiationNetwork  You can have an insect farm, grind up the insects, and feed the insects to the fish.
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  2387.  @savannah505  you can't comprehend what this video is saying? Most of you Trumpkins have pretty low IQs, it is pointless to argue with stupid people.
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  2388. There is no time limit when you go to a restaurant and order food. Those people only stayed there for about 75 minutes, most people sit in for 1 hour and 30 minutes to 2 hours when you have about 5 people that ordered a lot of food.
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  2389. I am like that guy, but I am 13 years older in the first part of the video. I have substantial amount of savings, a home, vehicle, and other assets. I have very low emotional intelligence, and I neglected having relationships with women. I did have relationships with women, but I didn't invest much time on it. As a result, I am not married at 49. If you weren't successful man, and didn't get married then you are very unfortunate. I stopped going to social events, because everyone had partners. It seems awkward to go to these events by myself. These men in their early 30s and early 40s aren't in such a bad spot, they still have time.
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  2390. The U S MIC sells overpriced equipment and munitions. Ever hear of contractors ripping off the government by selling $100 hammers, $2 for a nail, $3 for a screw, $50 for a broom, etc, this is what the MIC is doing to our country. I saw this toy drone called a Black Hornet Nano which costs about $250,000 for a drone that looks like a toy drone, it fits in the palm of your hands. ROFL 😆
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  2391. The idiots who vote for Mitch are just as disgraceful.
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  2392. You can have a free market economy with socialism. Nordic countries are socialist countries with free markets, and Yugoslavia had socialism with free markets. China is a socialist country with free markets. All the important aspects of China's economy isn't based on capitalism, like being able to own land. Therefore, you cannot have land speculation like you did in the US. As a result, people can afford to buy homes, and the price of rents are low. People can engage in free enterprise in China, but having a socialist base in the economy allows people to do that. People in China don't have to pay high rents to rent or lease commercial properties. The average person in China don't have to pay high rents. As a result, China's economy is more competitive than the US. Affordable real estate prices results in low inflation unlike the US.
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  2393. Tariffs are collected from everyone who buys things made abroad, most things are made abroad. Then, give it to farmers who can't sell their goods due to these tariffs. It is like putting blood into one arm to the other. LOL
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  2394. They must Chump cultists who ingested or injected themselves with Clorox bleach. LOL
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  2395.  @Portraofficial  Not really, I just cook most of my food.
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  2396. If that woman didn't like living in China then she wouldn't have learned the language, or be there. You are just putting this out of context to get views!
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  2397. Chump is a loser and whiner, everyone knows it. He was a draft dodger, a con man, a failed business man, and loser.
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  2398. Donald Trump is a big nothing, and a conman.
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  2399. $2.22 for all that. That is really inexpensive.
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  2400. You vote for a conman, and this is what you get? What do you expect?
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  2401. Trump has been a con man all of his life, so why do people think he would change?
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  2402. Those companies depend on export markets to survive. Those companies are going to lay off idiots like you when their revenues decline.
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  2403. He must be related to Heinrich Himmler.
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  2404. Modern day slavery.
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  2405.  @ZhenYae  You can't. These people have a habit of ganging up on non-Western powers. You saw them do it during the Crusades when they ganged up on the Islamic Caliphates. They ganged up on the Ottoman Empire, and others. These people will never change, they were like this 800 years ago, and they are still like that now.
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  2406. Sell T bills and buy natural resources. Natural resources are more valuable than paper.
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  2407. Those bad policies will be changed when rich people get affected by it.
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  2408. I know you want your country back like the skinheads, and the KKK wants it back. If you want to get away from mainstream society, go live in the forest with the animals, LOL.Like it or not, everyone is equal under the law, and if you don't like it get the hell out of the USA. You Western Europeans sure are some tolerant people, ROFL. The land of my ancestors was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and that is proof enough that different people can exist in an Empire. Tolerance, and understanding.
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  2409. The biggest Karen in the world is the US, they are minding everyone's business, and they aren't taking care of their own business.
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  2410. @David Lightman You need to major in engineering in college/university, pass an exam before you graduate to become an engineer. The drop out rate for engineering is about 50% or more. Most people drop out, because they can't pass the advanced math and science classes. Engineering is in demand, because it is difficult to become an engineer, just like it is difficult to become a medical doctor.
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  2411. He must be related to Reinhardt Heydtich.
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  2412. A lot of people are going to look like >:<( before they looked like I:<I or I:<) .
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  2413. The USD will not longer be the world reserve currency, and chump will go down in history as the prez that made that happen.
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  2414. Greece has very little industry. That's why your country is going down. Countries that have industries will be able to get through this crisis over time, and the countries that don't will have a hard time. It's that simple.
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  2415. I think people have to take a break from keeping up with current affairs. All this bad news is not good for your health. Sometimes, I just unplug for several days, and go on a trip, or do other things. This is the only way you can maintain your peace of mind.
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  2416.  @joshlewis575  Like I said, the biggest real estate investors in China are investors from outside of mainland China, like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Western countries, etc. They are wealthy Chinese multi millionaires and Chinese billionaires who have more money than they know what to do with it. As for the ordinary Chinese people who paid for those homes, the government will bail them out. It won't all be done in one year, it will take a few years to write off these debts. Besides, they don't have a highly financialized where the economy is highly dependent on asset appreciation and collecting rent. Another thing, you cannot own land in mainland China, all the land is owned by the government(People). You can only get leases for that land, those leases are for 30 years to 70 years.
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  2417.  @Lee-pf6od  More than 90% of the people that live in China don't have a mortgage. People don't take home equity loans in China, so the majority of the people will be just fine. : ) The billionaires and the multiple millionaire speculators are the ones who are worried about their investments going down.
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  2418. The US spent $4.7 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet conservatives argue against infrastructure spending. The hypocrisy of these people, for these people it is okay to attack small countries to fund the military industry complex. It isn't okay to spend money on infrastructure, education, and social welfare programs. These people should be called the regressives.
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  2419. 賴清德 is a puppet of the US.
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  2420. Having a change of leadership every 4 years isn't effective, because policies change with every election.
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  2421. If you live in a urban area like I do, it is about coming up with the $$$$$. $$$ is needed. You can always $$$$$ if you live in the USA. The sky is the limit. You do have to be very intelligence that is necessary. If you're not, I guess living in the USA sucks. If you're smart, you can learn a lot of things, and make a lot of money. You can learn different programming languages, learn engineering, start a online business, or start any business. Apply it, and you can make a good living. If you can't do that, it is your own damn fault for being incapable.
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  2422. Republicans don't want smart people, they want dumb Joe the plumber types.
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  2423. It is ironic, the ignorant people who voted for Trump are getting betrayed by Trump with this new tax reform bill. Trump didn't keep any of his promises with the people who got him elected who wanted to see change.
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  2424.  @shizuokaBLUES  I've never seen anything like it. It looks pretty cool.
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  2425.  @woodyexplorer  That advantage will go away in the future.
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  2426. It is mathematically impossible to pay all the debts off, because interest rates are attached to the principle. There will always be more debts than the money that was loaned out.
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  2427.  @tonial5789  Not going to happen anytime soon. If you can't pay your mortgage, your home will get foreclosed on. If you can't pay your car payments, the repo man will take your car. If you can't pay your property tax for a year, the county will put a lien on your home and seize it. Before anything like hyperinflation does happen, millions of people will be sleeping on the sidewalk in tents.
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  2428. He is trying everything to stay in the White House, by proclaiming himself president before the election was over. Trying to throw out votes, sabotaging the USPS, not conceding even when he lost, and the frivolous lawsuits.
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  2429. I am sure he will be able to raise more money, there are plenty of suckers I mean investors out there. LOL
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  2430. There is no alternative for those chips, so if a 500% tariff is put on those items. Companies will pay it, because they need them to produce smartphones, computers, microcontrollers, industrial computers, single board computers, routers, network equipment, video game consoles, and other electronics. The only thing this is going to do is make your smartphones, computers, and electronics more expensive.
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  2431. I live in California, and one egg costs about $0.75 to $0.85 per egg. 12 eggs cost about $9 to $11. Back in 2006, a dozen eggs used to cost $1.99, and its been like that for a very long time.
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  2432.  @frasersamuel2867  Trump is a big loser and a conman. This is why he isn't showing his tax returns.
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  2433. @Motorcitymadman If the system crashes, you can't get your money out of the bank. Unless, you are some Hill Billy that lives in the backwaters, most of us need to pay our bills with our bank accounts. We also need to order supplies with our credit cards, have lines of credit, debit cards, etc. We also get checks that we need cashed by the banks, whether you be working for someone or operate your own business.
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  2434.  @kanscopeichel491  If you think its much better is rural counties, it isn't. I have family members that live in rural areas in states, like Montana, and they are telling me crime is going up there. There are more break ins, and people stealing stuff as well.
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  2435. I am surprised, Iran has an automotive industry. That is pretty impressive.
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  2436.  @TravellingwithRussell  Looks like the BRICS economic union has a chance to replace Western hegemony in the future. These BRICS countries can produce natural resources, manufactured goods, have a lower cost of living, and a larger population compared to Western countries. Looks like the future is looking bright for BRICS, the future looks bleak for the West. You have rising inflation, rising cost of living, shortage of goods, etc in the West.
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  2437. I saw some people who took these subprime loans back in 2002 to 2005. When they first got these loans, they looked okay. However, after the interest rates went up, they looked really stressed and disheveled. I remember it vividly.
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  2438. Capitalists don't have to share the profits, and they rarely do. This is why trickle down economics is a lie.
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  2439. The EU and US did this to themselves, another self inflicted wound. LOL
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  2440. Lila W, you can't expect a ignorant Trumpkin like this to elaborate anything.
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  2441. It is funny how people in the US vote against their own interests.
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  2442.  @elhugeo  The cost of rent, real estate, and the cost of living is just much higher in the US and other Western countries. You can produce all your stuff in the US, no one said you can't. If you did that, most people couldn't afford to buy a computer, smartphone, smart television, etc. Since the cost of labor is , like 4 to 10 times higher in the US compared to other countries, you will pay $4000 to $6000 for a smartphone, $4000 to $5000 for a computer, $2000 for a 55" smart tv, etc. You won't be able to export that to any other country, because most countries couldn't afford to pay those inflated prices. You aren't really exceptional, you are actually pretty pathetic.
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  2443.  @seanmcginnis8276  You are clueless. LOL
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  2444. They did to themselves by playing dumb games.
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  2445.  @STScott-qo4pw  What a sad world we live in today.
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  2446. When you reach your 40s, all your friends are busy with their families, so you naturally lose all your friends. You need to spend more time with your family, and do things with them. Go to the amusement park, go to the mall, go to the museum, etc.
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  2447.  @felixii4931  thanks, I will check out that channel.
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  2448. All the Baby Boomers who voted for Trump will regret voting for this big mouth idiot. When the stock market crashes due to Trump's recklessness, they will realize their 401ks and other retirement funds will no longer be sending them a check every month. At the same time, Mr. Trump will cut Social Security. He will make America great again, these morons who voted for will get affected and they will vote him out of office.
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  2449. I am glad the Fed is raising interest rates. It gets rid of all the fake assets and bubbles in our economy. It all needs to pop, and all debts have to be paid off in the end.
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  2450. Petrorouble, this means the death of the Petrodollar.
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  2451. The age gap between me and my parents is about 33 years. The age gap between my parents and their parents was 19 years. The age gap between kids and parents had been increasing over the years.
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  2452. Merica is a paper tiger. ROFL 🤣
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  2453. I think these companies that developed and produced these vaccines are immune from lawsuits.
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  2454.  @chriscain7333  Most of the products sold in the US are made in other countries, like China, and companies just put their brand on em. That's all.
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  2455. Trump was a terrible businessman, and he is terrible president. LOL
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  2456. @Alexa M Yes, that is true. Bill Clinton also reformed welfare and greatly reduced it as well.
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  2457. NathanHVAC is a troll, don't respond to him.
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  2458. If everyone conceal carried, it would cause a blood bath. No one knows who shot first, so everyone would shoot each other. LOL
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  2459. The CIA was involved in it. US media came out with their story ISIS did it. ISIS is a US proxy.
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  2460. She's high on American exceptionalism.
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  2461. Those robots will replacing aging workers, and automation will be used in factories for the same reason. Robots will replace older workers, and help take care of older people. Those EV cars can be consumed in China, only 29% of the Chinese population have any kind of motor vehicles. There are 415 million motor vehicles of all types in China, and there are only 20 million EVs. About 5 million EVs are produced in China, so China could absorb all the EVs that they produce. China doesn't have any problems.
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  2462. Watching stuff like this is better than watching pro wrestling. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
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  2463. Trump for prison.
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  2464.  @darkcloud5830  It didn't do very much damage, because it was a small commercial drone which couldn't carry a lot of explosives.
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  2465. That lady was lucky she didn't get eaten.
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  2466. People watching television and making a decision as big moving to another country based on a fictional story. Didn't your parents ever teach you TV and reality are two different things!
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  2467. That is what narcissism gets you.
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  2468. If you can't pay your mortgage then it will result in foreclosure. If you can't pay a business debt then the bank will take all your collateral. If you cannot pay your car debt then the repoman will take your car away. If you can't pay a student loan debt then they can garnish your wages. As far as I know, they got you if you had debt.
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  2469.  @madmartigan9190  Isn't walking a lot good for your health?
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  2470.  @madmartigan9190  Most of those jobs are entry level jobs, and people want to turn it into a career. I think that is where the problems lie. I did a lot of crappy entry level jobs when I was in my early 20s as a university student. I just did it to pay my way through school, so I would have less debt after I graduated. I didn't like doing those crappy jobs, but I did it because I had to. Now, I don't have to take crappy jobs like that, because I have the education to do better things.
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  2471. It is good China is standing up to the untruths DC is conveying to the world.
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  2472.  @randomsandwichian  the vast majority of people who supported Trump are white blue collar males. They were the ones who had the most difficult time due to globalization. Most men who have at least a bachelor's degree or higher weren't affected by the economic changes, because they could adapt. In this economy, if you don't have at least a bachelor's degree, most corporations and companies don't even at your resume.
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  2473.  @MyRockHoMama  I didn't major in gender studies, I majored in mathematics and minored in computer science. You know a lot of people who work in the tech industry are liberals, right?
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  2474.  @wenonahjoe  Trump Troll stfu.
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  2475.  @wenonahjoe  you talk like a nutter.
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  2476.  @vcnolechetcong7742  People get kidnapped in the U S , people get kidnapped in other countries. It happens.
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  2477. Trump supporters will say his daughter is married to a Jewish man, and his daughter converted to Judaism. Doesn't matter, most Trump supporters are anti-Semites.
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  2478. The BRICS block produce most of the vital resources in this world, like Platinum, palladium, uranium, germanium, gallium, tungsten, and everything other element in the periodic table. The G7 countries were able to exploit resource rich countries in the developing world, but they don't have this advantage today with competition from China.
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  2479. That is $4,109 USD in food that is insane.
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  2480. Looks like the US is isolating itself, and that is bad for technological innovation.
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  2481.  @kastnoka1274  Nice try. Moscow will halt trade in DOLLARS and EUROS.
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  2482. Now, the US is resorting to old fashion imperialism, because they can't compete.
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  2483. Not going to happen. DOGE will make cuts, and give it back to billionaires in the form of tax cuts, and government contracts to billionaires. LOL
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  2484. Hannity is a liar and an idiot, like Guilani.
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  2485.  @marknunya3107  That's why they are transitioning into a consumer based economy from a export based one. Back in the 1950s to the 1980s, the Japanese economy was a exported oriented economy. South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore were exported oriented economies. Most of those countries have a big consumer based economy. They transitioned from a labor intensive economy to a capital intensive economy. In order words, they invested in machines and automated processes to increase industrial output. They put more money into research and development to acquire core technologies. Manufacturing and a exported oriented economy is a stepping stone to an advanced economy. Once, you control the core technologies, you don't have to be a manufacturing power. Most of the inputs that go into the manufacturing process, like the key components, like jet engines, chemical compounds, semiconductor chips, solar cells, engines, ballpoint tips, etc can be sold to the manufacturing country. Most of the profits isn't in manufacturing. The companies that make the key components make the lion share of the profits. That's why China is investing money, and research to develop core technologies, like jet engines, solar cells, lithium batteries, other kinds of batteries, semiconductors, rockets for space shuttles, composite materials, alloys, chemical compounds, etc.
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  2486. China doesn't need to buy Boeing aircraft anymore.
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  2487. Youtube's algorithm is very imperfect.
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  2488.  @among-us-99999  Artificial intelligence, and algorithm is not as precise as people imagine it to be. One of the reasons why Youtube is free, because of the fact they don't use a lot of humans. Human labor is expensive compared to automated systems. A lot of the manufacturing is performed by machines, and automated systems today. The quality of those goods aren't as good as something that is handmade. This is why a handmade car brands, like a Ferrari, Rolls Royce, or other high end cars cost 6 figures. A Acura NSX which costs about $160k is made by craftsmen while a car, like the Acura TLX is mass produced in a factory using machines.
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  2489. You're FAKE NEWS!!!!!!!!
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  2490. Lindsey Graham looks like a weasel, and I don't trust any man that has a woman's name.
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  2491.  @JH-lb3kc  I wouldn't have done the same. I worked in my father's convenience store for a few years when I was a college student. I carried a hand gun. Customers I argued with threatened to kill me, often. They never carried out their threats. They were angry, and made these threats.I didn't shoot them in the head as they walked out of the store? If they got close and yelled, I didn't pull out my gun and shoot them. If the confrontation was hand to hand then I would use a stun gun, or pepper spray. I would never shoot anyone if they didn't have a gun or a knife.
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  2492.  @JH-lb3kc  The kid didn't have a lot of experience with firearms or with life. He murdered 2 people, and injured another. He wanted to play Call of Duty, because he thought it was going to be exciting. Now, he could face life in prison if found guilty. Tell me was it worth it?
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  2493.  @snipman8067  You know what lethal force is, and when you can use it? If someone pushes you, you cannot pull out a gun and shoot them in the chest.
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  2494.  @JH-lb3kc  You just want to believe what you want to believe.
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  2495.  @Smokin129  The first guy Rittenhouse shot didn't have gun, or any lethal weapon. He throw a plastic bag at him, and Rittenhouse put 4 .223 slugs in em. In other words, he shot the man to death, because he threw a plastic bag at em.
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  2496.  @nietur  Not really, because people in China don't take home equity loans out of their homes, like people do in the US. My home is paid off, and if the price of real estate went down. It doesn't affect me, it actually makes my life easier. I will less property tax. : )
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  2497. Sometimes, I wonder what kind of people become leaders in Western nations? It seems to me the people that become leaders there are sons and daughters of plutocrats that never had to live in the real world.
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  2498.  Sharon Empath  The only people who listen to Fox propaganda channel are old men who are in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. It is ironic that if people in that age group get it, it will be a death sentence.
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  2499.  @MyNameIsCorey  LOL
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  2500. It really depends, but wages in China, India, and Eastern Europe are a lot lower than it is in Western countries and in the USA. Some of these Indian engineers are really good. I've seen some of these Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, and Indian engineers at work, they are pretty good. They are very hard working. If you want to compete with these guys, it is going to be tough.
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  2501. We can thank Donald Trump for this.
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  2502.  @夏笙-i6m  I know in most top tier cities in China, property values are still very high. Cities, like Shanghai, and Shenzhen.
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  2503. Zombie corporations and their borrowing of unlimited money from the Federal Reserve will come to an end when foreigners stop buying US treasury bonds. When that happens, you will have a currency crisis, and that will lead to a period of very high inflation or even hyperinflation.
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  2504. More and more people are becoming homeless Youtubers and making a good amount of money doing it these days. If you lose your job and become homeless, become a homeless Youtuber. LOL
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  2505.  @The.world.has.gone.crazy...  I've never seen homeless people in the suburbs, but now you can see tents setup on sidewalks near a supermarket. This is crazy.
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  2506. By now, everyone should know the two party system doesn't work for the people.
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  2507. Walter Azbell, you need to get your head out of Trump's ass.
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  2508. Omid Saranj, that is why ignorant morons are attracted to it.
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  2509. All this time, you were never alone. LOL
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  2510. The South China Sea is called the South China Sea for a reason. It belonged to China is the past, so it belongs to China. It is as simple as that.
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  2511.  @johnreynolds7996  True.
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  2512. JCIC, it is possible for a community to pool their resources and support each other. The Jewish community does it, I know this because I am a Jew.
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  2513. Brad Christy, I hardly make any money doing just one thing. I have to do a number of things to make enough money to pay the bills. I have to sell real estate on the weekends, I have to buy and sell things on ebay, Amazon, and other sites. The only thing that is getting me through is the savings from the money I made 6 years ago in my previous business. I am not really highly motivated, I am pretty lazy, I don't care about money, and I try to do the bare minimum. I am not even married and have any children. People want to live to enjoy their lives, and I am enjoying my life by doing the bare minimum. LOL My uncle is a MD and 60% of his patients are Medicare patients, and the rest use some kind of insurance. I work part time at in the hospital, and most of the payments we process are Medicare patients. You don't even work for the healthcare industry, so stop making up stuff. Jewish people have different philosophies. Some believe in capitalism, others believe in socialism, and you can't just put a entire group of people into one basket and say they are like this or that.
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  2514. I say vote all the Republicans out of office.
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  2515. This is Trump's fault, he is responsible for this. He emboldened these cowards to come out of their rocks!
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  2516. What if everyone starts shooting down U S recon drones. Will the U S be able to respond to all of it? After all, it isn't Yemen that is sending drones to the coast of the U S, it isn't the Russians sending drones to the coast of the U S, it isn't the Iranians sending drones to coast of the U S, or China sending drones near the U S. It is the U S sending drones to those countries. Every country has a right to defend itself.
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  2517. This is insane, he is the one who is enacting these inflationary policies. Most chumpkins can't see it, they will believe chump even if it is nonsense.
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  2518.  @jaycee2556  Are you trying to defend your fake president? At this point, most people with the I.Q. of room temperature knows he is a conman and criminal. You don't have to believe it. It is 100% a fact.
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  2519. If I were you, I would cash out now.
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  2520. The electricity used for Bitcoins is needless, it doesn't do anything productive but use up a lot of energy needlessly.
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  2521. The Battle of the Bulge was a good example of an army attacking without air superiority. How did that go for the Germans in early 1945?
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  2522. She is your typical meth head. She doesn't have many brain cells left or teeth in her mouth.
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  2523.  @olderchin1558  CISC has more instruction sets, RISC has less but highly optimized instruction sets. CISC requires a much more complicated on chip architecture than RISC. CISC does have its advantages of being able to execute more instructions than RISC. I never programmed any computer using assembly language. The only programming languages I used were high level programming languages, like BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Batch Programming, C++, Javascript, and C#. Before they had high level programming languages. Assembly language is a low level computer programming language, and it requires you to know machine code instructions. That must be very difficult to learn. Developing a new CPU instruction set is going to be a daunting task. I am sure China can achieve these goals. They produce about 4.7 million STEM graduates per year. If enough money and talented people are funneled into it then those goals can be achieved in the future.
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  2524.  @helengarrett6378  Privatization was introduced back in the 1980s with the Reagan administration, and it has been a disaster. Look at the problems we are having now, like private prisons, private military companies, privatized roads/bridges/ports/airports, privatized railroads, privatized public utilities, etc. Capitalist entities only care about making profits, so if they get a hold of let's say a power plant, they will artificially try to create a shortage and jack up the rates. They did this in California when California had an electricity crisis in 2000 to 2001. Power companies created a shortage to rip off the public. You had the Texas power crisis of 2021, the power companies in Texas jacked up the rates to the point that people couldn't afford it. Look at the railway accidents we are having now, trains carrying toxic chemicals that get derailed, because greedy corporations find it more profitable to use hundreds of train carts which makes it more unsafe. It is more profitable to transport more carts on a single train, but more train carts makes it more difficult to stop and more prone to accidents. You have private corporations and companies that collect tolls on roads, bridges, ports, and other vital infrastructure. They keep raising the rates every year, give most of those profits to the administration of those companies, but don't invest much of the money in maintaining and improving the infrastructure. Private companies should not be able to monopolize things that can be monopolized. A road being monopolized? Everyone has to use that road. Water being monopolized? No one can monopolize a bakery, a store that sells stuff, a company that makes toys, a company that makes clothes, a company that makes electronics, etc. Why? Because anyone can do it.
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  2525. Vote all these racist punks out of government, including Donald J. Chump.
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  2526.  @eiyukabe  We do live in a real life monopoly game. If you don't own your home, you have to rent to someone else. If you own a small shop, you have to pay rent to the landlord. I heard in places like San Fransisco, the commercial rent was so expensive, people couldn't keep shops open. In cities all over the country, you have gentrification which causes rents to go up. As a result, lower income tenants get priced out of those areas. If you own all the means of production, and if you have enough money you can drive your competitors out of business. Look at the Walmarts, CVSs, and other chain stores. They get money from investors, mutual funds, pension funds, and others. These corporations use money from investors and drive all their small competitors out of business. Since it isn't their money, they can operate these businesses at a loss; after all, it isn't their money. Look Tesla and Amazon, they aren't even making a profit, yet they can operate with money institutional funds, like investment houses, pension funds, mutual funds, 401ks, and people who buy their stocks. It is the middle class who give their money to these mutual funds, pension funds, and 401ks which enable these large corporations to do what they do. If the middle class lose their jobs to outsourcing, automation, etc, it is their fault for funding the beast.
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  2527.  @eiyukabe  Middle class people shop in the Amazon, Walmarts, CVS pharmacies, Walgreens, Sam's Clubs, Best Buys, and other corporate retail outlets, yet they complain about how badly they treat their employees and how they pay them very low wages. That is the hypocrisy and paradox which is apparent. I don't have any faith in the people. A lot of these morons vote for people like Trump, and believe he will do something for them. I tend to be cynical and a nihilist, I just try to do what I can to survive. These social issues will never ever get solved, and it is apparent we will have a two tier society. Where you have a few very rich people, and a lot of poor people.
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  2528. There will be less trade with the US in the next four year due to the tariffs. As a result, less US t bonds will be bought, and it may force more countries to sell their t bonds. There will be less USD in the world, so countries around the world will use other currencies to conduct bilateral trade. For the US, less t bonds will be bought by other countries, so the US will have to finance their debts by printing more USD. This will be inflationary.
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  2529.  @muddyriverdogz  I am businessman, and for business people. We only care about the bottom line, and that is profit. If it costs more to produce in country A, we will naturally move our production to country B. You can shift the blame on central banks, fiat currency, or whatever. The bottom line is after all the overhead, how much do I get to put into my pocket is what matters. My parent's generation is a bit different from mine. I am a Generation Xer, we really don't have morals. We tend to be amoral. My father's generation being the silent generation care about people. Even the Boomers care about people. They don't have that kind of empathy. When my generation start to take over from the Boomers, you better be worried. People like Jeff Bezos is from my generation, he doesn't give his employees even bathroom breaks. He makes them piss in a bottle.
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  2530.  @muddyriverdogz  I have to say it has gotten tougher to make a living. Gone are the days when we could get a job and work there for 30 years and retire. You have to be multi-faceted to survive these days. There is no such a thing as a stable job, stable business, or a career. You have to constantly learn new things, and apply them. Life was so much simpler back in the 1970s and 1980s. One income could sustain a family back then. My father worked, and he made enough to provide for my whole family. Today, the wife has to work, the husband has to work, and in most cases it isn't enough. You have to go into debt. That is American life now.
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  2531. There are 20.4 million EVs in China, and China produces about 8 million EVs per year. There are 1,412,000,000 people in China. 20.4 million EVs is a small number in a country where you have over a billion people.
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  2532. China is doing a lot of scientific research which will benefit mankind as a whole.
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  2533.  @UnspokenWords2010  I have more gold and platinum than I have silver. I stopped buying gold at about 2012, and I sold 95% of my silver around 2011 to 2012. I am certain that the price of gold, silver, other commodities, and the price of goods will go up. After all, who is stupid enough fund our irresponsible government and it's out of control spending. It will end one day, and when the dollar loses its world reserve status. The dollar will not be worth the paper it is printed on.
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  2534. Don't take drugs, it's that simple. If you do then you deserve everything you get.
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  2535. There are many human rights abuses the US is guilty, maybe China should start pointing these out.
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  2536.  @theshipper5797  I just want a peace of mind. I don't want all this drama in my life. It is hard to find good people these days, so I don't even try anymore.
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  2537. People take drugs because of economic deprivation.
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  2538. That is because trump is trash, this is why trash people support him so much.
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  2539. ​ @JustSomePerson8  Gasoline is in my local area. $4.69/gallon to $5.19/gallon for regular gasoline. If the price of energy is expensive, you can bet everything else goes up as a result. Everything has to be shipped, so now the price of postage stamps are going up, the price of shipping goods, and the price of everyday items go up as a result of it.
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  2540.  @Casualphilosopher-db9gy  In East Asia, government sponsored pensions are really meager. Older people mostly rely on their children to survive. My parents are in their 80s, they do received Social Security, but it isn't enough. My father has a small pension, but that isn't enough either. Me and my siblings send them money every month to help with expenses. I live in the US, but people who live in East Asian countries do help out their parents. The eldest son usually live with their parents in the same house. Everyone does not do that, so most of the time the eldest son pays for the living expenses of their parents.
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  2541.  @patrioticyank4940  That is why people should not worry about this trend. Most young people know that they don't have a future, so they aren't getting married and having children.
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  2542. Trump is lying, I can't watch the whole speech. It is bullshit.
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  2543.  @InfernosReaper  When I order a movie from Youtube, or Amazon Prime, I don't see any ads.
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  2544.  @InfernosReaper  If they didn't do that, the monthly bill would be more. The basic cable service cost about $20/month back in 1986 in my area, but the price of HBO was $10/month. That's why you didn't get adverts on these movie channels.
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  2545. They ruined it, and they are ruining our world more.
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  2546. I guess the economy is overdosing on cheap money.
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  2547. James Gravil, exactly, because they can easily be fooled, tricked, and manipulated.
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  2548. David Collins, I can't really say everyone who voted for Trump were deplorables. Some believed Trump could bring back their jobs even if that is 100% impossible at this point in history. Others were affected in a very negative way by outsourcing of jobs. We cannot go back in time. If any company or corporation believes they can produce items here and sell it in the international market, they are sadly mistaken. These corporations have to compete in a global market. Let's say you produce a computer for about $1000, and you try to sell it in another country. At the same time, you can produce that same computer for $200 to $300 in India, Thailand, Vietnam, or China, the company that produces the computer for 3 times less will have a competitive edge. No one is going to buy your products because it is made in the USA, and other companies abroad are using foreign suppliers and assemblers to make their products. This would put American companies at a severe disadvantage. Another thing, Donald J. Trump owes a ton of money to Goldman Sachs and other interests. These were the people who helped bring down the economy back in 2008. If you think Trump will change your life for the better, you are sadly mistaken.
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  2549. Looks bad, I guess less people will be living in Florida in the future.
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  2550. Don't take drugs, or you become like that zombie idiot.
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  2551. The West can send their old M60 mbts, Leopard 1A1, Leopard 1A3s, Leopard 1A5s, Leopard 2A4s, AMX-13s, AMX-30s, and other surplus tanks.
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  2552. The West is living in a fantasy world, they want to go green, but they still need fossil fuels. They are such hypocrites, they need to get a dose of reality.
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  2553. Everyone here, do one thing. Boycott Musk, he is the one who bankrolled chump's campaign.
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  2554. As for SBCs, I transitioned to the Orange Pi, and Banana Pi platforms. I turn them into remote control cars, drones, NAS servers, retro gaming machines, and as microcontrollers. I did successfully turn a Orange Pi 4 into a mini PC, it could stream videos, browse the internet, online shopping, email, word processing, retro gaming, streaming video, etc. As for emulation, I use a SFF computer hooked up to my television. SFF computers has more power than any SBC, so it is the best choice for retro gaming up to a Nintendo GameCube.
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  2555. None of that matters now. The average muricans will have to deal with this for the next four years. If you aren't rich then you will get poorer, but if you are rich you will get richer. That's all.
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  2556. Fox is Fake News!!!!!!!!!!!
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  2557. Russia is a country that sells its natural resources to buy manufactured goods from other industrialized countries. It's just a sloppy, corrupt, and autocratic nation. There really isn't a future living in Russia, this is why their population has been going down for years.
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  2558. Just about everything about Musk is fake.
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  2559. China was under reporting.
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  2560.  @RockBrentwood  I am an engineer, and I can tell you that we import a lot of crap from China, more than just cell phones. Electronic components, capacitors, resistors, LCD screens, semi-conductors, micro-controllers, etc.
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  2561.  @claybrown1258  You don't have to believe what the Chinese government say, but we do need a lot of the stuff that they produce to build larger machines, like automobiles, medical equipment, manufacturing machinery, main battle tanks, avionics, various types of electronics, etc.
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  2562. I remember this one scene in the movie Lord of War (2005), when Nicolas Cage was talking to the head man of Liberia in one scene they were conducting trade. The Liberian president offered Cage diamonds or lumber for his guns, they didn't transact in dollars. I don't see why countries can't transact in goods.
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  2563. Inflation reduction act actually creates more inflation. Just about every policy these people implement never seems to work out for some reason.
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  2564.  @kookietherapy9398  I need him to do small choirs around the house and do my shopping for me.
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  2565.  @Bethune98  I don't think family members should be turning their back on people in their own family that have financial problems. My brother's wife is still working as a secretary at some office. He was the main bread winner of the house, so they couldn't afford to pay rent on their apartment after he lost his job.
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  2566.  @jimhanratty9543  I am sure he will find another job.
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  2567. I wonder what will happen if chump wins and puts all these tariffs on everything the US needs to survive?
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  2568. People who are in positions of power will always abuse the people who are under them, whether they are males or females. It has always been that way.
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  2569. Consumption is what enslaves people to work more.
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  2570. He wanted to get back $400,000, and lost $3,000,000,000. He should have just let the $400,000 go.
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  2571. Isn't there competition in capitalism? There isn't just one employer or company, because a new player can always come into the market to be more competitive by selling their stuff at a lower price. In an environment where there is too much competition, there is generally less profits. In a monopolistic market, the producer can charge whatever they want.
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  2572. The Ukrainian regime is the definition of what a bad regime is.
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  2573.  @kongakau5058  The problem with photonic chips is how can you make these light sources small enough and fit on a small chip? That has been a challenge for a long time. There is talk about what kind of nodes chips like this would be. A photonic chip would using lasers, and wavelengths of lasers are anywhere from 180 to 400 nanometers. Laser is used in fiber optic cables use LED and laser diodes. The wavelengths of LED light is about 365 to 450 nm. The problem is making photonic chip which can be used in consumer computing devices. The scientists and engineers will have to solve these problems before it becomes mainstream.
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  2574.  @Andy-P  The native Americans can tell you what I am saying is true.
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  2575. The US should get involved in helping countries against Chinese aggression. At the same time, the US most make policies to encourage more manufacturing within the USA, and other free nations.
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  2576. It's hard to say. People can get into a hole they cannot get out of. I've seen it a few times in my life. It doesn't matter how hard you try, you are just stuck. Let's say a person has a family, and both the husband and the wife lost their jobs that paid good salaries. Then, they were forced to find lower paying jobs which couldn't provide enough income to sustain their lifestyles. If you had a household that made $250,000/year, and now they have a household income of $75,000/year. That could drive anyone to substance abuse. They can work harder, but it isn't going to improve their situation.
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  2577. 31 M1A1 Abrams aren't going to make much of a difference, these are good main battle tanks, but it simply isn't enough. 500 to 700 of em would make a difference, but 31 won't do much.
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  2578. That is music to my ears. LOL
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  2579. What kind of savage does this?
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  2580. If the chumpsters can't afford to buy a car then they can always walk and run to work. After all, they still have legs.
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  2581. The isolated countries can be friends with each other, so they won't be isolated. LOL
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  2582. US prisons serve rotten food.
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  2583. The US and the collective West is acting like the eight nations alliance back in the 19th century. They are ganging up on China again. China should start doing more business with the global South countries and Russia instead.
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  2584. If all the we used was made in the USA, most people couldn't afford it. If a smartphone cost $5000, how many people could afford to buy it? If a computer cost $6000, how many people could afford it? People make a living off of using their smartphones, automobiles, drones, and computers to write software, edit videos, develop websites, writing articles on websites, post stuff on social media, take videos, take photos, ride share, make music, edit photography, etc. The money people make from doing stuff on their automobiles, computers, drones, smartphones, digital cameras, etc. I am an engineer, and I can tell you honestly that most of the factory and manufacturing jobs that people had in the 1970s were replaced with programmable micro controllers. This is why a 4 year university education is important in today's society. If you don't have at least that, your future is being a serf for the rest of your life being a slave making less than minimum wage on these Gig platforms.
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  2585.  @DailyBeatings  The first computer I got was a Apple IIc, and it cost about $1200 back in 1986. In today's money that would be about $5400 if you gauge it with the price of gasoline.
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  2586.  @DailyBeatings  It is bad for IBM, but it was and is good for the consumer. Apple was able to not get their platform cloned, because Apple used their own operating system. On the other hand, IBM used a 3rd operating system like Microsoft DOS. That's why their platform got hijacked.
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  2587. From what you showed on those charts, the US will become irrelevant. All the growth will be in Asia, and other global South countries. I guess, China won't have to depend on the US in the future, they will have a lot of demand for what they produce in China, and countries in Asia, South America, and Africa.
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  2588. Too much crime, it's that simple. It isn't worth putting stores in bad neighborhoods.
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  2589. The US is effectively a Banana Republic now.
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  2590. Amazon is known for being efficient and cost effective.
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  2591. Exactly. Trump stated he was a white nationalist, and this is what happens. White nationalists are violent and we know it.
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  2592. She is a typical entitled millennial, the trophy generation that believe everything is owed to them. I cannot put all the blame on this woman and her ilk. Trump is largely responsible for this, because he didn't think this through. How can you lockdown the economy, and not provide people with the means to do it. The Federal government came out with the moratorium mandates. It didn't provide any mechanisms for the landlords to get paid, but rather put the blunt of the responsibilities on landlords. Let this be a lesson to people that voting for a reality tv show host and a conman can have real consequences. Politicians may and bureaucrats may be boring, but I assure you that they are doing their jobs.
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  2593. The US public doesn't know tariffs are just another form of taxes. They are getting screwed and they don't even know it. This is the irony of it.
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  2594. The U S is trying their best to suppress China. None of that really matters now. Out of the $3.4 trillion dollars in Chinese exports, the U S accounts for about 15% of that. This is why China made the Brick and Roads initiative. China could increase trade exports to the global South countries in the future. Just like what Russia did, when they were sanctioned by the West. Russia still found markets for the energy in countries, like China, India, and other countries. The Western companies that left Russia was filled by Chinese companies. In 2020, China did about $65 billion in trade with Russia, and in 2023, China did more than $200 billion in trade with Russia.
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  2595. Most of the stuff made in the USA is assembled in the USA with parts made in China and other countries.
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  2596. The problem is the US cannot compete, so it needs to fabricate stories.
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  2597.  @thefreestylefrEaK  It is, that's why I make a living repairing electronics and computers as a 2ndry job.
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  2598. How pathetic, but it's too late. It isn't going to stop de dollarization.
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  2599. You can have a family and a home if you make enough money. All of my friends that are medical doctors, lawyers, CPAs, engineers, professors, stock brokers, and other professionals all are married and have families. My other friends, that work at McDonald's, Walmart, and other low end jobs don't have those things.
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  2600. China ain't no feminist paradise. In China, if a man beats his wife, the cops won't do anything.
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  2601. When you say 105 million Americans, how many are retired, how many aren't working because they have passive income, how many are students, how many are disabled, and how many are under 18?
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  2602.  @klam77  That seems about right. If you gauge inflation from 1971 to 2023, investments have just kept up with inflation. ______________________________________ Price of gold in 1971: $50 Average Price of a Home in 1971: $25,000 Price of gold in 2023: $1940 Average Price of a Home in 2023: $305,000 Dow Jones in 1971: 884.87 Dow Jones in 2023: 33,000 ______________________________________ Gold was 7.28%/year from 1971 to 2023 Average price of a home was 4.92% from 1971 to 2023 Dow Jones was 7.21%/year from 1971 to 2023 ______________________________________ For the past 52 years, investments and homes went up with inflation. People didn't get richer, the cost of living went up. Everything costs more compared to every preceding year.
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  2603. China is moving away from the SWIFT system, so countries that trade with dollars can get dollars using the Chinese banking system. This makes it impossible for the US to confiscate Chinese assets. China is selling assets in the US at a loss, because they know their assets can be seized.
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  2604.  @mundotaku_org  There is an economic sanction against Venezuela.
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  2605.  @brucemarmy8500  Yes, that is true. Americans wanted and still want lower prices, but it comes at a cost. That is why we had a lot of outsourcing through the years, because outsourcing manufacturing was the only way provide low cost goods to American consumers. This model of getting more for less isn't working these days, because workers are demanding higher and higher wages due to cost of living expenses. A hospital near where I lived had a strike, because the workers there wanted more money. This was due to the high cost of rents in that area. We really don't have communities in the US anymore, we have people with their own self interests competing with each other. These interests playing the win lose game. It isn't mutually beneficial to anyone, and it isn't a long term solution.
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  2606. Injecting people with disinfectant. LOL
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  2607. Taiwan is part of China.
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  2608. There is no point in working if your cannot cover the cost of living. That's the issue.
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  2609. I thought Trump was going to create the best social media website ever, so why does he care if he can't get on Facebook, Twitter, etc. A blog website isn't a social media website.
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  2610. I don't trust GM, I want a Honda ventilator. LOL
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  2611. The US govt has no proof, all they have are accusations.
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  2612. China needs to buy more of their grains from Russia, or grow more crops. They need to buy LNG, coal, and oil from Russia as well.
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  2613.  @itsallminor6133  I am an engineer myself. I went to university back in the mid 1990s, and 90% of the students in my class were foreign students. Very few American university students majored in physical sciences, or engineering. Most of em majored in easier subjects, like sociology, foreign affairs, liberal arts, and other easy majors. Most of the people I met were from the former USSR, China, Eastern European countries, India, Middle East, and other parts of Asia.
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  2614. He made his choice to get shot.
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  2615. Big capitalists = Big thieves
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  2616.  @changjer  That's true, and when you have too many lawyers in a country then it makes it very difficult to operate a business. or industry. That's one of the reasons why so many industries left the US.
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  2617. Exactly. This is why white nationalists like him can't complete, so they make unfair laws, like Jim Crow laws, Apartheid laws, make laws to prevent people from going into certain professions as was done by white Christians in medieval Europe aimed at Jews and non-Christians, Chinese Exclusion Act 1882, Immigration Act of 1924, etc. These people are entitled, they have to be protected. Look at the white people in South Africa after Apartheid, they can't compete. You don't have to feel sorry for these sorry people.
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  2618. The economy is where it is due to President Obama's policies, Trump's policies will surface in 2 years from now.
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  2619. They made decisions on flawed logic.
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  2620.  @jobumble8829  At least slaves got free medical care, masters would treat their slaves if they were sick or wounded. In capitalism, people are paid low wages, and they are given barely enough money to survive on. If the employee decides to quit, they can find another employee who will take their place. Thus, it is not in the interest of a employer to take care of their employees or independent contractors.
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  2621. LOL
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  2622.  @strangenameforaband342  The only way to prove anything in science is by conducting experiments.
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  2623.  @strangenameforaband342  I wouldn't want to be the one who gets experimented on. LOL
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  2624.  @michaellim4165 Samsung buys chemicals from Japanese companies to produce their semiconductors. Most of the chips S.Korean firms produce are based on ARM, and ARM is a British chip company which licenses out their RISC based architecture to other companies for licensing fees.
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  2625.  @michaellim4165  Not all of it.
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  2626. I don't understand why so many people want to come here. Things aren't that great here. You are coming from another country to escape hardships to go into more hardship? You're better off over there. If you don't have any education, or skills, you'll be working 70 to 90 hours a week doing some Gig job that doesn't any much.
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  2627. China has a license to produce X86 semiconductors, with the Zhaoxin(兆芯) brand. Their latest chip is the Shijidadao ZX-F / KX-7000 (7nm). The performance isn't as good as AMD or Intel CPUs, but in 5 to 10 years I am sure they will have a competitive product.
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  2628. In other words, the Fed doesn't care about the average person. Makes sense. LOL
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  2629. It is expensive in relation to what most people earn.
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  2630. The definition of insanity is going the same thing every time and expecting different results. We can say that is the problem of Argint.
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  2631. Russia has some leverage here. They can tell the EU to return their $300 billion, or we will just stop selling you natural gas.
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  2632. Capitalism is all about the marketing. If you are good at lying, you can sell ice to Eskimos. Look at Donald J Chump, he is failed business man, and con man extraordinaire. He marketed himself as the greatest businessman who ever lived, and other BS. The Americans people were dumb enough to swallow that cheap marketing ploy. As a result, we have a moron who is running our country.
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  2633. @Kerubale Abegaz You don't know anything about anyone to say such things.
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  2634. Chinese tourists.
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  2635.  @dallastaylor5479  I don't care if they learn or not. If they refuse to learn from it then they will just shorten their lives, or lose everything and end up like millions of people who live on the sidewalk in a tent. We live in a capitalist system, you have the freedom to do what you want. If you went to high school and fucked around, didn't study hard, you didn't get good grades, and didn't go to college to become a professional of some sort. I guess your life would be a permanent state of part time, temporary, Gig jobs, with no future and low pay. Like I said the people can choose whatever they want. In capitalism, if you fuck up, you will end up like the millions of people who end up homeless or work hard and go nowhere in life.
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  2636.  @GRIPANDSLIP  These people who are being displaced aren't going to go quietly, we are headed to some turbulent times. Yang's UBI plan will not solve all the problems that arise with automation, AI, and robotics; however, it can be a stop gap measure. This problem will be a global problem which will have to be addressed.
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  2637. I know how you feel. On my last job, I was the oldest guy there being 46 years old. I couldn't relate with them because of generational differences.
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  2638. The US can't do anything. Are they going to cut off trade with China? That would be the end of the US economy. Not 1 years from now, not 5 years from now, but on that day trade stops. 🤣
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  2639. All they do is lie and lie. Sell fear porn, mislead people, and make money off of gullible people.
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  2640.  @SteveT-v6n  It takes about 50 years for bone to turn to dust.
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  2641.  @jackmcslay  People like to blame others when they are suffering economic misfortunes. This economy has not recovered for most people since 2008. Unless, you were heavily involved in the equities/stock market, real estate, or asset markets, most people regressed economically. The wages of most people remained stagnant while prices for everything we need and want went up due to inflation. I can understand peoples frustration, and why they would vote for someone like Trump. After all, Trump told the people what they wanted to hear, and after he got into office he doesn't care anymore. The lives of most people will continue to decline, and be more indebted. Indebted, because their wages will not keep up with inflation, so they need to debt and credit to buy the necessities of life.
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  2642. What happened to America first and making America great again. Looks like it is another lie that is being exposed by the liar Trump!
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  2643.  @SomeUserNameBlahBlah  Nvidia, Intel, and AMD are still selling chips to China. They are getting around the ban by producing processors that are a bit slower. Nvidia can't sell the A100, so they are selling the A800, which is about 33% slower at a lower price. There are always loopholes in the law. Meanwhile, it won't stop China from developing their own technologies. A Chinese company called Yangtze memory technologies are producing flash memory chips. As a result, they banned Micron from China. When they make their own chips, they will push these American companies out. Just like how they pushed Amazon out of China with Aliexpress. Just like how they pushed Google out of China in 2010 with Baidu. King dollar will be a memory in 10 years.
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  2644. China is really moving forward. When flying cars goes into the mass market in China, cities in China will look like a futuristic sci fi movie.
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  2645. Not that many left, 50,000 people out of a population of 1,412,000,000 is like 0.0035%. Most of the people leaving are people that believe in a imaginary god. LOL
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  2646. Biden is such a silly old man.
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  2647. Art Laffer is a joke, we call this joker Art Laugher.
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  2648. Chump is stinky.
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  2649. The world can end this madness by dumping the US dollar.
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  2650. That must have been $50 million in munitions and weapons that the West sent to Ukraine.
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  2651.  @joshuacoleman8000  That is true.
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  2652. I don't have a 401k, and I 42 years old. I just save my money and invest in things.
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  2653. Saving money is a joke, because we have inflation year. Putting it in the bank is doesn't yield much, the bank pays like 0.5%. This is why people are putting their money into risky and speculative assets, like stocks, real estate, stuff like bitcoins, and other assets. If you buy the wrong stocks, you can lose money. In one end, inflation is eating our savings, so they want us to gamble it. If you gamble, you can lose your money even faster than inflation. There is no way out!!!! I play the stock market if I have extra money, and I do a lot of side businesses with the skills that I have. In addition to regular part time jobs. This is the economy we live in!
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  2654. Argentina is a liability, so they can dollarize. They have fundamental problems of spending more then they make. If they dollarize then they will see deflation, either way it isn't good.
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  2655.  @tiavor  if Republicans really wanted to fix this, they would simply legalize all the illegals. This way, these rich Republicans can't exploit these people.
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  2656. @Anon 1 the solution is to punish the people who hire these people. Most of the people who hire these people happen to be large corporations. All these demagoguery is just s distraction. Any wealthy Republican corporation will hire a undocumented worker over you any day. They will ship your jobs overseas, because it is profitable to do so. They will automate your jobs, because it is profitable and efficient to do so. It's only business. Corporations exist to be efficient, they don't care if you are the whitest guy.out there. They care only about $.
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  2657.  @vyor8837  You've been fooled by Trump. He uses undocumented workers, and he produces all of his stuff overseas. All that talk was used to make you feel good, and now the affects of all that euphoria has largely worn off. You will still be stupid, and they will still be rich. LOL
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  2658. Trump represents the stupid people of America. LOL
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  2659. Uber doesn't need to take risks, they are getting their no matter what. They can increase their fees, and lower their prices anytime they want. The Uber driver is the one who is doing all the work, taking the risks, using their vehicles, maintaining their own vehicles, and paying all the other expenses associated with running the operation. Depending on the rates you get paid, it may or not be profitable. If Uber is taking a bigger cut, and lowering the prices to be more competitive, the Uber driver is taking a hit. Uber couldn't care less, they getting their share no matter what.
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  2660.  @nexus1g  It's very simple to understand. Anyone can drive an automobile. As time goes by, you will have more Uber drivers, this leads to market saturation. Uber has the right to change their policies at anytime. If what Uber is paying you doesn't cover the cost of your expenses, that's too bad.
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  2661.  @nexus1g  the Gig economy works if you have a high level of skill, and get paid well. It doesn't work if you are a low skilled worker, like someone who drives for Uber, deliver food, or do some other task anyone can do.
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  2662.  @nexus1g  It just implies that you are a disposable worker.
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  2663.  @haroldong4616  Of course they are corrupt. Most people know congress is corrupt, that's why their approval rating is about 13%. LOL
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  2664.  @liongjiahwong5478  If a $20 toy drone sells for $150k then you know the de-fense budget for the US is inflated.
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  2665. 习近平 is doing a great job, peoples wages in China went up from $6,000/year(¥42,600/year) in 2012 to $16,000/year(¥114,000/year). Wages of people in China went up. Stop making up stories.
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  2666. Neo Virz, the economy is where it is at due to Obama's policies. The fallout from Trump's policies will be evident 2 years from now.
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  2667. Democracy is used as a tool by the West, because they promote governments that they can manipulate and control.
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  2668. If Donald Trump gives me $1200/month for the rest of the year, I might just vote for him. LOL
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  2669.  @filonin2  If you live in the USA, guns are like toys. It isn't uncommon for people to own 12 to 60 of em. My uncle owns about 200 firearms, he even has a class 3 license to own fully automatic machine guns. Even if you don't personally own any guns, you will know someone who owns em.
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  2670. You can say anything here, but I don't have to believe it. LOL
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  2671.  @jeremygibson6063  The cost of living in Cali is a lot more expensive compared to other states. If you want to live here and work here, you need to make at least $85,000/year.
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  2672.  @hyung6999  You still have 300 million people living in rural China that can see their standard of living rise. Production can be soaked up by domestic consumption, and it can also be exported to other countries as well.
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  2673. In a nutshell, we have a lot of bubbles due to interest rates being nearly zero percent for so many years, and these bubbles will eventually pop.
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  2674. Musk has been saying a lot of things, like his EVs would be fully autonomous. That never happened. I remember when Musk was pumping up Doge coin in 2022. Next year we will have a government run by a bunch of hucksters.
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  2675. They voted for this.
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  2676.  @155stw  Ground beef costs about $5 to $7 per lb at Walmart. Milk is about $3.50 to $4.00 per gallon at Walmart. Spam is about $4 per 12 ounce can. A 10 lb bag of potatoes costs about $2. Food is affordable in the US.
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  2677. A bucket is a lethal weapon, it can cause some serious injuries, so this was justified.
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  2678. John Nike, I am sure they are, and the world world is laughing at Trump. I thought Trump was tough and a great at negotiating. He is none of the those, the man has no weight at all, he has a demeanor of a cheap merchant. Most world leaders are sophisticated and they have a level of class, Trump has none of those things. He is representative of the worst elements of this society, he may have money, but he isn't high class.
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  2679.  texas thunder  He won't be in 2020.
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  2680. We still have a lot of manufacturing here, most of the factories and plants are highly automated. Better get that engineering or computer science degree.
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  2681. $33/hour is equivalent to two people in the household making about $17/hour working 40 hrs a week.
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  2682. Those things have always been here. Ancient civilizations written about them, they were the Gods that demanded human blood sacrifices. Ancient civilizations such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, China, Meso America, and others describe them as a serpentine/reptilian like beings.
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  2683. The point isn't about using Chinese Yuan, it is about using a gold backed currency to conduct trade.
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  2684.  @vorsichtig1235  You can't own land in China, so there is no property tax.
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  2685. 100,000,000 operations/second or 100 mips used to be the pinnacle of computer technology in 1984 via Cray computer. Now, we have a I7-4790k micro computer which can perform, 144,550,000,000 or 144,550 mips. A high end microcomputer made in 2014 is 1445.5 times faster than a super computer made in 1984.
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  2686. I created the greatest depression ever. That is something Donald Trump can take credit for. LOL
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  2687. They can still use dollars, but they can do it with their own banking system. They can simply cut SWIFT out.
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  2688.  @OverlordAlpha  You're so boring. Yawn.
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  2689. Trump got dissed by Ann Coulter. LOL
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  2690.  Just For Fun  I can understand if people need larger businesses for their jobs or businesses, but most people don't need them and they still buy em.
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  2691. They will be, but since the education level for most muricans is very low. The literacy rate in the US is about 79%.
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  2692. Having guns does not give you manhood. Just like abusing alcohol or drugs doesn't make your problems go away. Advertisers are all liars.
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  2693. To combat price increase, you have to shop in platforms and stores where it costs less. For example, if it costs more in Amazon, you can buy it at Aliexpress. If it costs more in the supermarket, you can go to Costco or Walmart.
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  2694. The reason why American politicians are focusing on China, Russia, and other countries is because the US has a lot of internal problems. Systemic problems, like high rates of inflation, a decaying infrastructure due to insufficient funding, the commodification of the real estate(Making it next to impossible for regular people to buy homes), high level of debt public and private, high levels of crime, underemployment, etc. These problems can be fixed, but the politicians at the national level are more interested in creating on looking outside of their country to deflect the problems that exist here. Sending billions of dollars in weaponry to far away lands, building more weapons to prepare for a war with China, and sanctioning other countries that don't agree with US policies. The USSR collapsed, because it too was too focused on building weapons, weapons, and more weapons. As a result, the economy in the USSR collapsed, and you had a failed state. You had rampant inflation, because not enough consumer goods were produced. You had long lines where people had to wait to buy basic consumer goods. We see this going on now in the USA. Historically, states and empires that are in a terminal state of decline always focus their energies on external enemies, scapegoating, have a bloated and corrupt bureaucracy. All of these things only accelerates the decline of an empire. We will see what happens to the US in the next 10 years.
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  2695. None of that matters, because the thugs are sitting behind you. They have a distinct advantage when they are in your car.
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  2696. Just saying, there are easier ways to make money. You can take a test and become a real estate sales person. Driving for a living must be a tough way to make a living especially when Uber pays so little. It is that simple. You have to make the right choices and life can be simpler than you think. I am a independent contractor, and I write off the depreciation on my car. I program computers, make web pages, sell real estate, sell computers, repair and maintain computers, program controllers, buy and sell stocks, etc. It is a hell of a lot easier than driving for Uber.
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  2697. 0:55 Trump is lying. LOL
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  2698.  Joel Villarreal  I don't argue with morons.
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  2699. Don't block it, play it through and give the money to Young Turks. LOL
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  2700. You got that right, we all need to vote out all the Republicans. Then, Trump will have a very difficult time.
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  2701. 25 years/cupcake. ROFL!!!!!!!
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  2702. Farfman, do you know how much money you need to hire a lawyer to defend you in court???? In court, you cannot represent yourself in court, you need to get an attorney. They charge anywhere from $200 to $400 an hour. You could be in court for months. After the trial is over, you could easily spend over $1,000,000. If you lose, you could easily go bankrupt and end up in the street. You country bumpkins don't know how serious these lawsuits against Alex Jones are.
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  2703. farfiman, what you believe doesn't mean anything, because the Pizzagate conspiracy was never real. A website can make any policies they want, and if you violate it. You get banned. It is that simple. If you go into a private business and say offensive things to customers, you aren't going to get banned???? Well, Alex Jones was being obnoxious to others, so he got banned.
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  2704. farfiman, I didn't say "All media should be shutdown" stupid. I said any website has the right to ban anyone who violates their policies. Businesses put a sign, " We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone". Alex Jones can sue Google or Facebook, and all these businesses have to show the court is which terms of agreement they violated. That's it.
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  2705. Lucas Auditore de firenze, the conspiracy theorists who believe vaccines which are used for inoculation are toxic are a danger to public safety. Vaccines are used to vaccinate people from preventable diseases. If people aren't vaccinated, it will cause disease to spread. If you aren't a scientist or a medical doctor, don't make up stuff. It can affect the health of millions of people.
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  2706. Lucas Auditore da firenze, you know you can get sued for spreading such fake information. Endangering public safety with fake information is a crime. If you spread a rumor which caused wide spread panic, you can go to prison for that. The local authorities can lock you up for that. If it resulted in the death of people, you can be charged for that too.
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  2707. Musk doesn't have any protections, like chump. All the lawsuits that come at musk will stick.
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  2708. 1:16 to 1:33 . LOL Alex Jones is a good actor, and he is an insane idiot as well.
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  2709.  @youwaiyap2708 🤣
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  2710. This is what they mean by " You will own nothing and be happy ". You hear this on the mainstream media all the time, it is much better to rent a home than to buy a home.
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  2711.  @indricotherium4802  It is all leading to monopolization. Back in the 1980s, they got most people in corporate America to put their money into mutual funds, 401ks, etc. Big Wall Street institutions used that money to make create mega corporations, like the Walmarts, and other chain stores. These entities, destroyed small and medium sized businesses. The people that got displaced are working for these corporate chain stores making low wages. Now, they have a monopoly. They did to the taxi industry with rideshare corporations, like Uber and Lyft. Now, these rideshare companies pay their contractors poorly, and they charge high fees to their customers. Karl Marx did say capitalism will lead to the creation of monopolies. "Marx predicted that as capitalism developed, a small number of powerful monopolies would drive many enterprises out of business."
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  2712. Why isn't Israel letting the Palestinians into Israel? Palestinians have Israeli citizenship, right?
    2
  2713.  @MH-il1lk  We are not talking about Hamas, we are talking about Palestinian refugees.
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  2714.  @MH-il1lk  That isn't what I am saying. Israel is responsible for taking care of the Palestinians, because they are Israeli citizens. Why should another country, like Egypt be responsible for taking care of Palestinians when they aren't even Egyptian citizens. It is the Israelis that are causing this refugee crisis. Israel needs to take care of em.
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  2715. If you made less than $75,000/year, you will get a $1200 check. If you made over that, you will not get anything. If you didn't file your income tax returns, you will not $0.
    2
  2716. The EU has some inept leaders. I have a feeling the EU is going to fall apart.
    2
  2717. Gig economy = the new Gilded Age (1870s to 1900). Gig Economy = Gilded Age 2.0
    2
  2718. Everyone with eyes can see the US is declining, just look at the homelessness, drug epidemic, the lawlessness, the lack of moralities, rampant inflation, income equities, etc.
    2
  2719.  @fendermon  People usually rob for money, so the point isn't to shoot the person you are robbing first. This guy is obviously a moron.
    2
  2720.  @alainarchambault2331  it all costs money. I thought Mexico was going to pay for this wall, and now Trump wants the American tax payer to pay for it.
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  2721. @ I drive a Acura ILX from ten years ago.
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  2722.  @lees.4084  I know Republicans are more corrupt than the Democrats.
    2
  2723. NATO in the Far East??????? NATO was formed during the Cold War to counter Warsaw Pact countries and the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1991. After the USSR was dissolved, NATO should have disbanded.
    2
  2724. Having so many different types of mbts is a logistical nightmare.
    2
  2725. China will not help the US by buying US treasury bonds, like they did in 2008. As a result, we will just see higher inflation, higher interest rates, and this will result in more unemployment and crime. We will see more job loss as a result of US companies losing access to the Chinese markets. More chip bans means, companies, like Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and others can't sell their chips to the largest chip market in the world. As a result of losing those markets, it will result in more layoffs, and less money being spend on research and development. We are paying higher prices due to the tariffs, we are paying higher prices due to labor shortages, higher prices due to too much money printing, higher prices to service debt, and higher prices on mortgages and car notes due to higher interest rates. On top of that, we still have to pay income tax which hasn't gone down. The trade off in the past 78 years was tariffs going down, while income taxes went up to make up for it. Now, we have to pay high tariffs and high income tax, and this will crush the middle class. The US can print money and put it in the equities markets, but if people aren't buying US debt there will be consequences for doing this. It will cause more inflation, and if it goes out of control it will cause run away inflation.
    2
  2726.  @ColoniaMurder20  The U S is like the Roman Empire in the 5th century. It is still powerful, but it isn't powerful to do anything unilaterally. We aren't living in the 1990s, this is 2024, and we live in a different world.
    2
  2727.  @ColoniaMurder20  Let's do some basic math. SM-2 missile used to shoot down H drones cost about $2,100,000/missile. SM-6 missile used to shoot down H drones cost about $4,300,000/missile. The US MDIC can produce about 150 to 180 SM-2s/year, and 120 to 180 SM-6 missiles/year. How many for these missiles did they use to shooting down $2000 to $3000 drones, or $10,000 to $20,000 missiles?
    2
  2728. It's very easy to pirate stuff these days with the internet and everything. ROFL
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  2729. I doubt India will ever become as great as China.
    2
  2730.  @chriswaters834  Maybe that is why AskJapan has high blood pressure.
    2
  2731. People don't have to shop there. Why should people shop in a place that is unsafe?
    2
  2732. California is becoming like Escape from New York.
    2
  2733. The woodchuck. ROFL
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  2734. That is why people have 2 to 3 or even sometimes 4 jobs these days just to keep their heads above water.
    2
  2735. Chump just sees those Hong Kong disside-nts as just another Chinese person. Now, they will be sent back to face the music.
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  2736. ​@andrewleblanc1670 That answer proves that you are. Anyways, there are a lot of grievances that the people of the Global South has with past events. Even me as a Chinese person cannot forget about what happened in the 19th century.
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  2737.  @bamboosho0t  They say this to deflect blame. We all know the history.
    2
  2738. China should stop buying agricultural goods from Canada, and the US. They can buy less expensive replacements from BRICS countries.
    2
  2739. You cannot fix stupid. They are stupid because they do the same thing over and over again expecting something different.
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  2740. Holy Land, that is what Trump wants. He wants to sway attention from the investigations that are pending against him. He wants to start a war, or declare martial law. I think that is why he launched a trade war, it was another attempt to take the focus away from the FBI investigation against him.
    2
  2741. The True Texan American, you can go fight in Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, Venezuela, or where ever else Trump wants to start a war. Since you morons voted for him. You can live with the consequences of the trade war as well.
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  2742. markmeson, the F.B.I. doesn't make stuff up, they can back up everything with evidence. They can take it to court and prosecute your fake president. You conspiracy theorists have yet to win any cases in court. Go get a life. LOL
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  2743. markmeson, the F.B.I. can get Michael Cohen to cooperate. He was Trump's lawyer, they have more than enough. The F.B.I. has all the evidence they need, they wanted to talk to Trump to cross examine the evidence they had with Trump's statements. If they didn't match, they could get Trump. Why is your fake president so afraid to talk to the F.B.I. investigators?????????????????????
    2
  2744. Adelina's Jade, Trump supporters believe in conspiracy theories. They believe the deep state and New World Order is conspiring against this con man. This is why Trump gave Alex Jones who is the king of the conspiracy theorists a press pass to the White House. LOL
    2
  2745. markmeson, I know you're a idiot who was too stupid to get a real education in a real 4 year university. You have a degree from Trump Univesity? By the way, the judge ordered Trump to pay $25 million to all the people who got scammed from Trump University. LOL https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/federal-court-approves-25-million-trump-university-settlement-n845181
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  2746. MmXtreme M Whatever, you moron.
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  2747. Infinity plus1 You are too stupid understand what that simple statement was. It wasn't a threat.
    2
  2748. markmeson I don't care what you believe, I look at facts. This is the difference between someone who has a university education and someone who does not.
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  2749. Justin Abramson, you have no proof Obama was working with the Russians, but the F.B.I. and the intelligence services have concrete proof Trump worked with the Russians. This is why the F.B.I. has a case against Trump.
    2
  2750. markmeson, there you go making up shit again. 200 million people did not vote for Trump. There you pulling stuff out your ass again, like Rush Limbaugh Alex Jones. 62,984,825 voted for Trump in 2016, and 65,853,516 voted for Hillary Clinton. Trump won the electoral votes. You are so fucking stupid. You want Trump to give you a factory job, because I know you are too damn stupid to do any other kind of job that requires intelligence. Sorry to break it to you, most of those factory jobs are highly automated. Unless you have a degree in computer science, engineering, or technology your aren't really needed.
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  2751.  @Udontlikeice  The only people that will go along with chump are his diehard followers. There aren't many of them. In the next 4 years, a lot of people that voted for that orange man aren't going to be happy with him. When his 4 years are up if he tries anything, he will understand what reality is, not reality TV.
    2
  2752. If Trump terms out his term, he would go to jail. In the end, he will go to prison if he is impeached or serves his term as president.
    2
  2753. In my father's generation(Silent Generation) women did the cooking.
    2
  2754.  OnasWorld YouMad  Most hardcore Trumpkins are nutters. A good example would be Alex Jones, and he know he is crazy.
    2
  2755.  @rizwana7256  lol
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  2756. Most of the manufacturing jobs that have returned to the USA or stayed in the USA aren't the same kind of manufacturing jobs that were outsourced overseas. In order to get those jobs, you need a high level of education and skills. You need to know how to program machines, because much of it is automated. They don't use people in a assembly line screwing in parts. Machines do most of that mundane stuff. You simply don't need that many people in a manufacturing plant.
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  2757. Everything trump says is a contradiction. He wants to drill for more oil, but the cost of production is very expensive in the US. At the same time, he wants lower oil prices to lower inflation. Oil from Russia and Iran is not priced in the USD, so production from those countries can't influence the price of oil. If oil from Russia is priced on USD again then the price of oil can drop in USD, but this would bankrupt US oil companies.
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  2758. Ed Buck doesn't look too happy in the back of that police car. LOL
    2
  2759. A lot of these white supremacists are losers, they haven't done anything with their lives. They believe they are superior, because of what they are.
    2
  2760. That's a way to starve the EU, and sticking it to NATO. ROFL
    2
  2761. Exactly, he is a loser.
    2
  2762. People always make excuses to not do stuff. Either they are too lazy to do it, or they don't want to learn new things. If you are the one who is complaining about high food prices then learn about gardening, composting, and canning food like uneducated economist said. If you have a relatively high income, and don't care about the high food prices then you don't have anything to complain about.
    2
  2763. You are luckier than most middle aged Japanese men. There are middle aged Japanese men who are in worse situations than you, like being not married or having a family.
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  2764. Zeihan is as wrong as Gordon Chang. They are wrong all the time about what they are forecasting. No China will not collapse because of demographic problems. In a world where AI and automation will become prevalent, a large population isn't a good thing.
    2
  2765. This is why a lot of people have to work harder and longer hours just to make a living.
    2
  2766.  @batgirlp5561  We no longer have a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. Instead, we have the government of the rich, for the rich, and by the rich.
    2
  2767. Because they don't have the skills or education to find anything better.
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  2768. The debt was never meant to be paid back. The monetary system we have doesn't allow it, because you will always have more debts than money.
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  2769. The West is angry, because they can't get cheap food from Ukraine. These people can afford to pay $10 for a loaf of bread, they are rich, and they can afford it. ROFL
    2
  2770. The dollar isn't worthless now, but we don't know what will happen in the future.
    2
  2771.  @rockycomet4587  Why delay the tariffs Magtard? Why not just start a full scale trade war, like Mr. Reality Show Trump was touting? Can't take the heat? Does it hurt when they hit back? I don't think tRump the reality show con man will be re elected when the economy goes into a recession. LOL
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  2772. People who make personal attacks are usually losers.
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  2773. With the way things are going, less and less talent are going to come to the US. With the atmosphere, why would any great people come here??????
    2
  2774. Religious persecution, this is Nazi behavior.
    2
  2775. These people have lost it, they are living in a delusional fantasy world. During the last century of the Roman Empire, you had a lot inept emperors and inept senators that only helped accelerate its decline.
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  2776. Sound like something Trump would do.
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  2777. Inflation is much higher than 6.5%. Just go grocery shopping, go to the car mechanic, look at your utility bills, go fill a tank of gas, look at the price of rent, etc.
    2
  2778.  @GEOFINANCIERO  You can tell he is into inspirational B.S. speeches from the likes of Tony Robins, and other gurus who preach you can be rich if you believe you can be. LOL
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  2779. wuppas Exactly. I can honestly say most Republicans and Libertarians are scumbags. You can know people by their actions, and everything they implemented during the Reagan Era lead to the state that we are in now.
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  2780. How about imposing a flight ban from anyone from China for about 4 months, or until the Chinese government starts to be transparent with the Covid data.
    2
  2781.  @stevemcgowen  You believe what you like if that makes you happy; however, it is real.
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  2782. The Chinese people excel in everything they do.
    2
  2783. When you're surrounded, you will run out of food, water, ammo, fuel, medications, etc. If you run out of water, you will last about 3 days. You can go without food for 30 days.
    2
  2784.  @GeneralChangFromDanang  If the currency loses a lot of value then it is much easier to pay those debts. You can inflate your debts away.
    2
  2785. You'll get your social security, but the money you get will be watered down.
    2
  2786.  @dano3952  It's just a waste of time believing in those types of conspiracy theories.
    2
  2787.  @dano3952  The more serious issues most people face in the immediate future is losing your job to a machine or artificial intelligence. I focus my attention on how I can find a way to make a living in 2 to 5 years from now. It is clear that with the rise of smarter machines, and artificial intelligence most people aren't simply aren't needed. Instead of wasting your time on things you can't do anything about, like these people who rule the world. People who have lots of assets and money rule countries, and there isn't anything you can do about it. If people who manage, and own corporations decide to replace with a piece of software or a machine, they can. It's called capitalism and free enterprise. I was into conspiracy theories back in 2006, 2007, and 2008. I found it to be a big waste of time. I regret wasting my time on those topics. I just find them to be distractions. These days, I just focus on what I can do to survive, like learning about artificial intelligence, and how to start a business with the current technologies.
    2
  2788. I thought Apple wanted to build their iphone factories in India. Why they can build their Apple I-cars in India, and sell it for $200k. People will buy it, because it is Apple; after all, Apple i-phones are overpriced, so the Apple consumers will be wiling get a car loan to buy em, right? LOL 🤣 Remembers me of this episode of the Simpsons that I watched when I was a kid. Homer's long lost brother owned a automobile company, and he wanted Homer to design a car for his company. Homer designed the Homermobile, and it bankrupted Herb's company.
    2
  2789.  @Deuteromis  Chump won't be able to rip off the IT staff that work there, like he did with the other types of contractors who worked for him. If they stop working, the whole website could be hacked every single day.
    2
  2790.  @sherrieh2062  The US economy is 6 times that of Japan in terms of GDP, so the US should have less expensive food.
    2
  2791. NathanHVAC is a troll, don't respond to him.
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  2792. China can produce 28nm DUV lithography machines with SMIC. In the future, China will be able to produce 14 nm DUV lithography machines. With multi patterning, they can produce 7nm chips. Tsinghua developed a EUV lithographic cannon which will enable them to produce 5nm chips or less.
    2
  2793. LOL
    2
  2794. It isn't a scam, because Donald J Chump said it isn't. Chump might be good for murica. It will impoverish a lot of chumpt-ards.
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  2795. This is interesting, we will see what happens in the next few months.
    2
  2796. No one trusts the US media after what happened in Mideast.
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  2797. Usury, that is what it is.
    2
  2798. Wage garnishment is a thing for debtors in the USA.
    2
  2799. It is like Vietnam back in 1975. Looks like this is the 2nd war the US lost.
    2
  2800. Cleopatra was Greek.
    2
  2801. He was an illegal, and he committed crimes in China.
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  2802.  Ghost 3 Delta  Reverend Moon is a right wing version of that. Rev. Moon's theme was family values. Jim Jones was socialism and multiculturalism.
    2
  2803. The policy makers in DC don't know what they are doing, they are very inept, because they aren't able to solve a single problem.
    2
  2804. They are showing weapons captured by civilians along with the ones they captured from the Ukrainian military.
    2
  2805. The U S isn't as powerful as it believes it is. About 40 years ago, the U S was a powerful country, today it isn't all that.
    2
  2806. Looks like Trump will not get re-elected.
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  2807. Accidents happen. Why make this into a big deal when it isn't. There are thousands of trains in China that work fine everyday.
    2
  2808. What a joke, orange clown man is spouting BS as always.
    2
  2809.  @brad0805  Most of the stuff that was outsourced was the non essential industries. The very labor intensive stuff very few people would do here, like sowing clothes. You do have them here in the US, and they are called sweatshops hiring undocumented workers. All the essential industries were kept at home. You don't understand how this works..... We give all the unimportant manufacturing stuff to developing countries. In turn, they buy our Boeing 707s, 727s, 747s, etc. They import stuff, like wheat, cotton, lumber, coal, oil, chemical fertilizers, etc. They import, howitzers, 155mm shells, mortars, small arms, high explosives, military aircraft, etc. That's how it works. In addition to that, the banking industry loans money to these developing countries, and everyone gets a piece. It's called free trade.
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  2810. Final Fight was an awesome game, that was the first game I got for the SNES when I got it.
    2
  2811. Looks like Trump will not get re-elected.
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  2812. If you saved your money, and have most of your debts paid off then you will be alright. No one knows what will happen to the job that you have, or the business that you run during a economic downturn. In a economic downturn, you could go out of business, you could lose your job, or have your hours cut. One thing is certain, if you have enough money saved up then you can ride through a recession. You can get the bills paid, and that is the difference between having stability in your family or chaos.
    2
  2813. One term president. Obviously Trump sucks, and anyone with a brain knows that.
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  2814. That report wasn't in a tank, that was a BMP-1 AIFV, not a tank. LOL
    2
  2815.  @TamagoHead  lol
    2
  2816.  @TamagoHead  I don't and didn't have any problems with people wearing masks, getting vaccines, and washing their hands. The only thing I didn't like was the predictions these people made, like 15 million people were going to die. Back in 2003, the media was saying SARS COV-1, we are all going to die from it. Not many people died from SARS COV-1.
    2
  2817.  @TamagoHead  We didn't have 15 million deaths in the USA. It did overwhelm hospitals with the first wave. Then, the virus became less and less lethal with the omnicron variants. This idea that you can stop a airborne virus just doesn't work. You can slow it down, but stopping it is absolutely impossible once it is out there. By now, everyone has gotten it at least once or more. Trying to stop the virus didn't work in China with that Zero Covid policy. We didn't have to shutdown the economy. People could have just wore face masks. The media hyped it up, and they caused hysteria.
    2
  2818.  @TamagoHead  The Trump administration was an administration that didn't know what it was doing. The man should have never been president, and that could have been prevented if the Democrats didn't pick such an unpopular candidate, like Hilary Clinton.
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  2819. I will vote for Jill Stein if she is on the ballot.
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  2820. This is the reason why the mainstream media is failing.
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  2821. We live in a upside down country. The only way this will end is with a massive stock market crash, and a economic depression. All this QE for the past 16 years caused this mess. It caused all these bubbles, and all these fake people using debt to appear rich.
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  2822. Aluminumdragonfly, Republican presidencies always end in economic disaster. Just look what happened after Ronald Reagan's presidency, you had a very severe recession which started with the stock market crash of 1987. It lasted about 7 years. You had the George W Bush presidency, and we had the real estate crash of 2007 and the financial crisis of 2008. We had a severe recession from 2008 to 2013. Now Trumpkin is trying to crash the economy with his stupid policies. Everyone knows what Rump is doing is stupid, people in Rump's own party knows it is stupid. Interest rates are going to go up and up, and we can thank Trump for all of it. It will crash the economy for sure in a few years or a year from now.
    2
  2823. Block the orange man.
    2
  2824. Stop lying.
    2
  2825.  @the80386  True.
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  2826.  @kaninma7237  I know this is true, because my ex girlfriend had to go to food banks in 2009 when she lost her livelihood. She told me in the food bank, they gave her expired food, and she got sick from eating them.
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  2827. The Republicans pushed to privatize public utilities. How is the free market working for you? $1000 per day for energy bills, Repuginants will says its the free market.
    2
  2828.  Blue Collar Sinner  Texas didn't weather proof their infrastructure, stop blaming other people for your pathetic actions.
    2
  2829.  Blue Collar Sinner  If you Republicans keep this up, more big companies will move out of your state. $1000 per day for energy bills. If you are a big corporation that has major operations imagine what their energy bill is. Keep up the good work. LOL
    2
  2830.  Blue Collar Sinner  The one that listens to Infowhores. You must be a troll, so there is no point in conversing with you. People ignore Blue Collar Sinner, he is a Alex Jim Jones tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist. LOL
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  2831. @ G8 idea.
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  2832.  @Zeftilldeath8878  You should put your life savings in Tesla.
    2
  2833. Those thugs need to get the death penalty.
    2
  2834.  @MbisonBalrog  When there is less money circulating in the economy, people lose their jobs, businesses close, interest rates go up, and people have less money to spend.
    2
  2835.  @MbisonBalrog  You can believe whatever you want.
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  2836. Like he is going to listen to Biden. LOL
    2
  2837.  @theprophet489 In the USA, we have socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the everyone else.
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  2838.  @EscapeRealityMedia  You will get more toilet paper then you will ever want or need when more countries de-dollarize in the future. Your money will lose so much value, you won't need to buy toilet paper or firewood. You can use your valuable dollars to do that.
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  2839. Just look at all the people that work in mar a lago. They are all brown people. Most of these Republicans hire immigrants as well. LOL
    2
  2840.  @TheresaYipLF54  Exactly.
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  2841.  @Virus-xm7qc  That might be true; however, they destroyed their own bomb disposal truck in the process. They also put their lives at risk being so close to the explosion. I seriously think they need to give a IQ test before they accept cadets at the police academy.
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  2842. You don't have to own gold, you can hedge against inflation by having other assets, like real estate, equities, and other hard assets.
    2
  2843. If you didn't sell all your stocks in last year then you are a little late. If you are a retiree who depends on a pension fund to cover your retirement then you better learn how to dig in the trash can to find food.
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  2844. Armann Straughter, you're the idiot.
    2
  2845. China is getting stronger and stronger.
    2
  2846. You have more people in Asia, so it is there will be more consumers in this region. There are a lot of emerging economies in this world that will become more developed, and that means even more consumers. This will be the Chinese century.
    2
  2847. She is black and she looks like a welfare queen.
    2
  2848. He is a traitor, and he deserved what he got.
    2
  2849. LOL. This is nuts.
    2
  2850.  @rujotheone  It's possible. All the dollars in China's holdings can be transferred electronically. People in other countries that want physical dollars can get it from Chinese banks.
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  2851. Under four years of the last chump administration, the literacy went down to 79%. Chump made murica uneducated again, and in the next 4 years chump will make murica a developing country again. ROFL
    2
  2852. By now, everyone should know who controls the US, it isn't a surprise how biased the US is being when it comes to Isra-l.
    2
  2853. Those people refused to believe it even though everyone told these idiots he was a con man. They know he is a conman and liar for sure, and they will not believe Rump anymore. LOL
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  2854. We still have a lot of manufacturing in the USA. Countries all over the world buy a lot of stuff from the USA, like chips, manufacturing machinery, jet engines, aircraft, cars, trucks, helicopters, air frames, and other key components for machinery. China imported more than $200 billion worth of China from the USA alone, like Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and other chips in 2022.
    2
  2855. Most people in the world know which govts are regimes, the west has the regimes.
    2
  2856.  @1DrBar  I think what you said is very true. People these days.......
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  2857. You have pushed us around a lot during the 19th century, we are no longer weak. You cannot push us around in the 21st century.
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  2858. India's loss is China's gain. China needs more energy when they move 300 million people move into cities, and join the ranks of the middle class. Those people will need vehicles, computers, smartphones, TVs, appliances, etc. China will need more energy to accommodate these people.
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  2859. NathanHVAC is a troll, don't respond to him.
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  2860.  @obione69  These trolls will get doxxed one day, I assure you.
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  2861. Having a few ounces of gold will not make you rich. If you lose your livelihood then you will have to sell the few ounces of gold you have to pay your bills. Instead focus on how you can make a living.
    2
  2862. This is coming out of the mouth of a failed businessman. Does chump want to make the US suffer the same fate as his failed businesses?
    2
  2863. That isn't Google's fault, it is the local government's fault for not fixing it. America is becoming a 3rd world nation or something why can't the government fix these problems??????
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  2864. The Russians are still able to get these chips. You have trade between China and Russia, and China produces legacy chips which are used in military vehicles, automobiles, microcontrollers, guided missiles, etc. The types of chips China can't produce that well are CISC based chips for desktop computers, laptop computers, servers, and workstations. China can produce CISC chips, but they aren't very good. As for legacy chips which are used in just about everything China can produce this stuff, they produce RISC processors that go into single board computers, washing machines, smart TVs, programmable microcontrollers, retro video game consoles, automobiles, etc.
    2
  2865.  @nscales20  Shaming these people for supporting this deplorable man isn't going to work anymore. In a capitalist society like the United States of America, you need money to survive here. This is why we need to go after companies that support Trump financially. Every single person that went to D.C. in 01/06/2021 to show their support for Trump need to be identified, doxxed, and lose their jobs. Even if they didn't go into the Capitol Building.
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  2866.  @jeffgraham436  You people started it.
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  2867. @DanOfTheWild If you think you can use your firearms and get away with in this day and age. You are sadly mistaken. There are many ways of tracking people, and today we do this with technology. Cell phone providers have logs in servers, Google has logs in their servers. It doesn't matter if you have a VPN, because for any serious crimes law enforcement will go to the VPN and request those VPN services turn in all the data about any individual. VPN services cost like $5 to $10 a month. No VPN service is going to protect you, they will turn in all their log information to the FBI, or local law enforcement.
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  2868.  @jeffgraham436  I don't argue with Nazis, we just have to can all of you for supporting fascism and trying to overthrow our Republic.
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  2869.  @jeffkoehne4852  Doesn't change the fact that Trumpkins committed an act of sedition against the US government. It doesn't change the fact that we are going to hunt down these losers and turn them into the FBI, and get them fired from their jobs.
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  2870. A gun tax might work.
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  2871.  @johnburt7935  Exactly, that is why he is also being charged with possession of a firearms as a minor. This is in addition to the felony charges of manslaughter, and a discharging a firearm in a public area.
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  2872.  @johnburt7935  If you kill someone there is the criminal trials, and there are also civil lawsuits. It is very gets very complicated after you kill someone.
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  2873.  @enmiredbythelazy4401  You believe whatever you want meathead. If a meathead even shows his gun to me, I would just call the cops. I know about guns, I owned a lot of em. All kinds, but I lost interest in it later in life.
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  2874. We will probably see stagflation and hyperinflation. Happened every time throughout history when the govt created too much money and spent too much. Happened in ancient times, like during the Roman Empire, various Chinese Dynasties, Islamic Caliphates, and other empires throughout history. Even in recent history, like during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, Zimbabwe, etc.
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  2875. $9768/month is pretty good, most people don't make that in a month.
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  2876.  @bigbasil1908  LOL 😆
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  2877. We have a lot of stupid people in the US.
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  2878. No wonder the mainstream media is becoming extinct. I don't even subscribe to any mainstream media channels anymore.
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  2879.  @bigbasil1908  I say send those to the uranium mines.
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  2880. Darius Truxton, we don't have to believe shit. The denial of objectivity is a mental illness. Conspiracy theorists are mentally ill.
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  2881. Self defense with an assault rifle. Gimme a break.
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  2882. I went to the CPA yesterday, and they raised my fee. I asked why is my fee higher than last year. The CPA said, a lot of small and medium sized businesses owners closed their doors in the past few years. The economy must be really bad now if people aren't buying coffee.
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  2883. It is a suckers rally, don't fall for it. Save your money and wait it out a little, you need some patience. When all assets tank then you take your money and buy it at rock bottom prices.
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  2884. @tonysu8860  Whatever troll.
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  2885.  @JustJamesDean  You can believe whatever you like, but reality is reality.
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  2886. Elon's main customer base are left leaning people, right? I don't see a lot of Republicans would buy EVs, those people would buy SUVs, and trucks. Less people in the US would buy Teslas, and Tesla sales are declining in China. The future of Tesla is on shakey ground.
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  2887. We all know that is a lie, except for idiot hardcore maga fans. Those people refuse to believe it even it is true.
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  2888. I don't think the US is capable of competing with a major power, like China. This is why they are using dirty tactics, like sanctions. Instead of working harder and competing with China, they are banning Chinese products, so they cannot compete with US products. Instead of focusing on the US by building up infrastructure, maintaining the existing infrastructure which is falling apart, investing in education, putting billions of dollars into R&D, the US government is doing everything they can to hinder China's development. Back in the 1980s, the US imposed all kinds of tariffs and sanctions against Japanese chip companies, Japanese automotive companies, and other Japanese firms. There was a lot of anti-Japanese sentiment, like there is a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment today. The US is wasting hundreds of billions and have wasted trillions of dollars in wars, like Afghanistan, and Iraq which it did not win. The US currently has wasted 1/4 of a trillion dollars in Ukraine by providing arms to that country in a war that cannot be won. Trillions of dollars had been spent on wars, while the US government neglected its own people. The US didn't invest in its own people by improving the lives of people by playing the game of geopolitics and world empire. This is why empires in history fell, and the US is no exception to this rule.
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  2889. There is a lot of electric vehicle manufacturers in China, and they are selling them for much less than what Tesla is selling it for. It's competition that can bankrupt companies.
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  2890.  @misssadied193  Is that why Ann Coulter said she would not vote for him because of his national origins?
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  2891. Our political leaders don't care, because.they made tons of money from pushing these vacs.
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  2892. Hard core Rump supporters are like the Hitler's SA men in the 1920s and 1930s.
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  2893. Michael Ahem, maybe some white kids gave her a hard time when she was in elementary school.
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  2894. Archivian, the host of this show on CNN said this was racist, so it isn't fake news.
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  2895. Joe Bing, then more and more whites will vote for people like Trump or worse than him in the future.
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  2896. Joe Bing, some white people may be racist, but the majority of white people aren't racist. They are just ordinary people who want to live their lives, raise their families, and live in peace like everyone else. I don't hate all black people, or hate any other race of people.
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  2897. Joe Bing, have you met the majority of white people to make such a judgement?
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  2898.  @TheMarcuslindberg  Youtube costs nothing to use.
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  2899. You can buy a BYD Seal in China for about $20k to $29k. A Tesla Model 3 costs about $32k to $35k in China. Both are built in China, but the Tesla costs more.
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  2900. You can buy it for $40k, but you can't find parts for it if it breaks down.
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  2901. Why wasn't he wearing leg shackles and cuffs?????
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  2902. There is no way one employee can prevent 10 people from not scanning every single item. For example, let's say someone is buying 30 items, they can just not scan 3 items. That adds up. At the end of the day, the store could lose hundreds if not thousands of dollars. If they do get caught, they can make up any excuse. I forgot to scan it, I am not good with computers, I made a mistake, etc.
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  2903. The store will try to offset the losses by raising prices. Screw that, I just won't shop in those retail stores, and this is why most of them are going under. People can do most of their shopping online. I don't have to pay for other people stealing stuff, and enjoy lower prices in general.
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  2904. It sure does, but there isn't a thing we can about it.
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  2905. It is the Babyboomer generation who put their trust in 401ks and mutual funds that funded this corporate beast. The same generation of people complaining about corporate greed are the ones who funded the beast. It is a little hypocritical for people talking about corporate crimes when they are indirectly responsible for it. I don't care about corporate greed. If the same people who funded it gets screwed over by these big corporations by having their jobs outsources, automated out of existence, or H1B Visa holders taking it; it is entirely their fault.
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  2906. Most of the big businesses are funded by government in one way or another. Civilian and defense contractors get orders from the government, and the government pays them. Most medical doctors rely on Medicare. If it wasn't for Medicare, medical practices wouldn't be as big or hire as many people as they do now. Vehicle corporations and companies, like Ford rely on the government to buy their fleets of automobiles. Even firearms companies that have contracts with the U.S. government, like Beretta rely on government contracts to sell their M9 pistols. General Electric relies on the government to buy their jet engines for military aircraft. Computer companies like Dell sell a lot of computers to government agencies. Small retail stores to Walmarts rely on EBT cards. Someone who is on food stamps use EBT cards to buy their groceries. This in turn keeps the doors of stores open. It benefits the distributors, the wholesalers, producers, petro-chemical companies, and the nitrites based fertilizer companies. It benefits the credit card companies that get a cut from processing EBT transactions. You're a very simple and uneducated person MrHigherplane. I know how the system works. My father was a director of a large corporations tied to the government and big business.
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  2907. Capitalism is taking from workers.
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  2908. Yes, I did have a few employees. I did exploit their labor to make a profit.
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  2909. Don't be stupid. I work for a few medical doctors, 80% of their patients are medicare patients.
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  2910. The Russians have all the time in the world, the Ukrainians are surviving on borrowed time and donated equipment.
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  2911. It's ironic. LOL
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  2912.  @Dordordord  We never know what will happen in the future, but we shall see. : )
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  2913. This is why the police must not be defunded. We need the cops to protect society from thugs like that.
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  2914. Biden helped Russia become independent. LOL
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  2915. This is what happens when you have a failed educational system.
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  2916. easy money, another characteristic of totalitarian and autocratic regimes. 7. Nespotism. People who are your family members holding important positions in government.
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  2917. Selling vitamins to his already brain damaged audience to make them more brain damaged. LOL
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  2918. Unlike the U S, China's economy doesn't depend on asset inflation and debt. The Chinese economy is more diversified, and it doesn't depend on financing debt. The U S economy is highly financialized. You have all kinds of debts in the U S, like student loans, car loans, mortgages, credit cards, refinancing debt, payday loans, buying equities on margin, etc. If the equities markets or the real estate market crashes in the U S then the economy will go into a severe economic downturn. The pillars of the U S economy is based on asset inflation which was caused by financing debt. Without mortgages, the real estate market would collapse. Without credit cards, the retail industry would collapse. Without car loans, the auto industry would collapse. Without student loan debts, colleges and universities would have to lay people off. China produces things the world wants and needs, and this why why Chinese economy will not collapse. China also has a very large population, so most of what is produced in China can be absorbed in the Chinese economy.
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  2919. That gun didn't jam, it operates like that.
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  2920. That big fat old man looks triggered, he need to take his meds. He needs to calm down before he gets a stroke or something. LOL
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  2921. Capitalism entities didn't find it necessary to save money, instead they threw it all into speculative assets, like equities. Investment firms that managed mutual funds, 401ks, and private pensions. As a result, people who retired are screwed. Back in the old days, people put their money into bank accounts. Many people are going to have a liquidity crisis as a result of this.
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  2922. China can do business with whatever country China wants to do business.
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  2923. When have these experts and analyst been right about anything? Deindustrialization of US, wrong. CV-19, wrong. Ukraine War, wrong.
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  2924. I didn't know such places existed in the USA.
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  2925.  @yonghominale8884  More and more innocent people are becoming vaccinated. We have more than 134 million Americans have been vaccinated, and 160 million Americans have received at least one vaccine shot. 168 million Americans haven't received any vaccinations yet. Out of that 168 million, I would assume 75 million of those were the people who voted for chump. 93 million of these people are probably waiting to be vaccinated. The fatality rate for Covid-19 is about 2 to 2.5%, so out of the 75 million chumps. 1.88 million of them will probably expire from it. This means less Republican voters.
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  2926. Lancets have different warheads, like HEAT(high explosive anti tank), thermalbaric, and HE(high explosive). A HEAT warhead can take out main battle tanks if you hit the top of a mbt. Thermalbaric rounds can take out infantry in bunkers, trenches, and pillboxes. HE can take out lightly armored vehicles, and artillery pieces. Someone needs to develop a anti drone drone, or a piloted turboprop aircraft to take out drones armed with machine guns.
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  2927. I got Omicron about two weeks ago, and it feels like a very strong cold. I had a fever, night sweats, congestion, coughing, sore throat, sore muscles, and I got better but I can't smell or taste anything.
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  2928.  @thenightman9847  I think you are too old to be my son. LOL
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  2929.  @thevorpalone1045  There are people like that in every blue state. I guess, the more rural states support Mr. Chump.
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  2930. Maga Communism = National Socialism.
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  2931. The US can't compete. The educational system in the US, a joke. It is a declining power.
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  2932. China had invented many in the past 5,000 years, like crossbow trigger mechanisms, clockwork, gunpowder, paper, porcelain, blast furnace, metal casting, etc. People that make such claims don't know anything about Chinese history.
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  2933.  @pete_lind  we all know Rump supporters are racists and anti-Semites.
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  2934.  @ThatSexyNerdReacts  Rump's supporters hate anyone who isn't a white Christian.
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  2935. Us Chinese are just smarter, this is why they try to pigeon hole us.
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  2936. The reason why a lot of manufacturing jobs got outsourced was because people in places, like Vietnam, Bangladesh, China, and other places were willing for work for $2 to $5 per day back in the 1990s. It is more than $2 to $5/day now. I think the average worker in China makes about $5/hour, and in Vietnam it is about $2.73/hour. Even now, it's still cheaper to produce stuff in China even though the hourly wage is $5/hour.
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  2937. We all need to do our part to stop this kind of barbarism.
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  2938. AI is far from perfect, there are a lot of problems with it.
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  2939.  @cheezeball6109  The world isn't going to end. Don't ever give up, do what you have to do everyday. As long as you don't give up, you will live to see brighter days.
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  2940. miragexl007, there won't be big payoffs, it will only lead to a acceleration of jobs being outsourced out of the United States. If you believe a company like Apple can move all the production back to the USA where the cost of labor is 20 to 40 times more than other developing countries and be able to export their goods, you are an idiot. If you produce a Iphone here, it would cost anywhere from $2000 to $3000 or more. Very few people could afford it, and at those prices you won't be able to export it and sell it. In addition to the high cost of production, Apple would have to pay tariffs which would increase the cost even more. This outsourcing stuff and increasing automation of manufacturing plants was going to happen sooner or later. It will just happen faster pace now. At the same time, the foreigners who bought real estate, stocks, and treasury bonds will move their money out of the country. The stock market will crash, real estate prices will go down, and the people who relied on those investments for their pensions and 401ks will be left out high and dry. Those 401ks and pensions will suddenly give you checks which are less than what you were receiving. Those old folks will get affected.
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  2941. Antoinette DC, you're right, she is a racist Trump supporter for sure. She doesn't like Obama because he is black. I didn't think Obama was a bad president, his hands off approach was pretty good in my view. Just like Bill Clinton's hands off approach was also good for the economy.
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  2942. LOL.
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  2943. All these tariffs and sanctions are backfiring on the West.
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  2944.  @thejarjosh  I didn't say there aren't non-white and Jews in the Republican party. There are, but there aren't that many, more of them are Democrats.
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  2945. Lots of people die in war especially when your country is the battlefield. Just look at the Korean War, and the Vietnam War for example. Most of the casualties in those wars were South Korean soldiers and South Vietnamese soldiers much more than US losses.
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  2946. A word of the wise, live below your means, save as much as you can, and you will have money when you most need it.
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  2947. Most people don't live in $5.5 million homes dope.
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  2948. 10 years from now, the US will become a 3rd world country. It will be a backwaters.
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  2949.  monipenny408  They just see non G7 countries as a problem if they try to surpass them.
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  2950. In the next 4 years, a lot of talented people are going to leave the US, and less talented people will come to the US. As a result, they will make their countries great again. A lot of countries were losing high educated and talented people to the US for years. Now, there is no reason to go to a country where they are not wanted.
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  2951. On top of all that, we still have to pay income. Back in the 1900s when we had high tariffs, we didn't have income tax. Most of the tax revenues were collected from tariffs. On top of the income tax we pay, we have to pay tariff taxes???????? This is a disaster and you know it.
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  2952. How is Trump correct about imposing tariffs? It will impact millions of jobs. Trump wants to subsidize the U.S. steel industry at the expense of everyone else???? It will only start a trade war. China and other countries that are being affected by this will put tariffs on U.S. made goods, like beef products, agricultural goods, manufacturing machinery, and other things U.S. exports to these countries. That will impact millions of jobs in those export and import oriented businesses.
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  2953. It is called free trade. You are right about the Chinese stealing and pirating copyrights. These U.S. companies and other countries that put their manufacturing plants in China used Chinese sub-contractors to produce their goods. It is their fault for being greedy that enabled it. These sub-contractors learned the secrets of the technology and they started their own companies. The same thing happened when U.S. companies move their manufacturing to countries, like Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan in the 1970s and 1980s. Now, you have South Korean electronics companies, like Samsung, and Taiwanese electronics companies like Asus competing with U.S. firms. Come on, U.S. and Western companies made tons of money exploiting cheap labor. It did cost them something, they lost technology in the process. It is their fault.
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  2954. If you outsource the work outside of your country, it can be stolen period. Since the Chinese government made it mandatory for foreign and U.S. companies to have a Chinese partner. They were enable to take the technology. What a pity, these greedy stupid bastards who wanted to make a lot of money lost their trade secrets for short term gains.
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  2955. I didn't make it up. Go look it up, if you are a foreign company doing business in China, you are required to have a Chinese partner.
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  2956. You have to pay very high taxes to the Chinese government. LOL
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  2957. 35% for income tax in China. Why the fuck do you do business in China if you pay such high taxes?
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  2958. You're full of shit, you do business in China, and you want tariffs.
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  2959. Someone like you talking about saving Americans jobs is bull crap, right? You are a Liberatarian, right? Why are you here?
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  2960. I don't know everything, and I never said I knew everything. You're full of shit.
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  2961. It just happens that most of the people here are socialists, and you're a capitalist.
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  2962. @ Especially in America. You have big 350 lb/159 kg people who will not be very happy if they don't get their 6 meals a day. Who knows what can happen. If they see you, they might see your leg as a chicken leg.
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  2963. Trump is a snowflake that is why he says that.
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  2964.  @rdavid7965  Who cares.
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  2965.  @cent-ns1lm  Oil is being traded outside the dollar system, so you get an education.
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  2966.  @srynotsrylol  It's not a house, it is a townhouse.
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  2967.  @pancakes465  I drive a luxury car.
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  2968.  @srynotsrylol  I bought my townhouse in 1996 when it cost about $100k. Today, it costs over $600k.
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  2969.  @srynotsrylol  It's still cheaper than paying rent. A 1 bedroom apartment costs like $2800/month where I live.
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  2970.  @Intranetusa  There is less inflation in Japan. Here in the US, it all depends on when you bought your home, and how much debt you have. I bought my home in the late 1990s, I paid off my student loan debt right after I graduated college, I don't have car debt, and no other debts. I only work about 20 to 22 hours per week, and my income is less than $40k/year. I do other stuff on the side as well. I am a East Asian, so I save more than 50% of my income. The same can't be said of most Americans that spend almost all of their income and go into debt.
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  2971.  @Intranetusa  You have to count the inflation from 2020 to 2024. The inflation compounded a lot from 2020. In some years, it was as high as 8% and 10%. Prices really have not come down when it came to necessities, like food, energy, vehicles, medical care, wages, etc. In Japan, people don't spend a lot of money, so even with near zero % interest rates, inflation was relatively low. When the US started to hike interest rates, this made the US dollar stronger, and moved a lot of dollars to treasury bonds. This is bad for a country like Japan. It weakens the Yen, and Japan is a country that imports most of raw materials and energy. In the US, people have a lot of payments. I did my best to get rid of payments throughout the years. Inflation and job loss can be devastating for most people here. They have no savings to depend on. I am in my late 40s, and companies don't really like to keep people that are in their mid to late 40s. They want younger people that get paid less, because they are just starting out. When you reach your mid 40s, it is time to start a business.
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  2972.  @OMGAnotherday  It is what it is. Globalism means no rights for workers, and it was used by capitalists to destroy the power of labor unions. As a result, workers have no rights. Everything you do is just temporary unless you are a public servant, like a fireman, policeman, or someone who works for the government. Those people have unions that protect their jobs. It isn't like that in the private sector, it is just like the wild wild west. This goes for any kind of worker from low skilled to highly skilled. Now, we have this Gig economy where we have to take multiple little jobs to survive. There is no real industrial base in most Western countries. It is what it is, technology, globalism, and free trade policies. Austerity is what most people face now. You just really have to tighten your belt, and be very careful on how you spend your money. The only thing you can rely on is your savings.
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  2973. I am 49 years old, and all my friends went away. I can't relate with the people at work, because most of them are younger than me. It might be a generational difference.
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  2974.  @doloresreynolds8145  I know tens of millions of jobs had been lost through this Covid-19 pandemic. It is the pity they didn't get it right the first time, the Democrats should have made that one time payment of $1,200 to a 1 year deal. $1,200/month for everyone who makes under $45,000/year. These stupid Republicans will crying when the stock market starts to crash again, and it will as people run out of money. You will have more foreclosures, more unemployment, more crime, more civil unrest, more bankruptcies, more delinquencies on debts, etc. The Democrats gave everything the Republicans wanted by bailing out distressed big businesses with trillions of dollars.This whole damn thing wasn't done right. They should have shutdown the economy for 4 months, given people $1,200/month for a year, and everything would be much better now. We will going into a economic depression maybe around November or early next year. Capitalism sure isn't working.
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  2975.  @rodbennett1133  I always thought he was a victim of what the ruling class did in relation to the economy. He was a victim of downsizing, automation of jobs, mass unemployment, and outsourcing of jobs which happened in the 1970s to the 1990s. When people made enough money then most people are happy. I think right wing media started to become popular around the 1980s and 1990s, and it lead to scapegoating and blaming other people for deteriorating economic conditions through the 1980s and early 1990s. In reality, it was the ruling class that decided to outsource a lot of jobs overseas, and become more efficient by employing automation at home. When people fall into economic despair then they look for the reasons why their lives are in the dumps. This is where right wing media gains followers by telling people what they want to hear, like blaming people who are different.
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  2976. NathanHVAC is a troll, don't respond to him.
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  2977. The West is merely projecting their anxieties on a country that doesn't have the problems that they have.
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  2978. Guess who will be holding the bsg, the maggotards are. LOL
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  2979. Chump will be out on next year.
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  2980.  @glennlongoria9952  I don't care about what you believe. I know Trump lost, and he knows it too. He also knows he is screwed if he doesn't get 4 more years. Why do you think he is talking all this bullshit and nonsense to stay in there. LOL
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  2981. Most people don't use cash, they use credit cards or debit cards to process transactions. More and more business transactions are taking place online, so more payments are done electronically.
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  2982. When people get too old, they become foolish and silly. My parents are in their 80s, and I know they're silly. I have to help them out from time to time by cleaning out their refrigerator when I go visit them once a month. They can't do simple things, like managing their food. They have a lot of rotten food in there, and I get into some fights with my mother because she likes to hoard food. Her cognitive ability is gone, and I have to provide this service or they will be eating rotten food.
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  2983. The average annual income for a person in rural China is about ¥21,000/year, and these women's families want ¥100,000 to ¥200,000. In China, they ask for the money upfront. In the West, there is no dowry, but they will take you to the cleaners later.
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  2984.  @kenlek869  Political science majors become lawyers.
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  2985.  @kenlek869  The bean counters always try to cut corners, and cause problems for companies. Look at Boeing.
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  2986. I don't have to go to Israel, you goddamn alt-right hipster Nazi. Why don't you go back to the hole that you just crawled out of. It is just a matter of time until Trump gets impeached, Mueller is getting closer to finding out that Trump is guilty of treason.
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  2987. Rampant inflation in the past 2 years explains why there is so much crime now.
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  2988. We live in a plutocracy, so Luigi took aim at one of those plutocrats. This is why they are worried.
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  2989. People who become very poor do one of two things, become homeless and live in the streets, or they become criminals.
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  2990. It was 100% influenced by Trump and his hate filled rhetoric.
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  2991. @ It does go up every year, because property tax is accessed by the state every year.
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  2992. Devaluing the currency makes exports less expensive. There is a way to capitalize on those gains for yourself, you can simply shop using a China based website. This way, can cut out the middle man. That is how I was doing it for a number of years. If you want to do business, you can buy stuff in bulk from a China based website, and order directly from the factories in China.
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  2993.  @jgalt308  I don't argue with trolls.
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  2994. You can tell the difference by looking at the barrel diameter. There is a clear difference in the bore diameter for a 9mm vs. a 4.5mm pellet gun.
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  2995. It is Trump's fault, Trump believes in conspiracy theories. We all know he listens to Alex Jones Infowhores.
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  2996. It is fine if people want to use their own money to buy speculative assets, but it isn't okay to use the public's money to do that!
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  2997. Hooden, you're the one ignorant just like CHUMP.
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  2998. Hooden, I don't think so troll.
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  2999. Steven Baldwin, the Republicans are a bunch of charlatans. Republicans and Libertarians are full of shit. Rump is a con man, and the characteristics of a con man are the following. 1. A con man wants to isolate his victims. Ex: The mainstream media are fake news. Everyone who disagrees with me are sheep. 2. A con man makes up conspiracy theories which are false. Ex: Obama is not a American citizen, Obama is a Kenyan. That was false. The deep state is against me. The F.B.I. is doing their job as a Federal law enforcement agency. The C.I.A. and N.S.A. are only doing their jobs.They have anything against tRump. 3. Con men try to make an appeal to people who are down on their luck, having hard times, or in distress. 4. Con men tell people what they want to hear.
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  3000. Beet Beet I was a Republican 10 years ago, but I realized their policies always ended in disaster over and over again. I lived through the Reagan years then 4 years of George H. Bush, and 8 years of George W. Bush. They end up doing a lot of damage to the economy. 1987 stock market crash, and the 2008 financial crisis.
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  3001.  @JaeyGim-jk2zt  Sure, now go back to your trailer park w tras-h.
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  3002.  @s._3560  I have never been to China, but I plan to visit in the future. I want to go and visit my ancestral province which is Zhejiang.
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  3003. South Korea is a puppet or vassal state.
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  3004. People should have the right to choose what they want.
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  3005. From what I see, I think the EU and US will work together on sanctioning and putting trade barriers against China. It's about time China focused more on growing their own domestic markets, and doing more trade with countries in the Global South. China has more to gain in trading with the developing world. They can buy inexpensive natural resources, and industrialize those countries. By industrializing and developing those developing countries, they can sell more goods to those countries, like EVs, trucks, heavy machinery, telecom equipment, electronics, farm machinery, aircraft, industrial machinery, computer equipment, chemicals, refined petroleum products, etc. The average wage in China is about $16,500/year ¥119,460/year, they can increase this to $30,000/year ¥217,200/year. In 2014, the average wage was about $7000/year ¥50,680. There is no excess production capacity of EVs in China. There are about 20 million EVs in China in a population of 1,412,000,000 people. The production rate of EVs in China is about 11.5 million per year. The point of trade is to get things, so you can have a better standard of living, like having appliances, vehicles, AC in your home, etc. It isn't about accumulating dollars, it is about getting real things with that money.
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  3006. If I wrote off $1,000 for my wife combing my hair as tax write off, the IRS would find that suspicious. $70k for that awful haircut, yeah right!!!
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  3007. That pilot will be surprised when he gets jumped by a couple of Su-27s. He is used to fighting against primitive countries, like Afghanistan and Iraq. LOL
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  3008. Even when Russia is actually winning the media will say they are losing. LOL
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  3009. They have a lot of manufacturing jobs in the US, but most of these are highly automated. Factories and manufacturing plants were automated in the late 1970s to the 2000s in the US. Semiconductors, PCBs, high level programming languages, and robotics made that possible. The labor intensive factory jobs were outsourced. Most of the parts and components for these robots will be made in China. How ironic is that. LOL
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  3010. People still have to go out there and do journalism, but the medium is different. People don't use newspapers, they use their desktop computers, laptop computers, smartphones, and tablets to read the news. Just like a lot of people use web browsers on computers, tablets, and smartphones to go on websites to do their shopping. In most modern offices, they don't have cabinets full of paper charts, it is all scanned into a local server or a cloud server where people can access the information in seconds. The information is backed up on multiple hard drives periodically. You still need someone to scan the files. You need a receptionist in the office, and you still need secretaries to answer the calls, etc.
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  3011. It's been like this for over 3 decades.
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  3012. Too many dolts living in this world.
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  3013.  @johnmontgomery4923  Not with the Russian air force having air superiority there.
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  3014. The US is declining power, so they have to make false accusations, because they can't compete fairly.
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  3015.  @peppermintnews3161  I did buy new cars and did finance it. The last car I bought was in 2015, but I put a down payment for $25k, and financed the rest of it. What I don't do is replace a vehicle every 2 to 3 years, I keep them much longer like 8 to 12 years.
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  3016. That is why more and more countries want to get out of the dollar system.
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  3017. It looks more like a rout.
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  3018. intergrity matters, your orange haired president didn't go to Vietnam, but Mueller did. It shows you how much integrity Trump has bitch.
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  3019. Trump has the authority to ORDER companies on where they can setup shop??????
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  3020. North Korea is already under sanctions from the US, so they don't have anything to lose from doing this.
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  3021. In other words, what Trump said is meaningless. LOL
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  3022. Those blue collar workers who made those Ford Mustangs will lose their jobs, because there is less of a demand for those cars. LOL
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  3023. I had to work while I went to university. When you do that, you have to spread out your units. For example, if a full time student is requires you have 12 units or more, I took 10 units and I also took classes in the summer as well. That is how I didn't get any college debt, and it took me a little longer to graduate. Instead of graduating in 4 years, it took me 6 and a half years.
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  3024. Since the US doesn't have much of an industrial base, people will still have to import the stuff they don't make. It will only cost more money. If people can't afford to buy shoes, they can try to make shoes out of newspapers using origami. 😆
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  3025. It's basically a Chinese copy of a FN Model 30 Mauser made in a Chinese Warlord's arsenal.
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  3026. Lindsey Graham has a female name, and he looks like a weak person. Just look at him.
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  3027. It looks like a geometric shape. LOL
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  3028. The US is going to be a regressive country. A lot of innovations will not be implemented, because of selfish interests. Companies just want to become monopolies, and use their money and influence to stifle innovation. If any of you are thinking of moving to the US from Asia, forget about it. My parents brought me here(US) when I was 6, it was good back in the 1980s, and 1990s. Today, it isn't good, it's upside down.
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  3029. The US is run by inept and childish leaders. Most of these people are products of nepotism and unearned privilege. The US looks like the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries.
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  3030. Vlad Tepes was a great man, he stood up to the Ottoman Empire, and refused to be a vassal. We need more leaders like that in this world.
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  3031. There is no escaping it. You need to replace and maintain things, like your clothes, shoes, water heater, air conditioner, vehicle, smartphone, computer, car maintenance, house maintenance, etc. Just those things are a big drain. House had to be repainted, this cost 3,000 bucks. My car needed to be repaired, this cost 750 bucks. My water heater needed to be replaced, this cost 900 bucks. Needed to get a new smartphone due to end of support for the phone, this cost me 1000 bucks. Needed to get a new computer, because Windows 10 will not be supported next year, and this cost me 2200 bucks. My AC broke down last year, and I needed to spend 3500 bucks to get that replaced. You can't save money if you have a home, vehicle, and work in the modern economy.
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  3032. Meat, like red meat red states.
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  3033. It doesn't really matter if the American consumer get hurt, there is demand for those products and commodities in the world economy. This is why inflation cannot be tamed.
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  3034. Because chump is an idiot and a conman.
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  3035. Trump was and is a con man. He borrowed money from Deutschbank, and sued them after he borrowed it from them. No other bank in the US would have loaned money to Trump, but Deutschbank did. No wonder Deutschbank is almost insolvent now. Giving loans to idiots like Trump. LOL
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  3036.  @etbuch4873  That is a good analogue. LOL
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  3037. Eddie Lampert is a parasite, like Bain Capital that asset stripped Toys'R Us and Kaybee Toys. Limpert didn't invest much money into Sears when he came CEO 2013, because I remember vividly when I went to Sears back in late 2013 to 2014. The stores lacked inventory, there weren't many people that worked there, the building wasn't well maintained, and the prices weren't all that great. The equipment that was being used, like the cash registers, looked like the same ones I saw back in the mid 1980s. The stores look like the stores back in the 1980s and 1990s. You can clearly see very little money was invested in Sears for the past 5 years, and putting Sears into debt. This is what you call vulture capitalism.
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  3038. It will all lead to more inflation, more crime, and ultimately a currency crisis. This will lead to hyperinflation and civil unrest.
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  3039. The world free and capitalism are mutually exclusive.
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  3040. What a slime bucket.
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  3041. The people with government jobs buy stuff in the real economy which props up the real economy. Peter you are such a fucking idiot.
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  3042. The answer is simple, don't become homeless.
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  3043. Kira Lawlet Most of these Trump supporters are people who got left behind when free trade policies were implemented in the 1990s. They are too dumb to compete, most of them live in trailer parks, and they aren't smart or well educated. They have no class or decency either.
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  3044. The constitution of the United States of America explicitly states. 13th Amendment states: " Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. " Criminals can be used for FORCED LABOR, it is in the constitution. THIS IS THE LAW, so stop making shit up.
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  3045. Casey Sasaki Saying that the U.S. is a free country, and forced labor for prisoners is unconstitutional or illegal. It is perfectly legal under U.S. laws.
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  3046. Casey Sasaki There are 50+ million Americans who are living on government assistance, so the prisoners who are being used as slaves are paying for those 50+ million people who are living on government assistance. Our government can print money, because they added billions of dollars of value by adding to the GDP of the nation with convict labor. Not only that, these prisoner workers save billions of tax payers money by being used in this fashion. Not only that, their labor pays the wage of the guards who were hired to watch them.
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  3047. Casey Sasaki Your right, the average person and small businesses are being screwed, because American workers cannot compete with prison labor, or laborers from 3rd world countries. Unfortunately, capitalism is all about paying the least amount of money, and getting the greatest amount of profit. The worker is sacrificed in the name of profit. We live in a global capitalist free market system, big business will move the jobs where wages are the lowest. In the future, they will probably use machines to replace foreign workers and workers here in the U.S.A.. That is the trend, and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it. Cashiers in retail stores will be replaced with automated self checkouts, you have translation software that replace translators, you will have self driving cars replacing truck drivers and delivery people in the future, automated factories replaced many jobs in the past 30 years, machines will replace fast food restaurant workers in the near future, the internet will allow companies to eliminate the middle man because they can sell directly, the internet displaced many brick and mortar stores, you have speech recognition software that replaced many customer service reps, ATMs are open 24/7 and now you can even deposit checks without a human teller, all the automakers put computers in their cars so only the dealer can service cars displacing small mechanics, and many more jobs will be made redundant due to automation and technology. If you don't have assets which are economically viable, you are screwed. You will have a two tier society which will consists of only the rich and the poor.
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  3048. Casey Sasaki Corporate America is the real benefactor and people with a lot of capitol as well. Those people control most of the real wealth of any nation, they are usually the big land owners. The people who own all the vital industries of any nation, like utilities, food processing plants, agribusiness, high tech, defense industry, medical industry, petro-chemical, energy, etc. We are returning to feudalism in away. I don't think this is just a problem in America, it is a global problem.
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  3049. Casey Sasaki Your right people haven't changed in thousands of years. As long as they get their beer, potato chips, a couch, and a T.V. they will never revolt. Kind of like bread and circus. The greed thing is ingrained in people, the ordinary person who took the mortgages they could not afford was as responsible as the immoral banks that lent the money to them. Human nature is greedy, selfish, corrupt, jealous, and it is far from perfect. These beer belly blue collar morons who said the banks made me use those credit cards, and take those loans are lying. Screw these people, I am going to just save myself when this economic depression comes into full gear in late 2015.
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  3050. The 2nd amendment was about putting down the black man. LOL
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  3051. The Palestinians started it!
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  3052. Political correctness is anti-freedom of speech. You can say whatever you want in this country, it is protected under the 1st Amendment. Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me, LOL.
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  3053. Most merchants and cops become racist because of what they deal with everyday.
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  3054. ThePowerfulPanda The Federal government gives free housing to people. They can go live in the projects. Poor people get a monthly allowance from the government, it is called welfare. It is like $600 to $800 per month. In the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, we don't have human rights. We have civil rights. In the U.S.A., if you are not rich you have to work for a living. In the European Union, you have human rights. There is a big difference between civil rights and human rights.
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  3055. ThePowerfulPanda Human rights implies that you have the right to free medical care, & the right to food and shelter. In the U.S.A., we don't have such rights. If you cannot afford healthcare, you can't get medical care, and you get sick and die. If you cannot afford to eat healthy food, you will get health problems. Civil rights on the other hand means, you have due process. You are innocent until you are proven guilty. The police cannot break into your house without a warrant. Civil rights means if you have been arrested, you have a right to a public attorney if you cannot afford an attorney. The military intelligence cannot drag you out in the middle of the night and throw you in a concentration camp. That is what Civil Rights are. 
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  3056. ***** I made that statement, because I live in the U.S.A.. There is no such a thing as human rights here, we have civil rights. Let me clarify what they mean. Human rights means, you have a right to medical care, food and water, and shelter. We don't have a right to it in the United States of America. If you are extremely impoverished here, you can get food stamps and they will give you anywhere from $600 to $800/month. How many people can live on $600 to $800/month in the USA? Rent alone is about $1000/month for a 1 bedroom apartment where I live. On top of that, you need to buy health insurance that is another $250 to $400/month. You need to pay for utilities that will be another $120/month. With 70% of the US population making $13/hr or less, how many people can afford to buy health insurance? Right to water? Sure you can buy water with your $700/month in welfare money. There is your right to water.
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  3057. If you live in the USA, you are screwed if your poor.
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  3058. ***** The point I am making is simple. Civil Rights means the government doesn't bother individuals. The government can't send people to come into your home without a warrant wrestle you to the floor and throw you in detention center without a warrant. When you get arrested by the police, they read you your rights. " You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You have RIGHT to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be provided to you. blah, blah, blah".". Civil Rights protects individual freedoms. Human rights means, you are provided the necessities of life. In the U.S.A., the government does not have an obligation to provide you with the necessities of life, like food, shelter, or medical care. That is your responsibility. If you cannot afford Chemotherapy which costs $50,000, you don't have a right to get it. You can buy it, but it isn't a right. You can get life saving drugs if you can afford it. The government doesn't subsidize medical care, and they don't regulate drug companies. They can charge as much as they want, so it isn't a right.
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  3059. ***** I don't make up these rules. It is the money system that we have which causes most of these problems. People will sell out their neighbor for a dollar. Look at how aggressive sales people are. They will do anything for that dollar, they will lie, and cheat to make that dollar. You can't trust people, even if this salesman knows his competitor has a better product, he will never admit it. There is no morality in a capitalist system. You stay in business, or you go out of business, go bankrupt, and lose it all. You can't be moral. That is the problem with this world.
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  3060. If you want to get rid of the guns, just tax each gun $500 per gun, and 25 cents for each round of ammunition. You cannot ban guns, because of the 2nd Amendment, but you destroy the gun industry that makes these weapons and munitions.
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  3061. 1496 blood thirsty gun nuts didn't like this video.
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  3062. The income for the average middle class person has not really kept up with inflation since the early 1980s. Back in the 1980s, someone who made about $35,000 to $50,000 was considered to be in the middle class. In 2014, a person who makes $65,000 is considered to be in the middle class. At the same time, the price of gasoline went up from $0.78/gal in 1982 to $3.80/gal in 2014. A 12 ounce can of coke cost about $0.25 in 1982, and now that same can of coke costs about $1.00 to $1.50. For the lower income brackets, it is even worse. They are stuck in dead end jobs that pay $7.50 to $9.00 per hour. The minimum wage was about $4.25/hr in 1984, and the minimum wage is about $7.25/hr to $9.00/hr in 2014.When consumer prices rose 5 to 6 times in the past 30 years. In inflation adjusted prices, the minimum wage should be about $21.25, and the average middle class income should be about $227,500. We have a lot of income inequality due to outsourcing, an influx of illegal immigration, lax trade barriers(tariffs), and economic policies which are driving wages down.
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  3063. Local officials are all corrupt, this is why we have the FBI. The FBI and ATF investigates crimes committed by local and state officials.
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  3064. Trump is a barbarian, he should wear a horned viking helmet. Looks about right on Mr. Drumpf Dorf Dork.
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  3065. My car requires 91 octane or higher, because it has higher compression engine.
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  3066. +EmeraldView You have your representatives. In some states, people don't like guns, so they tell their representatives to make laws against guns. If you do not like it, move to another state.
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  3067. Libertarians are con artists. They will all talk about how fucked up the system is, or how bad the economy is. Then, they try to sell your their bullshit or scams. Buy my book, buy my videos, buy my program, go pay for my seminars so you can become rich, go watch my channel so I can collect adsense revenue, and just gimme mo  $$$$!
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  3068. ***** Yes, they can. Every time you drive your car, the police ask for your license, registration, and insurance!
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  3069. ***** The police can ask for your I.D. to see if you have any fines, warrants, if you are wanted to passing around a lot of bad checks, or to see if you are a registered felon or not!
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  3070. ***** They check your registration to see if you payed your registration fee to the DMV, and also to see if you own the car. If you drive without car registration, you will receive a fine. They check your insurance to see if you are driving with insurance, and if you don't have insurance you get fined. You really are one simple minded son of a bitch, LOL. 
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  3071. ***** When the alarm went off in the middle of the night, I had to go to my business to see what happened, I called the police and when they got there they asked for my I.D.. I showed it and that is it. If I didn't show it, there would have a problem. If I would have said, I didn't commit a crime; therefore, I refuse to show my I.D. the cop would not have known if I was the person who broke in or if I was the legitimate business owner of the establishment. When I went on a hunting trip, the forest ranger asked for my hunting license. The police, military, or other government authorities can ask for your I.D. anywhere, anyplace, and anytime. If you are an adult, you have carry your I.D. around, and you must show it to the authorities when asked for it.
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  3072. ***** Do you know why a lot of black men get hurt by the police??? It is because they don't cooperate with the police.
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  3073. ***** We won't have to worry about police brutality and all this nonsense in the future. When technology becomes more developed in the future, we can have robot police, and robot soldiers. We will martial law, and if people don't cooperate, they can just be killed outright.
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  3074. ***** I was suspected of a crime??? Anyways, under the Homeland Security Act, the authorities has the right to search without a warrant. I would like to see you argue with a FBI, or a DHS agent about your worthless fucking rights.
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  3075. ***** Under National Defense Authorization Act, your right against unreasonable searches and seizures are ABROGATED. This implies that any law enforcement or government authorities may ask for your I.D. anywhere and anytime. They may stop anyone ask for their I.D. search their homes, and vehicles without any reasons! " A suspicious activity report is a report of suspicious activity that may either be a terrorist act, a criminal act, or a non-criminal act considered a precursor to either a terrorist act or criminal act. ".
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  3076. ***** Welcome to the new America, Mr. Rights, LOL. If I was a government agent, and I asked for your I.D., and you bitch about your rights. I can throw your ass in jail.
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  3077. People like you who voted for Donald Chump are the ones who are smoking dope, you dope. He didn't keep any of his promises. Bring manufacturing jobs back, build a wall, stay out of foreign entanglements, and all the other false promises he made. It is a pity most of you Chump supporters have an average IQ of less than 3 digits.
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  3078. 24 Isis supporters and Islamic Fundamentalists didn't like this video. Track them down DHLS.
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  3079. 4:30 to 4:39 , I could get free land now, and back then I could get free labor. LOL.
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  3080. Your right. Apple products are very difficult to use even for very simple tasks this is why I prefer Windows and Linux operating systems.
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  3081. Pea brain gun totting idiot shot the fish, and put a hole in the boat, LOL. 
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  3082. These libertarians are some brain damaged people.
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  3083. Alex Jones and the Truth Movement was funded by the Koch Brothers.
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  3084. Interesting way to look at a modern transportation system.
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  3085. I guess the cops just don't like blacks.
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  3086. He probably got banned. LOL
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  3087. Cut the money off to these liberal free loaders! Then, you will watch them wither away and die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  3088. This is crazy. Looks like Islamic Fundamentalists don't believe in free speech or freedom.
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  3089. Are you a Republitarian(Republican-Libertarian)?
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  3090. There is no free college in the U.S.A., you have to pay out of it mostly out of your pocket. You can fund it by getting grants if you can qualify for it, but that won't cover it all. It will only cover part of it. Your parents can support you, and if they cannot you need to borrow money from the Federal government. You borrow money from the Feds, and it must be paid back after you graduate or stop going to school. If you don't pay it back, they have the absolute right to garnish your wages. They will track you down with your Social Security number. No free college, it is a myth. Colleges and universities are there to make money. Since the state and federal governments had been making cuts to subsidies, the price of college tuition had been going up and up for years. In addition to higher requirements from employers who will hire only people with 4 year Bachelor's Degrees, the demand for these degrees went up and up over the years. As a result, college tuition sky rocketed. I went to public school, and I came out good. I was just a independent learner throughout my life. I just read the text books, listen to the lectures, and understood everything. I didn't spend all day studying, I would study a few hours a day and do fairly well in school. There isn't anything wrong with public schools, the teachers there are 100% qualified to do their jobs. If the students are stupid and can't learn, it isn't the public school system's fault, or the teachers fault either.
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  3091. statikreg Some offices still use them.
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  3092. statikreg I mixed it up with a dot matrix printer.
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  3093.  @oldtwinsna8347  Fast forward 31 years. Today, a 2 Terabyte hard drive costs $50, and a 40 MB hdd in 1989 cost about $400. In inflation adjusted prices, a 40 MB Maxtor hard drive would cost $1,200 today. A Western Digital 2 TB hard drive cost/MB = 2.0 x 10^-3 cents / Megabyte (less than one cent per Megabyte) A 40 MB Maxtor HDD in inflation adjusted prices = $30 / Megabyte A 40 MB Maxtor HDD in 1989 prices = $10 / Megabyte I didn't get a new computer since 2014 when I put together a computer with a I7-4790k processor. I just made minor upgrades, like adding larger hard drives, adding a SSD, adding a new graphics card, adding more RAM, and upgrading the operating system to Windows 10. I think binary computers are reaching a ceiling when it comes to engineering improvements. It is kind of like the piston engine for aircraft, it reached the peak of its development during World War 2.
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  3094. tripletwentyy He was right about that, but he was wrong about investing in the Chinese economy, buying precious metals, and staying out of the stock market after the crash of 2008. He was wrong on a lot of things, and he was right on a few things.
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  3095. tripletwentyy Peter Schiff is telling you to use ALL YOUR MONEY TO BUY PRECIOUS METALS, like gold. What are you going to do if gold drops to $700/oz, and you listened to Peter's poor advice? I'll tell you what you will have to do. You will have to sell your gold at $700/oz to pay your bills. Don't listen to these precious metals dealers, they just want to sell their stuff. They don't care about the consequences which may result from it.
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  3096. Bill Janksy You know, Peter Schiff is talking about hyperinflation. He isn't talking about a deflationary collapse. The end result of all these debts will lead to hyper deflation. The debts will have to be paid back with fiat currencies. We are more likely going to see a deflationary depression for years than a hyperinflationary scenario, like in Weimar Germany of the 1920s.
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  3097. tripletwentyy He had a debate with Harry Dent, and Schiff said we will have hyperinflation.
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  3098. tripletwentyy Since you believe Peter Schiff, go buy gold, silver, stocks, oil ETFs, and other assets. I hold fiat dollars, and we will see who wins.
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  3099. tripletwentyy I made a small fortune after the 2008 stock market crash. I put about $150,000 in the stock market after the stock market bottomed out in early 2009. It went up about 3 to 10 times. Some stocks went up as much as 10 times, like Apple stocks. I will make more money after this stock market crashes sometime this year. You fools who bought precious metals will be crying again, like you did in 2009 when silver went down to $10/oz, and gold went down to $750/oz. You people are dumb.
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  3100. Bill Janksy Peter Schiff predicted hyperinflation. LOL Where is the hyperinflation buddy? Oil is $45/barrel, your precious piece of shit silver is $14.50/oz. Where is the hyperinflation???? LOL
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  3101. Bill Janksy I just can't wait until most of you Schittbots go bankrupt of end up in prison for not paying Federal income tax because Peter Schitt said so. LOL I will be driving pass you people in my Porsche 911 while you people pull your shopping carts full of your survival gear, guns, survival foods, silver, water filters, etc. I will throw you a penny from my car. How life is treating you. LOL
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  3102. Bill Janksy I am attacking tripletwenty.
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  3103. Bill Janksy ok
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  3104. tripletwentyy Your a Peter Schittbot. Peter Schitt said oil would go to $200+/barrel in 2010!!!! Were is oil at how!!! It is $45/barrel. HE WAS FUCKING WRONG!!!
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  3105. +tripletwentyy I still have a job, and I work full time in my profession which is in the Information Technology industry. Since I am gainfully employed and I have a future, I don't watch fear porn like you people. It appears to me that you people want a total collapse of the economy, because you lost your jobs, & you people don't have any marketable skills. This total collapse thing is like salvation to you losers. I stockpiled my guns+ammo, processed food, my water filters, my tactical vests, and other gear of that sort. This is like escape or like a fantasy for you people. I hope the economy collapses soon, because I can't handle FUCKING REALITY. I can't pay the bills, I can't pay my mortgage, I can't pay my rent, I can't pay my car payment, I can't pay the utilities, etc. This is why you FUCKING LOSERS want a collapse. If it happened, you have worries. You don't have to worry about being EVICTED from your homes. I ASSURE YOU, YOU WILL BE EVICTED FROM YOUR HOMES IF YOU CAN'T PAY YOUR BILLS. Then, they throw you and your worthless survival gear out of your homes into the street. You can put all of that shit onto your shopping cart and go to skid row with it. LOL
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  3106. +tripletwentyy Have you ever tried to use your water filter? Have you tried to recycle your toilet water and drink it??? LOL
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  3107. tripletwentyy People like you who want our economy to collapse, so you can trade silver with each other are the ones who need to go to a shrink. 
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  3108. tripletwentyy Having a central bank, and a strong Federal government is a good thing. The Federal government is the people, and the government can borrow all the printed money they need. This is great system. If there is a big economic crisis, the government can at least keep everyone fed, so they don't cause civil strife.
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  3109. tripletwentyy The Federal government has representatives in the House of Representatives, and in the Senate. These representatives are voted in by the people of the United States of America. Therefore, the Federal government is the people of the USA.
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  3110. tripletwentyy We will just a stock market crash and that's it. Everything will be like normal. You will just see higher unemployment, more foreclosures, more layoffs, more bankruptcies, higher interest rates, lower commodity prices, more 401ks and pension funds destroyed, and more people relying on government assistance. That's it. That is what will happen. There will be no hyperinflation. I will just buy everything on the cheap, and people like me who have money will have a good time. People like you who bought commodities and precious metals will go to the poor house. That's it.
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  3111. tripletwentyy Senators and congress people are from every state of the union. People vote them into office. It is called a representative government, don't you know what that means. The Senators and congress people hold sessions in Washington D.C. to vote on bills, veto bills, & repeal bills. What is wrong with Washington D.C., you traitor?
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  3112. tripletwentyy It is a pity, so may truther morons are so poorly educated on how our government works. You may criticize the average person for knowing too much about celebrities, but I can criticize the TRUTH RETARDS who knows a lot about conspiracy theories know NOTHING about how real things work.
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  3113. Bill Janksy Don't argue with crazy people. That is the best way.
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  3114. Bill Janksy Your right.
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  3115. Do you still like working for Uber?
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  3116. Yes, you have a lot of idiots like Cliven Bundy.
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  3117. I like Intel, because it is stable. That stability means a lot to me.
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  3118. LOL!!!
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  3119.  @eldiablo7862  It was created by Nixon and expanded by Reagan who were both Republican presidents jackass.
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  3120. Islamic state, I call it the bandit state of ISIS.
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  3121. I am a college graduate, I am pretty affluent, I don't support the Tea Party, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and others like them. I used Federal government grants to get me through university, and I was very poor throughout my teenage years to my college years after my father lost most of his money in the 1987 stock market crash and the recession that followed, house was foreclosed on, and lived in severe economic hardship for more than a decade. I can understand what it feels like to be poor and destitute. From what observed, more than 95% of these truthers, Ron Paul supporters, Alex Jones listeners, Tea Party people, Militia people are con artists. They offer no solutions at all. If practical solutions are offered, like infrastructure projects, government incentives to buy energy efficient cars, they never want any of it.
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  3122. A transformer house. LOL
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  3123. The difference between China and the USA is that China is a communist country, they can always get money from the government.
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  3124. ***** A gaming laptop that comes close to the best desktop will cost you anywhere from $3500 to $5000.
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  3125. ***** I don't use laptops to run any powerful applications. I use a desktop system to do that. Laptops are mostly used to do work.
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  3126. Is Donald Trump a tax cheat, or is he a fake billionaire?
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  3127. Rand Paul is pathetic like his father Ron Paul.
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  3128. Are you happy working for Uber or Lyft?????? Are they paying you good?
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  3129. We will see a global depression in 2015.
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  3130. If workers really wanted to purchase the businesses they work in, they can pool their money together and do it. They could promise to pay the former owner the total cost of the business with the revenue the business generates. Have the cost of the business paid off in installment payments over lets say 5 years.
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  3131. The U.S. has a history of racial and ethnic animosities, people don't easily forget. It won't be easy to unite for example blacks and whites. The two don't get along. Another example, East Asians and blacks, Central Americans/Mexicans and blacks, they don't get along.
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  3132. White Americans and American Indians, those two groups hate each other as much blacks and whites hate each other.
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  3133. You have to understand the situation for the Mongols/Turkic tribes in a historical context. Those people were the same ethno-racial groups. The U.S. is a hodge podge of different races and ethnic groups. You see people segregating themselves more often than not. When I went to public school, kids would always stick with their kind. The blacks would play with other blacks, the whites the same, the Asians the same, the Middle Easterners the same, Latinos the same, etc. Even when I went to college, people segregated themselves into racial groups, I would my friends who were like me. We would help each other out. Even in the prison system, inmates divide themselves up according to race. I am serious, people in the USA will not unite.
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  3134. ozwhistles It was nice conversing with you too.
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  3135. Christopher Snow I think we already hit the cap in silicon based transistor technology; however, RISC architecture could be utilized to improve performance with CPUs that require less transistors. A good example would be ARM processors on smart phones, they use RISC processors to execute more than one instruction per cycle. As a result, you have a CPU that has 1/10 to 1/20 the number of transistors compared to a CISC processor. It would work for software that doesn't require real number calculations, or numbers with decimal points. A RISC processor would not work for CAD programs, flight simulators, or any kind of applications that require float point calculations. ARM or RISC processors are limited in what they can do, this is why we need desktops with powerful processors and GPUs.
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  3136. Christopher Snow We need to transition from transistor based electronics to optical based electronics to break the bottleneck. Light moves much faster than electrons. It would be like transitioning from piston engines to jet engines. The fastest piston engine aircraft could propel an aircraft to 450 to 500 mph. A jet engine can propel an aircraft more than 1000 mph to 1900 mph. For transistor based electronics, they will have to come up with better cooling systems, like liquid cooling solutions to clock CPUs and GPUs at higher frequencies without burning them out. For those who can afford it, they could make motherboards with multi-CPUs on it. That would address the speed problem. A board like that with 3 to 4 CPUs would be out of the reach of most users, it would cost at least $6000 or more.
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  3137. Christopher Snow Computer graphics are very good now. Virtual reality was all but forgotten in the 1990s, I thought it was going to be the next big thing. They made so many movies about virtual reality, like Lawnmower Man, Johnny Mnemonic, Strange Days, 13th Floor, The Matrix, etc. Virtual reality never came into fruition!
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  3138. Patchuchan They had a computer system called the Xerox Alto developed in 1973. It had a GUI interface, word processor/spreadsheet, user friendly operating system, 3 button mouse, keyboard, a monochrome monitor, laser printer, email, & ethernet networking.
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  3139. Patchuchan $40,000 back in 1978 is about $150,000 to $160,000 in today's money. A GUI operating system was only a dream for most people in the late 1970s. The technology wasn't there to make it happen on a massive scale. Computers got cheaper and more powerful in the past 37 years. The average desktop computer in the early 1980s was a 8 bit system with about 256 kbs of ram. 16 bit computers enabled computer makers to implement the GUI operating systems. 16 bit computers enabled you to have a maximum ram amount of 64 mbs. The 16 bit cpu enabled GUI operating systems to become reality.  Computers like the Amiga 500, and 1000 had GUI operating systems. The Apple IIGS, Macintosh, and Sharp X68000 had GUIs also. Windows 3.0 became widely available on PCs with 286 and 386 processors in the early 1990s.  32 bit CPUs came out in the early 1990s, and GUI operating systems got better and better. Windows NT was released in 1993, and Windows 95 was released in 1995. As a result, computers became more mainstream, because it became easier to use. 
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  3140. Christopher Snow I am not going to spend $4000 to play games. I would spend at least $1500 to $1800 for a new computer system. For a car, I would spend at least $32,000 to $65,000. For a shoe I would spend at least $200 to $500. For a watch I would spend at least $2000 to $3000. For a computer, I would never spend more than $1800.
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  3141. Christopher Snow If you want to play games on the highest settings, you need at least a graphics card that costs about $300 to $500. If you buy a good graphics card, you need to buy a I-7 processor that costs about $300 to $600. If you want to record your game play, you need at least 2 hard drives. You also need to buy good ram which will set you will cost you about $200. A good motherboard costs about $200 to $300. A good quality full tower case costs about $90, and you need to add fans on it.  A blu-ray player with the software costs about $100. A good quality power supply 700 watts will set you back about $100 to $120. A copy of the operating system costs about $100 to $150. I always put in the best parts when I build a system. When it comes to computers, I want the best components. When it comes to cars, a base would be enough. I don't care about the added electronic features in a car. Why? Because I would never use it, I care more about the suspension system, the drive train, the engine, the break system, and safety features.
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  3142. stabnshoot Integrated graphics can do some 3d applications, but it can't do demanding 3d tasks. You need a dedicated graphics card or GPU that can handle real number calculations. A integrated graphics card on a CPU can do great integer computations, but 3d apps like Auto CAD, and other 3d apps require real number computations.
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  3143. Christopher Snow If they could increase the wattage on the CPU socket, I am sure they could do it.
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  3144. There is no need to commit genocide to reduce the population. All they need to do is to depress the economy, and people with little to no money will not have children, har har har har harty har har, ROFL!
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  3145. If a black guy shot 9 whites in a church, the cops wouldn't take him alive. Even if the black guy surrendered, they would probably pump him full of lead.
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  3146. It is a heavy machine gun, it is a defensive weapon.
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  3147. Cliven Bundy is the most un American anti-American. He is no patriot, he is a criminal, and a liar.
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  3148. They asked for it. LOL
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  3149. Peter Schiff got it right. Mt. Gox collapsed around Feb 28th 2014. Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme. The people who got in it early are manipulating it, because they own the majority of the bitcoins. In addition, the quantity of bitcoins are limited, so the people who come in later get trapped. The people who come in later take big risks, for something that is intrinsically worthless. It a pyramid scheme and the people who got in early make all the money. You have a network of insiders, like the people who created it, the people who hoarded it early knowing the value will go up in the future due to manipulation+propaganda, & the people who promote it. It is a conspiracy. Max Keiser promoted this bullshit, like he promoted buy silver and crash JP Morgan. He promoting bitcoins, because he is pumping it to dump it. Don't be a fool holding the bag.
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  3150. Pretty much.
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  3151.  @MonicaHolly143  Not really, the cost of living is more in the USA than it is in your 3rd world country. As for being financially stable, I am financially stable, that is why I work 75 hours a week working multiple jobs. That is the only way to be able to make here.
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  3152. These conservatives, preppers retards, truth movementards, Ron Paul worshippers, Alex Jones listeners, believe in New World Order conspiracy theories all believe life is so unfair because they don't have an unfair advantage over others now. They believe the America isn't fair, because they can't compete in an environment where the laws don't favor them. They look at the glorious past of pre 1865 America, where all the laws were stacked in their favor. These douchebags need to live in the 21st century. Most of these losers live on welfare, and they complain about others when they get it.
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  3153. He was an Alex Jones listener. The typical Alex Jones listener is unemployed, ignorant, uneducated, stupid, lives with his parents, believes in conspiracy theories, and believes white men are being marginalized.
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  3154. This is how stupid these RUMP supporters are.
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  3155. Was she an Alex Jones listener?
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  3156. That is how they get you. They pay well at first, and the market gets saturated. The only thing you are stuck with are the debts, and you get paid less. You still have to pay the same amount of money to the bank to pay your debts, but what you make is less.
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  3157. Hey Peter, I am kind of enjoying these low prices. I am enjoying the 25 to 30% off on sales, the low gasoline prices, the low gold prices, etc. I will buy some gold when it drops to $900/oz. I can do more driving. and at the end of the day, I have more awesome Federal Reserve Notes in my pocket!
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  3158. All the Republican states are prohibiting the sale of Tesla cars, because they don't want to use private dealers.
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  3159. Peter Schiff stop lying.
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  3160. Carrier will move the rest of the jobs overseas later, or they will automate the whole plant.
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  3161. Most of you bubbas are going to be starving to death in the streets. Trump will just cut welfare for most of you who will be replaced. You can just die in the streets!
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  3162. This punk needs to get life in prison and the inmates will make this punk pay.
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  3163. Donald Trump needs to be removed.
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  3164. They will never stop trying until he is removed from office.
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  3165. If you want to go out with pretty girls, you have to have the $$$$.
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  3166. This is the future. Overpopulation and the lack of availability of land.
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  3167. Donnie Smith LOL.
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  3168. See the hypocrisy. They have nice smart phones and laptops, and waste their money on useless things. They chose to get themselves to go to school with borrowed money, it is their own fault. Stop blaming people millennials. Those debts will stay with you for the rest of your lives. The government will garnish your wages and get it.
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  3169. Computer repair maybe dead, but refurbishing computers isn't dead.
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  3170. +Masterr Laster The parts are available in Amazon and Ebay for very good prices. I made useless Core2duo computers into Core2 Quad processors with 8 gbs of ram. I bought the hard drives for $5 each for 160 gbs and sold the computers at a huge markup. The base computers were bought for as little as $30 to $60, like Dell Dimension 9200s, Dimension E-520s, E-521s, & others into usable office computers. People who run offices will buy them if you have the connections.
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  3171. Masterr Laster I bought over 100 hard drives, so if one fails I would replace it. Plus, all the computers I sold were backed up with a hard drive image. All of that was backed up on my main computer with about 4 TBs of space. I backed up the operating system and basic programs. It took about 10 gbs of space for each machine.
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  3172. +Masterr Laster Refurbishing is more profitable. Sometimes, people throw away computers that don't turn on. Usually, the fix is very inexpensive, the problem is usually a bad capacitor on the motherboard or the power supply. The cost of fixing it is a few capacitors worth about $10. At other times, it could be a bad chip on the motherboard, so the capacitor will constantly go out at the same place. If that s the case, the motherboard is thrown away, and all the other parts are salvaged. The fans, the cpus, the hard drives, the DVD-RW/DVD-ROM, ram, graphics card, and power supply can be salvaged. The other capacitors on the board can be de soldered and salvaged. You can sell the smaller parts, like the cpus, hard drives, dvd-roms/dvd-rws, graphics cards, and other smaller parts can be sold on ebay. Selling entire computers is more tricky, you need to have the connections with firms, because the consumer demand for PCs is way down.
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  3173. If Ronald McDonald Trump becomes president and implements everyone of his stupid policies, the economy would collapse.
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  3174. HuckFinn STFU FUCKFINN, is that all you can fucking say is dipshit.
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  3175. HuckFinn So.
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  3176. HuckFinn So dipshit.
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  3177. OldVillain The only two good candidates for the presidency are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Those two want to tackle the real issues. The important issues being the following. 1. Change the trade policies, so the jobs come back here. Punish American corporations with high tariffs who ship American jobs overseas. This will create more jobs in America. 2. The tax loopholes in the Caymen Islands and other places must be closed. Change the corporate tax rate and laws as well. Corporations have to pay their fair share of taxes. All this tax money will fund a infrastructure or jobs bill. It will put millions of people to work. 3. We need a presidential candidate who can raise money at a grass roots level, like Bernie Sanders, or a candidate that will not be corrupted by money because he has it. They need to change the campaign financing laws, or have elections which are funded by the public. 4. The issue of illegal immigration has to be tackled. Tighten the border, and deal with the undocumented immigrants by getting them out of the shadows. This way, the undocumented workers will not have any advantage over the average American worker, because they would make the same wage. Those are the real issues, everyone else doesn't matter. Any candidate that tackles these issues are good enough for me.
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  3178. HuckFinn So dipshit.
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  3179. HuckFinn So stfu.
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  3180. HuckFinn So?
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  3181. HuckFinn So what you butt.
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  3182. Lucy Kelly So don't.
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  3183. George prochet Either one is good. As long as they aren't influenced by big money.
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  3184. George prochet F.D. Roosevelt was an elitist who fought for the people. How about Julius Caesar, he was an elitist who fought for the people of Rome. It doesn't matter if you are an elitist. What matters is what are the intentions of that person.
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  3185. George prochet The common man or the Pleb needs the nobility to rule over them for their own good. It had always been like that, and it will always be like that.
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  3186. George prochet No need for fucking morals. You do what is necessary. More favorable trade policies can improve the economy greatly. There is nothing wrong with big business, it is the tax laws, and the trade policies that make them do what they do. These big businesses can choose to outsource, but if you increase the tariffs to 1000%. They will reconsider their outsourcing their production lines overseas. No more of this hiding your taxes in the Caymen islands bullshit, and setting offices in Luxembourg to avoid paying Federal taxes. If all these loopholes are abolished. Things will get better. The government will have more money to spend on the people. Businesses will hire Americans who will have jobs. They will in turn pay their income taxes, social security, sales taxes, road taxes, etc. You will have better roads, better schools, the real estate market will recover. More people with good paying jobs will buy homes, they will buy cars, they will eat out more, they will strengthen the economy. If foreign companies want to setup shop here, and setup their factories, they will be given incentives to do so. By doing what is necessary actually helps everyone.
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  3187. George prochet I don't know how old you are, but I saw the deterioration of the U.S. economy from 1983 to the present. I lived through it. The U.S. was such a wealthy country in the 1980s and 1970s that if you went to rent a video after Christmas, they would give you a free calendar and other free things. A lot of things were produced in America during the time I grew up. Many people were content with their lives, they made pretty good wages, and many people were satisfied with their lives. I don't buy this notion of social justice. It doesn't work. You need to balance out capitalist and socialist policies to create prosperity. You can raise the minimum wage to $20/hr, but if there are very few jobs in the economy it wouldn't matter. Bernie Sanders isn't a socialist. His talking points are the same as Donald Trump. He isn't going to give you handouts. He is talking about how we can get more favorable trade policies, creating a infrastructure bill to create jobs and fund much needed infrastructure projects, change the tax laws, changing the campaign contribution laws, and make it more fair for the average person. Every country should have trade barriers to protect their industries. By promoting policies like these does not mean he is a socialist. If you don't change the current state of the economy, your social justice and wealth imbalance will only get worse.
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  3188. George prochet Do you know how much damage these free trade policies did???? These corporations that outsourced not only exploited low wage workers, they GAVE that TECHNOLOGY to the countries they set their production lines and factories in. This is why you are having pirated copies from China, these copies are from sub contractors who produced stuff from American firms. Now they rip off American products and put the same label on it, and sell it for a little less. These morons who made some profits from exploiting cheap labor sold the farm. They complain about copyright infringements from Chinese firms who rip off their products!!! They caused it.
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  3189. Archie Dorrough I bet HuckFinn lives with in momma's basement. LOL
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  3190. Archie Dorrough True.
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  3191. HuckFinn So.
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  3192. Neon Effect This is a free country, you can vote for whoever you want. Who cares.
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  3193. Neon Effect No one cares about your worthless opinion, you debt slave millennial. Money talks, everything else is bullshit.
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  3194. Neon Effect So what liberal.
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  3195. Neon Effect So.
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  3196. celia cifuentes So.
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  3197. Will Havrilchak I work in the defense industry boy. We need a strong president who isn't a wussy liberal. We need to produces lotsa weapons, so people like me will have a job. Then, send you worthless millennials to fight our wars against Islamic fundamentalism boy.
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  3198. Will Havrilchak Letting ISIS or the Islamic State run wild is the reason why Democrats are  becoming unpopular!
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  3199. Will Havrilchak We are going to take the Senate, Congress, and the Presidency in the next election!
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  3200. Modern Christians are the biggest hypocrites.
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  3201. You just have to save your money and invest it wisely.
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  3202. They will find a way to make it very difficult to hack. Companies are willing to invest the money to do that. After all, they will save billions of dollars a year.
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  3203. The math is very simple. More jobs will be destroyed than the jobs that will be created. Not everyone has the intelligence to learn programming, nor do they have problem solving skills that are required to work in the tech field. If you want to program avionics on an airplane, you need to know physics. You need to have a very good background in mathematics to be a programmer. The millions of people who get displaced from the retail, fast food, manufacturing, and transportation sector WILL NOT ALL BE ABLE TO BE COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS! In the end, you will have artificial intelligence that can make programming very easy. All the input a human would need to put in are the parameters of what they want. Just like how computers in the 1980s required that you know Dos commands, but when it was replaced by the GUI system everyone was able to use computers. Programming will end up like that too.
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  3204. They have been making it more difficult to get jobs. Back in 2007, one of my friends who worked at a Budweiser Brewery said THEY WILL LAYOFF ANYONE WITHOUT A COLLEGE DEGREE. They did this as an excuse to lay off people, so they could automate the brewery.
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  3205.  @totallyjonesin  Arguing with a Nazi is pointless.
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  3206.  @JackHaveman52  I guess you're right. I think both parties are different sides of the same coin.
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  3207.  @JackHaveman52  At this point, I think people should try to form a new party which isn't plutocratic in nature, because both the Republicans and Democrats are plutocratic parties. They don't represent the interests of the American people, and this is becoming abundantly clear as you see more and more people living out in the streets. More and more people are working harder and harder for less and less money. People having to work 2 to 4 jobs just to survive and get their basic needs these days. The government is just becoming more and more heavy handed with policies that make the lives of ordinary people harder and harder, like the $600 IRS reporting requirement, etc.
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  3208.  @JackHaveman52  Trump didn't do much. After he got elected, he did the same thing every prior administration did. Everything is fantastic, pump up the stock market, and create even a bigger bubble. Nothing really changed under Trump, and I don't think anything is going to change under the Republican or Democratic banner. Every time one of these people get into power, they will say everything is marvelous, because I am the head of state. LOL
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  3209. They didn't have color LCD screens in the 1980s and early 1990s. The kind of screen you would get would be a monochrome LCD screen, and it was very expensive. The batteries on these early model computers were heavy, they were lead acid batteries not Lithium ion. Laptops were very expensive from the 1980s to the mid 2000s.
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  3210. SD78 $2000 for a C64 in 1988??????? You overpaid man. I got my 386 SX-16 mhzs system with a monitor, and printer for $2200 in 1989. It was a IBM Clone called Leading Technology. The games were cheap in 1989 and 1992, you just have to buy them when they are on sale. I bought Wing Commander for the PC for about $29.99 when it was on sale. I bought Bad Blood for about $39.99, Su-25 cost me about $39.99, Mechwarrior cost me about $29.99 at some mail in place, the game prices were pretty reasonable back then. It all depended on where you bought it.
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  3211. SD78 My friend sold me his Commodore 64 for $20 in 1989, it didn't come with the disk drive.
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  3212. SD78 The funny thing about CPU technology these days is this. My old Intel I7-960 which was a CPU released in 2009 is still a very good system now. I just upgraded the graphics card like 2 times. First it had a Geforce GTX 260 896 mbs, Geforce GTX 470 1280 mbs, and now it has a Geforce GTX 770 2 gbs. It runs like a champ. The I-5 3570K, and I-7 4970 I got last year aren't that much faster when I run demanding applications. The GPU today is like the Math Co-processor of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The GPU does more to speed up 3d applications opposed to the CPU.
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  3213. SD78 I never owned an Amiga 500, I always wanted an Amiga but my parents never bought me one! The PC was more valuable to me in the long run, because it became the standard format in the long run. The Dos was more difficult to use than Amiga's O.S., because you had to know the commands to operate it. They didn't have Windows in 1989, and you needed to learn Microsoft Dos to operate it. I still know how to use Dos, LOL.
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  3214. ungratefulmetalpansy That is an interest way to look at it.
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  3215. Roger Diogo Very few people use 35mm film rolls now. Most people use digital cameras now that is why the price of 35mm cameras are dirt cheap.
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  3216. Roger Diogo I wish my parents bought me an Amiga back in 1986. It was like $500 for an Amiga 500 back in the late 1980s.
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  3217. ***** Android tables and smartphones are media consumption devices. Even with a keyboard, they make poor multi-functional computers. They use RISC processors which are good at integer calculations, but if you have to do engineering, graphics, video editing, gaming, or other hard core tasks, you can just forget about it. However, there are ways, you can stream the power of a desktop on a smart phone or a tablet. Which means, you can run high powered applications on your mobile devices. Networking technology is that good now.
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  3218. ***** That is true.
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  3219. I can't believe this tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist got the media spotlight. LOL
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  3220. Alex Jones is mentally ill, he has a friend named Lindsey Williams who talks to imaginary people who he calls the elite. These so called imaginary friends of his tells him what will happen to America, and every prediction he made was WRONG. At the end of each show, he tells people to buy his DVDs from the Prophecy Club. ROFL!!!! You can't make this shit up!!!!!!!!!!!
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  3221. The Burned Man Dylann Roof said that. Why are you talking about black criminality and talking about Roof?????
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  3222. The Burned Man If you don't know w hat I am talking about then go away.
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  3223. +J. Baird Not all whites are racists, and the media isn't painting all whites as racists. Most of you Alex Jones listeners and Ron Paul supporters are racists and anti-Semites. Everyone knows that by now.
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  3224. J. Baird Why did Alex Jones support Ron Paul and have him on his show? The media isn't demonizing whites.
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  3225. +J. Baird It is common knowledge that blacks from the inner city are more criminal. Everyone knows that except for liberal morons who find out the hard way after they been beat up, get injured, and robbed.
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  3226. J. Baird If you defended yourself if a black thug broke in, and if you or I shot them they would say that is racism.
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  3227. J. Baird These liberals are going too far, but their opinions will change when they do become a victim of crime. If they get raped, robbed, car gets stolen, or if they get beat up. Their stupid ideas of political correctness will change.
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  3228. LOL. The dumb people who voted for Drumpf are realizing they've been screwed.
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  3229. Shut the fuck up you idiot. We do have free markets. Globalism=the purest form of free markets. Globalism = free market = no trade barriers = moving capital from one country to another = outsourcing jobs to increase profitability. Replacing people with machines to increase profitability is also capitalism. Don't tell me we don't have capitalism you DOLT!
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  3230. +ReliveTheDream LOL.
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  3231. Adnan Kashogi Shut the fuck up Arab. We don't want you in the Western world. Go back to Mecca where you belong. After Arabs attacked Paris, there will be no sympathy towards Arab refugees.
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  3232. ReliveTheDream If it wasn't for the Western World, Arabs wouldn't be able to sell their oil. The West developed the oil fields in the Arab world in the 1950s.
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  3233. Adnan Kashogi We will take all your oil, and the world will support our actions. There isn't a thing you can do about it. No one would care if you people put into concentration camps or get killed.
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  3234. Adnan Kashogi So what are you going to do about it? Now that the world knows what the Arabs are all about, do you think U.S. pilots, French pilots, Russian pilots, or any others will care if they drop napalm and carpet bombs on Arabs? No one will even shed a tear.
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  3235. Adnan Kashogi When Trump becomes president, we will return with more troops, and most of these soldiers will not care. If they level an entire town, they will laugh when Arabs are being toasted and burned alive.
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  3236. ***** He doesn't care about those people who were murdered by Arab Islamic Extremists, because he supports them.
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  3237. ***** STFU you conspiracy theorist.
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  3238. Avatarblackwolf Wrong. ISIS took those weapons from the Iraqi army.
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  3239. Avatarblackwolf There was no plan to arm ISIS. The Iraqi army was pathetic, so the weapons were captured from the Iraqi army.
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  3240. Avatarblackwolf It was a joke, don't be so serious Mr. Conspiracy Theorist. ISIS is using captured weapons from the Iraqi Army.
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  3241. Why do you have to lie like this and make up stuff?
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  3242. LOL
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  3243. Pricing are rising? How much is the price of a barrel of oil? $45/barrel. How much was it in mid 2008? $149/barrel. Schiff is wrong on inflation!
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  3244. Stupid liberals. The U.S.A. Constitution clearly states, people who commit crimes can be used for forced labor. This applies to FELONS. They do not have rights a U.S. citizen has, like the right to vote, the right to own firearms, they can be denied any licenses by the state to start a business, they have no 4th Amendment rights, most of the rights of citizenship are henceforth denied to people with felony records. Felons can be used in chain gangs, forced labor by the local, state and Federal governments. So if black people who have clean records don't need to worry about this bullshit Kanye made up!
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  3245. It doesn't take much to destroy these right wing idiots. Just give them some media coverage and let them talk. If you give them some rope, they will hang themselves with it, LOL.
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  3246. He sure is an all American boy, he is a American Indian.
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  3247. FOX News is racist that is why.
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  3248. +A Giz LOL
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  3249.  @NoName-ni1mr  Not when you have martial law. In that case, the government can deploy armed drones, A-10s, cluster bombs, main battle tanks, etc.
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  3250.  @TT-dp8qh  You don't know very much about modern technology do you? The cameras on these expensive drones can spot a person from 20 miles away. Your bullet won't reach that far, nor can you even see the drone at that distance. LOL
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  3251.  @TT-dp8qh  Military drones can, like the Predator that is why it costs $32 to $200 million.
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  3252.  @TT-dp8qh  You're right, it is about 20,000 feet, not 20 miles. Got my units mixed up. It's about 3.78 miles, or 6.09 kilometers. LOL
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  3253.  @TT-dp8qh  It also depends on a clear day vs. night time, because at night the visible range is much less. I don't think any regular can shoot down a military drone with a rifle. You will need at least a 40mm anti aircraft gun or a surface to air missile.
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  3254.  @TT-dp8qh  Shooting down combat drones, like the Predator, or Baykar Bayraktar TB2 isn't easy. When the Baykar Bayraktar TB2 drones were being used in Azerbaijan, very few of them got shot down by Armenian ground forces. Armies have much better weapons than civilians, they have man portable surface to air missiles, anti aircraft artillery, they have all kinds of small arms, SAMs of various types, etc. Civilians don't stand a chance against modern combat drones. The Baykar Bayraktar TB2 is much less capable compared to a US Predator drone, but look at how much damage it caused. It might have helped tipped the scale of the war in Azerbaijan's favor.
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  3255.  @divoulos5758  Most civilians don't have such weapons. Countries do, but most civilians don't.
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  3256.  @divoulos5758  LOL
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  3257. Prisons are places where people are punished and used for forced labor.
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  3258. At the present Thorium costs $5 per gram or $5000 per kilogram. So, $40 worth of Thorium can power a car for 100 years that is a great deal. If Thorium was mass produced, the costs can go down to $10/kg or 1 cent per gram. 
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  3259. Create Lucifer? LOL The head of the liberal movement. ROFL!!!!!!!! Alex Jones is nutty, and the people who copy him are also nutty. LOL
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  3260. Rand Paul is a douchebag and coward like his old man WRONG PAUL!
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  3261. This interviewer is a stupid liberal bitch. This is what is wrong with America!!!!!!!
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  3262. What a bunch of sluts.
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  3263. LibertyMan Farmers in New Zealand and Australia receive the least compared to most countries in this world.
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  3264. piehamcake1 I think we are headed towards a global depression. The reason why the U.S. dollar got strong was due to shale oil exploration and shale oil exports. Now that the price of a barrel of oil is $49, the shale oil industry is no longer profitable. Exports are falling on a global scale. Having a strong currency in the midst of a recession or depression is bad. Your exports cost more which is bad for trade.
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  3265. piehamcake1 I think we are headed towards a global depression. The reason why the U.S. dollar got strong was due to shale oil exploration and shale oil exports. Now that the price of a barrel of oil is $49, the shale oil industry is no longer profitable. Exports are falling on a global scale. Having a strong currency in the midst of a recession or depression is bad. Your exports cost more which is bad for trade.
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  3266. Big fast food chains can afford to pay their workers $15/hr, and they don't have to use their workers full time either. They can use them part time, not pay any benefits, and it is perfectly feasible. We live in a time when computerization and automation is prevalent. If minimum wages go up to $15/hr, a lot of companies will start automating at a faster rate, because it is cheaper to do so. In a nut shell, they will automating regardless of the minimum wage hikes, because in the long run it is cheaper to do so. It is inevitable, because the technology exists already, and it is getting better and better every single year. I am not a liberal, or a Democrat. I am quite conservative, I think people should be paid a fair wage. Most jobs will be relegated to part time positions if they have not already transitioned to that already. No company, corporation, or business wants to pay for a full time employee, because the cost retaining full time employees is costly. If I was an employer, I would like to have work force of part time employees, but I would expect one employee to do the work for 3 people. I would pay them $15/hr to start. Have a employee with at least a Bachelor's degree who is more capable than someone who has only a high school degree. I would like to have a work force that is highly skilled, well educated, and willing to learn new things. I would pay them right. If they are valuable, I would give them full employment and pay them $20/hr or more.
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  3267. In this day and age, human work isn't very valuable anymore. A lot of tasks can be replaced with computer algorithms. For example if you call a bank, there is no human being answering the phone, it is done entirely with voice recognition software and a computer program. In the near future, you will start seeing automated , or self driving cars. This will put millions of people who rely on driving, like truck drivers, taxi drivers, and Uber/Lyft drivers out of work. I work in the computer field, so I have plenty of work automating processes. Whether that be setting up a server, writing code, setting up a network, etc. After it is all said and done a couple of people in that company are no longer needed as a result of what I did. The company is more productive and less people are needed. Email would be a good example. Paper mail is no longer required anymore, because people can send mails at the speed of electrons to anywhere in the world. As a result, 250,000 postal workers were replaced in the last 13 to 15 years. Post Office sorting facilities use conveyor belts, lasers and computers to scan packages and mail, this replaced many people as well. People aren't used to sort out mail and packages anymore, it is entirely done by a automated system using computers. In most offices, you can have a completely paperless system. This will eliminate the filing clerk, because a computer can be programmed to send files from the fax server to the file server. All these are connected to a computer network, and staff can access these files in seconds. Mobile banking makes it easier for everyday people to make deposits by using their smartphone. They can make a deposit with their smartphone in a few minutes or less. They don't have to go to the bank, they waste their fuel getting there, and they don't have to waste time going there. It is a lot cheaper for the bank to use mobile banking, it costs much less per transaction than with a human bank teller, or a physical ATM machine. Who needs paper money by the way, you can use your debit card to buy whatever you want. No need for paper. If you really do need cash, you can use an ATM machine at any of the bank's branches. A lot of people are working at fast food restaurants not out of want, but they are doing it out of necessity. Most routine jobs will be replaced in the next 10 to 15 years. When you have quantum computers becoming more mainstream for big companies, more people will be let go. These new quantum computers aren't like your binary computer we have now. I am sure, they can replace higher skilled tasks as well. In the future, you will have computer programs that can write its own code by the employer just telling it what it wants.
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  3268. Your concept of working for a living will soon be obsolete for most people. In the next 10 years, a lot less people would be needed to do any sort of work. The technology companies have to do one last thing to guarantee that. They need to put a computer processor in a robotic humanoid body connected to a very fast wireless networks. Millions more will not be needed. The people that will be needed in that new economy will be high educated people who have science, math, technology, and computer skills. The rest will be useless.
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  3269. I work part time as well. I have at least 3 part time jobs, but my pay rate is a lot higher, because I am a skilled worker. I have a bachelor's degree, and I am a independent contractor. I do things on the side, like buying and selling stocks, and buying repairing and selling stuff as well. I am very efficient worker. I can work as much or as little as I want in my part time jobs working in the computer field. If I get the work done in 2 hours, I leave in 2 hours. Money is not a problem for me, I am highly educated, and I know how to make money outside of a job.
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  3270. There is no guarantee a accountant or a lawyer will be needed, because of cloud based programs like Quick Books, and file servers. A lot less lawyers are required these days due to digital documents, one lawyer could do the work for 3 or more lawyers, because you don't need them to shuffle through paper files and charts. Most people go to Turbo Tax to get their taxes filed which is a cloud based system. Not everyone going to 4 year schools are majoring in engineering degrees that will guarantee them jobs. Most people who major in engineering drop out and major in easier majors.
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  3271. I am all for a guaranteed income if most of the jobs start drying up, and they will dry up.
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  3272. My job is all about promoting laziness. Making a computer system that can handle most tasks frees up people, they don't need to do those jobs anymore. Writing a computer algorithm is making the computer do that job, so YES I AM LAZY. I am actually a very VERY LAZY PERSON, because I get the computer to repetitive tasks AUTOMATICALLY.
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  3273. Not everyone has the ability to learn engineering. Not everyone can master calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, programming, chemistry, physics, and engineering courses. Gimme a break man. My IQ is about 145, so I have a high IQ. I can learn physics, chemistry, computer programming, solving technical problems, and advanced mathematics easily. I can't say the same for most people.
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  3274. You're talking bullshit here that everyone can become a engineer, you couldn't fucking do it.
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  3275. I have to say physics was hard, and solving technical problems is hard sometimes. You have to think about 24/7, and eventually your brain solves the problem subconciously. Not everyone has that kind of dedication to what they do. Most women think they can work in the tech field and come in at 9 am and go home at 5 pm and that's it. FUCK NO. If you can't solve the problem today, you have to spend the extra hours at HOME to figure it out. This is why people don't like word problems in math, they aren't willing to spend the extra time that is required to learn such skills.
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  3276. The educational system would have to be reformed in a way that you can connect it to the real economy. Children would have to be introduced to science, math, and programming classes at a very young age. This way, they could compete in real economy. For those who don't want to study further, they should be given a choice to go into a vocation in high school, so they can make a good wage after high school. Not all Asians and Jews are good in math and science, but a portion of them do go into the medical field, research, engineering, and computer fields. It is because their parents invest in their children's education.
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  3277. Donald Trump is a debtor, con man, and a simpleton extraordinar.
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  3278. They really aged very well.
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  3279. jackchorn It seems like you don't understand economics. If Russia cuts off energy to Europe, they can buy it elsewhere for rock bottom prices, LOL. Since volume of global trade is down 93% which can be measured by the Baltic Dry Index from 2007 to the present, there are a lot of sellers of energy. As for shale oil, it is expensive to produce. If you want to make a profit, you need to sell it at $80 to $100 per barrel. It seems like you don't understand economics 101!
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  3280. jackchorn Shale oil isn't economically viable at these low oil prices. Europe can buy the oil from Nigeria, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, the USA, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, etc. They don't have to buy it from the Russians. I've been to Europe about 1 year ago. The economy of the EU is very shaking right now. The price of oil isn't just going down, everything is going down. Copper, lead, tungsten, bauxite, tin, rubber, cotton, etc. All commodities are going down in price. If you have a lot of USD $$$$, you can really enjoy a high standard of living now.
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  3281. jackchorn It doesn't matter how many dollars are printed, because if it doesn't go into the lands of the ordinary people, there will be very little to no inflation. As a matter of fact, there will be deflation. A lot of people are heavily in debt, and money is created through loans which is debt. If you have too much debt, and a sluggish economy. It's obvious, debts are very difficult to pay back. Don't be fooled by these Peter Schiff idiots who believe printing money=inflation. It all depends on how the money is channeled, and the velocity of money. If the money is channeled to go through the middle class, you will have a higher velocity of money. The money will flow through many hands which can grow the economy. If the money goes into the hands of a few mega corporations or monopolistic industries/companies, the money flows through very few hands. It also get concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. As a result, you don't have much inflation!
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  3282. You are funny person. If you made shoes in the U.S.A., let's factor in the cost. The wage of an American worker is about $12/hr, and a wage of a Chinese worker is about $1.50/hr. That is a factor 8 times, so a shoe made in China costs about $20, you want to pay $160 for a pair of shoes? Car parts are made overseas as well. Let's say going to mechanics costs you $300, and the price price goes up 8 times or $2400. Gimme a break man, globalism is a good thing, it keeps prices down.
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  3283. The problem is not about eating too much, it is all about what people eat.  Short stock wheat(most of the wheat that is grown in the world today), fructose, sugar, trans fats, saturated fats, & too much sodium. It also has to do with a lack of exercise. 
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  3284.  @charliec6036  I am just running a solo business now part time, and business is slow because of this coronavirus.
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  3285.  @johnrubensaragi4125  Thanks.
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  3286. Bring guns in town was prohibited in saloons and towns during the 1870s to 1880s. Carrying around a military style semi-automatic rifle in public is a public safety issue. Any sane person will not even think of showing off their weapons in public like that.People who do stuff like this need to be thrown in a mental institution, and they shouldn't be allowed to have firearms.
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  3287. Trump will make jobs in America. LOL That is funny. He talks the talk, but he does not walk the walk.
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  3288. 800lb Gorilla The labor unions demanded too much, and they didn't care about the profitability of the automotive industry. In addition, you had competition from overseas, like Japan which made the auto industry less solvent. You also had the outsourcing of American jobs starting in the 1990s to the present. In addition to that, robotics and automation was being employed more and more starting in the early 1990s, so more jobs were lost. Many circumstances led to Detroit being where it is. To be honest, I would say the labor unions demanded too much, and the competition from overseas hurt the U.S. auto industry. As a result, they could no longer support many of the entitlement programs, like the pensions, and other practices which made the U.S. auto industry less competitive. The Democrats did have a part to play in causing what happened in Detroit.
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  3289. 800lb Gorilla Everything has to be moved or extracted with a oil powered vehicle, like food, commodities, finished goods, etc. How do you get to work? In a automobile powered by refined oil. How do I go to other countries on vacation? On an airplane powered by highly refined oil. What are tanks, fighter bombers, armored personal carriers, trucks, drone aircraft, bombers, self propelled howitzers powered by? They are powered by refined oil. This is why oil is a gauge of inflation, because all of our economic activities are dependent on it.
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  3290. 800lb Gorilla When the price of oil goes up everything goes up due to stackflation.
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  3291. brian lane Whatever you shitpublican.
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  3292. brian lane Brian Lame needs to go get a life. Your a truck driver, and you make $13/hr. I am a computer programmer, and I make $50/hr. So, I am not fighting for the burger flippers, I want people to receive a fair wage.
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  3293. brian lane Get out of my comment section, you illiterate peasant. You will be making $0/hr when they come out with self driving cars.
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  3294. ***** The Republicans are the ones who would cut food stamps and social security! Stop lying you fascist scumbag!
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  3295. ***** We are all dependent on the government, you Rush Limbaugh wannabe! Defense industries are dependent on government contracts. The Medical industry is largely dependent on Medicare from the Federal government. Retail food outlets are largely dependent on Federal welfare program EBT. Wall Street got bailed out by Federal government money! DON'T FUCKING TELL ME WE SHOULD NOT BE DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT ASS HOLE!
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  3296. Vicky Fryier That is why oil is $55/barrel now when it was $149/barrel in mid 2008? The price of oil is dependent on supply and demand.
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  3297. Vicky Fryier " Oil is a finite resource and money isn't ". Oil is a finite resource, but the global economy is 5% of what it was in 2007. You can gauge this with the Baltic Dry Index, this is the volume of shipping in the world. It was about 11,500 in 2007 and today it is about 782. A 93.2% drop from 7 years ago. It isn't that money isn't infinite. Governments all over the world tried to stimulate the economy with endless money printing and quantitative easing, but it didn't work. As a result, prices of commodities are collapsing. The next collapse will be the stock market, and it will happen in a year or two.
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  3298. ***** Money is debt. Everything depends on government policies and government spending.
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  3299. Michael Cowling I am a socialist, so I believe in social justice for all.
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  3300. Michael Cowling I love FDR and all of his policies, they were very progressive policies that helped the USA great of the Depression. You talk like there is a lot of inflation when there isn't. Look at the dollar index, it is about 94 now, and oil prices crashed to $45/barrel. Where is the inflation genius? Failed monetary polices?????? The Federal Reserve Bank is doing a great job of curbing inflation, they are doing such a great job consumer prices are plummeting! Small and medium sized businesses hire about 60 to 70% of the work force, and many of them pay fair wages! It is the mega corporations who don't pay their fair share. As for the raising the minimum wage, it will have to take a back seat. We are seeing deflation, and we are on the verge of a Great Depression scenario in the near future.
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  3301. Michael Cowling Social justice means giving everyone a level playing field. Giving small and medium sized businesses protection from monopolistic corporate interests, so they can complete. Funding educational programs fairly across the board, so everyone can move up.
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  3302. Michael Cowling I also believe they need to bring back conscription or the draft in the armed forces.
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  3303. Michael Cowling We have these anti-trust laws in place, like the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Too bad, you right wing fascists gutted these laws back in the 1980s with Prez Reagan. In the late 1990s a largely Republican congress helped repeal the most important parts of the Glass Steagal Act with the Gramm Leach Billey Act of 1999. The Glass Steagal Act was created to separate commercial banks from investment banks.
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  3304. Michael Cowling No, I never did. I think everyone who turns 18 should serve their country.
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  3305. Michael Cowling Never looked into joining the military, because I was born rich.
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  3306. Michael Cowling The Republicans controlled the house in 1998.
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  3307. Michael Cowling In the 1970s, I think all the Democrats went into the Republicans party. The racists pricks are now in the Republican party, they are not in the Democrat party.
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  3308. ***** The Republicans of today aren't the same as the Republican of Lincoln's time. Richard Nixon got the dixicrats to change sides in the 1970s. This is why many Southern states turned Republican since then.
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  3309. ***** I don't believe in Libertarianism, because it doesn't work. Libertarians believe in pure unbridled capitalism which was tried during the 1880s to the early 1900s. Did you ever hear about the Gilded Age? The purest form of capitalism does not work, it will always lead to monopolies. That is why we had the progressive movement headed by Theodore Roosevelt who broke up the trusts and monopolies. Then, you had Franklin D. Roosevelt who instituted policies like social security, banking regulations, anti-trust laws, social welfare, and other safety nets. As a result of F.D.R's socialist policies, you had the creation of the U.S. middle class in the 1950s to the 1970s. Capitalism leads to cronyism, so it is the government's job to regulate industry and commerce. If a corporation, company, or a group tries to corner the market and create a monopolistic situation, it is the Federal governments job to break up such monopolies. You Libertarians are politically and economically inept. The Federal government needs to be involved in world politics for many reasons, and Ron Paultard doesn't understand it! Politics and geopolitics has always been a power game. If you don't assert your power, someone else will. I would rather have U.S. hegemony over living under Islamic Sharia law. This is why I will never vote for your retarded Libertarianism, it is SHEER NONSENSE!
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  3310. ***** Wall Street got bailed out, but we needed to bail out those corporations and banks. Why? Because our economy would have collapsed if the Federal government and Federal Reserve didn't do anything. Besides, it is their job to stabilize the economy, it was in our national interest to bail out those banks. You people are full of shit. You wanted the Fed government to do nothing, and you wanted to watch the whole country go down the tubes! You are a fucking traitor, and Ron Paul is also a fucking traitor. Fiat money could be created out of thin air, and it can be created to avert a financial disaster. Let me tell you something. It is the government's job to defend our national interests at home and abroad. You people are retarded. You stock up on guns, ammo, food, survival gear, and pray for an economic collapse. You know what? It ain't going to happen.
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  3311. ***** I like big government, and I love our Federal government. It is good to have big government, it creates a way to spend money, and spending money creates prosperity. How many people make their livelihoods on government spending???? Doctors receive Medicare money. Defense contractors receive money from the government. Car companies receive huge orders from the government, so the government can buy fleets of cars. Government orders millions of computers, and other electronics from the private sector. Government gives money to people who are unemployed, so they can spend their money in the local grocery store or other food retail businesses. In turn, the retailers buy from the wholesalers, the wholesalers buy from the producers, and the producers buy from the farmers. It supports the whole economy don't you get it? Paultard!
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  3312. ***** I done talking to you.
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  3313. Michael Cowling I don't agree with Ron Paultards and people who listen to Alex Jim Jones  the king of tinfoil hat!
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  3314. Michael Cowling How many people make a living on government spending???? I'll name them all.... 1. Medical Doctors who get medicare money. Medicare is a big part of Medical Doctors incomes. These doctors hire many people in their practices. They hire nurses, office staff, managers, & physician assistants. If you add up all these people who are on the Medicare payroll, you are talking about millions of people. 2. Engineers of all types. Mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, aerospace engineers, software engineers, structural engineers, and others who work in the defense industry. In addition to that the technicians, the technologists, and workers under them. All defense spending is funded by the Federal government. You also have the sub contractors who build the parts for the aircraft, tanks, armored personal carriers, armored infantry fighting vehicles, howitzers, trucks, hummers, helicopters, etc. 3. Food retail outlets. 50 million people on food stamps spend a lot of money in grocery stores, and other retail food stores. Millions of people are hired as a result of it. The people who work in the stores, the warehouses, the food processing plants, and the farms who grow it. They all make money and hire many people to grow it, process it, package it, ship it to warehouses, ship it from the warehouses to the stores. 4. Many people are hired directly by the government as well. They can be teachers, firefighters, soldiers, social workers, law enforcement, judges, bureaucrats, professors, researchers, prison guards, postal workers, etc. All of these people buy stuff, like fleets of automobiles, tons of office equipment, munitions, office supplies, etc. As a result, millions of people who are indirectly tied to them have jobs who sell cars, computers, toner for printers, office furniture, firearms, munitions, construction, etc. The Federal government is responsible for keeping our economy afloat.
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  3315. ***** What about the cars driven by government agencies? They aren't built by prison labor.
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  3316. Michael Cowling The government doesn't own any car companies you moron. They buy cars from the private sector. Ford cars are made by a public corporation.
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  3317. Michael Cowling Almost everything the government buys is from the public sector or private sector economy. They buy everything from private firms or public corporations. Even the most advanced U.S. fighters are produced by a firm like Lockheed Martin which is a public corporation. It isn't owned by the government.
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  3318. Michael Cowling The greatest advancement of America's prosperity after the US won WW 2 from 1946 to 1965. All the new technologies developed and captured from the Axis were incorporated into the economy. Technologies, like the jet technology, composite materials, petro-chemicals, transistor, microprocessors, CRT TVs, radios, all kinds of electronics, microwave ovens, radio frequency devices (cell phones), etc. Where would we be if we didn't have synthetic materials like plastics? Corporations can monitor people from 20,000 miles away with computers networked with cameras, they can send orders via the internet, manage the entire operation from anywhere in the world, have it shipped from the other side of the world to ports, & have it shipped to anywhere in the world. Beautiful isn't it? At the same time, the cost could be brought down to where everyone could afford it. Globalism is a great thing. Stop comparing the USA to the Soviet Union. The U.S. economy is a mixture of state capitalism and free enterprise. "The unspoken cost that you are ignoring is that all these people that are selling things that people don't want to purchase, are not producing the things that people actually do want and need because the government has decided that there SHOULD be more demand for these superfluous things. ". Corporations and business produce things that people want at the lowest price possible. The governments don't dictate supply and demand unless we are at war. Then, the government sends orders for a firm to produce a X number of trucks, small arms, munitions, aircraft, helicopters, ordinance, howitzers, utility vehicles, armored personal carriers, infantry armored fighting vehicles, main battle tanks, parts for vehicles, etc. That's why a lot of companies become extremely wealthy during war time. Government only orders what it needs in peace time. "Before you go for the "the people don't want food?" bit, I am going to go ahead and cut you off. We use government funding to pay farmers with the Farm Bill. This results in us generating roughly twice as much food as we need in this country. That is nice because we haven't had to worry about a food shortage in a long time. So, why are farmers still charging money for food if the government is already giving them so much?" False. The government pays farmers to produce less. This was policy came into being during F.D. Roosevelt's administration of the 1930s. The government doing this, the government doing that. You have no evidence to back up any of it. You have to lie to make your point. You conservatives are lying Nazi scum.
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  3319. Michael Cowling Macro economics and Micro economics at the university.
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  3320. Michael Cowling The defense industry hires a lot people in the state that I live.
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  3321. Michael Cowling In addition to that, a lot of the hospital and medical clinics receive a lot of medicare money. : ) Most of the people who get sick are elderly people, and most of the patients medical professionals attend to use medicare.
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  3322. Michael Cowling I know you people don't have any real careers. Most of you were probably disenfranchised by this global economy. You know what. I don't give a fuck. You people need to get a fucking life.
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  3323. Michael Cowling Money is debt. It is created by loans. What is wrong with creating money out of thin air! The government does not exclude American citizens from getting farm jobs. Not many people want to work on a farm, it is back breaking labor. This is why migrant workers do it. The government only gives subsidies to farmers to produce less, because over production in crops drives the prices down. Nice try Alex Rush Limbaugh Jones. You Libertarian people are so full of bullshit. If you want to go work as a farm laborer, it isn't that hard to find a job on a farm. I live in California, and anyone can find a job as a farm worker in Napa valley.
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  3324. Michael Cowling Keynesian economic works. It got us out of a depression in 1987 after the stock market crash of 87. It worked in 1999 after the dot com crash. It worked in 2008 after the stock market and real estate crash of 2008. It fucking works. I am glad these central bankers are driving down your doomtard assets like silver. They can keep driving the stock market up and up. You people will not matter anymore. LOL.
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  3325. Michael Cowling I am going to tell you one last thing. Ron Paul or son son Rand Paul will never be president of the United States of America. We are going to bankrupt you people and stomp you people into the ground. We are going to do everything to destroy you. We will use the mainstream media to demonize you people, we will use the social media to destroy your careers, and you will be destitute.
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  3326. Michael Cowling That all depends on you boy. If you resist with your puny guns, you would be taken dead. If you don't resist, I will give you a beating you will never forget and lock you up!
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  3327. Michael Cowling I am not afraid of freedoms you right wing conspiracy theorist. I am afraid of the level of right wing militancy in this country. They just seem to be looking to start a problem. That's fine, because when you douchebags start a problem there will be no shortage of volunteers who will gladly enlist to crush you vermin! I don't like killing people, but I do like humiliating and torturing people. ROFL!
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  3328. Michael Cowling I like living here, and I am not complaining & bitching about the system. We have a national army, so we need income tax for that reason. Income tax is good, it allows a modern nation to fund a MODERN STATE. Guns are bad; therefore, guns should be banned. Owning and shooting guns is a hobby?????????? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!! How many people die every year from gun related accidents and mass shooting in a given year?????? You can make $1,000,000 a year, and you can get tax deductions and not pay very much tax. I could get a tax deduction on business expenses, like hiring people, on the utilities bill, buying equipment, buying lunch for the company, etc. After all of these generous deductions, you could end up paying like $50,000 in taxes or less!
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  3329. Michael Cowling First of all, we don't live in a prison like your tinfoil hat hero Alex Jones states it. We live in a country, and a country is not a prison. The U.S. is no oppressing anyone around the world. We spend money on the military, because we need national defense right? So what if the USA uses force to put other nations in line. The U.S.A. is a super power. All super powers do stuff like that. The military is used to assert pressure on players in the world who are opposed to your national interests. Why do we fight wars? We fight wars over resources. You don't want the military to protect the interests of the nation? If you don't think so then get the fuck out of the USA. I like beating people and putting them in line. My ancestors were in the business of putting people in line. If they didn't pay the taxes or dues. They would invited them to their estate, and beat them until the money came out. This was in the old world. If a peasant was disrespectful to his lordship, he would have the peasant beaten within a inch of his life. LOL.
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  3330. Michael Cowling We can always get money other ways, like having the central bank create it out of thin air and borrow it. Everyone is happy. Taxes don't go up, the government is able to spend to keep the economy going, and everyone's bank account hasn't diminished. : ) Printing money outta thin air works. If there is too much money in the economy, the central bank just needs to raise interest rates. Then, you have deflation. It is a wonderful system where you can create inflation if there isn't enough credit, and drain the system of liquidity by raising rates when there is too much liquidity in the economy. It is a system that works better than precious metals. : )
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  3331. Michael Cowling There will be no hyperinflation, because most of the money is concentrated in a few hands. Most of the money is in the hands of a few billionaires and multi-millionaires. The only way for there to be hyperinflation is if the money is given to the masses, like what happened during the housing boom from 1999 to 2007.
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  3332. David Walsh All this fierce competition due to globalism is all leading to the race to the bottom. The nature of the capitalist system is the problem. The greediest, and the most ruthless person wins. The person with the good intentions lose, because the bottom line is increasing profits at the expense of working people, environment, and everything else. If people can be replaced with machines, they will do it. If person x is country x will work for 50 cents an hour, they will hire that person over the person who is working for $10/hr. Capitalism will not work in an economy where people aren't needed due to technology and automation. It will create big problems in the future.
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  3333. You're right. I think capitalism is close to the end of the road now. This is why after 8 years of quantitative easing and interest rates set a record low rates, we aren't really seeing big improvements. This is why interest rates aren't being raised now; because, if the Fed Reserve raised rates to 4% now we would the economy could slide into a severe recession. As a result of the QE and low interest rates, we have a equities bubble and a real estate bubble. The real estate bubble puts pressure on people, because the price of housing and rent keeps going up. At the same time, wages are stagnant or going down in some cases. Another thing I've been seeing more of are big corporate mergers and buyouts, like Baxalta and Shire, Abbot Labs buying out St. Jude Medical, Microsoft buying out LinkedIn, and you have talks about AT&T and Time Warner Cable merging. These are just some of the mergers & buyouts that had happened, and will happen in the near future. It's obvious why we have these mergers, the economy isn't all that great. In order to survive, companies have to merge to increase profitability and reduce competition.
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  3334. David Walsh It certainly is becoming like that. These mega corporations already have lobbyists that get the politicians to do whatever they want. You are absolutely right about corporations are buying up the government, it is a big problem in the world we live in today. At the same time, you have shills, like Peter Schiff, the so called Libertarians who are mouth pieces of corporatism.  They believe the government is evil. They don't believe in democracy. The end result of all these mergers means people have less choice, and they have to pay higher prices.
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  3335. David Walsh There is so much misinformation propagated by the Libertarians, and Republicans in general. If you listen to right wing, and the so called alternative media, there is a lot of pro corporate propaganda. A lot of the information are half truths at best, and at worst they are made out of thin air. They have a common theme though, they blame these so called imaginary international bankers who are behind all this. They don't explain anything in any rational way, they blame this imaginary force that is suppressing the price of gold, because most of them believe gold will make them rich. It seems to me in their beliefs, they are no different than the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s. They are no different than the white nationalists, white supremacists, alt right, extreme right, and Libertarians who believe in this international global conspiracy based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It is all nonsense, and they all parrot the same thing over and over again. They spew all this nonsense, and a lot of ignorant people believe it.
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  3336. David Walsh They are misleading people. Gold and silver aren't money anymore, they are commodities. They have this religious devotion and believe paper money is worthless. Even though paper money is very hard to earn, it is worthless in their minds. Most people work very hard to earn the little that they make. Making money isn't easy. I guess that is part of the scam. Get these foolish and gullible people to believe their money is worthless, so they can sell more gold and silver. At one time, around 2008, Ron Paul was minting his own money. He denominated a 1 ounce piece of copper as $1!!!!!! Copper doesn't cost $1/ounce!!! Twenty dollar Ron Paul dollar was equal to one ounce of silver. That was when silver was like $15/ounce. The Ron Paultards complained that the Feds seized the assets of the company that were producing Ron Paul dollars! ROFL!!! I don't think idiots understand anything about the economy. They just have this narrow view that the Federal Reserve was created by Jews in 1913, and the dollar lost 95% of its value from 1913 to the present. Yet, they never talk about how wages were $2.34/day when people worked 12 hrs a day. People made 19 cents/hour, and now the average wage is anywhere from $10/hr to $20/hr. Wages went up 5200% to 10,500% in 103 years. The dollar lost 2000% of its purchasing power in 103 years. You see, peoples wages did keep up with inflation. Everything these Libertarian retards said was wrong, they said the economy would collapse in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, & 2016 and gold would be $5000/ounce and silver would $100/ounce. Silver is about $18/ounce, and it was $22/ounce in 2008. In 2011, silver was $49/ounce. These scam artists were telling people to buy silver in 2011!!! I have to say the Right and Libertarians represent the worst of human nature, they represent greed, selfishness, and deceit.
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  3337. David Walsh Stocks still did a lot better than gold or silver from 2009 to 2016. There is no way to break the Paultards and Alex Jones listeners from their mental trance. They are like a cult, they believe what people like Alex Jones, David Duke, Ron Paul, Rush Limbaugh, and other extreme right wing media. It is always the same rhetoric over and over again. Governments evil, minorities are taking your jobs, minorities are using welfare, Jew bankers are evil, the concept of interest is evil, the media is evil, and you can't believe us. WE HAVE TRUTH. That is what a cult is. Isolate everyone by calling them evil, and getting your flock to believe you only. ROFL!
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  3338. David Walsh This is a close race. Let's just hope Hillary wins.
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  3339. David Walsh They are both bad. I don't think Trump will do anything to change the economic situation. A lot of the stuff we use today is imported including oil. If Mr. Trump starts a trade war, it could push the economy into a very severe recession. We will see what happens. Who ever wins wins.
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  3340. David Walsh Trump won by a landslide.
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  3341. David Walsh The people are tired of voting for Clintons and Bushes. LOL Too bad the Democrats couldn't have nominated a better candidate. 20 years of Bushes and Clintons. 1988 to 1992-Bush 1992 to 1996-Clinton 1996 to 2000-Clinton 2000 to 2004-Bush 2004 to 2008-Bush The Bush and Clinton dynasty's grasp is over. LOL
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  3342.  @Zombieland318  Well income tax should go down if tariffs go up. Historically, when tariffs were high from the 19th century to 1945 income taxes were low and tariffs were high. We live in a world where tariffs have gone up, and income tax is about 15% for Federal and 15% for state. Since most of what we use is imported, the price of everything has skyrocketed. For example, automobiles, there are a lot of imported parts that go into producing vehicles. Trump wanted to put import tariffs on goods from the Far East, most car parts are made in the Far East. As a result, the price of an average car is about $45k. Prices of appliances went up, and other durable goods also went up. On top of all that, we have inflation due to geopolitical instability.
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  3343. krnpowr The size of the country is small, but I didn't say it wasn't an economic giant.
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  3344. Goalkick Japan cannot produce jet engines either. They have to import all that stuff, they can make air frames. The technology to make a jet engine requires a very high level of technology.
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  3345. ***** I don't think India could produce their own jet engines, but they can make their own air frames, like S. Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The only Asian country that can produce jet engines is China. China copied their jet engine and reverse engineered it from Russia. Air frames would be equivalent to a case on a computer. The main component in the computer is the processor, and that is what a jet engine is in an airplane. The technology required to make a CPU is beyond the capability of most countries.
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  3346. Alex Jones said I shouldn't drink water, because it has fluoride in it! ROFL. Alex Jones said, I should buy his Pro Pur water filter, and I should pee in it and drink it.
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  3347. She deserved it, she spit on the cop.
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  3348. jena johnson Go get a life.
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  3349. LOL.
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  3350. If you resist, they will beat you into a bloody pulp, because there are more of em.
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  3351. LOL.
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  3352. Alex Jones and people who copy him are retarded, because all conspiracy theorists are dumb.
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  3353. Wishful thinking. The purpose of your existence is based on what you do for a living. There is no need to have such a large population if billions of people become redundant.
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  3354. The Mongols had gunpowder weapons, they didn't just use mounted archers and cavalry.
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  3355. That is what usually happens.
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  3356.  @bluewater454  You can have free markets in a socialist economy.
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  3357. Chump is a con-man.
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  3358. That is caveman behavior. LOL
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  3359. I am sure individuals who lose their jobs and their homes will be able to survive. They will move in with other people, and they will take a menial job that pays $9 to $10/hr. That is how they will cope with it. They won't get violent.
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  3360.  @beebscalicor  I am sorry, but no NATO country is going to give Ukraine $73 million combat aircraft. Unless Ukraine is willing to pay for it, very few if any countries will give Ukraine expensive weapon systems like this for free.
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  3361. Chump likes outrageous headlines, but he also worships the mustache man. Chump is the anti-war candidate??????
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  3362. Too many government jobs and few private sector jobs will make inflation worse.
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  3363. Be concerned about the deflation which is going to happen when millions of people get laid off.
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  3364. See this is why America is a advanced nation. The U.S.A. can produce all of this great stuff the world wants, like F-16s, M-16 rifles, machine guns, advanced avionics, thermal optical instruments, howitzers, mortars, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-tank missiles, hummers, trucks, gunship helicopters, gps guided weapons, etc. All made in the good ole USA!!!!!
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  3365. I am sorry, Turkey or China aren't interested in saving white supremacist Nazi militiamen.
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  3366. This isn't new, politicians make promises, and they break them. Donald Trump is no different.
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  3367. Mr. Chen got deceived.
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  3368. Musk bankrolled chump's presidential campaign.
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  3369.  @random2829  You have to let the douche bags in power know that.
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  3370. Obamacare was written by the insurance companies for sure.
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  3371.  @terencem723  We can only wait and see.
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  3372.  @Sean-giang  The evil empire this time is the US.
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  3373. What a lawless country. This country is being run by lawless, insane, and idiotic people.
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  3374. People voted for that conman, and felon. This is what you can expect.
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  3375. What is wrong with these people, all Americans should have guns period.
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  3376.  @josephguo6256  The US has more lawyers than China, the US has about 1,330,000, and China has 677,000. Such a progressive nation the US is. LOL
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  3377. Trump wanted to get rid of political correctness and say whatever he wants, so why can't the public practice their 1st amendment rights against these vermin?
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  3378. We all know who did Nord Stream, B*d*n did it.
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  3379. Not all Jewish people are Zionists, and Jews that live in other countries aren't part of the Israeli government. This is why attacking Jews is wrong.
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  3380. I think chump will be the last prez of the US. Remember that movie The Last Emperor? The Last Emperor of Murica. LOL
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  3381. Why aren't the police doing their job of clearing the road of people who are obstructing traffic?
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  3382. @Peter Grun first we have to vote all the Republican congress men out.
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  3383. If so many people are buying gold then why is the price of gold dropping?
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  3384. @MR M.I.A That doesn't matter, because if you try to sell that gold or silver, you cannot sell your gold or silver at a premium. The precious metals dealers will pay you only the spot value. So what happens, when you lose your job, or lose your business after 3 months? It's obvious, you will sell all your assets at whatever the people who will pay you. That's it. After you get wiped out, you have to become liquid.
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  3385. @MR M.I.A I think a lot of people will lose their jobs, lose their business, lose their pensions which is tied to the equities market, and this will cause them to lose their homes, lose their cars if they have payments on them, and live on the sidewalk in a tent.
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  3386.  @UneducatedEconomist  That maybe true; however, you as a consumer will not be able to sell silver at $5 over spot. Dealers buy precious metals, because they have most of the money. You aren't going to be selling it to Jane Doe or John Doe. Some dealers, like Apmex might give you 25 cents over spot for your silver, or $0 over spot for them. They aren't going to give you $5 over spot for your silver. The dealer has to make profit, because they are running a business. Speculators who have a lot of money may be manipulating the precious metals markets, but they also buy ETFs or physical metals as well. The point is, why would you buy an asset like that if you know it is heavily manipulated?
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  3387.  @UneducatedEconomist  You take a big risk selling on Ebay, because Ebay takes the side of the buyer. The buyer could be a cheater, and they can say your silver isn't real. They may want a refund for it, and there isn't anything you can do about it. You have to take 100% of such losses.
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  3388. @MR M.I.A It's obvious, a lot of people are under water now. Unless you have a lot of money and very little debts, most Americans have a lot of debts and very little money. Most will end up selling the little that they have, and this will flood the market. Thus, pushing down the price of precious metals. You will have investors in equities who got wiped out who will have to liquidate their positions on gold. This will increase the supply of precious metals, so the price of it will drop. Just like in 2008, and 2009, the price of precious metals dropped with every other asset, and cash became king during that timeline.
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  3389. The real estate market is largely supported by debt. Most people have a mortgage on their homes, and very people own their homes without any debt. When you have an environment where people who make 6 figure incomes losing their jobs, the number of foreclosures will start to spike. You have people who took home equity loans out of their homes. When your income dries up, and you have a lot of debt, you will default on your loans.
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  3390.  Dot Com  Most of my friends that have 6 figure incomes who work as engineers, medical doctors, cpas, architects, attorneys, computer scientists, etc all have mortgages. They all live in homes that are worth anywhere from $1 million to $5 million. They drive expensive cars, and most of em don't have a lot of savings. They have a lot of debt, like student loan debts, they have a mortgages where they have to pay $5000 to $9000 a month, they send their kids to private school, etc. They have a lot of expenses. People don't live within their means. If you make $250,000/year, you will most likely live in a home that is worth $2,000,000 to $3,500,000. If you make $500,000/year, you will live in a home that is worth $4,000,000 to $7,000,000.
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  3391. The EU has effectively been de-industrialized. Now German companies will be producing their products in China, and this will only make China stronger.
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  3392. The faster this process accelerates the better for most of the world.
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  3393. Like I said, these hypocrites love social welfare, but they get very pissed off if other people get it. They are lazy, rude, crude, gun totting, unrefined, and barbaric.
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  3394. What happened in 1980 when silver reached $50/oz, and all the sudden it dropped to $5/oz?? Certainly, the silver mines were producing silver at over $5/oz, so they month balled a lot of silver mines. Simple. The same thing will happen to your gold mines. You are ignorant of recent history. Back in the 1990s, a lot of people thought the U.S. economy was going to crash, but did it? The difference between 1987 and 2008 was that people had internet in 2008, and in 1987 they didn't.
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  3395. China can get their oil from Russia via pipelines that are being constructed now.
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  3396. Sentence him to 10 years in a uranium mine.
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  3397. If there was economic stability then most people would have savings, most businesses wouldn't be in debt, a high % of Americans wouldn't have so much debt, and more than 50% of Americans wouldn't be obese. You wouldn't have millions of people going to food banks, and everyone asking for bailouts. Many people in the US have poor diets, and people who will be negatively impacted by Covid-19 are people who are obese. We have a lot of fat people in the USA. Even with all this stimulus the government is giving out isn't enough to cover all your expenses and debt obligations. You have debt forbearance, and rent forbearance, but after 3 months are up you have to pay all you owe at one time. If you don't pay it, you will get your car repoed, your home into foreclosure, or evicted from your apartment. $1200 for each American for 3 months that simply isn't enough. $350 billion for small businesses isn't going to be enough. Some small businesses hire 100 to 499 people, so these businesses will require $240,000 to $1.6 million + each. There are over 30 million small businesses in the USA. If you do the math, only $11,666.67 can be allocated to each small business. If you have 1 million small businesses that hire a lot of people, and lets say they need $500,000 each. They would need $500 billion, so what about the 29 million other small businesses that need this money? They won't get it. Banks are going to give this money out to businesses that have a lot of debt with them, and these small businesses will have 100 to 499 employees. The banks will try to save themselves, because if these bigger debtors don't pay then it will be bad for them. There simply isn't enough money to bail everyone out. Capitalism has mismanaged the economy, and this is what we get.
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  3398. Panda bonds are safer than US t-bonds, so people in China could now enjoy a higher standard of living.
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  3399. China is doing much better than the UK.
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  3400. There are a lot of silly people out there, and many people usually get negatively affected by bubbles. If you didn't save, pay off your debts, and invest your money wisely then you will be sleeping on the sidewalk in the next 10 years.
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  3401. There isn't anything wrong with eating horse meat. As long as there isn't human meat in it, I am fine with it.
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  3402. Doesn't Aliexpress do what Temu is doing? Ever since I started using Aliexpress, I used it more than Amazon for the past year.
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  3403. $60k for a college degree?????? I got my university degree in 2001, and I had $2000 in debt. Back in the 1990s, college was subsidized by the government. In the 2000s, college wasn't subsidized much by the Federal government, and more people were getting college loans which caused tuition to rise.
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  3404. The only place this thug is going to is 6 feet under.
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  3405. LOL
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  3406. That may be true; however, the money you make there is real. That is why you need to buy stocks! If you know the stock market is rigged, it isn't a bad idea to get some free money. This is why having a central banking system is a good thing.
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  3407. The Fed is bailing out the equities market to protect retirees, most retirees have most of their assets in real estate or the equities markets.
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  3408. The world should stop buying anything from America.
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  3409.  @FifthGate  China helped Indonesia build a nickel refining plant, and they also helped Zimbabwe build a lithium processing plant. There were no companies from the EU or the US that would do that. China is doing a lot of good for the developing world, while the EU and US was exploiting them.
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  3410. The Ukrainians can't mount any major offensive against the Russians without air superiority, air support, and more artillery pieces. Attacking without those 3 things is suicidal.
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  3411.  @handelnumber1  Those people will surrender when they run out of water. A man can only last about 3 days without water. If they drink dirty water then they will get dysentery. This isn't Stalingrad. The Ukrainian army won't break the siege, like the Soviet army did in 1943.
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  3412. Don the con. If you voted for this guy and believed him then you will become homeless, or eat ramen every day.
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  3413. Most trolls are losers, and since the US govt is funding it. The US is a loser nation.
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  3414. Make my day law. LOL
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  3415. Wow, 31,000 unhappy people going to the U S. That is like 0.0022% of the entire population of China. About 89% of the people in China trust the government of China. Stop hyping up stuff that isn't true!!!
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  3416. The solution is simple, don't buy Apple products.
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  3417.  @kimlimp4201  you still have a choice. Either you stay with them, and keep wasting money or start over. My father was really a stubborn guy back in the 1980s, he said he would never buy a Japanese car. He bought a Oldsmobile wagon, and that car had so many problems. The money he spent on repairs could have bought him a new car. Sometimes, you have to know when to cut your loses and leave.
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  3418. How much is 1 lb of steel in 2013, and how much was 1 lb of steel in late 2008? In 2013, 1 lb of steel is 10 to 12 cents. In 2008, it was about 15 cents a pound. How much was cotton in 2008, and now? In 2008, 1 lb of cotton was $2.35. Today, 1 lb of cotton is $0.79. So, cotton is cheaper today than it was at the height of the crisis. Also, cotton is cheaper than steel, so they will still use steel to make a bridge! : P
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  3419. DU shells are toxic.
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  3420. China can use its own chips.
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  3421. When we catch up to those nations?? We are more advanced than those nations, you mean when they catch up to us. Advanced not only in weapons tech, but in every other field, like farming tech, mining tech, metallurgy, manufacturing machinery, computer technology, medical technology, etc. The computer companies that manufacture the key components of computers are U.S. corps, like Intel and AMD who make cpus. No other country makes cpus.
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  3422. What do you think would happen if you attack another country?
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  3423. Everyone does not have a college degree, the % of Americans who have college/university degrees is about 34%.
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  3424. I am 42, and I don't have a wife. I am living proof, you can live without one. LOL
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  3425. Relationships don't work like that these days. Men have to do a good amount of work around the home and outside of the home. When I had a relationship, I washed the dishes, vacuumed the house, cleaned the floors, cooked sometimes, and my ex would do it sometimes as well. The tasks were split, because both of us worked full time jobs. In this day and age, no woman is going to do everything for you. Unless you make enough to provide for the entire family.
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  3426. Those bots have GPS devices in them.
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  3427. I can't believe how gullible muricans are. Chump is a fraudster, and is Musk also. They are both con artists. Whatever happens in the next 4 years, people deserve it. Perhaps, most people will learn their lesson about voting in horrible people like that.
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  3428. Christians are brainwashed m-o-r-o-n-s
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  3429. If you don't like Mexicans then why are you in a Mexican restaurant. LOL
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  3430.  @kamroneshkqobilov1040  Our Han Chinese people defeated in Xiongnu in 60 BC in the region of Xinjiang. They fled west, and they emerged as the Huns in Europe later. Historians can argue if this is true or not. The original inhabits of Xinjiang were the Xiongnu, and they weren't the Uyghurs. The Uyghurs were called the Tiele who were originally from Siberia and Central Asia.
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  3431. He is going full Zelensky. LOL
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  3432. Canada can export their energy to other markets. Energy had real value; however, USD has no intrinsic value.
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  3433. Republicans aren't known for being smart, they are known to be racist.
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  3434. The US is irrelevant, no one is going to do what the US wanted so they can benefit themselves. What chump said is a contradiction. He wants oil prices to go down, yet the cost of producing oil is higher than most parts of the world.
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  3435. Donald Trump did everything Andrew Yang, and Bernie Sanders wanted to do, like free money for people, and socialism for all!!!!! LOL
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  3436.  @sleepyfish  What do you mean about he did EVERYTHING?
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  3437. That is a lie, Republicans love socialism for the companies that gave them money and support then. These red states have more welfare recipients than blue states by far.
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  3438.  @lopsrobby5780  never vote for Republicans, they are evil.
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  3439. Trump will tweet mean things about Cohen now. LOL
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  3440. There is a way to get guns out of the hands of criminals. We need to random check points and searches anywhere, anyplace, and anytime! Believe me, it works!
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  3441. The hypocrisy of the West is astounding, they say one thing and do another. This is a cultural thing for them.
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  3442. There isn't anything wrong with having some supplies, & a way to protect yourself in case a natural disaster happens. I don't think there will be any political collapse unless something catastrophic happened. If a natural disaster did happen, the authorities will be there to assist you in days or a week at most.
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  3443. It's obvious, this economy is screwed. I still haven't received my $1200 yet, I heard it will take a month or longer to get this money.
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  3444.  @UneducatedEconomist  Thanks for the info.
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  3445.  @Indigostarfly If you don't like this kind of attention then don't come to East Asia. If I went to a African country, people would touch me, and say why I have yellow skin. If they did that, I wouldn't really care. I am sure we can work together with your leaders to make a better future for Africa.
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  3446.  @polarstorm5986  I don't have to believe anything. We will know if they are as good as they claim it is. All I know is, the Challenger 2, and M1A2 Abrams mbts are combat proven, because they were used in wars. The only war the Leopard 2s were used in was the conflict in Syria, and these were the Leopard 2A4s that Turkey used. I don't care about what people believe, I want to see what happens.
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  3447.  @kevinvandal8595  M1A2s, and Challenger 2s were used in Iraq to fight insurgents. Very few actually got destroyed. The Turks were fighting insurgents in Syria, and they lost a lot of Leopard 2A4s. Leopard 2s aren't as well armored as M1A2 Abrams or Challenger 2 mbts.
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  3448. I guess, U S tech companies are going to lose their lucrative markets in China. This means, less money for R & D for U S tech companies.
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  3449. Police officers don't get paid enough for the work that they do.
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  3450. Things that will work. 1. Increase the BATF guns and ammo tax to 50%, and 5% per year. This will make guns more expensive to buy. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. Let's say a gun costs $500 today, and this tax is levied. In the 1st year, it will cost $750. 2nd year, it will cost $787.50 3rd year, it will cost $826.87 4th year, it will cost $868.21 5h year, it will cost $911.62 2. Make it easier for people to sue gun companies. Bankrupting gun companies will limit the supply of guns. Things that will not work. 1. A national gun safety test, because firearms ownership is a right. It is protected by the 2nd Amendment. 2. Licensing fees for guns. That is unconstitutional, because under the 2nd Amendment you have a right to own guns. Owning firearms is not a privilege, it is a right.
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  3451. The collective West is becoming a joke. They have double standards, and everyone that lives in the Global South, those people did exactly the same thing as Isra-hell had been doing for the past 76 years. In the future, they will be isolated, and they are afraid of the Global South from industrializing and using their own resources instead of selling it to them for peanuts.
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  3452. Countries that are unfriendly to the USA aren't allowed to have nukes, because it makes them easier to push around if they don't have any. Countries with nukes aren't easy to push around.
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  3453. 习近平 is the leader of all Chinese people.
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  3454. Trust the US, they have a history of breaking treaties and promises. Ask the Native Americans. Globalization and free trade, and starting from 2017 the US imposed tariffs on countries they didn't like. Iran had a nuclear deal with the US signed in 2015, and it was broken in 2018. Look what happened to Muammar Gaddafi after he abandoned his nuclear weapons program, his country got invaded in 2011 and he was killed. There is no need to talk with these liars. The only thing these cowards understand is force. They want to defang countries, so they cannot have nuclear weapons. If you want a safer world, more countries should have nukes. If these smug cowards know that their posh life can come to an end with a nuclear warhead then they wouldn't cause so many problems around this world.
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  3455. That is the contradiction.
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  3456. ARM RISC based processors are used in automobiles, smart televisions, appliances, smartphones, smart watches, tablets, and micro controllers. They don't use X86/X64 based CPUs/Processors in those types of machines. ARM based CPUs are cheap, they don't consume a lot of power, and they are in just about everything that from washing machines to guided missiles. They is a lot more demand for smart devices using ARM based CPUs, so there is a shortage. It is that simple.
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  3457. Big countries always get away with war crimes history has shown.
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  3458.  @42VS42  No need to make personal attacks. You can verify everything I said.
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  3459.  @imjashingyou3461  Only 489 out of 3500 aircraft in PLA Air Force are Mig-21 variants (J-7). The 3011 other aircraft aren't Mig-21 or Mig -19 variants. There are zero Mig-19 variants in service in the PLA Air Force today.
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  3460.  @widodoakrom3938  The GDP of China was $17.9 trillion or $17,900,000,000,000 in 2022.
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  3461. These insolvent companies get handouts in the form of bailouts, or they are living on debt. Looks like capitalism is dead.
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  3462.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  As the economy becomes more uneven, you are going to see a lot of this kind of populism. As more people get left behind because they lack the education to compete, or the industry they are in becomes totally redundant due to technology. It could be due to corporate greed to increase profitability by automating jobs out of existence, or outsourcing it to countries where the cost of labor is much less. Back in the 1920s in Germany, similar things did happen. You had right wing populism led by the Nazis, and left wing populism led by the Communists. On the right, you will see more racial politics, like blaming other races, other nationalities, and blaming establishment politicians. On the left, you are going to see more blame going towards the rich, and people who have more than they have. This kind of populism will not simply go away until these problems are resolved.
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  3463.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  You believe in conspiracy theories do you? It's quite simple, we have too many people, and not enough opportunities. No need to inject bullshit into it.
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  3464. The dollar is the world reserve currency, because the US won World War 2. No country in the world could create money out of thin air like this and not suffer hyperinflation.
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  3465. You have incompetent leadership in the US, Canada, and Western countries.
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  3466. In your dreams.
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  3467. There are side effects to using Hydroxychloroquine, like heart damage, permanent eye damage, hives, unusual bleeding and bruising, skin problems, etc. If you take a little too much, you can overdose and die from it. LOL
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  3468.  @SuperiorBeen  Are you a medical professional, or someone who believes in Alex Jones and his conspiracy theory bs?
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  3469.  @SuperiorBeen  It has been used as a treatment, but it is no cure. Chemo-therapy is a treatment for cancer, but it isn't a cure.
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  3470. Shut the hell up, you Donald Trump supporter. You people lie, lie, and spread fake news.
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  3471. You admitted it, you voted for Trump. We all know Trump is corrupt, the media exposed him as being a slime ball.
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  3472. Fox and Infowars is fake news, everyone knows it. Alex Jones is like Rush Limbaugh who makes up facts out of thin air. Both of them are conservatives, they spew bullshit all the time.
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  3473. Stop lying.
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  3474. You like Ron Paul, right? There is a picture of Ron Paul with Don Black who owns Stormfront, a Nazi website, and he was grand wizard of the KKK. STOP FUCKING LYING!!!!
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  3475. Peter Nachtwey is the same bitch who is complaining about Chinese companies stealing his technology. You don't have to feel sorry for these assholes, they deserved to have their technology stolen. They did business in China to exploit cheap labor, and now some Chinese companies stole his secrets. They will compete with this fucker and put him out of business . LOL
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  3476. Alex Jones is full of shit.
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  3477. Apple smartphones are manufactured in China, so the average murican will be paying $1,500 for it instead of $900 for the base model. I don't think electronics like Apple phones will be made in the US anytime soon.
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  3478. AI is ruining the internet.
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  3479. Criminals always use the race card.
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  3480. I don't think China wants their money to become the world reserve currency, because of what Simon said about it negatively impacting their exports. They don't want foreigners to come into their country to buy up all their assets.
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  3481. The Ukrainian regime is desperate. These Ukrainian attacks will only help the Russian government mobilize for total war against the Ukraine. I predict by next year, the Russian army will take more Ukrainian territory, and the Russians will take Kyiv.
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  3482. It's the new American Dream.
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  3483. White Americans always say they pulled themselves up by their boot straps, but it appears they stole it from blacks and others.
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  3484. I can honestly say capitalism sucks, it is so unstable. That is why I save and save as much as I can. You never know what will happen tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, or next 5 years. Life is more barbaric because of capitalism!
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  3485. Addicted to power to the end, I suppose.
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  3486. You could have done something about it if you made long term financial decisions. It is too late to do something about it now. It all depended on the decisions you made decades ago, like investing your time and money in your education, making long term investments, living frugally, regularly buying supplies in bulk, investing money in stuff like solar panels, having a garden, learning skills like fishing and hunting, learning marketable skill, etc. If anyone is telling you that you can prepare now when you have a big mortgage, a $800 to $900 per month car payment or payments, no savings, and a lot of debt are lying to you. In a recession or a economic downturn, you need a lot of savings, and you need less debt. It's that simple.
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  3487. Everything you said there is true, but our government is captured by AIPIC, and most politicians don't care.
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  3488. All this could be stopped if the U S is willing to stop it. U S foreign policy is broken, in the 21st century, it lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. It isn't doing well in the U k r a i n e , and it is fueling another conflict in the Mid East, why? Is it to prop up the military industrial complex? If the IDF flatten Gaza then it will lead to a wider war in the Mid East, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordon, and other states in the Mid East might get involved.
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  3489. If Mr. Goh only had a knife, he would have killed 1 or two people, and wounded a few more. He couldn't have killed as many as he did!
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  3490. You believe everything Alex Jones says, so that makes you guillable, because everything Alex Jim Jones says ISN'T TRUE!
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  3491. That thug was trying to kill a police officer, 100% justified.
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  3492. I got a new computer this year, and put Windows 11 on it. That's how I solved my Windows 10 issue.
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  3493.  @EugeniaLoli  I already spent the money and got a new computer. I plan on using the older computers as servers.
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  3494. Using the government to inhibit free speech, the Republicans are doing this. We can call the Republican party the autocratic party.
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  3495. Alex Jones showed the true face of these gun fanatic maniacs, LOL. I think most of America got a glimpse of what kind of psychopath Alex Jones is, and what kind of radicals most of Alex Jones followers are, ROFL!!!!
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  3496. $6/hour isn't enough. I currently have a job as a dish washer at a restaurant working part time, and processing medical records for about $17/hour, and $19/hour.
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  3497. It's a problem, but it can't be solved. Why, because you cannot ban the 2nd Amendment which is an integral part of the constitution of the USA.
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  3498. It's called capitalism for God sake. CEOs get big bonuses to make companies more efficient. If they fail to make companies more efficient, and raise earning for share holders. THEY ARE OUTTA HERE.
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  3499. Only about 37,000 Chinese people cross the border. That is out of a population of 1,412,000,000 people. What is that like 0.0026% of the population. Many Chinese students study in the US and return to China.
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  3500. Have fun working in a detention center for 10 cents an hour, lol.
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  3501.  @novavortex7763  Too bad we can't have younger people in office. These make boomers poor leaders.
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  3502. Assembled an army to pick a fight with the Federal government, ROFL. This guy needs to be thrown in a mental institution!
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  3503. Your hero Alex Jones is a provocateur.
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  3504. The only thing you are going to see in the near future for most commodities and goods in general is DEFLATION. If I am lying, just look at how much gold, and oil went down today? Gold went down $88.00/oz today, and oil went down more than $2 a barrel. Even the founding fathers said, if central banks ever get control of the country, the people will be impoverished through inflation and deflation. We had the inflation, and we are getting the austerity and deflation now.
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  3505. Giuliani sounds dumber and dumber every single day.
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  3506. Trump and his hollow threats, GM already got their money too late Dump.
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  3507. Dr. Craig Paul Roberts said if you want to take the power away from the US then you have to stop using the USD. It's as simple as that.
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  3508. Trump will not give you a pardon. He incited the DC riots, and a few days later he said I condemn the violence. She got Trumped. LOL
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  3509. They deserved it, you can't discriminate people when you run a business open to the public.
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  3510. Countries around the world need to stop buying Boeing aircraft.
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  3511. Rump has made politics more barbaric.
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  3512. They do work, and they have been shelved, because our money is backed by the sale of crude oil in the global market. It is called the petro-dollar. When we run out of oil, I guarantee you there will be no problems. There will be plenty of energy, and the next age will be the age of Aquarius. The water bearer, it will be a golden age or a new age for mankind.
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  3513. This is Trump's fault.
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  3514. When the world starts to impose export bans of natural resources to the US then you will see how depend it was on other countries. One country cannot produce all the resources it needs, and this is why we have trade. Trump doesn't understand that.
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  3515. Most Republicans hate science, and they are extremely religious.
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  3516. NATO just wants a country that is next to Russia.
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  3517. We don't need chump again, we had him already.
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  3518. All this was caused by eating bad food, you have to watch where you eat.
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  3519.  @KO-sx9uy  The QBZ-95 doesn't outperform the QBZ-191. The muzzle velocity of any firearm is dependent on the barrel length. A QBZ-191 with a similar barrel length will have almost the same muzzle velocity as a QBZ-95 with the same barrel length. The publisher of this video doesn't know anything about firearms. I owned many types of firearms, so I know this person is BS.
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  3520.  @KO-sx9uy  This person is just picking what she doesn't like about the rifle, like minor little things, like she doesn't like the way the sling is positioned. She believes this rifle only capable of crowd control. You don't want to be at the receiving end of the QBZ-191, or any assault rifle.
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  3521. Enough money is being spent on education, the US spends more money on education than any place in the world, & renewable energy technology is a dead end. Universal healthcare is something that can be attained, but you will have to pay for it through your taxes.
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  3522.  @christinajonsson7208  Wages have been going down in the USA since the 1970s.
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  3523.  @25vesel  They will be put on trial, that's all I know. What happens to them after that is up to the Russians and the Donetsk people's republic. Whatever happens happens, and there isn't anything anyone can do about this.
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  3524.  @lemonrand1  The Russians can get em out by flooding the tunnels, pumping carbon monoxide gas in the tunnels, or sealing it shut with satchel charges.
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  3525.  @MIKA-il2to  Not for certificate of deposits, they are 4 to 4.5% The same with T bonds, and other bonds.
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  3526.  @MIKA-il2to  The banks issue out CDs to people like me to buy it at 4 to 4.5%. Then, the banks issue credit cards to muricans and charge them 20% to 23%. That is how it works.
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  3527.  @garthpetersen3538  Just buy CDs and T-bonds.
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  3528. The economy is definitely slowing down that's why you are seeing so many sales for unnecessary things now.
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  3529. It's better than starving and sleeping on the sidewalk.
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  3530.  @JJ-mh3hb  The government handed out about $3,200 in CV-19 stimulus payments. That's isn't crap. That isn't no UBI. UBI is a recurring thing, like $1000/month, $1400/month, etc. All I know is, after the CV-19 lock downs, there is more brazen crimes now. Groups of people smashing store windows in broad daylight. Smash and grabs, mob robberies, more home invasion robberies, more car jackings, ride share drivers being robbed, delivery people being robbed, etc. A few days ago, I saw on my local news about a robbery at a bank where a man got his bank bag snatched, he had $10k in it. It happened in daytime. When people have nothing to lose, they will start doing anything. I got care if you have firearms, almost everyone has em here, but it doesn't deter crime.
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  3531.  @ad6417  UBI is a good system, the government will give you a fixed amount of money, probably enough so you don't starve to death. It is like what the Caesars did in the Roman Empire. You have an incentive to work, because UBI won't be enough to live a good life. People can pursue more creative interests. People can really develop their skills. We live in the Information Age, this idea of factory jobs are obsolete. I am engineer, and I can tell you first hand we have a lot of manufacturing in the USA. Most of these manufacturing are highly automated, and we don't people to work in these automated manufacturing plants. Machines can cans of soda to assembling automobiles with robotic arms. The skills you need today are like, computer programming skills, computer networking skills, math skills, hard science skills(chemistry, biology, physics, bio chemistry, metallurgy, etc), and problem solving skills. We don't need your cheap labor anymore.
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  3532.  @ad6417  People will realize that they need it when they lose their jobs, because big corporations decide to roll in automation whether that be in the form of automated burger flippers, kiosks, self driving trucks, etc. The people who work for Amazon, Uber/Lyft, and other App based jobs just get squeezed more and more by computer algorithms. The programmers and software engineers can set the parameters that upper management tells them to set. For example, if driver doesn't make 150 deliveries/day then they are punished. If a rideshare driver doesn't do 250 trips per trip then they are kicked off the platform. Just wait until they turn up the heat. LOL
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  3533.  @ad6417  Your new masters are machines, and if you don't meet the quotas you get smacked. LOL
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  3534. LOL
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  3535. I don't think politicians in the US care about the American people. They don't care about the inflation crisis, and they don't care if people have to pay more for everything. They don't want people to have affordable medical care, because their friends in the medical industry make more money. They don't care if farmers have to pay more for expensive farm equipment, because tariffs and regulations block imports. They don't care if people have to pay more for ACs, because of the regulations and tariffs they put into place. They don't care if people have to pay more for vehicles, because their friends in the auto industry can make more. They don't care if people pay more for homes, because their friends in the real estate industry benefit. They don't care if people have to pay more for appliances, electronics, clothes, etc, because to them inflation doesn't exist. Since inflation doesn't exist, there is no problem.
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  3536. A speedy trial, speedy conviction, and a speedy prison sentence. LOL 😆
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  3537. This is the of John Rambo. LOL
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  3538. Chicago Street TV, Alex Jones profited from his outrageous antics for years, so he deserves to be de platformed. He should not be allowed to profit from this from free platforms, like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms. Alex Jones would not be as popular as he is now if he didn't have his Youtube channel. Alex Jones can use his own website to say whatever he wants, and if he wants to spend his own money to create his own platform he can do so. However, he should not be able to use free platforms to poison the minds of innocent people. Youtube and other social networking sites ban white supremacists, so they can ban Alex Jones and others like him for inciting violence.
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  3539. Well, it's a fact, people who have less than a 4 year Bachelors degree have a higher rate of unemployment. You people are pathetic, you actually believe there is going to be a economic collapse. It won't happen. The only thing that will happen are people who bet on the system going down will be the ones who will go down. The government and central banks can print and borrow as much as they want. Buying gold or silver isn't going to do anything, it will only make you poorer.
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  3540.  @FamilyManMoving  Isn't it more difficult to get dollars now, because of higher interest rates? Higher interest rates means, a lot of the dollars around the world gets sucked back into the US in the form of US treasury bonds. If what you said is true, the EU is screwed. LOL
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  3541. I wonder what would happen to the US economy if every country that trade with the US restricts their trade to the US. The US is getting all this stuff with money from the printing press. If the world stop selling to the US market then the US economy would implode.
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  3542. The collective West is like a bunch of spoiled, and arrogant children. Russia and China have been very patient with these people. They need to send them a message by sanctioning them back by cutting critical resources, and goods. This would make their economies grind to a halt. No uranium, no circuit boards, no capacitors, no resistors, no car parts, no active pharmaceutical ingredients, no diesel, etc.
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  3543.  @gordo3582  A computer science majors make drivers for devices, like printers, scanners, bio, etc. The major focus for computer science majors isn't just learning programming languages. They really have to know how things work from a very basic level. You as a programmer only need to know about high level programming languages, a computer scientist needs to lower level programming languages, like assembly language. In other words, they have to be able to write the software in binary code in 1s and 0s. Computer science majors get jobs working for the government, defense industries, other large corporations that do research, etc. A lot of people drop out of computer science in the 1st 2 years, because they can't pass the advanced math and science courses they have to take. A lot of people who major in engineering and science also drop out because of this reason as well. I know science and math isn't fun, but if you want to get that degree and go on to post graduate school, you need to know it. Once you get your Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, or Ph'D. You can have a stable job working for the government or some large corporation. Never have to worry about job security.
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  3544. ​ @christopherbelanger6612  The point is, you want to get that degree and get a high paying job, and a easy job. Make $150,000 to $300,000 working for cushy government job, or that big corporate job. That is why we go to university and graduate, and go on to graduate school.
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  3545.  TheKnowerseeker  People who majored in Computer Science do work for large defense firms, like Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, etc. You do have to know physics and advanced mathematics when you are programming stuff, like laser range finders for 120mm cannons and integrating it to the fire control system of a main battle tank. You do have to apply advanced mathematics and physics when you are dealing with military hardware like this.
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  3546.  TheKnowerseeker  If you majored in science or engineering, you are required to a programming course. When a lot of these science and engineering majors finish their undergraduate degrees in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geology, or whatever they have a rudimentary knowledge of programming. Learning a programming language is a necessity in these majors, like learning physics and Calculus is also for these majors. There is a big difference in getting hired if you have undergraduate degree versus not having one. The person who has a degree will most likely get hired over the person who doesn't in a lot of cases.
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  3547.  @beatalert123  You're right, they don't teach you everything you need to know at the university. You learn most of it on the job. The only difference between someone who went to university/college vs. a person who didn't is that, you have a license and a degree. If you majored in engineering, you not only earned a Bachelor's degree, you also earned a engineering license.
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  3548.  @beatalert123  It is easier to get a job with a degree from a accredited university/college than without one. The people who hire you can see your transcripts to see what kind of grades you got, and a degree. That is proof that you are qualified. If you don't have a degree than you need to get various certifications.
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  3549.  @beatalert123  You got a pretty good deal. I don't regret going to college either, education is something people should have to open peoples horizons.
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  3550.  @ericthehalfmexican9187  Well that is true, but there is more job stability if you get a job in a large corporation, or the government. As for programming, you really don't need a 4 year degree; however, most corporations will want it if you want to get a job from them. If you want to work for a government institution, they will also require it. That's all, but no one said you can't get a job at a startup, or work on projects yourself and start your own company.
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  3551.  @ericthehalfmexican9187  That's your opinion. If you have to compete for jobs as a software engineer, someone with a computer science degree from MIT, or Cal-Tech will always get hired before someone who has a high school degree.
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  3552. @M You need a undergraduate bachelor's degree to go to medical school and graduate school. No one is preventing you from studying science and mathematics, but you will not become a medical doctor or a scientist. You need to get a license to practice engineering, and you get that by passing an exam, while you are at the university. Medical doctors and NPs need to get a license to practice medicine, and without going to a 4 year university, or medical school. You will not get a medical degree. I know a lot of people don't have what it takes to become a scientist, engineer, or a medical doctor. Those subjects are difficult, and the drop out rate is very high. Students realize how difficult it is after they start taking the hard science classes, like biochemistry, physics, thermal dynamics, differential equations, etc. You have to get good grades to get to grad school.
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  3553. @M It doesn't matter what you think or believe, you won't be able to get a license to practice medicine without a 4 year degree, and 2 or 3 years in medical school. Just like the U.S. Air Force will not allow you to be a pilot without a 4 year bachelor's degree.
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  3554. @M If you want to become a computer programmer, you can buy a book, or look it up on Google and learn it. If you learn it, you can find a good job for sure. You don't need a Bachelor's degree to learn a programming language. There are a lot of people who have Bachelor's degrees who majored in non-technical majors who learn programming languages. Then, look for a computer job. Programming is just a way of telling a computer to perform tasks. This is why we are moving more and more towards automation. Programming is definitely useful for many different fields. Biologists write computer programs to sequence human DNA. It can be used to keep write logs on servers, etc. So many different applications, you don't have to be a computer scientist to be a programmer.
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  3555.  @acecardinal  You can learn it on your own, but it is very difficult to get a stable full time job if you don't have a university degree. That is why we go to university, and become Medical Doctors, Dentists, engineers, registered nurses, etc. If you don't have at least a bachelor's degree or higher, you will forever be stuck in the world of part time, temporary, and gig work.
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  3556.  @acecardinal  The difference between a engineer who got a degree and one that didn't get a degree is that the one with the university degree and a engineering license does not have to prove themselves. That piece of paper with guarantee them a job when they apply for it. The people who hire you will want to see your grades or transcripts, and they want to see which school you graduated from.
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  3557.  @SoloRenegade  Go luck trying to find any job at any big company or corporation without a university degree in engineering. No one will hire you.
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  3558.  @SoloRenegade  Every engineer isn't going to Nichola Tesla, or a genius. Most people will more than likely get a job working for a big corporation, govern institution, or a company.
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  3559.  @SoloRenegade  The reason why you get a university degree is for the employer to see if you have the qualifications to get a job in a specific field. They don't have to test you on every little thing to see if you are qualified, they can simply look at your school transcripts. They can your grades, this is why students who get the best grades get hired first. You can say whatever you want, but no one will believe you, nor do they have to believe you.
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  3560.  @SoloRenegade  You can say whatever you want here, but I don't have to believe it.
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  3561.  @Cindybal505  I want stability, and most people want the same. 99% of the population isn't going to develop the next Microsoft Windows, create something like a integrated circuit, invent a jet engine, etc. For the vast majority of us, we will most likely be working in some big corporation, medium firm, small firm, or work for a government agency. You telling me you discovered the next break through in technology. GTFO .
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  3562.  @Cindybal505  I don't have millions of dollars to buy a quantum computer and work with one. If you work in a large corporation, you can work with quantum computers. Get tests done in wind tunnels to test the aerodynamics of a wing, etc. You can't do that at home. LOL
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  3563.  @Cindybal505  You need at least a Bachelor's degree to be a pilot in the air force. You telling me the fighter pilots who fly F-15s in the air force are a bunch of losers, because they work for a government agency? They get to fly $50 million high performance jet aircraft, like F-15s, FA-18 Hornets, F-22s, etc. After they retire from the Air Force, they work as commercial pilots for large corporations. Flying $200 million 747 aircraft.
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  3564.  @Cindybal505  Why would I go back to school when I finished university 24 years ago?
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  3565.  @Cindybal505  I am not an entrepreneur, nor are my any good at it. Like I have billions of dollars and the business connections to start my own engineering firm.
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  3566.  @Xfighter000  You can believe whatever you want, but the point of going to university and finishing a 4 year degree enables you to go to graduate school to become a Medical Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, denist, CPA, pharmacist, high school teacher, professor, lawyer, etc. You don't have to put up with it, you won't get a job at a hospital, medical research company, scientific research institute, a large corporation, practice law in a court room, practice medicine, etc.
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  3567.  @Xfighter000  If you want to be a ship captain, commercial pilot, or a military pilot, you need at least a 4 year university or college degree. No major commercial airline or the air force will allow you to fly a $300 million commercial jet without one. No one in the government is going to allow you to fly a $55 million F-15. No navigation company will allow you to navigate their $100 million freighter or a oil tanker.
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  3568.  Castiel Arc7  I heard of Udemy, but did you know anyone who learned computer science from there?
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  3569.  Castiel Arc7  Let me know a couple of people who took classes at Udemy who work on the latest weapon systems, or created the latest operating systems.
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  3570.  Castiel Arc7  You can believe whatever you want, but most people without a 4 year Bachelor's degree in engineering, or computer science will not get jobs in NASA or working in a defense contractor firm.
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  3571.  @raymondali3688  You don't have to remember everything, you won't use everything you learned in school. You will use what you need, and you will keep all your old books as reference material.
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  3572.  @raymondali3688  Companies aren't going to train people to do sophisticated jobs, it costs money and time to train people. Companies and corporations expect people to have all the formal education they need to get started.
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  3573.  @raymondali3688  Either you can learn it by yourself, because you are super intelligent, or you can go through university and learn it and show people that you have the qualifications to do it. If you are a self taught engineer or a scientist and invent something new, like a magnetron, or whatever. You can patent your idea, and make millions and billions of dollars. If you didn't do anything like that. No one is going to believe that you can work in a multi million dollar lab developing the next break through. If you went to MIT, Caltech, or some other prestigious university, you can show people the research that you did, and the largest research facilities, big defense contractors, or corporations will hire you.
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  3574.  @raymondali3688  It is an outdated model, but what can you do about it. I went through it, but a lot of people I started with couldn't finish it, because they couldn't pass these advanced math and science classes.
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  3575.  @raymondali3688  If you want to be a lawyer, you need to pass the BAR. If you want to be a CPA, you need to pass a CPA exam. To be a engineer, you have to take all these classes and pass an exam before you graduate. If you fail that test, you don't get a license. You have to take that test until you pass it.
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  3576.  @raymondali3688  What these companies, like Google are trying to do now is allowing people without 4 year Bachelor's degrees to learn programming languages on their own, and pass an exam. If they pass it, Google will allow them to work as software engineers.
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  3577.  @raymondali3688  They aren't offering you anything more than a certificate.
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  3578.  @davidstevens5358  What happened years ago, and what is now are two different things. If you don't have a undergraduate degree, and if you didn't go to medical school as a graduate student. Then, you will never be able to practice medicine here legally. If you did, you will go to prison for malpractice.
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  3579.  @davidstevens5358  You people can believe whatever you want, but you need licenses, certifications, and degrees to prove that you are qualified to practice medicine, law, engineering, accounting as a CPA, architecture, fly as a commercial pilot, teach at a school, etc. If you don't have the degrees or certifications then there is no way to prove you are qualified. The only field where you don't need any kind of degree to prove anything is business. If you are doing business, all you have to do to prove that you are a professional at it is by becoming a millionaire or a billionaire. This is why there is no PhD for Business in Business school. If you can become very wealthy then you earned your doctorate in business without going to school.
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  3580.  @davidstevens5358  Stop peddling your conspiracy theories, and go get a life. People peddling conspiracy theories and misinformation on the internet has done enough damage to our country. I know a lot of these folks who aren't smart enough to finish college/university don't have a future. Everything is getting automated these days which means there are less and less jobs. This equates to less and less opportunities for people who don't have the skills or education to participate in the economy of the 21st century. You don't have to make excuses about your inadequacies and feel envy towards others. You don't need a college/university degree to make a website, make mobile apps, run a online business, and make money on social media. None of that stuff is really stable, like a stable career is. You know it.
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  3581.  @AmazingStoryDewd  You do need a Bachelor's degree to get a stock broker license, and a real estate broker license in California. You have to take a test to get the license, but they will not let you accept your application if you don't have at least a 4 years Bachelor's degree.
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  3582.  @AmazingStoryDewd  People go to universities and colleges for one thing, and that is to improve their odds. Sure there are exceptions of people who never pursued higher education that are successful. If you look at the averages then people who got a Bachelor's degree or higher have higher household incomes. I had to change jobs and careers a number of times in my life. All I had to show in my resume is where I went to university, the grades that I got, and my work history. No one has to believe you, they just have to look at your official records.
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  3583. Let them put 100% tariffs on Chinese goods, it would collapse the US economy, because many of those inputs are used to make complex items, like aircraft, automobiles, computers, etc. Most of the active ingredients are from China. I would like to see them try 🤣
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  3584. My friend who is a Sikh said Indians are cheap cheats.
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  3585. Capitalism is a system we live under, like our ancestors had to live under feudalism. It isn't like we like the system we live under, we just don't have any choice in the matter.
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  3586. The chump mob, everyone who was there should be punished in someway. Everyone who attended that say even if they didn't go into the capitol building must be put on a NO FLY LIST for the rest of their lives!
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  3587. You're right, they lost more than a billion per year. The investors are sucking up the losses.
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  3588.  dandanthetaximan  The money that he got to fund his company was from suckers, I mean investors. The investors believe in Uber, so they are funneling all this money into Uber, like how they funneled billions into Amazon, Tesla, etc.
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  3589.  dandanthetaximan  Money from hedge funds, mutual funds, pensions, 401ks, etc. All going to fund these corporations, like UBER, Tesla, etc. If the stock market does implode, or if and when the bubble pops. A lot of people are going to lose their money in these mutual funds, pensions, and 401ks. LOL The people who run these mutual funds, pensions, and 401ks didn't lose their money. They lost their clients money, and they are immune from taking any kind of repercussions. They collected their fees, and made their money. The people who are holding the bags are the people who gave their money to these businesses. That is life.
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  3590. Send the criminals to the coal, uranium, iron, and lead mines for 15 years.
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  3591. We have a lot of brain damaged people in the USA like that stupid woman calling the police for no reason.
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  3592. People like that should be locked up and put in a for profit prison for 20 to 25 years.
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  3593. It doesn't matter there, because they have a highly automated economy.
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  3594. You can't fix stupid.
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  3595.  @dd-dd2co  They had it at the Asian market I go to.
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  3596.  @YSKWatch  I doubt it. I just think it is not a good idea to eat bugs. If someone forced me to eat bugs, I would call that tyranny.
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  3597.  @YSKWatch  There are plenty of things I can eat in the jungle. I can make a sharp pole and hunt bigger game.
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  3598.  @jessiejames7492  Depends on the fish. Sardines are pretty inexpensive.
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  3599. Only Maga hat wearing morons believe Rump's lies.
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  3600. Divide and conquer isn't going to work, it is in India's best interest to work with China. The US is a has been, forget about em.
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  3601. So much for bringing back manufacturing jobs to the USA. Without the natural resources required for manufacturing, there isn't going to be much manufacturing. LOL
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  3602. Imports are going to get more expensive in the next 4 years, so wouldn't these countries trading with the US buy less US t-bonds. Then, they would buy less or stop buying US debt, and this will cause interest rates to rise. This would make it more expensive for US consumers, businesses, and government to borrow money.
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  3603. Those protesters are retarded Chumpkins.
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  3604. Bad government policies can ruin peoples lives.
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  3605.  @1hjehje  Canada isn't a state of the US, because people in Canada can't vote in US elections. Canada is more like a defacto territory of the US, like Puerto Rico's relationship to the USA.
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  3606. If you didn't earn that money, you will not see any value in that money. Therefore, you will waste that money.
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  3607. All these so called financial gurus were telling people to invest in cryptocurrencies, real estate, stocks, precious metals with the mantra that cash is trash. The dollar is going to be worthless, and they were telling people to go all in on one of these assets. After the 2008 crash, I learned something. All these gurus who were talking about hyperinflation, and go all in on precious metals were wrong. I bought into the precious metals narrative back in 2006, and in 2008 precious metals went down a lot with the stock market. Same thing is happening now, stocks are down, precious metals are down, cryptocurrencies are down, etc. It always plays out the same way when interest rates go up everything crashes.
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  3608. The North Vietnamese had only Ak-47s, C4, and bamboo sticks? Your sadly mistaken, they had SA-2 surface to air missiles, Mig 17s, Mig 21s, T-55 tanks, ZSU-23 23mm x 4 radar guided AAA, all kinds of AA guns/flak guns, supplied by all the Communist nations(China, U.S.S.R., E. Germany, Czechslovokia, etc), 122 mm howitzers, billions of rounds of small arms munitions, RPGs, anti-tank guns, etc. They were many times well armed than you ignorant uneducated Hill Billies.
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  3609. The level of entitlement, we need to scale back on this stuff. Only people with real disabilities should be getting help, not able bodied obese people.
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  3610. The US cannot compete with Chinese businesses, so they are trying to ban it. They were doing this to Chinese immigrants in the 19th century.
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  3611. The problem with sodium ion batteries is that it can be recharged 100s of times vs. a lithium battery can be charged thousands of times. This report is misleading. It does have less energy density compared to lithium batteries. This is why engineers stopped developing it, because of its poor durability, and having poor energy densities. It would be difficult to use sodium ion batteries in stuff like laptop computers, smartphones, electric cars, etc.
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  3612.  @tonysu8860  Yes, that is true.
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  3613. If you can't work like a robot then you will not have a job. It's that simple.
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  3614.  @BlueGiant69202  All occupied Japanese territory was surrendered to the ROC after Japan surrendered in Sept 2, 1945. So what is your point?
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  3615. It is about time these hordes get what is coming to em.
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  3616. Trump is a liar and we all know it. He said Mexico was going to pay for the wall, and now he backtracks on it. Let's give Trump a new name, Backtrack Trump.
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  3617. I am going to buy more platinum and gold.
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  3618. Are they going to send M1A1 Abrams, Leopard 1s, Leopard 2A4s, AMX-13s, AMX-30s, Chieftain mbts, and Challenger 1s if this fails?
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  3619.  @Codb09  If the Americans bought it then it would suck.
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  3620. So, they are going to tax it out of our hides? We pay income already, and paying more taxes will only be a bigger burden on the public at large. We also have to pay for Obamacare which is another tax.
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  3621. Truth, we already pay a pretty high income tax of 30%, and we have to pay tariff taxes on top of that? You are being double taxed. This means Trump is a fucking idiot.
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  3622. I hate Trump because he a fucking idiot.
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  3623. Truth, I am not a homo. You don't know anything about me. In one year from now, the economy will crash, I said it here.
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  3624. It's Brexit 2.0, people will find out next year. They can laugh now, but they will cry later.
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  3625. They can always circumvent those sanctions.
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  3626.  @leonardpearlman4017  That's why you must go into business for yourself.
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  3627.    arguing with brain damaged fascists is pointless.
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  3628.  @felixf5211  Felix, you are wasting your time arguing with these Trump Trolls. Just tell them this, I don't argue with idiots.
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  3629. They are treating it by filtering it, but they cannot get rid of the tritium. That is almost impossible to remove. What Japan is doing is treating the water, diluting it with sea water, and releasing it into the sea. Tritium will not affect you if you touch it, but ingesting it is harmful and can have long term health affects in the future. The half life of tritium is 12 years. All nuclear power plants discharge treated reactor water into the ocean, this includes the USA, UK, Canada, China, France, South Korea, and Romania.
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  3630. Looks like Russia has to capture Odessa, and all the coastline of the Ukraine. Turn Ukraine into a landlocked country, so they cannot attack Russian sea assets.
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  3631. Trump is the one who is making a lot of people poor! Fuck that guy, he is lying. If he was removed, a lot less people would become poor!
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  3632. They are the corona bandits.
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  3633. Since hardcore chump supporters don't believe this Coronavirus is real, they would have been there and filled those seats in that rally. This means, chump isn't very popular, and this will be a lose this November. The writing is on the wall, chump is finished.
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  3634. Ohhhhhhh, we are shaking in our boots. ROFL 😆
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  3635. There isn't anything wrong with buying options, they legitimately bought their stocks and made these hedge funds pay for their evil behavior.
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  3636.  @victoriaalai5041  People who are unhappy or have a lot of worries in life tend to abuse drugs and alcohol. People who become homeless and lose everything usually abuse drugs to escape reality.
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  3637. The cameras are useless in robberies, because the robbers wear masks to hide their identity most of the time. A gun is more useful in protecting your business than having lots of cameras; although, having cameras would help with the security. One must not rely entirely on cameras for security.
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  3638. The last computers I bought were from 2013, and 2014. Now, Microsoft is forcing people to get computers, because they know most computers released in 2009 and after were good enough to run their latest O.S.. It seems like a ploy by Microsoft to get people to get new computers. In the past, people had to get new computers to run the latest version of Windows. After Windows 7, computer hardware was so powerful that there was no need to get new computers.
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  3639. Giuliani sounds like an idiot.
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  3640. The collective West is full of clowns and losers.
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  3641. women sexually harassing men. LOL
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  3642. lol
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  3643. They deserve to become poorer!
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  3644. Who knows, Youtube might be cancelled by Google in the future. I don't see how Youtube can be profitable.
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  3645.  @dustingenovese4576  I don't have any problems, I am retired. As for solving the world's problems, that's not my job. My father always talked about you have to be more than responsible and care about the whole society. Where did that get him? He is a broke man in his 80s living off of his children.
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  3646. @ It seems like you have a lot of problems. That is why you are focused on conspiracy theory nonsense. In my younger years, I solved a lot of problems, and that is why I am retired and have no problems now. You need to solve your problems, instead of focusing on nonexistent problems.
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  3647. @ I have a solution for that too, I have a passport, and I know how to speak foreign languages. I have assets which don't get affected by currency devaluation or inflation. You see, I don't have a problem, you do.
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  3648. @ The ship can sink, but you don't have to sink with it. The next administration is interested in one thing only. They are just going to try to loot as much as they can while the ship goes down. They will do this by cutting programs that the people rely on, while lining their own pockets. The ship is going to capsize. They will have the boats to get off of that ship, while you believe in the nonsense and go down with the ship.
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  3649. @ I was a good capitalist, and that is why I am retired and you aren't.
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  3650. @ You seem like a lo-ser.
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  3651. More people need to buy weapons and defend themselves. It is your right to defend yourself with any legal weapon.
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  3652. The big difference between those other countries and the USA is that in the USA you have the 2nd Amendment. However, this does still allow the Federal government to levying taxes on firearms and munitions. The solution isn't about banning guns, because it is impossible in the USA. The solution comes from taxing guns and munitions. The states can also tax guns and munitions. If there is a Federal firearms excise tax of 300%, and a 300% ammo tax it would be a start. The state can add their firearms and munitions tax on top of the Federal excise taxes. This would reduce gun sales, and these taxes can be increased every single year without limit. As time goes by, less people will be able to buy guns, and the gun industry would slowly wither away and die.
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  3653. Rich people don't care about guns.
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  3654. By the way, the Federal government has the right to tax firearms and ammunition, this is why you have the Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. They will make sure businesses that produce any of these categories of items will pay their taxes.
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  3655. Just like the IRS(Internal Revenue Service) makes sure you pay your income tax. : )
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  3656. A lot of these maggots are pretty ignorant.
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  3657. Japan has such a well maintained mass transit system. I used to live in NYC, and the subway system there looks run down, and there is writing on the wall, and isn't well maintained. Back in the 1980s, I used to watch Japanese TV shows, and the public infrastructure looks out of this world.
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  3658. You are a racist calling people locusts.
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  3659.  @bonafidehater692  Sure hitler.
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  3660.  @frankblangeard8865  That is what I am doing with my excess savings. I was buying bank CDs with it.
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  3661. The Patriot Act of 2001 was renewed by Obama with the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011.
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  3662. China has a monopoly on legacy chips, and legacy chips are used in a lot of things, like automobiles, aircraft, guided missiles, navigation equipment on ships, radars, etc. I think the Chinese government should restrict sales of legacy chips to the US, and if that happens their economy would grind to a halt.
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  3663. There will be no pardons, Trump doesn't care about those trash people he incited.
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  3664. Neither huh? I say the government is more trust worthy than the people.
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  3665. Exactly. In addition people who own real estate valued at $10 million or more will not have to pay a inheritence tax of 77% or a estate tax. At the same time, people who have mortgages on homes will get to deduct less on taxes every year.
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  3666. Foreign firms cannot complete against Chinese firms, and that is why they are leaving. Stop telling lies.
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  3667. Why aren't the Russians spearheading these assaults with their T-72s, T-80s, and T-90s? It seems like the Russians are just probing Ukrainian defenses with these decoy conveys.
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  3668.  @Maxim__g  Iron, chromium, selenium, zinc, molydenum, calcium, etc are minerals. China can buy minerals. Those minerals are worth more than your soon to be worthless dollar. : )
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  3669. Many people look like this, it could be anyone.
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  3670. After the Tether scam, it will go to a much lower number. I don't know how low, but it will go much lower.
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  3671. Cryptos aren't anything, you can believe in it all you want. In the end it isn't anything.
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  3672. It is $6158 now. China just banned Bitcoin exchanged, outlawed it.
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  3673. I don't care what you Millennials think about central banks and governments, but the average person out there can just as easily scam you out of all your money.
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  3674. At least I know for sure that my money will be in a bank account protected by the FDIC. Your money in cryptocurrencies can be hacked, a exchange you have your cryptos can just shutdown, and you have no recourse of getting 1 cent back. The gold bars in the vault somewhere that I have will always be there. Your cryptos can go to zero.
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  3675. Those speculators bid up the price of Bitcoin to get the small people into it. They created a mania, and they made a huge profit, and they shorted it at the same time. They made money by driving the price of Bitcoin up, and they made money shorting it. These poor millennials who believed it would go to $100,000 to $1,000,000 per Bitcoin were the real dupes.
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  3676. The moral of this story is, if you gamble you will lose most of the time.
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  3677. Going lower and lower. The bubble popped. LOL
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  3678. When you have a lot of desperate people, they will believe anything. This is why chump won.
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  3679. Quality(China) vs. Quantity(India). The Chinese people have more purchasing power than India where people don't have modern plumbing, automobiles, feed rats, and worship cows instead of eating them.
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  3680. ​ @widodoakrom3938 China is better than India. We all know that.
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  3681. Alex Jim Jones said the economy would collapse in 2008, he made a video about how the economy collapsed and we would all be killed by these vampires. The economy is still intact, and we are going to inflate out of it. Ron Paul said in 1984 that the whole economy would collapse by 1988. He was kind of right, we did have a stock market crash 1987. The Federal Reserve printed enough money to get us out of it. That is what the Fed did after the stock market crash of 2008.
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  3682. Foreigners ship us their goods, and the U.S.A. gives them U.S. dollars. However, these foreigners can buy American wheat, rye, cotton, coal, rice, millet, oil, palladium, copper, lead, iron ore, silver, gold, jet engines, aircraft parts, small arms, munitions/ordinances, chemical fertilizers, automobiles, chemicals, concrete, medical equipment, medicines, beef, pork, chicken, movies, franchise goods, aircraft, helicopters, real estate in the USA, productive land, manufacturing machinery, etc.
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  3683.  @ryanjohnson4515  You still need to produce hardware to fight a war whether that be military drones, electronic jammers, guided missiles, fixed wing aircraft, helicopters, main battle tanks, aifvs, APCs, etc. The software is used in conjunction with military hardware. Drones can be programmed to find targets, and that is software being used to control military equipment. Ground, air, and sea assets can be integrated into a single command structure. That is software, but without the hardware it means very little.
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  3684. If these balloons didn't belong to China then they shouldn't say shooting one down was EXCESSIVE FORCE.
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  3685. I guess you can't fix stupid.
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  3686. The FDA approval process is a racket that creates monopolies.
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  3687. I don't believe the lies of the MM, and I don't want to die for a lie.
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  3688.  @bigdickpornsuperstar  There are 100 senators in the senate. They need a 2/3 majority to impeach any president including this one. The Democrats have 47 senators, and the Republicans have 53 senators. Not all Republican senators like Trump, and all of the 47 Democrat senators will vote for impeachment. They need exactly 66 yes votes for impeachment to get him out of there. Do you understand that meat head?
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  3689.  cj p  I am married with children, so I don't think I would be doing any of that.
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  3690.  bruce cockinson  You have no evidence that the FBI, CIA, NSA, and news agencies are corrupt. The FBI, congress, the NSA, CIA, and other agencies have enough evidence to impeach tRump.
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  3691.  bruce cockinson  Us college educated folks don't believe things, we use the scientific method. Only ignorant folk like you believe in things, like religion.
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  3692.  @joeyboombatz9959  You admitted it, Russian hackers did help Trump get elected.
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  3693.  @joeyboombatz9959  Are you playing stupid, or you don't know about Alex Jones endorsing president Trump, and Trump giving Alex Jones a press pass to the White House?
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  3694. Fox is fake news.
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  3695. The US will be using this money to build bases around China. The US is buying less from China now. If the US is trying to start a war with China then China needs to sell US treasury bonds and buy strategic resources to prepare for war. When war does start, all of China's money will be stolen.
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  3696. 40 years of deregulation, neo-liberalisim, Reaganomics, computerized automation of industrial jobs, de-industrialization, and selective enforcement of regulatory laws lead to all of this.
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  3697. What happened? The US navy and Iron Dome couldn't get them all? What's a matter?
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  3698. That woman deserved to be shocked.
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  3699. Donald Trump put Powell there, so are you saying he is obeying his master Donald Trump?
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  3700. You can't prove that this so called shadow government exists, it is just a conspiracy theory. Jerome Powell is not Jewish by the way. Trump put him in there.
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  3701. If this so called Shadow government did exist, Trump wouldn't be president. He is, so that is proof that the deep state does not exist.
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  3702.  @richiefranklin76  Which candidate do you believe is not a deep state candidate?
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  3703.  @richiefranklin76  It is a pity there are so many sellouts out there. They promise the people great things, and all we get is bullshit. Trump is no different.
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  3704. Maybe the people in the USA should form a 3rd party, and they should call it the People's Party. They should call it the 99er. Certainly, there are more regular common people than evil corrupt people who benefit from the system. The people can take their government back, and make life more tolerable for the masses.
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  3705.  @afizi1213  The nature of the collective West has always been parasitic.
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  3706.  @gagamba9198  Here is a simple math problem you can solve. ¥0.41/kWh 1 kWh = 3 miles of range 1 liter of petro = ¥8.24/liter. IC car gets 25 miles to a gallon. Which is less expensive, EV or IC?
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  3707.  @gagamba9198  I don't live in China, so you need to clear up somethings. ¥1.15/kWh to ¥2.94/kWh you stated is the price charging stations charge EV owners? The price per kilowatt hour in China is ¥0.627/kilowatt hour in 2024.
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  3708. Dang these people are stupid.
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  3709. When or if Winnie the Pooh starts a war with Taiwan will be the end of China. China will be blockaded by the US navy, Japanese navy, Indian Navy, Australian Navy, South Korean navy, Vietnamese navy, Indonesian navy, etc. Most of China's oil supplies will get cut off, because most of China's oil comes from tankers to the Middle East.
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  3710. The US is forcing LGBT policies and taking down progressive leaders, while putting corrupt leaders in power.
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  3711. Chump wants to be a dictator, he always brags about his German heritage. He must be related to Hitler or something.
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  3712. Savages.
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  3713. Amazing, how can people live with themselves after they intentionally poisoned the whole world with this poison. Just to make money, it is outrageous.
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  3714.  @abhijeet1471  I use a Andoid phone, and I only think of it as a cell phone and a media consumption device. I don't think of it as a status symbol, like most Apple fans. The same with my computers, they are just tools I use to get work done.
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  3715. I didn't say all of them.
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  3716. There isn't anything wrong with the QBZ-191. The reason why the PLA designed this rifle was it ease of adding optics, which the previous bullpup design had problems with. The QBZ-191 comes in 3 versions, 10.5", 14.5", and 21.7". This rifle is good for what it was designed to be, an assault rifle. Assault rifles typically have an effective range of 300 to 400 meters which this rifle is capable of with a 14.5" or 21.7" barrel.
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  3717.  @chow-chihuang4903  I think chump will try to crash the economy on purpose, and he will intentionally make things bad. People will start protesting, and something might happen. Then, he will declare a state of emergency, like the mustache man did in 1933.
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  3718.  @DeusVult-q3f  Whatever you chump troll.
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  3719. That will be the last war, it will turn into a nuclear war.
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  3720. If economic sanctions are imposed in China then it will lead to all out war. If your age is 18 to 35, you will probably be drafted into the armed forces if all out war breakout between China and the USA. You will have to send millions of Americans to fight in China, and if China or the US starts to lose this conventional war. Either side can start using nuclear weapons, they can be launched from nuclear submarines at cities, ICBMs, hypersonic missiles, strategic bombers, etc.
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  3721. Didn't the Ottoman Turks conquer the Byzantine Empire in 1453, which was actually the continuation of the Roman Empire?
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  3722. There are 1 room apartments in Los Angeles that cost about $250,000 in Los Angeles, but that apartment is much smaller than anything offered in my city.
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  3723. Boycott Korean products.
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  3724. China is producing enough of their own rubbish.
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  3725. Anyone who still support chump is either very stupid, or are masochists.
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  3726. How about no more years for brandon?
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  3727. @AI_Money454  It costs a lot more money to send anything to outerspace with a rocket.
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  3728. If you didn't save your money, or got it all out of the stock market last year then you will be eating ramen and porridge for the next 4 years.
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  3729. Bannon is full of shit.
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  3730. Economic anxiety causes people to follow con men like Donald Trump who blame all the wrong people.
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  3731.  @aoeu256  You're a perfect example of the US failed educational system.
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  3732.  @aoeu256  You sound like d-olt.
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  3733.  @SUHSeungJi  Just look at the financial decisions most muricans make. They are completely mathematically illiterate as well.
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  3734.  @SUHSeungJi  The US is a declining power.
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  3735. The Federal Reserve is not partisan. The only reason why the Fed is raising interest rates is because of Trump's decifit spending and his massive tax cuts. If you don't raise rates, you will pay for it in other ways, like higher gasoline prices, higher commodities prices, highers prices for goods and services, etc. Either way you are going to pay for it, you ignorant goon.
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  3736.  @mitchmellalieu  If countries that traded with the US decided not to buy US treasury bonds, but instead bought up commodities then the price of commodities would go up. At the same time, the value of the dollar would go down. China didn't buy US treasury bonds for about 10 months, so the Fed cannot lower interest rates. They have to raise interest rates to get more people to buy treasury bonds. When people and countries buy treasury bonds, it takes money out of circulation, and this curbs inflation. This is why you cannot have high commodities prices and a strong dollar.
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  3737.  @mitchmellalieu  Strong dollar and high gold prices. In 1971: Price of gold = $35 USD Price of gasoline = $0.36/gallon Price of a average home = $20,000 In 2023: Price of gold = $2030 USD Price of gasoline = $4.61/gallon Price of a average home = $398,000 Let me ask you something genius...... Prices are higher today compared to 1971. Are you telling me the US dollar is stronger today compared to 52 years ago?
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  3738.  @derrickcobb5360  If you are rich enough to buy gold then you will be okay. If not, then you will become a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk and eating out of a trashbin. LOL
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  3739. You can't convince Bubba Jones. He reveals in his ignorance and bigotry.
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  3740.  @saintsofbritishrock  No, they aren't. You cannot use Yuan in China that is a international currency. You can only use RMB in China.
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  3741.  @TheFettMan  Manufacturing jobs are like working in a fast food restaurant. When I was 19 years old, I did work retail, and fast food jobs. I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life, so I went to university and graduated. Instead of working crappy jobs, I can have better paying jobs. Just look at Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea, they evolved from low end manufacturing to advanced technology. Those countries can sell the components and parts to make machines. Most of the profit isn't in selling manufactured goods, it is in selling parts. Don't believe me? Computer manufacturers, like HP, Dell, Lenovo, and others have profits in the single digits. The companies that are making the real money are making the key components to those products, like the CPUs(Processors), GPUs(Graphics cards), ram modules, storage devices, motherboards, etc. If you can take a resource and process it into something usable then you make all the money. You have the power of producing things out of nothing.
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  3742. There are a lot of morons out there, or there is a sucker born every minute. LOL
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  3743. Trump doesn't understand basic mathematics.
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  3744.  @BureaucracyWorld  That seems like a fair trade. It's a pity, the people in the White House are too pigheaded to see it.
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  3745. Where is your gold and silver price now, you conspiracy theorist douche bag? Truthers, conspiracy theorists, collapse cultists= DANGEROUS ZEALOTS AND TERRORISTS!
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  3746. He isn't doing a good job, inflation is out of control, because of his failed policies.
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  3747. He was acting tough until he got tasered. ROFL 😆
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  3748. Val Valerian Alex Jones sells supplements laced with lead, cadmium, mercury, and other toxins. I think you bought too many of Alex Jone's supplements, and people who have brain damage act like you.
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  3749. Pat Doyle Libertarians don't deserve any respect, they are as stupid as their Idiot leader Wrong Paul.
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  3750. This is what happens when you hang around with low IQ people.
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  3751. Rump roll doesn't understand political science, so he makes up bullshit like this. Let's vote this clown out of office.
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  3752.  @tikigodsrule2317  That depends on what you are making. As for homes, most of the lumber is from the US, cement is from the US, dry wall might be from another country, light switches and wiring might be from China, etc. If all the components and parts that went into manufacturing in the USA were made in the USA then, most people couldn't afford it. The cost of labor is 5 times more in the USA than it is in China, 37 times more in the USA compared to India, 27 times more in the USA compared to Vietnam, etc, etc. If a smartphone was made in the USA, it would cost $4000 to $5000 or more. The computer you are using would cost $4000 to $6000. That Ford Focus or Toyota Corolla would cost $45,000. Most Americans couldn't afford to buy what they could buy now. A lot of people make a living with using those things. For example, I am a computer programmer, I use computers to write computer code. Others use computers to edit their videos, and cameras to produce videos. Others use their cars and smartphones to do rideshare and deliveries. People who make furniture assemble stuff, like screw, hinges, pads, and other components. All of which aren't even manufactured here. No one country can produce everything they need at the right price. They can try to produce all the parts, components, and materials, but they don't because it is too expensive.
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  3753. He will be impeached again.
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  3754. Marlboro marijuana cigarettes. Interesting.
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  3755.  @jonesmorendik  You can change the frequency band.
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  3756. When I was going to college back in 1995, I got invited to a Amway seminar. One of my friends invited me and a couple of other people he knew. In 1999, the same guy invited me to a 2by2 seminar, and it was another mutli marketing pyramid scheme. 2by2 required you to pay $300 to get into it. I went to those seminars, and I never joined any of em. It was just fishy, and later on I found out they were scams.
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  3757. If you want to keep it, you have to defend it.
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  3758.  @elmersbalm5219  It worked on D-Day in World War 2 when the Allies tricked the Germans on where they were actually going to make the D-Day landing.
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  3759.  @fjodorcornelisson6874  It's like investing. If you invest in anything first then you are the winner. You can sell those assets at a higher price, and make the highest profits. If you saw the potential for the internet back in the early 1990s, and invested in all the companies that reaped the rewards of the internet revolution then you would be rich. If you try to buy those stocks after those assets went up then its too late.
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  3760.  @chriswong9158  That is true, but armies do use decoys and prop equipment.
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  3761.  @alinonymous  It doesn't matter where it maybe, all the strategic positions are heavily reinforced with Russian reinforcements. It won't be like the Kharkiv offensive.
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  3762. We have a choice, we need to vote for a 3rd party, because the Democrat and Republican parties are bought.
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  3763. I still use hard drives, because it has a very good price to storage data ratio. I equate the SSD to a ROM disks that we had back in the 1980s for computers, the ROM disk had the operating system and programming languages like BASIC built into it. I use SSDs to store the operating system these days, but the programs are stored on hard drives because it is the most cost effective way to store data. I guess it is more like a generational thing, the younger generation will be more accustomed to small form factor PCs, smartphones, tablets, and laptops. For me, I prefer to use a computer on a desk with a keyboard, large monitor, mouse, and a large tower on the side. In the future, we will certainly see less and less desktops PCs, because most people don't need a lot of power to do the everyday things they do, like surf the internet, go shopping online, check email, etc. For people who do actual work on computers, like computer programming, CAD(Computer Aided Drawing), video editing, modeling, store massive amounts of data, and other tasks like these will still use desktop computers.
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  3764. Let me tell you something young man... A great portion of a great many economies rely on the military industrial complex. For example... The fertilizer industry, not only make fertilizers for your lawns and farms, but they also make high explosives and munition propellant. The company that makes hydrogen peroxide to fight infections on wounds also makes liquid rocket fuel. The company that makes automobiles makes hummers, apcs, tanks, etc. Do you get the message. All technology is double edged!
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  3765. The elites sold out the American people back in the 1990s by outsourcing a lot of jobs to places, like China. They built up China, and now China is becoming a threat.
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  3766. India is not that important, they are a big consumer of resources, so kick them out and replace the I with Iran and Indonesia. Iran, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia are fat more important being oil producing nations.
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  3767.  @nikunjdeeep  Without oil, you don't have a economy. India can join the Western bloc, the Western bloc is the biggest consumer of oil. Oil Production of BRICS countries and countries that want to enter BRICS, and excluding India. _________________________________ Russia: 10,503,000/day Saudi Arabia: 10,225,000/day Iran: 2,546,000/day Brazil: 2,852,000/day Iraq: 4,260,000/day Indonesia: 887,000/day _________________________________ Total Production: 31,273,000/day Oil Consumption for BRICS countries excluding India. China: 14,225,000/day Saudi Arabia: 3,544,000/day Russia: 3,238,000/day Iran: 1,922,000/day Indonesia" 1,615,000/day Brazil: 3,018,000/day _________________________________ Total Consumption: 27,562,000/day Surplus: 31,273,000/day - 24,562,000/day = +3,711,000/day ____________________________________________________________________ Western Bloc Oil Production Including India USA: 11,567,000/day India: 746,000/day Canada: 4,656,000/day _________________________________ Oil Consumption USA: 17,178,000/day Japan: 3,268,000/day Canada: 2,282,000/day Germany: 2,045,000/day South Korea: 2,560,000/day India: 4,669,000/day Australia: 1,100,000/day Netherlands: 973,000/day Spain: 1,272,000/day U.K.: 1,586,000/day Italy: 1,253,000/day Belgium: 662,400/day Poland: 517,000/day Sweden: 316,000/day Greece: 299,600/day Austria: 262,000/day Portugal: 227,000/day Switzerland: 217,400/day Finland: 200,700/day Romania: 182,000/day Israel: 199,900/day Czech Republic: 180,000/day New Zealand: 167,700/day Denmark: 158,000/day Hungary: 155,000/day Ireland: 144,000/day Bulgaria: 85,580/day Slovakia: 84,290/day Luxembourg: 54,000/day Cyprus: 44,000/day Iceland: 19,800/day _________________________________ Western Bloc Countries Oil Consumption Including India: 42,362,370 barrels/day Deficit: Deficit: 16,969,000 barrels/day - 42,362,370 barrels/day = -25,393,370 barrels/day India would be a drag on the Western Bloc, India can go with the West, but it will be cut off from oil.
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  3768. I am a loner and an introvert, but I never thought of mass murder. I am about 24 years older than that snowflake.
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  3769.  @seanm3226  A lot of those firms with deep pockets, like Black Rock are having liqudity problems due to their over investment when the real estate market was very hot. I am not going to buying all that real estate with my own money, I will be buying with debt when rates go down again. When the economy enters bubble territory, I will sell all the real estate again. I will dump all my equities. Rinse and repeat.
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  3770.  @JJ-mh3hb  You have to understand economic cycles. You have a boom and bust cycle, all the time. You just have to be able to see and recognize a bubble, and cash out of the bubble. That's it.
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  3771.  @banhammer3904  I buy and cook my own food. I do go hunting once a year, so this helps me reduce cost on my grocery bills.
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  3772.  @banhammer3904  I also have the skills to build my own video game consoles and media boxes which helps to reduce the cost of entertainment.
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  3773. The only people who care about such things are their opposition.
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  3774. It is important to chew your food thoroughly.
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  3775. The hypocrisy.
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  3776.  @eby2257  The liberals are the ones that bought Musk's electric cars. I don't know many conservatives that buy Teslas, most of em buy SUVs, trucks, Cadillacs, and other gas guzzling vehicles. LoL
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  3777.  @eby2257  People like you can buy Elon's EVs, and buy the other products Elon's company sells, like Tesla solar and batteries. You people can buy Tesla stock, because the Liberals just canceled Elon Musk. It was these rich liberals that bought Musk's EVs, and Tesla batteries and solar panels for their homes. It was the liberals that bought a lot of shares of Tesla. We will see how long he lasts. Mr. Musk will have to charge people on Twitter a subscription fee of $20/month to be solvent after a lot of the advertisers left. LOL
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  3778.  @eby2257  Most of these tree hugging liberals are the type of people that would buy something like a Tesla EV. Why would they buy EVs from Musk? More and more companies will start producing EVs in the future, so there will be more choices.
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  3779.  @eby2257  Money talks, and talk is very very cheap. Either you will pony up the cash to help Mr. Elon Musk with $$$$$$$$, or you can just talk more b.s..
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  3780.  @eby2257  How do you know if most liberals don't do business with African Americans?
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  3781.  @eby2257  I know both liberals and conservatives. Some are racist while others are not. Conservatives tend to be more racist. My ex-girlfriend was a hard core conservative, she was pretty racist when it came to blacks.
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  3782.  @futuraservices7620  Ain't going to be no war. As for Chump's new social media called the tloooth, it has been found that chump's people stole code from Mastodon. Mastodon stated that they will sue chump for it. Open source software is free to use, but there are terms and conditions. If you violate it, you have to cease using it or you will be hit with a lawsuit. Your god chump was too cheap to pay tech people to develop his own platform. Shows you how much of a conman and grifter he is!
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  3783.  @futuraservices7620  I don't hate America, but people who stormed the Capitol building on Jan 6 do, meathead.
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  3784.  @marvinmallette6795  Housing prices do correspond to local wages. I guess it reflects the inflated price of real estate across the country as a whole.
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  3785.  @marvinmallette6795  I drive to work about two times a week, and it takes me about 2 and a half hours to get to work, and 2 and a half hours to get back to work. The round trip is about 325 miles, so it costs me about $59.58 in gasoline every time I go to work. It costs me about 9.9% of my daily wages to get to work and back. It really depends on how much money you make per hour. . The average person drives about 1 hour and a half to get to work. They would spend about $35.75 to get to work and back, or about 29% of their daily wage to get to work and back. Regular gasoline costs about $5.50/gallon where I live. If you live in the middle of nowhere, you are going to get wiped out by the high fuel costs. For me, I don't have a wife, and my son I live with is grown up. He doesn't ask me for money, he works and goes to university. My house is paid off, so I don't have a big burden. Its the people who have young kids, and a family with a lot of debt who will suffer the most from this inflation.
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  3786. If Republicans don't want to take it and dies from it, it is their own fault. Look at the bright side, there will be less idiots in this country as a result of their poor decisions.
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  3787. Everyone will pay for this; however, chump will make his uneducated voters poorer again. This will hurt chumpers more than anyone else.
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  3788. The US is a declining power.
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  3789. There isn't anything racist about it. Africans don't eat the same foods as us Chinese people eat, so that market is for Chinese people. It isn't racist.
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  3790. Two immigrants, Vivek and Elon supported a candidate that was anti-immigrant. LOL
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  3791. "Pretty soon, it will not be worth a Federal Reserve note", LOL!
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  3792.  @Silver_Prussian  GDP represents what is produced in the entire economy of a nation. I know for certain that Russia lacks in the semiconductor industry, because they cannot produce all the microprocessors that they need. You need microprocessors to produce guided missiles, avionics for aircraft, thermal optics, drones, ballistic computers for main battle tanks, radars, etc. How is Russia going to get these chips when there are economic sanctions against Russia? Modern warfare relies on integrated circuits and chips. I am not saying Russia can't produce main battle tanks, aircraft, artillery pieces, and other types of armored vehicles without integrated circuits. They can, but they would be at a severe disadvantage against more advanced weapons the Ukrainians get from the West.
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  3793.  @Silver_Prussian  We will not run out of weapons, because we can produce more of it. The Russians on the other hand can't produce more advanced weapons that require integrated circuits and chips.
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  3794. Buy meaningful things, like silver, gold, interest bearing bonds, and stuff that you need.
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  3795. Nope, he was a angry blue collar white man.
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  3796.  @randysimmons9838  Wrong. He is a white nationalist who believes the Jews from that synagogue were allowing non-white refugees to come to the USA. That is why he shot it up. He believes what Trump believes when he said, Mexico brings in rapists, drug dealers, and criminals.
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  3797. That is if Ukraine wins the war.
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  3798.  @anewkindofpolitician5728  I really don't care about what you believe. We will have to see what happens.
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  3799. 100% tariff from chump, you are talking about someone who bankrupted a casino. Such a great businessman. LOL
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  3800. The US is gaslighting.
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  3801. If chump does what he said, de dollarization will accelerate. If the US wants to move manufacturing back to the US then there is no need for other countries to buy US treasury bonds. This will cause the equities markets to collapse. Muricans won't be happy when their 401ks and pensions go down.
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  3802. It didn't work with Reaganomics in the 1980s, it just made the rich richer and the middle class and everyone else poorer.
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  3803. Sorry Genghis Khan, you're a fucking liar. Corporations will be able to write off most of their capital expenses in a shorter amount of time, and this will spur corporations to automate more quickly. This will lead to more inequality and a acceleration of job loss to automation technology.
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  3804. What does that have to do with what I said? Making personal attacks on people you don't know anything about. You're a TRUMP troll.
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  3805. I hope Trump gets impeached with the Russian scandal thing.
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  3806. Ad hominem attacks don't work, this is what you right wing zealots can resort to, because you don't a fucking brain in your heads.
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  3807. It looks like ethnic cleansing to me.
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  3808. Fake boom.
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  3809.  @lw1343  It's really complicated. For someone like who bought a home in the late 1990s for about $100k, and saved and invested more than consuming it is in a position not to use credit cards to get by. My parents who bought their home for about $45k back in the 1970s are comfortably retired. If you bought your home in 2020, 2021, or 2022, you would be hot water now. I lost my job last year, and now I just work 2 part time jobs working about 30 hours week. Was making a 6 figure income before I lost my job, now my income is a fraction of that. Even with that, I am not struggling, because my home is paid off. My car is paid off, I paid off my university education decades ago, and have no debts life isn't that hard. My brother lost his job and he and his wife moved in with me, and they are helping me pay my property tax, utility bills, and fix anything that breaks, like appliances, AC, water heater, etc. My bro had a lot of debt, and he lost his job last year. He lost his home, but he is working some part time jobs, and his wife is working. They couldn't afford to rent an apartment, so I let em move in with me. My son moved in with me, he graduated last year, and he is currently working making about $75k/year working a part time job as a computer scientist. He can't afford to buy no house, especially in the area where he lives. The average house here costs $750,000 to $800,000, and this for a home with a 3 bedrooms and 2 baths.
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  3810. All Intel and AMD processors have a backdoor in them, it uses a Minix based OS in the chip.
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  3811. If that is the case then why don't you overturn the elections in the states the Republicans won in?
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  3812. Trump's chumps can thank Donald for it. He will make Murica more expensive again. LOL
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  3813. The quality of Chinese people are better.
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  3814.  @hermanrogers1325  That's the point. If you can't pay the ticket then the city will impound your vehicle.
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  3815. The shit will never hit the fan, it must be a fantasy of your's. You WANT the economy to collapse, so you can use your puny weapons and become a warlord. I don't care about your hillbilly militia, ROFL. If you fire one round from your puny .223 Rem, the government will send a drone with Hellfire missiles, a helicopter gunship, GPS guided bomb, or a 155mm shell back at you. LOL. No one is afraid of your puny weapons. If you kill some people, the cops and the local population will take you out.
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  3816. It is, but food is perishable. You need to sell it quickly, or it will rot.
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  3817. hunlywestside, farms surviving this will depend on a few thing, like does the farmer have deep reserves of cash to take the losses, can they adapt fast enough, and can they replace the market they lost. It isn't just to affect farmers, it will affect the people who sell the stuff to the farmers, like the tractor manufacturers, people who sell seeds to farmers, the petro-chemical industry, etc. It will have a ripple effect on the economy. Most of the farms we have today are large industrial/corporate farms that focus on mono culture. They grow just a few key crops, like soy, corn, wheat, etc. If they start cutting back, it will affect other sectors of the economy, like I stated earlier. In turn if those other industries are affected in a negative way, they will lay off hundreds of thousands of people. That will have another ripple affect on local economies. The people who once had jobs will affect restaurants, and other local businesses. People who lose jobs will default on loans, and cause more foreclosures. You will have a lot of farm bankruptcies too. You have to take other things into account, like foreigners not buying treasury bonds or U.S. debt. This will cause interest rates to go up and up. Putting additional burdens on the population; after all, the U.S. population is heavy in debt. Making interest rates highers will only compound the interest. It will be painful, and we will have a 2008 type of recession. I am absolutely sure of it. Interest rates going up would be a good thing for me, I would just move all of my money into a savings accounts and accrue high interest rates. For most Americans, it would be devastating.
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  3818. huntlywestside, it will eventually lead to a stock market crash. Since most of the 401ks, and pension funds are tied to the stock market in someway. It would be bad for pensioners. The amount of money they were promised will dwindle from month to month. I saw that in the last recession which started in 2008. The companies that managed these pensions said sorry, we don't have money. We have to reduce your pension payments. If you tried to get your money out of your mutual funds, they wouldn't let you take it out. They just tried to ignore people by not answering the phones. I am just going to play this to my advantage, I will start shorting the stock market about the middle of next year. Make another killing like I did in 2009.
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  3819. A weak dollar is good for U.S. exports, it is good for American industralists and manufacturers. U.S. products are more competitive in the international or global market. The U.S. can sell more raw and finished goods, and this would bring us out of a trade deficit over time.
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  3820. The problem is very obvious, it's not a conspiracy. We have economic problems, and people have a lot of financial problems. People who have many financial problems and people with guns are a bad combination. Unless the economy improves, a lot of people are going to continue to flip and commit horrific acts of violence like this.
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  3821. We are getting closer and closer to removing Trump. LOL
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  3822. That is one big rat.
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  3823. Trump is a bullshitter. If the data doesn't make Trump look good, he will call it fake. This kind of bullshit is no different than living in North Korea, Stalinist U.S.S.R. Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, or any other totalitarian state. If you disagree even if you have the facts, you will be killed or put in some concentration camp. Trump is clearly delusional, he needs to be removed from office. He is just an old man who has dementia, and needs to retire. He is TOO OLD!!!!
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  3824.  @yellowblanka6058  It depends on how programmer decide to distribute the work load. For more complicated applications, like CAD(computer aided drawing), 3d games, 3d modeling applications, etc. Those types of software can distribute the workload with GPUs(Graphics Processing Unit), and different cores. The GPU can process all the polygons, textures, and other 3d computational tasks. The CPU can assist in the graphics processing, but it can also do other tasks like processing AI(Artificial Intelligence), networking functions, and do other basic functions which help your program interface with the operating system's kernel. I have a Dell Precision T5500 with 2 processors in it, and I do a lot multi tasking tasks with it. I would use it to compile programs, edit videos, steam a video, open office applications(databases, etc), read email, etc. Having two physical CPUs with multi-cores reduces the CPU % usage, because the processes are being shared by two processors.
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  3825. People buy worthless crap for a lot of money, and they sell it for pennies on the dollar at a garage sale for $$$$$. LOL
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  3826. Anyone who supports WRONG PAUL is pathetic! WRONG PAUL is a dinosaur!
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  3827. With the chip boycott against China, I think China's tech industry is finished. Without advanced chips, no hypersonic missiles, no advanced jet aircraft, no AI, no smart TVs, no super computers, etc.
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  3828. They are going to keep pushing and pushing until all of us have nothing.
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  3829.  @chadwells7562  That is true. These low interest rates were fueled by the petrodollar which is slowly going away. Most people don't understand what's going on.
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  3830. Direct injections of money to the public would stimulate the economic; however, it will create a very inflationary environment.
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  3831. Can everyone tell chump that this is reality, and that he is not a reality TV show host?
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  3832. The military, police, and national intelligence agencies should work together to make the country into a safe, and orderly society. Until the turbulence is subdued or passes then constitutional amendments and rights can be re-instituted!
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  3833. We can ban classes of firearms. They did it with the National Firearms Act of 1934, with that law they banned automatic weapons, firearms with bores larger than .50 cal, explosives, sawed off shotguns, and short barrelled rifles. Semi-Automatic military style rifles can be added into that law.
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  3834. Drumpf knows he is guilty.
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  3835. Another day in America, another act of barbarism, the USA is surely a dangerous place to live.
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  3836. You're a dinosaur, and no one cares.
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  3837. US influence is becoming irrelevant.
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  3838.  @styracosaurusqvt4841  Big pharma is giving money to mainstream media, so they will never talk about it. It is a pity there is so much corruption. The politicians will not talk about, because they made a ton of money buying stocks of companies that made mRNA vaccines.
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  3839. You can say whatever you want, because you have your freedom of speech. However, there are consequences for what you say. For example, if you insult the mother of a hard core gang member, you could get seriously injured or killed. If you insult a prison guard, you could get beaten with a club. If you insult your boss, you can be fired. I don't know why black people didn't do anything about Kanye West insulting black people with offensive statements, like slavery was a choice. White lives matter, and other outrageous things Kanye said about the African American community.
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  3840.  @sunshinenday3439  All lives matter, but white lives matter statement was made to anger people who said black lives matter. Black lives matter was said in the context that black people suffered more police abuse compared to other groups.
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  3841. So much cheating.
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  3842. Musk is the one who bankrolled chump's presidential campaign with $100 million.
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  3843. Couldn't China provide Saudi Arabia with the nuclear reactor technology ?
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  3844. Exactly, but they act like they know some special truth, and they are the followers of Ron Paultard.
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  3845. Brad Christy is a troll ignore him. He always comes here and causes disruptions.
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  3846. Or, a stupid troll like Brad Christy, because of their beliefs.
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  3847. Brad Christy is a machinist, he doesn't have a college/university degree, so it is pointless to talk to him. He is too stupid to understand what you're talking about.
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  3848. Yes, and I told you Brad Christy is a troll before.
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  3849. That is exactly right Airis, Brad Christy harasses us, because we don't believe what he believes.
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  3850. @dudesonman4200 Boycott these fuckers, and go buy a gun.
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  3851. It wouldn't matter, they(China) wants an all out war. They will just keep poking, and provoking. They are playing a game, they figure these balloons costs a lot less than a guided missile. They can deplete US weapons. It is a kind of trolling. If you respond to a troll, the more they will be attached to you.
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  3852. This is what Hitler did when the allies closed in on Germany, he destroyed everything in his own country.
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  3853. Next thing you'll say is look at the insurgents in Iraq. The Iraqi insurgents had a lot of weapons. Saddam Hussein bought so many weapons during his reign when the U.S. invaded the insurgents had anti-tank missiles, high explosives, all kinds of automatic weapons, mortars, RPGs, AA guns, rockets, SA-7 grail anti-aircraft missiles, etc. Most of the weapons in Saddam's arsenal fell in the hands of the insurgents. Don't compare apples to oranges.
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  3854. Alex Jones is a lunatic, liar, and a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist! LOL.
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  3855. That reporter was spreading fake news about China, so they should not be able to spread such propaganda.
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  3856.  @yeeetingrespectfully7592  Western MM needs to be banned from China.
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  3857.  @yeeetingrespectfully7592  Since your media only wish to focus on the negative things that happen in China. Perhaps, Western MM should be barred from entering the country. After all, the US wants to get rid of Tiktok.
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  3858.  @yeeetingrespectfully7592  Whyteman speaks with a forked tongue.
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  3859.  @yeeetingrespectfully7592  中文是我的第一语言。
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  3860. Criminal lives don't matter, tell that to these morons.
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  3861. "ALEX JONES' CONSPIRACY THEORIES", LOL.
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  3862. If you saved your money then you won't suffer and die. The Fed knows what they are doing. Either way, people are going to suffer. If they don't raise interest rates, it's a currency crisis. If they raise interest rates, we will have a recession. What's worse, paying $100 for a gallon of gasoline, $80 for a carton of eggs, or going through a deflationary recession for a few years?
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  3863. @Rich a lot of these communist countries turned into dictatorships. I guess, homosexuality being condemned and outlawed largely depended on the leaders of these communist countries. In some Communist countries, like Vietnam it wasn't outlawed.
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  3864. All these Republicans need to be voted out of office.
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  3865. Those young Turks are only protesting, and exercising their freedom of expression.
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  3866.  @olliegueret4348  The Turks are known for their barbarism.
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  3867. You can hunt a unlimited amount of hogs, because they are pests. Feral hogs do carry diseases, so you have to cook it all the way through.
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  3868. They are too stupid to realize they've been had. There is a big difference between a ignorant person and a stupid person. A stupid person does the same thing expecting different results every time.
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  3869.  @royfeely7145  See that proof that it works.
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  3870.  @davidphua1083  Everything that comes out of the MSM is not true. Anyone with a brain should know that by now.
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  3871. @vineshnaidoo9402 You look like someone that swims in the Ganges river. LOL
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  3872.  @lloydmunga4961  I didn't have to do that, because I just found a corporate job after I quit being an entrepreneur. Last I lost that job, but thankfully I have deep pockets to cover all of my expenses for the next 15 years.
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  3873.  @dojocho1894  In most cities in the USA, you have zoning laws, like residential, industrial, and commercial. I don't think you can run a restaurant in a residential zone. We are long way from fully autonomous vehicles. You need to put a lot of sensors and chips for a vehicle like that to work, and a vehicle like that would cost hundreds of thousand of dollars. Elon Musk said many times his software based self driving AI would be fully autonomous, but that never happened. That's why Uber and Lyft are cutting rates for drivers. Why? Because they can, because they're a monopoly.
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  3874.  @dojocho1894  This is the problem with monopolization, they can set the price, and there isn't anything you can do about it. These prices that they set might not even cover the expenses of producing what you are producing. Amazon had a policy where you couldn't sell what you sell on Amazon at a lower price on your own website, and if you broke that policy then your Amazon seller account would be canceled. These are monopolistic practices.
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  3875.  @Littleybrid  One thing I would never do is sell my soul for money.
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  3876. The problem is the average Joe and Jane doesn't know anything about precious metals. The average person is concerned about American idol, what Justin Beaver did, what I am going to eat tonight, what clothes are fashionable, the latest i-phones/gadgets, sex, and other meaningless things. From what I can see, there is no shortage of silver or gold by most bullion dealers. You can buy 1000 oz bars of silver, and 100 oz bars of gold without a problem. Its obvious, most people don't care about it.
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  3877. I support China even though my family immigrated out of China 800 years ago.
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  3878. Chump's idea is to build the Great Wall of Chump.
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  3879. They do.
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  3880. James Gravil, I don't think you can ban guns. The best way to get it off the hands of people is by taxing it, like a 500% guns and ammo tax.
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  3881. Steevee Keys, I am a middle aged white man, but I am doing alright. I don't have a wife or kids. I make decent money, I don't have a full time job, I just work as a independent contractor, I do web development, software development, and any kind of computer work. The middle aged white guys who don't have much education are the ones who lost out in the past 40 years. The economy we live in today requires a high level of skill. If you work for a company as a part timer, full timer, or a independent contractor, they do require you to know some computer programming. They all require at least a 4 year bachelor's degree or more. If you have just a high school degree, they won't even look at your resume. Even a file manager requires a 4 year degree, previously they didn't require it. I think it has to do with the lack of good jobs in the economy, so it is getting more competitive that is why the require a bachelor's degree for jobs that don't really require it. If you are smart, willing to learn new things, adapt, and willing to work hard, I think you can make it. It is getting harder and harder to get by these days.
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  3882. Steevee Keys You don't need to get yourself into debt, I live pretty modestly. Not having a woman in your life makes it easier. We live in a society where you can enslave yourself with debt.
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  3883. Bruce Marmy, instead of being angry and being self destructive, you could do something about it. You can get a group people together, and start a worker cooperative. Pool your resources together. You can go to a community college, and learn useful skills. You can learn automotive technology, you can take a class about programming, you can learn about office software like Microsoft Office, and other useful skills. You can find a job with it. I am not looking down on anyone, but voting for people like Trump who don't represent your interests is being self destructive. Hating on other races, ethnic groups, and scapegoating doesn't solve anything either. Either you can be constructive or destructive. It's up to you.
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  3884. Vampiroscor, It has, but it is entirely voluntary. Chattel slavery is not voluntary.
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  3885. Vampiroscor, you can become a billionaire in any business as long as you're good at it.
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  3886. This would be like countries engaged in a war, and the other side says. Can you stop producing so many aircraft, ships, trucks, radios, radars, etc. We are living in the Twilight Zone.
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  3887. It was $5 million being tax at 10%, and 77% being taxed at $10 million. Trump wants to repeal the estate tax for people who have real estates worth $10 million or more. At the same time, the middle class people who have a mortgage on their homes can get less tax deductions per year.
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  3888. The problem is these mRNA vaccine companies are immune from any liabilities in the USA.
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  3889.  @reptilexcq2  There is no need to do that. If US companies want to produce stuff to sell to the US market, because they cannot sell it in China is ok. The point is, US companies cannot compete in China, because the Chinese people can buy Chinese products which cost less and are comparable to US products in quality. They can leave the China market, like so many other foreign companies did, like Hyundai, Samsung, Google, Amazon, etc. A lot of these American car companies are having difficulty selling their cars in China, because competition from Chinese EV companies, like BYD.
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  3890.  @NeostormXLMAX The reason why these US companies and foreign companies went to China was to get access to the massive Chinese market. Since they aren't doing well in the China market due to competition from Chinese companies, like BYD, Huawei, Yangtze Memory Technologies, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Oppo, ZTE, NIO, Geely, etc. They really have no incentive to stay in the China market. It is perfectly fine for US and other Western companies to produce their stuff in China and export it to their home countries or other countries. It's fine, because they are hiring Chinese people. Having these foreign entities exist in China will not hurt China at all.
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  3891. US marines are suppose to be tough, and they couldn't defend themselves against young Turks? LOL
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  3892. The US will run out of countries to sanction. At the same time, the US economy will go into a inflationary spiral which will destabilize the US economy. This will lead to civil unrest, and spike in crime.
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  3893. Only if interest rates go up.
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  3894. When gold or platinum goes to $900 or $1000/oz, I will be buying more for sure. I did buy a significant amount at higher prices than now, but I will just hold that. I will think of it as my retirement fund money. I would love to pick some more up below $1000/oz for sure.
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  3895. It would be good if we had a real healthcare system, like the one they have in the U.K. or the E.U.. They would fund it by taking a little out of your income tax, and everyone would have universal healthcare. That would be good.
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  3896. That is bad news for the U.S.A., and everyone who lives in the U.S.A.
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  3897. That criminal is worthless.
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  3898. Alex Jones is crazy fanatic. He runs a media outlet called Infowars which can't even report simple facts. All of the information from Infowars is twisted and distorted. If you disagree with anything these right wing conspiracy theorists say, they will get angry and violent. "You a hatchet man of the NWO"., ROFL!!!! Like the NWO even exists, LOL!!!
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  3899.  @Madame702  Tanks are vulnerable in urban environment. Tank guns don't have a very high elevation, and people in high rise buildings can hit the tops of tanks which have very little armor. Main battle tanks are expensive, they cost about $3 to $5 million, a AIFV costs about $200,000 to $500,000.
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  3900. All they have to do is lay a lot of sea mines near the port.
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  3901. The US is becoming a 3rd world nation.
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  3902.  @tramp2827  Peter Schiff summarized it in a very simple way. Let's say there are a number of people living on a deserted island. The American guy is the guy who is sitting around and not doing anything. His job is to eat. The other people have to work and provide that guy. That's the relationship.
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  3903. It is a hedge against inflation, but it isn't an investment. If you have $10,000 worth of gold today, it will have $10,000 worth of value of 2022 money in 2050. That's all.
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  3904.  @AllNighterHeider  You can save your in gold, or you can put it in the saving account. The difference is, if you put it in a saving account you will actually lose money to inflation, but the numerical amount will be the same year over year. If you put it in gold, it can be good when there is a lot of inflation, but if there is deflation that year then the value can go down. Never the less, over a few decades, gold is a good bet.
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  3905. You better get the fuck outta her Jon Egan, before I get Antifa on you.
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  3906. They will find something. You stupid Trumpkin.
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  3907. A criminal pardoning criminals. Chump will get impeached again.
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  3908. Trump said the media is the enemy of the people, I can safely say Trump is an enemy of the state.
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  3909.  @basook6116  If the Federal Reserve keeps doing this, and no other country buys it. It will lead to one thing, it will translate to higher and higher inflation.
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  3910.  @basook6116  If you have a full scale trade war, I am sure China can do things to the US that would hurt them severely. They can do a number of things, like cut off rare earth exports to the USA. The US doesn't have the technology to process and refine rare earth minerals, and it would take a decade to develop this technology. Plus, most of the rare earth minerals are in China. If you tried to produce everything in the USA, most people couldn't buy it. It would cost too much. Wages haven't gone up here for years, wages have been stagnant. The only reason why the US was able to cope with this was by importing goods that were produced with cheaper labor. To rebuild the manufacturing infrastructure the US lost through the years would take years. There are things we need, like shoes, car tires, ball bearings, parts for air conditioners, car parts, printers, scanners, fax machines, monitors, televisions, parts for computers, screws, nails, clamps, etc. A lot of those things aren't produced in the USA. We need these things to run the offices, and businesses. Are Americans going to wait 5 or 10 years until the infrastructure gets built to build all these things, because we need these things now.
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  3911.  @basook6116  Eventually, it will all lead to hyperinflation. The U.S. economy is highly leveraged with debt. For example, most of the homes in the USA aren't owned outright, most Americans have mortgages. Most of the automobiles aren't owned outright, they are being financed with auto loans. If a major recession happened, people in the US will have some serious problems. If loans can't be paid back, it causes a banking crisis. This is why interest rates had been kept at near zero from 2009 to 2016, and it is about 2.5% which is still very low. The Federal Reserve is trying everything to avert a recession for this reason, but eventually a recession will happen even if interest rates are artificially lowered. When the dollar is no longer the world reserve currency, or if the dollar is used less in international trade. You will see a lot of problems in the United States. It won't be the end of the world, but a lot of people who are highly leveraged will get wiped out. If you live in the US, and you don't have any kind of debt including mortgages. Then, you will better shape than most. If you have a lot of debt, hard times are coming.
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  3912. The final destination is hyperinflation and economic collapse.
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  3913.  @jmf1976jmf  It's almost over for China when it comes to low wages. After low wages as an engine of economic growth, it is all about capital investments, like investments in automated factories, high technology, and a service oriented economy.
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  3914. @tigading2177 They love paying high prices. Under chump, their dreams will come true. ROFL
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  3915.  @mandrews1245  What do you expect us to do? Give you this money in the form of treasuries, so you can print it and spend it?
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  3916.  @ahmedzakikhan7639  The technology will only get better and better. Back in the 1990s when I was going to college, this woman said a computer cannot replace my job. She was a translator. Well, we have translation software that is tied in with speech recognition technology. I guess that woman was WRONG. About 30 years ago, people said a computer can't recognize human voices. Low and behold, we have speech recognition software. Don't say never, technology only gets better and better.
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  3917.  @ahmedzakikhan7639  Sure, no problem.
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  3918. More fake news. There was no looting at that supermarket in 浙江(Zhèjiāng).
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  3919.  @MusMasi  When the Russians run out of weapons due to these sanctions. The only people that will be using sling stones, and wooden clubs would be the Russians. I don't think the West will run out of weapons, because they can get all the materials they need to produce all the weapons they need.
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  3920. Americans don't consume a lot of soy products.
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  3921. Javier Castrona, if you haven't noticed. China overtook the U.S. in scientific research this year.
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  3922. You wish Trump will reimburse farmers. He won't, he never pays his bills. Do you think he is going to bail out farmers. LOL You gotta be stupid to believe that.
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  3923. Tamika Hodges, basically the price of everything you need to survive, like food will come down in price. At the same time, the price of everything you want, like smartphones, electronic gadgets, automobiles, and other consumer goods will go up in price. Real estate prices will probably drop too, because foreign investors will use less of their money to speculate real estate in the USA. That means lower home prices. The stock market will also tank, because a lot of the profits Wall Street firms make is from the global market. If your a old man who retired then you would be screwed. When the stock market and real estate market crashes, these pensioners will see a big reduction in their 401k and pension payouts. I guess, the Baby Boomers are screwed then. LOL
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  3924.  @davewenners6722  That comes out to $156,250 per small business.
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  3925.  @stevenhughes1110  I am a realist snowflake.
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  3926.  @stevenhughes1110  If you have a lot of debt, you are screwed. Sorry to break your pathetic bubble, but that is the reality. If you have no debt, and millions of dollars than you will be alright. If not, you are screwed.
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  3927. This is no surprise, they did to Bobby Fisher, and others.
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  3928. @Tomato Pa good.
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  3929. Those punks are George Gascon's people.
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  3930. If you cannot adapt, you deserve to become extinct.
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  3931. What a snowflake, and a coward. LOL
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  3932.  @7hx89  That helps with designing air frames.
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  3933.  @Xyp122  It would be great to have another country that produces commercial passenger aircraft. The more competition the better.
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  3934.  @michaelgunn9883  I am not excited. I am telling you the facts.
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  3935.  @michaelgunn9883  After you find out about the rules of the game, you can win the game. If you don't know the rules of the game then you will obviously be a loser in the game. That's all . : )
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  3936.  @michaelgunn9883  You look like Zelensky's brother. ROFL!!!!!
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  3937.  @criSOME1  Looks like this reply hit a nerve. LOL
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  3938. If it's economically viable for them to send balloons that cost less than a AIM-9 missile, they will keep sending em. $380,000/AIM-9 missile.
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  3939. The catalyst for de dollarization will be a very strong dollar. Before the world didn't have a choice, but today they have a choice. They can simply do more trade with China, and it is as simple as that.
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  3940. Checkmate for Trump, if the F.B.I. finds Trump implicated with other crimes, they will prosecute it. Just like if the cops search your car in a stop, and they find drugs. You're going to jail buddy.
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  3941. All this fear of war in the Middle East is driving up oil and gasoline prices. The people who are in the futures market are driving it up with all this fear of war. All this printed money is jacking up the price of oil. They should outlaw speculators in the futures market.
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  3942.  @KayyHong  The US is run by a bunch of clowns.
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  3943.  @Mcky-lw1zb  The Chinese civilization lasted 5,000 years, it had been around when the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arab Caliphates and other had been around. I am sure it will be around after the US falls in obscurity. We will be around for another 5,000 years.
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  3944.  @Mcky-lw1zb  We had been around longer than the Roman Empire had been around, and we will be around after the US falls into obscurity.
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  3945. The West is the evil empire, and the world knows it.
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  3946. You're a Libertarian, right?
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  3947.  @berryreading4809  The missile itself costs at least $80,000. You also need about 200 to 250 chips per missile. Don't you know we have a chip shortage right now? The US produces about 1000 to 1200 Javelin missiles per year. You can't produce 100,000 missile a year, it is sophisticated piece of technology.
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  3948.  @AndrewRoberts11  I am sorry, but what the West is providing to the Ukraine is simply not enough. The Russian army is using about 400,000 to 500,000 artillery rounds per day. 90 towed howitzers, and a couple of dozen self propelled howitzers with 180,000 to 250,000 rounds of artillery shells will make little difference.
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  3949. Send her to prison for 20 years.
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  3950. Chump is a loser.
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  3951. In order to get jobs in the USA, you have to graduate from a 4 year college/university. You need to get an office job, or become a professional, like a doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer, computer scientists, technologist, commercial pilot, ship captain, businessman, bureaucratic paper pusher, scientist, researcher, nurse, technician, radiologist, etc. You need a college degree to get anywhere these days. If you don't get a college degree, you need to get vocational skills.
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  3952. Many of these tariffs are levied on products the US doesn't produce, so they aren't protecting anything. Many of these imports are used for manufacturing higher value products. Circuitboards, legacy chips, components, parts, etc. This will make items produced in the US more expensive, and make US companies less competitive.
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  3953. The G7 countries can try to insulate themselves from the world, we all know what happens to countries that did that in the past. This would be like a new technology was developed, like a internal combustion engine, but the horse buggy industry persuaded the government to ban this technology. Ban because, the horse and buggy industry would become redundant. As a result, you have technological regression, while the world progresses.
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  3954. Trump blames everyone else of being liars, but he is the biggest liar and con man around. LOL
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  3955. The worst ever in US history.
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  3956. I've never seen a vehicle that small where I live(US). The smallest vehicle I ever owned was a Honda Civic. The biggest vehicle I ever owned was a Lexus ES300. I looked up mini cars in Japan, and these things are tiny. They have 64 hp engines. I can imagine it would be uncomfortable.
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  3957. They don't need the US to build nuclear power plants. LOL
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  3958. A 15 second video is more like an advertisement. LOL
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  3959. I open the door, but I always have my handgun near me.
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  3960. If you mess up like that then your next opinion is sleeping on the sidewalk.
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  3961. People go missing in the U S A .
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  3962.  @clintchapman4319  The world knows the US is pathetic and can't compete.
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  3963.  @eymaslacker  Exactly, so the US doesn't have a unlimited credit card.
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  3964. I approve of Chump's indictment.
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  3965. Giuliani is a dumb ass, everyone knows that!
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  3966. Guilty until you are proven guilty. What hypocrisy. They just want to hinder China's economic development.
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  3967. What is the age group of these excess deaths?
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  3968.  @epicchannel4724  No wonder we have a worker shortage right now. I can't believe this. Our so called leaders, pushed this so they can make more money. I am sure they got paid a lot of money, and they received tips about insider trading for these pharma stocks. These same clowns were saying shipping our jobs to other countries was a good thing. When they were doing this, they got paid tons of money from the industries that were pushing this agenda. At the same time, the people that were affected by this were saying this wasn't a good thing. I guess when they say representative democracy, they really mean it represents special interests groups that have tons of money to buy politicians. How sad.
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  3969. It isn't racism, it is a store for Chinese people. We wouldn't be shopping in markets in Nigeria.
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  3970. China doesn't need Apple anymore, the Chinese people need to buy Chinese made phones.
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  3971. "All this talk about an economic recovery is a fantasy.", LOL!
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  3972.  @googoat  He never had to be there. He just wanted to play Call of Duty in real life.
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  3973.  @mikemyers7539  He wanted to go there to kill people, like how he played his violent 1st person shooter games.
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  3974.  @dannyjudge2876  I don't have anything against people owning firearms, because I own several myself. I can protect my property and myself with it. I would never go some place and try to cause problems. That's the difference.
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  3975. Now the Russians lost one of their top generals, and what will Russia do now? They will probably use heavy artillery to level more Ukrainian cities.
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  3976. Obesity and constipation are the biggest health problems in the USA. It's not just fructose, it is trans-fats, and high sodium content also.
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  3977. I don't think they ever practiced free market capitalism. Back in the 1980s, the Republicans complained about how unfair Japanese companies were. They did everything to curtail Japanese cars from coming into the US, like levying tariffs. They are full of crap. They say they believe in Democracy, yet they do everything to suppress votes by redistricting and Gerrymandering.
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  3978. The Republican way is giving money to failed businesses, and not giving any to poor people.
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  3979.  @benwlee  The RISC processors they use in appliances are simple processors, they are more like microcontrollers. Microsoft purposely made tons of usable computers obsolete with their new hardware requirements for Windows 11 a couple of years back. Before that, people were using Windows 10 on computers that were 17 years old. Computer microprocessor technology had been stagnant since 2009. I guess, the computer industry gave Microsoft some advice on how to make old computers unusable.
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  3980. In a Republic, the people that get represented are the people who have the most money, so it is a fundamental problem.
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  3981. I say get rid of it(tRump).
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  3982. Sorry chump, attempting to use the military on the American people will result in your demise. Most people in the military will not follow your orders to shoot on their own people. It has been tried many times in history, and it has failed. When the hard liners in the Soviet Union tried to use the military to launch a coup against Gorbachev, it resulted in the collapse of the Soviet Union in Dec 1991. When Hosni Mubarak tried to use the military to crush the riots in Egypt, the military refused to follow his orders. It resulted in the collapse of his government.
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  3983. This will only cause more countries to dump the dollar. Chump is such a 白痴. 🤣
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  3984. Art Laufer is an idiot, we can just laugh at that clown.
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  3985. LOL
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  3986. You can't carry guns in that area, it was agreed upon by both sides no firearms and other weapons are allowed in that disputed area.
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  3987. Farmers are hiring pickers. LOL
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  3988.  @Priyanka-b1t3b  Listen bud, I didn't vote for chump. The chumps that voted for chump can work on those farms.
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  3989.  @Priyanka-b1t3b  I didn't vote for the orange guy.
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  3990. This is the beginning of the end of US hegemony.
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  3991.  @danieldach4697  I know the Russians aren't going to give up. I know Zelensky doesn't want anything less than all annexed Ukrainian land returned back to the Ukraine. Putin can't be stopped unless his cash flow stops, and there are no signs of that ever happening. China and India which are the two most populous countries on this planet are buying Russian energy. China is right next to Russia, so it isn't going to cost much to transport that energy to a neighboring country.
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  3992. I know your jealous of America. Your jealous my great nation can produce A-10 Warthogs, F-16 Falcons, F-15s, M1A2 mbts, gps guided bombs, and other weapon systems that the world wants!!!! Just like the average adult in the USA or Canada loves to buy guns. Governments love to buy the biggest and baddest military hardware! So there, go back to your shit hole of a country. The USA is number one, and you know it!
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  3993. They need to send the Ukrainians M60 mbts, and M1 mbts with 105mm cannons.
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  3994. The US has the world reserve currency, and that is the reason why anyone from anywhere around the world can buy real estate here.
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  3995. A lot of these Musk fanboys and girls are going to become homeless. LOL
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  3996. Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the masses. Republicans are full of shit.
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  3997.  @dayeah765caoni3  It is decaying. If you compare it to 30 years ago, 40 years ago, 50 years ago, or 60 years ago.
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  3998. Freedom is lost when you get monopolies.
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  3999. She was guilty, so she deserved it.
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  4000. Trump steaks are nasty. LOL
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  4001. The USA is not a big producer of potash Canada - 16 million metric tons China - 6 million metric tons Russia - 5 million metric tons Belarus - 3 million metric tons Germany - 2.8 million metric tons Israel - 2.5 million metric tons Jordan - 1.7 million metric tons Chile - 850,000 metric tons Laos - 600,000 metric tons Spain - 450,000 metric tons USA - 349,000 metric tons
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  4002.  @UneducatedEconomist  As long as the dollar is a world reserve currency, they can buy this potash, or ammonium nitrate from anywhere in the world.
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  4003.  @DinosaurKale  Everyone who entered the capitol building in DC ran.
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  4004.  @arleneaugustahair8393  The government knows who was there with the cellular phone gps logs. If you carried a smartphone to the DC riots, they already have all data on who was there. All the FBI has to do is to get all the flight logs from the airport, pictures from the riot, gps data, posts from social media sites, and compile the data. Since a lot of these idiots bragged about what they did, it will not be hard to find, arrest, detain, and charge them. The FBI and local authorities will notify the media, and their employers. This will get them fired, and if they have businesses then the public would know.
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  4005.  @juliaweber212  I don't care what you believe. Your smartphone is a tracking device, and the government has all the GPS log information on who was in the DC capitol building, and the people who were outside of the building. It will take months to a year to compile all that information, and find those idiots that were involved in it. Even if you wore a mask covering your whole face, they have your smartphone log information. Your smartphone is tied to your personal records. From that, they will check any social media accounts that you may have, and use that as evidence. If you were in the capitol building then you will be found, and charged with whatever the government charges you with. You will be put on a no fly list.
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  4006.  @juliaweber212  If you were there, they will find you.
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  4007.  @ichbinda1966 At this rate, the US dollar has a good chance of losing its reserve currency status. When this happens, printing money without producing anything, or having people buy treasury bonds will lead to hyperinflation.
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  4008.  @83442handle  No one knows.
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  4009.  @83442handle  We don't know what will happen 5 to 20 years from now. The biggest holder of dollars is not exactly the friend of the USA, China.
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  4010.  @83442handle  We shall see what happens in the future, but all I can say is gold is a good insurance policy if something like that happens.
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  4011. CNBC should fire this clown, he encouraged people to invest in FTX on CNBC. As long as CNBC has Mr. O'Leary on their channel, the more viewers they are going to lose.
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  4012. You know these weasels will not let their children go to a war zone.
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  4013. I am boycotting Germany for their evil deeds, i refuse to buy German cars, or anything German even bratwurst. Instead, I choose to buy more stuff from China, because they are buying Russian energy.
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  4014. @Bobby_T_  No one cares w boy.
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  4015. They will feed us processed bug gruel. LOL
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  4016.  @CommonSenses101  That implies India is inherently a corrupt country.
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  4017.  @kevinfidler6287  Do you have any other choice?
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  4018.  @akteno2796  Those Azov people can do a Ukrainian Banzai attack. Isn't that what the Japanese did during WW2 when they ran out of munitions and supplies. They just did a Banzai charge and all got mowed down.
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  4019.  @PitofDoom666  You know that guy is irrational that is why he failed in almost every business tried.
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  4020. @Bet On Me That bastard was a regular on the Alex Jones Channel, so he must be a fraud and a huckster.
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  4021. A lot of these far rightnuts only believe in two amendments in the constitution, the 1st Amendment and the 2nd Amendment. They can call any minorities any racist comments. 2nd Amendment, they can own guns and threaten people who don't agree with their beliefs. Look at all these right wing militia groups, KKK, neo-Nazis, and other right wing terrorist. Ask them about any other amendment in the constitution, and they are ignorant of it. These hard core Trump supporters are the new brown shirts, and they want fascism.
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  4022. You are right, they seem to favor autocracy.
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  4023.  @stanspb763  It costs $2350 to give up your US citizenship. This is the highest fee to renounce your citizenship out of any country in the world. If the US is so great why do they charge you so much money to give up your citizenship? ROFL 🤣
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  4024. Republicans don't believe in climate change, nor do they understand science. I guess, now they know it is real.
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  4025. Because those idiots want to hear what they want to hear, and they don't want to hear reality.
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  4026. Grown men who like to play army men, retard militia. LOL
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  4027. Parts for weapons should not be made in China, they should be made in countries that are allies to the U.S.A. and in the in the U.S.A..
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  4028. That's so retarded. That's the beauty of living in a free market country, you can always take your business somewhere else.
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  4029. 农历新年
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  4030. We just keep winning because of Donald Rump.
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  4031. Competition is good.
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  4032. We will see a lot of people sleeping in their cars, and in the streets of murica in the next 4 years. They made their choice.
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  4033.  @SamS-vd1yk  What if it is worse?
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  4034. There is no reason for China to buy US debt, they should focus more on creating a consumer economy for themselves.
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  4035. This total economic collapse is like a wet dream to you people isn't it? It will work for people. If they get violent, it will mean one of three things. Death, starving to death, or imprisonment. Who is the government? It is the people. I would trust the U.S. army, and I would never trust militia types like you.
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  4036. Those Turks are tough.
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  4037.  @Maelstromme  The US spent $5 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021.
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  4038. China does not have the ability to print money, like the Federal Reserve which holds the world reserve currency.
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  4039. Age does matter. After you turn 45 years old, companies don't want you. They want to hire younger people for some reason.
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  4040. Crazy.
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  4041. The USD is still being used and accepted by China, but they aren't relying on the US swift system.
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  4042.  @danielhutchinson6604  When there is no world reserve currency, the SDR is the only way to go.
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  4043. I don't think UBER or Lyft drivers have anything like that. That is why it is called rideshare, these drivers aren't professional cab drivers.
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  4044.  @draven02000  Most the USD is spread out throughout the world. In other words, more US dollars are floating around in other countries than in the US. It will not be enough.
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  4045. Warstreet doesn't understand China's economy. In China, you have a lot of small and medium sized businesses, because the govt encourages entrepreneurship. This is done by putting capital in the real economy. On the other hand, the US govt hands out money to Warstreet, and they just put it into financial markets.
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  4046. Sounds about right.
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  4047. They are just jealous of China, and they are just projecting their anxieties on China.
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  4048. The chumpkin way, I tell you to break the law, and I don't take responsibility if something happens.
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  4049. It will eventually collapse again, and the longer they try to avert it the worse it will be. All this money has to be paid back in the end.
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  4050. Oil was $19 to $20/barrel in 2000. Gold can go down $1100 or lower. Back in 1980, gold was $850/oz, and it dropped to $350/oz for about 23 years! People who are 16 years don't work, the legal age for working is 18. You cannot get a full time job until you graduate from high school. I had gold, and I rolled it into palladium. I rolled some of that into stocks, real estate, bonds, and put that in the bank also. What's wrong with fiat money. Everyone knows its money, cold hard cash.
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  4051. I am a scholar. I read a lot of history, and I read about the democides during the 20th century. If you rebel against the government, they will crush you. It's that simple. Look at what happened to the Armenians who rebelled against the Ottoman state, and look at what happened to the Kurds who rebelled against Saddam's government? Having guns and rebelling against the state is suicide.
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  4052.  @CharlesEvans-jw7zm  Most likely.
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  4053. Don't sell drug in other countries, or you will come back in a body bag.
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  4054. You have a mid life crisis. When you reach your late 40s and 50s, and you aren't a multi millionaire or a billionaire the future is very uncertain. You reach an age where employers don't want you anymore. You are too old to learn new things, and you aren't as creative as you were in your earlier years. It's tough.
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  4055.  @askjapan9669  I was thinking about moving to another country, but I changed my mind after thinking about learning another language. It is very hard to learn a new language when you are 48 years old.
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  4056. I majored in economics and computer science, so I know what I am talking about meathead. What do you do for a living? Work at Walmart?
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  4057. drdecker1, you can say whatever you want here, but it doesn't mean I have to believe it.
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  4058. KLM738XO, you can get around tariffs. Harley Davidson is a fine example. They can move their production to a country where tariffs can't affect them. If Chinese manufacturers wanted to avoid paying tariffs, they ship it to Thailand, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, or where ever. Then, they can put a stamp on the goods that it was made in in Thailand, India, Indonesia, etc. That is almost the same thing as Harley Davidson did. Better yet, Chinese companies can move their production facilities to Vietnam, India, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Sudan, or where ever. The cost of labor in those countries is a lot less than it is in China. LOL You meat heads are dumb.
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  4059. KLM738XO, no business person gives a shit about patriotism. The bottom line is $$$$$$$ profit. They don't give a shit if you believe you are valuable because you are white. That doesn't mean anything to them. You get charter from the courts to form a corporation to make MONEY or profit.
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  4060.  @rgball1960  Go get a life.
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  4061.  @rgball1960  I hope all or most of you Republican fucks go bankrupt like your great orange pumpkin.
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  4062. That is because SBF gave out a lot of money to the media, politicians, social media influencers, etc. Even this joker who got burnt by SBF. He is only trying to cover his butt, because he recommended FTX to so many people. His reputation is at stake if this thing was a giant ponzi scheme. This man is full of crap.
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  4063.  @elisatseng6286  That will not happen, Mr. O'Leary will continue to make excuses for SBF. As far as I am concerned, Mr. O'Leary is one big sucker.
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  4064.  @dragonore2009  2 million people are working for the US government, and about 7.4 million people were employed by state governments in 2014.That is about 9.4 million people that are employed in the public sector. The total number of people employed in the USA is about 155 million people as of 2018. The public sector accounts for 6.06% of total employment, and the private sector accounts for 93.9% of total employment. We have a free market economy, not a command socialist economy. As for regulations, big businesses push for regulations by using lobbyists. Are you telling me businesses using money power to push their agendas isn't capitalist in nature?
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  4065.  @a.brekkan4965  Exactly, look at Somalia, or Afghanistan where you have a weak central government, those countries are in a state of anarchy. You can buy anything in those countries, rocket launchers, drugs, automatic weapons, etc.
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  4066.  @Xarai  I don't think Republicans ever cared about the people, and they by far are the worst party since Ronald Reagan. Everytime we had a Republican administration, we had massive deficits, followed by a stock market crashes, and major recessions.
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  4067.  @shobvious  You can make the same argument with the Taxi cab industry with the one you made with Amazon. Amazon is actually paying their workers more, but they do want to get the productivity out of their workers. Workers at Amazon are required to process 700 + packages per hour, they are trying to maximize their efficiency from each worker. If Amazon was forced to pay their workers more, it would give brick and mortar retail a chance to survive. From what I can see, Amazon is using the money they got from their stocks to stay afloat. As their stock rose, more people bought into it. I am sure big hedge fund managers, people who manage 401ks, pensions, etc all bought Amazon stock because it starting going up. In 2008, Amazon stock was about $58/share, and today it is about $2300/share. In my opinion, Amazon is able to operate a business with making almost no profit by tapping into their stock funds. Uber was able to subsidize their lack of profit with their stocks. Their hope was to drive all the cab companies under, and in the very near future they would be able to have a fleet of self driving automobiles. That didn't happen, so their stock started to tank. As for online businesses, they really aren't that profitable, because you have to ship each individual item to each person. If you get a lot of returns, it becomes very unprofitable. In a brick and mortar store, items are ordered in bulk, so this brings down the cost of shipping. Amazon is following the same business model as Uber and E-bay, they will let individual buyers sell, but they charge them a fee. This way, they don't have to take any risk while they collect the fees for letting people use their platform. Uber isn't a transportation company, they connect people with a phone app using GPS technology. They get their cut no matter what, the drivers take all the risks, they have to pay the maintenance costs for their vehicles, and they can set the rates to whatever they want. In reality, capitalism is very similar to feudalism. Except in feudalism, you had the nobles who controlled all the land, and they let their peasants work on it. In the modern day, you have landlords who just collect rent from their tenants whether they be people in apartments to commercial tenants. In cyber space, you have large platforms, like Amazon, E-bay, Uber, and others that let you use their platform for a fee. You have to pay closing fees when you make a sale on E-bay, pay a monthly fee to sell on Amazon, and Uber can take a cut out of your profits.
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  4068.  @shobvious  Amazon doesn't make much profit selling stuff. Most of their money is from people buying their stocks, and their business contracts with the US government. Corporations can fund their business by selling stocks. This is why you can buy a computer from Amazon at cost with free shipping. You can buy an appliance with free shipping on Amazon. Who can compete with that?
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  4069.    Whatever, joe the plumber. Arguing with people like you is a waste of my time.
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  4070.  @shobvious  When the US was developing, you did have upward mobility. These days, there isn't much upward mobility. Unless your family has assets, you will pretty much be at the mercy of others. You will have to borrow money from others to get anything done. If you want to buy an automobile, buy a home, get a college/university education, start a business, etc you need to borrow money to do it. As a result, more and more people become indebted. They need more and more money to service these debt obligations, so they work 2 to 4 jobs to just get by. When a recession happens, a natural disaster, or in this case a pandemic, people get wiped out. You should have at least 6 months worth of savings, but most people don't have $1000 in the bank. Now people have to choose to go back to work, risk dying from this coronavirus, or starve to death. Both choices are bad.
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  4071.  @shobvious  I was born in the 1970s, and I pretty much saw the gradual decline of the American working class. Ever since Reagan became president, people have gotten poorer and poorer. There are a lot of reasons for these growing inequalities. One of the biggest reasons was due to the computer revolution which started in the mid 1970s. Engineers found ways to to mass produce printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, and silicon wafers. This made it possible to integrate electronic micro controllers on almost every piece of manufacturing machinery. They also found ways to make robotic arms, and program these things. This lead to the devaluation of labor. In addition to that, you had the outsourcing of jobs to countries in Eastern Asia, like Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan back in the 1970s and 1980s. I can understand why companies do it, they have to remain competitive. They have to compete against their foreign competitors. That would be a double whammy for working class Americans, and the value of their labor was devalued as a result. Over the years, computers have gotten less and less expensive. They also became easier to program with many different high level programming languages, like Pascal, Cobol, Fortran, Basic, Visual Basic, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Python, etc. With Artificial intelligence being developed with voice recognition technology, and image recognition technology the sky is the limit. In a decade, I can see mass unemployment on the horizon. This will only exacerbate the inequality problem around the globe and in the USA.
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  4072.  @a.brekkan4965  What about stagflation? It actually resulted from the Vietnam War, which started in 1965 when the US got involved and ended in 1975. The U.S. National Debt was about $900 billion in 1980, and after Reagan left office it was about $2600 billion. So much for the Republicans and their financial responsibility BS.
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  4073.  @a.brekkan4965  You cannot own any firearms in Singapore. After the National Firearms Act of 1934, American citizens can't own anything larger than 50 cal. Anything larger than a 50 caliber is considered to be a cannon, and the ATF classified it as a destructive device. Before that period, American citizens were allowed to fully automatic weapons, sawed off shotguns, howitzers, auto-cannons, high explosives, anti-tank guns, etc. I think F.D.R. did the right thing to sign that bill into law.
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  4074.  @a.brekkan4965  Your country does not have the world reserve currency that title has belonged to the US since the US won WW II.
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  4075.  @a.brekkan4965  The dollar was and is the world reserve currency. Everything is priced in dollar, so if the value of the dollar goes down. Prices go up in terms of dollars.
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  4076. Too bad we have so many stupid people in this country who still believe in Trump's b.s..
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  4077. All the medications the US imports from India, and Europe use APIs from China. The US has been importing more stuff from Mexico and Vietnam, but most of the parts used in those items made in those countries are made in China. LOL
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  4078. Looks like the sheep people were right. There wasn't anything to be worried about. Late 2008, and early 2009 were just great buying opportunities. If you loaded up on stocks, real estate, and other real assets, you would have made a fortune. The doomsayers who stockpiled food, water, & survival gear are regretting what they did. The people who bought tons of ammo, made a ton of money if they sold it at inflated prices in early 2013!
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  4079.  @ahlads  They are expensive, so not many people can afford to buy them.
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  4080.  @ahlads  There is also a very limited supply of lithium in this world much less than oil.
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  4081. I think the US is headed toward hyperinflation.
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  4082. Israel is committing genocide. If their intentions weren't genocidal then they would let the civilians out, but they are attacking the Gaza strip indiscriminately.
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  4083. Republicans are good at lying.
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  4084.  @frother  That is why multi core Intel Xeon cpus are used in data centers.
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  4085. Two more losers that get charged with felonies, and have their lives destroyed.
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  4086. The Fox News Channel isn't news or journalism, it's propaganda
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  4087. so true. LOL
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  4088.  @jimunderwood77  homicides happen across the USA. These 3 assholes shown on this video were planning to kill hundreds of people that is the very definition of domestic terrorism. You're fat orange haired loser of a president, disbanded the branch of the FBI that watches white nationalist hate groups.
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  4089.  @jimunderwood77  Anyone who makes posts on committing mass murder needs to be locked up, and evaluated by a psychiatrist. If they are diagnosed with any mental problems, all their weapons should be stripped from them. In addition, they need to be put on trial for domestic terrorism, and if they are found guilty they need to be sent to a Federal Penitentiary.
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  4090.  @jimunderwood77  Don't think we can't find you if you make threats on any social media sites. Even if you have a VPN, the FBI or local law enforcement can go directly to the VPN service and get a subpoena to hand over your IP address.
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  4091. The G7 is becoming insignificant.
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  4092. @vwk3851  China can get oil and natural gas from its neighbor from the north. China can also get oil from Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela as well. The other natural resources can be acquired through trade in resource rich countries in Africa and also South America. China is buying coffee and cocoa directly from countries in Africa and Souuth Anerica without buying it at US exchanges at a lower price.
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  4093. Chump is trying to pull a Augusto Pinochet.
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  4094. When Gaddafi proposed a gold back currency for the African Union what happened? The West doesn't like gold just like a vampire doesn't like garlic.
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  4095. Chump is a idiot.
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  4096.  @mikedee8876  The relationship between South Korea and Russia are souring because of South Korean defense firms supplying weapons to Ukraine. Also, the relationship between South Korea and China is souring as well. I don't know how South Korea would survive an all out war with North Korea, Russia, and China. The Chinese and Russians are going to be nudging North Korea to attack South Korea, and they will support North Korea if they do attack.
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  4097. If you don't have the means to defend yourself then don't go after thieves, because you don't know what they have.
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  4098. A gun that was made in the 1940s still looks modern today, just amazing.
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  4099. People have a bunch of jobs, but they have no money. 6:00 to 6:15 . That is so true.
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  4100. How can they make a mistake like that?
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  4101.  @cedriclynch  Rising real estate values are bad. If you own a home, property taxes, and homeowners insurance goes up. For people that rent, the price of rents go up and that is a big burden on people. For young people that try to buy a home, it makes extremely difficult. At the same, interest rates are up, which adds more difficulty.
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  4102. Are you saying people who commit serious crimes don't deserve to be punished for their crime?
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  4103. The solution is simple, don't shop at Walmart.
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  4104. That's it?? 😆 LOL
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  4105. Most of us who still work are freelancers or independent contractors. The only way I can compete is because I can bid lower than anyone else. I don't have a wife, any kids, or any debts. This is why I am able to outbid below the competition. This is the world we live in.
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  4106. Thanks for this information, I used to drink Boba milk tea with my friends on the weekends when I went to China town. Last time I had Boba milk tea was in 2018. I will never be drinking Boba tea ever.
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  4107. Declare a national emergency? That's martial law, and all your rights will be abrogated if that happens.
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  4108. That sounds about right, and thug lives don't matter.
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  4109. We can call this the Ukrainian battle of the Kursk. The Ukrainians being the Nazis.
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  4110.  @fun_ghoul  Capitalism always leads to the creation of monopolies, this is why they came out with the Sherman Antitrust Adlct of 1890. Capitalism has to be regulated or you have economic bubbles, mergers, buyouts, and the creation of monopolies. People need to form worker cooperatives, credit unions, labor unions, and small businesses to combat these large corporations that corrupt politics. We need to support our communities instead of giving our money to these greedy corporations.
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  4111.  Mark Evans  I tried what you said before, it didn't work. It is impossible to find any kind of stable work if you live abroad. You can't buy land, you have to leave when your passport expires. You have to be a constant nomad, and there is no stability or future in that kind of life. As for me, I am a computer programmer, and a IT specialist. I don't have any problems finding work here. I can get a job in any small, medium, or large firm. The US isn't sinking, the economy is quite robust. How do I know? I know we have a lot of manufacturing production here. Unfortunately, most of it is highly automated, we produce more things than any country in this world. Only China produces slightly more than the US. Just about everything you buy in the grocery store is made in the USA, like paper towels, toilet paper, foil wrap, chicken, corn, beef, pork, breakfast cereal, canned goods, soda pop, beer, wine, hard liquor, produce, rice, bread, etc all made here. Sure, we import stuff from other countries, like smartphones, computers, computer parts, various types of electronics, clothes, hats, tripods, cameras, networking equipment, and other things we want. We also produce very expensive items, like helicopters, large commercial jets, small 2 engine commercial jets, automobiles of all types, large manufacturing machinery, jet engines, software(Microsoft Windows), medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and other things. The US isn't a sinking ship. The people just have to take it back, and we can. There are more of us than there are of them.
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  4112.  Mark Evans  You mean the same Max Keiser who told everyone to go out and buy Bitcoins when it was $19,500/BTC? Gees, you really are one big fool to believe such a shyster.
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  4113.  @jgalt308  Wages rose with inflation, and we have a lot more better jobs today than we did in 1910. Unskilled wages stayed stagnant, but skilled wages did go up. As for automation, you just have to be creative. Artificial intelligence may be good at doing repetitive tasks, but it can never come up with new ideas. The new kinds of artificial intelligence can do more than repetitive tasks, like doing routine tasks. Having automated offices and factories before, you still need people there, but less people are required. If you employ computers, software, and machines, it could reduce the amount of hours you work at a certain job. I am sure AI will only get better, and we will have to have some kind of universal basic income system. Not everyone can be a professor, doctor, dentist, registered nurse, a nurse practitioner, engineer, scientist, technologist, technician, lawyer, accountant, architect, or some other skilled profession which requires at least a 4 year university/college degree. You need licenses, and degrees to practice certain professions. That is something machines can't do. In addition, you have skilled tradesmen, like plumbers, craftsmen, people who do roofing, general contractors, electricians, and others jobs of this type which is very difficult to automate. You have creative people, like musicians, authors, artists, and others who can create unique things. Those jobs can't be automated. A lot of jobs are unfortunately on the chopping block due to artificial intelligence. You can sort of see it now, like when you go to a McDonalds, they have kiosks that take your order instead of cashiers. When you go to Home Depot, you have self checkout lanes, and you have these in supermarkets as well. When your doctor sends you to a lab, you check in with a computer terminal, and there is no receptionist. Truck drivers don't have to be used for long drives across the vast distances they drive. You can use one truck to lead a convey of lets say 15 trucks, the first truck will have a human in it, and the other 14 will be automated. When you go to a populated area, like a city you go to a hub, and truck drivers can take over. They will certainly be working less hours, and be making less money. AI will be assisting people, and as a result people would work less hours. That's why we need a Universal Basic Income.
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  4114.  @jgalt308  Why do you care about inflation so much? In this day and age, all the information is out there to get the skills to get you a good job. You can literally search Google, and learn about HTML, Java script, C++, C#, Linux batch scripts, Dos batch scripts, learn computer assembly languages, learn about networking, learn about servers, learn how to fix motherboards, fix computers, etc. All this information is out there. Back when I was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, we didn't have any of that stuff. There was no Youtube, Google, Facebook, or any of that stuff. We have 12 television stations which I was growing up in the 1980s. Most of the information I got about computers was from magazines. If people of my generation did run into problems, we had to solve these problems without any help. If we didn't understand something in let's say in differential equations class, I would go to the professor and get help or from my friends. You people have access to all these opportunities, and you still complain!
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  4115.  portallatro  No systemic collapse will happen, because everything will be running. Everything from your garbage being collected to the power plants generation electricity. The factories that produce your napkins, processed foods, tissue paper, and other things will still be running. Most of these factories and manufacturing plants are already highly automated, the only thing they don't need is a lot of people working in them. You will be able to go to Walmart, Home Depot, etc and buy what you need from a kiosk. You will be able to order whatever you need and want from Amazon or some other online outlet. The trucks will continue to deliver the goods to the stores, the oil fields will continue to produce oil, the solar power plants will continue to produce electricity, the hydro electric dams will produce electricity, the children will still go to school and play, and people will go on with their lives. If you don't have a university/college degree or higher then you will be working in the Gig economy, and struggling for a living. If you can't hack that then you can always go live in a tent on the sidewalk. If you can't be resourceful then you will be out of luck. A lot of people will collapse and go into destitution, but the system will not collapse. Stop projecting your fears and anxieties on other people. When the dust settles, the U.S. is going to resemble a lot of Latin American countries, where you have a few rich people and a lot of poor people. That will be the new reality. I know this is going to happen, because a lot of people here have voted that way since the 1980s. They had been duped, just look at all the Joe the Plumbers out there, blue collar Joes who vote against their interests.
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  4116.  @psychocomytic9778  You don't have to take programming courses at a university to get a job as a software developer. A lot of companies might require a 4 year Bachelor's degree, and you can just learn programming languages on your own and find a job. Majoring in Computer Science is different, they do more than just programming computers. They develop stuff like artificial intelligence, interface between the computer hardware and software, write assembly code, etc.
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  4117. We shall see if precious metals go up when the market sells off....
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  4118. Beating a thug with a tennis racket. LOL 😆
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  4119.  @jakubklis6797  That is not up to me to decide.
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  4120.  @jakubklis6797  The US isn't ready for a all out war with China and Russia. If an all out war does start, all the smart munitions would be depleted with a month.
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  4121. If you have gold in your safe, you will still have it after 50 years. For Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies, you don't know what will happen to it in 2 years.
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  4122. That was very sloppy of Russian commanders to be sending a ship like that without escorts to hostile waters.
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  4123.  @RCsFinest  they will never admit it. There will be a big backlash against China, like foreign investment leaving that country.
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  4124. Vietnam has more in common with China than the U S, let that stick in America. LOL
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  4125. They were using covert censorship with social media companies, and now they want a overt social media ban with government backing. That is the very definition of totalitarianism totalitarianism.
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  4126. They did it to themselves, I bet they were DCs puppets.
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  4127. What can you expect from a puppet?
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  4128. It's not a country, it is a puppet state.
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  4129. These spineless Republicans didn't stand up to chump, and now chump is actively trying to suppress votes. If chump loses in November, he will make up another excuse to overturn the results of the presidential election. Chump knows he is in trouble if he loses this November, he will do anything to stay in power. He may even try to declare martial law.
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  4130. He's a unemployed conspiracy theorist who believes in New World Order conspiracy theories, and white people are oppressing black people.
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  4131. CNA is keeping it real. Moving to the US, taking all those risks, and to find out it isn't that much better than the country you left. Plus, you not getting granted asylum. It isn't worth it in my opinion.
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  4132. In times of national emergency, the government has the right to institute martial law, and suspend the constitution. It is the right of government. What would happen if people were murdering each other like wild animals?
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  4133. I said, "There isn't anything wrong with CERT". I didn't say it was a anti-government militia. I know CERT is a government sponsored group. I also know conscription in times of national emergency is also legal. You don't need private militias. The militias the founding fathers were talking about are the armed forces of this nation, the national guard, and all law enforcement agencies.
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  4134. Peter Schiff has a good point. The Chinese will no longer buy U.S. treasury bonds with the trade deficit money. LOL This means we will have hyperinflation. LOL
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  4135. They would want you think there is no alternative to the USD, because they want it that way.
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  4136. I have a solution.... Don't buy Samsung products.
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  4137. You have more prosperity in the Eastern bloc nations. You don't have homelessness, inflation crisis, and income equality like you do in the West.
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  4138.  @nosuchthing8  That's why he is innocent. He donated to both parties, so they will try not to prosecute him.
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  4139.  @nosuchthing8  Mr. Bankman Fried isn't in the USA, his company is in the Bahamas. I don't know if the US authorities can even extradite him. Kind of like Douche Kwon, he was in Singapore now. The CEO of Buance isn't in the USA either. I think these guys did this intentionally, so they can get away with their crimes.
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  4140. Peter Schiff is right. Peter is rational. Unfortunately, the black community is very emotional about this, and they refuse to see this as what is. It is a self defense case, it wasn't murder.
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  4141. That isn't a ship, it's a boat.
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  4142. Other countries buy more than just food from the U.S., Boeing A310s, 727s, 737s, 747s, 777s, etc are all used by just about every international commercial air service. American medical equipment, & medications are used by almost every country. The U.S. F-15s to Saudi Arabia, S.Korea, and Israel for billions. 1 F-15C is worth about $35-$50 mil, and 1 F-15E is worth $65-$100 mil. The U.S. also has tons of natural resources, like oil, coal, copper, lumber, uranium, etc. The U.S. is still powerful.
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  4143. The only answer to zombie cannibals is a bullet in the brain!
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  4144. People don't want to buy American cars, because big cars aren't suitable for the Japanese market.
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  4145.  @bluntie52  When you were a child did your mother drop you?
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  4146. They had been automating US factories since the 1980s, it isn't a recent event.
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  4147. Krugman is giving the wrong medicine, he is giving the medicine to coverup the symptoms.
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  4148.  @BEERLIGHTBROKER  The people in power in the West don't have any control over countries they have no control over, like Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, India, Brazil, and others. Russia already proved that they don't have to accept dollars or Euros for their oil. Where have you been living in a cave? Russia stated, they wanted Rubles for their oil and natural gas for unfriendly countries. Stop believing in conspiracy theories. The so called Western elites, don't have control over this one.
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  4149.  @michellesobey1943  Iraq was invaded, because they wanted to get off of the petro dollar. I don't think the US is going to survive a war with Russia and China if the US decides to take on those countries for trying to disrupt the petrodollar.
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  4150.  @UshankaShow  I am a software engineer, and most of these type of jobs are in California.
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  4151.  @UshankaShow  People live where most of the jobs and opportunities are at. It was worse in San Fransisco, I made a lot more, but renting an apartment was 32% more than it was in Los Angeles. The cost of everything else was also very expensive in that city was as well. It isn't easy to uproot and move to another state unless you can setup a business or find a good job.
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  4152. ​ @munxcorp  There is a reason why you have an influx of people in states like New York, and California. it is due to the size of the economy, and the opportunities that you have. It is just supply and demand. You will make more money living in New York City, but the cost of everything is inflated. It is all relative. If you live Idaho, the price of most things including real estate is cheap, but there isn't of opportunities. Most of the jobs there pay minimum wage, and not many developers are going to spend their time and effort there.
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  4153. Jewelry stores should buy bricks, and use them on these robbers.
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  4154.  @twincherry4958  All I know is that this stock market bubble will pop, and a lot retirees are going to get hurt.
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  4155.  @twincherry4958  Old people are going to get hurt financially, and if they get this virus they have a 8 to 15% chance of dying from it.
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  4156.  Truth  Tlooooth doesn't understand basic mathematics. He doesn't understand how a negative % rates work.
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  4157.  @twincherry4958  It was the Baby Boomers who are Trump's core supporters. Negative interest rates will hurt retirees. If their investments don't pan on, I guess they will have to go back into the work force. Imaging 66 and 75 year old people heading back to work.
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  4158.  @twincherry4958  Less and less people who are 65 and over are able to retire these days.
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  4159. These chumpublicans are hypocrites, they don't want to be accountable for anything. Hospitals should ask Covid-19 patients if they were vaccinated or not. If they were not vaccinated then they should be put in the back of the line. Priority should be placed on people who need medical attention, like people with chronic conditions, and trauma.
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  4160.  @nitaw.498  If they run out of hospital beds, a lot of these selfish and willingly ignorant people aren't going to get medical attention. There are only so many people a hospital can take care of. In addition to that, if you go to the ICU you will be stuck with a $50,000 to $150,000 medical bill.
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  4161. Your people need to stop infringing on China's territorial sovereignty.
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  4162.  @jasontome8050  The Phi was able fight Japan from December 8, 1941 – May 8, 1942, and it was over. ROFL The Chinese held fought the Japanese from July 1937 to Sept 2, 1945. That is quite a contrast. I don't think the Phi will last 5 days if the rubber hits the road. ROFL
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  4163.  @一方通行-m9l  中国海军是世界上舰艇数量最多的海军。
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  4164.  @patriot-h3f  It knows, it can't do anything in the South China Sea. China's navy will only get more and more powerful with every passing year.
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  4165.  @sovertiginous3297  You can believe whatever you want, this is the U.S.A.. This is the country where people can believe in anything even if that is a bunch of nonsense. It is also the country where people who make poor decisions and end up in the street.
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  4166. The Trump brand is toxic.
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  4167.  @douglasdingwall4915  Actually, I do have a real job as a software engineer, and I probably make more money in one day then you do in one week.
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  4168. Government policies can improve the lives of people or make people very impoverished. With a stroke of a pen, people can be enslaved.
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  4169. Argentina will be dragging the U S down.
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  4170. Republicans are lawless, and corrupt. Anyone with a IQ of higher than 100 knows it.
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  4171. That is amazing. A breech loading firearm in the 17th century.
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  4172. Republicans are bad people.
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  4173. I know a number of people that lost their jobs and had their hours reduced in the past 5 months. We have a lot of Gig jobs now with no benefits, like Uber, Lyft, Amazon delivery, Deliveroo, etc. People do stuff like e-commerce on platforms, like Ebay, Amazon, Mercari, etc. Other people make a living with social media, like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Intagram, etc. People who are into affiliate marketing write articles on their websites, make content on social media, and link it to affiliate links and make a commission. People who make apps sell their stuff on the Google app store, there are so many avenues to make some income. We didn't that back in the 1980s and 1990s, because the internet and smartphones weren't a thing back then. We can do a lot more these days to make a living without taking a traditional 9 to 5 job in the 21st century.
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  4174.  @elmerfudpucker3204  If you have the skills and ability then you should always start a business. A maintenance is something everyone needs. Therefore, it is a valuable skill you can use to make a living.
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  4175. In times of emergency all constitutional amendments and the bill of rights can be suspended. We are in such times of national emergency, we have economic crisis.
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  4176. Edwards looks like a goofy fellow saying such goofy things. ROFL!!!!!
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  4177. This is what you get when you vote for a reality TV show host.
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  4178. The only weak person I can see here is Donald J chump.
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  4179. Yeah right. LOL
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  4180. Capitalism is fundamentally unstable in the way over investment is made. Happened in the 1880s with railroads, happened in 1999 with the tech bubble, and it is happening again in 2022 and 2023.
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  4181. They are like the followers of cults, like the cult of Jim Jones. If anyone in the public disagreed with them, they would attack you without mercy. Rev. Jim Jones had the same mentality as Alex Jones, everyone outside of our group is EVIL. The government is EVIL, and people who have differing religious points of view are EVIL. We know this absolute truth are just sheeple!!! They will die when the economy collapse, blah, blah!!! They are the ones who are brainwashed.
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  4182. What an idiot, he should have seen a doctor.
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  4183. BRICS has everything to form a self sufficient economic block, they have a lot of natural resources, industries, technology, and markets. They can use their productive capacities to develop their own economies rather than letting the West consume it for themselves.
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  4184. Obama isn't president, but Trump will blame someone isn't president, because Dump is a fraud.
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  4185.  @shivakumarlali1149  Capitalism is all about exploitation.
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  4186.  Zaza lunacy  LOL
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  4187. Most people are just frustrated because they can't find a good paying job. Even though that is true, you can always make money if you invest it wisely. The economy will never collapse, but individuals will collapse. To them, it may seem like the end of the world, but to others it is just another day. The sun will shine, and it is business as usual.
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  4188. Younger people cannot afford homes, it's out of the reach of most young people. Millennials eating avocado sandwiches, latte coffee isn't preventing them from buying homes.
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  4189. Quite a contrast from what Beverly Hills used to look like in the 1980s compared to today. This is a sign of a declining country.
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  4190. @Jacket off Gym Jordan LOL
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  4191. Banana Republicans. LOL
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  4192. He knows how to defend himself, congrats. LOL
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  4193. China needs to strike back. If Chinese companies cannot do business in the US then US companies should not be allowed to do business in China.
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  4194. Peter Zihan is never right. There are a lot of clowns like Peter Zihan, and another big clown is Gordon Chang who is never right about China.
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  4195. Chump the man child drama queen. LOL
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  4196. This multi-cultural bull shit doesn't work. The right will rise again, and all this liberal nonsense will be sweep into the trash bin of history.
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  4197. Nature is brutal and unpredictable. First this bat virus, and a flood. Could it get any worse?
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  4198. US marines can't defend themselves against young Turks?
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  4199.  @eplugplay8409  If you don't have a mortgage, or rent, inflation isn't such a big problem. Not having a lot of debt allows you to have a higher standard of living.
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  4200.  @rogerburn5132  If Trump gets elected, everyone is going to find out what happens when you levy tariffs on things you don't produce. It's going to be another clown show with what Milei did. If tariffs are imposed on goods that are used in manufacturing, like tools, parts, and components, the cost of everything will skyrocket.
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  4201.  @rogerburn5132  People will find out what happens if you put high tariffs on every product from China.
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  4202.  @Gabez82  You can protest against these racist, fascist bastards, but don't do anything that will get you in trouble with the law.
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  4203. @j son Asking such a obvious question implies you must be a Trump supporter and white nationalist.
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  4204. @j son we will do everything that is within the law to get you racists fired from your jobs, de-platformed, boycott your businesses, protest in front of your businesses + homes, etc. There is no need to argue with Nazis, they just need to be exposed, and this exposure would be enough to get you ostracized from society.
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  4205.  @Jordan123151  I know what it means, people who believe in white nationalism and other extreme forms of nationalism and xenophobia.
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  4206.  @Jordan123151  Did I tell anyone here to commit acts of vandalism, or hurt anyone? If a right wing hate monger said made a derogatory statement about racial minorities, or women need to exposed, right? Just like in the Unite the Right rally which occurred last year had a lot of those white nationalists identified. They weren't just identified, they were exposed, and they lost their jobs. Are you telling me that is bad?
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  4207. @j son people went to the residence of the homes of directors for these large banks that committed fraud back which resulted in the implosion of 2008.
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  4208. @j son Tucker is spewing hate filled rhetoric which is encouraging and emboldening these hate filled bigots. As result of what Mr. Carlson said, racist white nationalist types went to the U.S. Mexican border with military fatigues and guns. You telling me Mr. Fucker Carlson didn't incite hate?
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  4209. @j son Don't gimme that bullshit Tucker didn't know what he was talking about. He knew exactly what he was saying. What you say as a public figure does impact society. Back in Sept 11th 2001, there were hate crimes committed against Muslims, because of that incident. The very next day George W. Bush said, if you hate crimes against Muslims and others, you will be punished.
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  4210. @j son you're a racist, stfu.
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  4211.  @charlesbickel4295  why do you make such stupid statements. It is obvious you're a Trump supporter.
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  4212. @j son Most right wing militias are racist, most of them consist of angry white men.
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  4213.  @ThatOrphan  I don't argue with fascists.
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  4214. LOL
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  4215.  @TmanRock9  Nope, because US troops are still in Japan.
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  4216.  @Yorktown-classcarriertheBigE  South Korea and Japan can't remove US bases in their countries, because of the treaties they signed with the US. Japan signed a unconditional surrender on Sept 2, 1945. Somewhere in the treaty, they can't remove US bases.
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  4217. Stone can lie all he wants to the media, but he can't get away with lying to the government.
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  4218.  @paulhunter9613  We just have to make it profitable enough to keep these criminals behind bars. People may say that is like slavery, but the 13th Amendment doesn't apply to people who had been convicted of crimes. I just want a deter people from becoming criminals by making common sense legislation. The criminals can pay for their crimes by producing things that society needs, like road maintenance, making license plates, making furniture for schools, making uniforms for soldiers, recycling electronics, mining minerals, working in the stone quarry, etc.
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  4219. The price of everything goes up when oil prices go up, because everything has to be transported.
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  4220. There is something greater than renewable energy, like solar panels, wind turbines, hydrogen from electrolysis, and ethnonel 85. Those renewable sources of energy aren't very efficient. In some cases they use more energy than they produce! We have much better stuff that has been shelved, like implosion engines, cold fusion, Tesla magnetic engines, Stan Meyer's engine, Tesla towers, zero point, and other free energy devices. I agree with you on healthcare, it is very expensive in the USA.
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  4221. China can trade with more countries, so who cares if trade with the US diminishes. In the future, it won't even matter.
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  4222. That is sad, can't find a real woman, so they would live with a female doll. LOL
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  4223. Dr. Redfield said it could have accidentally leaked out of a lab in Wuhan, China. It's a possible, because Chinese people have been eating strange things for thousands of years. It couldn't have come out of the wet market in Wuhan.
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  4224.  @inevitableanarchy4203  Governments do biological weapons experiments all the time. The difference is most governments do experiments like this in secluded areas, not populated areas.
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  4225. Welcome to the barbaricstates of murica.
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  4226. Trumped up charges. If Rosenstein is removed, and he the investigation on Trump is replaced by a investigation team that favors Trump. We no longer have a Republic where you have the rule of law, and we will have a real constitutional crisis. If you don't have the rule of law, it effectively becomes a tyranny.
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  4227. You must be one of those liberals who hate the USA. America is evil, America is bad, America has a bloody and unfair history, America is racist, America is behind, and America sucks. America is freer than most countries, America has laws prohibiting racism, America is fairer than most countries, and America is a very advanced country!
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  4228. I am not a survivalist, nor a prepper. I initially bought into this economic collapse stuff back in late 2008, 2009, and 2010. I am young, so I was naive. Now I know better. I am not a liberal who doesn't believe in owning guns. I just see things for what they are. If the Fed government can borrow endless amts of money, there will be no collapse. The big corporations, Fed government can prop up this economy for a long time.
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  4229.  @Cruel_Shoes  With this AI stuff paper pushing jobs are the ones that are easiest to replace. Back in the early 2000s, me and my colleagues got laid off and replaced by Indians who knew how to use CAD programs. I was lucky, because my father handed over his business to me. A lot of my colleagues went into e-commerce and made a lot of dough doing that. I have to figure out what I will have for the next 16 years.
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  4230. Inflation is high, and donald dump wants to lower interest rates.
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  4231. Chump is doing this, so he can create a new reality tv show. Chump II to be continued. He will try to milk every penny out of his chumps. Chump reality TV the best show ever made, you can watch it for $10/month sign up today. LOL
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  4232. We all know the US wants to destabilise East Asia.
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  4233. Is that a surprise? Just about everything comes outta Trump's mouth is a lie.
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  4234. You make it seem like China is the only country in the world that is going through economic problems. It is happening in other countries as well. Stop spreading fake news about China!
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  4235. The problem is most of the stuff that chump plans to put tariffs on are products that aren't made in the US. History repeats, the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 made things worse. not better.
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  4236. Don't get scared of chump's hollow threats.
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  4237. Didn't this clown say he would end it on his first day in office?
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  4238.  @fagreed3938  Not really. People who leave the military who aren't officers usually get suck in dead end jobs. They don't make a lot of money, and their lives aren't going anywhere. Maybe, they got tired of their meaningless lives and went to Ukraine thinking it would be some kind of adventure. A war zone is actually hell on earth.
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  4239.  @fagreed3938  If the USA and the EU stop sending weapons then there would be no war in the Ukraine now.
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  4240. Do you know why chump calls the media fake news? He hates the media, because they report on facts, and that makes him look like an incompetent buffoon.
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  4241. If you want to fight a war, you need mass mobilization. You can't expect to fight a war with private militias, only the national government can fight a war or a pandemic. Republicans and conservatives believe owning small arms can prevent a invasion, they also believe their small arms can stop jets, armored vehicles, drones, strategic bombers, tactical nuclear weapons, nuclear submarines, destroyers, cruisers, etc. LOL Before World War 2, F.D. Roosevelt mobilized the country to build up defense industries. This was 2 to 3 years before World War 2 even started, so he prepared in advance by following the advice of military people. On the other hand, you have someone like Donald Trump, who ignored his advisors and didn't prepared in advance. Look at the difference. If Trump was president in the 1930s, we would have lost World War 2.
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  4242. The US wants Taiwan to become another Ukraine. Most people in Taiwan are Han Chinese, like over 97% compared to 92% being Han Chinese on the mainland.
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  4243. I am sure Wall Street could persuade Chump's chumps to buy Elon's debts. Chump got people to buy his Chump coins, so why not?
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  4244. When you deal with the public, you run into all kinds of people.
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  4245. The Ukrainians said it would be a spring offensive, so they gave the Russians enough time to fortify their positions. Plus, the Russians have artillery and air superiority. Getting stuck in a fortified line is a death sentence for Ukrainian soldiers. They would get pummeled and decimated by Russian artillery and airstrikes.
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  4246. Republicans are a bunch of hypocrites. They will protect people who agree with their ideologies, and go after people who don't agree with them.
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  4247.  @Bizeecentral  Republicans do it more.
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  4248. We will get Trump outta there, and we get all the Republicans out in 2020. Then, we can pass all the laws we want. We will come out with the National Firearms Act of 2021, just like they did with the National Firearms Act of 1934 which banned many classes of weapons. Assault rifles and high capacity magazines can be banned. They did it in 1934, and we can do it again in 2021.
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  4249. That's obvious, stop playing stupid. Maybe, you are just stupid. LOL
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  4250. Apple just wants mo of your money.
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  4251.  @colleenpeck6347  I just want to see who will run out of munitions first, China or the USA. It would be interesting to see....
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  4252.  @fatdoi003  If war does break out, it will probably involve nuclear weapons.
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  4253.  @fatdoi003  I just think the US knows its time is up, this is why the US is trying to start a war with Russia and China. Those two countries are pushing very hard to topple the US dollar as the world reserve currency. I think it's the US that is trying to start WW3. If I can't be number one then the world can burn. That's the attitude.
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  4254.  @OldRhino  We shall see.
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  4255. So many people fall for this kind of stuff. Back in my university days in the mid 1990s, we had Amway and 2 by 2. Some of my friends tried to recruit me for these MLM scams, but I never went for it.
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  4256. Threatening to shoot people is terrorism that is why your idiot hero got his CCW taken away.
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  4257.  @peanut0brain  It's all a money making scheme. Just like how they forced all of us to take those clot shots.
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  4258. Experts were wrong.
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  4259. You have a family, so you aren't alone.
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  4260. We are so afraid ROFL
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  4261. Obamacare sucks, I don't want it.
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  4262. Marriage is a privilege these days. Unless you make a really stable income, and a high enough income to have a family most people can just forget about it. You need to make at least $150,000/year to have a middle class family of the 1970s or the 1980s.
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  4263. The U S is behind this.
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  4264. I agree 100%, he belongs in prison.
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  4265.  Ron Carson  They can lie to the public, but they can't use lies in the court room.
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  4266.  @fonkenful  I will tell you what they can prove. They can find out if she went to DC by looking into her cellphone log data. She will not be able to lie about that, because smartphones do track people with GPS. The log data is with the cellular phone providers. We live in the 21st century, and we have many ways of verifying facts.
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  4267.  @elaineberg3095  You people are so behind the times. If you meatheads studied harder in school went to university/college and made something of yourselves. Then, you people wouldn't be fooled by a conman like chump, and you would be making enough money to not have a miserable life.
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  4268.  @fonkenful  We don't have to have any kind of sophisticated computer algorithm to catch maga hat wearing morons. The ones at the capitol who participated in the DC riots are very easy to catch. They posted their criminal activities on various social media sites, and thought if they deleted it everything will be okay. Even if you delete it, they can recover it from those servers. Anyways, I am going to enjoy watching these maggots spend a lot of money getting lawyers to defend them, and lose their freedoms when they are convicted. In addition to that, they will have a digital brand that will not go away. They will forever have a black mark, which will prevent them from getting jobs, prevent them from getting business contracts, and just be ostracized by society like they deserve. Eventually, they will end up like the millions of homeless people who are in the USA that live on the sidewalk in tents.
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  4269.  @fonkenful  In Washington DC, the government has sophisticated cellphone receiver towers that can collect cellular phone information. This is why a lot of these meatheads who went to the airport after they made the declaration of no fly lists were prevented from flying. Most of these meatheads didn't even know why they ended up on these no fly lists.
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  4270.  @vampireslayer1989  That is no surprise, she is a crackpot pure and simple.
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  4271. This one video has over 900,000 views, they aren't dying they are doing just fine Jehro.
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  4272.  @shotdang12  Many employers don't want to hire full time employees, because they don't want to pay benefits. It is much more difficult to hire full time employees.
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  4273. Like what can chump do? Use it or else? Use that worthless piece of paper. When the dollar loses most of its value, they won't be able to bribe the sellouts in other countries to do their bidding. When the currency becomes worthless, irresponsible spending will result in inflation. That is how empires end. When the people of a country cannot make a living then that empire collapses.
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  4274. The Mexican Pepe, if the gun belonged to the parents of the shooter, the parents are responsible for not locking up their guns, or for letting the kid have easy access to it. Furthermore, the parent is the legal guardian of the child. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE.
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  4275. The Mexican Pepe, in addition, we can make new laws like a yearly BATF gun registration fee of $400 per gun per year. A 50% gun tax, and a 25% ammunition tax with each tax going up 5% per year.
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  4276. Gives a new meaning to gold card, LOL. They should make one out of platinum as well, LOL.
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  4277. The problem we have now is deflation, so inflation is the cure. Mr. Greenspan got the U.S.A. out of the stock market of 1987, he also got us out of the stock market crash of 2000. Printing it, is the answer. You will always have money if you buy and sell stocks, I have. I've been buying stocks since 2009, and I am a multi-millionaire now!
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  4278. Chump is inciting violence this is not protected under the 1st Amendment.
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  4279.  otowise  Why do you ask stupid questions, are you stupid or something?
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  4280.  @loidiep151  US prisons are worse than Chinese prisons. Most Chinese prisons have air conditioning, and they aren't fed rotten food like in US jails. LOL
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  4281.  @loidiep151  US prisons are similar to prisons in El Salvador, Columbia, or other 3rd world nations.
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  4282. You got that right. Obama supporters are the kind of people who like communism.
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  4283.  @toughgirl6837  STFU.
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  4284. Bad police need to be fired.
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  4285. It will all end in hyperinflation.
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  4286. Musk and Chump are both grifters.
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  4287. Houses aren't selling, but there is not enough homes on the market. It doesn't matter if home sales are down. The Black Rocks and other Wall Street investment firms will buy em all up, and they will cause prices of homes to rise. They will buy em all up, fix em up, and rent them back to people for more. They are playing the game of monopoly. Housing prices will not crash.
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  4288. @sdfv4zx  Most foreign men date women that are over 30. Most Chinese men don't date women that are over 30, so you can have them if you can afford it.
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  4289. When they say made in the US means they import the parts and assemble it there.
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  4290. You know the people who are going to get hurt by Trump's policies the most will be the baby boomers. Every economic policy Trump did was bad for the Baby Boomers, like starting a trade war, deficit spending, the tax cuts, cutting Medicare, and cutting Social Security. The trade war Rump started will push foreign investors to stop buying U.S. treasury bonds, and this will push up interest rates. That is bad for the stock market, and a lot of these pensions, and 401ks are tied to the stock market. The deficit spending and tax cuts will cause interest rates will spike. This means, Baby Boomers are going to have their retirement funds greatly reduced or even wiped out. The checks they were getting every month for their pensions will be a lot less. Cuts were made in Social Security, so the amount they receive from that will also be reduced. At the same time, you have inflation because of Trump's reckless economic policies. The trade war will cause the price of goods to spike, and that is also inflationary. The baby boomers who voted for Trump are going to suffer some severe hardships when the stock market crashes.
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  4291. Krugman has been right, by printing money, the economy is being reinflated. The real estate market, stock market, and the job market are slowly coming back. Print it until we get out of the recession, like in 1987, 1999, and 2008!
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  4292.  @babykevinxoxo  There are no Chinese made cars in the USA.
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  4293. Moving the interest rates from 2.25% to 0% will not stop a recession. If the interest rates were set at 8.5%, and if it dropped to 0% it could have an affect. Trump will try to make the stock market look good by moving interest rates into negative rates? Good luck with that. If you have any money in a bank account, you will be charged for it. If interest rates were negative 2%, you will lose 2% of your deposit every single year. No one is going to buy US goods if US puts up trade barriers, Navarro is an idiot, or he is lying. What about the auto industry in the USA, that exported automobiles from China? What about the Boeing aircraft China ordered from the USA? What about the beef, pork, chicken, soybean, corn, rice, and other farm products that are blocked from entering China? These exports from the US to China will be blocked with tariffs. The US companies that exported this stuff now have a surplus of these cars, aircraft, farm products, and other things. As a result, they will have to lay people off. The steel and aluminum industries Trump tried to protect with tariffs will have less orders due to less demand for these products that use these materials. They will have to lay off people in these steel and aluminum plants. Trump is clueless. China has been shedding a lot of factory jobs before Trump became president, because the cost of labor is more expensive in China compared to other surrounding countries. China will still have the electronics industry, because they control most of the rare earth minerals that is essential to produce these things. They also have the industrial infrastructure to produce a lot of the components that goes into making computers and electronics. We will still have to buy computers, televisions, smart phones, and other consumer electronics from China. Navarro is an idiot, and Trump is the biggest idiot. A failed businessman running our country, and he will run it to ground.
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  4294. Capitalism isn't working for a lot of people after 40 years of Reaganomics. After prez Raygun did away with a lot of the policies FDR enacted in the 1930s, doing away with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, and destroying the power of labor unions, things have gotten worse. Now most workers have no protections whatsoever, a lot of people today are working crappy Gig jobs, like driving for Uber, Task Rabbit, and working part time temporary jobs. The quality of the jobs and protections for workers are gone, so a lot of workers are basically no better than sharecroppers.
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  4295. Trump supporters are saying they want civil war if Trump gets impeached. These idiots need to be sent to a mental institution.
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  4296. Bruce Irwin, what are you going to do boy? You are going to fight the U.S. armed forces, and all the Federal law enforcement agencies?
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  4297. Bruce Irwin, you know the NSA can track down your IP address.
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  4298. Bruce Irwin, you are inciting violence.
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  4299. He isn't too bright. In Call of Duty you might kill someone with a hammer, but in real life against a well trained federal police officer. That doesn't happen. LOL
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  4300. Your video is such a contradiction. Someone who is unemployed dies from overwork. Isn't that a oxymoron?
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  4301. Those liberal types need to go get a life, they seem like unhappy people. They just need to relax a little bit. They need to judge people as individuals.
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  4302. Trump is slime.
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  4303. That doesn't make any sense. All I know is the followers of Alex Jim Jones are no different than the followers of Rev. Jim Jones who was also a conspiracy theorist who poisoned and killed his cult followers. YOU ARE A CULT FOLLOWER.
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  4304. They did vote for it. These tariffs are going to pay for Elon's tax subsidies, and subsides for chump's friends. The chumps will find that out next year.
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  4305. There aren't that many good jobs out there, so you shouldn't spend 8 hours a day looking for one. Instead, just spend like 1 hour a day, and so other things.
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  4306. @zill8021  120k +/year.
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  4307. @zill8021  A good job is 100k/year to 150k/year.
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  4308. @ Replacing tech jobs is easy, they can hire anyone from anywhere in the world, because people can work remotely.
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  4309. Since 1971, the inflation has gone up a lot. A price of a average home in the US was about $25k, and today it is about $500k. Everything else has gone up a lot as well. When I was kid growing up int he 1980s, we had 1¢ and 5¢ candy. A bar of candy cost about 25¢, today you don't see prices like that. A steak and lobster dinner cost about 5 dollars to 6 dollars. Inflation is exponential, so near the end of the cycle it goes up vertically, like compound interest does.
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  4310. It is his own stupid fault. Most of the people who are going to the ER, and dying are the ones who didn't get vaccinated. If they want to be stupid, it is their own fault.
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  4311. The more currencies China accepts the more they can sell to the world.
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  4312. Looks like this is the beginning of the end of Western hegemony. It started in 1492 and it is going into a decline now.
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  4313. I think Trump should just be voted out in 2020 that would make a big dent on his ego.
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  4314.  Sterling Bailey  Most Trump supporters are from Red states, and most of those states are the states that were in the confederacy during the Civil War. It was the neo-confederate traitors that got Trump elected into office.
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  4315.  @alabamaart  A lot of these extreme right wingnuts are suffering from brain damage from too much lead exposure. Shooting a lot of guns does cause lead poisoning. LOL
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  4316.  @kevinkohlman9884  You listen to too many conspiracy theories, maybe you should go to Infowhores and listen to Alex Jones. CNN, and other mainstream media channels practice journalism, they don't deal in conspiracy theories.
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  4317.  Trump 2020🇺🇸  Did you ever hear of Nixon and the Southern strategy of the 1970s? The southern states flocked to the Republican party during the Nixon presidency. The Democratic party may have been racist in the past, but all or most of the racists went to the Republican side during the Nixon administration.
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  4318.  Trump 2020🇺🇸  If a recession happens, it happens. I for one will not blame anyone for it, it is a natural cycle of any capitalist economy. The only who will be crying about it are the Baby Boomers who have their life saving in there. I am a not a Baby Boomer, or a Millennial. I don't have any debt, I don't have very much in the stock or equities market, and am well educated with a pretty stable career. I have plenty of savings to weather me through a recession, and in the last recession I just lived off of my savings until the economy recovered in 2013.
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  4319.  @tribblebooth1224  Of course they hate Lincoln. If we had it their way, they would bring back slavery and segregation.
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  4320.  D. M.  You believe you can predict the future, are you a fortune teller or something?
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  4321.  @kevinkohlman9884  Those mainstream media will cherry pick what their sponsors want, but when they do report it. It is credible with sources. They don't pull facts out of the air, like Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, or other right wing propaganda outlets.
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  4322.  @kevinkohlman9884  You can believe whatever you want, but if CNN or any mainstream media outlet makes things up and releases to the public. They are held accountable for it, they can get sued for libel, etc. Alex Jones Infowars got sued for libel by making up a false story that Sandy Hook was staged, and Pizza Gate was where elites at children at a pizza shop. Alex Jones is facing real lawsuits. He got deplatformed for violating terms of agreement on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and other media platforms. Paypal shutdown his account. If you are a media organization, you are responsible for the claims that you make. If you make false claims, like Alex Jones you can be sued and lose everything you have. If the mainstream media was so fake like you claimed then try to sue them. Prove that their claims are false.
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  4323.  @alabamaart  You people make the same false arguments over and over again about fascism and socialism being mutually inclusive. They aren't mutually inclusive in anyway, they are in fact mutually exclusive. Fascism is when you have big government working with big corporations/big business. Socialism is when you have big government controlling the means of production. When you had the Nazi state, you had companies, like IG Farben, BMW, Daimler Benz, Henkel, and others working with the Nazi state. Using people the Nazis enslaved to benefit private companies. That is not socialism. It is a pity most of you right wingers are poorly educated.
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  4324.  Sterling Bailey  A lot of people have fallen behind in the past 40 years, you have a lot of angry people who saw their standards of living slowly being diminished for the past 35 to 40 years. We had things, like de-industrialization, outsourcing, mass unemployment due to automation + technology, and the increase of low wage jobs. Trump did make a lot of promises to desperate people who are living in Rust Belt states, and parts of the country that are depressed due to de-industrialization. Trump made promises to try to return industrial jobs to the USA, but those promises cannot be kept for a number of reasons. Companies and corporations will keep automating, because the technology is cheap and available to implement it. Companies and corporations will still produce things overseas, because it is much less expensive to do so. If they put trade barriers against China, there are many other countries where wages are lower than China to produce goods.
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  4325.  @lolocemoipopo7537  Who knows what might happen. I do know one thing that will happen, the US will become a lawless society when the inflation gets bad enough. Since the US is one of the most heavily armed countries of this world where there are more firearms than people, people who lost everything will go crazy and do crazy things. The US government will have enough problems in their hands when the inflation goes out of control than trying to play geo politics. They may have to shut down most of their over 100 bases around the world, cut defense spending, cut social welfare programs, etc.
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  4326.  @benjaminjohnsonboston  America doesn't scare anyone, it's a paper tiger now. China has the biggest shipyards in the world, while the US can't repair and maintain all their ships. _______________________________ Steel Production by Country 2021 China: 1,032.8 million tons/year India: 118.1 million tons/year Japan 96.3 million tons/year USA: 86 million tons/year Russia: 76 million tons/year _______________________________ Aluminum Production by Country 2022 China: 40 million tons/year India: 4 million tons/year Russia: 3.7 million tons/year Canada: 3 million tons/year United Arab Emirates: 1.6 million tons/year Australia: 1.5 million tons/year Norway: 1.4 million tons/year U.S.A.: 0.860 million tons/year _______________________________ Nitrate Fertilizer Production by Country 2019 China: 34.023 million tons/year India: 13.601 million tons/year USA: 11.217 million tons/year Russia; 10.611 million tons/year _______________________________ You can believe whatever you want, but the numbers don't lie. You can believe that one American solder can kill 1000 Russians, Chinese, Iranians, etc. Just like you can believe you can jump off a 20 story building and fly. ROFL. You're a joke.
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  4327.  @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне  In my opinion, gold may be used again for international trade, because it is very stable. Currencies aren't very stable, because currencies fluctuate. Nevertheless, they can still be used. Trade can be conducted in relation to trade balance, or trading without deficits, kind of like bartering. Countries trade for resources and goods that they don't have.
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  4328. China was not a fully industrialized nation in 1937, so China was at a major disadvantage when the 2nd China Japanese War broke out.
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  4329. Imperialists nations supporting another imperialist nation that is committing atrocities against the innocent!
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  4330. BRICS member states are laughing at chump.
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  4331. Isn't the free market great? People lose their jobs due to global free market competition, and they get pushed into working crappy gig, or part time jobs. At first they work for Uber and get paid well then you have market saturation. Since everyone can drive an automobile, a lot of people start doing it. This drove down the fares, so now Uber drivers hardly make anything. Also, it is much more difficult to get customers, because so many people are doing it. The same with people who try to make a living on YouTube and other social media platforms. Just like Uber and Lyft, they paid good rates at first, but paid less and less due to market saturation. The free market is wonderful isn't it?
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  4332. Republicans and Maga will buy Elon's EVs? Yeah, right. LOL
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  4333. From 1975 to 2021, the people who have been abusing drugs, alcohol, and committing suicides at a higher rate were and are men who have less than a 4 year college degree. A lot of the jobs that existed in the 1970s and 1980s have simply been automated. Before integrated circuits and printed circuit boards became affordable, you had a lot of things for people to do in manufacturing plants and factories in the U.S.A.. Someone in a factory could use this press to make templates for parts, or direct conveyor belts. After programmable micro controllers became cheap and available in the mid 1970s, programmers could simply use mathematical algorithms to automate such repetitive tasks. You don't need a human to stamp parts, a machine directed by a micro controller can do this task day and night. Conveyor belts can be programmed to direct the flow of materials and parts. As a result, a lot of jobs that used to exist and which paid decent wages got eliminated in the 1980s. Before, you were able to get out of high school and find a manufacturing job and work there for 30 years and retire. Human labor became less and less valuable as more and more tasks were automated by computers. In addition, you had many more industries in the 1970s up to the 1990s. For example, people had walkman radios, pocket calculators, alarm clocks, wrist watches, gps device, answering machines, analog phones, pagers, video game consoles, video camcorder, camera, electronic pocket game console, electronic pocket organizers, clocks on walls, mp3 players, tape recorder, cable box, VHS/Beta tape players, DVD players, etc. All of that had been replaced with computers and pocket computers called smartphones. In your pocket, you have a phone, alarm clock, watch, organizer, voice recorder, flashlight, video streaming via broadband internet connection, music player, gps device, video player, video game machine, video camera, camera, etc. As a result, many industries had been negatively affected. As a result, you have to be involved in the knowledge economy, and convey it in a digital platform. In order to take advantage of these opportunities, you have to be well educated.
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  4334. In the USA, they need bodies to put into for profit prisons.
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  4335. Washington DC is becoming irrelevant. What will the US do sanction Saudi Arabia? Sanction all the countries that produce most of the resources in this world. LOL
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  4336. He is a liar.
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  4337. Exactly, the US needs the world, but the world no longer needs the US.
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  4338. Existence is Everything, it isn't his fault. When you are young, you get tricked into a lot of things. They are just too young to know better. For example, people sign for the armed forces, and they don't know what they are getting themselves into. People get offers for credit cards on college campuses, and they get themselves into a lot of debt. People sign up for student loans to go to college/university, and they believe they can get a good job and pay it off. When you are young, you are naive.
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  4339. Existence is Everything, if you used your student loans to study to become a medical doctor, scientist, engineer, computer science, architect, dentist, or something more practical you would be able to pay your debts. Everyone knows, it isn't easy to get a degree in those majors. It isn't because they dumb, they were ignorant and naive. They never lived life, and they ignored good advice from their parents. Some never got any good advice from their parents. My father talked me out of making unwise decisions when I was growing up. He talked me out of signing up for the navy after I graduated high school. He gave me advice to go to a community college before I go to a university first. I didn't have much debt after I graduated from the university, and I had viable skills after I graduated. I also grew up with a generation of parents who didn't really coddle me. The parents of Gen X were pretty strict and real. My parenting was pretty good. The Millennials on the other hand had parents who rewarded them for losing, and telling them they were special. Parents can't just tell their children they are special when they are not. The Baby Boomers telling their children that they can go to college and become special. Unless you study something difficult, like to become a physician, engineer, computer scientist, scientist, or something like that. You aren't special at all. I met a lot of Millennials in the workplace and they are pretty flaky. They really think very highly of themselves when they don't have anything to show for it. They are really bratty and entitled. They always ask for a raise. This is because they have a lot of college debt I would assume. It is a pity these people didn't have good parenting and they are paying for it because of it.
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  4340. All apps collect data, so they are just being discriminatory.
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  4341. I had been sacking my own lunch for years. I also bought bulk burritos and frozen food and ate that at lunch as well. I did what I could to save money and pay off debt. You need to go to a dentist, and get that tooth filled, or you will have some serious dental problems if you don't. Don't save money like that. You can get a amalgam filling or a composite filling. It doesn't cost much.
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  4342. Then, I guess Trump will face prison time if he doesn't win the next election. When the economy tanks in 2019, Trump's chances of winning the next election will get slimmer and slimmer. LOL
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  4343. This is why a lot of engineers from Silicon Valley quit their big corporate jobs and founded their own companies.
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  4344. This is crazy.
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  4345. It is an APC.
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  4346. There couldn't have been another way you stupid bitch. Your dog attacked people, so he got killed. The end.
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  4347. If China dumps all their treasuries then interest rates will have to go up much more, more quickly. Who knows, interest rates will have to go up to 12% to 15%, and that would crush the US economy. If the Fed doesn't raise rates then you have run away inflation. Which is better runaway inflation of very high interest rates?
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  4348. Capitalism in a nutshell, you have a lot of competition in the beginning, and in the end you end up with monopolies. The system becomes less competitive with a few large corporations or businesses, and the wage of workers goes down in the end.
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  4349. They will bankrupt America. LOL
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  4350.  @DerekSpeareDSD  These elites don't care if can't buy their stuff, they can sell their stuff overseas. If they screw up then they will ask for a bailout.
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  4351. Yellen has psychosis and dementia.
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  4352. Parts of the USA is no different compared to most 3rd world nations.
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  4353. CNN is finally telling the truth, that is unbelievable. I don't know if people will believe them. LOL
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  4354. It's murder.
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  4355. China actual does make CPUs, the Chinese companies that makes CPUs is Zhaoxin, SMIC, All Winner, Loongson, Rockchip, etc. SMIC can fabricate microprocessors at the 7 nm process. Chinese CPUs aren't as good as the likes of AMD and Intel, but if there is an embargo against importing US chips into China then China would have to develop their own chips more.
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  4356.  @AI_MIT_71  Our government doesn't have good relations with North Korea. I just think people who commit brazen crimes like this need to be punished for their crimes. They need to pay for their crimes with hard labor, and miserable prison conditions.
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  4357. Economic rice isn't so economic anymore. LOL
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  4358.  @freespeech515  You can buy the same products on Aliexpress for much less compared to Amazon. I usually buy electronic components from Aliexpress, like power adapters, single board computers, microcontrollers, resistors, potentiometers, circuit boards, and other electronic components I use in engineering projects. On Amazon, I buy more expensive consumer goods, like expensive graphic cards, big screen LED televisions, X64 computers, printers, and stuff like that.
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  4359.  @markoconnell804  Manufacturing in China is becoming more and more automated. The shift was from labor intensive to capitol intensive. I don't think manufacturing will come back to the USA, it would cost way too much to produce things in the USA. If you produced a smartphone in the USA, it would cost $3500 to $6000. The same is true if you produced a pair of shoes, or anything else. You will pay a lot more money than what you had been paying for them previously.
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  4360.  @markoconnell804  They are currently having problems with building TSMC's chip fab in Arizona, like labor shortages, cost overruns, and other problems. If the US loses its world reserve currency status and becomes a 3rd world country then manufacturing will return. Until then, it won't happen if the US dollar is stronger than most currencies.
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  4361.  @markoconnell804  They do have a lot of automated manufacturing plants in the USA that produce automobiles, parts for automobiles, semi conductors, processed foods, etc. Most of the manufacturing that required a lot of labor inputs were exported to other countries due to the cost of labor in the USA. We already have those highly automated manufacturing plants in the USA. The kind of manufacturing jobs China is doing requires partial automation. It does require labor inputs or hands. A lot of people don't want to do business in the USA for other reasons, like regulations, taxes, labor laws, etc. You don't have those problems in other countries. The cost of land to setup those manufacturing plants and factories costs way more. The cost of skilled labor, like hiring engineers, technicians, technologists, skilled workers, etc. Besides, there are countries where the cost of labor is less expensive than China, like India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal, countries in Africa, countries in South America, etc. Most of those highly automated factories and manufacturing plants are already here.
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  4362.  @markoconnell804  Do you know how much damage the trade policies of Trump and Biden was on the tech industry? Companies, like Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Nvidia, and others couldn't sell $500 billion worth of semi conductors to China. That is 1/2 trillion dollars in lost trade. That led of thousands of engineers in the USA losing their jobs.
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  4363. I am not trolling, I am just being rational. Economic collapse is a national crisis.
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  4364.  @adamwon3012  I didn't know that.
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  4365. Israel is a lawless state, like the US.
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  4366. Genny Mikel, you are a uneducated moron. This has nothing to do with what you wrote, you dolt. The gun belongs to the parent of the shooter, and the shooter is a minor who cannot own guns. Therefore, the parent is 100% responsible, and the parent is the legal guardian of the kid, right?
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  4367. The NRA is bullshit.
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  4368. I am 48, and I was working part time for this company for 9 years, and my wage went up $0.78/hr. I did have a good job that paid a 6 figure income, but these days I just work a part time job and run a small business. When you reach your late 40s and early 50s, no one wants you as an employee. Fortunately, I paid off my home, car, student loan debts, and have no debts. I still have to support my parents who are in their 80s, and I never got married. Now, I don't really care about getting married.
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  4369. 1:11 to 1:14 despite that false claim. LOL
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  4370. When a country goes bankrupt, it will lead to hyperinflation. Happened many times in history.
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  4371. I thought chumpo said he was going to make a social media company which would be better than Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.
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  4372. Women aren't going to have relationships with men who are beneath them. For men its different, men who are in better positions can have relationship with women who aren't as wealthy as them. For women, they tend to aim higher.
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  4373. Most conservatives believe traitors, like this are heroes and patriots. The FBI need to keep tabs on these ohffff keepers.
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  4374. Chump is a con artist, so why would they expect otherwise?
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  4375.  Donald Kasper  I don't think so stupid. There are products we need, like computers, smartphones, routers, monitors, clothes, automobile parts, fans, printers, parts for machines, etc. If it can't be produced anywhere else, you will pay 25% more. If you can't then I guess you can live without mobile phone, or the internet.
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  4376.  @blogintonblakley2708  Exactly, that is why China is become a rich country. Look at all the student loan debts in the US.
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  4377.  @blogintonblakley2708  I think education and healthcare is free in China. Looks like the US system is backward.
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  4378.  @blogintonblakley2708  That's the fundamental problem with capitalism. It tries to enslave people with debt. These debts are in turn sold to investors. Free higher education gives people more opportunities to contribute to the economy. This is why we have a shortage of skilled workers. It's a system that is failing before our very eyes. It's a form of neo-feudalism. Look at how much $$$$$ it costs to get a medical procedure in the USA. In most countries if you are sick you can go to the hospital for free. If you go the emergency room without insurance, you can go bankrupt in the USA. All I can say this is a failed system, and this type of economic system is inherently unstable, like Dr. Wolff stated.
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  4379.  @blogintonblakley2708  Not only that, the public education system is very bad. It's underfunded, and the quality isn't there when it comes to teaching science and math subjects.
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  4380.  @loveheals3173  I know how bad the public educational system is in the USA. I am a STEM major myself. When I was going to university back in the mid 1990s, I would say 80% of the students in the higher math, and science classes were foreigners. I knew a few people who started out as STEM majors, but more than 50% of em dropped out. Most of them couldn't pass the higher end math classes, like Calculus 1 - 3, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Number Theory, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, and Chemistry classes. I met people who were from China, Vietnam, Eastern European countries, India, Pakistan, and other countries. I didn't see many Americans in those classes.
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  4381.  @loveheals3173  As for the exams engineers have to pass to become an engineer, the tests are the same across every country. They give you 5 problems from physics, chemistry, engineering classes(thermal dynamics, mechanics, etc), and math. If you get most of them right then you can graduate as an engineer. It's the same in every country, USA, China, Japan, U.K., Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, etc.
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  4382.  @WHSmith-zk2ox  Everybody cannot be an engineer. You have to go to university, take all the required classes, and pass an exam to be one.
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  4383. The Palestinian don't have anything to lose.
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  4384. This could bring down the price of electric cars. Samsung is very resourceful, they discovered a way to bring down the cost of batteries. With this new technology, Samsung could start producing their own electric cars that can compete directly with Tesla.
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  4385. The problem is lithium is expensive, graphene batteries are going to be a lot cheaper to produce.
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  4386. S.Korea is going full Zelensky.
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  4387.  @richardmesser1091  It's a US puppet.
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  4388. One thing the West is good at advertising and marketing. It's all hype when it gets down to the nuts and bolts.
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  4389.  @sboinkthelegday3892  I already talked to my attorney about this. He said, you have to pay a $2350 fee to renounce your US citizenship. You are only required to pay federal taxes if you are a US citizen. I will be giving up my Social Security and Medicare, but I don't care.
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  4390.  @sboinkthelegday3892  You can renounce your citizenship, but you have to pay a $2350 fee.
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  4391. Xizang is part of China, so stop talking nonsense.
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  4392. Chump and his Repugnicunt allies are so damn stupid.
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  4393. Trump acts like a dictator, yet he doesn't have the powers of a dictator. All he can do is Tweet that is all the power this loser has. LOL
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  4394. Good, it isn't murder.
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  4395. I always wanted to visit Romania, Bram Stoker's Dracula was my favorite novel.
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  4396. You mean, he is a snake oil salesman.
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  4397. With a record like that, he could do a lot of damage to our country in a very short period of time.
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  4398. We shall see what comes out of Mueller's investigation.
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  4399.  @chaoscarl8414  I agree with that. I am a generation X, and after I graduated college and went into the workforce a degree was worth something. Today, it isn't worth much. Most of the jobs we have are part time jobs or gig jobs that don't offer any kind of stability. These days, i have a part time job, and the rest of my income is from e-commerce and online stuff. In nominal income, I am making less than what I was making 15 to 24 years ago. I a.m working more hours and making less. I am fortunate than most, because my student loan debt, mortgage, vehicle debt, and other debts were paid off. Despite that, the cost of property tax, homeowners insurance, and the cost of living went up a lot in the past 27 years.
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  4400.  @traciewebster4175  Most people do unless you have very wealthy parents.
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  4401.  @greenvelvet  People who make a lot of money have a lot of debt, and people who don't make a lot of money also have a lot of debt. I guess, your statement is logical.
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  4402.  @alekisp6814  That is true. The rich people are the ones that own all the assets, like real estate, businesses, farms, intellectual property, equities, etc. The people who don't own any assets are workers. People who don't have any assets have to use their labor make a wage or income.
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  4403.  @nappa3550  After I lost job last year, my income falls in the category of lower class. I was making a 6 figure income last year, but my income went to a fraction of that now. When I was making the money, I saved most of my income, because I had been laid off in the past. There is no such a thing as a stable or permanent job in America. The people who stayed in the bottom don't have choices, they don't have any assets, or money to claw out of their poverty. Now that I have too much time on my hands, I am thinking of going back to school and getting a Master's degree or Phd. This will give me options, with a Phd, I can hopefully find a job as a professor.
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  4404.  @danielpetrucci8952  In the beginning of the battle, the Allies couldn't use their air power due to bad weather conditions. When the weather started to clear up, the Germans had a real problem on their hands.
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  4405. As Chinese people, I don't think we will ever be accepted as real Americans. I've never lived in China, but one day, I plan to go back there and live there if I can get a permanent residence or citizenship there.
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  4406. They should, because these people are nothing but barbarian raiders.
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  4407. Ukrainians can't concentrate a lot of units in a small area, because they don't have air superiority, and artillery superiority. If the Ukrainians put too many men in one place then they can be spotted and destroyed. If they spread out then they can't overwhelm Russian defenses.
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  4408. 习近平 is the leader of the Chinese people, how many Western leaders do you see doing something like this?
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  4409. This is crazy, so if someone on your property commits a crime, the property owner is responsible for it? If you own a restaurant and some sells drugs at the restaurant, the business can be seized?
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  4410. Looks like the US isn't going to get much Gallium to produce chips. 😆
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  4411. Not really, if it wasn't for Trump using pressure to get these vaccines approved then it wouldn't have been approved as fast as it did. Stop being a fan of a conman. It is what it is. Trump did it to make himself look good, and he didn't care what happened to the people that took it. It's that simple.
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  4412.  @usuallyblockedforspeakingt2803  B.S., Trump wanted to get it pushed it, no scientist had enough power to get this pushed through, they don't have that kind of power. Only the president does. Duh.
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  4413.  @usuallyblockedforspeakingt2803  Are you saying chump is an agent of Bill Gates?
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  4414. They are subsidizing a bloated state government by charging inflated prices for energy. Utilities are monopolies, so people have no choice but to pay.
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  4415.  @authenticallysuperficial9874  wat troll?
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  4416. How can you know when you are going to get into a car accident are you a psychic? Besides, Peter's been wrong about hyperinflation. Oil was $150/barrel in 2008, and it is about $96.86/barrel today. All I see is a deflationary depression if the Fed Reserve doesn't keep interest rates low. The government is doing everything to prevent a depression which Peter calls the hard medicine.
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  4417. They know tRump is guilty, McConnell already determined that tRump is innocent when he is not.
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  4418.  @williamhaugem7505  Those are just conspiracy theories.
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  4419. American companies and corporations have to compete against foreign competition. That is why they were and are outsourcing. If German, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Indian, Taiwanese, and other companies that compete with U.S. firms use a lower labor input, and American companies are forced to pay the highest wages in the USA. Do you think these American companies aren't going to go out of business? After all, they have to compete in the global market.
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  4420. Jack Ripper, factory jobs are automated, so unless you have a engineering degree, a degree in computer science, or other technical skills. You ain't going to get no factory job bubba.
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  4421. Jack Ripper, my I.Q. is about 145, and I don't have autism. People like me are valuable to corporations and big companies. People who can program computers, robots, controllers, and other things are helping to displace millions of American workers everyday.
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  4422. Michiel Van Kets, you can have a job in this economy. Just learn how to program computers. Learn how to program electronic devices and controllers. It isn't hard. In this modern world, we just don't need a lot of humans to do jobs.
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  4423. Michael Van Kets, so you think Trump's policy of imposing tariffs on other countries to bring back jobs will actually work? I don't think it would work. It costs too much to produce in the USA, the cost of labor is too high. Plus, most of the parts for machines are produced in other countries to bring down the cost. Besides, the U.S.A. isn't the only market for goods. Global GDP stands at $107 trillion, and the U.S. economy accounts for $19 trillion, so that is about 17%. You telling me, if you produce products in the USA, you don't have to export it to other countries? The U.S.A. can absorb the excess of goods produced in U.S. factories and manufacturing plants???? Let's say you have excess production, and you try to export it. Ok..... The U.S. imposed tariffs on a lot of countries, so if they export stuff from the U.S.A. they are all hit with tariffs. These products being hit with tariffs will mean they will be more expensive when they are exported to the international markets. People will buy less of them, because they are not price competitive. The deregulation stuff is good for business, but Trump's idea of starting a trade war will only hurt the USA. You can produce things in the U.S.A. under Trump's plan, but it would only be for stuff that is sold in the USA. Therefore, companies will move more production overseas to avoid the tariffs. As a result, more American workers will get laid off in the long run. If you have companies that have all their production in the USA, they will become stagnant. Because they can't export their goods. They may even go bankrupt, because they can't compete in the global market. You have other foreign companies, like Volkswagen, Toyota, Samsung, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Hyundai, etc having access to cheap labor, and not impacted by the tariffs. They will invest more of their money in other countries, like Vietnam, India, Thailand, China, and other emerging markets. U.S. companies will get shut out of those markets. LOL
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  4424. Have you ever been to China? It is much better than living in the U S A. China isn't ruined, it is the place to be.
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  4425. They can lower interest rates to negative rates, but it will not improve the economy, because very few people will have the income to pay it back. You will still pay back these loans on a monthly basis, and if you don't make enough money then you will not be able to pay it back.
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  4426. I think it is 12 cents/kilowatt hour, not $12/kilowatt hour.
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  4427. That police officer was incompetent, but murder is murder. She needs to be held accountable for what she did. End qualified immunity for police officers, they have to take their jobs seriously.
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  4428. Trayvon Martin was a thug, and Zimmerman defended himself.
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  4429. DOGE will replace more American jobs with people from India. That will make the government more efficient by hiring people who will work longer hours for less. LOL
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  4430.  @DV-dt9sq  There are many types of spoons, forks, screw drivers, screws, radios, transistors, capacitors, alloys, internal combustion engines, computers, fans, dishwashers, printers, scanners, etc. Designers and engineers copied it, and made small improvement on it. No one has a fucking monopoly on patents forever you stupid asshole.
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  4431.  @DV-dt9sq  Trump isn't going to give you back your jobs, because none of these jobs will come back to the USA. It costs too damn much to produce here(USA). If it costs too much to produce in China, they can move it to India, Vietnam, parts of Africa, where ever labor costs less. It is just a race to the bottom. If they do move manufacturing jobs back here, they will most likely move it into a fully automated plant/factory. Unless, you know how to program industrial machinery, and maintain them. I guess you are shit out of luck. Guys like me just have to keep learning new programming languages, learning about different operating systems, learn about new types of devices that can be used in the business environment, learn about networking technologies, etc will have a job. It is getting hard to keep up with all this shit, I am in my mid 40s now. Life is so hard now.
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  4432.  @tankseverywhere1492  China and Yugoslavia had a mixed capitalist and socialist model. They are both totalitarian states, but people are allowed to own the means of production.
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  4433. This new version of the Hi-Point 9mm looks like a high quality product.
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  4434. These things happen, but they don't happen very often.
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  4435. The US raising interest rates to fight inflation is killing its allies, like Japan. The US proxy war with Ukraine is has deindustrialized the European Union. At this rate, America's allies will be selling US treasury bonds to survive, which will weaken the US dollar. Great job US. 😂
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  4436. The U S isn't number one when it comes to a lot of things. ______________________________________ Steel production 2023 1. China - 1,032 million metric tons 2. India - 118 million metric tons 3. Japan - 0.096 million metric tons 4. U.S.A. - 0.0857 million metric tons ______________________________________ Aluminum production (2023) 1. China - 40 million metric tons 2. India - 4 million metric tons 3. Russia - 3.7 million metric tons 4. Canada - 3 million metric tons 9. U.S.A. - 0.860 million metric tons ______________________________________ Car Production (2023) 1. China - 26.1 million 2. U.S.A - 9.2 million 3. Japan - 7.8 million 4. India - 4.4 million 5. South Korea - 3.5 million 6. Germany - 3.3 million ______________________________________ Graphite Production (2022) Essential for making lithium batteries 1. China 850,000 metric tons 2. Mozambique - 170,000 metric tons 3. Madagascar - 110,000 metric tons 4. Brazil - 87,000 metric tons 5. Russia - 15,000 metric tons 6. Canada - 15,000 metric tons 7. Norway - 10,000 metric tons 8. India - 8,300 metric tons 9. N. Korea - 8,100 metric tons 10. Tanzania - 8,000 metric tons 11. Vietnam - 5,000 metric tons ______________________________________ Rare Earth Production (2023) 1. China - 210,000 metric tons 2. U.S.A - 43,000 metric tons 3. Australia - 18,000 metric tons 4. Myanmar - 12,000 metric tons 5. Thailand - 7,100 metric tons 6. Vietnam - 4,300 metric tons 7. India - 2,900 metric tons 8. Russia - 2,600 metric tons ______________________________________ Ship Production (2022) 1. China - 23,074,209 Gross Tonnage 3,999 ships produced 2. South Korea - 21,670,363 Gross Tonnage 2,303 ships produced 3. Japan - 16,241,929 Gross Tonnage 1,607 ships produced 4. Vietnam - 555,081 Gross Tonnage 332 ships produced 5. Turkey - 146,931 Gross Tonnage 327 ships produced ______________________________________ Gross Exports by Country (2022) 1. China - $3.715 trillion 2. U.S.A - $3.011 trillion 3. Germany - $2.060 trillion 4. France - $1.005 trillion 5. U.K. - $1.001 trillion ______________________________________ China is number one is all of these categories. The U S is no longer numero uno.
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  4437. I think you need to go see a psychologist.
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  4438.  @evillyn7895  Donald Rump's business is sell out the USA to foreign interests, yet he said he talks about America first. The man is full of shit.
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  4439. I think it was over a beer run. This is when people pick up like two 18 packs and run out the store with it.
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  4440. China is doing a silent economic embargo against the USA after Trump waged a trade war against a couple of years back.
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  4441. Those people aren't stupid, they are evil. They don't want ordinary people to grow their own food, they don't want to provide real aid to developing countries, so they can produce food. They don't want to provide inexpensive farming equipment to developing countries, so they can grow food and be self sufficient. If developing countries try to industrialize, produce more food, and become self sufficient they cry FOUL FOUL FOUL CARBON CARBON!!!! LOL
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  4442. Trump is an enemy of the state, and he is also the enemy of the sane people.
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  4443. US MM, and the USD are redundant. Less and less people trust it.
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  4444.  Truth  STFU tloooth.
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  4445.  Inferno  Tloooth is a troll, ignore him and say so to him.
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  4446. Oil prices are so volatile that it has been going down for the past 5 years. It is going down because the economies around the world are slowing down. The Chinese economy is slowing down, and they will be in a financial crisis in a few years. Exports are dropping, and less resources are used. When I mean technology, I am talking about automation tech. Many corporations spend billions on streamlining their factories, warehouses, farms, etc with machines. More unemployment means deflation.
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  4447. The US is desperate. Win at all costs, but this time they bite off more than they can chew. Russia isn't Iraq. I know this is all about de-dollarization, and the end of US hegemony. This is why the US is striking out against Russia, China, and any other country that is on board with BRICS.
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  4448. You're condoning what these idiots did?
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  4449. I am not related to Hogg, but I can give some really good ideas to politicians who might want to ban guns. I have some pretty good ideas, like a 2000% Federal gun tax, and a 400% ammunition tax. The Federal government has the right to levy excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, this is why you have the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms(BATF). In addition to that, local and state governments can also levy their own firearms and ammunition taxes. We may not be able to ban guns, because the 2nd Amendment is a constitutional amendment, but the government does have the right to tax firearms. It is enforced by a Federal Bureau called the BATF. All excise taxes must be paid when the item is produced, so there is no way you can get away from it. If you produce firearms and try to sell them that is a crime. Just like people who try to produce moonshine that is also a crime. The BATF goes after people like that. I am fairly well educated, and most of you meat heads aren't. In the next election, the Democrats are going to become the majority in both houses, and Donald Trump might get impeached. In the next election, we will more than likely have a Democrat as president. We may not be able to ban guns, but we can make it so expensive only people with money can buy them. This will bankrupt a lot of gun companies and ammunition companies as well.
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  4450. The Feds are enforcing it, the states issue licenses for marijuana dispensaries are getting raided by the DEA(Drug Enforcement Agency), and there isn't a thing the states can do about it. People like me work in the court system, we make the laws, we become the politicians, so we can make the reality. The reality being laws that are enforced.
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  4451. You are stupid.
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  4452. If a gun tax of 2000% was made approved by both houses and the executive branch, are you getting me that won't affect the gun industry? A gun that used to cost $400 will cost $8000, you telling me that won't affect gun manufacturers and gun businesses???????
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  4453. We pay taxes every year for cars, it is called a car registration fee, we do pay excise taxes for alcohol, tobacco products, and we pay taxes for cell phone use as well.
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  4454. I live in the state of California, and cigarette taxes are as high a $2.86 per pack of cigarettes and if you add the Federal tax it is $3.86 just for the taxes on a pack of cigarettes.
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  4455. They can make the gun tax anything they want. If this mass shooting stuff goes out of control, the public and the politicians will agree on this as a solution to end gun violence.
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  4456. Wrong, registrations are a form of taxation. I have to pay car registration every single year, it is a tax. When you buy a car, you have to pay a car registration fee, and that is about 10% of the value of the vehicle.
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  4457. LOL. Gun=weapon Car, truck, SUV=vehicle . You are so damn stupid. ROFL!!!
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  4458. Looks like the NRA is just a right wing organization that con its supporters. Just like Donald J Chump, he cheats his supporters by asking for donations and sign them up to recurring payments without their knowledge. LOL These people are there to make people angry and pick their pockets. LOL
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  4459.  @SuperSquark  Are you saying the Nazis didn't murder the Jews during World War 2?
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  4460.  @WildWaygook  It's the parent's fault.
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  4461.  @jonathanturbide2232  These days, I carry protection when I go anywhere. If you don't carry personal protection, you are a sitting duck.
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  4462.  @WildWaygook  I didn't say that, you just have to be vigilant, and not take unnecessary risks.
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  4463.  @askjapan9669  どういたしまして。
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  4464.  @askjapan9669  Sure, no problem.
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  4465. Send him to the uranium mines, coal mines, or make him work at a toxic waste dump for 20 years!
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  4466. A Sidewinder AIM-9 costs $380,000 each. I wonder how much these balloons cost?
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  4467. This is crazy. LOL
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  4468. People have to understand that Musk is autistic, so when it comes to social issues he doesn't get it. Musk is a technical person, not a social scientist.
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  4469. Not really, ARM is a very valuable company. All the CPUs used in Samsung, LG, and Apple smartphones use the ARM RISC architecture.
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  4470.  @juanshaftpatel7488  I don't think so, the FDIC will get unlimited amounts of money from the Federal government who will in turn get it from the Federal Reserve.
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  4471.  @andme9408  This depends on your economic situation. If all your debts are paid off, $1200 can go along way. If you have a family, car loans, mortgage, and a host of other expenses. $1200/month isn't anything.
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  4472.  Jaime Alonzo  The tax payers are us, those large corporations have tax attorneys and accountants that get them out of paying a lot of taxes. It is a damn travesty. We need to take our government back. We need a real 3rd party.
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  4473.  Jaime Alonzo  You know what money is in 2020, they are just computer entries. The Federal Reserve can bailout any vital industry in the USA, and the banking industry is a vital industry.
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  4474.  @xealit  It's reality.
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  4475. Moscow Mitch needs to retire, he is too old.
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  4476. Eye from an eye I say.
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  4477. It would be a lot better if people improved the lands they came from than to go emigrate to other countries. Instead of running away from your problems, it is better to love your problems at home.
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  4478. They don't need a lot of people, so they will make an excuse to layoff people. On my last job, my supervisor was hitting on me, and I didn't want to get involved with her, because she was married. After that, she was just saying I was a bad worker, and found any kind of excuse to give me a hard time.
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  4479.  @richardadams6988  I should have.
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  4480. If you go to a barbaric country, you will receive barbaric treatment.
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  4481. This is how these insurrectionists found Nancy Pelosi's office. Bobers needs to be fired, and face criminal charges.
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  4482. There are people who actually took Chump seriously, and drank clorox?
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  4483. You listen to too much BS from Falun Gong.
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  4484. We are living under barbarism, the Trump administration is the very definition of BARBARISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  4485. We will never know, because the Chinese government isn't telling us the truth.
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  4486. Welcome to Trump's America where you can be irresponsible, incompetent, stupid, and get rewarded for it.
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  4487. The NRA behaves just like Rump, they love to lie and commit fraud. Then, they blame the people who enforce the laws to protect people.
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  4488.  S D  The people who vote for people like Mitch are ignorant, or they are getting something from his policies indirectly or directly. People like Mitch know what they are doing, which makes them evil and malignant. The people who vote for him are mostly ignorant, or they are stupid. I really don't care about what the Republicans think, because we are the majority in the Senate, and the House of Representatives. We will just push policies which anger the Republicans and disenfranchise them at the same time. Make stricter gun control laws, and more progressive tax policies.
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  4489.  S D  I don't care what you think, we have the majority, so we will push through the legislation that we want. There isn't a thing you can do about it for the next 4 years.
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  4490.  S D  Stop lying, chump is your fuhrer. Adolf Chump.
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  4491.  S D  Aren't you on the wrong channel? Why don't you go back to GAB where you belong? I thought you people wanted to boycott Silicon Valley, so get outta here. No Silicon valley banning people who violate their policies does not equal violation of 1st Amendment rights. Private companies can make whatever policies they want. 1st Amendment only applies to government banning free speech and the press, like when Adolf chump tried to ban Tiktok, a private company. Funny how you call use liberals fascists when you are the real fascists and Nazis.
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  4492.  S D  We can simply say, shut up Nazi when you complain about nothing. LOL
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  4493. The PRC is actually more free than the US. If you don't believe me, go ask anyone in China.
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  4494.  @ExPwner  There is no public safety net, like welfare in China. If you have financial problems then you will have to rely on your family. There are government programs to provide inexpensive meals for poor and elderly people, but it isn't free. They have something like social security in China, but for most people it isn't enough, so elderly people will rely on their children for support. Despite it being a Communist country, people really like money, and are very materialistic. It is a highly competitive country. I am Chinese, but I wasn't born in mainland China, nor has any of my family members for centuries. Overseas Chinese people like me don't value money, like that. It isn't the center of my life. I like material things, but I don't pursue it for the sake of it. China is more capitalistic than any country in the West.
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  4495. I think Trump is going to get a heart attack. He will tell Mr. Powell to lower it to negative -2%. LOL
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  4496. These people will not vote for Trump in 2020, so Trump's likely hook of getting re elected will be less likely.
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  4497. @Alec Dwyer what are you going to do if Trump doesn't win?
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  4498. @Alec Dwyer Since Trump is acting like a child, people will realize they made the wrong choice. I know how this is all going to end, it is going to end like every other Republican presidency. A huge deficit, followed by a stock market crash, and another big recession. Everyone who gets affected negatively by Trump's policies will not vote him again, and your candidate didn't win by a large margin. Every time he screws up, the media will give exposure to it, and this will screw up Trump's chances of being re elected. If he does lose in 2020, the FBI will come after him and indict him. There will be no conditions, they can call him out directly and make him answer questions directly without any lawyers present.
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  4499. @Alec Dwyer Believe what you want troll, you're a waste of time.
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  4500.  @billmcmillan7735  Maybe, you aren't mathematically literate. 7.3% for a 100k home comes out to $630/month for a 30 years mortgage. With property tax, that comes out to $796/month. In a year that comes out to $9,552/month. 7.3% for a 450k home comes out to $2,830/month. With property tax and HOI, that comes out to $3,663/month. You have to come up with $43.95k/year just to have a place to live.
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  4501. You need to get a skilled job. After high school, you have to go to vocational school and learn a skill. If not, you have to go to college. There is no way you can survive without a degree, or licenses.
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  4502.  @fred475  ROFL!!!!!!
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  4503.  @jesserobinson749  Great Depression 1.0 (1929), Great Depression 2.0 (2008), and Great Depression 3.0 (2025).
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  4504. If gold was used to replace the USD in international trade then its value would go up 5 fold or more. At the same time, the US would have to close most of it's bases around the world, and reduce its bloated defense budget.
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  4505. The Chinese government is deporting people back to the country of origin, so how is it evil? Should the Chinese government deport those people to your country?
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  4506. Alex Jones is crazy.
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  4507.  @英語わかりません  No, it was a restaurant buffet. McDonald's costs about $25 USD per person these days. I order 3 Big Macs, large French fries, and a drink. The Big Macs are smaller, so I have to order 3 to feel full.
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  4508.  @curiousnomadic  On the average, it costs anywhere from $35 to $60 per person to each out these days. I took 3 of my friends to a steak restaurant, and it cost about $180. They ordered alcoholic beverages as well.
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  4509.  @curiousnomadic  Grocery bills are high as well. Any kind of meat products are expensive, like chicken, pork, shellfish, fish, or beef. Steak was about $5.99/lb back in 2013, and now it is like $18/lb to $19/lb. The price of fuel doubled in the past 12 years. My wages didn't double in the past 12 years.
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  4510. As you get older, you have responsibilities, and you have less freedoms. I may not have a family and kids, but I have responsibilities, like taking care of my parents who are in their 80s. I have to pay my bills, and I have to plan out my future retirement plans.
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  4511. There is no massive inflation now, it is about maybe 8 to 15%.
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  4512. As long as the government has an infrastructure, electrical grid, a standing army, air force, public welfare system, and other safe guards, there will be no violence. If there are trouble makers, they will be dealt with swiftly.
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  4513. We have a lot of employment, but it is mostly temp work, part time work, and gig work. It is good if you are a skilled worker, and if you have a lot of clients. If not, it is really unstable.
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  4514. Medical doctors and lawyers usually have their own practices. Doctors make most of their money in the hospital, but they do have practices to see follow up patients. Lawyers make most of their money in the courts, they too have their own practices to see clients. You're right, in general lawyers and doctors make less than they did 20 years ago. If you are a doctor, you have to go to more than one hospital, 20 years ago going to just one hospital was enough to make a good living. It isn't like that anymore. Also, most doctors share offices, so in one doctor office, you may have 3 to 5 doctors. Most doctors practices rely mostly on Medicare payments. It is because older people get sick, and they have medicare. It is very hard to do a small business in the U.S. due to large corporations that compete with them directly. You have the Walmarts, CVS pharmacies, Star Bucks Coffees, Costcos, 7-11s, etc. Small businesses just compete, because they don't have the kind of resources large corporations have. I am a skill worker with a university degree. I am doing alright, I do part time work for several companies. I do other things on the side, like buying servers, computers, getting them in working order, and setting them up. I buy and sell stocks part time as well. I am not getting rich, I am able to pay all my bills and help out my parents. If you were a middle class person who depended on one job, it will be hard. If you can adapt to the changes, you'll be alright. There has been a lot of changes in the past 30 years, and a lot of people who can't get new skills and adapt will be left behind.
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  4515. My friend is a Medical doctor, and I worked for him a few years ago. He said most of his patients are medicare patients, like 80%.
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  4516. I know a few MDs, my uncle was a MD, he is retired now. He was a Gynecologist, he had a office, and he also went to the hospital. He did both. My friend worked in the critical care department in the hospital, and he shared an office with 5 other doctors.
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  4517. These doctors make a lot of money, they make 6 figures. Anywhere from $120,000 to $200,000 for a hospitalist. MDs have licenses, and there are a limited number of doctors. They will always be needed.
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  4518. Don't trust Republicans, and the people have to fight for what they want and need. Let's give these bastards what they deserve, and that would be a no strings attached universal basic income of $1200/month. These hypocrites gave trillions to their corporate donors. Why don't we all get what we want, and that would anger these fascists.
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  4519. Thanks for explaining it so clearly. I don't think a lot of people can pay 3 months worth of mortgage payments at one time on the 4th month. This is in a country where most people don't have $1000 in their saving accounts.
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  4520. Republicans are all shit bags. They all sucks.
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  4521. Jason Kessler can't even hold down a job, he is obviously incompetent, and a loser. In his make believe world, he is superior because he is white, but in real life he is nothing more than a pathetic individual who has failed in life.
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  4522.  @tigris4247  If China started to arm Russia with everything Russia needed then the US and EU economies would collapse.
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  4523. That gun does not work.
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  4524. Chump is lying!!!!
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  4525. China is still the most business friendly country.
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  4526. Competition is a good thing.
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  4527. It's definitely a rigged system, the people who control this society get to make the worst decisions and not suffer the consequences of their actions. Example, they load up their corporations with massive amounts of debt, and the government bails them out by buying their bad debts. When a economy melt down occurs, they get bailed out and become whole again. As for everyone else, they lose their jobs, they can lose their businesses, they get foreclosed on if they have a mortgage, get kicked out of their apartments, and they end up in the street. While this is happening, men will lose it abuse alcohol, drugs, abuse their families, etc. Today, most people cannot afford to buy a home without a mortgage, they cannot afford to buy a car without a car loan, they cannot afford to go to college/university without a student loan, etc. In addition to the cost of living which goes up every year little by little. No wonder people are feeling depressed, hopeless, and they can't see light at the end of the tunnel.
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  4528. Alex Jones fans are already retarded. That lead can't possibly make them any stupider than they already are.
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  4529. Most of those resources are on the Russian controlled side.
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  4530. They are all crying in their rooms. LOL
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  4531.    We have a lot of bubbles now, and cryptocurrencies is just another bubble. As you can see, a lot of these bubbles are popping, like the stock market bubble, the student loan bubble, the car financing bubble, the bond bubble, etc. These bubbles will all pop eventually as interest rates keep rising. The only thing that will save you are 3 things. 1. If your home is paid off, you will be better off than most people. 2. If you don't have any debts, and stable career, business, or a job you'll be fine. 3. If you saved up a lot of money during the boom times, you can relax for a few years. This coming recession will last a few years for sure. You can use some of that money to buy assets like depressed stocks, real estate, etc.
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  4532. In capitalism, stupid people lose all their money and end up homeless. In evolution, the species that can't adapt goes extinct.
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  4533.    Like I said, capitalism is about taking risks. You can invest in stupid things and lose all your money in a capitalist economic system. It is all about buying and selling things. You can sell people crap like Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, junk bonds, defective crap products, and the only people who will be laughing themselves to the bank are the people who sold these trash assets to people. The people who bought it will be crying, have broken families, end up destitute, and homeless. That's reality.
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  4534.    con artists are good at telling people what they want to hear. They go after people who are in distress, and pretend to sympathize with them. The stupid people who believed these con artists only realize their pockets were picked after they find their pockets to be empty.
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  4535.  @imparthv  I started my career in the early 2000s, and it was a different world compared to the world we live now. I am not too familiar with the job market these days, because I am retired. It must be tough.
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  4536.  @wingsofpurityofficial4031  The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Voting for Trump reflects that in so many ways. Thousands of people had been victimized by Trump in some way, like contractors not getting paid to investors getting screwed out of their money.
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  4537.  @wingsofpurityofficial4031  I understand what you are saying. The average person in the USA has fallen behind. Most peoples wages had been pretty stagnant since the early 1980s. One of my friend's father was working at Circuit City in the mid 1980s, and he was making about $50,000 a year. I know another guy whose father worked at some company, he was making over $50k a year. Fast forward to 2019, for most people wages have gone up very little. I know the cost of living or inflation from 1980 to 2019 is about 250% if you gauge it with the cost of oil or gasoline. $20 back in 1980 was a lot of money, a cafeteria lunch in 1983 was about 50 cents. $20 would buy you 2 weeks worth of groceries. A backpack was like $5 to $10. We had a lot of technological changes in 1980s, like computers and robotics were becoming more and more mainstream. I know industrial robots were widely employed in the 1980s, resulting in many people getting canned from manufacturing jobs. Programmable computers coupled with industrial robots and other industrial machinery results in more productivity. At the same time, it lead to mass unemployment and of resulting in the lowering of wages. I guess, a lot of people are angry, so they voted for Trump expecting something different, because no one was helping them for years.
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  4538.  @wingsofpurityofficial4031  Like all con artists, they tell their audience what they want to hear, and rip them off in the end.
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  4539. Mr. Bone spurs who got out of Vietnam, he isn't no fighter. He is a big snowflake. LOL
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  4540. Jeff Bezos is a real billionaire, and Drumpf is a failed businessman. LOL
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  4541. Perhaps, countries need to sanction the W-est back by halting the export of critical resources and other goods, like uranium, aluminum, circuit boards, legacy chips, chromium, barite, graphite, etc. Without those things, it will help the We-st regress even faster.
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  4542. Elon Musk is a conman.
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  4543. Exactly, so it doesn't really matter if you keep your money in the bank. The FDIC will bail out the banks which is backed up by the Federal government who in turn will get unlimited amounts of money from the Federal Reserve. If a bank fails, the Federal government will take it over, and recapitalize it with the Federal Reserve. Your money is safe in the bank up to $250,000.
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  4544.  Jaime Alonzo  What about it? If they try take depositors money, there might be a real revolution.
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  4545. Fox News can afford to pay it. It will cripple them, but they can afford to pay it. LOL
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  4546. Apple just wants to screw everyone over to make the most profit. Screw them. Don't buy apple.
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  4547.  @dennisbast743  All emergencies should be treated first.
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  4548. Anti-Christian hate in the USA? Are you kidding me? The majority of the people that live in the USA are Christians.
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  4549. You sad pathetic idiot. Do you know what this is going to do? All the foreign companies that put money into U.S. stocks, U.S. real estate, and other U.S. assets will pull their money out of the USA. A stock market crash will be coming. You don't think other countries and make their own tariffs against U.S. goods? The millions of Americans who work in companies that depend on exports are going to lose their jobs also. Most of these Trump supporters live in rural farming areas, so I guess they won't be able to make a living. They will not be able to export their pork, beef, chickens, wheat, soybeans, corn, and other agricultural goods overseas. Be careful what you wish for moron. You might just regret it.
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  4550. At this point, I don't believe the Ukrainian government claims unless they show me video footage.
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  4551. China will buy up US real estate.
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  4552. That is a oxymoron. Deficit spending leads to inflation.
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  4553. Real journalism requires you to be objective.
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  4554. Good riddance, now they need to destroy that road, and mine it.
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  4555. I hope a lot of Republicans and conservatives who think this is a hoax actually get it. LOL
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  4556.  @DRex45  Stupid.
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  4557. Now, Trump is going to type mean twits about Pecker now. LOL
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  4558. Is-rae-l is a lawless nation.
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  4559. They can deport undocumented people, that can happen. However, they cannot not give citizenship to people who are born in the US even if their parents are undocumented people. In order to get rid of birthright citizenship, they have to change the 14th Amendment, and that is almost impossible to do. You need a 2/3 majority in the House of Reps and the Senate. You cannot deport US citizens who didn't commit a crime.
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  4560. Chump lost his mind.
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  4561. If the Federal budget is cut, it will also affect the private sector as well. These right wingers believe that, we never had a big government. This is not true. The Homestead Act of 1862 was a government program to give land to settlers. During the Civil War, we had a big government. These right wingers are selfish and hypocritical. They are short sighted, they just see immediate benefits opposed to long term benefits.
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  4562. This is what happens when you have a heavily financialized economy. The point isn't about making the best vehicles, it is about how they can the most money. This means, putting in the cheapest parts, making it more complicated, making it more difficult to repair, and designing it in away so parts wear out faster. This way, car companies can sell more cars more frequently, and this will help them make more money.
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  4563.  @fcdraw  In poorer countries, you cannot survive if you don't have at least a average level of intelligence. If you an entrepreneur anywhere, you cannot make it if you don't have above average intelligence.
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  4564. We need to vote out all the Republicans. I will never vote for any Republicans ever.
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  4565. Alex Jones is a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist what do you expect, and he is a die hard Trump fan as well.
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  4566. We do have a militia in the U.S.A., it is called the National Guard.
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  4567. Trump said the economy is great, so when we go into a recession he will most likely be a one term president.
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  4568. exactly, because it is the Republicans that love starting wars.
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  4569.  @badland153  both parties start wars, so we need a draft in the USA. Before 1973, the US did have a draft. Nixon who was a Republican president got rid of the draft. The Democrats started the Vietnam War, but the Democrats never got rid of the draft. Now, we have a system where the poor people go into the military, and people who have enough wealth can stay out of the military. There are incentives to joining the military, like the government paying for college (GI Bill). If you are rich, you don't need it.
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  4570. It's been bought by corporate interests, and they don't care about the people.
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  4571. The Ukraine is a failed state thanks to US foreign policy. Afganistan, and Iraq were failed wars that cost the USA about $10 trillion which could have been used for infrastructure, social programs, education, etc. Now, the US is wasting billions on Ukraine. We have a rotten government, and this is why only 20% of the US population ttist the US government in DC.
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  4572. Boooooooooo!!!!!!
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  4573.  @dhttube  I know all of that.
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  4574.  @dhttube  The thing is, the US dollar isn't needed to conduct world trade, because Saudi Arabia effectively decoupled oil from dollars. The world no longer needs to use US dollars to get oil.
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  4575. Trump is a failed business man who acts like he knows something. LOL
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  4576. NATO is being a dead beat. LOL
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  4577.  @timmoore9736  Would you rather have socialism for the rich?
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  4578. These Alex Jones cult followers are some dangerous brainwashed fanatics. They believe everyone is out to get them which makes them paranoid!
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  4579. Chump will be asking his idiot supporters for mo money. This is why we need to go after the people who support him, and boycott the people who does business with him.
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  4580. The US already produces the highest end CPUs, namely Intel based X64 CISC based CPUs, the kind of CPUs that go into desktop, laptop, workstation, servers, and main frame computers. The ARM based processors TSMC and Samsung produce are the lower end ARM based RISC processors. These things are used in everything from appliances to guided missiles. They are used to program micro controllers in automated factories, they used in your smartphones, used in drones, smart TVs, tablet computers, and devices that have power constraints. You can buy a single board computer with a RISC processor for about $25 to $90. For a CISC based CPU, one high end AMD or Intel CPU will cost you anywhere from $400 to $1,200 each. This idea that the USA doesn't produce the highest end processor is simply not true. LOL
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  4581.  @donbrutcher4501  X86/X64 CISC based processors produced by American companies, like Intel and AMD are the most advanced chips in the world. This is why a top of the line consumer desktop CPU costs $400 to $900. On the other hand, a ARM based RISC processor which is used in everything from appliances to guided missiles cost anywhere from $2 to $50. The RISC processor in your smartphone costs about $35 to $50 depending on processor. More RISC processors like the ones made by TSMC and Samsung are produced in the world, because they can be used in a lot of things, like washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerator, smart television, microwave ovens, drones, smartphones, micro controllers, single board computers, automobiles, etc. The ARM RISC based architecture is owned by a British company called ARM. These types of CPUs are relatively simple, use very little energy, and they inexpensive to produce.
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  4582.  @donbrutcher4501  I am an engineer, and I use ARM RISC based devices, like micro controllers in machines to for various functions. It has a very simple RISC processor in it to serve a simple function, like being tied to a sensor to get a temperature reading to adjust the air conditioner temperature. The computer that I use to design stuff would be a high end Intel or AMD CPU using a CAD(Computer Aided Drawing) program.
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  4583.  @donbrutcher4501  The profit margins aren't very high RISC processors, and that is one of the reasons why they don't have these FABs here. The profit margins are a lot higher for high end CISC based CPUs.
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  4584.  @spadeysay6846  They aren't really war mongers, because they are afraid of attacking real super powers, like China, Russia, India, or other countries that have nuclear weapons, and large armies. You can call them Republican chicken hawks.
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  4585. China has over 400 satellites, so a satellite can do a lot more than a balloon. LOL
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  4586. The U S MIC is ripping off the taxpayer by overcharging the government, and this is why they can't produce enough stuff.
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  4587. Why aren't people in Japan getting married and having children? The price of homes isn't too expensive to where most people cannot afford it. People can get decent jobs in Japan. People have access to high education, and it is relatively affordable. There is no reason why Japanese people should not be marrying, and having a family.
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  4588. The middle class was a recent phenomenon. Throughout history, you had only two classes of people, the dirty poor and the filthy rich. It is your choice, you can become rich or you can be left behind. I am going to ride the market and make my fortune. You can hope for the collapse that will never happen and become impoverished.
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  4589. Just get rid of the 4th amendment, set up a gulag forced labor system, and you will get rid of drugs.
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  4590. If anyone sounds like that guy on the phone, you know they are scammers. LOL
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  4591. LOL
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  4592.  @Captaincool07  There will be a lot of openings next year for agricultural work, and dishwashers.
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  4593.  @ZastavaM70AB2  With all the job losses that happening these days, people are going to have to work in the fields when they make all the undocumented people leave. There will be a lot of openings in agriculture, and the restaurant industry, especially for people who wash dishes. LOL
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  4594. The car is controlled by software, so it can malfunction. Operating systems malfunction from time to time and crash. The operating system for the car might have crashed.
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  4595.  @blenderoffender9004  Not these arrogant people.
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  4596. That is what happens when you get monopolies which are always created in capitalism. You have a few large businesses that become monopolies, they pay people whatever they want, because most people don't have to choice but to work for them. It is what it is.
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  4597. If you want a woman in your life, you need money. No woman is going to go out with a loser. Those 3 are losers.
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  4598. No woman is going to take care of a man. My stupid cousin thought so, but his wife left him. LOL
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  4599. In this society, if you go bankrupt, or lose your livelihood. No one cares about you. Most likely, you will be the thousands of people I see everyday living on the sidewalk in tents. I live in Los Angeles, and I see a lot of that. No one cares about em.
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  4600. If you live in California, or New York, you will become homeless if you lose your livelihood. Rents here go for about $1,600 for a one bedroom apartment. When I was living in NYC, I was paying $3400 for a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn.
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  4601. @Kermit De Frog Then, not many people are going to want to hire you. You can be a programmer without a college degree, but the company or corporation will always hire the person with a 4 years Bachelors degree vs. someone who doesn't have a degree.
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  4602. You don't understand the mentality of Indians. They were doormats for the British, so they don't mind being GOP doormats.
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  4603. If Taiwan gets destroyed then the US won't be able to produce their advanced weapons, like guided missiles, avionics, fire control systems, drones, etc.
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  4604. They don't need a lot of people, because they are cutting costs with AI. That's the point.
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  4605.  @ChiCityLady  Less roles means more job cuts. LOL
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  4606. @Iron_Void  They still need some people. The biggest expense of any business are the employees. I don't see why companies won't try to replace as many employees as possible, and make the remaining employees work 3 to 5 times harder.
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  4607. @ Everyone isn't going to lose their jobs.
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  4608. The Westerners believe that their military equipment is invincible. In the Syrian conflict, a number of Turkish Leopard 2A4s got destroyed by anti-tank missiles. Western observers brushed this off, and said the Turks didn't use those tanks correctly. What kind of excuse will these b.s. artists going to make this time?
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  4609. You are a great chef.
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  4610. I think Trump is a enemy of the state.
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  4611. Hannibal wasn't b l a c k, he was a Lebanese.
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  4612. In the US you have monopolies, not competitive businesses. Health insurance, pharma industry, hospitals, etc all work with each others to milk the public.
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  4613. The judge is absolutely right.
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  4614. People have to exercise more. I walk about 3 and a half miles everyday, so that is about a hours worth of walking. I almost had a heart attack a few months ago, so now I am trying to get as much exercise every single day.
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  4615. If you can't find a good job then just settle for any job. People are needed, we need chimney sweepers, agricultural workers, seafood processing workers, dishwashers, delivery people, caretakers, waiter/waitress, security guard, etc. There are jobs, but you will just have to work 4 to 6 of these part time jobs to survive. That's it.
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  4616. Everything chump claimed was a lie, is that a surprise?
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  4617. 1992 was a bad year, the country was in a major recession caused by the stock market crash of 1987, a lot of jobless people, and the verdict of the Rodney King trial set it off. 2020 is a lot worse, a virus pandemic, a lot of jobless, hungry, and angry people who are fed up with trickle down economics. The brutal murder of one man by police started civil unrest.
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  4618. Trump is an enemy of the state.
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  4619. Central banks only function is to stabilize the currency by lowering interest rates and by raising interest rates. It's a machine in the system that has a function, just like the FDIC is a machine in the system to stabilize the banking industry. Your operating system on any computer has a function to allow you to use your computer. You cannot blame the machine for what it is designed for. People who made bad investments, took too much risk by doing too much speculation, over paid for assets like homes, and got themselves into too much debt get hurt. You cannot blame the machine for it, because the machine is systematic.
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  4620. That is really unique, I never seen ramen like that.
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  4621.  @russianinvader3207  Yes, the Russian army has gotten more effective. They dug in and made multi layer defensive positions. Let the Ukrainian army attack without air support, and inflicted heavy losses. The Russia army doesn't have to play into the strengths of the Ukrainian army. They can simply fight the war that it wants to fight. The point of the Russian invasion was to de militarize the Ukraine. If the Ukrainians try to attack, they will concentrate their forces. Russian drones can spot them, shell them, use air strikes against them, and decimate them. If the Ukrainian army tries to attack in open ground, they will take losses from anti-tank missiles, mines, artillery strikes, air strikes, and drone attacks.
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  4622.  @normalusername5223  Wagner is going to be
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  4623.  @rossmelnyk1900  The NATO countries that pledged F-16s, like Germany doesn't have any F-16s. The NATO countries that have F-16s never pledged any F-16s for the Ukraine. In other words, NATO countries didn't agree to send any F-16s to the Ukraine. They will not give Ukraine Euro Typhoons.
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  4624.  @hammerfall6666  They don't want to give a $73 million aircraft for free. Combat aircraft are expensive. I am sure, the US and Nato wouldn't have any problems donating F-4 Phantoms, F-5 Freedom Fighters, and F-104 Starfighters to the Ukraine. Maybe, Zelensky should of asked for those older aircraft.
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  4625. MrOttopants They aren't, they love their guns.
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  4626. "Chinese profits don't need to make a profit, they get state subsidies" Bank bailouts in 2008, and Covid bailouts in 2020. Billions of dollars used to bail out US companies. What a load of crap.
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  4627. Most hardcore Trump supporters are trolls, people who can't compete economically, men who hate women like Incels+mgtows, people who fell behind due to a lack of skills + education, and people who are bitter about life. This is why, Trump's hate filled rhetoric appeals to these people when he targets women, Mexicans, immigrants, globalist(Jews), Muslims, etc.
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  4628. If you don't get into a relationship with a woman for economic reasons, I am fine with that. I just don't think it is right to hate women, because you can't get into a relationship with one. If you can't get into a relationship with a woman, you're doing something wrong.There is a problem with your personality.
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  4629. I put off marriage for years, I am about 42 years old. I simply cannot afford to get into a marriage, because I have to buy a bigger house which means I need to get myself into more debt, I need to have kids, and all these things incur extra costs which I cannot afford with the income that I make now. I also don't want to eat into my saving, and not have a backstop if I get into an emergency. I made my choice and I am living with it. I am not blaming society, or anyone for it. I know a lot of people are angry for a lot of reasons, like jobs being outsourced, jobs being automated out of existence, and men not being able to make enough to have the life their parents were able to have. I just have to adjust and adapt to this present reality. Blaming others and being angry all the time is counter productive. In my spare time, I can learn things which will help me. Instead of languishing in your sorrows by hating others, driving excessively, taking drugs, or doing other destructive things. You still have a choice to better your life. In this world, no woman is going to attracted to man who doesn't have anything. A woman wants stability in her life. If you cannot provide that to them, you shouldn't get into a relationship with one. Go out there and do something that can improve your life., and good luck.
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  4630.  @swimdownx6365  not all women are psychopaths, stop making overt generalizations. There are good and bad in every group, your way of thinking is dangerous. Just like Trump blaming other people for problems.
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  4631.  @swimdownx6365  You can do whatever you want to do with your life millennial. If you don't have the means to provide for a woman, no woman is going to follow you.
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  4632. This is the American way. The CIA, cheats, lies, steals, and k ills.
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  4633. Chump is like Nero.
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  4634. I like making S&B or Vermont Curry, it is so easy to make, and it is tasty as well. You should make a video on curry rice. $2 for a meal is very inexpensive, I don't think anything can beat that. LOL
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  4635. Hyperinflation will happen when foreign treasury bond holders decide to sell all their treasury bonds. Then, the US will be in a very vulnerable situation, the Fed Reserve can print all the money they want and bail out every single person, and bail out every failed institution, but this money will not buy much. A lot of stuff we use is imported from other countries, and the price of those goods will go up a lot. This will lead to the US dollar no longer being the world reserve currency, and when that happens the cost of all imported goods will no longer be cheap. We don't even have shoe factories, textile mills, semi conductor foundries, electronics component manufacturers, etc. If you want to buy a smartphone, it will become a lot more expensive to buy, because the money has been very undervalued. In addition to that, you have high tariffs thanks to Donald Trump, so the price of those imported goods will be 30% more. We need parts for tractors, farm machinery, machinery in automated factories, parts for automobiles that are assembled in US assembly plants, parts for automobiles, electronic components to build more complicated machines, etc. If you don't get those parts then the whole economy will stall. The price of those things will go up a lot, and that will be passed on to the consumer.
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  4636.  @tonial5789  Most of that money is going to be paid out to the same incompetent corporations who caused this mess. The government is rewarding stupidity, incompetence, and greed. As for the regular people, they will just give us enough to just get by. If masses of people can't get enough to eat, people will become crazy and violent. You cannot have that now can you.
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  4637.  @tonial5789  I wouldn't be surprised if the government sends everyone a $1000 check per month when this next great depression hits. When people get desperate, they will do crazy things, especially in a country where you all these small arms. You would have to buy an armored personal carrier to go to the grocery store. LOL
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  4638.  @tonial5789  In America, you have big fat people who will think the world has ended if they can't eat for one day. If they don't eat lunch, they will probably eat other people. You never seen a hog in the wild have you? A hog will eat anything, just like these big fat people.
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  4639. USPS has contractors now, those people aren't USPS employees. They aren't as reliable as USPS employees. The best thing is to go to the post office and drop them off.
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  4640.  @DarkZerol  The guy on the phone sounds like a Korean. Koreans have problems pronouncing Rs.
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  4641. Bong Bong's father was Ferdinand Marcos who looted that entire country. Turned the Philippines into one of the wealthiest nations in Asia to one of the poorest countries in Asia.
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  4642. They use DUV lithography machines, stop making up stories.
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  4643. Guns are more dangerous than knives, or any other hand held melee weapon! If guns were all banned, stuff like this wouldn't happen! If this lunatic used a knife or a dagger, he wouldn't have killed 7 people and injured 3 more. He would have killed 1 to 2 people. Only police should be allowed to have guns, and people who have dangerous occupations should be able to get licenses to own guns!
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  4644. Bitcoin is a store of value. LOL
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  4645. If that happens, the US will have civil unrest.
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  4646. If people were killed for sell and trafficking drugs, very few people would do it.
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  4647. The last gun I bought was in 2008, and I haven't bought a gun since. I sold 80% of my guns in early 2013 when you had the gun ban scare due to the Sandy Hook shooting.
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  4648. It doesn't matter if those countries are hit with tariffs, because the US can print more money out of thin air. Now, the average American just has to work 12 to 14 hours a day versus working 8 to 10 hour a day 7 days a week. If inflation gets worse, there are 24 hours in a day, so you can work 20 out of 24 hours in a day. LOL
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  4649. Nope, that reporter was intentionally spreading fake news.
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  4650. It is all very simple. Money is debt; therefore, if you create more liquidity in the economy everything will get better. Will there be hyperinflation due to the increased liquidity in the economy? Only if productivity is very low, but this is not the case in the United States. The GDP is higher than any other time in US history due to technology. So there are no problems, they can increase the debt ceiling every time, and we will have no hyperinflation!
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  4651.  Truth  Stop trying to project your pathetic excuse of a life on everyone. Just because you collapsed economically, doesn't mean everyone will collapse like you. People who didn't get themselves into excessive debt, paid off all their debts, and saved their money will survive this. They may even thrive by being able to buy undervalued assets. It sounds to me, people like you have a lot of anxieties due to the fact most of you doomtards were probably the most financially irresponsible people out there. Just because you lose your livelihood, lose everything you own, and end up in the street isn't EVERYONES problem. It's your own problem.
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  4652.  Truth  It seems like people who are really not doing well economically are very angry and want to blame everyone. They want to take everyone down to their level. Is that why people like you voted Trump? Just because you people are fucked, you want to take down the whole US economy. You want us to be destitute like you, right? You want this whole economy to collapse. Isn't that why you people are drinking yourselves to death, taking drugs to numb away the pain?????
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  4653.  @staffananderstig4821 nope, we will have to buy made in India, Nepal, Vietnam, etc. As for electronics, we will still be buying made in China, because they have all the infrastructure and technical know how.
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  4654.  @shortfuseband  you know what, when we head into another recession, we all know who to blame. We can all safely blame Donald Trump. Peter Schiff is quite an intelligent guy, he knows Trump will not be win the 2020 election. You're fake president will only be a one term president, he can blame everyone he wants for the coming stock market decline and the recession that proceeds it. We all know Trump caused it.
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  4655. That's false, because we had recessions before we had a Federal Reserve Banking system. Panic of 1785, Copper Panic of 1789, Panic of 1796-97, recession of 1802 to 1804, Depression of 1807..... Panic of 1857, recession of 1860 to 1861, Panic of 1873, etc, etc. Lastly, the Panic of 1910 to 1911, which led to the creation of a central bank of the USA aka Federal Reserve Banking system. You people are really very poorly educated and ignorant of real history. You just cherry pick what you want from history. You will always have recessions in a free market economy, it happened before we had central banks. We had many depressions, and recessions in history, yet we survived through all of them. People who were over leveraged lost everything, so what. People make dumb choices, they suffer the consequences of those bad decisions. Stop blaming other people for your problems loser. This is why losers like you voted for Trump.
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  4656.  Truth  is your name Truth or TOOOTH. LOL
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  4657.  Truth  my name is tooooth, and I know the toooooth. I told people to prepared for a total collapse scenario for 10 years. Never happened. All the financial advice people like tooooth gave to people turned out to be not! LOL
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  4658.  @shortfuseband  you're a stupid troll. Lisa, just ignore shortfuseband, he is a loser troll who lives in his mommy's basement. The best way to counter trolls is by ignoring them. They are already ignored by society, so we can ignore them here as well. LOL
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  4659.  @shortfuseband  it isn't my fault, you are a stupid and incapable of being successful.
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  4660. That guy had some mental issues, he lost his mind.
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  4661. Good, one less thug to worry about.
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  4662.  @kanscopeichel491  It's all a symptom of a declining civilization. There is no way to stop it now. We will have run away inflation when much of the world finally decides to stop using US dollars and stop buying US treasury bonds(Debt). This idea that Republicans and Democrats can be the saviors is nonsense. Both parties are responsible for this. They are two sides of the same coin. Republicans do their best to take away rights from workers and screw them as hard as they can. The Democrats dabble in NON ISSUES, which don't benefit anyone.
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  4663.  @kattiepenn  It isn't the first recession I went through.
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  4664. The world will realize that they don't need the US in the near future.
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  4665. No it's not! It takes a lot of technology to make a F-16, or a F-15 jet fighter. How much does a F-15 cost?? $35 million. How much does a M1A2 tank cost? $8.58 million. Don't tell me America isn't an advanced nation. Selling weapons is BIG BUSINESS you libtard moron!
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  4666.  @-Size-  I am not a millennial by the way, I am a Generation Xer. Thus, I am not a soy boy, and us Xers are a lot tougher than you millennial cornflakes.
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  4667.  @vincentabel3825  sure Jethro.
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  4668.  @vincentabel3825  use Gen Xers love causing disruptions. Look at Jeff Besos, he single handled took down brick and mortar retail, and he is worth billions. LOL
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  4669. Your ideas will only work on millennials and Gen Z. The Dems are alright, the Republicans screwed us a lot of times.
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  4670. I know how to use weapons, everything from pistols to rifles. I used to shoot a lot of guns when I was younger. I don't shoot much now, because it is boring.
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  4671. Trump is a liar and a con man. Trump water, he said it is the best water in the world, it has the highest mineral content ever. It was tested and they found it was just filtered tap water with almost no mineral content. Trump Shuttle, old 727 aircraft used for domestic flights. Trump said, it is the best airline in the world, so he charged people 3 to 5 times what a domestic flight costs!!!!! Trump University anyone. Gimme $25,000 to $30,000, and you can be rich like Trump. A scam. The investors who gave Trump money got ripped off, the contractors who did work for him didn't get paid. No wonder he went bankrupt 6 times. LOL Believe a con man, and you will get conned.
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  4672.  @-Size-  There is something called competition in the free market. Trump hates it, this is why he is against free trade and globalism. He likes monopolies, so he can say I make the best water in the world and charge people $10 for his filtered plastic water bottles. Duh.
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  4673.  @-Size-  It is a called survival of the fittest and competition, you millennial cornflake. No wonder these pro Trumpkin channels always ask for donations and money. You people are weak.
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  4674.  @-Size-  you must be a alt-right Nazi snowflake, who believes in entitlements based on race. That is so fucking weak.
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  4675.  @-Size-  If Mr. Singh, Mr. Song, or Mr. Hernandez can do the job, I would give the jobs to them over your snowflake ass.
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  4676.  @-Size-  what the hell did you study, sociology?
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  4677.  @-Size-  No the hippies are your parent's generation the Baby Boomers. LOL
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  4678.  @-Size-  At least my generation doesn't have $70 to $150k in student loan debts. Our education was subsidized by the government, and your education was not. LOL
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  4679.  @Klarence75  It's nature. A man's value is in his ability to work, and that diminish with age. Your cognitive abilities decline with age, your strength also diminishes with age. For women, their beauty diminishes with age. A 40 year old woman has less value compared to a woman in their 20s and early 30s.
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  4680. They voted for this bill, because Donald Trump told them to do it. LOL
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  4681.  @luciuswalker8578  People get fired and laid off from jobs all the time. In a recession layoffs happen more often, and employers look for reasons to get rid of more people. People aren't always justly fired. When I left my job in August of last year, they were giving me a rough time and forced me to quit. Even though I was forced to quit, I just moved on with my life, and found another thing to do. I was bitter about it, but I was glad I left also. I can forget about those people.
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  4682.  @luciuswalker8578  It depends on the person. People who don't have much education, skills, older workers, or savings are going to be the ones who will get deeply impacted. People who are more desperate will do desperate things.
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  4683.  @cowboyx9380  There was a lot of crime during the Great Depression. People had a sense of community back then, and strong family ties. These days. If you run out of money, get fired/laid off, and have a lot of debt. Especially if you are a man, you will end up in the side walk sleeping in a tent. Do people attend religious institutions and have a sense of community these days? Not really. You will just have a lot of angry, lonely, heavily indebted, single men who have nothing to lose.
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  4684. We should replace all these cashiers with something called a robo scanner. The robotic arm moves the items to the scanner.
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  4685. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are two different things. The Blockchain technology has its good points, but it also has bad points as well. The good points about Blockchain is that you can use a decentralized network of computers to get a confirmation. The bad point is that you can't delete this information once it is entered into the blockchain. The information that was entered can be wrong, and there is no way to delete that info. Since the blockchain is public, private records can be hacked, and everyone can view it. That is why a centralized network is better, because you can easily delete the information or change wrong information. You can secure it so it doesn't become public. This can't be said about blockchain technology.
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  4686. The problem is Russia has nuclear weapons. If Russia was a country that didn't have nukes, it would be possible to annex parts of Russia.
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  4687. A big time Nigerian scammer. LOL
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  4688. Nazis stockpiling air guns, samurai swords, and other melee weapons. LOL
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  4689.  cj p  In most European countries, you can't buy real arms without a license. It is different compared to the USA. It is very expensive and difficult to acquire a firearms license in most European countries. You can buy air guns, bow and arrows, crossbows, swords, and other melee type weapons in most European countries.
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  4690. LOL
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  4691. The fed will cut, but the effects will be different from 2008, because you won't have a country like China buying treasury bonds. There will be consequences like inflation.
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  4692. She is living in her own country, and she has never seen a black man. She is some ignorant woman living in a rural area in China. This wasn't filmed in no major city, like Beijing, Shanghai, etc.
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  4693. Depends on the degree.
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  4694. Go back to Greg Cunter's channel. Conspiracy theorists like you make me laugh. LOL
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  4695. How are your cryptocurrencies working out for you boy? Are you rich yet? LOL People who invested in cryptocurrencies are the biggest losers. LOL
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  4696. The remaining balance which can't be covered by taxes will be funded by deficit spending. Meaning, the government will borrow it from the Federal Reserve Banking System which will in turn create it out of thin air. That will result in more inflation. That's it.
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  4697. Chump wants to turn the U S into an apartheid state.
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  4698. There is no shortage of drivers. People will do it even if they lose money, and they will realize it later when they get the bills.
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  4699. Why did this man commit such acts of barbarism? What was his motive?
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  4700. Germany can buy oil from Russia, but Russia wants Rubles for their oil.
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  4701. Just crazy.
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  4702. Globalist?? LOL I want interest rates to 10%, so I can earn more interest on my money.
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  4703. The Ukrainian state is a terrorist, bandit, pirate, Nazi, and puppet state.
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  4704. The US really cannot compete. The US is exceptionally inflated in everyday. A inflated sense of ego, and inflated like a balloon. Healthcare in the US is exceptionally expensive, cost of living is exceptionally expensive, exceptionally mediocre, and exceptionally bad. LOL
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  4705. You're the definition of a uneducated Trump supporter. LOL
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  4706. Inflation is caused by speculation you dolt.
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  4707. I don't believe in your anti-Semitic protocols of the Elders of Zion conspiracy theories.
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  4708. People invest in real estate, because it is an asset they can rent out, and make returns on a regular basis. You buy a apartment building, a house, or houses, commercial real estate, etc to get a regular rate of return from rents or leases. It is like the game of Monopoly, the player that controls most of the assets or real estate wins the game of Monopoly. That is what capitalism is, the people who own the most assets wins.
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  4709. Unless your parents were millionaires or billionaires most people don't stand a chance.
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  4710. In this real life monopoly game, most of the assets are locked and boxed. There is a very slim chance, you will become a multimillionaire unless you invent something new. Most of the technology we have today is beyond what one person can invent. It requires a team of people to invent anything of significance these days. More than likely, if you are a engineer, scientist, designer, or project manager, you will be working in a big corporation making the next big thing. You will work for one of these large corporations until they decide to replace you with a H1B visa holder who will work for less money, or outsource your job out of the country. Your retarded idea about you can play this real life game of monopoly is absurd. If you want to play in the real estate market, you will need at least $10 to $15 million of your own money. If you want to start a business, you need to borrow the money from a bank, and you have to expect not making a profit for a several months. You need money to make money in business. If you don't have deep pockets, you will stand very little chance of succeeding in business. Why? Because you have to pay inflated rent prices, and overhead.
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  4711. Nothing wrong with the government, you young stupid shit. A lot of technology was developed by the government, like the internet. People who worked for the NSA and other government agencies learned valuable skills to start big corporations, like Google and other tech companies. The government is good. After World War 2, a lot of the people who worked for the military industrial complex and service men started their own businesses. They learned how to fix trucks, jeeps, which translated to being able to fix automobiles. The scientists that developed synthetic fibers started their own companies, etc. The government started projects to develop computers to calculate artillery trajectories during World War 2, and that lead to the computer industry. You are really one stupid ignorant bastard.
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  4712. You are a Libertarian from what I can see. You don't believe in having a nationalized educational system, a national army, infrastructure that is funded by a central government. I on the other hand is all for centralization. If I had it my way, military service would be compulsory, everyone regardless of how much money they have must serve in the armed forces for 2 years. You are a citizen of this country and you can vote right? Then, you can be drafted. If you refuse to serve, you should be disenfranchised and thrown in prison. I believe in absolute equality when it comes to this regard. My ancestors were nobles, and they had to ser There is a big difference between a developed nations and 3rd world nations. Compulsory education, a efficient and well maintained infrastructure, and a progressive system of taxation made it possible. You people are fucking hypocrites. It was Republicans that got rid of conscription or mandatory military service in 1973, it was Republicans that got rid of the Glass Stiegal Act, it was Republicans that repealed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in the 1980s. You people are fucking disgusting.
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  4713. The government didn't mess up tuition costs, healthcare costs, housing costs, or any of those things you mentioned. The government is very competent when the programs they are trying to initiate are well funded. Just look at World War 1, and World War 2. The U.S.A. beat the pants out of the Axis power in World War 2, the USA fought a two front war and won. If we had a nationalized healthcare system, it would be better. Look at the United Kingdom, if you get sick you can go to a doctor and get treated. We don't have a nationalized healthcare system and this is a problem, and don't say Obamacare is nationalized healthcare. The only way it can be nationalized healthcare is if private insurance companies are cut out of the equation. I was born in the 1970s, so I experienced president Reagon's policies. Keynesian economic policies are good, and they have always been good. With all modern governments, the government stimulates the economy. For example, most of the doctors that have their own practices or work in the hospital are funded by Medicare money. Defense contractors make a living selling the government weapon systems, scientists, computer scientists, the engineers, technologists, technicians, mechanics, and the workers who produce these weapons all have a livelihood because of the government. What about the fleets of cars that are sold to government agencies. The furniture, and other things sold to the various government agencies. GE sells jet engines that go into the jet fighters, jet bombers, and other aircraft. You have independent contractors to large corporations that sell everything to the government from toilet paper to nuclear power plants. The money the government spends on welfare recipients go right back into the economy. Those people buy the food from the supermarket or some small market. The wholesaler or distributor makes money selling the food products to the retailer. The people who produced the food can buy more chemical fertilizers, and other farm equipment. Those companies that made the farm equipment and chemical companies can make money. The chemical fertilizer companies make money by selling their nitrites based chemicals to farmers and munition companies. They in turn get most of this money from the government. The government plays a big role in the economy for most advanced countries. You are a uneducated dolt, and you don't understand how the economy works.
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  4714. It seems to me conservatives talk about war all the time, but they don't want to go and fight it. This is why I am a advocate for a national draft. If you start a war then your child should not be exempt from serving their country. No exemptions under any circumstances from serving in the military for at least 2 years. Like I said, I believe in absolute equality. When we had a monarchy in the past, no one was exempt from military service. If you were a nobleman, you had to serve your country and king. We don't have enough soldiers in the military you fucking coward. If we had a war with China or Russia, we would need to draft a lot of people. If a war was started with either of those countries, it would be like putting people into a meat grinder. You would need a constant supply of men who would get wiped out, and you need to recruit more and more!
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  4715. The race to the bottom has more to do with companies trying to find cheaper sources or labor, or trying to substitute labor with technology. Currency devaluation plays a small part in it. Companies try to save money, and wages are the biggest cost to any business.
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  4716. Corporations need markets, and most corporations want access to global markets. This way they can make more $$$$. If the government buys let's say 50 F-15 fighters from Boeing, or $500 million building a aqueduct. You telling me that money wasn't spent on real goods and services????? If the local power company built a nuclear power plant or a hydroelectric dam, you telling me that money didn't go to something useful? You millennials are the dumbest generation. Just because your Baby Boomer parents got screwed by the 2008 crash doesn't imply banks and governments are all bad. After all, it was your stupid parents who refinanced their homes like 2 to 3 times, lived on credit cards to buy everything they wanted, flipped houses, borrowed more money than the income they made, and lived irresponsibly. You telling me, you can blame the government and banks 100% for it?? You are fucking kidding me, your parents caused it. My parents aren't Baby Boomers, they are the Silent generation. You can't blame my generation for causing this mess, my generation being Generation X. When the 2008 crisis happened, I was doing just fine. My house was paid off, I had no debts, and I had a relatively good career. I did get laid off, but I wasn't even worried, because I had plenty of savings. I didn't waste my money buying shit I didn't need with money I didn't have. If I get laid off again, I would be fine for 15 years. I have enough money to not worry about it, because I am not stupid like your parents or your stupid generation.
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  4717. You sound like a fucking broken record of money being devalued. When a major stock market occurs, the value of money gets stronger. When things crash, this is when I buy assets. I buy stocks that went down in price, and I buy other assets that went down. Everyone is selling everything when a crash comes. This is why you're inexperienced and naive. Stupid people like you believe money is worthless, so you waste it. Good for you. Smart people like me save money and wait for a opportunity. If is like dogfight if you make worthless maneuvers, you lose speed. Speed is like money in the bank. I make the right maneuvers and when my opponent loses most of his speed, I come in for the kill. You are a inexperienced chicken hawk. When another crash comes, I will become wealthier, and people like you who believed the lie money is worthless and squander it will suffer more hardships. LOL
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  4718. Millennials or Generation Y are not the children of Generation X. My Generation are the parents to Generation Z. I don't believe in Pensions, Mutual Funds, or any of that bullshit. I don't believe in locking my money into the stock market, this is what your stupid parents the Baby Boomers bought into. I TRUST PEOPLE bullshit. Your generation trusts Bitcoins and Cryptocurrencies, because government and banks are evil. I can trust someone I don't know, and buy Bitcoins at $19,000 for each Bitcoin. Now how much is Bitcoin? $8200? Your stupid millennial trust too much. People in my generation have more sense than that. LOL
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  4719. I am not really a Marxist, I am Freemason. I believe in doing good for society.
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  4720. It was just a money making scheme. They sold you out to make some money at the expense of public health.
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  4721. Exactly, so we should stop trading with China.
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  4722. If Trump tries to save the stock market by pressuring Mr. Powell to move interest rates into negative rates, he will not get reelected this year.
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  4723. I can show you unhappy people in the US as well. I am sure you have unhappy people in China also, but that doesn't represent the majority of people. You need to stop making up stuff, and make China look bad when it really is not.
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  4724.  @TheBun-te2ep  Anyone can make a video showing a country is bad by showing a few bad examples. LOL I can show you may examples of regions in China that are prosperous, and where many people are happy.
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  4725.  @TheBun-te2ep  I am a Chinese American, and I live in the US. I can show you a lot of bad things here, like tent cities, homeless people camping in the sidewalk, people struggling with inflation, etc.
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  4726.  @TheBun-te2ep  I am here because my parents brought me here back in the 1980s. I didn't choose to come here.
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  4727. ​ @TheBun-te2ep  When I retire, I plan to retire in China.
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  4728.  @rainbowcat83  That is not true. I talk to people from China, and they travel to every part of China freely. They also travel to other countries on vacations.
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  4729. How reckless, and people still support and believe this guy?
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  4730. They aren't aliens, they are inter dimensional beings. In ancient times, we used to worship these things as gods and sacrifice people for em.
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  4731. DC is a dangerous place to live.
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  4732. No excuse for idiots committing crimes and acts of sedition. If thousands of people say this person is a conman then he/she probably is. Too bad these idiots couldn't figure that out. This is what happens if you refuse to accept hard facts.
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  4733. No way, this was mass murder pure and simple. He can't e acquitted for this.
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  4734.  @danielhutchinson6604  Inflation is going to get wild in the next 4 years.
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  4735.  @donaldmacdougall4679  When that happens, a lot of people will have to learn to go on a diet. They may have to skip one or two meals a day.
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  4736. There is no food crisis in China. With the BRI, China can import all the food it needs. Inexpensive Chinese farm machinery is exported to countries in the Global South in Latin America and Africa. They in turn grow food with those agricultural machines and chemical nitrate based fertilizers. In fact, China is importing a lot of inexpensive food, and helping countries in the global south as well. It's a win win.
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  4737. The shootings are random committed by losers who are probably unemployed. Militia members and sovereign citizens are constitutionalists. They have shot and killed law enforcement officers. The frequency of these mass shootings warrants a state of national emergency to use executive orders to suspend the constitution. You know very little about the constitution. In the constitution, the executive branch can suspend the constitution in times of war, rebellion, and national emergency!
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  4738. It was from sudden unintended acceleration.
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  4739. What an idiot. He did all this for lies and bs, and now he faces prison for decades. Was it worth it?
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  4740. Now, we have the sharecropping Gig Economy, where all the assets are owned by the Gig worker. The full time employee and employer model seems to be fading away these days. The gig worker has to use their own assets, and the contracting firm takes no risks and all the profits. The contracting firm takes a cut or a share of the profits, for example they can take a 10% to 25% share of the profits. It doesn't cost the firm anything, and the contract worker has to take all the risks. LOL
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  4741.  @normankeena  It really depends on what you do. If you are a highly skilled worker, you can set your own prices. If you are a unskilled worker, like a Uber driver you are at the mercy of the platform that is using you. They set the prices, so you are just a serf.
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  4742.  @normankeena The only way to become rich is coming up with something new that everyone wants or needs. Another way is by inheriting it. No one is going to get rich by being a Uber driver, or by selling goods and services that are available everywhere. The reason being, there is too much competition. Look at YouTube and Uber for example, at first they paid very good rates, and as more people started to do it the value for those services declined in value. Markets always get saturated. If you had a contract to provide let's say chairs to a large firm or government institution then you are in luck. Competing in the free market for something that is widely available will only cause one to live in fail in the end. This is why 9 out of 10 small businesses fail within a year.
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  4743.  @felixii4931  you can always get the capital, like all venture capitalists do by borrowing the money. Start a company with money you borrowed and make the company public. Promote your company, get investors to buy up stock from your company, and create a front. Make an illusion of you selling goods and services. Use investment capital to run the company, like Uber, Tesla, and others have done. Give yourself a big raise, like $50 million per year or more. When the investment money dries up, step down from your CEO position, and let another sucker take your place. Throughout, the time you were at the company, you made hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. The only people who got shafted are the workers and investors. The worst thing that can happen is, you getting a $10 million to $50 million fine, but you made made many times that. Raising capital isn't hard, you have to know the right people and be well connected.
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  4744.  @felixii4931 If you develop good software, you don't have to use any people. Just upload it in a server, and sell it to people on different websites and platforms. The idea of hiring people full time is becoming a novelty in the West. Everything is moving towards automation.
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  4745.  @felixii4931  not much you can do if your parents weren't rich. You just have to just focus on your skills to making a living. Just get out of debt and live within your means. For a lot of people, it might be impossible to do that. I do see more and more people living in the streets, and seems to be happening more and more these days.
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  4746.  @felixii4931  we are seeing a lot of income inequality, and when the next recession hits. I have a feeling it will be very bad. It is a damn pity, all the social safety nets we had in the past were gutted. It was stupid and uneducated people who got duped into believing such crap. These people who believe that they did it all by themselves are lying or stupid. I had many people that helped me through my life, and other who aren't struggling now also got such help. The people who troll on channels like this, and criticize others for the misfortunes they are in are really clueless. It is getting harder and harder to making a living, and people seem to be getting meaner and meaner ad well.
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  4747.  @felixii4931  I pretty much experienced the deterioration of this deregulation scheme that came our during the Reagan administration.
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  4748.  @felixii4931  all this conservative bs about deregulation was going to be great, it would benefit everyone. Trickle down economics, taxcuts for the richest people, and how they would create jobs for everyone. LOL All of it was a lie. I pretty much experienced the steady decline of social services, the under funding of public schools, the destruction of unions, etc. All of it culminated into what we see today, the Gig economy. Where worker have no protections, where prices are set to the lowest common denominator, and most people involved in it live in poverty. This is what we have today. No job security, no benefits, and poor pay. At the same time, big corporations loot the investors, and socialize all their losses. This is the reality of the 21st century.
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  4749. LOL, call it what you may. The truth is the truth.
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  4750. Real estate values going up is good for the economy. This means, inflation goes down, because the biggest expense in life is paying rent or a mortgage. This is deflationary in nature, compare it to the US where you have high real estate prices. It drives up wages, and cost of living.
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  4751.  @KC-dr3cg  It's either that or a currency crisis. You can't keep a bubble inflated to infinity, all bubbles eventually pop in the end.
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  4752.  @KC-dr3cg  It's tough, but recessions are a natural part of capitalism. There is one difference however, this bubble is gigantic, because it was propped up for 12 to 13 years. The bigger the bubble, the louder the pop. This means a lot of people are going to get hurt, and had been hurt already, like the people who invested heavily in cryptocurrencies, and the myriad of corporations that thrived from speculation, and buying back their own stocks without concentrating on research and development, buying equipment, facilities, or investing in their work force. All this fakeness had to end sooner or later. As a result of all these loose money policies, we will see the biggest crash in US history.
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  4753.  @billgoodman9103  People never learn. When the economy gets hot, people expose themselves to too much speculation, and it all comes down. Many people lose their shirts, and lose everything. The people who didn't expose themselves to too much risk and saved their money end up buying up assets at depressed nominal prices. It happened in the Tulip Bubble of 1637, the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the stock market of 1987, etc. People make it seems like recessions and deep recessions will result in the end of the world. This crash is just going to be louder and last longer.
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  4754.  @sdvten  Yes, it does, and it always happens the same way every time. Too bad, most people can't face reality when they fall down on the pavement.
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  4755.  @sdvten  The world doesn't revolve around you. You have to revolve around the world. No cares about your opinions and what you want.
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  4756. This woman is a savage.
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  4757. Militia people are not only crack pots, conspiracy theorists, they are dangerous childish morons. Militia morons bombed the WTC, robbed banks, passed bad checks, planned to attack law enforcement officials, and committing acts of terrorism!
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  4758. It isn't money. Steam stopped taking it around December of 2017, and Microsoft stopped accepting it quite recently.
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  4759. You're a millennial, so you buy cryptos because you believe it. Go use all your life savings and max out your credit cards and get it. There is no guarantee that Bitcoin will go up to $1,000,000 per Bitcoin, or Ethereum will go up to $100,000/Ethereum coin. You do what you like, and if it crashes. It is your problem.
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  4760. What is the fantasy? Facts are facts, we have to pay various taxes in fiat currencies. You own land you have to pay property tax, you buy gasoline you pay a excise tax, you buy non-grocery items you pay sales tax, you buy ammo you pay a excise tax, you own a car you pay car registration every year, you buy alcohol you pay excise tax, you own a airplane you pay registration fees every year, you smoke you pay excise tax, you get the point. Fiat currencies will never be worthless, because governments have the ability to tax. Even if you don't own land and have to be a renter, the landlord has to pay property tax, so they want payments in fiat currencies. Most people in this world are in debt, and banks demand payments in fiat currencies only. I just proved there is demand for fiat currencies, because it enables them to pay taxes and to pay off their debts. No one needs cryptocurrencies. You can't pay taxes with it, it isn't backed by a nations GDP(gross domestic product), it isn't backed by laws of a state, and it isn't backed by military might. Prove to me that your fantasy money is worth something?
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  4761. There is no way to get away from paying taxes and dying. We all know we will die one day, and that is certain. Another certainty is you will be taxed as long as you live under a government. If you want to pass your genes, you have to get married. Those 3 things are unavoidable in life. I am about 42, and you must be about 20 something. You will realize life that you can't always get what you want, and things never happen like you imagined it. That's reality. You realize how things work in this world by getting punished. If you fail to report taxes and buy a luxury car, the banks and car dealerships report it to the IRS. Then, the IRS sends you a letter, and you get an audit. You realize a lot of things as you grow older. Just because you believe the asset that you hold will go up, it can go to zero too. I learned that the hard way many times. You can believe whatever you want and not take good advice, and you realize you made a mistake. That's how we learn, we learn from our failures.
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  4762. Maybe, we should have a public social media platform.
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  4763. The debt will be going up exponentially, it will be compounding to the point where the interest on the debt will be more than the budget of the US government in a year.
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  4764. Neo Hunter Gatherer = Bum LOL
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  4765. China needs to rely on friendly countries for its food supplies, and China needs to grow more food as well.
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  4766. China is buying their soybeans from Brazil and Russia. If you vote a con man, you get conned. LOL
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  4767. I don't watch US MM anymore, because it is just propaganda.
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  4768. I guess college/university is too expensive these days, and the price of real estate is out of reach for most people. I was born at a fortunate time, my university degree was almost free, the home that I bought in the late 1990s was relatively inexpensive, I did use my money foolishly when I was younger. I bought expensive automobiles, latest gadgets, latest computers, expensive watches, ate out a lot, etc. The millennials just got a raw deal.
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  4769. Only stupid and uneducated people BELIEVE in conspiracy theories.
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  4770. You can believe whatever you want, but reality is reality.
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  4771. Jobs go to the countries that have the lowest wages and the skills. For example, manufacturing jobs go to China, Vietnam, and other countries because of low labor costs. IT and computer jobs go to countries like India, because they have a lot of IT majors. IT majors who will work for much less. The labor market is affected by supply and demand principles. Customer service jobs go to countries like the Philippines and parts of India because they can speak English. Wages are much lower there too.
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  4772. The reason why peoples standard of living are going down in because of big companies and corporations outsourcing. That does increase unemployment and poverty, but it depends. If you are well educated and have pretty good marketable skills, you can do well in the U.S.A.. On the hand, if you are an unskilled worker, the unemployment level is higher. Most of the factories are highly automated, and very few people are required to man them. Technology also plays a role.
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  4773. I wonder how the Russians are going to react to this. Will they bomb, shell, rocket, and missile Kyiv into the stone age?
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  4774. What about the people that live and die in the streets of merica?
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  4775.  @Rootiga  What about the evil merica has done to native Americans, and blacks?
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  4776.  @Rootiga  These people are doing just fine in China, there was no policy to marginalize any of these minorities in China.
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  4777.  @robertw1800  If you can point out the faults of another country then they can point out the faults from the country where the criticism came from as well.
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  4778.  @robertw1800  The US and the West isn't talking about their problems. You people just stay out of our business, because we don't care about your problems.
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  4779. The US strategy isn't working. Their days are numbered.
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  4780. I don't trust private militias, because I don't know what they stand for.
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  4781. China shouldn't sell it to them, those people are duplicitous and cannot be trusted.
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  4782. You just like guns. I own some guns, but I think we should have sensible gun control laws. Gangsters will always be able to get guns in any country.
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  4783. That is completely different from being in a public place that you don't know anything about. You never seen real combat have you? Most you Republicans talk about guns, and you know this and that. Most of you never been in real combat or been in the armed forces. In Vietnam and Iraq, where you have insurgency warfare. Soldiers don't who is shooting at them, or where they are getting shot from. They get frustrated from time to time, and they just shoot anyone. In a crowded public place, if someone shoots, you don't know where those rounds are coming from. You don't know who is shooting. If someone pulls out a gun when the shooting starts, you will shoot the person with the gun even if he isn't the shooter.
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  4784.  Abigail Slaughter  the less guns in the streets means less gun crimes. Where do you think, criminals get guns? They steal them from law abiding gun owners in burglaries, car break ins, gun shop burglaries, etc. Then, they use these guns in other crimes, like home invasions, rapes, more burglaries, car jackings, drug trafficking, etc.
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  4785.  Abigail Slaughter  I used to live in New York City, how many mass shootings are there in NYC? I live in California now, and there are less mass shootings here than in most parts of the country that don't have strict gun control laws.
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  4786.  Abigail Slaughter  in the USA, a lot of people have guns, and burglaries happen a lot. The first thing criminals look for are guns then cash, jewelry, electronics, etc. Guns are abundant here like rocks are on the side of the road. If someone is having a rough time, and if they had a gun then it is more likely that they will commit suicide.
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  4787.  Abigail Slaughter  I have guns, and i don't care if gun control laws get more strict. I think people who want a gun should take a written safety test to buy one.
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  4788. If the Federal government increased the excise tax on guns and ammo to let's say 300% with an annual hike of 20% per year, in addition to a gun registration fee with a yearly rate of 20% for each gun, there would be less guns in the streets. People own cars, and they pay car registration fee every year. I don't think making people pay gun registration fees, and increasing the excise tax on guns + ammo are a bad idea. This would cause gun manufacturers to lose a substantial amount of business. If people want to own guns, they can but they have to pay for it. You cannot revoke any constitutional amendment, but the Federal government has the right to tax guns and ammo. Every time you buy guns and ammo now, you are paying an excise tax. When you buy alcoholic beverages, you are also paying a excise tax. This is why the Feds shut down moonshine operations, and the reason for it is because they don't pay taxes on distilled spirits. The same with tobacco products. There is no limit to how much the Feds can tax guns/ammo, tobacco products, and alcohol.
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  4789. I have a gun safe, and the reason for it is... I don't care about guns, like you. If guns are the center of your life, and you feel the need to have to carry it everywhere you go. You believe your life is threatened 24/7, you will want a gun that is easily accessible anywhere in your home, or car.
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  4790. You're just angry, because I don't agree with your beliefs. Let's just say I am a progressive, so I live in a progressive state like California. I live in California, because I agree with the policies of this state government. I would live in any progressive city of state, like NYC, Oregon, Washington state, or any other progressive area.
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  4791. My position is simple and clear, I want to make it extremely difficult and expensive for anyone to get a gun.
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  4792. The US wants Turkey in NATO, because they want to use bases in Turkey. It isn't the other way around. Turkey can join the BRICS in the future.
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  4793. Hamas doesn't have a rocket with a warhead like that to take out a hospital. It was most likely from a Israeli Jdam 500 lb bomb.
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  4794. This is what happens if you have a lot of uneducated people in a country believing liars like Trump and voting for them.
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  4795. Damn, that woman is a real savage. LOL
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  4796. I am glad Jamie Dimon is my banker, because he said cryptocurrencies and bitcoin was bs from day one. I know the bank I bank with didn't have any exposure to the cryptocurrency BS.
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  4797. Let me tell you something, living on this planet is madness. Living on this planet is hell. It's just insanity.
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  4798. Cow protection. Do they have rat protection as well? ROFL 😆
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  4799. When is this insanity going to end? Our politicians are blaming other countries, while they wasted trillions of dollars on wars that didn't give this country any tangible benefits. These defense corporations sell military equipment and munitions at inflated prices to the government. Homelessness is so bad, it is visible now. A lot of people have all kinds of debts, like student loan debts, mortgages, car debt, etc.
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  4800.  @Mae_Dastardly  You guys are hopeless.
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  4801. Musk will ask for a bailout from the gobermint.
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  4802. Most of Alex Jones listeners are this immature. Not only are they immature, they are mentally ill, violent, and dangerous, LOL.
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  4803. Dang, that is crazy.
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  4804. I wouldn't be surprised if US drones were giving intelligence information to the Ukrainians to target Russian naval vessels.
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  4805. The shooter was a conspiracy theorist who believed the US government was behind 9-11-2001. He was a truther!
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  4806. Los Angeles is becoming 3rd World.
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  4807. Having those LED lights is cool, but it isn't very functional. LOL
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  4808. ohhhhhhhh. America will make the Houthis accountable for their attacks. THEY ARE SO SCARED. LOL
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  4809.  @trvman1  The West can send arms, but when the Russians slowly strangle the country. Most of these arms deliveries will get destroyed by UAVs, helicopter gunships, and air strikes. They will get intercepted by ground forces as well. The Ukrainians will keep fighting until, they get encircled and cut off. Once, your logistics are gone, you will starve to death, armored vehicles will run out of fuel, and run out of ordinances. The Russians are taking losses, but I don't think they care. The Russians got time on their side, and the Ukrainians don't. This is why the president of the Ukraine is asking for a no fly zone.
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  4810. Chump is so obnoxious, listening to him opening his mouth and lie is intolerable at best.
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  4811. Chump can say that because whatever he believes in his mind in reality. just like Hitler says 2+2 is 2 than it is. that's trump's logic.
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  4812. If freedom looks anything like Libya, Syria, or Ukraine, I don't want it.
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  4813. How are these Ukrainian soldiers still broadcasting? Aren't the Russians jamming their broadcasts?
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  4814. Bitcoin cannot be manipulated by any government; however, it can be manipulated by the people who hold the majority of Bitcoins. LOL Governments can tax you heavily, but the average person in the street can screw you also. If you get snared into a pump and dump scheme, you can lose a lot of money. LOL
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  4815. China is perfectly a safe country, it is safer than most Western countries.
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  4816.  @canalesjuan356  My father is 81 years old, and he doesn't know how to use a computer. He doesn't know anything about online shopping either. Someone like him would not be interested in a EV.
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  4817.  @Go4Broke247  That is true, so for long distance trips a EV isn't practical. I think EV manufacturers need to make a small motor that uses natural gas to generate electricity. Natural gas is fairly inexpensive, so if the car can operate on the natural gas motor range can be extended.
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  4818. Sean Hannity is a biggest idiot I've ever seen. LOL
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  4819. Alex Jones is a crazy revolutionary, he wants to overthrow the government and establish himself as King Jones.
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  4820.  @JCee13  LOL. I don't need no 30 round magazine, 10 to 15 rounds in a semi-auto should be enough. If you hit one of these cowards, they would all run. We all know what kind of cowards they are.
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  4821. Just stupid. Keeping a wild animal as a pet.
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  4822.  @lotwizzard1748  I only use them when I have like a few items. If I have 50 or more items, I still use the cashier. Scanning 50 to 100 items is just hard labor.
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  4823.  @lotwizzard1748  Doesn't change the fact that millions of people still use it.
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  4824. These expert morons have poisoned us.
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  4825. Elon Musk wanted Twitter, so he got it. You can't go back on an agreement.
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  4826. China is the better choice for the following reasons. 1. China buys a lot of Saudi Arabian oil. 2. China could build nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia without the US help. 3. The US is the largest producer of oil in the world and they don't import a lot of Saudi oil. 4. The US doesn't honor their agreements which history has shown. Iran nuclear deal anyone?
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  4827. Trump is good at making stuff up, like a child.
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  4828. They are doing it to fight inflation, and it happens every time. Happened in 1987, 1999, and 2008.
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  4829. This is what happens when big corporations get bailed out by the government. You have right wing hypocrites saying socialism is bad, but funneling money to failing corporations is socialism in itself.
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  4830.  @erichoberg3502  Not really, this happened after the USD was decouple from gold in 1971 before that home prices had not gone up much.
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  4831. @user-qr4jf4tv2x  I have all kinds of assets including gold and platinum.
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  4832. @tanta4801  You get taxed on your income, not your savings. The money you have in savings is money you had already been taxed on. I put most of that in bonds which pay interest. In the next 4 years, interest rates will go down, so I have to find a place to park my money.
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  4833.  @obsideon1343  They don't have property tax in China, so those houses can sit idle without any consequence. You can't do that in the US or other western countries, because you have to pay property tax.
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  4834. MSM is something I don't listen to anymore. It isn't worth 1 millisecond of my time.
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  4835. Mainstream media in the US is trash.
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  4836. President Trump is a snowflake who always deflects when he gets caught lying. LOL
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  4837. I wonder what Trump will do when his son gets indicted?
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  4838.  @PeterLamin-bw5rs  It's their own fault to being stupid.
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  4839. Inciting hate speech.
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  4840.  Brenda Heeligan  because Trump is a con man, and we know it.
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  4841.  @pcm1997  stop shooting so many guns, you sound like someone who has lead poisoning. LOL
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  4842.  @ecomhicks  Yes, they do. I work in tech company writing software. Not all of them have degrees in engineering, or computer science. Some of them have Bachelor's degrees in sociology, English, history, psychology, communications, or other non-science majors. They know programming languages, like C, PHP, Java, or whatever. No one where I work doesn't have a bachelor's degree or higher.
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  4843.  @ecomhicks  One of my friends worked at Budweiser, and this was about in 2007. He told me they laid everyone off who didn't have a college degree, and they replaced all the sales staff with people who have a Bachelor's degree or higher.
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  4844.  @ecomhicks  It is just nearly impossible to find a good job without 4 year university degree. You can find a job, but the prospects are very limited and pretty much dead end jobs. Trades men don't have college degrees, I think they make about $45k to $50k per year. There is no real prospect of wage hikes, their wages just remain stagnant for years. I am not saying all college graduates have good paying jobs either. You have to couple that with marketable skills, but in general the prospects are much better than someone who doesn't have one.
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  4845.  @thorthunderlungs5171  False. Tom Metzger of the White Aryan Resistance organization spewed his hate filled message on radio which resulted in a death of a Ethiopian man in 1989.
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  4846.  @thorthunderlungs5171  Sure those jobs exist. It is a lot easier to get a college degree and enter a profession with a high start pay. If you have the brains, you should go to college/university and become a Medical doctor, scientist, dentist, pharmacist, professor, architect, etc. People who enter those professions can work up to a very old age. You have dentists who are 73 year old, medical doctors who are 78 years old, scientists who are 80 years old, economists who are 70 years old, architects who are 67 years old, computer programmers who are 69 years old, etc. There are not many construction workers who are over 65.
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  4847.  @thorthunderlungs5171  it isn't censorship stupid. Private companies can make any policies they want. If you go to a restaurant owned by a Chinese person, and you insult Asians. You won't thrown out? If you go to a BBQ takeout owned by a black person, and you use the N work. You won't get thrown out? Social media companies, like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and others can make business policies, like prohibiting content which are racist, misogynist, or anti-Semitic. It is their right to do it as a private company. If you don't like it, go buy the servers, the bandwidth, hire the people to design the websites, and charge your users for it. No advertiser want to be associated with neo-Nazis, alt-right, or KKK people.
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  4848.  @thorthunderlungs5171  Sure a nationalist. When Trump said in the Unite the Right white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. We have fine people on both sides. So, the KKK people, Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, alt-right people, and white supremacists at that rally are fine people according to Trump. Trump is a white nationalist for sure.
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  4849.  @thorthunderlungs5171  whatever Joe the Plumber.
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  4850. They have chip foundries in the USA, Intel has chip foundries in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Oregon. The problem is CISC processors aren't used appliances, cars, smartphones, micro controllers, and other simple machines. The chips Intel produces are used in stuff like desktop computers, laptops, servers, mainframes, and workstation computers. The chips that are used in micro controllers, smartphones, automobiles, appliances, smart televisions, DVD players, Blue Ray players, etc are RISC based processors. Intel doesn't produce RISC processors, these types are of processors are produced by companies, like TSMC and Samsung. They are based on ARM RISC based architecture.
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  4851.  @lisadiane10001  CISC cpus are very advanced, the type Intel and AMD produces. A high end X64 based Intel or AMD cpu costs anywhere from $700 to $1000 each. A RISC based cpu is relatively inexpensive, like $5 to $30 each.
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  4852.  @lisadiane10001  There aren't 100,000 chip foundries in this world. The numbers in 2 digits, not the 6 digits you stated. LOL
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  4853.  @vcnolechetcong7742  Being homeless and being addicted to drugs is worse than death.
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  4854.  @darkblaze9400  Not really, because we have a large influx of immigrants.
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  4855. Anyone who defends Trump at this point are LYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  4856. Youtube just doesn't like it, because it doesn't fit the Western narrative.
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  4857. It's very simple if chump decides to impose 100% tariffs, they don't have to trade with the US. They cannot use nukes, because the BRICS bloc has 3 member states that have nukes.
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  4858. The people who supported Trump surely got TRUMPED!
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  4859. Steal it from brick and mortar and sell it online. LOL
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  4860. musk is an apartheid baby, chump admires the mustache man, and the GOP admires fascism. This is what they want.
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  4861. North Korea will pay the price if they help Russia, this is a hollow statement. North Korea is already sanctioned by the West and US. North Korea can go all the way, and this goes for Iran which is another heavily sanctioned country.
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  4862. that is why you should buy stocks.
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  4863. You can hire more people to be prison guards and watch these punks work. The 14th amendment does not count for felons and people in jail. Under the 14th amendment, criminals can be used as slaves of the state. The economic incentive helps keep criminals locked up and it is less of a burden on the states.
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  4864. That suburb got rocked.
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  4865. The Euro zone is run by clowns, they want to go green, but green energy technology can't yield enough energy. At the same time, they import expensive LNG from the US.
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  4866. I believe it, because I am living in it. The economy really is getting better, the unemployment numbers are going down, more homes are being sold, more cars are being sold, more stuff is being produced in the U.S.A., the stock market rebounded, gold+silver are being crushed. Welcome to the recovery!
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  4867. Alex Jones is a fat ambulance chasing conspiracy theorist.
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  4868. This isn't surprising. If anyone you know dies from this, you know to blame. Donald J Chump. You can hit back this November by voting this conman out of office.
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  4869. The U S is Karen nation that goes into everyone else's business, yet they can't solve any problems at home. Reminds me of this person at work, she would always try to go see what everything and criticize people. At the same time she never got any work done.
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  4870. Those punks won't be bothering anyone anymore.
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  4871. Good reflexes.
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  4872. Cheap energy is what fuels economic growth. Somehow the collective West believes renewable energy can replace oil, LNG, coal, and uranium. Renewable energy is good, but it isn't enough to provide for the needs of 8 billion people. Renewable energy can supplement legacy energy sources, but it cannot replace it. The BRICS nations have rational people running their governments, while the collective West has idealogues running their governments. Most of these ideologies aren't realistic, because your beliefs and reality are two different things.
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  4873. Chump wants to be the mustache man.
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  4874. Welcome to the Gig economy where you the people who work for the least amount of money get all the work.
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  4875. Let's see,. China is the largest vehicle market in the world, and Chinese people aren't buying brands from G7 countries. These G7 automakers can produce their vehicles in China, and they can sell it in G7 countries. This way, Chinese people are hired, but Chinese people don't have to buy it. Chinese people can buy Chinese vehicles which are less expensive and better. Problem solved. LOL
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  4876. It doesn't make any sense, a 10 year would know that. They must think we are pretty d-u-m-b.
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  4877.  @rapper4orty2  Exactly. They d-u-m-b down the people, and take rip them off.
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  4878. He looks like a big fat orange loser.
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  4879. I think so, he said gold will go to $600 back in 2013.
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  4880. Bitcoin doesn't come close to gold in anyway. LOL
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  4881.  @MrB1923  no government in this world will take it as payment for their taxes. No bank will accept it as a debt payment. What can you buy with it?
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  4882.  @MrB1923  If your Bitcoins get stolen, you can never get it back. If someone stole my credit card and used it, I can call the bank, and they can do a charge back. This is because there is arbitration. Anyways, the exchanges where you put your Bitcoins are regulated, so you better provide all that paperwork to the government at the next tax season. If you don't, the IRS will simply audit you, and you know the IRS right? There is no due process with them, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent, not the other way around. The IRS can look into your credit card history, bank history, find out how much you deposited into coinbase, your bank account, etc. All they have to do is subpoena for those records from the cryptocurrency exchanges or your bank. If you bought a $100,000 car, the auto dealer is required by law to report any transactions over $10,000. There is no escape.
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  4883. This reminds me of the dot com bubble, stock market bubble of the 1920s, and the railroad investment bubble in the 1860s. I wonder what the fallout is going to be for the AI bubble. Will it be, like the Panic of 1873, the stock market crash of 1929, the stock market crash of 1987, the dot com crash of 1999, or the crash of 2008. Stay tuned and witness events as they occur!
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  4884. He should not be allowed to run for a 2nd term, because he is a traitor.
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  4885. Merica did it!
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  4886. If the Fed reverses policy to cut rates, we will just have higher inflation. Either way, you will pay for it. $6/gallon for gasoline or raise interest rates.
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  4887. China is investing in its people, while the US gives out corporate welfare.
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  4888. The law was unconstitutional from the time it was enacted. It is the Federal courts to strike down any state or local laws that violates constitutional amendments. The law didn't prevent thugs from getting semi-automatic pistols, carbines, shotguns, and rifles. They could always get their stuff out of state.
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  4889.  @dynasty5053  These people know they screwed everyone. When this house of cards come falling down, they know who the people are going to go after. This is why they are doing this to divert attention.
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  4890. The deep state does not exist.
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  4891. I have a solution, don't buy Apple products.
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  4892. Looks like it is a viable alternative to using the SWIFT system.
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  4893. Protest on the side of the road, not on the road.
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  4894. E Sterling, exactly. They are all idiots. Fox News is the definition of fake news. Alex Jones was supporting Donald Trump, and I am glad they got banned. One less fake news channel polluting Youtube and other social media sites!
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  4895. Bill NcNeely, Alex Jones is similar to Rush Limbaugh, they both make pull facts out of thin air and make things up. Alex Jones lives in the world of make believe, so does Donald Trump. LOL
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  4896.  @cszuhan  That is why a carnival barker, like Trump can become president. He is very good at putting on a show, but he doesn't have the skills or experience to manage anything.
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  4897.  @frustationoverloaded5976  During the Iraq War, very little of the oil the US was stealing got out of the country. Many oil trucks were destroyed by insurgents, they damaged oil pipelines. Don't believe me? There are tons of footage of it filmed by insurgents and US soldiers showing this type of carnage. Oil prices went up from 2003 to 2008, the US benefiting from the invasion of Iraq is nonsense. Price of oil in 2000 was $1/gallon, and the price of oil in 2008 was $4/gallon. I guess, you are a product of the American educational system.
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  4898.  @kingwarrior5028  In a global recession, people will get poorer, but at least you don't have lawlessness like in the US. People breaking into stores in broad day light is a common occurrence in the US. I look at the local news every day, a group of people rob a Macy's, a group of people rob a jewelry store, a group of people rob a Home Depot, a group of people rob a Target Dept Store, all the stores in a shopping center gets broken into every week, thieves break into a farmhouse, thieves stealing catalytic converters from vehicles, a group of thieves rob a Neiman Marcus, home invasions, carjackings, the KIA boys stealing cars, etc. Such a great society isn't it. I don't even go out anymore. All of my friends told me that they witnessed robberies in major department stores in broad daylight. I don't even go out. I am fortunate that I have the luxury of working from home. If I have to shopping for groceries, I buy about 5 months worth in one trip, and the other stuff in just shipped to me.
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  4899.  @marknunya3107  People in China are better savers than Americans. East Asian people in general are better savers, it doesn't matter where they live. They could be living in the US, Europe, Australia, Africa, etc.
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  4900.  @marknunya3107  I usually take vacations during a recession, and work hard when the economy is good.
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  4901.  @soroyapenney6228  The US loves wars, because the defense industry gives politicians to start wars so they can sell more weapons.
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  4902.  @badguy5554  During the Korean War, the PLA didn't have much, but they were able to prevent the U S from taking over all of the Korean peninsula. They had much less stuff in 1951 compared to what the PLA has today.
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  4903. Amazon pays about $13.85/hour, and you can work up to 80 hours per week. If you work 80 hours a week, you can make $57,616 a year. If you work 40 hours a week, you can make $28,808/year. At least Amazon pays better than Walmart. You can make a living wage if you work 65 hours a week at Amazon. Walking 15 miles a day is good for your health, good exercise.
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  4904. There were so many empty seats in parliament. You can assume all the people who didn't come were paid off by big pharma, or they took the vaccines and don't want to hear it, because it would make them anxious. Government officials being bribed by a for profit corporation is just a shame. A lot of these medications cause more side effects than treating the medical problems people have. If this is true then millions of people were put at risk from a experimental medical treatment. They need to be held accountable.
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  4905.  @among-us-99999  If videos aren't monetized, and people watch them Youtube loose money. It costs money to store videos on servers, it costs money to process videos before they are posted, it costs money to provide the bandwidth for people to watch those videos, etc. This is why Youtube stated on December 10th, 2019, they will start deleting Youtube accounts that aren't economically viable. Youtube is still in business, because they are subsidized by Google. In reality, Youtube is losing billions of dollars every year. On Dec 10th of this year, Youtube will probably delete thousands of accounts. They will determine if your channel is profitable to them or not, and if it isn't then they will delete it. A lot of Wall Street backed companies, like Uber, Lyft, Amazon, Youtube, etc are mostly living off of investor's money. They are being subsidized by investment money which is sold to the public in the form of stocks. That's it. Once the money starts to run dry, these stock prices will drop, and these companies will go under.
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  4906.  @among-us-99999  People were getting around the demonetization of politically charged channels by using Patreon and getting donations from other sources. People who were talking about controversial topics were getting demonetized since 2017. Controversial topics tend to get a lot of views, it doesn't make any sense for Youtube to not monetize these channels, because it is costing Youtube money. Youtube isn't interested in being a forum for political discussion, it is a forum for people to make money, and for Youtube to make money in the form of advertisements. I heard a lot of talk about these disgruntled people who said they could start their own platforms. Good luck with that, you will have to spend millions of dollars to get started. You need to investment in enterprise grade servers, the personal to maintain it, the bandwidth, the space for the servers and other equipment, the cost of electricity, a website, etc. All this costs a lot of $$$$$, so if this wasn't free. You would have to pay for it, the viewers would have to pay for it, like $20 to $30 per month. If Youtube cost money for people to watch, not many people would be watching it. It's as simple as that. Unless the content is really interesting, I will probably not pay $15 to $30 a month to be subscribed to one channel.
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  4907. Dump is a big idiot if you don't know that, you are a bigger idiot.
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  4908. Another one bites the dust .
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  4909. The Microsoft Windows license keys are burned into bios of the computers. So if you get a Dell computer with Windows 8 on it, and the hard drive dies. You can use a copy of Windows 8, and install Windows 8 on it. After the installation, Windows 8 is automatically activated even without entering any key codes. What happened to this man isn't right, because he didn't pirate anything.
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  4910. It is true Herr Lamia, the weather has been strange around the world, and this does affect corp production.
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  4911.  @CyrilViXP  I peoples attitudes on homosexuality has changed a lot compared to the people who lived in the 1900s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. About 100 years ago, most people were not as politically correct as they are now.
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  4912. Yellen is not telling the truth. Things aren't good. Property tax, homeowners insurance, car insurance, utility bills, petro, health insurance, car repair, food, etc. All are still high, and prices haven't come down much.
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  4913. Looks like the Democrats are going to lose in 2024. LOL
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  4914.  @Red1555-i6s  It is, but you cannot not have health insurance if you live in the US for a number of reasons. What if you have to go to the ER, or the ICU?
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  4915. This will result in inflation, and higher interest rates.
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  4916. I can't believe Dr. Wolff got hosted on Fox News. I thought Fox News was a extreme right wing media organization. They thought they could make a fool out of him, but they couldn't. LOL
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  4917. How about punching them in the face. The only way stupid people learn is when they feel physical pain.
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  4918.  @Tat2Dragons  Police aren't responding to non emergencies. If you're one of those idiots who think it is funny to sneeze, spit, and cough on people will realize you could get a beating and police will not respond.
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  4919.  @Tat2Dragons  You must not have very much going on with your life, I hope you run out of money, and go on a diet. LOL
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  4920. Mistreated, beaten, and eaten. Could it get any worse?
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  4921. Chump wants to be chumpilter.
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  4922. Merica is becoming a joke. LOL
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  4923. Stupid people voted for him, so its on them.
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  4924.  @vinceb4380  They can do that too. Since everyone has legs they can walk. They will lose a lot of weight doing it, people in the West are fat anyways. ROFL 😆
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  4925.  @yurichtube1162  It is a fantasy, because they are still highly depend on fossil fuels. These are the same people that believe there are 1000 genders.
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  4926.  @vinceb4380  A lot of the food we eat are produced from farming machines that use oil. Pesticides are used from petro-chemicals as well. It takes a lot of energy to make this food, so people will not be raising horses as a mode of transportation. It would be too expensive, horses eat a lot. LOL
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  4927.  @vinceb4380  I think they will be eating insects, meat is too expensive. Cans of Spam are becoming a luxury item in Western countries.
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  4928. There isn't much of a future for engineers, because you have to compete with pseudo engineers with H1B Visas. They don't need real engineers, because the AutoCAD programs do all the math and physics that you learned in school. They can pay these guys a lot less than a real engineer. If you want to be an engineer, or a programmer, you are fine if you start your own company. If you can develop your own products, you can do okay. If you work for others, it is more difficult to do. With the high speed internet, all companies have to do is send the work off to another country where the cost of labor is much less. For example, a computer scientist in India can do programming work for little as $10/hour or less. You can pay them anywhere from $900 to $1600 a month, and they will do any kind of work for you. Same with design engineers. You have engineers from India, China, and Eastern Europe who will work for much less. These guys get paid over the internet, and they send their projects to the people who want it via the internet. This is the kind of world we live. It is highly competitive. You must be diversified if you want to survive.
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  4929. You can get the experience from an internship, they may or may not pay you for it.
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  4930. Modem Mark I don't have anything to inherit, so a estate tax is good in respect to me and millions of others. It will benefit only a handful of people.
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  4931. We just have to find ways to survive.
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  4932.  @Hereford1642  The previous administration already offered F-16s, and it didn't change anything.
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  4933.  @Hereford1642  All Trump has to do is stop giving supplies and equipment to the Ukrainian Regime.
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  4934.  @Hereford1642  All they have to do is stop the flow of supplies, and the outcome will be obvious.
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  4935. How much is 1 AIM-9 Sidewinder missile? $50,000-$60,000. How much oil does the U.S. have? The U.S. has more than 1 trillion barrels of oil if you add up the shale reserves. How much is 1 F-16 fighter? $16-$20 million. How much is 1 Boeing 747? $248 to $350 million. The U.S. produces things of high value, and it has tons of natural resources. The U.S. will be fine, you'll see.
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  4936.  @Leeyouno  I guess, I was wrong.
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  4937. He is racist, and he is acting it out because of Donald Trump.
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  4938. That is why you should have bought a gun a long time ago. Every family needs at least one gun.
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  4939. These bastards shouldn't complain, at least they aren't being fed insects and rats!
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  4940. Most haters are losers.
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  4941. He isn't really a billionaire, he is just a giant debtor.
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  4942. Our economic system is causing this. People lose their jobs to automation, and they get pushed into crappy jobs that pay a half of what they were paid. People fall into despair, alcoholism, drug use, or they blow up and kill a lot of people like this.
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  4943. I don't trust the Republicans and the Democrats, neither of them are good.
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  4944. The S.Korean regime. LOL
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  4945. Deflation is like getting a surgery you need to get to survive, inflation is like being injected with drugs, and hyperinflation is when someone gets a overdose of drugs. Deflation is painful, but necessary. Inflation is like getting high which is bad for you. Too much inflation leads to hyperinflation, and that is kill an economy.
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  4946. This is why I don't shop at retail. This is why brick and mortar stores charge so much more than online.
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  4947.  @scottkrater2131  China produces a lot of vital things, like rare earth minerals, electronic components(resistors, transistors, circuit boards, capacitors, switches, sensors, etc), most of the RISC processors used in appliances, SBCs, guided missiles, automobiles, brakes, drones, etc are all made in China. I am engineer, I import a lot of electronic components from China, like power supplies, circuit boards, capacitors, resistors, all kinds of RISC chips, microcontrollers, single board computers for industrial computers, etc. Most of the rare earth minerals used in US smart weapons are imported from China. A lot of the parts used to assemble US smart weapons are made in China. You're really funny. ROFL
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  4948.  @scottkrater2131  Didn't you hear, TSMC said they will delay contruction of their chip fab in Arizona? Intel announced they are halting construction on their chip fab in Ohio due to a lack of funding and demand. Chinese propaganda? You don't believe me, that is what is happening. Besides, those chips that Intel produce are high end chips that use a CISC architecture. They aren't used in appliances, automobiles, guided missiles, drones, etc. There is no Intel or AMD chip in any drone.
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  4949.  @Xaitis  Foxconn another Taiwanese company, like TSMC promised to build a factory in Wisconsin. They promised to hire over 10,000 people in 2017, it's 2023 and they have less than 1000 people working there. There is talk that this factory will be closed down. TSMC put a halt on their factory construction until 2025, and when 2025 they will make another announcement. We will start construction in 2030, like Foxconn did. I don't think TSMC will go through with it, like Foxconn, because it isn't profitable. Also, TSMC will not give up their technology which is a prerequisite for receiving those tax breaks.
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  4950. China just wants to have trade relations with Africa. Do you think that is bad? You get something, and I get something.
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  4951. Looks like all the problems that plagued the USA in the 1970s, like stagflation, and shortages of energy will be making a comeback. Gold was decoupled from the dollar in 1971, and the petro-dollar was instituted in 1973. Since gold is making a comeback, and the petro-dollar is being abandoned by the Saudi Arabia spells big problems from the USA.
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  4952. You are going to see a lot of E-lon's fanboys sleeping on the sidewalk near the city near you. LOL
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  4953. Capitalism is broken.
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  4954. A country that didn't have any aircraft carriers 11 years ago now have three aircraft carriers. Who knows how many they will have in 10 years from now.
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  4955.  Kelly Bono  About 23 years ago, China couldn't build destroyers, frigates, corvettes, or ocean going ships. The PLA navy can produce coastal defense missile boats to aircraft carriers. A country that was building cheap plastic things can build computer processors, state of the art fighter aircraft, all types of ships, etc. I wouldn't underestimate em. In 10 years, I think they will be the number one economy in this world.
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  4956. He doesn't deserve a penny.
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  4957. The US has a fakemocracy. LOL🤣
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  4958. I guess, we will go into a stagflationary depression. We have inflation due to the lack of products, and goods. At the same time, we will see deflation in other things due to the lack of liquidity in the economy. This will lead to a lot of people getting laid off, like a traditional recession, but it will not lead to lower prices for essential goods, like food, microprocessors, automobiles, medicine, etc. The price of a good is set by how much is produced, and the weather isn't something central banks have any control over. Geopolitics plays a role in goods being produced, like sanctions against other countries. For example a sanction against China to prevent them in getting equipment to produce microprocessors, sanctions against Russia to prevent them from shipping nitrogen based fertilizers, etc. Supply chain issues are not something central banks have any control over. If the ability to supply goods is affected in anyway, it will create a shortage and prices to rise regardless of central bank policies.
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  4959. miapdx Hate is not of God.
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  4960. Trump urging Russia to hack Hillary's email https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQb2S4DIcNc
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  4961. NathanHVAC is a troll, don't respond to him.
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  4962.  @NathansHVAC  You are going to doxxed.
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  4963.  damn boi  Getting doxxed is something that can happen to anyone in this day and age. People who post videos on Youtube which are racist, or sexist get doxxed all the time. Trolls get doxxed all the time. You have to be very careful about what you post on social media these days. The point is, there are hackers or hacktivists out there who will find out everything about you if give them a reason to.
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  4964. Dress in nice clothing, drive a fancy car or cars, and women will be attracted to you. It works for me. When a girl asks you to buy them a drink, buy em a drink at the bar.
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  4965.  @thinkoutsidethecontainer  I am not a boomer, I am a gen xer.
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  4966.  @joejoejoejoejoejoe4391  What do you do for a living Joe?
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  4967.  @joejoejoejoejoejoe4391  That's cool. I know the feeling of being rejected like that. When I was younger, I was in the same shoes as you. It's tough being broke, I've been there. I hope you have better luck my friend.
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  4968. Pumpkin head Jones must be worried now, because he used Youtube to become popular, and that platform is no longer available to this nut.
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  4969. It's very simple, don't take drugs. Say no to drugs.
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  4970. The mainstream media lost all of its credibility, this is why its dying.
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  4971.  @Blackwingsss  if you don't pursue higher education then you have to go to trade school, or learn a skill. Most people who graduated college don't make a six figure income. Unless, you majored in computer science or engineering, your starting income will not be that high. If you want to make six figures then you have to get at least a master's degree. Ever since the late 1970s when big corporations had the ability to automate industrial jobs with computers, the value of low skilled labor started to diminish with every passing year since then. The labor intensive industrial jobs were sent overseas where the cost of labor was much less, while the jobs that could be automated were automated out of existence. As a result, computer science and engineering skills became more valuable while unskilled labor became worth less and less. It evolved from full time fastfood work to partime work to now Gig work with no protections. Gig workers are disposable, this is why these platforms aren't responsible for what happens. If a Uber driver gets assaulted, robbed, gets into a car accident Uber is not legally liable. This is the world we live in today.
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  4972. This is free market capitalism in its purest form.
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  4973. They don't offer it at a loss. LOL They don't have to input any capital, the Uber driver is providing his own capital being his/her car. Uber doesn't have any liabilities associated with the cars or drivers. All the liabilities and risks are tied to the Uber driver. The only thing Uber is doing is being a middle man with a smartphone App. Anyone can make an App like that. They are using the Google Maps API.
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  4974. Sounds good to me, they believed chump and this is what they get.
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  4975. I assure you, it is a lot better to deal with us than with them.
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  4976. Brad Christy There is no need to take anyone's property, it could be built from the ground up with grass roots support. With all this technology which is available, it doesn't take much to start a company, look at Uber it is just a smartphone app. People have to spend the time to learn the tech. I had started partnerships in the past with people I knew. Workers could pay a small share of their wages to own a part of the company. Depending on how much they contribute, they will own a stake in the company and share the profits. If the company becomes highly automated in the future, the workers will benefit from it and not be left out.
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  4977. Brad Christy, you believe in the magic of the market, and the market will balance everything out. It takes time to make a business or learn new skills. It takes time and patience or both. It takes time and effort to build business networks. You don't believe in democracy? You don't need to take over someone's business, you can start your own business. All you need is access to capital, the best type of capital is starting a business with zero debt. You can use your own money if you are wealthy enough, or you can raise the funds. When you have a war, people contribute their valuables to the war effort, they give their wedding rings, gold jewelry, and other valuables to contribute to the war effort. The same thing could be said about doing business, it just takes sacrifice at first.
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  4978. Brad Christy, you can start a myriad of different businesses. Food service, software development, web development, small farms, convenience stores, bars, small scale manufacturing, IT service, you name it. Frictions in the workplace all depends on how the business or the enterprise is managed. For example, Honda corporation values the input from its employees. GM has more of a top down approach. I prefer to manage my businesses where the employees are encouraged to have a say and contribute to the company. My ancestors were warlords, generals, and nobles. They started out with small nomadic bands, and shared the spoils of war with the people in their bands. Like Suleiman started with a band of 12 warriors, and he grew it to an army of over 100,000 soldiers. Enough to take out Constantinople in 1453. I prefer to operate within those parameters. The people who contribute more are rewarded, and I will share the profits with the people who work at my company. With my example, the small and insignificant were able to take out the Eastern Roman Empire.
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  4979. N B, Jeff Bezos pays pretty decent wages, and he gives his workers the opinion to work over 40 hours a week if they want to. In return Bezos expects his employees to be 100% dedicated to his business.
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  4980. Capitalism is the relationship between employee and employer. Feudalism is the relationship between the serf and lord. Slavery is the relationship between master and slave. All these systems are hierarchical, and they lead to stratification of society. Slavery is a bad system even if the people who participate in the system may not be evil. It is a brutal institution never the less kept in place by whips, guns, and chains. Feudalism is a backward system. Capitalism is system that leads to inequalities. A worker cooperative is an old idea, monks used to own the means of production collectively. The best system would be where everything that is essential is controlled by the public sector, and everything that isn't essential is given to private interests. Essential stuff like infrastructure(roads, railways, ports, airports, rail stations, telecom, canals, aqueducts, etc), public safety, military, postal service, energy, medicine, banking, the legal system, policies to provide food security, education, and regulation should all be within the public sphere. All the nonessential things, like running shops, restaurants, businesses like Amazon.com, and other things should be within the realm of the private sector. Private sphere could be worker cooperatives, or privately owned. Government could not manage the whole economy. If private interests own essential sectors of the economy, they will become monopolies. For non-essentials, it is almost impossible to get monopoly. If the government owned the defense companies, and produced what they needed. We wouldn't have the military industrial complex. If the medical field was controlled by the government, people would be able to get affordable medical care. We wouldn't have private companies like Johnson and Johnson producing products that harm and maim people. If the Federal government had banks that competed with the private sector, private banks would have a much more difficult time influencing politicians with lobbies. Plus, people can get loans at very good interest rates with almost no fees. Lobbies would have no power to pressure governmental bodies to do what they want, because they have no control, or very little control in those sectors. I just don't want capitalism to have too much influence in our economy. Capitalism can stay within the realm of the non-essential sectors of the economy.
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  4981. Brad Christy, I am a Jew, and we do support each other. We have government programs in Israels that help only Jews.
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  4982. Brad Christy, I am statist, and I know everyone who has a stable job or a career is tied to the government in some way and form. For example Medicare is a government program that is provided for people who are 65 years or older. A lot of MDs rely on Medicare, and if it wasn't for Medicare a lot of hospitals and medical practices would be not be open. All of these defense contractors who sell their hardware, weapon systems, software, aircraft, vehicles, firearms, etc depend largely on the government. The government only picks winners and losers, so I know the government can be used to be benefit companies. Free market is bullshit. If you don't have a contract with the government, you ain't going to be able to sell a lot of your stuff. For example, if you sold computers, and you had a contract with the department of education, you can sell a lot of computers. Your idea of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is bullshit. In 1862, the U.S. government gave free land to white settlers called the Home Stead Act. The government seized land from the Indians and gave it to white settlers. Don't give me that bullshit that the government doesn't help people.
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  4983. Brad Christy, I believe the government should help people. I am not against the Israeli government giving land and money to Jewish immigrants to Israel. It is our land, the government should help Jewish people.
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  4984. Bard Christy, I would rather live in a world where we have a socialistic government. All the basic needs are provided for by the state, and where the majority of the people benefit. Karl Marx was a Jewish man who thought capitalism was bad, and he was right. I don't understand, why do we have to work when automation is going to take most jobs from people in the next 10 to 15 years? This idea of making people work for a living is obsolete!!! Everyone should be given a universal basic income, and that should be implemented. If white Christians don't like it, FUCK EM.
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  4985. Brad Christy, I want them to be taxed and pay for my lifestyle, because I am entitled to it!
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  4986. Brad Christy, most of the people who get sick are the people who are over 65. This is why most practices and hospitals rely on medicare . You are such an idiot. LOL
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  4987. Brad Christy, the majority will win; after all, this is a DEMOCRACY. The majority gets their voices heard. If 70% + of the population wants basic universal income in the future, it will happen. The majority will make it happen, and there isn't a thing you can do about it. LOL I didn't ask for powerboats or any luxuries as a entitlement fucktard. I am only asking for entitlements which are basic needs for people. If you want to buy a Mercedes Benz C300, you have to work for that. I just want people to have their basic needs met, like medical care, free housing, money to buy groceries, their utility bills paid, etc. This conservation is over Hitler.
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  4988. Brad Christy, I do contribute to society, I pay my taxes, I go to jury duty, and I had to sign up for selective service before the Federal government gave me a loan for university. Hey you republitard, the republicans use tax payers money to bail out failing industries like the coal industry, and subsidize farmers. They spend billions of dollars to buy new weapons. You're priorities are all fucked up, Republicans and people like you are the enemies of the state. I would rather have our taxpayers money fund social programs, Medicare, Social Security, education, and other programs that help the average person. You're a fucking fascist, so stfu. I am lazy, and I am very intelligent also. I don't work harder than I have to. If I could get 5 hours of work done in 2.5 hours, and still get paid for only 2.5 hours of work. I would do it. I just use what I know to make work more efficient. Your mindset is the Christian mindset of making more and more money. I would just sit around for 2.5 hours of extra time to get paid for it. I would rather go home 2 and a half hours earlier, and do something more interesting. Like playing video games, learning programming languages, learning about programming controllers, or learning stuff about making websites. In the long run, I would benefit more from learning new things.
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  4989. Brad Christy, why the fuck are you here? Most of the people who watch Dr. Wolff are socialist like me, or social democrats. You come here to criticize us? I don't care what you think, you're way of thinking is ALL WRONG.
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  4990.  @bradchristy8429  we don't wanna hear your worthless right wing opinions. Facts my ass. Go back to the Alex Jones or Fox News channels. Whoops, the Alex Jones channel was banned. LOL
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  4991.  @bradchristy8429  I guess, you right wing Trump supporters think people who graduated from colleges and universities are hardcore communists. Rich guys pay people like Dr. Wolff a lot of money for his advice. Your advice is shit. Most right wing media outlets are the ones that spread fake news.
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  4992. Brad Christy, you're a fucking no body with zero views on your channel. You're a troll.
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  4993. Brad Christy, I bet you didn't graduate from college, you sound like Joe the Plumber. LOL Me arguing with Joe the Plumber, just imagine that. It is a compete waste of time. LOL
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  4994. Brad Christy, that is why you're a fucken idiot. You're skills aren't worth shit. I get to work in air conditioned office doing the most minimal amount of work. I majored in computer science and minored in mathematics. Maybe, if you had any intellect, you could understand what Dr. Wolff is talking about joe the plumber. I don't have to work hard, I just have to work smart. I am intellectual, you're a blue collared slave.
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  4995. Kori Jenkins, the Eastern Roman Empire was weakened by the Huns in the 5th century. Then, the Avars, Bulgars, and Slavs. It was again weakened by the Seljuk Turks, they were so badly mauled by the Seljuk Turks they asked other Christian nations for help. This lead to the 1st Crusade in 1096 C.E.. The Latin Crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204. Osman started out with about 12 people in his group and formed it into an army of over 100,000 men. They used hit and run attacks, like the Huns, and Seljuks before them. Go raid the countryside, burn, pillage, and kill. When the enemy arrives in force, just run away. LOL They were able to beat larger Byzantine forces and wipe them out using guerrilla tactics. Using hit and run attacks work, look at the Vietnam War, the Soviet Afghan War, & the U.S. Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  4996. Brad Christy, no one cares about your worthless opinions. So what. LOL
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  4997. Brad Christy, you said you are running a thriving business making tools. You sure do have a lot of time responding to comments from a lazy person like me who works only 25 hours a week. Your business must be slow or something. LOL
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  4998.  @stephenvanwoert2447  If that happens, it will lead to nuclear war.
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  4999.  @vinrael7544  A portion of these weapons are being destroyed on route to the Ukrainian battlefields. They are also being destroyed in depots deep in Ukrainian territory in warehouses by Russian cruise missiles. I guess, the West can keep supply weapons to the Ukraine. Why is the West so hesitant about sending $73 million F-16s to the Ukraine? Why don't they support them all the way, and give them more of their more valuable weapons, like F-16s, Euro Typhoons, Mirage 2000s, etc? Why do they give them outdated weapons, like Leopard 1A5s, Marder AIFVs, Leopard 2A4s, M113 APCs, Stryker Wheeled APCs, etc? What's a matter? LOL
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  5000. Single payer would be a lot better than what we have now. Unfortunately, the insurance companies, drug companies, medical supply companies, and other medical lobbies will do their very best to keep that from happening. There is too much money at stake.
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  5001. I don't think a lot of doctors would sign up for it. Most MDs like to have their own private corporations and private practices. My uncle is a doctor, but he is retired now. He just ran a private practice, and he also worked at the hospital. Engineers are also the same way. They are not the type of people who like to share things with other people.
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  5002. I see.
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  5003. You mean like Kaiser Permanente?
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  5004. How can patients be owners of a hospital?
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  5005. I am sure it would work if you had a lot of members. If you don't have enough members than the cost would be high.
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  5006. It is a great idea. Hopefully it catches on.
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  5007. The Alex Jones crowd are mentally ill, uneducated, gullible, and stupid.
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  5008. Doesn't the US ever learn? Vietnam was a failure, Afghanistan was a failure, and Iraq was a failure. Now, they wan to start another war which will most likely turn into another insurgency war.
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  5009.  Democrat The Party Of Slavery  I majored in electrical engineering and computer science.
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  5010.  Democrat The Party Of Slavery  In my line of work, belief is a worthless word. It is all about knowing and understanding things, and applying it to make things.
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  5011. Wall Street was buying up distressed homes in 2009 to the present.
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  5012. They want to declare martial law to suspend the constitution.
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  5013. HP Ink is like fuel for your HP multi functional device. HP says more money please...... LOL😆
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  5014. One patriot missile costs $4 million, so if the Ukrainians shot down 60 Russian missiles with their Patriots, the cost is $240 million. I doubt it, they are lying.
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  5015. This is why we have so many problems now. The government is allowing the most unproductive people to reproduce.
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  5016. Your mother made a big mistake.
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  5017. Only 33% of Japan's population will be under 65. Hopefully, they will have robots by then.
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  5018. Militias in early colonial America were used for the following. Put down slave revolt, fight Indians, used for policing, fight foreign invasion, etc. They didn't have a strong national army or a police force in the early period of the U.S.A.. In the early days of the Roman Republic, you had a militia system like in the USA. Every man had to buy their own weapons for the collective defense of the city state.
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  5019. America is a lawless place to live.
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  5020. If you vote for a con man, you get conned. It is so obvious, but now these people know. : )
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  5021.  @mikestewart4752  Try paying property tax on a $500,000 home, and that is the average price of a home in the US. You will be paying $5000 to $12,500 per year, and you have to pay homeowners insurance on top of that which is another $4500 to $5500 per year. You need to have $9,500 to $18,000 per year to pay just HOI and property tax. If you add a mortgage on top of that, you need $2,672/month. In one year, you need $41,564 to $50,064 to have a home with a mortgage. You need to earn about $110,000 to $120,000 per year before taxes. Not many people make that in the US.
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  5022.  @ArtIsDrawing  You can defend yourself after you defended yourself, but you need enough money to get a lawyer in court. If you don't then you will be in big trouble.
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  5023. The victim isn't a victim, he is a vicious preda-tor.
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  5024. Western governments extradite people from other countries, stop pretending like you people don't do it!
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  5025. Alex Jones is snake oil salesman.
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  5026. I think Musk supported the wrong candidate, but you can expect this from someone who has autism.
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  5027. Max Keiser is a conman, he was telling people to buy silver to crash J.P. Morgan. That never happened. He just pumped up the price of silver and dumped it after it went up to $50/oz.
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  5028. When the Russians control the above ground area, they can simply pump carbon monoxide gas into the tunnels.
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  5029.  @SuckDeezNutz187  They can simply bury them in there by collapsing the tunnels with high explosives.
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  5030. The man made a mistake of talking to his ex.
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  5031. Even if he stays in office that doesn't mean he won't go to prison after his presidency.
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  5032. You can't just lie your way out of things like criminal investigations. You have to go to court to get them resolved. Since Mueller and the FBI has all the information they need, they will ask your fake president some questions. His answers will not match with the evidence the FBI has, and that is enough to send him to prison.
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  5033.  @jaycee2556  You're a moron, or you are crazy. Are you crazy, or are you just plain stupid, because what you wrote makes no sense.
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  5034. Jay Cee, you're simply stupid, because what you wrote is nonsense.
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  5035. Jay Cee, I'll be fair. Trump can serve out his presidency, and he can go to prison after he is finished. How about that?
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  5036. Rage King, haven't you heard about the Cohen and Manafort trial? Have you just been listening to Fox news and Infowhores? Cohen and Manafort are guilty of committing Federal felonies related to tax evasion, failure to report campaign contributions to Trump which borrowed from the bank, committing bank fraud, etc. These are real indictments that's why the F.B.I. prosecutors won, and these two idiots are going to jail. Cohen stated Trump made him do it.
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  5037. Rage King, I know you don't have college/university degree, you're probably a ignoramus. The F.B.I., I.R.S., and other Federal law enforcement agencies don't stuff up. If you screw up, they will come after you. You're fake president can serve his term for 2 more years, but after his term is over. The F.B.I. will still come after him, and he will not have the protection that he has now as president. No one will pardon your Donald Rump, he and his whole family will most likely get all their assets seized by the Federal government and get locked up. The End.
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  5038.  @jaycee2556  Trump is an idiot, so he will serve out his term. Nixon was smarter, he simply resigned, and he had his vice president pardon him. That enabled him to not go to Federal prison. Rump will lie to the end and live in his own world and believe, I am above the law. That will lead to him and his family going to Federal prison. The F.B.I. knows you cannot indict a sitting president, but they can indict him and convict him after his term is up. The F.B.I. is relentless, they got Cliven Bundy when he went to the airport to meet up with his sons. They didn't go to Cliven Bundy's ranch which was protected by right wing militias. They patiently waited it out until he screwed up.
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  5039. I don't care what you BELIEVe Jay Cee. You can believe you can fly and go up to a 20 story building, and jump. The reality is you can't do it. Believing it and knowing it are two different things. You can believe Trump didn't commit any crimes, but in reality he did. When you jump off a 20 story building believing you can fly, the reality will turn you into street pizza. LOL
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  5040.  @rageking6625 doesn't matter stupid, you don't know anything about me, and I don't believe what you say. Rump committed a crime, and I know 100% that he will go to prison after his term is up. You have no immunity from indictments if you are no longer the president of the USA.
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  5041. That maybe so, but 99.9% of the ICOs don't offer such services. In addition under the new tax reform bill, all crypto to crypto trades are taxed, and using a crypto currency to buy anything is also a taxable event. If you use your Bitcoins to buy a coffee, it is a taxable event. You must report it to the IRS. Also, the transaction fee for sending a Bitcoin to a exchange or using it to buy something constitutes a 19% to 20% fee. You could go through the regular route and not pay that, but your transaction will be at the bottom of the priority list for the miners. It will be in 200,000th place. The miners are going to process the Bitcoin transactions that will pay the premium of 19% or more.
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  5042. I think Bitcoin was created by a group of hackers. They promoted a video back in 2008 called Money is debt, and they were trying very hard to propagated that fiat currencies were inherently worthless. They promoted Bitcoin as the currency that would solve all these problems with fiat currencies. The facts are simple. There is a demand for fiat currencies, because we need to pay taxes with it. Governments can tax land, so we need fiat currencies to survive. Banks that issue loans accept fiat currencies as well. If a bank said they will not take your fiat dollars and they are operating in your country that would be illegal. For one everyone has to pay taxes in fiat, and everyone has debts which must be paid in fiat. There is demand for it, and you cannot argue that fact. Another thing everyone needs fiat currencies. You can buy anything with it. You can buy food with it, you can buy a pair of shoes, you can buy a car, etc. The people buying cryptos are doing it to get rich fast, they are holding it so it goes up and they sell. It is no different from the housing bubble. Back then, people were flipping houses, and that was a form of speculation.
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  5043. The U.S.A. produces oil as well. The U.S. economy produces a lot of things, like oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, copper, iron ore, silver, gold, cotton, wheat, rice, corn, eggs, processed food stuff, medical equipment, parts for aircraft, weaponry for military aircraft, all kinds of ships, automobiles, parts for automobiles, computers, furniture, jet engines, manufacturing machinery, drill bits, medicines, tanks, APCs, trucks, all kinds of defense products, leather, etc. Even if oil may not be traded in dollars, the USA is still a viable economy. This is why a lot of people want to move here and live here. Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency will not be used to trade oil or anything of value, so it is worth as much as people believe in it. That is until like Dr. Wolff said, the price gets to the point where people will not be willing to invest in it anymore.
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  5044. I got badly burned from buying gold from 2011, the same assholes who were pumping up gold and silver back in 2011 are the same punks pumping up cryptocurrencies. People like Max Keiser, Mike Maloney, Robert Kiyosaki, and others were saying gold will go up to $10,000 to $50,000 an ounce. Silver would go up to $500 to $1000 an ounce. That was when silver was about $40 to 50 an ounce and gold was about $1850 to $1900 per ounce. Boy did I get suckered into it. If anyone tells you something is going to go to some ridiculous price, it is a scam. I am not buying Bitcoins or any cryptocurrencies, because it is just a giant pump and dump MLM pyramid scheme. The word Libertarian and trust don't belong in the same sentence. I already made my money on Bitcoins, I bought 10 Bitcoins for $10 in 2012, and I sold them all for about $4000/bitcoin around November 2017. I am just happy I made up all my losses for buying gold, and platinum from 2011.
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  5045. I don't believe your bull crap, and I will keep my fiat currencies in the bank where it is safe up to $250,000 covered by the FDIC.
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  5046. Hopefully gold and platinum goes up. Dr. Wolff is right about one thing, the real economy is very sluggish. That is why commodities, like oil, platinum, copper, gold, silver, and others are much lower than they were compared to 9 years ago.
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  5047. There is no way to know for certain if Bitcoins will go up to $100,000, or $1,000,000 per Bitcoin. It can go to zero as well.
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  5048. It will become a centralized network using blockchain technology, not the distributive network system they are using now. That kind of defeats the purpose of Bitcoin doesn't it? It was all about decentralization, but it will move towards centralization.
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  5049. The transaction fees for Bitcoin are too high, it is like 19 to 22%. It is much higher than credit card fees which are about $1.00 per transaction. If I lost 19 to 22% per transaction, it is worse than the banks or credit card companies. In addition, there is a risk of the money getting hacked if your computer gets hacked. If you put the money a cryptocurrency exchange, it can get hacked and stolen. There is no recourse of getting any of it back. If someone stole my credit card, I could report it to the bank that issued it. I am 100% covered. If someone steals hacks into my bank account and steals money, that too is covered by the FDIC. I don't care if the government creates money out of thin air. They can get that money out of circulation with taxation. Also, the central banks can change the interest rate to combat inflation, and if there is too much deflation they can decrease interest rates. Fiat money is fine with me, I can always buy something with it. I can also put the money into real assets, like cars, computers, gold bars, and businesses.
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  5050. I can buy everything this country produces with fiat dollars. I can go buy a computer, LCD TV, fan, houses, all kind of consumer goods, tools, etc. Don't tell me this money is worthless.
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  5051. You just believe that you will get rich from Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies. People can believe in whatever they want. Just because you believe in something does not make it reality. When reality hits you in the face, there is no way to avoid it. When the government comes to collect on your student loan debt, or garnishes your wages. That is reality. Believing you're invincible riding a motorcycle, and getting your body mangled in an accident is reality. The fantasy is believing I can make money by gambling, the reality is losing it all in a blink of an eye. Since you millennials are so smart, you can believe in whatever you want. You just can't escape reality.
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  5052. No, central banks aren't afraid of Bitcoins or any cryptocurrencies.We all need fiat currencies to pay various taxes, like excise taxes(applied to cigarettes, gasoline, etc), property taxes, sales taxes/value added taxes, car registration fees, business license renewals, income tax, etc. All that fiat currency can be absorbed by fees, and taxes. In turn, the tax money is used to maintain the infrastructure of the city, or state. It is used for national defense, education, public safety, etc. You also have debt with interest that people owe. If you bought a house with a loan, you owe money to the bank. You have to pay your mortgage every single month for 15 to 30 years. Banks will not take Bitcoins as payment for your debts. If you buy a car with a loan, you have to pay it back with fiat currencies. Most people in this world have debts, and those debts have to be paid back with fiat currencies. Your cryptocurrencies aren't worth anything in the real world. People are merely speculating it to get rich fast. They will dump it for fiat currencies. If that is false then why did Bitcoin drop to $11,000/btc today? It dropped from $20,000/btc in mid Dec 2017 to $11,000/btc today. You can believe Bitcoins can go up to $1,000,000 per bitcoin, $1 billion per bitcoin, or whatever. Doesn't mean it will go up those numbers. It could as very well go to 1 cent. You believe whatever you want, and you live with the decisions you make.
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  5053. I am not going to pay $10,000 for a Bitcoin. I work in the tech field, I am a programmer, and I have a major in mathematics and a minor in computer science. Don't give me that crap that Bitcoin is innovative.
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  5054. I worked with distributive ledgers, and it is far less efficient than using a distributed centralized ledger system. I work with this stuff everyday. Visa can process about 10,000 to 15,000 transactions per second. Bitcoin and its derivatives can process about 4 to 24 transaction per second. You telling me that Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, or Bitcoin gold can become a global currency? If you add up all the cash transactions just in the USA, it must be over 1 billion per day. That comes out to about 11 million transactions per second. Just today, cryptocurrencies lost about $200 billion in market cap, I guess the people who were in it were just in there to take their profits and get rich from it. Most of them never intended to keep it for the long run. Central banks can adjust interest rates, so if inflation becomes a problem. Central banks can increase interest rates, and that will bring down inflation. That will make money more scarce, because less people would be willing to borrow money at let's say 15% oppose to 2%. LOL You millennials are so damn stupid.
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  5055. World isn't perfect, we have to live within our means. The world has limited resources and everyone can't have everything they want. You seem like a millennial who is drowning in student loan debt, like most people in your generation. If is funny how you millennials buy $2000 Macbooks, $1000 Iphones, try to get people into pump and dump cryptocurrency schemes, buy cryptocurrencies with credit cards, and complain about having so much debt. It is the way you live. Live with it.
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  5056. It is very easy to lose everything in the USA, and end up in the street. Very easy. That is what freedom is all about, it is about being able to do what you want and having to live with the consequences. If you wish to go to Las Vegas and gamble all you money away, you have the freedom to go broke and live in skid row. If you're gambling all of your money plus using credit cards to buy cryptos, and if cryptocurrencies crash. You have the freedom to go broke and live in the street. That's reality. The world doesn't revolve around you millennial. In life things happen that can affect you in a positive or a negative way.
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  5057. If the banks weren't bailed out in 2008, your bank deposits would all be gone. You would have economic turmoil the very next day when people can't withdraw money out of their bank accounts. The government did the right thing bailing the banks out, because the alternative would have been worse.
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  5058. Central Banks were created as a way to regulate inflation and deflation. They were also created to flood liquidity to the economy in the case of a emergency. Governments are responsible for national defense, public safety, enforcing laws, social welfare, collect taxes, and maintain the infrastructure in a state.
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  5059. The economy didn't recover from 2008, because if it did really recover. Then, interest rates wouldn't be this low. The interest rates were low from 2009 to 2018 that is 9 years of very low interest rates. If the Fed did raise interest rates to 5%, I am certain the stock market, real estate, and other asset markets would crash. The only reason why stocks and real estate are going up is because interest rates are very low. You are right that we will have a major event in the future. As a result of these very low interest rate policies, many many bubbles were created in the economy. People who would normally put their money in the bank that got 5% interest rather put their money into speculative assets, like stocks, or they would park it in real estate. As a result, stock prices have been going straight up from 2008 to the present. Real estate prices went up as well, and rents went up even more. All this could pop in the future.
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  5060. The collective West is going to produce these drones with parts they buy from China. ROFL 🤣
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  5061. The shooter in Las Vegas was a millionaire, so he didn't need a job. He was just a psycho.
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  5062. LOL. Alex Jones and his listeners are morons.
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  5063. Libertarianism is nonsense.
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  5064. Didn't chump egg on those domestic terrorists? Now, he will go after them. LOL
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  5065. A Jones is about 1 year older than me, but he looks like a 60 year old man. Living a life like that can do that to you.
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  5066. Soldiers fighting with rocks, sticks, and fists. This is something new, and people got killed. This is something new.
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  5067.  @rahulsaini7143  It is the middle of nowhere, and if you don't get medical attention, people can die from their injuries.
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  5068.  @LungaMasilela  The currency that we used is backed by GDP(Gross Domestic Product), it isn't backed by gold. If you have a productive economy producing a lot of cars, trucks, computers, refrigerators, electronics, hamburgers, hotdogs, etc then you have an abundance of goods. If you have too much of something then the price usually goes down. It's supply and demand. Right now, we have a shortage of goods due to supply chain issues. If a car manufacturer cannot get the chips and other parts to finish their vehicles then you have a shortage of automobiles. If a home build cannot get all the materials to compete a house then there will be a shortage of homes. You are able to print money based on what the economy produces. If you don't have the production capacity then the money becomes worthless.
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  5069.  @marshallsweatherhiking1820  It is created out of thin air by central banks, and lent out to people.
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  5070.  @marshallsweatherhiking1820  It is created out of thin air by central banks, and lent out at interest. This is why there is always more debt than money in circulation. Money lent out at compounding interest over a period of time, short term or long term.
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  5071. You had kids late. My friend who is a medical doctor had his kids when he was 31 or 32. He is about 48 years old, and his kids are 15 and 16 now. Another one of my friends had his first child when he was 33 and 38. His kids are about 10 and 15 . The first four years of raising a kid is difficult, but after 4 years kids are easier to raise.
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  5072.  @gilangputra7514  Exactly. Trying to launch an assault without adequate air cover is disastrous. We shall see what happens when the Ukrainians decide to start their offensive. I can imagine it would be like someone battering themselves against a concrete wall. LOL
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  5073. It's simple, don't watch CNN ever.
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  5074. That is pretty cool.
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  5075. This looks like genocide.
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  5076. Trump is asking his hardcore supporters for help.
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  5077.  @olderchin1558  Modern Intel and AMD CPUs have RISC and CISC cores. Nvidia GPUs also have RISC cores. RISC cpus are getting powerful, like smartphone CPUs. I do see an advantage to using RISC processors as servers vs. using CISC servers in that, RISC processors consume a lot less energy. RISC and RISC-V have a wide range of uses, it is used in video game consoles, smart TVs, mobile devices, drones, microcontrollers, automotive, aviation, etc. I am sure China will have its chip based on RISC-V. It does need a lot of development, and it needs a ecosystem where many people develop applications for it.
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  5078. The sooner the world decouples from the West, the better. These people are a bunch of hypocrites, liars, raiders, barbarians, and thieves.
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  5079. There are more than 11,000,000 of em, and hundreds were deported. Let's say they are able to deport 500 people in a day then it will take 60 years and 3 months. There are 70,000 people that enter the US in a day. More than 500 people enter the US from other countries in day, so it will take more than 60 years to deport em all wouldn't it?
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  5080. Some parts of the economy can be capitalistic, but the vital parts of the economy should be socialistic. Vital things, like medical care, energy production, mining, national defense, public safety, and infrastructure. The privatization of infrastructure, like railroads, roads, highways, canals, and ports has caused these essential parts of our country to decay. Capitalists only care about profits, and they will sacrifice public safety which will result in bridges collapsing, rail accidents, under investment in ports, etc. As for the non essential things in our economy, like companies that produce stuff like combs, video games, furniture, toothpicks, toothbrushes, electronic gadgets, wigs, hotdogs, cakes, frozen food, loaves of bread, small farms, etc should function as capitalist entities. People should be encouraged to start small businesses. As for the vital things in our economy, it should be in the hands of the government.
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  5081.  @helengarrett6378  There are some things that the public sector does a better job at, and there are things the private sector does a better job at. All vital things, like medical care, infrastructure, housing, natural resources, national defense, and utilities should be owned by the public. Just look at the mess we are in when these things are privatized. Capitalist entities must not be allowed to have monopolies in vital things. The other non essential things cannot be monopolized, so allowing private ownership is okay. Besides, the government cannot manage every aspect of the economy, this is why the Sovet Union failed. The Yugoslavian and Chinese model is a better alternative.
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  5082. If people are welling to work for lower wages, you can't not make them work for those lower wages. We have all these pressures that are driving down wages, like globalism(global competition), over population, outsourcing of jobs, automation of jobs, H1B Visas, undocumented workers, etc. I am a free lance computer programmer, and I have to compete with competition overseas, H1B Visa holders, etc. If you force companies to pay higher wages, they will simply automate most tasks. We have the technology to do that now.
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  5083. You can take $1,000 out of your retirement fund without penalty, but you have to pay a 30% income tax on it. ROFL 🤣
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  5084. America is a dangerous place to live. The only way to make it safer is by banning guns from people who don't have a occupation that requires it.
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  5085. Racism isn't rampant in China, it more rampant in your curry nation.
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  5086. You just don't understand how fast robotics and computer technology is advancing. There will be automated drones in a few years from now. You have aircraft that can land without a pilot, it would take about a decade before AI exceeds human intelligence. You will see humanoid robots in a decade if not sooner.
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  5087. Trump doesn't understand the difference between someone laughing at you, and someone laughing with you.
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  5088. The US is a barbaric country, so you can expect this kind of barbarism.
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  5089.  @muddyriverdogz  The US dollar became the world reserve currency after World War 2. Remember, the US won World War 2. Tariffs and duties were relaxed after World War 2. Tariffs were gradually replaced with income tax. Prior to Trump, we had high income tax, and almost no duties or tariffs. Now, you still have high income tax, and Trump is pushing for higher tariffs. Something has to give, or you will have people literally not having enough money to provide for themselves. They can use credit cards and debt to an extent, and these will eventually have to be paid back with interest.
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  5090. Hey, I have a family to support, and others do too. If you aren't contributing to that, be quiet.
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  5091.  Actual Scientist  Gasoline would have to be $8/gallon when that happens.
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  5092.  @scabu3  In today's money $50 in 1980 is equivalent to $156.50. $1 in 1980 is about $3.13 in purchasing power today. Silver hasn't kept up with inflation. On the other hand, gold was $800 in 1980. In today's money, gold should be $2504. Gold also didn't keep up with inflation. If you bought Toyota stock in 1982 when it was $14/share, and today it is about $127. If you invested $50,000 in Toyota stock, $50,000 in silver, and $50,000 in gold. Toyota stock = $453,571 silver = $23,000 gold = $116,250 kept it in cash = $50,000
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  5093.  @scabu3  No it was not. A loaf of bread in 1980 was about 50 cents.
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  5094.  @scabu3  A loaf of bread in 2020 costs about $5.00. A loaf of bread in 1980 was about 50 cents to 75 cents. Silver was never a good investment. You could have made much more money investing in stocks, or investing your time learning computer programming than investing in silver.
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  5095. The only way for the economy to totally collapse is if we had World War 3, or a devastating natural disaster.
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  5096. Modern day slavery.
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  5097. Everything the US tries to contain China, they never succeed in it. 🤣
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  5098. The democrats favorite people did that.
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  5099. Peter, most of these broke ass millennials can't afford to buy an ounce of gold.
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  5100. Making false claims that results in people getting injured or killed is a crime, like Elon Musk claiming self driving in his cars is full self driving. Elon Musk's business model is simple, make outrageous claims, and get people to invest money in him. He doesn't have to show anything for it, and if doesn't happen. Well I used all your money to pay myself $30 million/year, pay my employees, and pump and dump stocks. Don't be a sucker.
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  5101. The US was held together by polarization. If one group gets too powerful then people were and are allowed into the country. The new immigrants would work for less and compete with the people that immigrated earlier. People are divided over politics, class, ethnicity, race, sports teams, etc. People are divided and fighting over trivial matters, and the real issues get pushed aside and forgotten. In other words, people are distracted, and misinformed. They wonder why their lives are getting worse. Now, the game is about blaming others, and there will be more of that as things get worse.
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  5102. Employers and companies can set prices, but there is always competition. The ability to set prices is dependent on two thing, the amount of competition in that product line, and uniqueness of the product. If the business is relatively easy to start then you have more competition. In that scenario, you cannot raise the price, or you will go out of business. If it is a unique product, like advanced technology which is protected by a patent, or a industries that requires a lot of capitol, like brewery business, automobile manufacturing, energy business, and other types of heavy industries. Then, they can raise prices, because there aren't a lot of competitors in that field. It really depends on what the product is, because businesses with a lower cost of entry will always have more competition. Hence, more supply of those goods, and that would drive down the price.
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  5103. Punk deserved it.
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  5104. Tucker got fired for costing Fox News Network $787 million from a lawsuit from Dominion voting machines.
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  5105. They can't fix the problem.
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  5106. Do what I did, use your education to start your own business.
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  5107. Looks like Japan and the US is going down.
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  5108. Karen started, and she deserved it 100%.
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  5109. Anti-tank guns are suppose to be low to the ground, so they can be hidden. This thing is a little too high to be an effective anti-tank gun, your opponents can spot it very easy. It doesn't have advanced sensors, like thermal optics, the gun isn't stabilized, so it cannot shoot on the move. You can only fire it when the crew is outside of the vehicle. It's just an easy target if it encounters apcs, aifvs, gunship helicopter, or mbts.
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  5110.  @tommiturmiola3682  Anti tank missiles replaced anti-tank guns in most armies, because they can be mounted on all kinds of vehicles, like jeeps, hummers, attack helicopters, APCs, AIFVs, and they can be carried by infantry. Missiles are more expensive than individual tank gun rounds. A tank gun shell costs about $1000 to $2000 each, a guided missile costs about $33,000 to $150,000 a piece. Some military engineers should try to develop a light tracked vehicle with a main battle tank on it. If they make the thing highly automated, they can reduce the crew size to one person.
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  5111. Trump is a flip flopper.
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  5112. Regulations are the root cause of people being replaced by machines? You can't halt technological progress my friend. Once someone invents the better mouse trap, everyone will start to use it. I am sure regulations have a part to play, but it isn't the sole reason. They will be replacing Chinese workers with automated machines in the near future.
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  5113. Most of those dollars are in East Asian countries that have very high population densities. A country like China has about 1.2 billion people, and China might have about $2+ trillion in U.S. bonds or more, but what is $2 trillion over 1.2 billion? That amounts to $1666 per person in China, and that isn't a lot. China, Japan, S.Korea, and Taiwan needs the U.S. to buy their goods. In turn, they buy oil, natural gas, agricultural prod, timber, minerals, medicine, heavy machinery, defense equip, etc
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  5114. We all deserve it, except for those that opposes it, and those people should not get it.
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  5115. China needs to sell all of its US equities, and treasury bonds.
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  5116. The history channel should have you on, and they should make a show called unique guns. LOL
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  5117. My parents are old, like in their 80s, and they get tricked into scams, like car repair insurance, pet insurance, and these bs services. I told them, it is much less expensive to just call up an individual technician or repairman to fix stuff, like refrigerators, washing machines, ACs, etc. They said no, that is expensive. I know those companies that sell that kind of service are a bunch of frauds. They may charge you like $50/month, but they don't have competent people that fix that stuff. My mom got scammed into a pet insurance scam, she was paying like $65/month for it. Those people were totally inept. They got the diagnoses wrong for the dog, they gave him the wrong medications, etc. They would charge for procedures and meds the dog didn't need. It was a money making scam. The dog had a serious illness, so my mom took the dog to a vet my sister knew in local area. He got the diagnosis correct, the dog had a brain tumor. My mom made we waste $700 on medical procedures that didn't do anything. She was saying, I am a moron, because I don't believe people. There is something wrong with you for not believing and trusting people. In her generation, people had a high level of trust. In my generation, it's just a dog eat dog world. There is push to corporatize everything, the older folks believe in it. For me, if I need a service done, I just look up the reviews on the internet, and pick the service provider I need.
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  5118. If this is what they want to do, I don't see a reason why Chinese people shouldn't boycott US brands. This will get the message across.
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  5119. What is wrong with the West, it seems like just about every idea they come out with is stupid, crazy, and doesn't make any sense? ROFL
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  5120.  @JustSomePerson8  In some things inflation is going down, but in most essential items the price isn't going down, like food, and energy.
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  5121. Your perspective seems right.
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  5122. They were too greedy, it's their fault.
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  5123. You're right, the economy would collapse if we had 2 more years of Rump.
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  5124. It is so predictable isn't it. LOL
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  5125. The West is satanic, it has become the Neo-Roman Empire.
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  5126. If the U S navy can't stop the Houthis then the U S is nothing more than a paper tiger.
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  5127. If these foreigners bought up U.S. real estate, it would really bring the housing market out of the slump it was in from 2007. The price of real estate would sky rocket. Let's say there are 400,000 homes worth about $3,000,000 each, there are about 40 million homes worth $300,000+. Can $7 trillion handle it? The sum of all those homes are worth about $13.2 trillion. That is excluding commercial real estate.
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  5128. Not exactly. There is more division and polarity in this country than you think. People are divided over race, political beliefs, religious beliefs, creed, etc. It would be 99% fighting the 1%, it will be 33% fighting the 33%, and 33% fighting the other two.
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  5129. It's going to be like Resident Evil. The masses are the zombies with the zombie virus. Now I understand why they have been making all these zombie movies for the past 11 years. Movies like the Resident Evil 1 to 5, 28 days later, Dawn of the Dead 2004, 28 Weeks later, and Land of the Dead. We are the zombie humans are we.
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  5130. Looks like the US can't compete with Chinese investments in Vietnam, yet you have politicians in the US that still believe the US is relevant on the global stage.
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  5131. Jews are smart and progressive. People like you aren't.
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  5132.  @antediluvianatheist5262  What is with all this anti-Semitism?
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  5133.  @antediluvianatheist5262  they are more open and brazen about their racism after Donald Trump became president.
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  5134. I know why Trump got elected. The reason for it was because of the people in the Rust Belt states whose jobs got outsourced and automated out of existence. Those people voted Obama 11 years ago, because they were expecting better results which might help improve their lives. I guess, their lives didn't improve after 8 years of Obama, so they voted for Trump who was a new comer. They expected him to follow through his promises of bringing back industrial jobs to the USA, and the revitalize their communities. The only thing Trump did was give big fat tax cuts to the top 5% of the population. They got their tax cut money, and put it in the stock market. Made the price of their stocks go up, and gave themselves big fat bonuses. People like who have to work for a living, because I don't have parents who have millions and billions of dollars had to actually pay more taxes. No tax rebates for me in 2018, and 2019. Sure, Trump makes these uneducated people feel good by saying, you are a American American. These others, they AREN'T REAL AMERICANS. Blames other countries, when corporations in this country automated many of their jobs out of existence, and outsources labor intensive jobs out of this country. Like we are going to stick it to China, we are going to stick it to the European Union, we are going to stick it to the Illuminati New World Order(Jews), and we will stick it to illegals(Mexicans and Central Americans). We are going to scapegoat all of these people, and we will make American great again. After 3 years of Trump, nothing has gotten better. The only thing Trump can be credited for is making the equities bubble larger, the real estate bubble larger, and pumped up every other asset bubble. Now Trump is saying, we should lower interest rates to zero. Somehow, I don't think lowering rates to zero from 2.25% is going to do anything. If the interest rates were 8.5% and lowered to 0%, it might have an effect. If it doesn't work, Trump will try to pressure the Federal Reserve chairman to lower interest rates to -1%, or -2%????? Do you know what that means? If interest rates were -2%, and you had $10,000 in your bank account, you would have $9,800 after 1 year, $9,604 after 2 years, $9411.92 after 3 years, $9223.68 after 4 years, and $9039.21 after 5 years. Do you know what kind of backlash that would create here if that happened. He would anger a lot of people.
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  5135.  @antediluvianatheist5262  Thanks, I will watch them later.
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  5136.  @antediluvianatheist5262  Mark Blyth explains everything very clearly.
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  5137. Dr. Blyth makes a lot of sense, and his analysis gives you are very clear overall picture of what is going on in this world.
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  5138. James Gravil That is a good idea. In reality most of those dumb people are dying out. They can't adjust to the current economic reality, so they are taking pain killers which are narcotics and slowly killing themselves. They voted for Trump, so he would give them their non thinking and repetitive factory jobs back. Those dolts don't realize most of those jobs are done by computers and robots in automated manufacturing plants.
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  5139. Mario, because they deserve it.
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  5140. Our leaders are insane. These clowns believe actually believe using nukes won't result in the other side using nukes when they have em?
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  5141. China does not export cars to the USA, Trump is talking out of his ass.
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  5142. That is false. The Fed Fund rate is only 2.25%, payday loans are more than 500% per year.
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  5143. It is bad, but what can workers do about it. Most people do live in a Gig economy, and many people don't have the skills or education to get anything better. How many people can drive a car? A lot of people, so there is a lot of competition. The rates for app based drivers are so low, most don't even break even after they pay all their expenses.
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  5144.  @seanm3226  Everything is just over saturated, too many people completing for finite natural resources, jobs, etc. This equates to the price of labor being undervalued, and on top of that no protection for workers.
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  5145. If you follow a lunatic like Alex Jim Jones, you too will act like a crazy person!
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  5146. This is the 2nd Gilded Age.
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  5147. Mr. Yang is going mainstream now.
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  5148. I am 48, have a home that is paid off, retired, no debts, and not married. My life isn't that much better than that 45 year old guy.
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  5149. LOL
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  5150. The GDP is high due to technological innovations, but it isn't shared evenly with the average person.
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  5151.  @Standinthegap0  The productivity is really that high, but workers have getting more productive due to technology. Most factories and manufacturing plants in the USA are highly automated with computerized control systems. Even the US postal service uses machines in sorting facilities.
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  5152.  davidb693  Yes, I heard about Andrew Yang. The point is, the GDP numbers are real. You can be very productive with computers, computer applications, and algorithms. You really don't need that many people. A lot of people believe we don't produce much in the USA, but we actually do. We produce a lot of the things we need in the USA. People in America believe they are the center of the world, and just because I am not working means the economy must not be productive. That is a false notion.
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  5153. It is impossible to not buy something that is made in China. All the electronic components I use, like micro controllers, single board computers, resistors, transistors, capacitors, circuit boards, microchips, etc. China has a monopoly on rare earth minerals which are used in most electronic components. They produce just about every component that goes into most electronics, like smartphones, motherboards, etc.
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  5154. The US is a lawless country now.
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  5155.  @grayghost20000 having over 3000 lawsuits for not paying people who did work for you, scamming imvestors, stealing money from a charity foundation Trump setup, making a fake university to scam people out of their money, borrowing money from banks and not paying it back, and all the other scummy crap that he did doesn't make him a criminal and a conman?
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  5156. It is making the stock market go up, and this isn't a real measure of the economy.
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  5157. Not really. If these gold and silver bugs are so right, why is gold and silver going down so much? It's really simple, silver isn't money, and gold is sometimes money. What do you expect the government and the central banks to do??? Just let the economy crash into a greatest depression? The banks want to lend money to jump start the economy, and the government wants to see more happy faces :) .People like Wrong Paul, and these anarchists want to see the whole system crash and burn.
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  5158. Trump acts like a dictator telling people to do this and that. Who cares, what he says. The GM factories in China sell to the Chinese market, and the same in Mexico as well. Trump and his hollow threats.
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  5159. That gunman listened to Alex Jones!
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  5160. Chump will make inflation go higher and muricans more impoverished again.
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  5161. See, you can buy a lot of things with those so called worthless paper dollars. I can go to round table pizza and order a pizza with everything on it. These so conspiracy theorists are saying if you don't stockpile can food, water, and silver, YOU WILL DIE!!!!!! AARRRGGGG!!! I am scared! 5 years ago these morons bought thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars on can food. Most of those can food is expired by now. I have paper dollars, and I can eat fresh food. See, what was right?
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  5162. These wealthy liberal types believe being lenient to criminals is a good thing. They will find out their beliefs are false.
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  5163.  @ra5928  There are far right fascist Russians fighting in the Russian army, those guys are neo-Nazis.
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  5164. That's pretty neat. Gold the size of a credit card. Fits nicely in your wallet, LOL. It would be ideal when your traveling abroad.
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  5165. China has a mutually beneficial relationship with countries in Latin America. As a result, countries in South America will have a more stable economy, and this will grow the middle class in those countries. In turn, those people will be consumers for Chinese goods of all type including EVs. As the economies in South America get stronger, less people from there will be going to the US.
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  5166. The smartphone is a product of capitalism, so is Starbucks that is also a franchise of capitalism. LOL
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  5167. The people who buy I-phones every year to keep up with the Jones don't have any right to complain about capitalism. If they do they are hypocrites. On the other hand, the people who keep their smartphones for more than 3 to 4 years and aren't addicted to consumerism can make a statement on rejecting capitalism. The people who drink Starbucks coffee, and by the latest smartphones complaining about capitalism seems like a oxymoron. LOL
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  5168. Redwan Hasan, I am not millennial, but I do see a lot of millennials buying the latest Apple Mac book Pro, I-phone, and other expensive gadgets and they complain about evil bankers and evil capitalism. It just seems laughable.
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  5169. Borrow money from evil bankers by using their credit cards, borrow more money from evil bankers to buy a car, and blame evil bankers. LOL
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  5170. WashingBear, you're right. Initially technology like computers, internet, and telecommunications were initially funded by the government. Then, it was all privatized, and corporations and businesses developed the technology to where it is now. The programming languages, the operating systems, the various components for computers, central processing units, displays, etc. It was all developed by capitalist firms. After World War 2, the people who worked for the government as contractors or worked directly for the government started businesses with what they learned. They learned about various synthetic fibers, plastics, computing machines, engines, and other technologies developed during the war. That is why we had a lot of prosperity after the war. The government developed the new technologies that spurred development in the private sector. It wasn't just combined to make specific technologies, the private sector developed them to the point where they are now. If no one developed those technologies, we would still be using computers the size of entire rooms which has million times less processing power than what we have now. The government in turn contracts people in the private sector to work for them as well, so it goes both ways. The government helps the people, and the people help the government.
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  5171. WashingBear, a lot of the people who worked for the government in the NSA and other intelligence agencies used what they learned to start their companies. You are absolutely right about the core technologies that lead to the development of those technologies were publicly funded.
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  5172. WashingBear, there is a lot of suppression of technology in capitalism as well, because it may make their trades or industries redundant. It usually happens in industries that are highly regulated, but in a purely free market environment it doesn't usually happen. Look at the computer field. That is the freest free market in the world. Nothing is withheld, because you cannot be barred from entry with regulations. Thus, there are no monopolies, which can lead to suppression of technology and innovation. Having purely free markets means no protections for workers, I work in the tech field and there are no worker protections. You get hired out as a independent contractor, and everything is on you. You need to provide for your own equipment, your own healthcare, etc. In the healthcare field, it is highly regulated, and it might be good because you can't have companies selling untested medications to the public or use unproven surgical techniques, etc. At the same time, it leads to monopolistic tendencies.
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  5173. WashingBear, I am all for worker co-ops that compete with capitalistic competitors. If big capitalists see this as a threat, they should be challenged. Worker co-ops should be entitled to all the benefits of a capitalist entity, like tax breaks, access to capital and loans, and protections under the law. Collective ownership of capital is beneficial to society as a whole, and it is democratic as well.
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  5174. Monopolies can be created in a free market environment, and they are always created in regulated markets. Regulations can be used to break up monopolies which were created in a free market environment. Regulation can also be used by capitalist entities via lobbies to stifle competition. There is no one answer fits all, or black and white answers. It isn't as simple as studying Differential Equations, physics, biochemistry, chemistry, or geometry, because there are no right and wrong answers. In politics and economics, it is all based on conditions. I do have grasp of history, I have a double major in history and mathematics. I know history very well.
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  5175. This is what happens when you are a loser like Trump running the economy. A failed business man who will cause the economy to fail. LOL
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  5176. Ink cartridges are very very expensive. Back in the late 1990s, the Canon inkjet printer that I bought cost $39.99, and the ink cartridge cost about $29.99. After that, I started to refill the cartridges, but today they put chips in ink cartridges so you cannot do that. These days, I use a laser jet printer, and buy 3rd party cartridges which cost much less.
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  5177. Trump is a criminal. LOL
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  5178. Losing your job in a recession isn't a new thing. When you have a recession, people usually lose their jobs or go bankrupt. It's a fact of life.
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  5179. Michael Moore is such a fat Marxist loser.
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  5180. 习近平 will be one of the best leaders in Chinese history.
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  5181. A lot of that money gets siphoned off by the administration.
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  5182. I don't get it, why doesn't the city of Los Angeles just build some apartment buildings. Large apartments which has about 100 sqft for each tenant that was be the most inexpensive way to house large numbers of people.
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  5183. Yes, they are!!!!
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  5184. The money we had back in 1941 was backed up by GOLD. In 1971, the US dollar was no longer backed by GOLD, so there is no limit to how much money we can print.
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  5185. The only people who worship Satan are hate filled white nationalists.
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  5186. There are a lot of job openings, because a lot of baby boomers retired.
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  5187. What about getting a license plate?
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  5188.  @botsareeverywhere  The police usually stop and detain people who drive without plates. Where are the police?
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  5189.  @botsareeverywhere  They need to release his name and disclose his address. This type of behavior is not acceptable.
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  5190.  @No_Anime_No_Life.  China has about 1000 nuclear warheads, and delivery systems for those warheads, like SBLMs, ICBMs, hypersonic missiles, and cruise missiles. Keep dreaming. This isn't 1894, or 1937.
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  5191. Exactly, so the point of mass vaccination was unnecessary, but they justed did it to us so they could make a lot of $$$$$$$. This is what happens when you have a government bought off by special interest groups and large corporations. I guess people don't matter money does, it's all so corrupt.
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  5192.  I hate Twitter  Yes, Pfizer made it, but they influenced the government to use their vaccines with lobbying power.
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  5193.  I hate Twitter  Our government is bought.
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  5194. You need to just follow the normal course. Graduate from college, get a 9 to 5 job, do this for 10 to 15 years, save as much as you can, invest it, and try to retire early.
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  5195.  @claybrown1258  We will move all the factories and manufacturing plants back to the USA when the US dollar loses its reserve currency status. When that happens, we can no longer print money to solve all of our problems. We will have to produce things of value, and export it to other countries.
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  5196.  @claybrown1258  They will force people to go to work in 2 months here. This coronavirus will spread here, and it will kill a lot of people. I am sure, it will kill millions of people. In 2 months, this virus will not go away. When this virus comes back, and if it mutates to a deadlier strain it could affect young and healthy people. The mortality rate could be as high as 10 to 20% or more.
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  5197.  @claybrown1258  No one cares about your opinions.
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  5198. @Ben Daulton The cost of labor is less I'm Vietnam than it is in China. China will still produce most of the electronics in this world, because they have a lot rare earth minerals which are required to make circuit boards. They have all the infrastructure and they produce most of the components for circuitboards. It will take years if not a decade to built all that in the USA. I don't even think the US has the capability to produce a lot of these things.
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  5199. @Ben DaultonIt will take years to setup the infrastructure to mine and process rare earth minerals. I don't even know if the US has the technology to process the stuff efficiently. Most of that was lost through the decades.
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  5200. @Ben Daulton you people think it is so easy, it ain't. It takes time patience, and a lot of hard work to develop all this stuff. It will take a decade to build up the industrial infrastructure to build all the components for electronic equipment.
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  5201. @Ben Daulton When all this is over, you better pray that the US doesn't lose its world reserve currency status. The US is in a really vulnerable spot. We can't produce a lot of things that goes into producing complicated machinery, like automobiles, aircraft, helicopters, and other complex machinery. If you didn't know, most of the factories and manufacturing plants in the USA are highly automated. We need a lot of the parts and components that we can't produce to keep these manufacturing plants going. Besides, modern day machinery is very complicated, so no one country can produce all the parts and components to make this stuff work. If we don't get the parts to produce these complex machines, we can see factories starting to break down, tractors not work, combines not working, and we can possibly see a situation like Venezuela. The government keeps printing money, no one takes Venezuela's currency, no one wants it, and when you print too much money and no one wants it. Then, you get hyperinflation, your economy becomes, like Zimbabwe, or Venezuela. Since we are engaged in a trade war with all these countries that idiot Trump started, these things that we need become more expensive. When other decide to dump the US dollar as the world reserve currency then you couldn't buy a lot of the stuff you are able to buy now. It will be too expensive for you to buy it with dollars. It takes years to build up a industrial infrastructure to build anything. It can't come out of your ass like Donald Trump is saying. Trump says, don't worry about it is easy. It ain't.
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  5202. No tariffs on Russia. This shows Trumps true intentions, he is a traitor.
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  5203. The math is simple, $350 billion, and 30 million businesses from large to small. That is $11,666.66 per business. That isn't enough. Large businesses will require more than $11,666.66, they may require $20 million or more. Simply not enough, and next month they will ask for more. LOL
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  5204. About 39% to 50% of the U.S. population owns at least 1 gun or more. You can look it up on government stats, this is for legally owned guns that went through the paper work of the 10 day waiting period. People own guns for various reasons, their jobs may require it, hunting, home security, recreational use, as a hobby, etc.
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  5205. Look at the bright side, with automation, and AI there will be less jobs. Thus, having a lower population maybe a good thing in the long run.
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  5206. China doesn't need Europe anymore, the sooner China decouples from Europe better.
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  5207. 2 income households are a necessity, it isn't a choice for most families these days. You need to make a lot of $$$$$ to have a family. You need to provide health insurance for your children, have a home, get them their own smartphones, buy them clothes, buy groceries for your family, pay utility bills, pay internet bills, pay home owners insurance, pay car insurance, pay car debts, etc etc. Either the man makes $120,000 +/year and have a family wage, or both people work in the family. That's it. You can have a family and all the things that are needed in a marriage if you can afford it. If you cannot then, I guess you are outta luck. Either go out there and make more money, or you are DOOMED.
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  5208.  @kookietherapy9398  "No place to go. Impossible to transit"?
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  5209.  @jimhanratty9543  I don't think so, because most of the loans he handled were related to mortgages.
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  5210.  @juliamaxwellmarin  I guess some people are mean assholes.
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  5211. Yi means one in Chinese.
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  5212.  @klubcj  Honda wants to be number one. If that would ever happen now.
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  5213. No one will shoot up that church. LOL
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  5214. Donald Trump was a Democrat most of his life, don't be fooled by Trump that he believes in Republican ideals, because he doesn't.
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  5215. BRICS nations are ascending, while the G7 nations are on their way down.
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  5216. Tanks are slow and vulnerable to drones armed with anti-tank missiles, and they are vulnerable to anti-tank missiles when they get hit on the top of the tank. In Syria, the Turks lost about 8 Leopard 2A4 tanks which are suppose to be invincible to anti-tank missiles hit from the rear and sides.
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  5217. The U S A looks more and more pathetic everyday. They can keep entangling themselves in more and more problems of their own makings. They can keep inflating their currency until no one will want it anymore.
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  5218. Deport him.
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  5219. Having just cameras is useless, you also have to have a gun to protect yourself.
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  5220.  @1HammerHaunt1  The USSR spent way too much money on national defense. China became US's ally back in the mid 1970 because of president Nixon. This shift in the balance of power caused the Soviets to spend a tremendous amount of money in defense. They produce a lot of state of the art weapons, like the Mig-29, Su-27, BVR missiles, guided missiles, main battle tanks, millions of rounds of howitzer shells, high explosives, nuclear submarines, surface warships, etc. The Soviets lost in Afghanistan in 1988, and 3 years later the Soviet Empire ceased to exist. They neglected their domestic economy, like the US has been doing for a while now. There was a shortage of consumer goods in the 1980s in the USSR, long lines, and high inflation. The US is facing these problems now, tell me it isn't so?
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  5221.  @1HammerHaunt1  The US will have to spend more and more on national defense, yet it doesn't have the industrial capability to produce a lot of weapons and munitions. In the US, you have a huge defense budget, but it isn't efficient in any way. It's inflated. Defense contractors charge a high price and produce a small amount of weapons. This is why Russia is able to produce more weapons at a lower cost than the USA. They can produce most of what they need with a shoe string budget. It's just mathematics, pure and simple. If $2 billion of spending can get you 16.67 million rounds of howitzer rounds in Russia, and $2 billion of spending in the USA can get you 5,000,000 howitzer rounds. If China could produce a howitzer shell for $75/round then they can produce 26.67 million rounds. Their defense budget is much less than the USA, and just means their defense industries are more efficient. Then doesn't this inflated spending mean anything at all?
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  5222. When you have to country that bullies and sanctions countries, the countries that were victims of this kind of aggression don't ever forget about it.
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  5223. Chump is a fascist. Dominate, like what? "When the looting starts, the shooting starts".
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  5224. In addition, millions of people are employed directly by the government as doctors in public hospitals, social services, law enforcement/public safety, court system, universities, schools, public infrastructure, military, and public officials. The people who work for the government buy stuff in the private sector, like electronics, automobiles, computers, homes, books, and many other things that support the general economy. Alex Jones wants to cut the size of government & rely on the private sec
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  5225. The shooter is a racist Trump supporter, right?
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  5226. When I was going to university back in the late 1990s, I knew this one Chinese guy who was from Indonesia. He told me about the anti-Chinese riots and what he went through in that country as a Chinese person.
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  5227.  @EGvids1  A trans man is still stronger than women.
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  5228.  @lauchlanguddy1004  You have women who want to be men, and men who want to be women. The logic is the men who want to be women are really men, and the women who want to be men can fight like men.
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  5229. When you have a troll as the president of the USA, this is what you get.
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  5230. You have a lawless president, so he will do lawless things. He might get impeached again.
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  5231. The end result of Trump pumping all this money into the economy to make himself look good will result in another major crash, like 2008 in 2024. Always ends up like this when we have Republican administrations, it happened in 1987 with Ronald Reagan, it happened again in 2008 with the George W. Bush administration, and it will happen again in 2024 with the Trump administration.
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  5232. The reason why so many people flock to social media platforms is because it is free. I simply won't use Twitter.
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  5233. They don't need it. This is southeastern Ukraine. The Russians have air superiority in this area.
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  5234.  @alexdetrojan4534  The US has oil, natural gas, lumber, and vehicles. The US has lots of oil, natural gas, and lumber. The US also has a automobile industry. Even without Canadian exports, the US will be okay. There will be some fallout from it, for the most part it will be fine.
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  5235. The 19th century was the European century, the 21st century will be the Sino century.
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  5236. If this does happen then they will have to make up the difference by issuing more treasury bonds, and this will make interest rates go up. If they can't get this money from borrowing it through bonds then they will have to simply PRINT MORE. This will be inflationary.
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  5237. This aircraft is good against insurgents that lack fighter aircraft, but it is totally useless against countries, like Russia and China. It's going to be a easy target for modern jet aircraft, SPAAs, shoulder fired guided ground to air missiles, attack helicopters, and small arms fire.
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  5238.  @judymckee5992  Most people cannot buy their homes with cash. Real estate is a credit market.
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  5239.  @adamsnelson4689  The average home is about $400k in the USA, and most people who make 6 figure income live in states where the cost of real estate is on the average about $700k to 900k.
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  5240.  @adamsnelson4689  My crappy little condo in Los Angeles, California costs about $550k. Two bedroom, 1 bath costs $550k.
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  5241. If there are any survivors in there, all the Russians have to do is seal those tunnels with satchel charges, pump carbon monoxide gas in there, and flood it with sea water. If anyone is hiding in there then they will be buried alive in there.
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  5242.  @AhmetTekin101  There are a lot of foreigners who have visited and live in China will tell you that.
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  5243.  @AhmetTekin101  I bet you never been to China, so the claims you are making are most likely false.
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  5244.  @AhmetTekin101  Not that many people left China. Something like 40,000 people left for the US last year, and this is out of a population of 1.4 billion. That is like 0.0028% of the population.
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  5245.  @richiemitchell6899  China used to import food from the US, but now they import most of it from South American countries, and Russia. They use less GMO, and it costs way less.
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  5246.  @richiemitchell6899  We don't have to, we can import it. As for all the grain that we aren't buying, you can consume it. After all, you people are like 300 lbs to 400 lbs, so I am sure you can eat it all. 🤣
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  5247.  @MrDeap  That sentence doesn't make any sense Mr. Toshi.
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  5248.  @MrDeap  Japan is like 4th place economically, and in the 1980s it was in 2nd place. Your country is a declining nation.
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  5249.  @meowmeow0604  About 55,000 Chinese people crossed the US illegally from 2023 to 2024. How many people live in China? 1,412,000,000 That is out of 55,000 unhappy people that left China. What is the percentage of that? That is like 0.0039% of the population; therefore, 99.9961% of China's population stay in China.
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  5250.  Truth  STFU troll.
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  5251. Nope, because the wages in the USA are too expensive. They can move production to Vietnam, Bangladesh, Phillippines, India, and parts of Africa. There are countries where wages are less expensive than China.
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  5252. Could these deaths be related to vaccinations, or the CV-19 virus?
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  5253. I thought the Russians would run out of advanced weapons according to Western media sources, and Western experts. LOL
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  5254. Why do you keep posting false information about China?
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  5255. They need to bring back stop and frisk, it really worked.
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  5256. What is going to happen to these people? Will the Russians send them to Siberia?
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  5257.  @1pesiQ  I think so.
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  5258. Trump wants to be like Hitler. This is the kind of shit the Nazis and Hitler did in the 1930s. If any media outlet criticized the Nazis and Hitler, the SA would use violence and shut them down. Rump is going too far. Republicans have to remove Rump before he turns this country into a real dictatorship.
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  5259. People get deported to the country where they came from. Where should the Chinese authorities deport North Koreans to? The USA?
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  5260. What a loser Trump is.
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  5261. Those vaccines don't work. I got vaccinated 3 times, and I still got Covid omnicron.
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  5262. 我们需要一个强大的中国。
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  5263. These dollar denominated debts will be paid back or defaulted. When this happens, a lot of countries don't need to get more loans in dollars. After the loans are defaulted or paid off, they can get loans in other currencies. There is no rule that says, they must take loans in dollars in the future.
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  5264. Lawyers will say they can do it to collect a fee, and they will tell them it cannot be done later. LOL
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  5265.  @playerone8149  most maga hat wearing morons have pretty low IQs, or they are old people who don't have a lot of brain cells left. LOL
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  5266. The US was able to import a lot of intelligent people from other countries, because of its reserve currency status. These days, a lot of foreign talent is leaving the US due to all the xenophobia.
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  5267.  @UneducatedEconomist  The gold standard ended in 1971, because the US printed too much money to finance the Vietnam War. When foreign investors were starting to cash out of the US dollar for gold in the late 1960s, the US government got alarmed by it, and this is why President Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold and officially ended the Bretton Woods system of fixing $35 USD for 1 troy ounce of gold in 1971.
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  5268.  @redzzon  Pork Bellies. Pork Production by country 2020 China: 36.34 million metric tons European Union: 24.150 million metric tons USA: 12.843 million metric tons Brazil: 4.125 million metric tons Russia: 3.611 million metric tons Canada: 2.123 million metric tons Mexico: 1.451 million metric tons S. Korea: 1.403 million metric tons Japan: 1.298 million metric tons China still comes out on top. Come on, face it. The USA is a bankrupt has been. ROFL 😆
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  5269. India buys Russian oil, and sells it back to Europe at a markup. LOL
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  5270. That is what conservatives do. If they get refuted, they change the subject. Never vote for any Republicans, they are all full of shit.
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  5271. Dating is a challenge for most East Asian males living in the US and other Western countries.
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  5272. Looks like the world no longer need the dollar to conduct trade. This is bad for the US. The US will no longer be able to get a free ride.
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  5273. You own it when you don't have any debts on it, or have it in your hands instead of some kind of subscription service.
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  5274.  @sola4393  They are vulnerable, and there isn't much they can do to defend themselves. Things really haven't changed much from the day of late 19th century. You can safely call this neo-Imperialism.
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  5275. Stop being a rac-ist.
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  5276. The people in the Senate are much better educated than the morons in the congress. The requirement to become a U.S. Senator requires at least a 4 year university degree. The Senate will never approve it.
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  5277. The company I work for use a lot of computers, like servers that cost anywhere from $5000 to $10,000 a piece. If there is a trade war, computer equipment prices can skyrocket.
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  5278. No need to do that. Factories and manufacturing plants have become highly automated. The need for low wage and low skilled workers is coming to an end. Modern factories and factories of the future will use fewer and fewer people. You will have a plant with some essential workers, technicians, technologists, and engineers running plants which previously hired thousands of people.
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  5279. Yeah right.
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  5280. There is no such a thing as the deep state, you conspiracy theorist kook!
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  5281. Yet, you can't provide a single shred of proof that these so called invisible people exist.
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  5282. The F.B.I. has solid evidence to prosecute Robert Cohen. They will more than likely do a plea bargain with him to get more information to help them in their current investigation against Trump.
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  5283. You are the one who is insisting that they exist, and to me they don't exist. To me it doesn't matter, but to you it matters.
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  5284. I majored in mathematics and computer science, I don't believe in conspiracy theories. Science is about hard facts, there is no such a thing as believing in or belief. In science, you have to prove things with experiments. I can't say I believe the deep state exists. I can't believe the theory of gravity is real, I know it is real, because you can prove it with experiments empirically. You need to put your faith in belief, because it is all bunch of nonsense. This is why I have a real career that pays a 6 figure salary, and you are a conspiracy theorist.
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  5285. The US is a bad friend to the EU.
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  5286. You don't need a high school diploma to shoe horses. This is crazy.
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  5287. It seems to me that the truther movement has a wet dreams of hyperinflation, and they had been talking about it since 2007. You people have been talking about it for 6 years, and there is just modest inflation. I do have gold, and platinum but it is only like 20% of my assets. I am well diversified in businesses, stocks, bonds, real estate, fiat currencies, etc. Listen. Central banks can control inflation by raising interest rates, and in deflationary times they can lower interest rates.
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  5288. Most muricans are clueless. They will find out what kind of suckers they were in the next 4 years.
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  5289. Like most conservatives, they are full of crap.
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  5290. Rob's Airgun Cave, you are so damn clueless. If you have a 401k or a Pension fund, you can kiss that goodbye. Foreigners bought a lot of real estate and equities(stocks) in the USA. They propped up the real estate market and stock market for about 10 years. If they pull all their money out of the USA, you will see a stock market crash. You're pensions, mutual funds, and 401ks will crash. If you don't believe me, you can go ask your mutual fund manager if the market crashes. Can I get my money out? If you are getting money from them already, they will reduce what you get. So, the money you get from your 401k will be less and less every month. More American jobs will be lost, think about the jobs that depend on exporting things, like airplanes, vehicles, industrial machinery, agricultural goods, chemicals, lumber, minerals, etc. These industries will suffer too, and they will lay off millions of Americans like you. You're idea of trade wars are easy to win is just stupid, and we all know Trump is a big idiot.
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  5291. The US is becoming a dangerous and barbarous place to live.
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  5292. We have a lot of share cropping jobs now, like people driving for Uber, Lyft, people making a living on Youtube as their primary source of income, etc.
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  5293.  @DailyBeatings  $5500 back in 1982 was a lot of money. In today's money, it's about $22,500.
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  5294.  @DailyBeatings  Too bad IBM could not hold on to their monopoly in the PC market. After some engineers figured out how to make BIOS chips for IBM computers, the IBM clone market took away market shares from IBM. Copying is something that always happens in the technology world. Humans have been copying from each other for thousands of years. The Hittites were the first ones that came out with irons weapons in the near east, and everyone else copied it. Accusing people of copying is weak.
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  5295.  @DailyBeatings  There are many reasons why computers aren't very expensive now, and the biggest reason is that a lot of these components are made in countries where the cost of labor is very inexpensive. Someone in China makes about $2/hour, a comparable US worker would cost $20/hour doing the same type of work. At 1/10 of the labor cost, the cost of production is much less. In addition, you can sell each unit for a fairly competitive price where most people could afford it. If you can get more people to buy it then you can make more profit. If you sold 80 million units at $600 vs. selling 2 million units at $7000. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, it was very profitable to fix computers. When I was going to university, my side business was repairing computers part time. I was able to pay all my bills with it, and hired a secretary as well. Today, the cost of computers is so cheap that people just buy a new one if it breaks.
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  5296.  @patriciafarrow9586  Almost all the factories and manufacturing plants including steel mills are highly automated. In terms of automated factories and plants, the US is not outdated. Most automotive manufacturing plants employ robotics.
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  5297.  @patriciafarrow9586  It's not enthusiasm, it is just a fact. If computers were made in the USA then most people couldn't afford it. The cost of labor is about 10 to 20 times more than it is in developing or semi developed countries. Plus, all the infrastructure and most of the materials like rare earth minerals are in countries, like China. Thus, they make most of the electronic components for circuit boards, like resistors, transistors, capacitors, chipsets, micro processors, and other components that make electronics work. The US was a major producer of semiconductors back in the 1970s and 1980s. Japan became a major producer in the 1980s and 1990s. Taiwan has become a major producer of ARM based RISC processors in the 2000s. Machines have become more complicated, like automobiles, computers, smartphones, tablets, aircraft, appliances, etc. No one country could produce all of the components that go into any of these machines.
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  5298.  @riccles8331  That is why the US has become the largest debtor nation. Back in the 1970s, the US was the biggest creditor nation. The big capitalists moved production overseas, and automated everything they could automate. People were able to cope in other ways. You had two people that worked 2 jobs. Back in the 1970s, you had one person that worked who could provide for the whole family. Back in the 1970s, my father was the only one that worked, and he made enough to provide for the whole family. For most people, that is highly unlikely.
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  5299. Yes, and cheese burgers. You also forgot the prime steak, sirloin steak, beef brisket, roast beef, lamb, Kentucky fried chicken, b.b.q. chicken, b.b.q beef, pork ribs, bacon, b.b.q. ribs, etc. All these can be bought with so called worthless dollars these Alex Jones conspiracy theorists are complaining about!
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  5300. Hogbusters, like Ghostbusters. LOL
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  5301. Koreans are strange people.
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  5302. If they are state owned enterprises then they wouldn't have any problems paying the utility bills, because the utilities are also owned by the state. You need to stop lying about 中国.
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  5303.  @freeman10000  Nothing happened.
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  5304. Don't run from the police. 🤣LOL
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  5305. This isn't the government's fault, this is due to natural disasters.
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  5306. The US is angry, because China and Russia are dumping the dollar. All they have to do is get Saudi Arabia into accepting the Yuan, and that will be the final piece to end dollar hegemony. The US didn't win in Iraq, and they didn't win in Afghanistan, so do you think the US is going to win against China?
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  5307. This is why I stopped listening to Western MM.
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  5308. Barbarism. LOL
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  5309. Billionaires use immigrants. Hello is anyone home Mcfly?
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  5310.  @nathanm.8823 That is a true statement, but the people who believed in Trump and put all their money into the stock market will be affected the most. We will all suffer from the fallout of a collapsed stock market and a recession.
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  5311.  Bill Brennan  It will. The Federal Reserve Banking system is there to regulate inflation and deflation. Trump's policies triggered the Fed to raise interest rates. Tax cuts, deficit spending, and discouraging our foreign trading partners to buy treasury bonds are all inflationary. Thus, the Fed raised rates. Either way, if they don't raise rates, you will pay for it one way or another. Do you want to pay $10 for a gallon for gasoline, or have a stock market crash?
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  5312.  @TWDxKILL3R  It's called economics stupid, I don't think you have the intellect to understand it. It will happen, and you will end up in the street. People like me will profit off of this coming collapse like I did in the last collapse. I drive past you in my Acura NSX and throw a penny at you. LOL
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  5313.  @CavemanJesus4Life  I said it right here, the stock market will crash. I've been shorting the stock market for about 3 weeks. It went down big a few days ago, and I profited handsomely. It will go down more, and I will make more money. I think I am going to buy new car with my earnings.
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  5314.  Bill Brennan  Rump's fiscal policies are reckless. There is no conspiracy by the Federal Reserve to hurt Rump. Your argument is silly. Trump started a fire, and the Fed is merely trying to put it out. You cannot blame the fire fighter for putting out the inflation fire.
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  5315.  Bill Brennan  I don't care if you disagree. The Federal Reserve already made it clear they will raise interest rates, so there isn't anything you or Trump can do about it. I am just going to get richer from it while all these ignorant Trumpkins suffer.
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  5316. China was one of the biggest buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, and now they aren't buying it anymore due to the trade war Trump started with China. Trump also started trade wars with the European Union and other countries in Asia as well. If there is no free trade, there is no point in buying U.S. debt or treasury bonds. If the demand for treasury bonds declines, the Federal Reserve has to raise interest rates to make it more attractive for people to buy U.S. debt. You don't understand how the monetary system and the economy, neither does Trump. I have to give credit to George W. Bush, because he said tariffs were bad. He also pointed out the Smoot Hartley Act of 1930 was the reason why the Great Depression got as bad as it did. George W. Bush was not a good president, but at least it wasn't a ignorant moron like Trump.
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  5317. The Fed will keep raising interest rates bud. That's a fact. 0% interest rates was what fueled the stock market bull run. The Fed fund rate stands at 2.25%. The interest rate was 0% from 2009 to 2014, and they raised it to 1.25% from 2014 to 2017. Most Americans are heavily in debt, and interest rates are going up. The hedge funds will start buying U.S. treasury bonds, because the rates went up. They will dump their stocks and buy treasuries. I made a good deal of money when the market crashed in 2008. I bought two things, treasury bonds, and stocks. You morons will buy gold, and bitcoins. Those will assets will crash. We will see what happens as rates continue to go up. I don't have to believe the stock will go down when interest rates go up, I KNOW IT WILL GO DOWN.
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  5318.  Bill Brennan  The Federal Reserve Banking system will not be abolished, because Donald Trump believes they are conspiring against him. Just like Trump isn't going to abolish the F.B.I., because he believes they are attacking him personally. The F.B.I. is investigating Trump, because he is corrupt, and he should be investigated. The Federal Reserve makes policies based on what is happening in the economy. Just because you people(Trump supporters) believe the F.B.I. and the Federal Reserve is unfairly targeting Trump doesn't mean it is so. You can believe in the tooth fairy, but facts are facts.
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  5319.  Bill Brennan  Trump isn't going to bring back any jobs. Even if they ban all imports from China, they can off shore it to countries where the cost of labor is much lower than it is in China. In the past two years, a lot of manufacturing has been moved from China to countries, like India, Nepal, Vietnam, parts of Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, parts of South America, and other countries where the cost of labor is much lower than it is in China. The only stuff that hasn't been moved out of China are for computer and electronics equipment, and the reason for this is because they have the infrastructure to produce parts more cheaply than anywhere else. More than 90% of all the computers are made in China, and we are going to import it even with the tariffs. China has access to most of the rare earth resources which are used to manufacture electronics and computers. Even Apple has their products produced by Chinese sub contractors for their computers, i-pad, and i-phones. Apple doesn't have a factory that produces computers. Stuff like clothing, shoes, sowing machines, shoe laces, cups, mugs, pots, pans, and other things that are labor intensive can be produced in other countries where people get paid 25 cents to $1 per hour. Trump isn't moving his factories to the U.S.A., and this shows he is a big liar and hypocrite. You ain't going to move it back to the U.S.A. and pay someone $10 to $15/hour, health insurance, and other benefits. We do have a lot of factories and manufacturing plants in the U.S.A., and all of that is highly automated using very few people. Recently they moved production of tooth brushes back to the USA, and do you know how many jobs were created? 5 jobs, and the factory produces 10s of thousands of tooth brushes per day. If it is labor intensive, they will not move it back here. It is funny how you people Trumpkins don't understand economics. It must be because you people are religious and believe in Jesus. LOL
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  5320.  Bill Brennan  The Fed won't be abolished, not going to happen. Yes, the Fed is a quasi private bank, and 99% of the profits the Fed makes goes back to the U.S. Federal government. The Fed isn't controlled by the Democrats or the Republicans, it is strictly non-partisan. A lot of goods and services are provided by private corporations and companies to the Federal government. The U.S. government buys fleets of cars from corporations, like Ford Motors, they buy furniture from private contractors who sells it to the government, and pretty much everything they buy is from private firms. A lot of these defense firms are private corporations traded publicly on the stock market, etc. The government doesn't produce things, they buy it from the citizens of the U.S.A.. From my experience, the people who slander and commit crimes always go out in front of a crowd and say I am not guilty they are. The police are bad, because they arrested me. Even though you committed a crime, the police are bad. This company is bad, because I refuse to pay for their services. Even though they got the goods and services, and they were shitty people who refused to pay because it was a way of getting it for free. Donald Trump is the same way. He is a corrupt con artist and criminal. Everyone who is coming after him is bad, because they are persecuting me. Those bankers are bad, because they want to collect the money I borrowed and STOLE from them. Those investors who invested in my company are bad people, because I committed fraud and ripped them off. The F.B.I. is bad, because they are investigating me for my corrupt and criminal practices. You can only get away with this kind of shit for so long.
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  5321.  Bill Brennan  I don't want to work for Trump. I have to position myself to not get hurt from his stupid policies. I have to get myself to profit from his mistakes. Trump doesn't listen to anyone in the White House, this is why they are leaking everything from the White House to the media and talking behind his back. Anyone with a brain knows Trump is a con artist, this is why so many people he appointed resigned.
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  5322.  Bill Brennan  I know how this will play out in 2020, a lot of people will be affected in a bad way. They will blame Trump, he will be a one term president. Even Fox News is getting tired of Trump's bullshit.
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  5323.  Bill Brennan  It doesn't matter if you believe he isn't a con man or not. The F.B.I. will come after him after his presidency is finished in 2020, or 2024. Law enforcement agencies of the Federal government, like the FBI, ATF, DEA, and IRS don't forgive or forget about things. That is a fact you cannot dispute.
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  5324.  Bill Brennan  We can certainly disagree on our views of this president, and we shall see what happens in the next 2 to 6 years.
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  5325.  Bill Brennan  The FBI is necessary, they put corrupt local police and local government officials in prison. If the FBI did not exist, who would protect the people from the excessive abuse from corrupt local officials?
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  5326.  Bill Brennan  I don't share your views of putting your faith in local governments. I like centralization, like a strong central government or Federal government, a national police force, like the F.B.I., D.E.A., and other Federal law enforcement branches. I prefer Keynesian type of economics where the central government directs the economy. Government spending is used to stimulate the economy. You can call me a statist, all my ancestors were statists. They were the kings men, nobles and aristocrats. The kind of people who put down your ancestors, and this is why you had the revolutionary war against the British Crown.
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  5327. I would never eat rat meat either! LOL.
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  5328.  @LeanBeefAdobo  Software engineering.
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  5329. Maybe, they are UFOs.
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  5330.  @kimbailey422  If they don't invoke the 25th Amendment, there will be a criminal investigation. If he is found guilty, he cannot run for office ever. It is hard to know what kind of damage chump might do in 14 days. He is desperate, he is facing a lot of lawsuits and criminal investigations after Jan 21, 2021. This is why he needs to be removed immediately, and Twitter needs to ban him permanently as well.
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  5331.  @banshee1133  Trump said he won't concede, this means he will not resign and let Pence be president. Therefore, he will not get a pardon. If chump does resign, there is no guarantee Pence will give him a pardon for what he did yesterday.
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  5332. I lost my main job in 2022, and I survive on a part time job working for 20 to 25 hours per week. How do I cope with it? I red some books, watch some movies, go take a walk at the part, play video games, drink some coffee, go fishing, and do things that don't cost a lot of money.
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  5333. I wish I still had a CRT television, playing a retro game on a CRT TV is a luxury now. LOL
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  5334. Wow, you must be one of Alex Jones cult followers.
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  5335.  @CattleFarmer667  The problem is a lot of jobs aren't needed. My mom asked me a silly question a few days ago, like don't they use people in customer service call centers? I talked to a computer voice, and I wanted to talk to a human. I explained to her that it costs too much to hire humans, and using automation is much less expensive. She said, humans still have to be used, she is about 82 by the way. LOL
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  5336.  @albertlevinsaber6835  You just wait until programmable humanoid robot get developed and mass produced. Most of em will be produced in China.
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  5337.  @Neji055  I never worked for Amazon, but I know they are efficient to the point of being ruthless.
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  5338. Donald Trump has dementia.
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  5339. They want us to eat ground up bugs, that is what they ultimately want.
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  5340. There is Beavis again, you know from Beavis and Butthead. Navarro looks like Beavis, and he has as much intelligence as Beavis.
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  5341. You can't fix stupid.
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  5342.  C Hoc  Trump encouraged these dregs of society to come under their rocks. The president is a racist and a bigot just like me. Now, I can go out in public and harass non-whites and minorities. What about Trump saying Mexicans are rapists, drug dealers, and criminals. Surely, that had some bearing on what this guy did. After all, you stated. "However, his decision to commit mass murder was fueled by anti immigration rhetoric since the jews were trying to help refugees". The reason why he killed those Jewish people was because they wanted to help refugees, the people Trump called rapists, drug dealers, and criminals come into the USA, right?
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  5343.  C Hoc  All the decent and unsuspecting people who voted for Trump will not support him in 2020. Trump will be a one term president who will face FBI prosecution after his one term is up in 2020. He will try everything to stay in power, because if he isn't president anymore, his rump is toast.
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  5344. He thinks we are as stupid as his retarded supporters.
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  5345. I don't think Trump wants to be a king.
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  5346. Don't fly military drones near other peoples countries. The U S is the aggressor here.
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  5347. BRICS is the party a lot of countries want to go to these days. The G7 is the party many countries are moving away from. LOL
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  5348. He said, imposing tariffs will make the US rich.
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  5349. @ That is what Mr. Chump said to his chumps.
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  5350.  @jeromejackson1029  LOL
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  5351. Gold has survived countless collapsed empires through thousands of years of history.
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  5352. Looks interesting, because the keyboard function on touch screen devices is not very good.
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  5353. The world is saying no more, and they want an alternative. These people like to control things, just look at what they did since 1492?
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  5354.  @virtualvers  You're pretty stupid. The number of people who got the flu was 58 million people, and about 60,000 died from it. You have 600,000 people who tested positive for Covid-19, and 28,000 have died from it. 3,258,879 people were tested, and 2,658,879 people tested negative. Covid-19 Total Tested ► 3,258,879 people Total Positive ► 644,089 people Total Negative ► 2,658,879 people Total Deaths ► 28,529 people  Mortality Rate ► 4.4% Flu Total Cases ► 59,000,000 Total Deaths ► 60,000 Mortality Rate ► 0.102% I know what you are going to say stupid. You are going to say, millions of people have covid-19. FALSE ASSHOLE, if 3,258,879 people were tested for Covid-19, 80% tested negative for it.
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  5355.  @Dana.Dane.Taurus.Gal.  I am a electrical engineer, I know math very well.
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  5356.  @michaelrouppas9646  Don't click on any link this troll shows, he can get your IP address.
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  5357. Everyone wants shrimp, so it must be a stable career choice.
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  5358. In cities, like San Fransisco, the rents are so high people cannot afford to keep a store front.
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  5359.  @jacobk7149 if new money was not created out of thin air every years, most people wouldn't have any money. Your statement is a oxymoron.lol
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  5360.  @simaj41  In capitalism, we have to make a profit to survive. In addition to that, we have something called competition. If some else is selling the same thing that you are selling, and they can sell it at a lower price then you will not go hungry that day.
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  5361.  @SurgeryIsWoke  It's capitalism.
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  5362. Americans like to take d r u g s, so it's 100% their fault. Don't take d r u g s, it is as simple as that.
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  5363.  @travelguy1564  It doesn't seem real to me. Record number of people becoming jobless, a pandemic, and a economy that is stalled. It looks like a suckers rally, or the Fed Reserve is buying it.
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  5364. The US government is shameless.
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  5365. This is what happens when bad behavior isn't put into check.
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  5366. It isn't just big business that depends on the military industrial complex, there are many sub contractors who rely on it as well. There are thousands parts in combat aircraft, and all of those parts are made by sub contractors. Not only that, the metals that are used are mined in this country, and this supports the mining industry. It all filters down to the common man, it doesn't just line the pockets of the elites and the aristocracy.
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  5367.  @irbis_rosh  The US has a decaying and outdated infrastructure.
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  5368.  @ckokloong  In the USA, engineering salaries are about $85,000/year to $135,000/year.
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  5369.  @ckokloong  China produces a lot of the components and raw materials to make the electronic devices, like rare earth minerals, rare earth mineral processing, capacitors, circuit boards, semi conductors, resistors, parts, etc. That's why it is cheaper to produce electronic products in China. It would be a lot more expensive to produce the stuff in another country, and ship the components to another country to have it assembled. Even if the cost of labor is cheaper in let's say India, or Vietnam.
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  5370.  @blue-xb1cq  The cost of that high speed rail project in California has risen to $128 billion. That is a lot of dough. The original proposal was for $33 billion in 2008, but it will cost 3.9 times more than what they thought it was originally going to cost!!!!
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  5371.  @blue-xb1cq  422 miles for $128,000,000,000, so that comes out to $303,317,535.54 or $303 million/mile. That is outrageous!
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  5372.  @ckokloong  I think so.
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  5373. That man is lucky, not many people like that in this world.
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  5374. Where is the national guard, state police, and other law enforcement officials to stop this???????
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  5375.  @JorgeMartinez-ez1jl  You don't buy everything at the store, because you only buy what you need. Besides, those are finished goods. My question is.... If you hold the currency of the country that you are trading with then you can use the that currency to buy more resources you need later, right? Let's say I am country A, and I trade with country B to get refined sugar, refined diesel, coffee, tin, copper, rubber, and motor vehicles. I used my own country's currency to buy that. Country B needs oil, timber, military equipment, combat aircraft, jet engines, and steel. If country B wants to buy what my country produces then it is a win win situation.; Why do I need to use a 3rd party currency to do that?
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  5376. Those people that got arrested are adult children, they may be old but their mentality is that of a 5 year old child.
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  5377. I just laugh at these jokers who believe complex mathematical equations can solve financial problems. Kind of like the financial engineers that created the derivatives crisis which lead to the 2008 collapse. The only way to solve a financial problem is by having more revenue than expenses. It's that simple, it doesn't require quantum physics!
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  5378.  @JB-lc2fn  If you want to get rich, go start a business, invent or create something that people want and need, go to university and become a scientist, medical doctor, engineer, CPA, architect, or some other professional, etc.
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  5379. Because people believe in it.
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  5380. Puppy mummies, LOL!!!
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  5381. Tariffs will help in lowering prices. Sure..... I'll buy that for a dollar.
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  5382. Looks like Challenger main battle tanks aren't invincible, like Leopard 2 mbts aren't invincible. The truth is a artillery shell made during Soviet times can destroy and immobilize a Leopard 2 mbt. A inexpensive Russian Lancet drone with a heat warhead can takeout a $5 million Leopard 2. Hell, a IED rigged to a 1000 lb aircraft bomb can destroy the mighty M1A2 mbt which we saw numerous times in Iraq. Now, there is new hope that stripped down and downgraded M1A1 mbts sent from the US can be the new miracle weapon. It would be like the Germans believing that their new Panther, Tiger, and Ferdinand tank destroyers could break through Soviet defenses in Kursk during WW2. Looks like those Western miracle weapons aren't the best weapon systems in the world. They are just overpriced pieces of military equipment that are vulnerable like any other main battle tank to certain classes of weapons.
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  5383. The US must be angry at India, yet the US is trying to get closer to India by saying stuff like India will be the next China. India is not going to so what the US wants, and no amount of arm twisting will work.
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  5384.  Lockjaw  The FBI doesn't just make up stuff. I am sure they have enough to put Trump away; after all, Manafort, and Cohen who were Trump's close associated ratted on Trump.
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  5385.  Lockjaw  Why is Trump trying to stop this investigation if he is so damn innocent? A innocent person wouldn't be acting how he is acting now.
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  5386.  Lockjaw  Trump isn't going to be in office forever. The FBI and Federal Law enforcement agencies are very patient. They waited for Cliven Bundy to screw up, and they got him at the airport.
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  5387.  @darrellross1  I think you're right. If Trump loses in 2020, he is going to say the election was rigged. The best thing the media can do is to do a black out on Trump. Just don't show him on television, and cut off his twitter account. I think the mainstream media gave Trump way too much attention that is why he won in 2016. It is a catch 22, because they are making a lot of money from covering Trump. At the same time, they made him very popular.
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  5388.  @darrellross1  I most folks here in the USA aren't doing well. It seems to me the Democrats and the Republicans turned a blind eye to the masses of people who have been suffering and are suffering now. As a result of their benign neglect, someone like Trump told people what they wanted to hear. This is what con men do. As a result, this joker became president, and a lot of people are realizing that they had been deceived. The hard core Trump supporters and those racist fanatics are going to support Trump no matter what, but they don't make up the majority of the US population. This mid term election should send a clear message to Trump that he will most likely not get a 2nd term in 2020. A lot of people are realizing that he is just a liar, cheat, and scumbag. The point is Trump's popularity is going to decline in the next 2 years. Most people with a brain in their heads know where this economy is headed next year when the tariffs start to kick in. Trump will get blamed for it when the economy crashes. He is going to try to blame Hilary Clinton, Obama, the Democrats, foreigners, Mexicans, immigrants, globalists, Federal Reserve, the weather, or whoever. It won't work. Trump was president, and the fell into a recession because of him. At the end of the day, he won't keep his promises and people will know it.
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  5389.  @darrellross1  It was nice chatting with you too, goodnight.
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  5390. Idiot president doesn't understand economics, and his idiot supporters believe this failed businessman is a business genius when he is not!
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  5391. The Republican party of today is quite different from the Republican party of Ronald Reagan. I can safely say, the Republican party is the party of ignorant country folks, xenophobes, racists, white supremacists, alt-right, Neo-Nazis, and angry white men in general who lost out due to computerization/automation of industry and outsourcing.
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  5392. kinn grimm, it just seems like these disenfranchised white men are trying to hold onto their whiteness. Even though these minorities are climbing up the social ladder and improving their lives, I am white and I am better than these people. That is why Trump is inciting these racist sentiments that is what seems to bond the core of Trump supporters. A lot of these disenfranchised white guys can't really compete in this competitive world that we live in. Most regular white guys who have real skills, highly educated, have college/university degrees, and are still economically viable don't think like these poor educated + ignorant white guys.
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  5393. kinn grimm, I think our political system it failed. This is why someone like Trump could become president. These politicians have failed to help people who vote for them, because they are controlled by lobbyists who give them money to run for political campaigns. Years of this type of negligence and indifference from political leaders created this mess. A con men like Trump and Alex Jones tell people what they want to hear, because con men know this strategy works. They fall for people like these, who will hurt them in the end. The idiots who listen to Alex Jones and others like them get conned out their money buying products that are fake. They get steered into pumping up bubbles, like the precious metals bubble, the Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies bubble, and the gun ban scare which caused a bubble in 2012 +2013. Now, you have the biggest con man of them all, who is actually hurting the economy in the long run, and his stupid followers believe he is helping them when he is not. Trump is just asset stripping the Federal government and giving it to his billionaire pals.
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  5394. The Joker, people like you are going to be the biggest loser when this con man gets out of office 2 years from now. For me, I don't care, I am pretty well off. If I see you living on the side of the street living in a tent, I don't care. I will just drive past you in my Acura NSX.
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  5395. The Joker. It wasn't Obama's fault for the decline of the white middle class. This shit was happening in the 1970s up to now. I am a Generation Xer, and I experienced this first hand when computers and robots were employed in industry back in the mid 1970s. Plus Richard Nixon who was a Republican president opened up China to trade with the U.S.A. and the West. If you are a average Joe 6 pack, you're not that important anymore. Corporations care about one thing only, and that is profit. They don't care about you being white and you deserve a good paying job. A capitalist firm only cares about how much profit they can make, so if they can hire a engineers and programmers to automate a factory to increase profitability they will. As for the people who got displaced, you get your pink slips, and that is it. Bye bye. If a for profit company can move their production line to any part of the world where labor is cheaper, they will do that also without a thought. If it is more profitable for the company, they will do that. That is fact. You can believe I am white and I am valuable. You're not, you are just a unit of labor that costs too much. If you believe Trump cares about you, you are stupider than you look. I am not saying the Democrats are any better, a lot of them are also bought off by lobbyists. They probably don't care about working class white people or any working class people in general. As long as they get the money from their donors that is what matters. You can believe in any religion you want, believe Trump will help me and give me a factory job where I can screw this and that when someone in a developing country can do that for much less. If Trump really cared about white middle class working people, would he be producing his stuff overseas? LOL . In two years from now, most of you Rump supporters will be living in a cardboard box on the side of the road.
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  5396. The Joker. Obama and the Democrats might have been indifferent to white middle class people, but the Republicans were no better. Ronald Reagan didn't give a shit able the white middle class declining in the 1980s, George H. Bush didn't care either. George W. Bush didn't care. Donald Trump's reckless spending is going to result in one big, a bigger national debt, higher interest rates, and another major stock market crash and another major recession. We are going to see another major recession which followed every Republican presidency from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. You know, lower taxes, increase the deficit, ease up lending, de regulate the financial industry, and plant the seeds of a recession. Happened under Ronald Reagan with the stock market crash of 1987 with one of the worst recessions in U.S. history. Happened under George W. Bush with the stock market crash of 2008 with the worst recession in U.S. history next to the Great Depression of the 1930s. That is why I know a lot of Trump supporters who believed in Trump will be living in a cardboard box. Most of the money that was used to buy up U.S. debt was from foreign countries that traded with the U.S.A.. This caused interest rates to go down. Without that buffer, the Fed Reserve will have to increase interest rates to attract people to buy U.S. treasury bonds. This will have a very negative impact on a economy that relies heavily on debt. Debts, like mortgages fund the real estate industry, car loans fund the automobile industry, credit cards help people buy the latest Apple I-phones and other consumer goods. Trump de-regulated the financial industry to create another bubble economy that will pop in 2 to 4 years from now. LOL
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  5397. The Joker. Since Trump started a trade war, those countries that traded with the U.S. will not buy U.S. debt. Higher interest rates will cause the economy to contract and implode. If you think the U.S. can export everything it produces, you are wrong. It costs a lot more money to produce things here, the stuff that is produced here will have to compete with products around the world produced in countries where labor is less, those products will cost less. U.S. goods will not sell overseas. This will cause companies that produce here to reduce their work force or shutdown altogether. Trump is not a good businessman, he is a failed businessman. This man went bankrupt about 6 times. He will just bankrupt the U.S. economy, because he is an idiot.
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  5398.  @tristinjudd2595  China already stopped this year. They also stopped buying U.S. scrap plastics, paper, and some scrap metals. The recycling yards around the U.S. are piling up. The Chinese can simply change their economy from a export oriented economy to a consumption based one. They are doing that more and more. Since the cost of labor is more in China, a lot of manufacturing jobs have already left China to where labor costs are much lower. This explains why China stopped buying scrap this year. Trump is really behind the curve in his thinking. No wonder he was a failed businessman, who had to take money from the Russians. LOL
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  5399. I know, you are just a dumb troll.
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  5400. Kelly Ann Conway is a fucking idiot. We all know white nationalists hate Jews, they wouldn't be shooting up white Christian churches.
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  5401. They will have flying cars in China in who knows 5 years to 10 years from now if not earlier, fully automated factories, fully automated medical centers, and humanoid robots. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is so progressive isn't it?
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  5402. As long as you paid off your home, car/cars, student loan debts, credit card debts, or any debts. You will be fine. You can get by with very little. If you have a lot of debts, I can just say you are DOOMED. When you lose your job or go out of business, just find a way to make a living. Go do a lot of reading about artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on the job market. Read about new technologies, read about AI and how you can use this new technology for your own benefit, and find a direction you move to benefit from the coming turmoil.
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  5403. Most of these alt-right white nationalists are people who got disenfranchised by our current economic system. They can't survive in the real economy, because they are no longer protected by the government, like they were prior to 1964. Corporations don't value their labor anymore, because of computerization/automation and cheaper sources of labor abroad. Most of these white supremacists aren't the most well educated, they can't find good jobs or careers. If you want to get a decent job these days, you need at least a 4 year Bachelor's degree or higher. The people who voted for Trump fall in the category or uneducated people, so most of them are miserable and angry. Since they don't have anything valuable to contribute to society, they feel being white is a badge of pride.
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  5404. Is this a surprise to anyone? chump is a felon, so he doesn't care about laws or courts.
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  5405. Stupid people still support tRump after all this.
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  5406.  @plau2007  Was TikTok welcomed?
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  5407.  @luvanime1986  China's economy is rising, and a big part of that rising is China having industries that can compete with the US and West in high end manufacturing, like automobiles, aircraft, semiconductors, manufacturing tools, and AI. The US is happy to have China be in low end manufacturing, but they aren't okay with China being able to build farm machinery, automobiles, passenger aircraft, smartphones, processors, flat panel displays, etc. Back in the 1960s, India had its own jet fighter called the Marut, and Western countries refused to sell them jet engines for their aircraft. That is why that aircraft project ultimately failed. It seems like Western countries don't want any non-Western countries to become industrialized, and do everything to put obstacles to prevent it. I was in the computer industry, and I can tell you the companies that make most of the money are the companies that make the crucial components, like the CPU, GPU, & RAM. The companies that produce computers don't have a high profit margin. Just like in the aircraft industry, the most important part is the engine. Being able to produce these crucial components will enable a country to be truly independent. The more parts a company can produce for any complex machine, the higher their margin of profit will be. For example, BYD can produce about 70% of the parts for their vehicles. This is they can sell a EV for $19k, while US EV companies can't produce a EV at less than $44k.
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  5408. They should have followed chump's advice and drank bleach.
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  5409. Japan needs to pay for these atrocities.
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  5410. Republicans don't like EVs, they want more IC vehicles and more drilling for oil. The liberal types want EVs. Musk choose the wrong side. LOL
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  5411. @Bry-Fi You must be a Republican dolt.
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  5412. Trump is a joke and a conman.
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  5413.  @mal6232  The ETF markets create more gold than the actual supply of gold. It is like printing money, or crypto coins creating more supply of digital coins. Gold ETFs are paper contracts for gold, it will move up or down with the price of gold. You cannot exchange gold ETFs for real gold.
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  5414. They lack the capital, and technology to do it. You can work with us. We just want trade relations, nothing more.
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  5415. A .30 cal rifle round could disable it by taking out the tires.
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  5416. Ignorant people are easier to control and manipulate.
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  5417. The big problem I have with liberals like you is this... You want EVERYONE to be equal, and I say that is impossible. Everyone is different, some people are more intelligent, some people are wealthier, some people have talents, some traits may even be genetic, and you can't make everyone the same and generalize.
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  5418. The FBI can take their time, hopefully they finish their investigation after Trump gets voted out of office in 2020. This way, they can come after Trump and his family, and he will have no protection as president.
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  5419.  Dragon1717  I want to see Trump in prison and all of his assets seized by the Federal government. If that means, Trump serving out his full term, I can live with it.
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  5420.  Dragon1717  You know what stupid, the FBI doesn't have anything on James Comey or Hillary Clinton. The FBI and the DOJ has enough evidence to throw your fake president in jail. Richard Nixon was smart, he resigned and he had Gerald Ford who was the Vice President pardon him. The smart thing for your pathetic stupid orange haired president to do is, just plead guilty and resign. Then, have Mike Pence pardon him. In 2020, a Democrat will more than likely be president, and he/she will not pardon Trump.
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  5421.  Dragon1717  Trump may be a billionaire, but he can't win against the full force of the Federal government. No one can.
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  5422.  Dragon1717  Whatever, you don't have shit. Conspiracy theories don't hold up in the court room. Now, go back to your trailer park, and STFU.
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  5423. Anti-Tank guns are obsolete, that is why no major military power uses them today. Anti-tank guns don't fire control systems, like main battle tanks, AIFVs, and APCs. In the modern battlefield, having sensors, like thermal optics, night vision will enable you to spot the target first. If you can spot the target before the enemy can then you are a live, and he is dead.
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  5424. Twitter would be worthless, because the users are what gives Twitter its value.
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  5425. Because Putin gave Dump money and bailed him out.
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  5426. @Bobby Boy the market for sedans are largely taken by companies, like Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, and KIA. For the luxury sedan market it is taken by Lexus, BMW, Audi, Infiniti, Mercedes, and Acura. It is already a very saturated market, and American sedans are not reliable enough and stylish enough to compete. The only reason why American auto manufacturers have a competitive edge on trucks and SUVs is because there is a tariffs on imports for those class of vehicles.
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  5427.  @-RizonGaming-  I don't think Trump is going to pay millions of dollars and pay millions more to create, and maintain a real social networking website. This stuff costs a lot of money, he isn't going to get away with not paying web developers, programmers, and the IT staff that could maintain a real social networking website. Trump's business tactics involves not paying people, and suing people who worked for him so he can pay less. If Trump wants competent people who can create a real social networking website then he will have to pay for it. This isn't something Trump does.
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  5428.  @-RizonGaming-  These gigantic social media websites have terms of service which was written by an army of lawyers. Trump isn't going to sue Silicon Valley, and if he does file lawsuits against them then it will cost him money. He will most likely lose because he agreed to the terms of service and violated them. These tech companies can show that he did violate them, and Trump is going to make up stuff and say he didn't.
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  5429. The China skeptics and critics say stuff like all China does is copy. China has invented many things in its history, and China will make more breakthroughs like this in the future.
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  5430.  @jgalt308  U first pilgrim.
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  5431. You can't have guns, but you can have pepper spray and tasers. You want to protect yourself, I would say that is enough for most people. Why do you need to carry a gun that can kill and maim 10 people with one magazine.
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  5432. You need to take it easy. Go take a warm shower or bath, and get cold glass of beer or soda. That is how I forget about everything that happened in the day. It helps me unwind and get ready for the next day.
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  5433. At this point, I don't think the collective W*st has the ability to produce enough stuff to support Uk*a-i@ne.
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  5434. There are a lot of sick crazy people out there.
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  5435.  @jackpop4133  If the ventilator is defective, it will kill people.
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  5436.  @putler965  There are sanctions imposed on China for getting lithographic machines which are used to produce microprocessors. This is why they want to invade Taiwan sooner than later. If China does invade Taiwan, they will have sanctions imposed on them. Economic sanctions were imposed on North Korea for years. Iran had been under economic sanctions since Trump became president in 2016.
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  5437.  @putler965  Russia share a border with North Korea, Iran, and China. If China decides to support Russia, there will be no logistical difficulties in sending everything Russia needs. They send drones, missiles, trucks, aircraft, APCs, AIFVS, rocket artillery, munitions, etc. If China does invade Taiwan, they won't have anything to lose in supporting Russia. Since China is the factory of this world, they can outproduce the West.
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  5438.  @itsallminor6133  I wouldn't underestimate military engineers from other countries. The principles of making a guided missile is the same just like science is the same in every other country on this planet.
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  5439. Trump hires the best criminals. LOL
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  5440.  @SuperCulverin  They are dependent on US manufacturing?????? They manufacture most of the stuff, and even the US imports it. That's why the US has a trade deficit. Energy????? They don't buy a lot of energy from the USA, they buy it from Russia, and the Middle East. Tech...... China imported about $400 billion in advanced semi conductors in 2022, but since the US government is imposing chip bans those exports are going down. China is also developing their own chips and chip making lithography machinery, it can take 5 to 10 years, but they can still do it.
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  5441. I guess, people that live on government assistance and other government entitlement programs will get eaten alive by inflation. A deficit of 3% to 4% per year is compound interest. In 10 years, compounding at 4%, your dollar will buy you 67.6% or $0.676 worth of value for what used to be $1 10 years ago. We don't know how much inflation will be year from year, some years, it can be 5%, other years it can be 8%, so no one knows. From 2000 to 2024, a gallon of gasoline in my local area was $1/gallon, and today it is $5.20/gallon. Gasoline went up at 7.15% every year for the past 24 years. If the government only raises entitlement benefits at 1%/year then your purchasing power in today's dollars would be $1.27. At 7.15%, the purchasing power you will have is $5.25 today.
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  5442. Shut up Jew.
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  5443. Throw the book at em.
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  5444. You cannot stop a airborne virus, you can slow down the spread, but you cannot stop it. The Chinese government had been living in a bubble for years, just because they can suppress the people with censorship, violence, and the threat of death doesn't mean they can suppress a virus which cannot be censored by the use of force.
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  5445. The UK navy belongs in Europe, not in East Asia. Your navy is a joke, we have more ships, and more people.
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  5446. Absolute monarchies are better than Republics. It is better to have a leader that doesn't get replaced every 4 years. As a result, monarchs will do what is good for the long term health of the country. Elected leaders only care about what happens in their 4 to 8 years in office. After that term, it is someone else's problem.
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  5447. Now, all of chump's minions and henchmen can craw back to the rocks they came out of.
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  5448.  Natural Man  You have been brainwashed by maga, you maggot.
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  5449.  @dmr7  That is if he wins in 2020.
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  5450.  Natural Man  We will see.
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  5451.  Natural Man  When the stock market crashes, Trump will get blamed for it. Are you going to blame Hillary Clinton for this? LOL
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  5452. Government takes from us, so we take back from the government. LOL
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  5453. Republicans are full of shit, vote them all out.
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  5454. Chump is going to have a melt down. LOL
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  5455. When it comes to employer rights, private companies aren't democratic, but public sector jobs are protected by the most part.
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  5456. What corporations and companies will do to make a profit.
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  5457.  @JohnFrumFromAmerica  China and Russia are building oil and natural gas pipelines, so China's energy supply can't get cut off.
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  5458.  @zulfakaraspar2311  You made the right choice, because I regret not leaving the US.
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  5459. Energy is one of those things that we need. What we don't need is the US exports of perversion. People and countries around the world need oil, natural gas, construction materials, vehicles, chemical fertilizers, parts for machines, electronic components, etc. Europe and the US can try to embargo a country that sells things the world needs. It will only translate to higher inflation and a decrease standard of living for people living in the West.
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  5460.  @jmchng9662  Sure India has stuff they can send Russia, they can send them medicines, clothing, automobiles, telecommunication equipment, minerals that Russia does not have, etc.
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  5461. You will see a lot more mericans living in tents on the sidewalk in the next few years. The people that took their money out of the equity markets will be okay, but the people who BELIEVED it would lose their shirts.
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  5462. It costs $2.5 million to shoot down a Houthi drone or a missile. A Houthi drone costs about $2000. A Houthi missile probably costs about $10,000 to $20,000. The Houthi can do this all day until they bankrupt the U S . LOL
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  5463. It would be nice if interest rates go up to 15%, I could make some money on bond yields.
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  5464. Let's see how much workers are paid hourly around the globe. Sierra Leone = 3 cents /hour India=28 cents/hour Afghanistan=57 cents/hour Philippines=61 cents/hour Mexico=66 cents/hour China=80 cents/hour Brazil=$1.98/hour US worker makes about $15 to $20 /hour working in a factory. Not all jobs can be automated, and some jobs aren't worth automating at all. The cost of capital investments is higher than what you would pay someone per hour. Unless you are willing to work for 3 cents to $2 per hour. You're shit out of luck. Those call centers you call for customer service to any major corporation oursource those customer service and technical support jobs to the Philippines and India because they cost 24 times to 53 times less than what you will work for. You're outta luck boy.
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  5465.  @floridaman3823  No one in China gets welfare to sit at home and not do anything. In the US, you have people collecting welfare checks that don't work. Isn't that what you imagine as being socialism?
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  5466. Not bad for a bunch of convicts with shovels defeating a proxy army supported by Western powers. During the Vietnam War, the Americans got humiliated by getting defeated by a bunch of guys in black pajamas. ROFL 😆
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  5467. Interesting, I can carry some of these cards along with credit cards, and cash when I go on a trip.
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  5468. These sanctions are preventing the Russian military from getting the stuff they need to fight in the Ukraine. I guess, Russia is still a primitive and barbaric nation with lots of nuclear weapons.
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  5469. The solution is simple, stop sending balloons over US airspace.
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  5470. If a Leopard 1 encountered a T-72, T-80, or a T-90, it would the toast. The Leopard 1 can shoot the front of those Russian tanks, and it will just bounce off.
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  5471. You so called constitutionalists are uneducated and ignorant. I know your arguments. You think the government overstepped its bounds when President Eisenhower used Federal troops and Federal Marshals to de segregate schools in the South. Eisenhower was only following through with constitutional amendments. You think the Waco incident was a conspiracy. The people at Waco had many chances to surrender, but they chose to fire back. There is no evidence the Fed gov set the fires to kill them.
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  5472. The government is for corporations, not the people in the USA. If you don't know that, you are blind.
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  5473.  @michaellim4165  Nothing Jin Taek.
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  5474.  @michaellim4165  I think you're the troll looking at your channel, Mr. Lim Jin Taek.
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  5475.  @sangwoo9686  Like I said, ARM is a fabless chip company, they license out their CPU architecture to other companies, like Samsung. Samsung produces the ARM chips with a license from ARM. For every chip ARM cpu Samsung produces, they have to pay a licensing fee for every chip that is produced. Just like Samsung and every other computer company has to pay a licensing fee to use Microsoft Windows. They also have to purchase a AMD or Intel CPU. Since AMD and Intel don't license other companies to produce their CPUs, the users of those chips have to buy them directly from AMD and Intel. ARM doesn't make CPUs, so they let you use their intellectual property for a licensing fee.
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  5476.  @sangwoo9686  You are all over the place Woo Jin Taek.
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  5477. Twitter should ban Chump.
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  5478. Most people in the USA live paycheck to paycheck. Most people make barely enough money to meet their expenses, like rent/mortgage, utility bills, fuel, internet service provider, health insurance, dental, cell phone bills, child care, etc. Most Americans have less than $2000 in their savings accounts, so when you have a period of high inflation. It causes pressure on families, it causes them to go into debt by using credit cards, getting payday loans, borrow money from friends and family, etc.
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  5479. When you can keep holding your gold and silver until gold goes down to $950/oz and silver goes down to $18/oz or lower. I will buy real estate, buy a real business, and make a monthly revenue in fiat money. I will buy gold when it is at rock bottom prices. No one cares about gold or silver, the average person wouldn't buy a silver 1 ounce coin for $1. Mark Dice made a video about it. The money that is printed doesn't go to the average person, it goes to a handful of people. No hyperinflation.
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  5480. Industrial robots had been taking human jobs since the mid 1970s. Computers and computer algorithms have been taking human jobs since the 1980s. This is the reason why credit cards came into being in the 1980s, it was a way to getting people to buy things they couldn't afford so the economy would not collapse. When trade policies like NAFTA came into being in 1994, you had more job losses that resulted from it. In addition with the Glass-Steagal Act being repealed in 1999, many more good paying jobs were lost over the years. You also had outsourcing which resulted in customer service and white collar jobs being lost. With high speed and broadband internet from 2000 to the present, it has never been easier to outsource intellectual work to other countries where labor costs were cheaper. For example, computer programming work can be outsourced to other countries where people are payed 3 to 4 times less than they are paid in the USA for the same work. Architecture work can also be outsourced to other countries. You can send the work which is largely done on a computer and upload it to the client, and the money can be wired to anywhere in the world. You had hundreds of thousand of postal workers who were affected by email. This greatly reduced the demand for postal service, and mail sorting facilities use machines to sort out the mail now. This is why they came out with 0% financing to buy a house in 2001. The vast majority of people could not afford to buy housing with the traditional down payment of 30% down, and 5% to 10% interest rates. This resulted in the financial collapse of 2008. Ever since then, interest rates had been in historic lows for 9 years. This is why the economy is collapsing. Most people are heavily indebted and in most cases insolvent. They don't make enough money, because most of the good jobs had been outsourced or automated out of existence. In the near future, many more jobs will be automated out of existence with deep learning, other forms of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and quantum computers. Millions more jobs will be on the chopping block in the near future. As for the stock market, real estate market, and other assets, they are all in a bubble. If the Federal Reserve raise interest rates to 5%, all these bubbles will pop. This is why interest rates are at 1.25%.
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  5481. Trump called other politicians liars, like lying Ted, and crooked Hillary. Maybe, we should give herr tRump a name. We can call Trump backtracking Trump.
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  5482. I do own gold, and I do regret buying it at $1600/oz, and $1700/oz. Gold is a timeless element, it never rusts, corrodes, and it is eternal. I would love to buy more gold at $900 and $1000/oz.
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  5483. It's funny how the banks aren't paying 4% interest for savings accounts. Most large banks pay about 0.01% APR for savings accounts at the present. The best place to park your money is into US treasury bonds.
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  5484. Watching Trump talk makes me sick.
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  5485. Don't try to argue with right wingers, they are incredibly stupid.
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  5486.  Kevin Cline  It really depends on what you do for a living. I live in Los Angeles, and my rent is about $2995/month almost $3000/month. I am a independent contractor, but I do more specialized work, like computer programming, deal with servers, creating websites, maintain computers, and stuff like that. The prices I can charge are variable. With these smartphone based gigs, the prices are set by the app developer. I don't know how you can survive with such jobs. Independent contractor thing seems to work if you have a high level of education or skill. There are physicians, engineers, dentist, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, software/web developers, technologists, technicians, architects, lawyers, brokers, accountants, authors, etc that are also independent contractors. The difference between these people, and people who use smartphone apps is that they can charge whatever they want. In a sense, they are independent operators of their own businesses or practices. They have licenses, degrees, and skills that everyone can't do. For me, $3000/month is not really a big chuck of my income, I can afford it, and still have money left over. I have to say being a independent contractor vs. working at a company full time has been more difficult. The work is not always stable, the hours suck, and the rate is variable. If you have clients that know and trust you then you can get higher fees. If you have wealthy clients, they can give you very generous compensation for your work. If you have crappy clients, they can really waste a lot of your time and pay very little. It is much better to work at a company and make a stable salary. It is what it is now, employers don't want to pay benefits, and it is cheaper to hire people when they are needed vs. hiring them to be there 8 hours a day.
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  5487. ​ Kevin Cline  Working 2 to 5 jobs these days seems to be the norm.
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  5488. China isn't collapsing, I live in the U S A, and I know the U S is collapsing.
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  5489. If I made my own cryptocurrency, I would want people to buy it and make me richer. Pump it up, tell people to HODL, and dump it at a huge profit. Then, laugh at the morons that believed me. LOL
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  5490.  @desperado3236  Computer cpus use gold plated pins.
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  5491.  jbnathanson  The Democrats are protecting us against Trump's corruption. After all, they blocked Trump from getting any of that coronavirus stimulus money. Trump is going to need some of those bailouts after he lost $1 billion in his business holdings. Too bad, he can't get any of that stimulus money.
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  5492. @Billy Cole II I doubt it.
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  5493. There will be other jobs created as a result of computerization and automation. There will be a demand for people who fix, maintain, and service these machines. The big corporations made billions of dollars in investments in automation. The small businessman can eat crow, they will be pushed out of the market. They have no real access to credit , but the mega corporations have corporate welfare, and they can borrow money at nearly 0%.
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  5494.  Ionor Rea's Tech Evolution Archive  Truck drivers make most of their money driving in the highway across the country. Sure, truck drivers will be used, but they will given 14 hours of work per day. They can be used for let's say 3 hours per day, driving in populated areas. Even at one of the part time jobs I work at, I wrote software to enable me to work 3 times faster. As a result, instead I only go there 3 times a week working 3.5 hours a day. The part time job I have was a full time position before I worked there. Since I am a contract worker, it works for me. I have several part time jobs, and I also do business on the side. No business is going to give you full time if you get your work done faster. If you can get 8 hours of work done in 2.5 hours, the worker there will be told to go home after 2.5 hours. They will only be paid for 2.5 hours, and no more than that. In another case, if productivity was increased 5 fold, if you had 500 people working there. You can simply lay off 400 people. The mathematics of this efficiency does not lie.
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  5495.  @KOTYAR1  Old folks need help.
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  5496. Just about everything Trump says and does is a big contradiction. He wants to lower inflation, yet he imposes import taxes, and wants the Fed to lower interest rates. He wants to reduce the labor force by removing people from the country which is inflationary. His foreign policies are forcing other countries and foreign investors to not buy US debt. Come produce everything in the US where most people can't afford to buy it? Another contradiction. The solution is simple, decouple from the US, decouple from the USD, and find new markets. The US is not the future, it is the past, the US consists of 4% of the world population. Developing countries have growing economies, the US economy is stagnant.
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  5497. Great business model, take from citizens and sell it on the street. They sure are hard working people.
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  5498. These blow hard investors in Wall Street will beg Trump for 0% interest rates, but it won't work.
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  5499.  Mike C  The media is giving Yang exposure, but I don't know if that will be enough. The fundamental problem we have here in the USA is that we have a lot of uneducated, who just don't get it. I don't know what it will take for these morons to wake up. Maybe, a severe recession will wake a lot of these clueless people up from their slumber?
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  5500.  @jolookstothestars6358  I think our real history is being deliberately hidden from us for some reason. There are articles from the 19th century of miners digging up bones of giant humanoids. They all mysteriously disappear without a trace.
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  5501.  @TCP147  How would stone age people lift and place 200 to 500 ton blocks of stone with such precision?
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  5502.  @pakk1  If you are alive then yes.
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  5503.  @stynway59  That is what caused it.
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  5504.  @shirleyallen1418  There are, yet you still have the skeptics that will argue with you that what we have is the pinnacle of civilization.
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  5505.  @kenyabrewer255  Scientists don't have to believe anything, they need evidence. There is plenty of evidence in this world to prove the existence of civilizations which are 10,000 years or older by looking at the megaliths that exist.
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  5506.  @noel5141  That kind of explains the myths, like Atlantis and Lemuria. How these ancients had such advanced knowledge, and the monoliths they left behind is perplexing in the level of precision.
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  5507.  @SomeUserNameBlahBlah  I don't think it is falling apart. China just wants to move from low end manufacturing to high technology. From labor intensive to capital intensive. That is how most countries transition. First is industrialization with low cost labor with the accumulation of wealth it leads to research and development and capital investments, like machinery, automation, etc. The reason why the US is conducting these chip bans is to prevent China from developing high end technology. I work in the technology industry, and I know China has a monopoly on the lower end chips, like RISC based processors for microcontrollers and Single Board Computers. Those are used for industrial applications. China has been investing billions of dollars on developing their X86 processors, and they are trying to develop the lithography machines to produce high end chips. The only reason why China didn't develop their own high end X86 processors was because they could buy relatively inexpensive AMD and Intel processors. Give it about 5 to 10 years, and they will catch up. Just like the skeptics that said, China could never produce a AEGIS class destroyer, or aircraft carriers were proven wrong.
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  5508.  @SomeUserNameBlahBlah  It's a catch-22 really. If these chip companies don't sell to China, their market shares will drop. As a result of the chip ban imposed by the US, Silicon Valley couldn't sell $300 billion or $0.300 trillion in chips last year. This lead to Silicon Valley Bank collapsing, and over 200,000 people in the tech field being laid off. These companies want to sell their chips, that's why Micron was crying to the US government that they got banned, and they were saying how unfair it is. bahhhhh bahhhh!!!!! LOL They need US chips for now, but the Chinese found a way to produce 7 nanometer chips, they are currently mass producing 14 nanometer chips. They are getting ready to produce 7 nm chips, they have to make the tools to do that first, because ASML lithography machine ban is causing some issues. They will find away around it.
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  5509.  @worldtownfc  With all this technology that we have, like fast internet, software that enable you to work remotely, I don't think anyone's job is safe. During the pandemic people said they wanted to work remotely, most of those jobs can be outsourced to countries where they speak fluent English, like the Philippines, India, Pakistan, and other countries. Most of the programming jobs could be outsourced to countries, like Poland, Czech Republic, India, Vietnam, China, etc. Hell, you can hire one computer programmer to do the work of 4 or 7 programmers with a program, like ChatGPT. When I was growing up, you needed to type in commands to use computers. When they came out with GUI(graphical user interface) based operating systems, everyone could use a computer. Computers became as easy to use as a telephone or a television. A high level programming language is a tool you tell the computer what to do. In the future, a person could just type in what they want a program to be, and the machine can write the software. The ultimate expression of that would be humanoid like robot that can understand human language and do what you tell it to. This is the future.
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  5510. 4 cents an hour is slavery.
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  5511. The West will ban Chinese everything Chinese, and Japan's steel industry is doomed.
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  5512. Our government spends a lot of money on education, and stoogeofstooges is blaming lack of government spending. It is a lie! The U.S. ranks 4th place when it comes to educational spending per student. Then, he says there is a disparity between public schools doing worse than private schools. If the students in public schools don't do well, it is their own fault for not trying hard. Don't blame the government for these disparities!
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  5513. Apple wants you to give them more money soon!
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  5514. China isn't Iraq, China is a strong nation with a thermal nuclear arsenal. The U S is good at attacking small countries without nukes. LOL
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  5515. You can't buy much with Bitcoin, it has no damn utility. Steam stopped taking it around December of 2017, and Microsoft stopped taking Bitcoin as payment quite recently. Not many merchants take it, so it doesn't have much utility.
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  5516. You don't understand economics. The U.S. produces enough wealth. Foreigners come to the U.S. to buy high end real estate, and many people want to come and live in the U.S.A.. U.S. produces a lot more things than I can put in this comment bar. The foreigners aren't going to dump those dollars, they will use it to buy something of value. They will buy U.S. businesses, land, real estate, defense equipment, natural resources, automobiles, commercial aircraft, livestock, etc..
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  5517. Trump urging Russia to hack Hillary's email https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQb2S4DIcNc
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  5518. Zelensky is like a demanding beggar.
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  5519. LOL!!!
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  5520. Civil Rights for whites. LOL Everyone has civil rights including white people. LOL What is this idiot talking about?
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  5521. Don't stab innocent people and threaten police with a knife, or you will end up like that guy.
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  5522. The people running Western governments are so detached from reality. With clowns like this running a country, it is not a surprise that politicians in the West have some of the lowest approval ratings.
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  5523. The American Empire is desperate to continue their Ponzi Scheme.
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  5524. Armpit riceballs. LOL
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  5525. I bought gold because I collect gold coins. I don't think gold is an investment. I collect retro computers, because I collect them. Some people collect old cars from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. An investment is something that provides a regular rate of return, like bonds, rental properties, a business, etc. Investing in yourself is also an investment, like going to university, trade school, studying to get a certificate or a license, etc. Buying in some commodities and expecting it to go up is not a certainty.
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  5526. Chinese products are crappy.
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  5527. Not only are they poor, they are dumb as well.
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  5528. That turned barbaric. LOL
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  5529. Alex Jones is good at acting and making things up. LOL
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  5530. What will happen if reducing interest rates to 0% still leads to a stock market crash due to massive corporate debts?
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  5531. He is a lying piece of crap.
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  5532.  @raven4k998  They have faster refresh rates, and they cost more than modern monitors now.
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  5533. Chump for prison.
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  5534. Don't go out with loose women, or you are inviting STDs. Remember that.
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  5535. Chump is gaslighting you, he doesn't want to give anything to anyone, because he lost.
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  5536. They aren't regretting it, they knew exactly what they were voting for.
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  5537. As for the money flooding the economy, it won't happen. Most of the money will be in the hands of a few billionaires, and many millionaires. More money in the hands of a small percentage of the population will block hyperinflation. As for the majority, who are probably down on their luck will only get enough money to survive.
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  5538. Sex change is mutilation, you are born as a man or a woman.
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  5539. I was paying about $0.18/kWhr in 2020, and today I am paying about $0.28/kwhr now. My utility bill went up about 35% from two years ago.
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  5540. LOL
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  5541.  @amberinthemist7912  I am 49, and I have that.
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  5542.  @amberinthemist7912  No.
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  5543. The pirate Scholz. Harty har har. LOL
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  5544. Del Taco is paying people $18/hour, and so are a lot of these big corporate fast food restaurants. That's not a bad hourly wage for a unskilled worker. No wonder small businesses can't find people.
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  5545. Ohhhhhh conspiracy theories. Taboooo. ROFL 😆
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  5546. Slamming to door is self defense????? That's not self defense.
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  5547. You aren't allowed to criticize Elon Musk on Twitter, because he is tyrant.
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  5548. Living in the U S is like living in h-e-l-l.
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  5549. I trade stocks on a monthly basis, and I buy gold and platinum as a long term investment.
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  5550. Jets are fast, and cannons have very short range. You will most likely run into the balloon and damage your aircraft.
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  5551.  @Drewstefer  We shall see what happens, anything can happen in war.
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  5552. I owned two bullet proof vests, one a level 2, and a Level 3A vest. They even had a center pocket for a small plate. They aren't that expensive $300 to $500 per vest.
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  5553.  @dev0random  if you ever took economics 101 in college, the purpose of the corporation is to be efficient. That means, they are efficient when it comes to making money. In reality, most of people who are hired by businesses are hired mostly by small and medium sized businesses. Businesses where you will more than likely see the owners of these businesses, but if you work in a large corporation you have no personal connection to your employer. Let's say in the future, you had another political party which actually stuck up for the American people. Let's say, they made a law which fines anyone who hires undocumented workers with a fine of $100,000 per undocumented worker, and the people who hired them must pay for the detention and deportation of these people. I guarantee you, the Republicans or the Democrats wouldn't support it. Especially the Republicans who tout all this white nationalist bullshit. The solution is, we need a real 3rd party.
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  5554.  @dev0random  everything can't be automated. Even software developers can be replaced by H1B visa holders, or corporations can simply get the work done in another country where labor is much cheaper. Since it is just software, you can send it over the internet, and people can be paid over the internet as well. Cisco laid off about 10,000 people in 2011. One of my friends used to work for Cisco system, he was a software engineer, and he got laid off in 2012. The key to surviving now is diversifying. I do more than just work in software development. Everything is just a part time job now, I mostly work as an independent contractor. If your bids are low enough, you'll get the job. Now, I do everything from buying and selling stocks to selling houses for commission. Your value as an employee is usually rewarded with betrayal in the end.
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  5555.  @dev0random  Are you saying Amazon, AT&T, Microsoft, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Walmart, and others like them are inefficient. I know that isn't true. They have billions of dollars, and a massive amount of resources. I don't care how smart and valuable you think you are to them, you are just an insect.
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  5556.  @nexus1g  being a independent contractors works for me, because I work in the IT field. I do a myriad of things from maintaining servers to programming computers. I have very little overhead, unlike someone who uses their own expensive equipment, like a automobile. It doesn't cost much to write code in C++, script, or assembly language. All I need is a computer, and computers are cheap.
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  5557.  @nexus1g  It depends, if you have to use a car, you have to deduct all the expenses from it to get a net profit. For me, the expenses of doing what I do is negligible.
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  5558.  @nexus1g  The Gig economy is like sharecropping.
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  5559.  @nexus1g  You can't make your own policies, the prices are set by the company, the rules are set by the company, and you have no say in it. If Uber wants to lower the pay rate, you just have to take it. If you complain or break any rules, take a hike.
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  5560. BRICS should have their own central bank, because what the West did to developing country using the IMF was parasitic.
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  5561. That is a lot of lying. LOL
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  5562. The US is buying oil from Venezuela which is a totalitarian state, because the US needs to buy their oil. When it comes to making money, moralities don't matter.
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  5563. Turtle tank, like the Korean Turtle ship. Looks like this Turtle tank is a great idea. LOL
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  5564. The trade deficit doesn't matter, because the countries the U.S. trades with buy U.S. treasury bonds. They will try to inflate the value of the dollar, because it makes their goods cheaper. The point of propping up the dollar is to keep their people working. At the same time, wealthy foreigners come to the U.S. and buy high end real estate. These countries that trade with the U.S. can buy stuff they need from the U.S.A., like chemical fertilizers, agricultural commodities, etc.
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  5565. That woman who supports Trump is an idiot.
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  5566. A new disease created by the medical industrial complex.
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  5567. You know as well as I, if you are an exceptional student in the U.S.A., you will be able to get a scholarship to pursue your education in the best universities. People like that are the ones who make the breakthroughs in technology. The U.S. ranks about 4th place when it comes to spending money on education, and that is good for a country that has a big population.
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  5568. This is interesting. You can have a operating system that is 100% free.
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  5569. China must keep helping Russia, because NATO and the US will go after China after they defeat Russia.
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  5570. Yep, and we all buy from the company store. LOL
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  5571.  @desmondkwang5945  Most people in China don't have mortgages, and they don't pay property tax either. If you use your home as a ATM, like they do in the US then housing prices going up is good.
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  5572.  @ValinPrezkowski  None of the speculators got bailed out, so now homes are getting affordable in China.
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  5573.  @ValinPrezkowski  In the US, all the speculators that caused the housing bubble in 2008 got bailed out. Now, homes aren't affordable in the US now.
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  5574.  @ValinPrezkowski  When the price of regular home in the US goes from $500k to $3.5 million, you will not be able to afford to live there. The property tax for a $3.5 million home will cost $38.5k to $76k per year. Most people in the US are complaining about property taxes now in states where the price of a average home is $750k due to the HOI and property tax. You'll be homeless in 5 to 10 years even if your mortgage is paid off.
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  5575.  @ValinPrezkowski  For me, my home is paid off, and I live in a state where property taxes cannot be accessed every year. The home I live is about $1 million, but I am paying property tax based on what I paid for the home back in 1996 which was about $150k. It goes up 1% per year for the accessed property value when you bought the property. Never the less, other expenses like HOI did go up with inflation. I paid about $1k/year for HOI in 1996, and now I pay $4.5k/year for HOI in 2024. In most states in the US, it isn't like California's property tax laws. Property tax is accessed every single year; therefore, it goes up every single year if the value of the property goes up. Let's say the value of your home was $350k last year, and this year it went up to $450k. You will be paying $4500/year in property tax vs. paying $3500/year last year.
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  5576. People are doing great huh? You have thousands of retail stores closing every year, people who are underemployed, and millions of jobs that are in the chopping block due to Trump's trade war and economic policies.
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  5577. The US was saying if and when they see a M1 Abrams, the Russians would run for the hills, because the sight of it would strike fear in their hearts. ROFL
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  5578. ​ @paulsherman51  From 2024 to the future, most people won't have jobs. AI and robots with AI brains will do most jobs humans do. Sure, there will be some humans that have jobs, but few people will be able to do the job of many. For example, one programmer will be able to do the job of 10 to 20 people with the help of AI. Robots will be able to do service sector jobs, like making fast food, etc.
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  5579. Jonathan Hiatt, we all know Trump attacked Amazon and the Washington Post. Give me a concentrate example of who Obama threatened?
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  5580. Neo Virz. Worser? There is no such word. That's right, you don't know the exact details or anything about the economy, because you're too uneducated and ignorant to know about. The raise of the dollar?? What does that mean? You're living in the 3rd world country? You are pretty ignorant. You don't know what the hell you are talking about like your ignorant buffoon of a president.
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  5581. Neo Virz, I don't argue with morons. LOL
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  5582. No wonder the literacy rate in the US is 79%. It's literacy rate is less than some developing countries.
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  5583. This is what happens if you give money to corporations without conditions. Believing that private corporations will benefit their workers or society is fantasy. If the money was given with conditions, you can get it back with penalties, and with interest.
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  5584. Is this a conspiracy theory? Every time a crack pot conspiracy theorist militia member commits an act of terrorism, the government is responsible? Come on.
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  5585. It's complicated, I just think the mandate should be for all businesses regardless of the number of employees.
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  5586.  @George-k6o9t  Yes, I know that. The Chinese don't have a jet engine for the Comac C919, they are currently using the Leap-1c. They are working on a CJ-1000A engine, and this engine is specifically designed for the C919.
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  5587. That is the Super Famicom version of Samurai Showdown, I never played that version of Samurai Showdown.
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  5588. It is the sharecropping economy.
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  5589.  @filonin2  Because people got guns here, and criminals got em.
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  5590.  @rahl163  Seems like it, he just wanted to use his assault rifle on someone that day.
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  5591. We all know what kind of chicken hawk mr. linden graham is.
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  5592. Indians like being doormats for whyte people. LOL
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  5593. You must be one of those people that buy stocks and never take profits. I buy stocks and other investments, and always cash out when it doubles. When the stock doubles, I sell half of it, and when it triples, I sell 25% of it, and if it quadruples I sell all of it.
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  5594.  @kneel1  Yes, I pay capital gains tax, it is 15% if you held it over a year.
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  5595.  @kneel1  Maybe, you are a salary man or something. I am a business man, so I take profits, and invest the money into other things. I am not a stagnant investor. Sure you pay some tax, but so what. The returns I get on the next investment is more. Then, I take the excess profits and buy gold with it as my retirement fund.
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  5596. That is why the economy will never collapse. Hyperinflation will not happen either, because it is the Federal government that is propping up most of the economy.
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  5597. Laws need to be enforced, and people need to vote politicians that don't protect the public. Even the most liberal people will understand why we have immigration laws and don't let everyone into the country.
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  5598. Brad so what STFU.
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  5599. Brad, you're a unemployed factory worker.
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  5600. No one is talking to you Joe the Plumber Brad!
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  5601. Yes, it is true. When you have more you try to hoard onto more. It is a fact, and you try to pay the least amount of taxes possible. Another thing, it is pointless to argue with Brad Joe the Plumber Christy. Just ignore this fucktard, he has been trolling a lot of comments here.
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  5602. It doesn't, but the way the political system is setup here, it does concentrate wealth with the people who contribute the most in campaign contributions. They have the lobbyists and the money to get what they want.
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  5603. If you have millions or billions of dollars, paying a politician $200,000 to $1,000,000 is no big deal. If you only make like $35,000 to $120,000 per year, there is no way you can give someone that much money. Most likely, you will have a family to support, car payments, mortgages, pay for daycare, buy health insurance for your family, car registration, car insurance, dental bills, utilities, etc. It isn't crony capitalism, this is what capitalism is. You get big enough, you buy up all your competitors, and you become a monopoly. You expand your business out of the country to make more $$$$. The people who helped you start your own business in your own country gets shafted. The cost of keeping you around is more expensive, so fuck you and get lost. I can hire someone in Sri Lanka, Mexico, China, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Thailand for less. If you think that is crony capitalism, you're an idiot. Capitalism is based on unlimited growth. You need to become international. The kind of capitalism Trump is talking about keeping industries within the USA, and not outsourcing is bullshit. Capitalists have always been expanding outside of their boundaries. When capitalism started in Great Britain with the start of the Industrial Revolution in the mid 18th century. They needed markets outside of Britain, and they pressured other countries to trade with them like in the Far East. In other cases, they conquered the country and dumped their excess production on their colonies. Crony capitalism my ass. Capitalism leads to imperialism and that is a fact.
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  5604.  @johnsmith1474  SO WHAT BOOMER.
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  5605. Until they get seriously sick, lose everything they own, and end up in the streets.
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  5606. I am not insulting or looking down on anyone. I am merely saying people will get by. Besides, people won't get violent, because they will get their EBT cards. As long as they aren't hungry, people will not get violent.
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  5607. Good luck with that, a lot of people live on some kind of government assistance in Cali.
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  5608.  @shortfuseband  I never went bankrupt loser. I know a lot of people who voted for Trump are losers.
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  5609.  @shortfuseband  losers are good at blaming other people for their problems. They never reflect on themselves, so they lose again and again. They believe in delusions, like if I buy silver I can crash JP Morgan. If I buy Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies, I can stick it to the Central Banks. If I spend my life saving on survival foods, guns, ammo, silver, and other useless things, I will be prepared for a total collapse or SHTF scenario. Blah, blah, blah, nothing people like you ever believed in ever happened. Most of what people like you said amounted to bad financial advice for the people who followed that advice. LOL
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  5610.  @lancewood1410  Hick, redneck? I am Chinese by the way, I am neither of those things. Most people in the US don't have much savings, and have a lot of debt. Since I am a Chinese American, I don't really have any debt. My mortgage is paid off, and I usually don't buy things on credit. The US has a 79% literacy rate, and people here are mindless zombs.
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  5611.  @Jellybean-gz4cj  That's why IC vehicles and smartphones are losing market share in China. China is going to be competing in the aerospace field by producing their own commercial jets in the future with a Chinese made engine as well. China will be producing products at the top end of the supply chain.
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  5612.  @wisdomtan490  That isn't what I am saying.... Instead of putting all this money into foreign financial markets in the West, more of that money can be used domestically.
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  5613.  @bingbing3464  I didn't say people in China are poor. All I meant was, money should be taken out of Western financial markets and used in China. That's it.
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  5614.  @twlamSG  Wages had doubled in China from 2012 to 2024. That did help boast domestic consumption.
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  5615.  @bingbing3464  China does export a lot of things the world wants and needs. Currently, the world needs USD to pay off their dollar denominated debts; however, when those debts are paid off of defaulted on this is where you will see a turning point. There is a need for USD now. We don't know if countries around the world will take loans from the US if they don't that is the nail in the coffin for the USD. The big advantage China has now is that they have complete supply chains. As a result, it will be nearly impossible to decouple from China.
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  5616.  @bingbing3464 They need to reconfigure those factories to build products people and the public sector needs and wants, like vehicles, smartphones, rice cookers, appliances, cookware, etc. The defense industry can build more equipment. Heavy industries can produce more buses, trains, construction equipment, commercial aircraft, etc. All of these things can help keep many Chinese people employed, and contribute to a strong domestic economy.
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  5617.  @GoranKoneski  When the USD becomes toilet paper, people in the US won't be able to buy much of anything with their currency.
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  5618.  @GoranKoneski  With de dollarization, most mericans will not be able to buy much in the future.
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  5619.  @GoranKoneski  Wages actually went up a lot in the past 4 years; however, the cost of living went up even more.
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  5620.  @mandrews1245  Since China produces a lot of stuff, this creates a deflationary effect. That is why you are seeing deflation in China. On the other hand, you are seeing inflation in the US due to a lack of production capacity.
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  5621. Vinfast can't make its own engines, it has to buy engines from other car companies, like GM and BMW. LOL
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  5622. Winnie the Pooh destroyed China.
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  5623. Then, the cost of all manufactured electronics goods in the USA could go up 10 times or more. So much for bringing back jobs to the USA. Most of the American companies that produce in the USA will go bankrupt, because they can't export their goods because it won't be price competitive. They will be fighting with TWO hands behind their backs. High costs of natural resources, like rare earth minerals and the high cost of labor. So much for Drumpfs MAGA. LOL
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  5624.  @davidhynes  Did you hear the new man? More than 90% of rare earth minerals are mined in China.
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  5625.  Donald Kasper  What's coming on?? Your mom? Listen dolt, if China charges 1/10 of the price for rare earth minerals to companies that have manufacturing plants in China, and sells the same rare earth minerals to companies for 10 times the cost. I think those US companies that produce in the USA will go bankrupt. You dumb asses don't understand economics.
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  5626. You're very lucky to have a machine like that. I wish I still had my Pentium 3 800 mhzs computer from the late 1990s.
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  5627. Alex Jones did that on purpose, because most of his audience are already stupid.
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  5628. All these hardcore maga hat wearing Trump supporters want to believe Trump is their hero, but these tax returns will expose Trump for the fraus that he is.
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  5629. No surprise. This is what trump does. He has a history of not paying people. That is how he conducts business.
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  5630. There is no logic in Lavar's argument, he is an idiot.
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  5631. If both sides can agree on that then we know it is the truth.
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  5632. Stepan Bandera is a national hero of the Ukraine, and he was a Nazi collaborator. This is not surprising.
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  5633. This woman reminds me of my girlfriend, she always slaps me, and says some of the meanest things, LOL.
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  5634. These social media corporations are privately owned companies which have publicly traded stocks. If Alex Jones sues Google, or Facebook, all they have to point out is the violations in the terms of service.
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  5635. There is no need for cheap labor, it can be replaced by robots. 10 years from now, we will probably have soldiers and police that are robots.
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  5636. Wilfred Shin, Donald Trump is a dangerous idiot.
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  5637. Y Troll?
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  5638. Roland Deschain, you can believe whatever you want. When the rubber hits the road, you will see. : )
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  5639. Roland, what?
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  5640. Roland, so.
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  5641. Ockie Ditchbank, the farmers who voted for Trump are realizing that they got screwed. The millions of idiots who voted for Trump will realize that in about a year from now. They will be affected by Rump's stupid trade war.
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  5642. Deporting 11 million people is a tall order. It is very difficult to do logistically in a year, it would take many years. It will cost more than $300 billion to deport all those people.
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  5643. It's genocide. Israel isn't letting the refugees leave Gaza, or letting the inhabitants get fuel and food to survive.
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  5644. What about men who aren't working, because they have enough money to not work?
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  5645. It will not pop, because they will keep printing money. The currency will be inflated to oblivion.
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  5646.  @taipangwong356  Thanks.
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  5647.  @saeed7099  My parents have some health issues. My father survived two surgeries because of cancer. My mom has diabetes. I wanted to leave the country, but they have no interests to move to China with me. I just have to take care of them until they expire.
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  5648.  @saeed7099  They are fully functional.
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  5649. Guns aren't necessarily banned in California, you can still buy guns in California. I own about 7 of em, and I live in SoCal.
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  5650. Trump doesn't understand what a tariff is, so he doesn't understand how the economy works. This is why, we will see a recession by the end of this year if not sooner.
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  5651. Throw him in prison with general population!
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  5652. Come on, don't be naive. These billionaire donors, like to use foreign workers. From the agricultural sector to the tech sector. Do you really think, they would use you who demands more money?
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  5653. The end of US hegemony is coming. Ukraine will be US's Afghanistan, and you know what happened 3 years after that to the Sovet Union.
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  5654. That country had always been a lapdog for thousands of years.
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  5655. RFK will never get a chance to become the president of the USA; however, all I know is the dollar will lose more and more of its value as de dollarization takes place.
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  5656. Chump is lying.
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  5657. I like curry rice, the S&B brand is the best in my opinion. Next time, you should make a video about that.
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  5658. @Kevin Tewey Exactly, and since 1980, more and more people went into poverty with Reaganomics. Anyone who states that not true is lying or stupid. I lived in Los Angeles county since the early 1980s, and I have never seen this many homeless people. I haven't seen a lot of homeless people in the 1990s, 2000 to 2013. Now we have so many homeless people, you can see them everywhere.
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  5659. Jail isn't a 5 star hotel, it is where bad people go to.
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  5660. Scrumptious.
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  5661. That doesn't work, because women can be drafted now.
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  5662.  @limitisillusion7  It is not our nature to conquer other countries, it is not in our DNA.
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  5663.  @limitisillusion7  I am not saying our people didn't conquer other people within our borders during ancient times. The borders of China are the borders of China, but we have no desire to expand it further.
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  5664. They have all their IMSI(International Mobile Subscriber Identity) data, they can't hide.
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  5665. My parents are senior citizens and they are retired. Back in 2012, I called them and made a deal with them. I would move back with them, and I asked them if they would be interested in paying off the house and get rid of the mortgage. I was getting tired of paying rent. I asked them how much they had in savings, and I asked them how much was left in the mortgage? I had enough money to cover for the rest to pay off the mortgage, so we paid off the house together. I didn't have to play inflated rent prices, and I would cover the cost of utilities, property tax, maintenance fees, & groceries. Even paying all that, it was a lot less money than paying rent. I was able to save money after I did that, and my parents didn't have a shortage of money. They didn't have to get a home equity loan from these predators. The key is, you have to find a way to work with people. Back when I was going to university, I shared a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 people. There is no way, I could have paid the rent being a full time student working part time jobs at the time, so I just found 2 classmates who would agree to share the rent. It worked out. People have to learn to make compromises, and work together. If you can do that, the predators can't win.
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  5666.  @Manon-p9t  I agree with that, but most of chump's supporters are poor people from rural America. Those are the majority of people that voted for him. LOL
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  5667. This is good for countries in West African countries, and for China. China can buy cocoa at a lower price, and Western speculators can pay more for processed cocoa.
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  5668.  @blcheah2672  The standard of living for people in the Ivory Coast will go up, and they will be able to buy more Chinese products.
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  5669.  @njandrews4105  If your good in hard science classes, like chemistry, physics, and math classes, you can get those degrees. A lot of people major in engineering, but never finish, because they think the advanced math and science classes are too hard.
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  5670.  @njandrews4105  Everyone wants to become a medical doctor, scientist, engineer, registered nurse, pharmacist, but many don't have the brains to become those things. Keep that in mind, it isn't just about money.
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  5671. Russia is a barbaric nation, and we should keep sending everything to Ukraine until this barbaric regime is defeated.
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  5672.  @alexorf6058  Those are your personal opinions, and they aren't objective in anyway. People who don't like policies of any of the states they reside in can simply move to the other 49 states in the union.
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  5673. Making such a statement would be like a Democratic candidate running for public office in a deeply red state, like Alabama and saying he was robbed. It would be like someone saying he/she isn't stupid when they have a IQ of 85.
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  5674. Why the hell did the Russians attack a nuclear power plant? A nuclear meltdown can't be good for anyone.
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  5675.  @bonniejohnson1518  Minimum wage in 1974 was about $2/hour. That would be about $10/hour today, not $30/hour.
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  5676. Those beings are the Gods that demanded human sacrifices, and gave man technology. It is like the story of promothesis.
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  5677.  @carlyd2764  they aren't human. They work with our leaders, and our leaders give them something in return. In ancient times, people were openly sacrificed to the Gods. In modern times, people just disappear and go missing. Our leaders are human, but those things are beings from another dimension. They aren't physical, that is why they need human blood to maintain a physical body on this plane of existence.
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  5678. The world needs to boycott and cancel China.
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  5679. LOL
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  5680. It's monopoly pure and simple. These big platforms don't want you to sell exclusively at their website over your website. I also noticed, a lot of the Chinese companies that made products for people who sold on Amazon and Ebay are beginning to sell their products on Amazon and Ebay directly at lower prices. At the same time, Amazon is copying successful products from sellers, and kicking them off their platform. Either way, sellers on platforms, like Ebay, and Amazon are screwed. There is no future in it unless, you buy individual components, put it together in your own workshop, and sell it on your website. Use social media, like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and others for marketing and advertising your stuff.
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  5681.  @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou  Requiring sellers on platforms, like Amazon to sell the exact same products for more on the sellers website is a monopolistic practice. It doesn't make any sense, because Amazon and Ebay charge you a fee to sell on their platforms. You should be able to charge more on selling on platforms, like Amazon, Ebay, and other platforms, because your costs are higher. For people that know better, you can find better prices if you search on the internet to buy things. You can buy stuff on websites, like Aliexpress and buy it at wholesale prices cheaper than Amazon or Ebay. You can go to let's say Sony's website and order PS5s, or Oberto Beef Jerky, etc. In that respect, Amazon and Ebay aren't monopolies, because the internet is full of websites that sell things.
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  5682.  @alfaazsingh5544  That is also pretty bad.
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  5683.  @yoyoyeri9634  When I was in elementary school, I had to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday.
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  5684. You have to gauge inflation with the cost of commodities and goods. A gallon of gasoline was about $1.00 in 2000, and today it is about $3.50 to $4.00 per gallon. A barrel of oil in 2000 was about $20, and today it is about $94/barrel. The Dow was about 10,000 in 2000, and today it is about 14,500. The Dow should be 35,000 to 47,000 now. If you kept you money in stocks for the past 13 years, and you didn't make a return of at least 400% you lost money.
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  5685. The USPS is a integral part of the government, because this is a normal function of government.
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  5686. The US a big Karen, it is always in everyone's business, yet it can't take care of its own business.
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  5687. How can you bankrupt a casino, you must be the biggest idiot in the world to do that. LOL
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  5688. Sucks, it is just exploitation.
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  5689. It is very simple........ The population grows every single year, and there is a limited amount of land. That is why land prices keep going up every year. Therefore, life is a monopoly game, and the tenants are at the mercy of the landlords. : (
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  5690. Exactly, but the problem with student loans is you can't default on it, or file bankruptcy to get rid of it. Those loans are owed to the Federal government via Sallie Mae. When I graduated from university in 2001, I had $2000 in student loan debts, and they wanted it right after I graduated my undergraduate degree. Fortunately, I didn't have a lot of student loan debt, because I was working while I was going to school. This is why it took me longer to graduate. I had money, because I had a job while I was going through university. Too bad these Millennials are financially illiterate, most of them will never get underneath this debt. I knew this one girl, she had $75,000 in student loan debts, and this was in 2009. She owes $100,000 now, because she missed payments, and she didn't pay. The interest keep on accruing. The government can find you via your Social Security number and garnish 15% of your paycheck. Being a debtor must suck.
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  5691.  @tormentorox1  when a bubble pops, people tend to get hurt. The best way is not to get caught up in a bubble, but sometimes we can't do anything about it. For example, if you need to rent or buy real estate, you have no choice. A lot of students who are going to college don't have a choice either, they have to pay these high prices. The same goes for commodity prices which are speculated, like what happened to oil and gasoline back in 2008. You need to put gasoline in your car.
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  5692. Only white supremacists believe that.
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  5693. Another instance of genocide is like what happened to the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, the Mongol sack of Baghdad, Mongol sack of Kaifeng, or the Romans destroying Corinth, Gaul, Carthage, and Judea. Do you know what genocide is? It is when soldiers or members of another race or ethnic group indisciminately kill and slaughter people. Is that what is happening in South Africa???
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  5694. The only type of socialism that was successful was Chinese Socialism. GDP 1985 • 1st place - USA: $4.339 trillion • 2nd place - Japan: $1.427 trillion • 9th place - China: $310.133 billion 9th place 2023 • 1st place - USA: $26.9 trillion • 2nd place - China: $17.7 trillion • 3rd place - Germany: $4.806 trillion • 4th place - Japan: $4.21 trillion In 39 years, China was a developing country where there was a lot of poverty to a country that is 2nd place in economic development. If Chinese Socialism didn't work then this would not be the case.
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  5695.  @jgalt308  It's about $12,535.41. It costs much less to live in most parts of China, the average cost of rent is about $250 to $350/month.
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  5696. US media is always saying the Ukrainians are winning, it doesn't matter if it is from CNN or FOX, they all say Ukraine is winning. The biased reporting from US mainstream media is getting ridiculous.
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  5697. Who cares if you own guns.
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  5698. Republicans are slime.
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  5699. Those missiles are quite capable, they are big missiles, because they have a very long range. Stop making up stuff.
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  5700. Bong Bong Marcos is Merica's attack dog. LOL 🤣
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  5701. The US car industry don't want Chinese EVs. The way things work in the US is big business uses lobbyists to get what they want.
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  5702. Not really, because the Russians have complete control of the skies.
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  5703. @Klemheist Most of the heavy fighting in Southeast Ukraine. Russia has air superiority in that area. Besides, if Ukraine is winning then why are they urgently asking for support from the West. Making statements like we are out of munitions, so we need it now.
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  5704. @Klemheist Ukraine wants offensive weapons, like jets, heavy and medium artillery, main battle tanks, armored infantry fighting vehicles, and stuff like that. Short range anti-aircraft missiles, like the Stinger, and anti-tank missiles are okay in defending an area. These weapon systems aren't suited for taking back areas. You need heavy artillery, and heavy armor to do that.
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  5705. The loser killed people, because he sucks. LOL
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  5706.  @12313846  Your beliefs are inaccurate.
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  5707.  @mandrews1245  There are countries in Europe that are part of the BRI, like Greece, Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.
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  5708.  @svcupc  Right, Risc-V, thanks.
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  5709. There isn't much they can do. They are going to fly over the airspace of Lebanon - Syria - Iraq, Jordan - Iraq, or Jordan - Saudi Arabia - Iraq to get to Iran? All that is hostile airspace. Most those aircraft can get shot down before they can to Iran.
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  5710.  @MultiPopculture  hey Toshi, you need to shut the fuck up. You people lost World War 2, the USA beat the crap outta you. It is a great thing the USA dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, it prevented millions of people from dying.
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  5711. Youtube just doesn't like gun channels from what I can see.
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  5712. Doesn't Elon understand the majority of the people that bought his EVs were environmentalists and hardcore libs. A lot of people around the world will not be buying Elon's EVs due to the way he acted with that salute. In the near future, Musk is going to chump, and he will try to get a deal with the pentagon. Elon will say, I will supply the DOD with Tesla trucks. LOL
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  5713.  @swanskogjsson151  Reagan and Bush actually had principles, but Trump doesn't have any. I think was a Democrat before he ran for president. The economy policies under Reagan and Bush was aimed more towards free enterprise, and free trade. Trump's economy policies is geared towards protectionism, and I know that this is not a Republican principle. It isn't a Democratic principles either. The tax policies of George W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan are the same. Trickle down economics simply does not work. Everyone knows tariffs are bad, regardless of party differences. Everyone knows tariffs don't work, except for Trump. Trump being a failed businessman should tell you volumes of how competent he is.
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  5714. They believe if they hide it then it doesn't exist. This is how much they are detached from reality. ROFL 🤣
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  5715. There is a way to hedge against inflation by real assets, like precious metals, real estate, staple food that have a long shelf life, or buy equities(stocks).
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  5716.  @davidh4129  What option do you have? You live in a capitalist system.
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  5717.  @davidh4129  If you really think about wages haven't gone anywhere. My wages from my job hasn't gone up for 6 years. The only way I was able to make enough to stay above water was by buying into the equities market, buying and selling stuff on different platforms, and finding other ways to monetize things. Even with doing all that stuff, you certainly won't get rich off of it. You will make a little extra money. It is a hell of a lot better than what my father did back in the 1980s, and 1990s. He would just despair and drink himself to death, and now he is all F***ed up.
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  5718. @Kevin Tewey Unless you control real assets, like patents, real estate, productive land, you will always be at the mercy of monopolies. As for looking at another system, that is beyond my control. We cannot change the current system, so we are forced to live in it. I really don't see a future, it is all a race to the bottom. Everything is pretty much saturated, too many people, too much competition, resources are running out, etc. I am just trying to hang on.
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  5719. @Kevin Tewey Capitalist governments represent the people with money, and it has always been that way. If you aren't rich or powerful then they simply don't care about those people. They never cared about the interest of working class people or the poor.
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  5720.  Just For Fun  I can afford to drive a Hummer, but I just drive a luxury sedan because it is more practical.
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  5721.  Just For Fun  people doing things to show off can get them into financial troubles. The people who really have a lot of money don't really care to show off their wealth. The people who live in the middle class always want to show off their latest smartphones, latest automobiles, latest purses, etc. It is funny how the people who have it don't show it.
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  5722.  keith mcdowell  I was born into a family that has a lot of money and power. I live pretty modestly for the most part, and I try to save most of the money I earn. If you saw me in the street, you would think I am just ordinary person. Buying material things doesn't make people happy. Once you have everything you want, life gets pretty boring. My ex girlfriend was also from a pretty wealthy family, and she lived as modestly as I do. It seems like Middle class people live to gain material goods.
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  5723.  keith mcdowell  In my opinion, buying material things to satisfy your self is superficial. I have been poor in different points in my life, and that taught me to live within my means. Some of my friends who grew up in lower middle class settings that are now medical doctors, and lawyers really do live it up. They live way beyond their means. People who grew up without much tend to grow up to be very materialistic when they do gain access to wealth it seems.
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  5724.  keith mcdowell  the only difference between chattel slavery which existed before the Civil War, and this new slavery is that this slavery is voluntary. You can get what you want by saving your money, and buying it without debt. For other things, that is impossible, like houses, and real estate for example for most people. The reason real estate prices are so high is, because people buy real estate with debt. People use leverage to buy a lot of real estate. As a result, people who need to buy a place to live have to pay inflated prices which puts a big burden on most people.
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  5725. @keith mcdowell  A lot of people are brainwashed here, and they are the ones who are funding their own slavery. For example, most of the money these big corporations get is money from mutual funds, pensions, and 401ks which is tied to the stock market. Most of that money belongs to middle class people which corporations use to expand, and sell their products below cost which drives smaller businesses under. A lot of middle class people shop in the Walmarts, the Targets, CVSs, Walgreens, etc. Yet, they complain about workers in those firms being paid very poorly. All of it is a big paradox, because they are the ones who are unknowingly funding it. There is no point in arguing with these idiots. You can only make the right choices which will benefit you, and trying to change the world is a pipedream.
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  5726. I know how to play the game, my father was a director of a large corporation back in 1970s and early 1980s. I know the stock market is suckers game. The directors of large corporations manipulate the price of stocks, so they can get suckers to buy it. Stocks are nothing but pieces of paper any corporation can print out, so they can get suckers I mean investors to buy it. There was a big drive in the 1980s to get people to get into the stock market by getting middle class folks to buy into 401ks, and mutual funds. This is why you saw huge increases in the stock indexes from 1980 to the present. It isn't really hard to make money, or make a lot of money. You just have to know how to do it. You buy land, and you rent it out. You get a license to sell real estate, and make the big commissions on the inflated price of real estate. If you went to the right IVY League school, you could become a hedge fund manager and get a commission on a percentage of billions of dollars. For the past 19 years, it has all been about asset appreciation, inflating the price of real estate, inflating commodity prices, and inflating equities. You're very idealistic, but not realistic.
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  5727. When I was 8 years old, my father would take me to amusement parks, museums, restaurants, the movie theater, and a lot of places. My father was a director of a big corporation back when he was 41 years old when I was 8 years old. We used to go to the mountain on a bicycle, take me the toy store, etc. When you have a family, this is what you have to do with your family.
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  5728. Korean people aren't that smart that guy on the video looks like a Korean.
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  5729.  @ProctorSilex  Not all East Asian people are smart. It seems like that, because from the 1980s the East Asian people that immigrated to the US were highly educated people. People who had a Bachelor's degree or higher. I came to the US in the early 1980s. My father worked as a director of a large corporation, when we got to the US he had enough money to buy a home, and start a business. Others were scientists, engineers, and other professionals. The East Asians that immigrated to the US before 1965 were mostly unskilled works with not much education or financial resources.
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  5730. The mainstream media will say the Ukrainian army made a strategic withdraw, right? ROFL!!!!!
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  5731. Gold can go to $5k/troy ounce in the next two year.
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  5732. Death penalty.
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  5733. I am glad I don't have any stocks now.
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  5734. A Israeli aircraft bomb destroyed that hospital. A 500 lb aircraft bomb can flatten a building like that, not no Hamas rocket with a 10 lb to 50 lb warhead. This is a joke.
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  5735. Bullies often think that. When I tried to fight back against a bully, I got the crap beaten out of me. At least I fought back even thought I took a beating.
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  5736. You will see a lot of inflation in a few years from now, but it will come in the form of a bubble for something.
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  5737. It is called life. Unfortunately, people aren't all born equal.
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  5738. If you attack Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories, his bot like followers are going to attack you. Alex Jones is the biggest idiot in this world, and his followers are cult like. If you disagree with them, they call you a sheep and they call you foul names. They are a bunch of fringe lunatics.
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  5739. No it hasn't, because it's always been that way. Even in ancient times, you had the bow maker who made bows/crossbows for hunters also make bows, crossbows, catapults, and ballistas for the government. The ordinary craftsman/metal smiths who made tables, brooms, stoves, farm tools, horse shoes, carriages, knives, etc for the civilian market would also make spears, arrow heads, swords, frames for seige engines, cannons, logistical wagons, for the government. All this is as old as history.
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  5740. Then, they can take your car. LOL
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  5741. There is a solution, go learn programming, and get a better job. LOL
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  5742. Theman, the amount of money Uber pays, and what it comes to maintain your car makes Uber not worth it. Uber's insurance policy doesn't cover for accidents, nor does your regular insurance. LOL
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  5743. Theman, it does not. If you drive people for money, you need a commercial insurance. Your regular insurance does not over it.
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  5744. Theman, Uber only covers the passenger, they don't cover you or your car.
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  5745. If you can't find anything better than Uber, go for it. Just keep this in mind, anyone can drive a car and everyone has a smartphone, so there is no shortage of drivers. This is why Uber is paying you crap wages, it is due to market saturation.
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  5746. Whatever.
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  5747.  @TheGhostOfMichaelJackson  It's over, because you can't get enough suckers into it anymore.
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  5748. China is the biggest market for vehicles in this world, so Chinese EV companies will push out all US and EU vehicle manufacturers.
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  5749. China is going to say, thanks for building sky scrapers and apartments in China foreign investors. See you later. LOL
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  5750. There is no way outta this without PAIN. If the Fed increases interest rates, we will have the greatest deflationary depression in the history of the world. If they keep interest rates at near zero, we will have high inflation somewhere down the road. We are at the point where, you are damned if you do, and you are damned if you don't. A deflationary collapse, or a inflationary collapse, you choose.
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  5751.  @lesliestenta3084  Not only are you paid poorly, you are treated poorly as well. Working as a waiter was the worst, they paid $2.00/hour, and you had to make most of your money through tips. I worked at a high end restaurant back in the late 1990s as a waiter, and people did tip generously, because I offered fast service. For lower end restaurants, people just don't tip well.
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  5752. See what chumpism got em.
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  5753. LOL
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  5754. Maga doesn't like people like Vivek after he said mean things about them and their culture. I don't think Vivek will win in Ohio.
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  5755. Filipinos littering, and Chinese coast guard picking it up. The South China Sea has always been Chinese as far as the Song Dynasty. It still belongs to China, can't they understand that?
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  5756. If the NATO and the USA is sending MBTs to the Ukraine then it is a clear indication the war in the Ukraine isn't going well from the Ukrainians.
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  5757.  @captainrex520  The only way we will know is by seeing future events unfold. Other than that, it's just pure speculation at this point.
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  5758.  @diodio8592  This year Russia projected that they will be building 1,500 mbts.
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  5759.  @diodio8592  During the height of the Cold War, the USSR was producing as many as 4,500 mbts/year.
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  5760. Muricans are going to have to do farm work, or they will have to eat 1 meal a day instead of 3 meals a day. If it gets worse then they would have to eat every other day.
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  5761.  @happylistener4628  Even without a mortgage and car payments, you still have to come up with at least 25k to 30k per year to pay your other bills, and taxes.
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  5762.  @happylistener4628  I am a long way from retirement. The property tax I pay now is about 9 grand per year, and the HOI is about 5 grand per year. All my other bills also went up.
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  5763. That's right, the elderly people who watch Fox News will be alright. Why? Because they watch Fox News, and Fox News says so. LOL
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  5764. The reality is, the government's policies are doing a lot to keep the economy afloat. Medicare money funds the healthcare industry in the USA, a lot of people in the medical industry rely on this money. The social welfare programs fund agribusinesses, and the food retail businesses in the country. EBT cards are taken by small markets to supermarkets, this government money being pumped into the economy does a lot of good. There is the defense contracts that pumps more money into the economy.
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  5765. Justin Brawdy So true. LOL
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  5766. Most Americans are mathematically challenged, and this goes for the politicians as well. If we spend $2 million to shoot down a $2000 or $10,000 drone, this makes sense, because we can just print more money to buy these $2 million missiles. Dooh. LOL
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  5767. I took up to Differential Equations at the university, and I would have gotten that 0.8 x 0.12 wrong. LOL
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  5768. The US is a declining power, and chump will help accelerate that decline.
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  5769. Our wages aren't going to go up 25%. Americans will have to pay more taxes in addition to the taxes we already have. Now, we have to pay tariffs.
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  5770. Good riddens to that piece of trash.
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  5771. Mr Happy Guy, go look it up stupid.
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  5772. Know Thanks, we shall see how fake it is when these lawsuits bankrupt him, like it did to Tom Metzger for promoting hate speech back in 1988.
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  5773. Mr Happy Guy, I don't care, because Youtube isn't a profession for me. I have a real career, I just do it for fun. Alex Jones did it as a career.
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  5774. Mr Happy Guy, go make your own platforms. Most of the people who work in Silicon Valley are progressives and liberals, I work in Silicon Valley. If you don't like it, get the hell out of these platforms.
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  5775. Mr Happy Guy, inciting violence is not protected under the 1st Amendment, and it is a clear violation of Youtube's policies.
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  5776. Know Thanks, I know all of you Libertarians are full of shit. I am not going to waste my time watching it.
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  5777. PROPAGANDA OUTLETS AREN'T NEWS NETWORKS, is that a threat?
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  5778. PROPAGANDA OUTLETS AREN'T NEWS NETWORKS, if Alex Jones believes he is right, he can try to sue Google. Big corporations like Google and Facebook has armies of lawyers that work for them. They give these corporations legal advice, so when these big corporations ban someone like Alex Jones. Their reasons for banning Alex Jones is 100% water tight. They don't make emotional judgements or make things up, like Alex Jones. Just your fake president Donald Trump trying to use Tweeter to sway public opinion on the F.B.I. investigations against him. When it comes to real things, like lawsuits, and criminal investigations. You can't lie or con your way out of it. If you lose in the court room, you can lose your freedom and get locked up. In a civil lawsuit, they can take every penny away from you and make you totally destitute.
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  5779. PROPAGANDA OUTLETS AREN'T NEWS NETWORKS lawyers use facts and evidence to build up a case. Your conspiracy theories doesn't mean anything in the real world. Calling me a corporate shill based on your beliefs is absolutely worthless. It isn't going to stop Mueller's investigation, or the lawsuits against Alex Jones.
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  5780. PROPAGANDA OUTLETS AREN'T NEWS NETWORKS deep state doesn't exist. Only conspiracy theorists believe that. The FBI doesn't make up stuff. They have a case against Trump. Why isn't your Trump talking to Mueller? The FBI has all the info, they ask Trump a question, and if he lies he will be indicted and impeached.
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  5781. This world hasn't changed much since caveman times. Violence is just an integral part of human nature, I guess.
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  5782. Printing money does make the deflation problem go away, and loaning out printed money at very low interest rates helps reinflate the stock market and the real estate market. It works, and it looks like there is no more economic crisis anymore.
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  5783.  @indricotherium4802  I don't know how old you are, but this idea of renting everything and not being able to own it kind of sucks. It seems like everything is become a subscription service. Back in the 1980s, 1990s, and the early 2000s, you were able to own the software you bought. This software came in a box, had a manual, and you could install it on your computer and use it. If you want to buy a game now, there is no box, there is no paper, there is no poster, and there is no physical media. You buy it online, download it, and you use it on a platform owned by Steam, UBISoft, etc. Some of the older games don't work anymore, because Microsoft Live isn't supported anymore, etc. This rideshare stuff was good in the beginning when rates were low, but look at how expensive it is now? These rideshare companies are gouging people and ripping people off. A lot of people I knew said, you don't need your car. You can just take Uber or Lyft. This idea of you will own nothing and be happy is becoming a reality now.
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  5784.  @indricotherium4802  In some states, public roads and bridges are privatized, and they have toll roads.
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  5785.  @indricotherium4802  It is difficult to know what will happen in the future for sure, but I do see a decaying civilization. You have signs of this by seeing a lot of homeless people, a decaying and aging infrastructure, high inflation, more and more people not having the ability to buy the basic things that they need, spiking crime rates, and the general discontent you see everywhere. Maybe this is why the people that control this country are doing their best to try to start World War 3. It's apparent that they know what is ahead of them in the beyond the horizon. The system is collapsing now. Therefore, when this house of cards does collapse into something many times worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s, people are going to push for change, like they did in the 1930s. This is when we came out with the New Deal by President FD Roosevelt.
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  5786.  @indricotherium4802  I am afraid you are right. At this point in history, there isn't much we can do at the national level. We can still do something about it at the local level. Property taxes are set by local governments. If they wanted to fix this problem of big Wall Street corporations from gobbling up all the residential real estate then they can. They can make it so that is you own more than 3 homes then you will be charged a 30% property tax rate per year. If you own 3 or less homes, you will be charged the current property tax rate, whatever that may be in the municipality.
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  5787.  @indricotherium4802  People have more power than they realize, but they don't realize it. The first step is to take back the monopolization of land in municipalities. Without the affordable rents for residents and businesses, most of the money get siphoned into the hands of Wall Street fat cats.
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  5788.  @MH-il1lk  Listen bud, none of those Arab states are responsible for taking care of Palestinians. Stop trying to shift your responsibilities on other countries.
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  5789. They are savages.
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  5790.  @karzygijose  You didn't pay income tax in 2018?
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  5791.  @karzygijose  The person who filed your taxes will get that money.
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  5792.  @karzygijose  I think so, but I am not a CPA. You need to go as a CPA about it to get a more accurate answer.
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  5793. Maybe, the county should set aside some land for the homeless.
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  5794. The way these liberals think, a gun made by Glock killed a number of people, so the victims of the lunatic shooter should sue Glock. It would be like saying, someone drank rubbing alcohol and went blind, and the person that went blind should sue the company that made the rubbing alcohol. People use firearms to defend themselves, and people use rubbing alcohol to disinfect wounds. Liberal logic, let's ban a movie that was made in the 1930s, because those attitudes aren't acceptable today. These people are sick in the head, they believe they can impose their retarded beliefs on everyone.
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  5795.  @paintballer13377  Russia is producing about 125 MBTs per month. The US produces about 12 M1 Abrams per month. What a joke. LOL
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  5796. This gravy train is over. The Chinese buying up our debts is over. Interest rates will begin to spike as a result. We will probably go through a major recession.
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  5797. The reason why the US is putting these barriers against Chinese EVs is, because they know they can't compete. The world is a bigger market than the US, and the US can't stop it.
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  5798. You have black lines under your eyes, that must mean you are exhausted.
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  5799. Ukrainians aren't winning. The West is investing all this money in the Ukraine, because the Ukrainian has a lot of debts from the West.
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  5800. Don't argue with Brad Christy, he is a troll.
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  5801. My girlfriend married her boss who was a 85 year old man, because he bought her a house. There is no way, someone like me could complete with that.
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  5802.  @CMKMarch63  He is a fraud for sure.
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  5803.  @lenanoro5427  Trump believes he is the smartest, and best business man who ever lived. If that is true then why did he go bankrupt 6 times? He doesn't listen to anyone because he is a narcissist. Most of his hard core followers are conspiracy theorists who believe in New World Order conspiracy theories. The world is against us, and the globalists. LOL
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  5804.  @hannahmurray3782  the only people who believe Trump are the uneducated, ignorant, inbred cornflakes. They are the only ones who are stupid enough to believe something like a wall would work, they are the only ones who are stupid enough to believe Trump is the greatest business man that ever lived.
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  5805. The corporations buy up the media, so they are the voice of public opinion. ROFL 🤣
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  5806. What a pathetic statement. The US must running out of wea-pons. The US is surely a declining power. ROFL
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  5807. If you put 90% or all of your investments in gold and silver, you better have enough money to survive on when it they go down 50% or more from when you bought it. If you don't, you will have to sell it at rock bottom prices to just pay your bills and cover for cost of living expenses. That is the truth. Since I still do have a job, I didn't put all my money into gold/platinum, I will just focus my attention on my career and other investments. I will make money from them, and buy cheap gold.
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  5808.  @MoybulAli-i5d  The biggest expense of any company is payroll.
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  5809.  @konstantinrebrov675  Looks like you are serious about keeping your job. ROFL
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  5810.  @andreah6379  I don't know how old you are, but I am 49 years old. I experienced the industrial economy of the 1970s to the 1994, and I experienced the post industrial economy from 1994 to today. The post industrial economy is based on finance capitalism, and it is all about increasing profits. That is what you have today. Increase profits by cutting corners(using low quality materials and parts and charge the highest price), outsourcing, charging fees, charging excessive fees, rent seeking, asset stripping, monopolistic practices, etc. You have a bunch of oligarchs with lots of dough using the govt to put their competitors out of business. The companies that have the most money get their voices heard, and the companies that don't. It's called corporatism. I can't blame them corporations entirely. People choose to buy inexpensive and low quality products. Now, that most of the competition is gone, these big corporations are now monopolies, and they can charge whatever they want. The end.
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  5811.  @vesselfit2use  I am still using the bedding my parents bought me from 1985. You can get better quality stuff, but you have to buy it directly from where it is manufactured. US companies that import and market products here sell the cheapest stuff, and they make it up 3 to 10 times what they paid for. These aren't even their products, all they are doing is putting a brand on it. My mom bought a massage chair, and she paid 4 grand for it at some store. I told her she got ripped off. I saw the exact same product probably produced in the same factory in China for 3 times less. LOL
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  5812.  @Tammy-iz5rz  The plutocrats own the government. Just like in the movie Back to the Future 2 when powerful Biff said I own the police.
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  5813. @ People will rise up if it becomes 1890s again.
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  5814. @Drew-P-Bllz  Sure tro_ll.
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  5815. I don't think so.
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  5816. The US has the world reserve currency, so all they have to export are dollars. You have a higher standard of living in the US, because of this advantage. This is why a lot of things aren't produce in the US. The money that is accumulated by US trading partners is recycled into US debts. This keeps interest rates low in the US. Tariffs will reduce trade deficits, but it will cause interest rates and inflation to rise in the US.
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  5817.  @lees.4084  Arguing with idiots like you is absolutely pointless.
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  5818. Everyone just ignore the trolls, stop feeding the trolls.
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  5819. The only stupid person I see is Donald Trump.
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  5820. They were all Ponzi schemes, like Bitconnect, and Terra Luna. LOL
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  5821. See, all this computerization stuff isn't good at all. When the warranty runs out, your product might stop working. We used to make jobs back in the 1980s that when the warranty runs out, that's when stuff breaks. LOL
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  5822. Too bad, the average Joe the plumber Republican doesn't understand any of this. They also defend the system, like Trump and others, but they get shafted by the system and don't even know it. They watch Fox News, Infowars, and other right wing channels, and BELIEVE the lies they are told.
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  5823. You think Trump did the right thing taking those hate filled bigots off the terror list. You must be a white nationalist.
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  5824.  @mspixiedust100  Looks like Trump will be a one term president. The economy isn't looking too good, because of his retarded economic policies. In addition to the problems he caused by getting people killed and hurt.
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  5825.  @cliftonfameree4436  A nationalist is someone who cares about a specific group of people in a country. There maybe many ethnic groups in a country, like the USA, but a nationalist cares only about one group. For example black nationalist, or white nationalist. In a country like the former USSR, a Russian nationalist. In the Austro-Hungarian empire, you had many different nationalities living in the same empire. You had Serbian nationalists. The USA is a multicultural nation, so you cannot be a nationalist. You can a patriot of the USA. Let's say person A says I am a Mexican American, African American, Polish American, etc. Nationalism does not equal patriotism.
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  5826.  @mattymag2394  Trump removes white supremacists from counter-terrorism program 02/03/2017 http://fortune.com/2017/02/02/trump-counter-extremism-program-white-supremacists-islam/ .
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  5827.  @mattymag2394  Trump has blood on his hands, his hardcore bigoted supporters aren't the majority of Americans. A lot of Americans who voted for this conman are beginning to regret their decision on voting for this guy in 2016. I have a feeling, he will be a one term president. When the Democrats take over the house of reps, Trump better watch out. They will proceed with impeachment.
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  5828.  @TheDrSweeney  Can you tell me how many jobs he actually brought back? What a lot of BMW, Tesla, Harley Davidson, Ford, and other manufacturing plants that had to move due to Trump's tariffs. Come on stupid, these companies have to rely on exports to survive. Before, they had tariff free trade, so they can import very inexpensive parts to the USA. They used US workers to assemble cars, and other machinery. In addition to that, the basic resource to produce things, like steel and aluminum have gone up due to Trump's tariffs. The savings from duty free trade offset the higher cost of U.S. employees, so companies assembled their products here and exported it to other countries, like China and the E.U. Since Trump started a trade war, those companies can't ship their stuff from the U.S.A. to other countries without getting hit by tariffs. In addition to the parts they import from abroad are also being hit with tariffs, and that makes the cost of parts more expensive. Therefore, the cost of the product is more expensive. They just move the production overseas. They will keep some of the production here to sell to U.S. markets, but the production capacity will be diminished in the USA. You don't know what the what the fuck you're talking. In long run, you'll have production in the USA to meet with demand from U.S. consumers. They won't expand production or add more production here. In the end, the US consumer will pay more money for goods and services. In addition to the state and federal income taxes they pay which amounts to almost 30% to 35%. You have to pay other taxes, like property taxes, and car registration fees. Tariff is just another tax stupid. Americans will just have less disposable income, and they will shop less. They will go out to restaurants less, and that will affect the local economies as a whole.
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  5829. They really don't give us good choices in picking leaders.
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  5830.  @nox5555  They were flying US supplied F-15 aircraft, and other U S made equipment. They were supplied intelligence by the U S. What makes you think U S F-15s, and FA-18s are going to be any different?
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  5831.  @shgalagalaa  The point is, many of these puppet regimes the U S props up are pretty pathetic. The people they choose are the worst leaders. I'll give you some examples. The U S replaced Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala was replaced by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas who was corrupt leader. After WW2, the U S occupied South Korea, and they put Syngman Rhee in power, he was another corrupt leader. In Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem was a puppet who wasn't democratically elected. He was a corrupt and despotic leader. In the election, more votes were cast than there were voters in the entire country. In Afghanistan, the U S put Hamid Karzai who was another corrupt and worthless leader. This is why U S foreign policy was a failure. They put people who are in power who don't represent the interests of the people in those lands.
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  5832.  @ironknee6879  The U S and Nato were competent when they fought in Afghanistan. They had some of the best equipment in the world, and they lost. Therefore, they were as incompetent as the UAE, right?
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  5833.  @RishTheMan  You can make whatever sorry excuse you want.
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  5834.  @charlesbronson11  I am in my late 40s. I don't know how old you are. If you are under 30, they will draft you first.
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  5835.  @dorotapogubila4427  I think the West gave a lot of loans to the Ukraine. During World War 1, the US sided with France and the British Empire, because they lent more money to them compared to the Central Powers. It's a gamble. Russia isn't going to back down, and the sanctions against Russia to cut off buyers for their energy has failed. China and India are buying up Russian energy, and those two countries have a combined total population of 2.8 billion people. Compared to 842 million people for the US, EU, Canada, and Australia. Natural resources is what economies need to grow. There is a need for oil, natural gas, palladium, lumber, coal, etc.
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  5836. The U S is behind this, they are encouraging the Philippines in conducting these illegal acts. It isn't a surprise, because Bong Bong Marcos is just a puppet.
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  5837. Lois Lane is stupid. LOL
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  5838. Just awesome! Who needs to spend money on education, and other bullshit. They need to spend more money on buying the latest and greatest weapons systems, so the country can become STRONG!!!! More of it has to be used on EVIL PEOPLE! Weaponry is absolutely necessary to a country's survival!!!
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  5839. You people are weak, free trade is good. Since you people can't compete with us, you have to make unfair laws.
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  5840. She is going to China to beg them to buy more US Treasury bonds, so they can bring down inflation. LOL
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  5841. That is some great cosplay man.
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  5842. That 3 year lockdown caused this.
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  5843. The liberals have their rich financiers, like George Soros, and us conservatives have our wealthy financiers, like Mr. David Koch.
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  5844.  @jonbourgoin182  I bought all kinds of Ramen, I bought Sapporo Ichiban, Nong Shim, and others I can't remember. I never bought Maruchan ramen, because that gave me stomach aches.
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  5845.  @chriswaters834  Putting eggs, meat, and vegetables in ramen is an old idea. I used to eat ramen for breakfast. Eat a sandwich or a hamburger for lunch, and make a rice dish for dinner. It isn't possible to eat ramen for every single meal, because ramen has a lot of sodium.
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  5846. Looks like Ivan is running out of shells, and weaponry. I wonder what will happen when the Ukrainians get their new Leopard 1 MBTs, Leopard 2 MBTs, Marder AIFVs, Challenger 2, and M1A2 Abrams MBTs.
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  5847. Most of the less well off chumpkins are content with living on $7.5/hour and getting public assistance. LOL
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  5848. This is why they need to ban guns.
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  5849. That is exactly what I mean. These militias can be about anything. If they had half the chance, they would turn the country into a feudal fiefdom. They have a myriad of beliefs, so I don't trust these people.
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  5850. Ted Cruz should get a new name Cowardly Cruz. LOL
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  5851. Republicans are full of shit.
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  5852. CNN isn't news, it is b.s., this is why they had been losing many viewers for some time.
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  5853. Stop lying.
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  5854. When the dollar dies, the US will have close down most of its 750 military bases around the world. It will also have to reduce its military, or it will face more and more inflation.
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  5855. ¥‎6 million, you can be alone, there are other options that cost much less.
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  5856.  @mandrews1245  Trump pressured the Fed Reserve to lower interest rates. Dec, 2018: 2.25% Oct, 2019: 1.50% March 2020: 0.25% This was during the Trump administration. You need to be honest. He is going to the same, this time around.
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  5857.  @salj.5459  Right.
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  5858. What are you a militia member? LOL. Good luck trying to fight the U.S. armed forces, the police, national guard, and pro government people. Once you start it, you are going to wish you never started it.
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  5859. Good, I hope everyone who attended his retarded rally all get Covid-19.
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  5860. Wall Street can dump a lot of this bad debt on Musk supporters and the Maggots. LOL
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  5861. The USA was a bankrupt country in 1971 when it got off the gold standard.
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  5862. Hehehehehehe.
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  5863. That is bad for America and the West. They will start seeing long lines to buy gas, and higher prices, like what happens in the 1970s.
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  5864. There isn't anything wrong with CERT. It is the people who belong to these anti-government militias is what scares me.
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  5865. Donald J Rump is using classic fascist/Nazi tactics. Violence and intimidation is used to silence political opposition.
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  5866.  @dmannevada5981  That isn't what I meant. If you are willing to work hard and work smart, you can make it here. If you are lazy, and not very intelligent America could be hell.
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  5867.  @dmannevada5981  I don't employ one person, I am just self employed. I make my living programming computers, maintaining computers, and programming machines. I just use my skills to make a living.
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  5868. Inciting violence isn't free speech, this is what chump and morons like him don't understand.
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  5869. The problem is Chinese people living in the U S are from many different countries, like China, Taiwan, SIngapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, The Philippines, etc. They all don't have the same beliefs, so that is why Chinese communities in the U S aren't united.
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  5870.  @Kevvynson1  It depends on your point of view. If you own a large company or corporation then it increases profitability, but if you are a worker it increases unemployment. Automation is used in every field from the civilian market to the military. We don't manually aim artillery pieces, you can use a automated system to that. Pilots don't have to aim rockets, they use IR laser, and radar guided missiles. On most naval vessels, you have a automated loading system which can enable you to fire large shells faster than using humans. A lot of jobs have already been automated ever since computers came onto the mass market in the mid 1970s to now. A lot factory jobs are highly automated in the USA and other developed nations. People believe all of these manufacturing jobs were outsourced but most of those jobs were automated out of existence for the past 46 years.
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  5871.  @Kevvynson1  We already live in a world of automation. Everything cannot be automated, but most things that could be automated as has already been automated. Don't believe me, go to any factory or manufacturing plant in the USA, they are highly automated. A factory that used to employ 300 to 500 people has less than 10 to 20 people in it. You will have an engineer who manages the factory, 5 to 12 technicians, and some workers. That's it.
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  5872.  @mattmatt2417  I know all that programming stuff. I am just worried about the instability all this will create in society, like a increase in homelessness, crimes, etc. I live in Los Angeles, and crimes happen more often these days.These days, I try to go to work early and leave early. Stay late and you have the risk of getting your car vandalized, broken into, etc.
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  5873.  @mattmatt2417  Camera's aren't going to stop crimes. People wear hoods, masks, and gloves when they want to fuc* you up, or break in, etc.
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  5874.  @mattmatt2417  These criminals don't use burner phones when they commit crimes or don't carry smartphones at all.
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  5875.  @mattmatt2417  Security robots, police security robots? These things don't exist yet. At home I have a shotgun, and a pistol. I do have that motion detection stuff at home, an alarm system, CCTV cameras, etc. Regardless of having all that, I still rely on my pistol which isn't high tech.
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  5876.  @mattmatt2417  I work on the 32nd floor, so I can go all the way down to the car garage and stop em. LOL
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  5877.  @mattmatt2417  What happens if a group of unemployed angry people come up to you with a baseball bats, knives, chains, axes, and other weapons and say gimme everything you got! Your money or your life?
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  5878. They are jealous of China, and Chinese people. Back in the late 19th century, they didn't like Chinese immigrants in the US, because they worked too hard. They came up with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The US is trying to apply this on China, because China is guilty of being too productive.
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  5879. The bubbles are popping.
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  5880.  @ALN21000  BRICS is more flexible than the IMF when it comes to debt.
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  5881.  @bobronsons5780  Why don't you ask the Africans and African Americans what they think of your people?
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  5882.  @loverules6577  BRICS doesn't dictate policies any country has to follow.
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  5883.  @andrewleblanc1670  Can you a sentence that doesn't have so many grammatical errors? I know, you're from the US, and in the US the literacy rate is about 79%. Are you showing me how illiterate you are by posting this?
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  5884. People forget one important factor. China is a communist country, so they don't care if the markets crash. They want to make property prices to drop, so people can buy homes.
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  5885. If they do that, Russian ICBMs and Hypersonic missiles will be hitting capitals in Western Europe.
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  5886. He asked for it. LOL
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  5887. That will happen. Trade wars don't benefit anyone. It will lead to more loss of jobs.
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  5888. I am sure your wife will come back. She just needs some time by herself. Women are complicated.
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  5889.  @topsuperseven7910  People in China don't eat dogs and cats, like most ignorant mericans believe.
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  5890.  @topsuperseven7910  You guys are fatter, because you're just lazier.
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  5891.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  The de dollarization process is causing these inflationary problems in the US, because excess foreign reserves no longer need to be recycled into US treasury bonds.
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  5892. markmeson, conspiracy theories don't count. You must believe in the New World Order, and Lindsey William with his imaginary friends. You believe all the bullshit Alex Jones spews. LOL
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  5893. bubu joo Estes, Trump won't send his retarded sons to fight, but he will send the sons of his idiot supporters to fight it . LOL
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  5894. Looks like a scene from Fallout 3.
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  5895. Chump can run for president, but he won't win again. When he loses, he will say they cheated. LOL
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  5896. Now the economy isn't good, so he will not get re elected.
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  5897.  @kennethmcglothen3933  If millions of people die, and the economy crashes Trump will blamed for it. Joe Biden isn't prez, Trump is.
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  5898.  @kennethmcglothen3933  The way he is handling it is his fault you idiot.
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  5899.  @MaPee1982  You can believe whatever you like, no one cares.
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  5900. If I am a dumbass, your a fruitcake, ROFL!
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  5901. Government should produce healthcare products, and we should have a national healthcare system as well. The government is responsible for national defense, and you have government arsenals in a lot of countries that produce defense equipment from small arms to combat aircraft.
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  5902. Geography.
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  5903. Back in the 1970s, you could fill a tank of gas for $3.00, because one gallon of gasoline was about 25 cents.
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  5904.  @IamaNewCreature  Are you saying men in my generation(Generation X) are cu cks?
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  5905. The Republicans wanted to de-regulate public utilities and privatize them. They shouldn't be complaining if they have to pay $1000/day for power.
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  5906. You need to find a meaningful hobby then your life will not feel so meaningless. Write your own songs, or something you are interested in. I learned about fishing a few years ago, and now I go fishing 3 times a year. Now, I can cut my grocery bill down more than 70%. During the last recession, I learned new programming languages. When the recession ended, I was able to find a job that paid a 6 figure income. You just have to find something meaningful to do, and life won't be boring.
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  5907. 25th Amendment, he needs to impeached on the grounds that he is MENTALLY ILL. He is going to destroy this economy.
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  5908.  @tunnelrecords4548  If we go into a recession Dump isn't going to get re elected.
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  5909. These women aren't realistic.
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  5910. Let them stay single for the rest of their lives, no one really cares.
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  5911. Looks like the happiest place on earth, but is it really? ROFL 🤣
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  5912. Sounds good to me. I bet Trump is worried, and that makes me happy. LOL
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  5913. The police are worthless, what do we pay taxes for?
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  5914. The US car industry wants a monopoly, it's all about the money.
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  5915.  @JohnOLooney  You will have to wait one more year until the next election. Even then, we might get stuck with a bad choice or a worse choice for a head of state.
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  5916.  @rsltgc8706  Nooooooooo!!!!!! LOL
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  5917. Israel is committing genocide.
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  5918. This bastard needs to be crucified.
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  5919. They ended it briefly, because Chump would say something stupid.
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  5920. Manufacturing jobs are robo jobs. Grow out of it. Learn how to program computers, and you can find a job that pays $30 to $100 per hour. There is a big demand for programmers, because there isn't enough programmers. It is not easy to learn, but the pay off is there.
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  5921. The polarity is caused by white nationalists, Latino nationalists, and black nationalists also. These neo-Nazis, and people who belong to gangs are these types of people. Before 1973, every male was conscripted into the armed forces. Everyone in this country is responsible for the defense of it. The liberty and freedom does promote individualism, but we are all responsible in social responsibilities in juries and the defense of the republic.
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  5922. The US and the West are pirate bandit states.
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  5923. Vivek looked in the mirror, and realized he didn't belong there. LOL
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  5924.  @haleybrown2836  Those companies are too big, you will never get enough people to boycott them to drive them out of business.
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  5925.  @haleybrown2836  People go to the Amazons and Walmarts, because it is cheap. There are cheaper places to buy good, like Aliexpress, Alibaba, and other websites that specialize in specific products. Everything seems to be moving to the race to the bottom. This is why they shipped most of our good jobs overseas.
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  5926. Quantity over quality, that is what Stalin said. Quantity is quality all on its own. LOL
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  5927. Cronyism. Trump needs to go before he turns our country into a Trumptatorship.
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  5928. If you are homeless, how do you stay connected?
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  5929. The West needs to suffer, they made a lot of other nations suffer, and didn't care. Russia can sell their oil for good prices to friendly nations, and withhold it from evil nations. LOL
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  5930. Trump is just saying the economy is the best it has ever been in the history of America, because he is president. He is simply a narcissist, he believes he is the greatest, smartest person ever. In reality, he isn't any of those things. That is why he is hiding everything.
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  5931.  @kustomkode  He is killing it, and he will kill it like all the other businesses he killed by his incompetence.
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  5932.  @kustomkode  How the hell can you bankrupt a casino??? You must be pretty incompetent to bankrupt something like that. Trump airlines acquired in 1989 and went out of business in 1992. Had a fleet of old twin engine Boeing 727s, and charged rates which were several times more expensive than his competitors, like American Airlines, TWA, and others for domestic flights. Sure, we should pay those rates, right? Because Donald Trump said it is the best airline ever? No thanks buddy, most people aren't going to get ripped off. Trump water? The best war in the world, which turned out to be nothing but filtered tap water in plastic bottles, charging the price of premium bottled mineral water? No wonder this man is a failed business man. He is simply a con man, and a typical Republican businessman.
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  5933.  Michael Harley  I am not saying all rich people are bad. Trump as a human being is just a piece of trash. His followers listen to too much Alex Jones who is a uneducated and empty headed conspiracy theorist, and Fox News which is right wing propaganda.
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  5934.  @kustomkode  You people can't compete in business fairly, so you have to cry to the government for help? Please government levy tariffs against other countries, because we can't produce a good product people want to buy. Please put more regulations for this industry, so our smaller competitors can't enter the market. Please give money to US farmers, because China no longer wants to buy our crops, because of what Trump did. The Republican party was all about free trade, getting rid of trade barriers, like tariffs. They were all about entrepreneurship, a smaller government, reduce the trade deficit, balance the national debt, less taxes, blah, blah, and blah. All lies, and all contradictions. In business, if you don't provide a good product, or service you should go bankrupt. It is as simple as that.
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  5935.  @kustomkode  According to FOX NEWS, Trump's business score is 19 out of 100. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trumps-business-credit-score-is-19-out-of-a-possible-100 So much for your successful businessman bullshit.
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  5936. Now, it is different, buy using your credit (debt).
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  5937.  @eisenjeisen6262  Most people use credit cards, because they don't have enough $$$$$ at the end of the month. Then, they pay the minimum every month. I don't think most people can pay it off. They don't enough $$$$$.
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  5938.  @eisenjeisen6262  I was able to get rid of all my debts by working 14 hrs a day after I graduated university in 2001. I was working 1 full time job and 2 part time jobs. Paid off my home, paid off my student loan debts, paid off my car, and now I can save most of what I earn.
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  5939. If that were true, there would be a shortage of silver which has gone down 55% from its high of $49.70/oz. You can buy all the silver you want, there is no shortage of 1000 oz bars of silver.
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  5940. Vulture capitalists did this with their leveraged buyouts. Bain Capital is responsible for it.
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  5941. The people that lose their white collar jobs will have to work 2 service sector jobs. The public policy officials will simply say, see we have record job growth. There is no recession, the economy is great, and the stock market will go up.
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  5942. 19:15 to 19:33 He cries like a little girls when he gets tackled. LOL
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  5943. I haven't seen any FEMA camps, and Alex Jones was ranting about FEMA camps for a long time. FEMA is responsible for providing relief to people in times of disaster and distress. For example during the Northridge Earthquake of 1993, and Hurricane Katrina to name a few. All FEMA did was give out food, water, and financial aid to people in these disasters. They weren't put into cattle cars and gassed in Aushwitz.
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  5944.  @jennac6704  sure, you uneducated rural GOP corn flake. With the government shutdown and all, the INS and ICE are less well funded. Therefore, they will be deporting less undocumented workers due to Trump's government shutdown. LOL We need abortions, because of people like you.
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  5945. The Chinese are getting a trade surplus, and they are using it to buy U.S. treasury bonds, U.S. real estate, and U.S. equities. All the money they made is being invested right back in America. As a result, interest rates are lower which benefits people who buy cars, homes, and get loans. LOL
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  5946. It isn't only China that is doing it. The European Union is doing it, and all the countries that trade with the U.S. are doing it as well. When people make enough money, they emmigrate to the USA and buy real estate here. Most of the luxury condos and penthouses in New York City are owned by foreigners, they can Chinese, German, French, South Korean, Russians, Saudis, Belgian, British, Spain, people from African countries, Brazil, Columbia, etc. Rich foreigners go to New York City and do their shopping here. You have foreign tourists who come to the USA, going to places like Yosemite, Yellow Stone, Mount Rushmore, Statue of Liberty, and other places. They come here spend a lot of money in the USA. It is good we have all this influx of capital returning to the USA. You cannot consider these people to be your enemies. They are buying up about $140 billion worth of agricultural goods from the USA every year.
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  5947. I can't say they are taking advantage of the USA, because if you understand how trade works. It is all about comparative advantage. The country that produces a certain goods more efficiently does so at a lower cost. If it costs less money to produce an item in let's say China, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Mexico, El Salvador, etc, corporations and companies will outsource the work out to those countries. With artificial intelligence, and advanced robotics, it may be cheaper to produce items employing automation than outsourcing it out. That isn't going to help workers in the USA. The steel industry in the USA is producing much more than they ever did using a fraction of the workers they used let's say 40 years ago. Trump isn't going to help you get a factory or manufacturing job making widgets. Most of the manufacturing jobs here require a high level of skill, unless you have a degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or other skills. You ain't going get shit. The other factory jobs that are labor intensive can simply be sent to other countries that aren't affected by tariffs. They have billions of hungry in this world that make less than $20 a day, and they aren't going to pay you $20/hour for people who can do the same kind of work as those other people can do. The Republicans, Democrats, most business people, and corporations don't give a shit about you. The rich get richer, and Donald Trump is rich, you give think he gives a crap about the middle class? Most of the stuff he produces are produced in 3rd world countries. LOL Do what I do, study something like computer science, or a 4 year university degree work in a nice air conditioned office. You can't fight economic realities. You can only make improvements in your life that can benefit you, and if you refuse to adapt. That's on you, you lose our job, you become homeless, no body fucking cares.
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  5948. I don't believe Trump, you can believe him. I am going to start shorting the stock market around next year. The writing is on the wall, Trump will crash the economy. I don't have to crash with it. You believe whatever you like, and you can be the breadlines with the millions of other people who believe it and get hurt by it. LOL
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  5949. Before the last recession in 2008, I made a pretty good deal of money. I really don't care about political views, political beliefs, or anything like that. I care about only one thing, how can I benefit from it? I don't have to be a sheep and believe Trump when he is a known liar and conman. I am not a millennial, I am a Generation Xer, there is no such a thing as WE in my generation. It is all about the ME. What do I get out of it? If Trump isn't offering anything to me, I don't have to have follow him and get slaughter by his policies. When the economy does crash, no one is going help you. You can ask Trump for help, the person who cut welfare benefits, and he going to tell you to take a hike. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. The farmers who get ass raped are on their own as well. Sure, Trump will give them $12 billion for now, but he isn't going to cover the $80 billion in lost trade they will suffer from year to year. When all this happens, I will buy homes for less money, I will buy back stocks for less money, and I will find more business opportunities. LOL
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  5950. Comparing tRump with the trial of Jesus, please don't give me that bullshit. There is a big difference between Jesus and tRump, the difference is tRump is actually guilty.
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  5951. Chump is a coward.
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  5952. In order words, Libertarians are a bunch of hucksters.
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  5953. China is the biggest market for semiconductors and chips, so this is bad for the US economy if these tech companies can't sell their chips in the biggest market for chips.
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  5954.  @anojkalikhan6075  I am sure those ultra luxury brands will still produce ICE vehicles; however, for the mass market ICE vehicle companies will get decimated.
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  5955. The Democratic party better select better candidates. When are they going to learn? Hilary Clinton in 2016, and this guy in 2020? Are they intentionally trying to lose?????
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  5956. The Yen is getting weaker, because of interest rates going up in the US. This is causing Japanese investors to sell Japanese debt(bonds), and buy US debt(Treasury bonds) at 5%. The Japanese government is paying 0.01%, so the US government is paying 500 times more. This is causing capital flight out of Japan to the US.
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  5957. Cryptocurrencies are just digital tokens, they aren't money, and they will never be money.
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  5958. In other words, you have a monopoly system.
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  5959. I didn't come here to listen to trump's bullshit, I came here to attack trump supporters.
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  5960. This whole stock market crash was orchestrated for one reason. The reason being automation, robotics, and computer technology. Most workers are obsolete. Most factories, workshops, warehouses, online stores, etc. Even in the army they are using drones, self driving supply trucks, etc. So, they faked a recession. The middle class who lost their jobs due to automation and outsourcing will join the ranks of the permanent poor.
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  5961. This guy is pretty smart.
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  5962.  @cjkenney  There are constitutional amendments liberals don't like such as the 2nd Amendment. They tried many ways to try to abrogate and abolish it, but they cannot.They ran into the same problem Trump and his administration ran into. It can only be decided by a vote from both houses, and there is no way they can get a 2/3 majority.
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  5963. The Democrats tried their best to use an executive order to get rid of the 2nd Amendment, but it doesn't work for them as well, because the same rules apply.
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  5964. Boycott U S companies, sounds good. LOL
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  5965.  @westcoast443  I just want company, and I don't have to worry about money.
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  5966. Being soft on crime results in this. They need to transfer prisoners in California to Texas prisons. California is too easy on bad people. People in prison don't need to air conditioning.
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  5967. Orkrael's might. 🤣
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  5968. Why wasn't Gavin Mcinnes arrested when he brandished a samurai sword in front of the police at 4:20 to 4:25?
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  5969. They will always raise the debt limit, or the US economy would collapse. The US is a bankrupt country. When the US losses its reserve currency status, they can keep raising the debt ceiling, but it will lead to high inflation and ultimately hyperinflation.
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  5970. The world doesn't need the EU zone, but they will need inexpensive Russian oil.
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  5971. He must have gotten that idea from Charles Bronson's Death Wish (1974) movie.
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  5972.  Lonnie McGuire  I am sure that happened to him, because the subways back in the 1970s and 1980s weren't very safe in NYC.
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  5973.  Lonnie McGuire  There were no CCTV cameras in the 1980s.
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  5974. Chump is spending a lot of money on his lawyers to defend him from all kinds of law suits. Mueller just hired more people to go after Trump. More pressure needs to be applied!
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  5975. Sounds good to me, they don't need SWIFT. They need to stop funneling money into the US equities markets.
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  5976. They are modern day brown shirts.
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  5977. 25 lunatics wanted to overthrow the government. LOL
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  5978. AI isn't that good. Just play a game against a computer versus playing against a human player. It is much harder to play against other humans.
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  5979. A Taser, stun gun, or pepper spray would have been appropriate. Shooting people is a messy ordeal, the cops come and stay for hours, you have to go to court, get a lawyer, etc. The man that stole that hatchet was going to commit other crimes with it, but blasting someone in the chest was not a good idea. It wasn't good for the shop keeper.
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  5980. Wanted dead or alive. LOL
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  5981. Alex Jones and his like are also full of hate, LOL. They are no different than those Boston Bomber idiots.
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  5982. LOL
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  5983. What authority does the US have to regulate cryptocurrencies in other countries?
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  5984. The stock market went down for a few days, so Trump put a halt to tariffs against China. He is talking about delaying tariffs, because the Dow Jones was collapsing for a few days. That didn't stop it from going down 696 points today. Trump is such a wuss. He is like Benito Mussolini, just a damn blow hard.
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  5985. Universal Basic Income will be the real solution for this. People will still work, but the number of hours they get will be drastically reduced. Machines, computers, and algorithms will make workers more productive, so less people are needed. Let me give you an example... If you have warehouse workers, you can still have some warehouse workers who use the robots to get the work done more efficiently. Thus, the work of 10 warehouse workers could be done by let's say 2 warehouse workers employing robots. The same is in a office environment. With cloud technology, all the documents in a office could be scanned into a cloud server, or it can be stored on a local server or both. This eliminates the need for a person who files charts, you don't have sort and file documents into physical charts. All that is done automatically on a computer server in database. People in the office can access information very quickly thus less people are needed. If automated trucks were used, you can use the lead truck on the highway with a human driver in it leading a convey of 10 trucks. The human truck driver will be there to address any problems that may arise, like people trying to hijack the trucks, etc. As a result 9 human truck drivers lose their jobs, or they are limited to only driving on local or busy streets. Automation and AI technology can allow less humans to get more done, and it will lead to mass unemployment. Human workers could be entirely replaced, or the amount of hours they get in a work week could be reduced by more than half.
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  5986. With a literacy rate of 79%, it will only get worse.
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  5987. Axis of good. 😆 Yeah, right. The US isn't good, anyone with a brain knows that.
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  5988. Balloon fight. LOL
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  5989.  @jayc4715  I have health insurance, but I pay for it.
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  5990.  @jayc4715  I pay it out of pocket every month, and in my state we have something called CoveredCalifornia.
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  5991. They are a bunch of corrupt lawyers that make laws to benefit themselves and their friends.
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  5992. He shouldn't have fought the police.
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  5993. Interest rates are going up, because the world is de dollarizing. They aren't buying US T-bonds. If more countries around the world bought US t-bonds then interest rates would go down.
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  5994. China could use its own banking system instead of using the SWIFT system to transact in USD and other currencies. This way, the US can't see what China and other countries are buying and selling.
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  5995. I bet she is a chump supporter.
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  5996. How stupid that woman is. Trump is going to deport her next year.
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  5997.  @randygraham926  To increase the performance of processor, the chip maker can do one of three things. 1. Decrease the size of the transistors. This will result in chips that are more powerful and run cooler. 2. Add more cache memory. This is expensive. 3. The cheapest way would be increasing the clock speed. Cyrix was doing is back in the 1990s, because they didn't improve their nodes, nor did they want to add more cpu cache which would their cpu more expensive. By increasing the frequency, you make the CPU run hotter.
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  5998. Chump is a coward, and a fraud.
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  5999. I can't watch any more of this bull crap.
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  6000. ChatGPT will replace millions of jobs. It will make each worker more efficient. If one person can do the work of 8 to 10 people then capitalists will push for it. The bottom line is making profit. Back in the 1980s, manufacturing plants started to employ robotic arms, microcontrollers to do tasks in a plant, etc. As a result millions of manufacturing jobs disappeared in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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  6001.  @pariahyindie3641  All the jobs that could be automated got automated. Don't believe me? The manufacturing plants that make semi conductors, processed foods, automobile parts, automobiles, aircraft parts, steel plants, soda cans, canned foods, etc are all here. We just don't need as many people. If one person can do the job of 5 people then 5 people will be laid off. It's as simple as that. If companies want to hire one person that knows how to use ChatGPT replace 7 to 10 people then they will in a heart beat. Your value to society is based on your usefulness. If you aren't useful then you have no value in a capitalist economy.
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  6002. You are eating Doritos and drinking Coca-Cola, you should be happy. LOL
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  6003. In the economic system we live under, businesses and corporations will exploit it to make their businesses more profitable. Will it replace every working person? No. Will less people be needed as a result of it? Yes. If one worker can do the work of 4 to 6 people then companies will hire less people and lay off the people that aren't productive. AI coupled with powerful super computers can be used to do high end research, weather forecasting, quantum mechanics, aerodynamics, physical simulations, etc. There will be disruptions in the labor market in the near future, but it can lead to a golden age if it is used correctly.
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  6004.  @dee23gaming  AI will cause big disruptions, like programmable microcontrollers, computers, robotic arms, and other machinery did in the 1980s to the 1990s. A lot of people got laid off from industrial jobs back then. The impact was felt immediately by the community. It got so bad, that the town I lived in became a ghost town.
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  6005. They will never return, because they will always move to countries where the cost of labor is much less. The less labor intensive types of manufacturing jobs will be automated out of existence.
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  6006.  @damonalagich4524 The economy is dependent on capitalizing debt in the form of loans.
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  6007. @petersmangalisongoma2013  That would only encourage more countries to de dollarize and exit the US markets. Remember, Trump was never a successful businessman, but he was a successful reality TV show host. The man has no grasp of reality.
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  6008. He is a conman, he just enriched himself and rich friend with his new tax reform bill. By now, the people who supported him should know that they've been conned.
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  6009. Twitter just ban chump, we don't want to hear his tweets anymore!
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  6010. The U S cannot decouple from China. Many the inputs to make more complex machines, like automobiles, motorcycles, computers, buildings, etc. For example, the nails, screws, fixtures, pipes, electrical wires, dry wall, and all the other things needed to build a home are made in China. To build a computer, you need to buy resistors, transistors, circuit boards, chips, capacitors, etc from China. To make a vehicle, you need to buy chips, screws, composite materials, circuit boards, wire harnesses, etc from China.
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  6011. Impeach chump, and deport musk.
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  6012. Alex Jones said, stockpile silver, water, and can food. Now silver is down more than 50% of its high, and most of that canned food is probably expired!
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  6013. This is what happens when you follow a conman like Trump.
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  6014. Jews can't be trusted to be neutral when it comes to Israel.
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  6015. Stop making stuff up. Anyone in China can use a VPN to access foreign websites. Innocent people, like causing mayhem, and social disorder. Most people in China are content with their lives. We don't need silly people causing problems!
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  6016.  @chrispaul1117  Anyone who isn't happy in China is free to leave, like the 30,000 people that crossed the US Mexican border in the past year.
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  6017.  @chrispaul1117  They are free.
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  6018.  @-TriP-  If you cause problems, you can be imprisoned. You never heard of Kent State when protestors in the US got suppressed by the govt?
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  6019. 8 to 10,000 morons, not the 1 million chump wanted. LOL
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  6020. The globalists lie too much, remember the WMDs of Iraq. I don't believe em anymore, I don't watch any MM anymore.
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  6021. Youtube must be having financial problems, because this is happening to a lot of people.
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  6022.  @CjrRbt  What does this have anything to do with masks, and not paying taxes?
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  6023. You are talking about a state which is majority Democratic. If Elder and his ilk don't like it they should just leave the state.
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  6024. Mr. Seven Eleven just criticized maga. LOL
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  6025. Looks like this virus is going to crush chump and his chumps.
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  6026. This is what happens when people elect an idiot like Donald Rump.
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  6027. They can't lower interest rates, because if they did the economy would crash.
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  6028. It takes a lot of technology to make a fighter plane, gunship helicopters, satellites, smart bombs, surface of air missiles, air to air missiles, modern battle tanks, composite armor, radars, howitzers, etc. Weapons technology represents the pinnacle of technology. Most of those nations you mentioned have thriving defense industries. German Leopard 2 mbt, K2 Black Panther mbt, T-50 Golden Eagle, Leclerc mbt, Euro fighter, Challenger 2 mbt, Type 90 mbt, etc.
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  6029. How can you eat that many eggs?
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  6030. All caused by Trump's genius policies. After all Donald J. Rump is a great businessman with 6 bankruptcies. As for the idiots who believed that bullshit, they deserve everything they get. Trump caused interest rates to go up with his tax cuts, pushing foreigners to sell and stop buying U.S. treasury bonds, and with Rump's deficit rampant spending. All of these are inflationary by the way, so the Federal Reserve is doing it to curb inflation. Trump making the false claim that the Federal Reserve is responsible for this would be like someone who started a fire blaming the firemen for putting out the fire!
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  6031. Such anger. The recession is over if you have a 4 year degree or higher, it isn't over if you are unskilled and uneducated.
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  6032.  @dano3952  Wasting your precious time on meaningless things in this day and age is dangerous. There are plenty of people who wasted a lot of time, and many pay for it by losing everything and ending up in the streets.
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  6033.  @andreycham4797  That will never happen in the USA as long as people keep voting for the same two parties(Democrats and Republicans). The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The Dems and the GOP are two sides of the same coin, they will never hold each other accountable for anything. It will not happen. Both parties are guilty of the same kind of policies and corruption.
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  6034.  @andreycham4797  It's really too late for any kind of meaningful reform to reverse the damage that had been done. All you can do is prepare for the difficult times ahead.
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  6035. Trump is comparable to Caligula, Nero, or Hitler he is clearly a madman. Like those three crazy idiots, he too will be deposed. Sooner or later, everyone will see him for the conman and fraud that he is.
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  6036. All I have to do is vote this November. You support this president even if you know that he is a criminal? 2 years from now, Trump will not going to get re elected, because the economy will start to implode again due to his stupid policies.
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  6037. Whatever troll.
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  6038. I am not even reading your comments, so what.
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  6039. The gunman's father is responsible, and his pathetic son will get the punishment he deserves in prison.
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  6040. The only reason why corporate lobbyists can get away with this is, because the laws enable them to do it. They give small contributions and get back way more than they put in. With democracy dollars, it will flush the system of this corruption which has infected out system.
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  6041. The silver bullet is a cure for werewolves, and gold is a cure for U S hegemony. LOL
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  6042. Chump is such a snowflake, chump should never have become president. He should of stayed as a reality TV show host. Failed businessman, failed president, con man, and loser extraordinaire.
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  6043.  @GhostRangerr  In the system that we live in, it is all about making the most profits, and giving it to the people at the top, like the CEOs, CFOs, and the board of directors. The little people never see the benefits of automation, it only benefits companies and their bottom line in being efficient and profitable.
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  6044.  @GhostRangerr  It's been like that starting from the 1980s. Now, with artificial intelligence, faster networks, faster computers, and massive amounts of data it is a matter of time until most white collared jobs become redundant. Industrial jobs became redundant in doing simple tasks in factories and manufacturing plants in the 1980s and 1990s. Back in high school in 1992, my chemistry teacher said most repetitive jobs, like factory and industrial jobs will go away. The only jobs that will be worth anything are the problems that require you to solve problems. He was right. Computers back in the late 1970s to the 1990s were relatively limited in what they could do. There were a number of factors that made them limited, like the lack of memory, lack of processing power, slow network speeds, lack of storage space, etc. These computers could do repetitive tasks, but they aren't anything like the computers of today.
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  6045.  @dontaskwhatkindofmusic  Private companies and CEOS can do whatever they want, because we have property rights. If Mr. CEO wants to setup a factory in let's say the Philippines, China, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Mexico, Columbia, etc. they can. If Mr. CEO wants to automate a soda processing plant, they can do that as well. If you don't own it then you have no say over it. That factory, manufacturing plant, business, store, etc. doesn't belong to you. The owner or owners of those enterprises can do whatever they want.
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  6046.  @Ytorisv  You think $1 is enough for anything these days? $1 is like a quarter now!
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  6047.  @Ytorisv  A dollar is the new quarter these days.
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  6048.  @omegashenron8  That seems strange, because there is more farmland in the US compared to Japan.
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  6049.  @omegashenron8  I just go to a Asian market, or a Chinese market where I live. It's relatively less expensive compared to shopping a American chain supermarket.
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  6050. Rudy is stupid, and Trump is an idiot. LOL
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  6051. BBC needs to be banned from China.
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  6052. See social distancing and masks work.
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  6053. You did have taxes back in the 1900s, tariffs were high, but there was almost no income tax.
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  6054. TSA never stole anything the last time I traveled which was around October of 2012. Stop making up stories.
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  6055. All we have are financial services and debt servicing in the U-S. The literacy rate in the U-S is 79%. Chin-a is producing real things, so it is a productive nation. The U-S is a debtor nation.
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  6056. Mercenaries will be flying it, but none of that matters. They will be shot down by Russian air defense and Russian fighters.
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  6057.  Solur  Ancient Egyptians are from the Near East, like the Sumerians. Metatron stated in this video, ancient Egyptians could have migrated from the Levant that's in the Middle East. Modern Egyptians and ancient Egyptians are very different. Egypt had been occupied by other nations many times, like the Nubians, Hyksos, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and the British.
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  6058. @Eleanor Strong enough for what?
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  6059. Makes the US look weak. It is like going to someone who is successful by telling them to stop being successful, it makes me look bad.
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  6060.  @princevaliant335  China gave a lot of military aid to African insurgents in Rhodesia back in the 1970s. I am sure the Russians and Chinese can give military aid to African countries to fight Western Imperialism and bleed these bankrupt countries dry.
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  6061. What an evil woman.
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  6062. I will click on the terms of service to get the update, but I will never buy a Samsung product again.
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  6063. I guess the EU is going to become a backwaters and irrelevant in the near future.
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  6064. Since China has the largest automobile market in the world, BYD will push out all their rivals. About 5 million EVs are produced in China, and only 30% of the people in China have vehicles. Out of the 415 million vehicles in China, only 4.8% are EVs. The domestic market can absorb all the EVs that are produced there.
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  6065. The US punishing China is laughable, because a lot of components that go into making US weapons are also from China. 😆
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  6066. Like all Christian pastors, they are in the business of selling God.
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  6067. I thought these Azov people were going to fight to the death, and do a Ukrainian Banzai attack against Russian machine guns and tanks? What happened man?
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  6068. It's always possible to circumvent sanctions. US legislatures are just so inept. No wonder congress has an approval rating of 12%. 🤣
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  6069. They will say, the ghosts of the Azov battalion is still fighting on. LOL
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  6070.  @appletree6741  I don't think Russia is losing, and I am not even pro-Russian. In a few months, the Russians will achieve their objectives. There is no way the Ukrainian military isn't being affected by getting hit with 350,000 to 500,000 rounds of artillery rounds per day.
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  6071.  @appletree6741  I don't think so, because Russia's infrastructure is still intact. On the other hand, Ukraine's infrastructure is being destroyed, like tank factories, power plants, railway junctions, airports, warehouses, factories, etc. Russia isn't getting weaker, they can sell their oil to non-EU countries, like China, India, Turkey, countries in South America, countries in Africa, EU member countries, like Hungary, etc. Just China and India alone has over 2.7 billion people.
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  6072. A lot of these young Gen Z influencers usually talk about nothing of substance. I saw this one Gen Z influencer on Youtube, and all he talked about was a bunch of nothing. They aren't presenting anything of any real value.
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  6073.  @litesp  Chinese industry is more efficient and streamlined.
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  6074. Trump would look perfect wearing a orange prison jumpsuit with his orange hair. LOL
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  6075. Why would South Korea, and Japan sacrifice their shipbuilding industries for the US? Even if you build shipyards in the US, you don't have the skilled manpower to build those ships.
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  6076. Physics doesn't have to do with anything with the transmutation of matter that is chemistry. Elements can be turned into other elements by absorbing neutrons and also by bombarding it with protons. This is how they make nuclear weapons, turning uranium 238 into plutonium 239. Uranium 238 decays to lead 206. Elements can be transmuted that is what alchemy was all about!
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  6077. Can it get worse? High gasoline prices, higher prices for imported goods which is just about everything we use. LOL
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  6078.  @beja8694  Under Obama??? Gasoline and oil were cheap throughout Obama's presidency. Gasoline and oil got expensive near the end of George W Bush's terms of office from 2007 to 2008. In the 1st 2 year of the Donald Trump presidency, prices have skyrocketed for oil, gasoline, and inflation is getting higher and higher. Now, tariffs on top of that which will make prices even higher for most consumer goods. When this economy goes into a depression, I hope you idiots realize how stupid you were voting in this con man and clown into office. If you have a lot of money, it doesn't matter for you. For the rest of us who aren't multi-millionaires, or billionaires prices going up will make it more difficult for us to pay our mortgages, rents, paying our bills, car payments, child care, and other fixed expenses more difficult. Most of us make a fixed income, whether you operate a small small or medium sized business, or work for others. Oh well, you can't fix stupid or stupid people. Enjoy it.
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  6079. Did the jobs come back?
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  6080. If the US does anything foolish like sanction Chinese banks then countries that trade with China will simply use Yuan to conduct trade. This means less dollars will be used in international trade.
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  6081.  @Sean-giang  I can see you're a ignorant troll. LOL
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  6082.  @johnsmith1474  so troll?
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  6083.  @johnsmith1474  so?
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  6084. Fox News and other conservative media outlets will lie about Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax, like it will affect all of you. Elizabeth Warren is a commie, she is promoting a Stalinism. LOL
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  6085. For one, the U.S. produces a lot of things the world use. On the other hand, Zimbabwe doesn't and that's the difference. The U.S. produces F-16s that cost $18 million, F-15s that cost $45 to $80 million, largest producer of crops, a very large producer of minerals, lumber, food stuffs, agricultural goods, a very large producer of munitions from 5.56x45mm to AIM-120 missiles($150,000/un), oil, coal, medicines, medical equipment, heavy machines, etc. The U.S. has a lot of technology and resources.
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  6086. The working age population is about 200 million people, and 90 million people out of 200 million are out of work. The real unemployment is about 45%. How many more people are under employed on top of that?
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  6087. The US dollar was backed by gold and set at $35/1 ounce of gold from the end of WW2 in 1945 to 1971. From 1971 to the present, the dollar has not been backed by gold.
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  6088. When Zimbabweans were fighting to liberate themselves against w h i t e Rhodesian rule back in the 1970s, who supported Robert Mugabe? The Chinese supported Robert Mugabe and his rebels to overthrow Ian Smith's w h i t e supremacist government. Did China ask Robert Mugabe for all the aid that was offered to him????? No, they did not.
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  6089. We have a lot of manufacturing in the USA already. We produce automobiles, aircraft of all types, small arms, manufacturing machinery, all kinds of consumer goods(cans of soda to paper towels), helicopters, nuclear reactors for power plants, nuclear submarines, nuclear reactors for aircraft carriers, boilers for coal powered plants, cruise missiles, all types of guided missiles, etc. This idea that we don't produce anything in the USA is bs.
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  6090.  @brad0805  Most of China's commercial aircraft fleet consist of Boeing aircraft. The same with India, Mexico, and others. You have to understand how globalization works. If you ever studied economics, there is something called comparative advantage. The countries that can produce goods efficiently will produce what they produce best while giving up the goods they produce at a high cost and less efficiently. We still have subsidized industries in the USA, like farmers are subsidized to grow food by the government. Some vital industries are subsidized by the government, so they can survive despite free trade policies.
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  6091.  @brad0805  They outsource car production to Mexico, because it is less expensive to produce some automobiles there. It is up to the CEOs to make those decisions. We live in a country that is dominated by free enterprise, not by a nationalist government. CEOs of corporations, and board of directors decide to outsource jobs, automate jobs, or keep them in the USA. No one cares about your opinions, the only opinions that matters is that of the shareholders and CEOs of the corporations that have power of companies.
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  6092.  @brad0805  The problem is, we can't do anything about it. It is up to the people who own these companies to make these changes.
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  6093.  @brad0805  Who influences government policies? Lobbyists hired by big businesses influence government policies. It's the truth. Most automobile companies are big businesses, and they have a lot of money. The CEOs in these companies want to make their shareholders happy by increasing profitability by outsourcing production, automating production, sourcing parts from other countries, etc. They corporate heads make the policies for the companies, and you or I can't do anything about it. They have enough money to get politicians to do what they want. So game over.
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  6094.  @brad0805  If some big companies want to move production back into the USA then no one is stopping them. Since everyone else isn't doing that, they will be at a severe disadvantage if they do it. If your product costs 4 to 7 times more to produce then you will simply go out of business. I think that is what uneducated economist is trying to say.
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  6095.  @brad0805  That's false. Because if you had millions and billions of dollars you can hire your own lobbyists.
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  6096.  @brad0805  It's free enterprise, because individual companies have a choice to do whatever they want. If they want to keep production here they can, and if they don't they don't. If consumers want to buy the less expensive item, they are voting their dollars. That's free enterprise.
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  6097.  @brad0805  I understand what your saying about how we should be less dependent. The problem is, consumers don't think like that, all they care about is the price. The people who own these businesses care about the profits. How can they make the most profit. These are the issues that have to resolved. The way the world works, and the way you think are two totally different things.
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  6098.  @brad0805  The people with the big money get the politicians to change the laws and policies. This is the problem that we have in our representative form of government today. Since corporations are considered to be people, the corporation or big business lobbying(bribing) politicians is okay. After, corporations are people; therefore, the politicians are representing people in the form of a lobby.
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  6099.  @brad0805  This isn't new, John D. Rockefeller had a monopoly on oil, but in the 1870s to the 1890s there were many independent oil companies. John Carnegie had a monopoly in the steel industry in the late 19th century, and during the industrial revolution in the USA there were hundreds of steel companies. Carnegie was more successful, so he put his competitors out of business and had monopolistic powers, the same with John D. Rochefeller, and the other industrialist titans of the 19th century. Back in the 1920s, there were over 20 automobile companies. Now, we have Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors. Back in the late 1970s to the 1980s how many computer companies did you have? You had many different operating system and computers, like Commodore 64, Apple, ZX Spectrum, IBM, AST, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, Sony, Samsung, MSX, Packard Bell, Dell, AT&T, NEC, Toshiba, Amiga, and dozens more. How many do you have now? You have Microsoft which has a monopoly on operating systems, and a handful of computer companies, like Hewlett Packard, Dell, and Apple. The 4 biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world are Apple, Samsung, LG, and Huawei. You had monopolies during the industrial revolution, and you have monopolies in the information age. If you go further back in history, you had monopolies which we called empires, like the Roman Empire. Before the Roman Empire, you had hundreds of states, like the Greek states, Etruscan city states, Carthaginian Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, Gaul, Iberia(Spain), Seleucid empire, Armenia, Germania, Britain, etc. Competing states got conquered, annexed, and consolidated into the Roman Empire. What are you trying to say? This is a new thing?
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  6100.  @brad0805  What you just said there is called Blitzscaling, Wall Street investors giving a blank check to new startups, like Uber, Lyft, and others to put their competitors out of business. They do this to create a monopoly. It seems like Blitzscaling is failing. Companies, like Zillow, Carvana, Uber, and others are bleeding money. I think Carvana has lost most than 90% of its stock value.
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  6101. If Apple makes their I-phones here, it would cost $5000 each. Good luck with most people being able to buy it, or exporting I-phones made in the USA abroad. LOL
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  6102. The US provided 1,000,000 155 mm rounds, but they can only produce 14,000 155 mm rounds/month. Let's do the math, it will take 71 months or 5 years and 11 months to replenish all that ammo.
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  6103. You can trust the government, but you can't trust maniacs who mow down 7 to 40 people at a time.
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  6104. China doesn't take felons.
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  6105.  @TamagoHead  This explains why the mainstream media hyped up the pandemic, like we are all going to die from it narrative. Most of people that got it survived even old people. ROFL
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  6106. Cowards shouldn't become cops, and if they are found of cowardice they need to be fired. They need to get rid of police unions.
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  6107. They are trying everything to start something with China, those fishermen are innocent.
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  6108. Not true. They will produce those cars in Mexico, and sell them to the Mexicans. Just like what GM does in China, they make GM cars in China and sell them to the Chinese. I don't think they give a shit about American workers, they just do what is profitable for them.
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  6109. They are never around when you need em.
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  6110. You doomsayers still believe the economy is going to crash, and we will be living in a road warrior world, ROFL. Wrong, wrong and wrong. As long as the infrastructure is still intact, life will go on. The doomsayers will most likely lose everything, because banking on a total collapse never happened.
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  6111. Trump doesn't want people to know anything about him, because he is a fraud, conman, and loser.
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  6112. Looks like India replacing China isn't going to happen.
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  6113. Inside trading, enough said. He is a chump crony.
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  6114. Stefan Molyneux believes we are farm animals. The state or the government we live in is the farm, and the people are farm animals. LOL
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  6115. Caputo is a piece of shit. His behavior is one of a bully.
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  6116. I can't believe this. I think our political system needs a change.
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  6117. The U.S.A. spends about $10,000 per student, and Luxembourg spends about $16,000 per student per year. The U.S.A. is about 4th place in this world when it comes to spending per student. This shows you one thing, putting a lot of money into education doesn't yield results. The average U.S. student falls behind in math and science. Why? Because most people who major in those subjects are either working for themselves, working for corporations, etc. A lot of opportunities for skilled workers.
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  6118. My sister and her husband are short, they are like 5"2 and 5"4. Short people can be happy. Short people can't do certain things, they will never become basketball players.
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  6119. The army of the 1980s, not as exciting as the army of today against Zod in Superman (2013). LOL
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  6120. I just have one more thing to say to you. Go shit in the toilet and eat it!
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  6121. The US is going to contend with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. You know what happens when a country spends too much on national defense and neglect the domestic economy. It will collapse the economy, like it did to the Soviet economy in the 1980s.
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  6122. Stop lying!!!!!!!
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  6123. They can garnish his future income. Debtors might not have money, but they always find ways to get it by garnishing peoples wages. If he tries to hide his income then the IRS will audit him, and they will throw him in prison.
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  6124. If the majority of the students don't study hard, and cause problems whose fault is that? Is that the government's fault? I don't think so. If the majority of inner city school students don't study hard, sell drugs, steal, and commit other kinds of thuggish activities who can you blame? People create the environment they live in. On the hand, you have a more affluent area where student are studious, you can pin those attributes on the communities they come from.
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  6125. Celsius network is worse than the bank, because you can still withdraw your money from any FDIC insured commercial bank. On the other hand, your money is still frozen on Celsius. LOL
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  6126. The US is jealous of the PRC's competent economic policies.
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  6127. Not when you are outnumbered 100 to 1.
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  6128.  @kaninma7237  Because it is crazy, it makes no sense, yet it is true.
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  6129. They could also be Joe the Plumber Republicans, and other poor right wing morons.
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  6130. Nixon taking the US dollar off the gold standard was a failed experiment. Looks like the world wants to go back to the gold standard.
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  6131. It won't hurt just poor people. If you lose your good job because of a trade war, it will affect middle class and upper middle class people as well. Now, we have to pay tariffs on top of all the other taxes we pay, like income tax, and other excise taxes.
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  6132. Donald Trump doesn't have a clue. He said he would repeal Obamacare and replace it. Well, we still have Obamacare, and if you don't get health insurance, you are still fined for it. If you have a large family, you still have to pay a fine for each member of your family who is not covered with health insurance. Still no wall. You just go back to your trailer park.
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  6133. You can thank Donald Trump when the price of gasoline goes up to $5 or $6 a gallon, and you will see a big rise in prices all across the board. We will have a stock market crash as a result of this coming trade war. Guess who is going to get blamed for all these calamities? Donald Trump is going to get blamed. He cut welfare, and other social services. It is going to be funny watching Trump supporters lose their 401ks, pensions, and mutual funds after the foreigners pull all their money out of the U.S. stock market. All the sudden, if you are over 65, your checks aren't going to be coming in the mail from your mutual fund or 401k. LOL
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  6134. peterodz67 ruiz, a lot of the money in Wall Street are from foreign interests. Wealthy foreigners buy million dollar apartments in New York City, Los Angeles, San Fransico, and other major U.S. cities as a investment. Trump's anti-foreigner policies will cause a lot of them to leave. Not all foreigners are poor, there are foreigners who have a lot of money that come to the USA. Since most of these foreigners made their money in their own countries will have their businesses affected in a negative way. They will have less money, so they will put less money in U.S. equities, real estate, etc. There are foreign car companies that assemble cars in the USA, like Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Hyundai, Kia, etc. As a result of Trump's tariffs, the parts they import in the USA will cause the prices to go up. You have the steel tariffs and that will raise the price of cars. This will make these cars more expensive, so less people will buy them. This will result in people getting laid off. American car companies import parts from overseas and from neighboring countries, like Mexico and Canada. Trump's tariffs will drive up the price. If the car price went up 30% that would hurt.
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  6135. peterodz67 ruiz, if my father's pension collapses, I would have to support him. It just puts additional burdens on people like me. It is bad enough Trump cut Medicare. Now me and my sister have to cover for more expensive medications for my elderly patients. I have to send money to my parents, so they can pay for their medications. My parents are about 75 years old. He cut Social Security, so more problems for me. Now, you have Americans over 65 years old being thrown out of retirement homes, because cuts were made in Medicare and Social Security. TRUMP IS A FRAUD. He is hurting regular people. Too bad, most of the hard core Trump supporters are too bigoted to see what a fraud Trump is. They are just blinded by hate. You Trump supporters aren't going to get anything out of this. Most of you will become unemployed and live in the streets.
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  6136. Tom Dobyns, that won't happen. The American dream existed in the 1950s to the 1970s because the U.S. industries didn't have any competition in the world. Much of Europe was pretty much destroyed, and much of Asia was also destroyed during World War 2. The U.S. didn't really have anyone to compete with. Now, U.S. industries have to compete with German companies, French companies, Japanese companies, Korean companies, Chinese companies, Russian companies, Taiwanese companies, countries in the European Union, and many other countries. Other countries make the exact same things American companies make. You living in the past, but the world doesn't stay still. The world always changes you dinosaur.
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  6137. Foreigners can buy American oil, natural gas, commercial aircraft, heavy industrial machinery, farm equipment, bauxite, copper, iron ore, helicopters, munitions, jet fighters, military equipment(thermal optics, high end night vision, autocannons, fire control systems, etc), automobiles, etc. There is a lot of things foreigners can buy from the U.S., and they can use those dollars to buy from others who use dollars.
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  6138. You have a mid life crisis like most people who in their late 40s and 50s.
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  6139.  @askjapan9669  I do too, but I cope with it by having hobbies.
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  6140. It belongs to China, and that is why it is called the South China Sea.
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  6141. They are a invasive species.
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  6142.  @hongleongooi2559  It does sound like a Hokkien dialect.
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  6143. They took out some reconnaissance vehicles, and fuel trucks. I didn't see any main battle tanks, like T-72s, T-80s, or T-90s.
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  6144. The kind of education, the U.S. educational system really lacks are good math and science instructors. Without those basics, you cannot progress in the 21st century. The good careers, like software engineering, engineering, material sciences, research sciences, and other very important disciplines. The problem with the U.S. educational system isn't funding, it is largely due to poor structure, like the lack of centralization and standardization.
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  6145. They can then all imports will stop. No country in the world would accept USD for anything in this world, and that would implode the US economy.
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  6146.  @R-Cforeverfriends  Stop trolling you dolt.
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  6147.  @R-Cforeverfriends  What memo is that? Ignoring the problems that we have in the U S, and shifting the attention to another country and blaming them. When the system can't provide its citizens with basic shelter, affordable food, and a good quality of life all the scapegoating will not work. Most Americans don't even watch the MM, nor do they believe anything they say. This is why MM is laying off so many people. It's because the most people aren't buy it anymore.
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  6148.  @bmanagement4657  You can believe whatever you want, but I know China is the future.
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  6149.  @bmanagement4657  The government there isn't bailing out mal investment made by wealthy speculators. For all that unfinished and poorly constructed buildings, the government will take it over. They will take it over and finish those projects. Why bail out bad investments? Instead, they can use that money to bailout the people?
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  6150.  @JBG1968  We live in a free market economy, so you have to figure that out.
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  6151.  @marysukits803  Sure we do. I make money with money by buying bonds and CDs. Other people sell their labor, or skills. We all have to sell something for money.
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  6152.  @marysukits803  Sure we do. We need to sell something to make a living.
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  6153.  @dozzer009  You will be fine as long as you are willing to tough it out. If you have to work 18 hours a day to survive then those who are willing to do it will get through it.
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  6154. Made in the USA costs too much, and most American's could not afford it. Besides, most American manufacturers went bankrupt or moved overseas.
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  6155. If student loan debt is forgiven then shouldn't credit card debt, car loan debt, mortgage debt, and other debt also be forgiven? How is this fair to other people who have debt? After all getting into debt is a choice, no one is forcing anyone to get into debt in the first place?
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  6156.  @schumiisking  Education is a key driver in economic growth in the 21st century, but higher education is not a right in the United States of America. Just like healthcare isn't a right in the USA. What about the people with hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debts? Should they be forgiven?
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  6157.  @cliffeldridge1230  You know, I am all for universal healthcare, and subsidized higher education. Never the less, it isn't fair to other little people who have debt that don't get their debts forgiven. Just like reparation for slavery thing. Do you think it would be fair if every white person in the USA had to pay a 12% additional income tax to pay for reparation for slavery for let's say 30 years? The reparation for slavery thing is actually owed to the descendants of slaves. As for this student loan forgiveness thing, if the government taxed everyone 5% of their income to forgive student debt. People would be very pissed off. Just like the reparation for slavery thing. Those debts will not be forgiven, every American would have to pay for it. I propose something different. The debts have to be paid; however, there would be no accruing interest tied to those debts. That is what makes it impossible to pay these debts off. Also, debts can be paid after you find work, or if you decide to quit school.
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  6158.  earth ocean  it would be easier if the priorities of the government we live under changed from funding corporate welfare and the military industrial complex to funding human rights. The priorities of this country has is all backwards, because if you want a prosperous country. You need a well educated and healthy work force. It doesn't seem like that is what the US government wants, because they are influenced by moneyed lobbyists who get their voices heard. The government should have never backstopped these student loans for investors. Since these investors signed a contract with the government to get a guarantee from the government to get their loans paid. There is no way the US government will not pay these debts back, because the US government will pay back all debts. It would be like you buying U.S. treasury bonds from the U.S. government, these debts are guaranteed. These debts can be paid back by taxing U.S. citizens, or by borrowing more money from the Federal Reserve Banking system. There is no other way our government can pay off these debts, they can't just be expunged. If our government borrows money created out of thin air from the Federal Reserve, it will cause inflation. If they tax American citizens, it will make people angry. There is a way out of it, we don't have to tax everyone for it. We can specifically target Wall Street by levying a 5% stock transaction tax. After all, these bastards are the ones who invested in these predatory schemes in the first place. A lot of these stock trades are done by computer algorithms and computers with high frequency trading. I am sure we can get these debts paid in a couple of years by levying such a tax. There is always a way, but we have to be actively involved in politics and get the people we need in power to make these reforms.
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  6159. Go into business for yourself. Companies don't care about you. The longest I worked for a company was for about 9 years, and what did I get for it? My reward was betrayal. Thankfully, I was doing stuff on the side, and I have a means of making money with just a part time job. I saved my money, and I have the resources to make money by doing a variety of things, like doing international business, e-commerce, social media, affiliate marketing, trading equities, buying bonds, doing IT services, making websites, etc. I remember this scene from the Ghostbusters (1984) when Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler got kicked out of the university. Peter Venkman said, "We were destined to get thrown out of this dump." Ray Stantz said, "For what purpose?". Peter Venkman replied, "To go into business for ourselves. ". If you get laid off you better have some savings, and skills to go into business for yourself.
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  6160. Japanese people don't spend a lot of money. They don't spend money like Americans spend money.
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  6161. I hope Trump loses the next election then the FBI can subpoena Trump. After that, they can get a indictment and throw this MF in prison.
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  6162. US farmers cannot compete with exports from other countries which have much lower inputs, like having access to less expensive farm machinery, lower fuel prices, and lower land values.
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  6163. Alex Jones is a mentally ill conspiracy theorist who lies and lies! This is why Donald Trump listens to Alex Jones.
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  6164. They already have lawn mowing robots, they cost about $1 to $2k.
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  6165.  @David-ed1jm  The US is becoming a 3rd world country. They don't give people rotten food in most countries, the food may be very basic, like porridge, vegetables, beans, pork, etc.
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  6166. Sick of liberals, and their soft on crime stance. Criminals must be forced to work. The conservatives have the right idea. Lock em up and make them do hard labor.
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  6167.  @ImOwenWilson  I think the qualifications to be a police or law enforcement officer should be at least a 4 year Bachelor's degree. The standards for hiring are too low. People who aren't stupid or ignorant usually don't do things, like put a knee on a suspect for 10 minutes, use excessive force, listen to people before they get violent, or in this case blow up 5000 lbs of fireworks in a populated area.
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  6168.  @AO-ow6tt  The Russians already warned everyone.
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  6169. White people who listen to Alex Jones and his Nazi like conspiracy theories are the culprit!
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  6170. This is A m e r i c a today.
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  6171. Over time, the currency will be devalued. It seems to me governments and central banks all over the world are printing lots of money, but we still see a very sluggish economy. All this money printing and the global economy is down more than 92% from its highs in 2007. This might be one of the reasons why commodities are going down.
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  6172. It is a good thing, the mainstream media is exposing these Republicans for the corrupt spineless charlatans that they are.
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  6173.  @David-vn2id  What is there to watch, everyone with a brain knows McConnell is a Trump loyalist.
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  6174. The suspect asked for it.
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  6175. The king of conspiracy theory, Alex Jones supported Donald Trump 100%. Trump got these conspiracy theories from Alex Jones Infowars. I am glad Infowars got banned from Youtube and Facebook. Trump makes up stuff if it isn't favorable to him, this is why he is a big baby. Kids believe in things that are not real, and Trump lives in a world of make believe.
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  6176.  @vikkihall-webster7598  He is one selfish sob, and I can't believe how so many people fall for this guys scams. Deutsch Bank was stupid enough to loan this guy money, and now they don't want to give him any more loans. A con man will always tell people what they want to hear, and now he is telling people what he wants them to hear. When that happens, the con is up.
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  6177.  @MrFtge  You will have better chances if you study computer science, or engineering than people who didn't. The point of studying these majors is, so you can be creative. You can make computer programs that people need, program machines, design circuit boards, design computers, etc. You go into science to discover and create new things. This is why its hard, and this is why very few people want to study science, math, and engineering. It is all about problem solving.
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  6178.  @MrFtge  We will have to have some kind of universal basic income as things become more and more computerized and automated. Capitalism simply cannot work if more than 50% of the population can't find work. The people who are gainfully employed would probably have their work hours slashed due to increased efficiencies.
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  6179. It's really simple, don't be a evil person, and you won't be in there.
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  6180. These fools don't understand reality or science. It is a deadly form of virtual signaling. We wouldn't have the number of people that we do without nitrate based fertilizers derived from natural gas with the Haber Process.
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  6181. GM is a automobile manufacturer, respirators and automobiles are different. Respirators are electronics. I don't think GM produce electronic components, circuit boards, transistors, capacitors, integrated circuits, micro processors, etc. GM produces car parts, like bumpers, internal combustion engines, pistons, door locks, car chassis, brakes, etc. GM would have to source it from a company that produces electronics, and that will take time. GM will not be able to produce ventilators very quickly. LOL
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  6182. It is all corrupt, no wonder a con man like Trump got elected. People know the system is corrupt and rigged, so they vote for a known fraud and con man. Since most people don't have anything to lose, they don't care if they elect a fraud like Trump who will crash the system.
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  6183. People aren't shopping in stores, more people are shoplifting than shopping in stores. This is very sad.
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  6184.  @SimonAshworthWood  Both parties didn't do very much for the average person in the past 40 years.
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  6185.  @theveganbeast28  I would rather have Biden as president vs. a scumbag conman, like Trump. It is a pity we didn't get a better candidate on the Democratic side.
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  6186. Tlooooth is a troll, just ignore this idiot.
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  6187. I try to be rational about things, so conspiracy theories without evidence is very hard to swallow. This assault rifle ban is just on the table, and it didn't pass yet. The most that can come out of it is a magazine limit to 10 rounds, a more extensive background checks, gun shows will be more stringent, and a ban of military style rifles. Only certain parts of these laws will pass. You shouldn't jump to conclusions like Alex Jones.
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  6188. I see.... So, people aged from 18 to 60 are unemployed, so it isn't in relation to the total population. 90 million+113 million people aren't working in the USA, so 64.9% of the total population are either unemployed, too young to work, disabled, or too old to work. That is a lot of people who aren't working.
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  6189.  @joyduncan9434  Not all Ukrainians were Nazi collaborators, a lot of them also fought Nazis in the Red Army as well. That is kind of a double standard, the modern state of Ukraine consider someone like Bandera a national hero, and you have Ukrainian units like the Azov battalion that were openly Nazi, yet the West thinks these people are heroes. We live in a crazy world for sure.
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  6190.  @shaunbava1801  The Nazis recruited these Ukrainian collaborators, they rounded up Jews, beat them with clubs, did all kind of horrible unspeakable things, and delivered them to the Nazis.
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  6191.  @AlliniumRider  Anyone with half a brain knows that the USA is a declining power. You can see signs of decay everywhere, like the large numbers of homeless people which is more visible than it has ever been, the growing income inequities, the aging and rotting infrastructure, the rampant crime, the ever increasing inflation which cannot be swept under the rug, the high levels of debt, etc. The Neocons are desperate it seems to cripple other countries rather than solving the issues that need to be addressed in the USA. Eventually, that will only accelerate the decline.
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  6192.  @bernarddavis1050  I don't know why Ukrainians like Nazis and Nazi collaborators, like Bandera. Nazi occupation of Ukraine from August 20, 1941 to Nov 10, 1944 was brutal. Millions of people were deliberately starved to death, millions were deported for slave labor, millions were murdered(Jews and others), people were murdered for being suspected of harboring partisans even when they were innocent, and Ukraine was ruthlessly pillaged.
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  6193. Wow, Alex Jones is a dangerous idiot, LOL.
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  6194. US drones can be touched by Russian or Chinese jets, and this is something that the Afghans and Iraqis could never do. LOL
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  6195. Steal and loot America.
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  6196. Most of what you read in the Western mainstream media is propaganda.
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  6197.  @TeamRocketTc  Who did BLM kill?
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  6198.  @TeamRocketTc  He was killed by the boogaloo boys, they are a far right group. Try again.
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  6199. Guns are evil, we got to ban em all. If Mr. Goh didn't have a gun, he couldn't have killed 7 people and wounded another 3. Less guns=safer society. Guns need to be licensed. If your profession doesn't require it, you shouldn't be able to get it!
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  6200. Apple is saying gimme more money soon! "If the glued in battery dies, your computer is now a brick.". That sums it up. LOL
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  6201. Armann Straughter, maybe because you are a fascist!
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  6202. Armann Straugher, what do you do for a living? Work at Walmart?
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  6203. Armann Straughter, like I said you're too stupid to understand that Trump is a conman and Laura is a white supremacist. All the smart people know they are what I said they are.
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  6204. We need homeless camps.
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  6205. Looks like Trump is getting dumped.
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  6206. They can't raise interest rates, because the real economy is weak. That guy with white hair is such a bullshitter. The Fed Reserve should raise interest rates to 5%, but they can't because that would crash the stock market.
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  6207. All prices quadrupled or more in the past 13 years, and wages have been stagnant for 13 years. Not only were most wages stagnant, wages also went down because of the crash of 2008. At least most 401ks didn't go down because of the stock market being inflated. In order to keep up, one must get new skills to make higher wages.
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  6208. The solution is simply stop buying that country's debt, and stop buying merican made goods. Boycott merica!!!!!!
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  6209. Steve Bannon = Irrelevant Maga supporter Laura Loomer = Irrelevant Maga supporter Elon Musk = Defacto President of the US Donald Trump = De Jure President of the US
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  6210.  @umarjongi3590  This will happen gradually. Using this method will be inflationary for the US economy, because the money isn't being recycled into US treasury bonds. A lot of countries have debt denominated in dollars, so when other countries trade with China. They can take dollars from the Chinese financial system, or choose other currencies as well.
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  6211.  @ssuwandi3240  Looks like higher interest rates in the US and UK will suck most of the capital out of the real economy. This will cause a severe recession.
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  6212. Your government is terrorist!
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  6213. The problem is the US doesn't want Chinese investments in the US, and they don't want to sell vital components, like advanced semi conductors to China. What is the point of holding onto a currency you can't use.
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  6214. It made sense when the price of barrel oil was very inexpensive, and the cost of labor in developing countries was as low as $2 per day.
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  6215. That's right, they want to turn the USA into a fascist country. There will be no justice as long as they are in power.
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  6216. Marqwon, before people resort to any kind of violence, we can all go out and vote this November. Make sure you vote out the Republican congressman in your district, and you can influence others to vote. Tell them how important it is. We need to vote all these Republicans out of office. This way, he won't have a lame duck congress that will rubber stamp everything he wants to do.
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  6217. The Indians that work there are too scared to do anything, it's their culture.
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  6218. I recently quit my job, and sent my resume to 5 places. They all said responded back! LOL
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  6219. If China wants to invade Taiwan, they would have to destroy Taiwan's air force and navy.
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  6220. Most of those exports were going to Europe. Higher prices for NATO countries.
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  6221. I don't trust Alex Jones, and his right wing militant followers. If Alex Jones and his Ron Paul crowd ever had their way, they would kill and imprison a lot of people. Anyone who doesn't agree with Ron Paul, and Alex Jones would be ostracized and persecuted. Your not a true follower of the constitution, so you need to exiled! LOL.
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  6222. Liar. LOL
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  6223.  @Stelarjayflight  He didn't mandate it, but he did pressure the FDA to approve of this experimental vaccine to look good.
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  6224. Trump is lying, he isn't going to impose any tariffs on Mexico or Canada. However, those countries might boycott US products, and impose export duties on essential commodities that the US relies on.
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  6225. It's not 60,000 deaths, the real number is in the hundreds of thousands.
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  6226. Bong Bong Marcos is as lawless as his father who looted his own country and turned it into a developing country.
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  6227. China's electronic warfare capability is as capable as Russian EW. Russia was able to jam himars, atacms, and other GPS guided missiles.
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  6228.  @nickl5658  The first step is trading in local currencies, this is just getting started.
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  6229. It is a good thing these morons didn't wear masks when this was filmed, because this will allow the FBI to get them later.
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  6230. If guns were all banned, and if we had a rigorous police state, it wouldn't happen!!! Not only do guns have to be banned, we need to hire more people as police and enforcers.
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  6231. I have a simple question for you. Can you trust the people, or can you trust the government? If you let the people borrow your money, you will never get it back. If you let the government borrow your money in the form of bonds, you will get it back. So who do you trust?
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  6232. Sultan Mehmed had a weapon that could bring down those walls.
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  6233. China is still importing a lot of stuff to the US. China must get their assets out of the US, because those assets can be taken. Just look at what is happening to Tiktok. China can still use dollars, but they don't have to use the US SWIFT system to transact in dollars. They can use the Chinese banking system to transaction in dollars. China should not be holding US equities, US treasury bonds, US real estate, or businesses in the US. I heard how these people commenting on social media, like let's just take Chinese real estate holdings without compensation, or force a sale.
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  6234. I guess, Uncle Sam must send Ukraine 1000 M2 Bradley AIFVs, along with 500,000 25mm rounds and TOW missiles. LOL
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  6235. The currency of this world has always been cold steel, some things will always remain the same, always.
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  6236. No need to use drone strikes against terrorists with guns. Just surround them, and starve them out.
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  6237. I heard enough of the truth movement in the past 6 years, and most of them are a bunch of charlatons.
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  6238. I said this is the beginning of the economic turn around, and the beginning of the end for gold+silver. Silver went down from $49.50/oz to $23/oz, and gold went down from a high of $1950/oz to $1430/oz. The 90 million people you talk about who don't work are either too young or too old to work, they are also disabled people. A barrel of oil was $150/barrel in the middle of 2008, and now it is about $96/barrel. Where is the inflation?
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  6239. Talking to European powers is worthless, so Ilham Aliyev made the right choice.
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  6240. Like that is going to happen. Chump believes it is free, and doesn't cost anything. If he does start one, almost no advertisers are going to support it. He will have to charge his idiotic followers $20 to $25/month. He will have to come up with a mantra, this is the best site in the whole world. When you subscribe here, you are getting the best!!!! Kind a like trump water, trump steaks, trump shuttle, and his other failed businesses in the past. LOL
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  6241.  @chaunceystewart9960  Try again, he won't get many adverts period, so you people will have to pay for it.
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  6242.  @channelthree9424  That is what will probably happen until they get bored of it.
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  6243.  @MrSamialbeik  He is a conman for sure.
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  6244.  @kurthaas4331  I don't think 75 million people will fork out money every month to watch chump everyday. After a few months, most people will get bored of it and cancel it. Why you could spend your money on better things, like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc, and not only will it cost less, but it is actually more entertaining as well. Nationalism is a bullshit concept. Back in the 1980s, my father was such a bigoted moron on buying Japanese cars, or foreign products in general. He bought Oldsmobile cars, and those cars gave him so many problems. The amount of money he spent on them could have bought him 4 cars. He wasn't a good business man either. LOL
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  6245. President Biden hit the CCP where it really hurts, he did more damage to China with that one executive order than what Trump was able to do with all of his tariffs.
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  6246. The average murican weighs like 300 lbs, so they can eat up all the excess food they can't sell. Then, you will have 550 lb muricans, and that is how muricans can solve their excess food problem. They will need bigger gas guzzling vehicles consuming more fuel. More will get ill, so they can fuel the medical industry. They will expire faster due to their morbid obesity. All great for a declining power, and they have a literacy rate of 79% in the next 4 years it will go down to 45%. You will have a country full of people wearing red hats, morbidly obese, poor, and ignorant.
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  6247. MSM is not news, its propaganda.
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  6248.  @stevehartwell1861  At this point, everything that comes out of the Western mainstream media sounds like propaganda. It's not news or reporting facts, it is all about projecting a narrative for an agenda.
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  6249. The last time that happened was in 1989 in Tiananmen Square. It was just a bloody mess.
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  6250. It's called the South China Sea for a reason. China Sea, it belongs to China.
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  6251.  @archsword2446  Historically, the South China belonged to China since the Ming Dynasty and before that. If the world that doesn't respect these valid claims, we will assert these claims, and we will have the means to do that in the future.
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  6252.  @RedMi-vs9zt  Our people controlled much of the South China Sea during the Song, and Ming Dynasty period.
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  6253. They chose to be stupid, it is their fault.
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  6254. That guy is as smart as a grizzly bear.
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  6255. Ron Paul will never be elected president, LOL. He is pathetic!
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  6256. Trump will use the excuse of national emergency for anything. If Trump had a chance, he will declare national emergency to become a dictator, just like Hitler. Hitler declared a national emergency to become a fascist dictator.
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  6257. During the Trump administration, he ordered the US military to leave Syria. Do you know what happened? The top brass in the Pentagon ignored his orders. Even if Trump wins the Nov elections and becomes president, the people in the Pentagon will not stop the conflict in Ukraine.
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  6258.  @yunusgokcen174  We will see.
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  6259. Most of the electronic stuff is made in China, so China is going to make most of this money. A American company will get the contract, but they will have to get all the parts to make the ventilators from China. The USA doesn't produce electronic components, like capacitors, micro controllers, chips, resistors, printed circuit boards, and other components that goes into producing this stuff. They will have to order it from China, have it routed to an assembly plant in the USA, and have it delivered. It could take months to produce 40,000 respirators, and GM isn't going to be able to produce this stuff immediately. Trump is such an idiot, he believes everything can be done easily. Everything is easy, trade wars are easy to win, life is easy. LOL
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  6260. It's disproportionate, because civilians are being slaughtered indiscriminately by Israel's air force.
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  6261. Our streets are safer because of what they did. Unfortunately, a police officer was injured.
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  6262. You mean like those religious church goers in S.Korea who met every single day and church praying that they don't get the Coronavirus? They were the first ones who got it. LOL
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  6263. Most people are losers and they get jealous when you get ahead.
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  6264.  @Andrew-td6fi  We are coming after you.
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  6265.  @jeffkoehne4852  The people who voted for Joe Biden didn't attack the Capitol building, and try to lynch politicians who are representatives of the people.
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  6266.  @jeffkoehne4852  We need to give you the punishment that you deserve. Your ilk will be cancelled.
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  6267. When Wall Street finds out Trump was lying then it will continue to drop at a later date.
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  6268. I would rather live in a safe and secure society than a anarchistic one.
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  6269. You cannot fix stupid.
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  6270. Property tax is based on the property value. In the state I live, the average price of a home is almost a million bucks. 1 to 1.2% of per year is your property tax.
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  6271.  @enmiredbythelazy4401  Since most of you are incels who don't have lives, having a military style rifle gives a feeling of power. I know your life is insignificant, I guess that is why no woman would want a loser like you. LOL
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  6272. Elon was bragging he had a undergraduate degree in Physics, but according to your video he does not. The man is a total fraud.
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  6273. The West doesn't want countries to get nuclear weapons. Look at what happened to Iraq and Libya, when they gave up their nuclear programs. Compare that with North Korea that did develop nuclear weapons. Which of those 3 countries exist today?
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  6274. I don't think the US is a real democracy. LOL
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  6275. People who are productive, and have a future aren't going to be signing up for the local Neo-Nazi, Klan chapter, the Proud Boys, or other hate organizations. People who don't have much going on with their lives are going to be joining those organizations. Adolph Reed, Jr is right. A lot of the jobs we have these days are low pay, there is no future working for these dead end jobs, part-time, and Gig jobs. People get frustrated and angry, they look for solutions of why things are the way they are. For most people who don't have at least a 4 year college/university degree or higher, there really is no future. The only way to secure your future is to get a undergraduate degree, go to law school, medical school, become an engineer, become a CPA, dentist, technologist, professor, teacher, architect, etc. If you have a high school degree or less, there really is no future.
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  6276. It is easier to starve your enemy out. When you run out of food and especially water, you'll die. Sure, they can drink dirty water, urine, or whatever. If you do that, you will get dysentery.
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  6277. I am in the Generation X cohort, for my generation we just get the work done. For most of my working career, I was an entrepreneur, and a independent contractor.
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  6278. The answer is simple, don't protest, it is a fucking waste of time.
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  6279. Alex Jones is a loud mouth Rush Limbaugh wannabe. He makes up stuff up, and lies constantly. This is why he is a spokesman for Donald Trump.
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  6280. Don't play with cryptocurrencies, so many people get burned by it yet people keep falling for it.
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  6281.  @George-k6o9t  I saw that movie when I was a kid.
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  6282.  @George-k6o9t  I've seen it.
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  6283.  @George-k6o9t  I did back in the 1980s.
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  6284. Darius Truxton That isn't going to stop the FBI investigation, and that isn't going to fix his reputation.
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  6285. Darius Truxton I am not a sjw. My reasons for not liking Trump is because he is a conartist. That is a fact, Trump can get away with cheating contractors who did work for him. He can get away with borrowing money from banks by declaring chapter 7 bankruptcy, but he will not get away with taking money from the Russians to sell out to the Russians.
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  6286. Mike C, you can't make false claims that all politicians are corrupt, because the man you support Trump is a corrupt scumbag. Trump always makes accusations about all of his opponents being liars, but he is a liar and we all know that.
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  6287. Mike C, go get a life.
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  6288. Mike C, I don't have any more time to waste. I have a life, and you don't that is why you can waste your time trolling nonsense.
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  6289. 6052 Paultards didn't like this video.
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  6290. Controversy gets views.
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  6291. People would dry meat and preserve it with salts.
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  6292. Trump keeps making stupid moves which are destroying US manufacturing. His steel tariffs cost GM and Ford about $1 billion each. As a result more than 10 thousand workers in both companies got laid off. His stupid policies resulted in other manufacturers to move their production overseas to get around his tariffs. Now he is threatening to cut off subsidies for electric cars? That will result in more layoffs from companies that produce electric vehicles. The man is someone who doesn't understand economics, and this is why this clown went bankrupt 6 times.
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  6293. The fighters in Afghanistan in the 1980s were supported by the U.S., they received shoulder fired stinger AA missiles. Without those stinger missiles, those rebels would have been wiped out.
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  6294. If you ever had a SHTF scenario, you will have people with military grade weapons. There are armories all over this country.
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  6295. China is trolling.
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  6296. This is why the US sees Chinese EVs as a threat.
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  6297.  @sgfinancial3854  I don't think hyperinflation will happen, because you always have more debt than money in the economy due to compounding interest rates. It is a mathematical certainty. I am not holding any silver, cryptocurrencies, or anything else. The only precious metal I have is gold and platinum right now. I bought this more than 12 to 14 years ago. Gold hasn't gone up that much compared to my other investments in the equities market which I cashed out of in 2018, and 2019. I am just sitting on the cash, and waiting for this thing to really crash. Then, I will use that cash to buy up some cheap real estate, cheap equities, and do the same thing I did in 2008 to 2010.
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  6298.  @sgfinancial3854  The bankers get people into debt, so when a economic downturn happens they can seize the assets.
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  6299.  @sgfinancial3854  The solution is simple, don't get yourself into too much debt. Don't buy more house than you need, don't buy more car than you need, live frugally, save money, and live within your means.
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  6300. I guess, you don't have Femen in China. LOL
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  6301. They sell products for Chinese people, we don't eat the same kinds of food as you people!
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  6302. The US is not a dictatorship, the president can't do whatever he wants. You cannot use an executive order to override the a constitutional amendment. In order to change a constitutional amendment, you have to get a 2/3 majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The constitution is what prevents the US from becoming a totalitarian regime.
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  6303.  @JustJamesDean  China can produce jet engines for military aircraft. I am sure Chinese aerospace engineers can produce a commercial jet engine in 5 years.
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  6304.  @JustJamesDean  You people aren't anything special. I am confident our people will be able to do it. You and your ilk can say whatever you want. It won't stop us. We will be doing real things instead of spending money on propagating misinformation. China will invest money in education, infrastructure, produce the industries, and fund the researchers to make it possible. All at the same thing, you believe you are exceptional.
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  6305. No it isn't. It is too late if you don't act at all.
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  6306. I know how tolerant you people are. Gold and silver will be money. Anyone who is a debtor needs to be imprisoned in a debtor's prison. Anyone who are down on their luck should starve to death. LOL. How brutal.
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  6307. Peter Schiff is honest, compared to these other economists who are merely cheer leaders for the Republican party.
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  6308. I used the same strategy for the past 6 years, and I always made money. It is so damn predictable.
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  6309. LOL
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  6310. In a few months or so, Jerome Powell will say something that will make stocks go up again, or some fake statistics will come out and state job growth. Sales went up, or some other bullshit. That will make stocks go up again. LOL
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  6311. All China has to do is halt all trade to the US, and the US economy will crumble.
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  6312. The Dems are doing what they promised, and that is a good thing. Don't give Trump what he wants. Fuck him.
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  6313. If you don't like living in China, no one is stopping you from leaving there. You can be one of those 30,000 people that crossed the US Mexican border in the past year. You can be the 0.00212% of China's population that isn't happy, while 99.9979% of the population is happy and content. You don't like it get out.
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  6314.  @-TriP-  It's simple math, something people like you cannot comprehend.
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  6315. You got that right. Conservatives lie and steal from the people to give to themselves. Their Libertarian brothers are no better, those people are con artists and criminals.
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  6316. I never judge people like that. I am sure there are southerners who are liberal, moderate, and conservatives. It is true for anywhere else, really.
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  6317. SWIFT is obsolete, and the USD is going away.
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  6318. Tomato Pa, Christy Joe the Plumber is just a Trump support trolling Dr. Wolff's channel. He said government is evil, and believes everything every far right nut believes. There is no point wasting any time with this guy. Just at his channel there isn't anything on there, it is a troll channel.
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  6319. Hitler Trump supporters are here in full force today.
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  6320. The only crook I see here is Donald J Rump. Criminals have a habit of blaming the police or blaming the people who turned them in; therefore, Trump is a criminal. He is guilty and he knows it.
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  6321. I guess they will send more balloons from China that is what this man is saying.
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  6322.  @hinoramei7733  Then, they will continue to pay this 外人 tax. This way, Japanese merchants can make more and be happier people. LOL
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  6323.  @Lock2002ful  That kind of stuff happens in a lot of 3rd world countries, like in Southeast Asia. They don't put up prices, so they charge whatever they want. If they see someone who is foreign, they charge a higher price than locals. It happens in many underdeveloped countries as well. Not only can you not trust the merchants, you can trust the quality of the water where you can become seriously ill.
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  6324.  @Bubba-z4s  Why don't you give me some evidence, that you aren't troll first?
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  6325. Put away some money for gold. Gold is always good.
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  6326. What is so good about silver? It isn't rare or valuable, and it tarnishes at room temperature?
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  6327. It's called the South China sea; therefore, it has historically belonged to China.
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  6328. They should have surrounded him before they gave him that form. LOL
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  6329. $40 million aircraft got destroyed shooting down $100,000 in drones. Does that make any sense?
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  6330. Alex Jones is a big fat liar.
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  6331.  @sixstanger00  Republicans are stupid hateful people. Republicans will be Republicans, they will always blame other people and never look for real solutions.
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  6332.  @codrs2662  Putin conducted a false flag event back in the 1990s which destroyed some apartments in Russia with high explosives. He blamed it on the Chechens, and he flattened Grozny with that excuse. I think the Russians are using a fraction of their firepower. I know what these bastards can do.
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  6333. @Reader Stuff They can level Kyiv with artilley, rockets, bombs, hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles with conventional warheads, cruise missiles and do it at a safe distance.
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  6334.  @daniel_sinaga1978  They are being attacked, and they have the right to defend themselves against aggression.
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  6335.  @daniel_sinaga1978  The problem is when you get into a fight with someone who is stronger than you then they can really hurt you. You can fight back, but the damage you can inflict on them is a lot less than what they can inflict on you. If a bully happens to be a gang banger, and he has 200 people in his gang. It is best not to try to fight with that person. You can beat the crap out of a couple of em, but the rest will jump you and make you sorry that you were born.
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  6336. If Biden wins chump will probably get a heart attack. LOL
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  6337. UFOs might be fallen angels. Fallen angels aren't good, they were the angels that fell onto Earth after their failed rebellion in the heavens.
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  6338. Printing money doesn't equate to inflation, you have to remember that this money is going into few hands. People who have lots of money are very tight with their money. Look at the dollar index, it has been steadily going up. The price of commodities are lower than they have been since 2008 when a barrel of crude oil was about $148, it is about $94/barrel. A pound of copper was about $4.50 in 2008, and it is about $3.50/lb now. Food prices are going up because of the weather.
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  6339. China will benefit from this. The EU has some inept leadership that is causing harm to their own economy.
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  6340. 7-11. LOL
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  6341. Sheik Yo Booty, I am pretty liberal, and it doesn't help the Democrats to have double standards. It just drives white people away from the Democratic party, and this is one of the reasons why Trump won the election of 2016. It just seems like the Democrats are ignoring the plight of white people. They didn't give a damn about the white people who lost their livelihoods due to technological and economic changes in the Rust Belt states. Those states traditionally voted for Democrats. Those Rust Belt states that got ignored got conned by someone like Trump who told them what they wanted to hear. The Democrats really strayed from the path of what they used to stand for. They stood for the rights of working class people, unions that protected working class people from exploitation, and fought for many of the social safety nets we have in the U.S. today. They diverged to a path of political correctness, and fighting for trivial issues like allows transvestites to use women's rest rooms. It doesn't help to kick someone when they are down. History has shown that it only shows people who get punished unfairly always end up fighting back. Just look at what happened in Germany after World War 1, you had right wing zealots like the Nazis who told the people what they wanted to hear to get into power.
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  6342. Mike Ceasar, a person with good character is a person who doesn't advocate hate, and behaves preaches tolerance. Let me ask you something..... Slavery was abolished 153 years ago, and every white person did not own slaves. In 1865, you had about 4 million black slaves, and about 4 million white people. You had about 23.4 million people living in Northern states who didn't own slaves. The total population of the USA was about 31.4 million people. Out of the 4 million whites living in the South about 32% owned slaves. 1.28 million white people owned black slaves in the South. Out of the entire white population of 26.12 million people 4.9% owned black slaves, so 95.1% of whites didn't own slaves.
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  6343. Impending Doom, racist black people conspire to get white people fired from work by accusing them of being racist. It happens. You telling me white people don't become victims of this type of attack from blacks?
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  6344. Kelly Bre'Ayhe, so if black people accuse some random white person for being racist and boycott their business, or get them fired from their job. You telling me they don't have any power to oppress and cause economic damage? The accusation might not be true, but blacks get together to hurt white people because they are white is racist.
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  6345. Trump gave the military $700 billion in defense spending, maybe that is why he is giving the military everything they want. He might want to stage a coup by having the military backing him. Trump is a dangerous person.
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  6346. LOL
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  6347. Pretty much.
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  6348. The hypocrisy of the collective West, these people believe we can't use our brains and see through their falsehoods.
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  6349. They got nuclear weapons. That's why no one tries to attack the USA, China, or Russia.
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  6350. Biden is like Jimmy Carter in that he has to be one of the worst presidents in US history. Old men shouldn't become president. Anyone over 65 shouldn't run for office, and this should be apply for people in the Senate and the House of Reps.
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  6351. So much misinformation out there, and so many stupid and uneducated people who believe this fake information.
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  6352. Trump STFU.
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  6353. There are a lot of fat and obese Americans out there, and most could simply skip a meal. These days, I eat two meals a day instead of three meals a day. I am actually losing some weight as a result. Gasoline prices are the highest it has ever been at $6.25/gallon for premium. If you use a credit card, the gas station charges a 10 cents extra per gallon. When gasoline was $4.50/gallon back in 2008, a lot of people were suffering. I can't imagine how much people are suffering now.
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  6354. LOL.
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  6355. The corporate welfare and the military budget dwarfs any social welfare programs. The problem we have today is, the money isn't really going to create jobs, it is going to speculators on Wall Street who are just gambling. At the same time, a lot of corporations are outsourcing jobs. It is a serious issue that needs to be tackled. The government should be channeling the money to create infrastructure in the country, like mega highways, high speed rail, super conductive wires, etc.
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  6356. Most of the 800 so called FEMA camps spread out in the U.S.A. aren't even FEMA camps, they are empty train stations, empty fields, abandoned military bases, abandoned schools, abandoned auditoriums, etc. They aren't death camps. You may ask then why do they put barbed wire there? To keep unwanted people out. You conspiracy theories need to go get a life.
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  6357. This will make Chinese products even more competitive around the world.
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  6358. What do you not understand about the South China Sea? It clearly states South CHINA Sea; therefore, it has historically belonged to China. It belongs to China, and there isn't anything you can do about it.
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  6359. American capitalism is a failed system for most Americans.
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  6360. Intel lost a big market, they were prohibited from selling their products to China.
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  6361. NRA is a non profit organization? Really???? LOL
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  6362. QAnon are a bunch of conspiracy theorists, it was inspired by the king of conspiracy theory Alex Jones. Alex Jones has Pastor Lindsey Williams who comes on his channel to says he is a insider for the Illuminati. Lindsey William always talks about his imaginary elite friends, and his predictions are wrong 95% of the time. Lindsey Williams comes out with his total collapse predictions, and I listened to all of them from 2010 to 2016. He always said by 2010, you will not recognize America, said that every single year! Alex Jones says he has insiders in the government who is giving him inside information, so you should believe him. LOL These people are liars, and they don't know what they are talking about.
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  6363. Americans are d-u-m-b.
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  6364. Can Trump, can trump, he needs to be canned. ROFL 😆
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  6365. There are a lot of dolts that would follow people like that. LOL
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  6366.  @TmanRock9  Do you know what a unconditional surrender is? Japan signed a unconditional surrender on Sept 2th, 1945. From that time, Japan ceased to be independent country. It is a vassal state.
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  6367. You can't ban guns, because of the 2nd amendment. Thus, what Trump is saying is false.
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  6368. The computer is basically overheating due to dust build up.
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  6369. If you have a war with China and Russia, or either of those nations, it will touch everyone even the rich kids. A nuclear hypersonic missile, or missiles from a nuclear submarine could touch everyone in the USA.
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  6370.  @resnica3557  Composting is a good way to make sustainable fertilizer.
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  6371.  @capnkirk5528  It is living under feudalism, the feudal lords do what they want, and they don't care what the serfs want.
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  6372. I am sure artificial intelligence will reach human level intelligence with quantum computers. I am sure CEO could be replaced, it is just a matter of time. Just about anyone can be replaced.
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  6373. Exactly. It is impossible for everyone to be a employer. I've owned my own business several years ago, and it isn't easy. 9 out of 10 businesses fail within the 1st year. Starting your own business is like gambling. There are a lot of things you have to take into consideration, like how much is the overhead, like rent, paying the staff, utility bills, etc. There is no guarantee that you will make much money from your business venture. I know a few people who are worse off after they started a business than before they started a business. They spend so much time and money in their businesses even if it didn't make enough to cover the basic expenses. A lot of scammers these days. They start shell businesses, they say their company is worth this much, they pump up the stock value, and dump it when they get unsuspecting people to buy it. It is happening in the cryptcurrency world where people are making their own cryptocurrencies. They promote it on social media, get people to buy it, and this makes it go up. When it gets high enough, they dump it all and take the profit. It is something that is inherently worthless, and they get people to believe it has value. You have capitalist whores of the alternative media who are for profit corporations, but they ask for donations. Most of them are Libertarian scumbags, they get you to buy into some pump and dump scheme. They get their gullible audience to believe in nonsense conspiracies theories, like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They say they don't want you to have gold and silver. They bought it when the price was very low, get people to buy it, the price goes up, and dump it all and make a huge profit. Libertarians are cheats, scammers, and scumbags.
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  6374. You know what it is, the Libertarian Christian doomtard types believe in the gospel of TOOTH(Truth). They believe in the so called truth which are their opinions not facts. They are no different than the Nazis. The Nazis believed in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. These Libertarian Christian Fundamentalist channels always say the same things. After each show, gimme money. If you want to hear the toooooth, you need to gimme money. Please, you don't have to pay money to someone's worthless opinion based on fake news. Dr. Wolff is providing real information, and if anyone should be getting donations it is people like him.
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  6375. Whatever Joe the plumber. We know you are a certified idiot.
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  6376. Socialism can provide everything everyone needs, but capitalism cannot. That is a problem isn't it.
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  6377. I am a mathematician and programmer, and I can tell you many jobs were replaced by simple computer programs. Speech recognition software got rid of many customer service jobs, speech recognition software got rid of people who dictate notes over the phone, translation software made human translators redundant, email was directly responsible for destroying more than half a million postal jobs, you have electronic filing systems which gets rid of people who file charts, etc. The middle man can also be cut out of the equation as well. I can order everything online at wholesale prices, so this is why many brick and mortar stores are dying. You don't even need people to do paperwork in companies, it can all be done online. No need to hire people to do it, you can do it yourself. You can program computers to turn on by themselves, perform routine tasks by writing programming scripts, and they can turn themselves off at the end of the day. All the human needs to do is drop the files in the folder, and the computer does everything. Kind of like in a factory, you have input of goods, and output of processed goods. The binary computers we have now are quite limited in what they can do; however, quantum computers can do much more. GPU technology is being employed to make self driving cars a reality, and it is only a few years away. This will destroy many more jobs. Car dealerships will go under, car insurance companies will also die, the people who drive for a living will easily be replaced, and you won't need as many traffic cops when the system becomes fully automated. In the future, if you lose your job to some computer program, robot, or artificial intelligence, you're worthless too.
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  6378. I used to work for a big corporation 6 figures a year, and one day they said I should train some engineers from India. So I did. They said, we don't need you anymore, but we can hire you back as a independent contractor. Eventually, they pushed me out of the company, and the other Americans in the company. You have no idea how expendable people are. I know a lot of engineers who are jobless who relied on a single company. Most of them were replaced by people who did the same work for half of what an American would ask for. Sometimes even less if they are working in another country. Your labor is worthless. A big corporation only care about profit. Even if you are a smart guy, if your wage isn't competitive in relation to the world labor pool.
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  6379. Automated aircraft can take g-forces in excess to what a human can take.
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  6380. They do have a camera system which alerts the staff if something was not scanned. Things like Amazon Go which use a purely automated system still does have problems. If many people come in, and cover for each other so the camera can't catch the item being taken from the shelf. You will not know who took the item even if you use a RFID tags. RFID tags can be void by using pockets and bags with metal foil(aluminum foil). When I worked in retail that is the weaknesses of CCTV camera system can't catch people who use mob robbery tactics. Even if the AI system with a self checkout stand, multiple people could cover for each other blocking the view of the camera. They can scan less expensive items and not scan the more expensive items.
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  6381. People can find ways of fooling the machines. Human beings are very adaptive. Retailers thought having RFID tags would solve the shoplifting problem. Radio waves can't go through metal. If you use aluminum foil, it can defeat RFID tags. If you have a bad that is lined with aluminum foil, the RFID detectors will not work. It will not set off the alarm.
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  6382. There are many ways to fool these things. People could rip the bar codes off of less expensive items and use it to scan more expensive items. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out.
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  6383. Canada produces everything the US can produce, like vehicles, oil, lumber, agricultural goods, furniture, etc. These tariffs will force US companies to move back to the US. As for China, trade to the US accounts for 2.8% of China's GDP compared to Canada which accounts for 20% of their GDP.
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  6384. People are going to have to live in austerity for a while, and they need to get used to it.
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  6385. IT professionals automate jobs, so they are very valuable to large corporations. You as a unskilled worker isn't valuable, because you could be replaced by technology and machinery.
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  6386.  @louisnguyen2865  I am an engineer, I automate things for a living.
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  6387.  @louisnguyen2865  The reason why we are automating things is to remain more competitive. It's called capitalism for God sakes!
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  6388.  @louisnguyen2865  It's capitalism.
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  6389. Excuse me, do you have any grey poupan. LOL
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  6390.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  We can still use the USD, but we don't have to use your banks. We can use our own banks to transact in any currency including the USD.
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  6391. The prison industrial complex, it is a racket.
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  6392. The life expectancy for Ukrainian soldiers is about 4 hours, because there are more Ukrainian soldiers compared to Western mercenaries.
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  6393. There isn't anything wrong with holding cash when you have a lot of debt. You can simply pay your debts with the cash from your savings account.
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  6394. Nope, the Democrats won the house of reps, and they will win the presidency in 2020.
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  6395. I bet NATO and the US is going to cry foul, it is not fair. LOL
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  6396. lol😆
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  6397.  @Dordordord  I can imagine that he must be shaken after what happened. He did show his defiance after he got his ear pierced. I don't know if that was just an act, or he just did that because he got angry. Never the less, he must be scared now, this much I know.
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  6398. Loser is going to pick losers.
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  6399. It's just water, they didn't fire a automatic cannon or fire any 76mm rounds. No harm was done.
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  6400. This forced us to be vaccinated, because it would protect us from covid. If so many vaccinated people are testing positive then what is the point of forcing this on millions of people?
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  6401. qqwp1234, you're stupid!
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  6402.  @AnthonyGodfrey-e4t  LOL
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  6403. There isn't enough gold in the world to back China's currency or any currency in the world. Did you hear about the Chinese real estate bubble? The Chinese have 20 to 30 cities the size of New York, and Los Angeles which are completely empty. The U.S. exported more oil than they used for the past 3 years. Even if the petro dollar is dumped, the US has enough oil, coal, uranium, natural gas, and other sources of energy to get them through.
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  6404. Stay in China where you belong, don't spread your germs around the world.
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  6405. F.B.I. investigations are slow, but they will get. They got Al Capone, they put thousands of corrupt government officials, and cops in Federal prison. It is a great thing we have a agency like the F.B.I. in the USA, this way we don't have corrupt officials and law enforcement officials who can get away with anything. Your tin man Rump is going to get it. Trump can try to lie to the public, bash the F.B.I., bash the investigators, and lie to the public that he is being persecuted. The F.B.I. will keep coming, they will hire more people, and they will get your orange haired wannabe dictator.
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  6406. gabor, the F.B.I. can ask other Federal agencies for Trump's tax statements. They can contact the IRS, they can get bank records, they can follow the money trail. They will nail Rump. All they have to do is prove where Trump got his money from, and we all know he got his money from the Russians.
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  6407. A History Nut, george cushing made it up like his fake president. You know fake president, fake facts, and lying all the time. Characteristics of a hardcore Trump supporter. LOL
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  6408. A History Nut, we all know Fox News, Breitbart, and Infowars are fake news. Fox News is a propaganda arm of Donald J Rump, Breitbart is a racist Alt-Right mouth piece, and Infowars is the definition of yellow journalism.
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  6409. A History Nut, that is why Trump likes autocrats, like Putin, Duterte, Erdogan, Kim, and others. He wants to turn the U.S. into a dictatorship where everyone in his cabinet says yes, he has control of both houses, and control of the judicial branch. Then, he can do anything he wants. When we have an idiot like Trump trying to bully everyone in the country in getting his way. His idiot supporters and hence men's wet dreams of oppressing everyone who isn't like them or agree with their ideologies. Now, you have white nationalist, and white supremacists running for political office.
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  6410. A History Nut, I think the U.S. is in a state of decline. The U.S.S.R. back in the 1980s was a super power, it had a large arsenal of weapons, and in Dec 26 1991. The U.S.S.R. collapsed. A lot of the people who are flocking to Trump are the people who got left behind by the global economy. It seems like a lot of these Trump supporters are blue collared white males who got left behind. These days, you need at least a 4 year college/university degree to make it. If you don't have a 4 year bachelor's degree, companies or corporations won't even look at your resume. In addition to that, you need to have other marketable skills, you have to know how to computer programming languages, you need to have some engineering skills, and other skills. The days when a guy with a high school diploma getting a job in a factory are over. Most factories and manufacturing plants in the USA are highly computerized and automated. Most of these angry people don't understand this, so they blame immigrants, and they blame other countries for their misfortunes. You can blame people like Trump for automating factories, and sending jobs overseas. You have a lot of scapegoating of the so called other. In the end, these angry people will only hurt themselves.
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  6411. Scapegoating doesn't solve any problems. The problem is with the greedy corporations that outsource jobs, replace people with machines, and do other things to make more profit. That is the problem, and Trump supporters are too stupid to see this. It is easy to blame people, but the problems still remain. I wonder what will happen if things don't change for these suckers? LOL
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  6412. Not only is Trump a failed businessman, he is also a sellout and traitor. Impeach this conman.
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  6413. That is true, the real productivity is really down. You can check the Baltic Dry Index, and it is down from 11,500 in 2007 to 850 in May 16, 2013. The global economy is in a depression.
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  6414. This will be interesting to watch. If this happens, de dollarization will accelerate. The world will discover that they don't need to trade with the US. Peter Schiff said, the only job the US has is to eat, while others work. LOL
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  6415. Sure automation requires more initial capital, but over time it does save a lot of money. In 6 months of a few years, the automated system will pay for itself. You don't need to turn on the lights, pay health insurance, no wages, no complaints, and you have a machine work force that can work around the clock.
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  6416. If China stopped trading with the USA then why are so many things in the U.S.A. still made in China? You can still buy Tula ammo & other things made in Russia. Is there stuff China, Russia and other countries want from the U.S.A. other than dollars? They can still use those dollars to buy U.S. wheat, rice, copper, iron ore, steel, chemicals, automobiles, lumber, paper, real estate, advanced electronics, manufacturing machinery, heavy machinery, commercial/military aircraft, consumer goods, etc.
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  6417. What a crazy woman.
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  6418. LOL
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  6419. I play retro games, because it brings back my childhood days.
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  6420. You got that right. Just listen to the way Alex Jones supporters behave. If you question Alex Jones the cult leader, the cult followers of Alex Jones will attack you in every way. They will slander you, defame you, denounce you, vote down your videos, troll, call you names, and behave like little Nazis.
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  6421. The housing market will crash when you get more unemployment. If you lose your job then you will lose your home. Just give it a year, and you will see the foreclosures kick in.
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  6422. He looks like a 75 year old man. LOL
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  6423. There is too much polarization in the U.S.A. to get any real problems solved. People are polarized in political lines, religious lines, ethncity/race, pity issues, etc. This is why it is impossible to get any real change in the USA, it is so backward in a way.
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  6424. If the ecology collapses, the civilization will collapse. It has happened countless times in the past.
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  6425. When more people shop-lift than shop then businesses go under. It's that simple.
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  6426. What a snowflake, and coward. LOL
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  6427. Why be friends with a country that constantly uses threats. If you don't do what I want, a threat is issued. That is the US for you.
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  6428.  @alyorkie6  You must be fascist.
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  6429. Just listen to the 911 call. Your obviously a conspiracy theorist.
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  6430. I guess he won't be causing problems anymore.
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  6431. I always buy when the Dow drops, I've been doing it for 7 years. Worked all the time. Today, it went down 333 points, and a few days later it will go up 400 points. It is manipulated and predictable.
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  6432. Inflation is the answer.
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  6433. But........ Trump said this was the greatest economy in the history of the world. I think Trump lied. LOL
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  6434. One less thing to worry about.
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  6435.  @glenelyngaleno  We don't worship Satan, we are mostly atheists. We don't believe in that superstitious nonsense!
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  6436. People who don't learn from their mistakes are stupid people.
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  6437. Nothing that will stop it? A LAWS rocket, 50 cal BMG or anything larger than 12.7mm can stop it.
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  6438.  @andrewcruz-nz1eb  Both of those stooges can always move to the US and live in a mansion after they help damaging their countries.
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  6439.  @fajarliong  People can choose to live the way they want. This is why I don't believe in helping people.
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  6440. When has US solutions ever worked. The US is a country that doesn't solve any problems, look at all the problems we have in the US that never get solved, like affordable healthcare, affordable housing, updating infrastructure, the educational system, etc. Following advice from a bunch of losers will result in you being a loser. Lost in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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  6441. In the USA if you lose your job you lose your insurance. If you live in the USA, and if you lose your job the first thing you can get is Medi-Cal. It's for people who make less than $20k/year. If you lose all of your income due to a layoff or most of it, you would qualify for it. It covers hospital visits, and emergency room visits.
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  6442. Guns are designed to kill and maim people. A handgun can hurt more people than a man with a knife can.
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  6443. A few months ago, Alex Jim Jones made a video. He said when we take the government back, anyone who doesn't believe in patriotic values, and disagree with it will be thrown in prison and put on trial!!! All those evil politicians who didn't agree with us, except for Ron Paul will be put on trial and when they are found guilty they will be deported!!! They don't believe in American values, like owning guns!
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  6444. The dollar wasn't backed by gold since 1971 when President Nixon took us off the gold standard. Ever since then, the dollar became a debt based currency. When we had the 1987 crash, the Federal Reserve bailed out the equities markets. If money was backed by gold, this wouldn't be possible. Old debts get papered over by new debts. In other words, it is like paying one check with another check which has no balance in it. LOL
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  6445. The US will become the new ZImbabwe. Except, it is all self inflicted.
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  6446. The FBI will not let him go.
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  6447. It is all a tactic to scare people onto your side. He is great at making the us against them mentally. Them being the enemies, and us being the righteous. Alex Jones said, if you don't buy silver at $48/oz, you will never be able to buy it. Buy it from Midas resources with a very low premium of ONLY $30.00 over spot. Don't worry, the premium is high, but it will go to $300/oz according to Bob Chapman(tin foil hat criminal wanted by the FTC for fraud). Alex told me the truth, and I am free wee!!!
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  6448. In 1860, Mississippi was one of the richest states in the USA.
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  6449. It is suppose to be an anti-tank gun, not a howitzer, or a infantry support weapon. It isn't a very good anti-tank gun if the crew has to fire it from outside of the vehicle.
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  6450. It's a national security threat, so China is doing what the US did to Chinese tech companies. That's all, it isn't personal. It's just a national security threat. LOL 😆
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  6451. U.S.A. is a colony of China. LOL
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  6452. Prigozhin is a self made man. Prigozhin's mercenary army is based on meritocracy, and all armies that used that model were successful throughout history, like the Roman and the Mongol armies.
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  6453.  @DivineFalcon  I guess that is why most of the ones that participated in the Jan 6th insurrection were financially underwater. They want chump to give them easy factory repetitive jobs that no longer exist due to automation.
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  6454. I call it hollow threats. Yellen wanted Chin-a to buy US T-bills. Too much capacity? Is that anyone's business to say you are making too much money and producing too many things?????????
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  6455. Any person who lives the Alex Jones lifestyle will probably get brain damaged beyond repair. LOL
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  6456. Amazon doesn't offer the lowest prices, you can buy items on other websites for less. You can also buy stuff on Aliexpress for less as well.
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  6457. That is why those people don't deserve any sympathy.
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  6458.  @kolbpilot  Exactly, that's why competition is a good thing. Now, other countries have a choice, and that is good in my opinion.
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  6459.  @lilpanadero  Right.
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  6460. At this point, the West is going to run out of weapon systems. I guess the West will give up when they realize the resources that they are pouring into this war is going to be more expensive than recouping Western investments from the Ukraine. This war is going to take a long time, and it will be very expensive.
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  6461. Republicans and conservatives love to talk about b.s.. They are great at not getting to the root of the problem.
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  6462. Fair enough, but you have to understand wants are limitless and needs are not. It's the same as consumerism. The people who buy 3 to 5 cars, or buys 200 articles of clothing. The average person competes with the other person on buying better cellphones, better fashion, etc. A nation wants the best weapon systems to protect itself from other nations. It's just human nature if you look at it.
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  6463. Ukraine always claimed that they had shot down all the Russian missiles and drones. How did that get through? I guess, we should send all our patriot missiles to Ukraine, what is holding them back. I know a patriot missile that costs $4 million per missile, and they can shot down a $20,000 Shahad drone, or a $1 million Kalibur missile 99.999% of the time. The US is a powerful nation, it can send all of its Patriot missiles. I wonder if they can replenish what they send in the future?
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  6464. Trump is a professional bullshitter, he is a reality show TV host, so this is what we can expect. A man who creates drama and doesn't get ANYTHING DONE.
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  6465. I think Trump will die in prison. LOL
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  6466. Don't Fu** with the Russians. Look at what they did in the 2nd Chechen War. They don't have any problems using air strikes, and heavy artillery to level cities.
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  6467. A good Christian woman kills her family. LOL
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  6468. What do you not understand about China in the South China Sea? It belongs to China.
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  6469. Chinese people don't spend a lot of money, most save a lot of money including me. Chinese people don't spend like Americans.
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  6470. @shaungordon9737  You live only once, so what is wrong with buying things like that?
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  6471.  @shaungordon9737  Np, we don't live beyond our means.
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  6472. Chump lost it, and his sycophants will agree with him no matter what.
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  6473. This is like the lend lease programs the US had during World War 2.
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  6474. Republicans are lawless.
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  6475.  @orbitalair2103  For defense contracts or in the med industry, because the government buys products from those industries. Not for semiconductors which was mostly used by industries.
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  6476. If the West wants oil from Russia, they(West) must sell stuff to China to get Yuan, or the West can pay for this valuable oil with gold/silver/platinum/palladium. No more getting oil for worthless euros or dollars.
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  6477. You can get rid of a constitutional amendment if you have a 2/3 or 66.6% majority in both houses. You cannot get rid of it with no executive orders, like chump said.
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  6478.  @Quagma-b2i  When food becomes unaffordable, I am afraid most morbidly obese muricans might resort to eating other people.
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  6479.  @GreatWhiteNinja720  I have been preparing since 2006, and I retired. I have no worries, that is why I can afford to not work.
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  6480.  @nraqlh8535  I was thinking about this, but first I have to save more before I can do this.
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  6481. Chump is the boy that cried wolf, people will not take him seriously anymore.
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  6482. Those jobs aren't low class jobs, it is just cheaper to produce goods in China, because they have more people. You have a lot of computer scientists in India, so IT jobs go there. Plus, those IT majors in India will work for much less, yet they can live a pretty middle class life in India.
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  6483. If they had guns in Japan, the suicide rates would be much higher than it is now.
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  6484. LOL. You must be a hard core Alex Jim Jones cultist. Every mass shooting and bombing is a government conspiracy, LOL. You people are crazy.
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  6485. There are bad cops, and good cops. It isn't a systematic thing. Bad cops can be punished by the FEDs even if the local police department dismisses these cases. This is why we have the F.B.I., they are there to throw corrupt local government and corrupt local law enforcement in Federal prisons.
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  6486. Owning guns gives powerless people a false sense of empowerment. The reality is, at work they get crapped on by their employers, and get exploited by people who have more power then them. It is okay to have a few guns locked up in a safe somewhere, or having one for your self protection. However, fetishizing firearms and living in a paranoid fantasy world is not productive.
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  6487. The E U said they wanted to get off of fossil fuels. The Houthis can make that into a reality. Let's see how long you can last without oil!
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  6488. It's economics 101, supply and demand. The broken supply chain caused the inflation we are seeing now. Simon is absolutely right. A lot of people are having problems getting stuff, like chips to complete more complicated machines, like automobiles, aircraft, smart tvs, etc. Restaurants are having difficulty getting the necessary ingredients for stuff on their menus. Food shortages aren't caused by monetary policies either, that is caused by the climate.
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  6489.  @keithj6251  We don't have a centralized command economy.
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  6490. Don't do anything stupid when he gets impeached due to the F.B.I. investigation.
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  6491. Like I said road blocks and random searches will work to get all guns off the hands of the people. Roads will be blocked by M2 Bradley AIFVs, and APCs. Anyone who tries to back away from the road blocks will be shot at with 25mm auto cannon rounds!
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  6492. What is it going to be, let the dollar become a worthless currency, or raise interest rates?
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  6493. What is the government doing to me? They would rather see me die??? How so? So, the government doesn't give a crap about me. Do you give a crap about a stranger? I don't. What you said is a contradiction to your libertarian believes, because everyone is out for themselves. I don't believe everything I am told, but I don't believe flat out lies from Alex Jim Jones. The same moron who said JT Ready was a border agent, and he was killed by government agents. When he was not!
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  6494.  @ruskimofia  Rump said he was a white nationalist, and white nationalists are domestic terrorists.
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  6495. The fate of those soldiers in the steel plant doesn't remain to be seen. When they run out of food and clean water, they will expire. That's a fact.
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  6496. They are hypocrites, they collect welfare checks from the government, some work for the government, and they just hate social welfare when it goes to non-whites. It's okay if it goes to their own people, but they will complain about moan about it when it goes to immigrants and others.
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  6497. They were talking about nuclear fusion reactors for decades, but scientists could not figure out how to contain this reaction. If Chinese scientists can produce a working prototype, it would be ground breaking. We would have unlimited clean energy. Nuclear fission is splitting an atom, and a nuclear fusion reaction is fusing two light nuclei into a single heavier nucleus. Our Sun is a large fusion reactor, and it is self sustaining.
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  6498. ​ @dinf8940  The US is doing the opposite of the Marshall Act of 1948. After WW2, the US gave aid to countries in Western Europe that got devastated by the war. They built up these countries, so they could trade with them. With current administration's policies, they are sacrificing their allies and weakening them. This foreign policy will backfire in the future. The US has its allies, like countries in the EU, Japan, etc. It is weakening them. At the same time, you BRICS block which are conducting mutual trade which is mutually beneficial. Who do you think will win in the future?
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  6499.  @TyrantTommy  The USD is still the world reserve currency. Before the USD being the World Reserve currency, the British Sterling Pound was the world reserve currency. When the British Sterling Pound was the world reserve currency, the US dollar was also being used in international trade in the 1920s. Other currencies, like the Chinese Yuan are being used in international trade now. The Ruble is also starting to be used to buy Russian oil. The significance of the dollar will diminish over a few decades from today. That doesn't mean the USD will loose all of its value, because the US still produce things of value and exports it to the world, like Boeing commercial aircraft, agricultural goods, all kinds of chemical compounds, medical devices, heavy machinery, automobiles, fighter aircraft, helicopters, all types of aircraft engines, minerals of all types(coal, oil, bauxite, silver, copper, etc), software, technological and scientific research, and a host of other things. In the future, Americans won't be able to live on borrowed money. We will have to start producing more and consuming less. I have more than $50k, I have hundreds of thousand of dollars, I have precious metals, a home that is paid off, no automobile debts, no student loan debts, etc. My cost of living is not very much. The people who will be suffering are the people who have too much debt and no savings.
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  6500.  @TyrantTommy  I've been preparing for not 5 years, 10 years, but for decades. When I was growing up, I saw what being a reckless spender could do to a person by watching my father. I just observed the economy, saw the economic cycle, saved my money, and used my money to buy up assets in economic downturns. I know a lot of people in the USA have a lot of anxieties, and that is because they have a lot of debts. You can't project your anxieties on me, because I am immune. In the last recession while a lot of people were having family problems due to money issues, people were being financially stressed due to losing their livelihoods, and having hardships. During that time, I did lose my livelihood, but I had lots of savings. I stayed home most of the time, I went fishing, I learned new programming languages, learned how to grow food, learned how to fix electronics, learned how to cut my own hair, learned how to repair my car, and just did what I wanted. If you have lots of money, you can tell your boss to F off and quit. LOL
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  6501.  @cheezeball6109  That is what people said in 2008.
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  6502. Emily Fox, conspiracy theories. LOL Do you listen to Alex Jones and Infowars?
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  6503. Nikolai Collushnikov, The logic is simple. Trump started a trade war with Europe. Europe put tariffs on U.S. goods, and Harley Davidson was affected by those tariffs. Harley Davidson was and is selling motorcycles to the European Union. The tariffs would impact the sale of their motorcycles; therefore, Harley Davidson, inc decided to move their production to Thailand to offset the tariffs, so they don't have to increase the price. Now Harley Davidson could sell their motorcycles without a price increase, and they can remain competitive. Do you understand it?
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  6504. It will be ironic when and if Trump supporters lose their jobs and end asking for welfare. LOL Too bad, Trump cut welfare. LOL
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  6505. Emily Fox, Obama didn't do much, I can't say he was a failed president. I can safely say George W Bush was a failed president. Can I say Trump is incompetent? Yes, I can say that with 100% conviction.
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  6506. Emily Fox, Trump gave Alex Jones a press pass to the White House. You said: "Alex Jones is a minister of musinformation like this fake news network CNN, so no; I get my news from a few YouTubers I like and common sense - that's about it.". If Trump promotes Infowars and Alex Jones then what you said was a lie. LOL
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  6507. Emily Fox, LOL.
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  6508. Emily Fox = Hardcore Trump supporter = Moron
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  6509. Emily Fox, Glass-Steagall was repealed by Republicans. China was opened up by Nixon in the 1970s. The U.S.A. entered NAFTA in Jan 1, 1989, and it was finalized in Jan 1, 1994 with Clinton signing it. Bill Clinton didn't create NAFTA. Get your facts straight you idiot.
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  6510. Emily Fox, China joined the WTO on Dec 2001. George W Bush was president when this happened, not Bill Clinton. Stop lying, you cross eyed inbred.
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  6511. Emily Fox is a fine example of a brain damaged person, she probably shoots a lot of guns, so she got brain damage from inhaling all that lead.
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  6512. Emily Fox, I don't argue with stupid people and that means you.
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  6513. Arguing with idiots is pointless.
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  6514. Emily, what do you do for a living?
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  6515. Looks like the Western financial system is surviving on borrowed time.
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  6516. They believe they can create more missiles, like they can print money. LOL
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  6517. The Ukrainians had a weapon the Russians couldn't counter, the Javelin FGM-148. This weapon is very different from wire guided missiles using a command guidance system. The Javelin is a fire and forget missile that locks onto the armor vehicles thermal image. Plus, this missile is a top attack missile, and the top of any main battle tank has the thinnest amount of armor. Even with rockets from a helicopter can take a main battle tank if you hit the top of it. The Russians should have developed a active protection system to counter these ATGMs. Putting a steel plate on top of a mbt isn't a solution. They should have used their Arena APS and increased the angle for the doppler radar, so they could detect Javelin missiles. You attack a country before you have the means to do it.
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  6518. Trump is a criminal, and he needs to be locked up.
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  6519. I thought North Korea was bad, but S.Korea during the 1980s was bad as well.
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  6520. Look at the infrastructure of this country, like the roads, bridges, sewers, water pipes, etc. All falling apart, because the government decided to waste money on useless wars instead of taking care of the infrastructure of this country.
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  6521. What you say is true about education, but most American students aren't that smart to begin with. In the U.S.A., we have an education system which awards merit. Either you can be very smart and get into the top schools with a scholarship, or you can be very rich and go to the very best private schools. The problem with America's educational system is that, it isn't centralized. We don't have national standardized test for teachers, and students. The most qualified teachers should teach subjects
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  6522. If you can start your own business with your degree then you are good.
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  6523. Milling out a 80% Ar-15 receiver isn't easy, you need to have machining skills to do it. Everyone can't do it.
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  6524. The less the world buys from the US, the faster the world will de dollarize, which will make the world a safer and cleaner place.
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  6525.  @ZweiZwolf  Per capita income in the US is about $38k to $49k per year. Per capita income in China is about $12.5k/year. List of prices Country Type Price USA Rent $2300/month 1 bed apartment China Rent $300 to $500/month USA Utilities $120/month China Utilities $28 to $70/ month USA Health Insurance $350 to $500/month China Health Insurance Free USA Compact Sedan $27,500 China Compact Sedan $12,000 USA Groceries for 1 $475 to $550/month China Groceries for 1 $110 to $150 /month As you can see the cost of living compared to China is 3 to 6.4 times more.
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  6526.  @ZweiZwolf  You can believe whatever you want. Facts are facts.
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  6527. It's all about squeezing as much productivity out of each individual worker, and technology makes that possible.
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  6528.  @markdowse3572  Did you ever hear about what the Japanese did in Nanking?
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  6529.  @lifetrees1  PRC didn't annex any country from 1949 to today.
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  6530.  @lifetrees1  Those are military exercises, so it doesn't mean anything.
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  6531.  @DEANluxray  Formosa is part of China, and Taiwan isn't a country. If you don't believe me then why isn't Taiwan in the UN? It is because they aren't a independent country.
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  6532.  @marcelbernard158  Did you ever hear of the 11 dash line which was declared by the Republic of China after WW2. The PRC inherited it from the old government which was the Republic of China; therefore, those claims are legitimate.
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  6533.  @mozzarellamaniac6300  Many Chinese people got affected by what Japan did during WW2, how can we forget about it?
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  6534.  @zero1action27  The Yuan Dynasty is a Mongol Dynasty, not a Han Chinese Dynasty.
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  6535.  @popajoekiller  The UK leased Hong Kong from China in 1898 for 99 years, so the UK returned Hong Kong to China in July 1, 1997.
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  6536.  @zero1action27  First of all, PRC is not my government, I am a overseas Chinese, so I am not a citizen of the PRC.
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  6537.  @zero1action27  What do you mean by bond holders of what, and does that have anything to do with China's historic claims on the South China Sea?
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  6538.  @mozzarellamaniac6300  Japan never apologized for what they did during WW2, nor did they pay any reparations for what they did. Why should we forget about it?
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  6539.  @zero1action27  Why do Japanese leaders go worship people like Tojo and others in Yasukuni shrine in Japan. Clearly, they aren't sorry about what they did.
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  6540.  @DEANluxray  Many overseas Chinese people like me that support the PRC.
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  6541.  @mozzarellamaniac6300  I don't hate anyone, but if you are telling us to forget about what happened. It isn't going to happen.
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  6542.  @popajoekiller  China followed WTO rules. Let me explain.... Chump started this tech ban back in 2018, and the current administration followed through with it. As a result, the PRC couldn't buy advanced semiconductor chips. Due to WTO rules, China couldn't put tariffs on semiconductor chips from AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and others. This hampered China's semiconductor industries, because they couldn't compete in price or performance. As a result of these bans, China is building DUV lithography machines to make semiconductor chips, and designing their own chips. Now, China will have a semiconductor industry that is subsidized by the government, and it will have a world class semiconductor industry in 5 to 10 years from now if not sooner. Now, China can control the top of the supply chain.
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  6543.  @DEANluxray  Now, you are making ad hominem attacks. How can I earn a social credit score if I am not a citizen of China, or live in China? Taiwan's sovereignty? Taiwan is a product of the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1949. The CPC won the civil war, and the KMT fled to Formosa which is known as Taiwan today. The ROC(Republic of China) never declared Taiwan was an independent country. Technically the Chinese Civil War never ended, so what is this thing about sovereignty?
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  6544.  @cradle_n7515  China was mostly focused on developing its economy from 1949 to today. In 1949, the literacy rate was 20%, and the life expectancy of the average person in China was about 35 years. Today, the literacy rate is 99.83%, and the life expectancy is about 78 years today.
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  6545.  @cradle_n7515  I am Chinese, and the people in the PRC are Chinese.
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  6546.  @cradle_n7515  LOL
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  6547.  @mozzarellamaniac6300  That word you mentioned is related to obsession. I am not obsessed about Japan. I do drive a Japanese automobile, stream videos on a Sony television, and use other Japanese products. If I hated Japan I wouldn't be using any Japanese products. These days, I really don't have to buy as many Japanese products, because China is making comparable products at a lower cost.
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  6548.  @marcelbernard158  The Philippines is violating China's 9 dash line, so it isn't China that is being aggressive. It is the Philippines that is being aggressive.
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  6549.  @ryanseet8314  Xinjiang was conquered by the Qing Dynasty in 1759. Tibet was liberated from a backward feudal regime, and now the people are better off for it.
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  6550.  @ryanseet8314  The Qing Dynasty pre dated the PRC, so whatever lands that were under the control the previous governments in China belonged to the new government in China.
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  6551.  @ryanseet8314  As for Xinjiang, the Qing Dynasty conquered it, and after the Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1911. The ROC took over that region, Xinjiang was under ROC control. In 1949, the PRC laid claim to it. Yes, the Yuan Dynasty invaded Japan twice, one in 1231, and the 2nd time in 1281. Mongols, Chinese, and Koreans took part in the invasion. That is history, so what?
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  6552.  @ryanseet8314  Yes, the Qing Dynasty lost about 910,000 square kilometers of territory to the Russians in the late 19th century. That is the reason why Sino-Soviet Relations soured in the 1960.
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  6553.  @Thoughtcaster-six  Who was responsible for making China better? The CPC was responsible for making the lives of many Chinese people better.
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  6554.  @Thoughtcaster-six  Most people in China are content and happy. That government is in danger of being toppled. On the other hand, the US empire may go away like the USSR in the near future. You have all the same problems that the USSR had back in the 1980s, like rampant inflation, a disfunctional government, inept domestic policies, divisions in society, massive debts, lower standard of living, etc.
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  6555. Barbarism, it seems like it is a fact of life these days.
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  6556. It's barbarism and bullying smaller countries. China is clearly violating territorial integrity of these countries.
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  6557. Pork has to be cooked all the way through, or you will get parasites.
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  6558. Throughout Chinese history, there were former dynasties that controlled parts of China, like the remnants of the Ming dynasty moving its government to Formosa after the Ching Dynasty took over much of China.
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  6559.  @blackolantern5666  We just see you as 黑人, or black people. Many East Asians never seen a black person. No one is going to hurt you, it's just curiosity.
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  6560.  @blackolantern5666  If we didn't like you people then we wouldn't be investing billions of dollars in Africa, and allowing African students to come to study in China for free. : )
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  6561.  @blackolantern5666  I live in the US, so I have seen blk people. People in China and other parts of Asia never seen em.
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  6562.  @blackolantern5666  The city that man was in was probably a rural area in China, and they probably never seen a blk person.
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  6563.  @blackolantern5666  People that live in rural China are pretty ignorant. People don't act like that in major cities, like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, etc. No one is going to act like that in other major cities in East Asia, like Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, etc. If you go into the countryside, you will encounter ignorant people like you did in this video.
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  6564.  @roseakpan8883  They were all laughing so there was no offense there, it was just a joke. African people can go to China, and nothing will happen to them. They can visit there anytime.
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  6565. That is if he doesn't go to prison.
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  6566. That was pathetic, all of you go out and vote this loser out of office. LOL
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  6567.  @ibrahimtall6209  Exactly. Why pay 3 to 8 times more for the same item in the Amazons, Targets, Walmarts, and other retailers. You can get it for much less buying directly from a factory from China.
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  6568. It is perfectly alright laying a beat down on some thugs.
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  6569. Who knows how the Moskva was sunk, maybe some sailors drank too much vodka and cause a fire on the ship, or the Ukrainians could have struck the ship with a missile. We will never know.
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  6570.  Sweet Music Studios  We can only guess what happened.
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  6571.  @George-k6o9t  When Chinese people immigrated to the West Coast of the US from the 1850s to the 1880s, all Chinese people got banned in 1882. Why? Because they worked too hard.
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  6572. LOL
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  6573. The tax cut Hitler Trump made isn't even that much for people, it is like $600 a year. That isn't a lot. Stop defending him you fucking alt-right nazi.
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  6574. Conservatives like you should not be able to have any influence in the media, and alternative media that promotes such nonsense and propaganda should be shutdown. I am glad Google and other tech giants, like Facebook are shutting down FAKE NEWS Alternative right wing media. Not to mention, there are a lot of hackers who happen to be liberals and anarchists who will shut down conservative alt-right websites as well.
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  6575. I believe in absolute equality, like one person one vote, free trade, and fair competition. Alt Right Nazis like you are against absolute equality, this is why you people are angry at white farmers being forced to give land back to Africans in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In a truly democratic system, the people the majority has the right to get the demands that they want. Even at the expense of the minority people even if they have a lot of power and money. For example, Jewish people were very good at business, so the Nazis used boycotts and excluded Jews from doing business, practicing law, practicing medicine, etc. You fuckers are the same. You are using the law make it more favorable for people who supported you at the expense of the majority. Therefore, you are a fucking Nazi and a fascist.
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  6576. Since you aren't that bright, I will give you a hint. The Chinese were buying up a lot of U.S. assets, like equities and real estate in the USA for the past 12 years. Back in the 1980s, the Japanese were buying up a lot of U.S. real estate and stocks. When Prez. Reagan announced tariffs against Japanese goods. You fill in the blanks.
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  6577. These foreigners buy a lot of stuff in the USA, everything they buy they over pay. When they bought houses in the 1980s, they overpaid for it. When these Chinese bought real estate in the USA, they overpaid also. They buy stocks at high prices, and everything else at higher prices. My brother and law sold his house to some Chinese buyers. They over paid, they paid about $3 million for his home in Beverly Hills.
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  6578. When these foreigners pull their money out due to Trump's hostile environment towards immigrants, it will crash the equities market. It will crash 401k plans, and pension plans. These idiotic baby boomer fuckers are going to regret they voted for Mr. Drumpf dorf.
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  6579. Exactly. As a result of Trump's stupid policies, it will affect American companies that use these resources to produce things. This will drive up costs for U.S. companies and make them less competitive in the global market.
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  6580. Looks like a symbol of good luck got corrupted by some evil people in history.
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  6581. This is America today, a bankrupt, shameless nation.
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  6582. Rump is doomed, It is just a matter of time. His rump will be cooked before he serves out one term, or after he finishes his presidency. The F.B.I. will come after him, and they won't stop no matter what.
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  6583. The Federal Reserve reinflated the economy after it crashed in 1987, they reinflated it in 2000 when it crashed. They can do this again and again. They will crash your gold by making massive short positions and bankrupt you.
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  6584. Russia doesn't need to use nuclear weapons. They can simply launch ballistic missiles, hyper sonic missiles, and cruise missiles with conventional missiles. The Russians have no shortage of weapons, but the Ukrainians do.
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  6585.  Cora Waller  No need to use nukes in the Ukraine, they will probably use em if they are fighting a full scale war against NATO and the USA.
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  6586.  Sean Pendragon  the whole world would go back to the stone age.
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  6587.  Sean Pendragon  I don't think they will back down. It is just going to escalate from here. With all the chaos going on, China will probably make its move against Taiwan. World War III is coming whether you like it or not.
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  6588.  Sean Pendragon  If you're 18 to 40, conscription is coming. They are going to need all the young men and women to fight this next world war. It won't be like fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq. It will be meat grinder, like war. LOL
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  6589. It is definitely happening.
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  6590. Trump is like Rush Limbaugh, he makes facts out of thin air.
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  6591. Punk deserved it.
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  6592. I am done with the West, they are full of it.
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  6593. The US will say stop allowing access to China or we will sanction you.
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  6594. Peter Schiff can be pretty funny sometimes, LOL.
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  6595.  @vamsig1530  You sound exactly like chump. Chump waters, filtered tap water. It is the best water in the world, so I am charging 5 bucks for this plastic bottle of water. ROFL You are a joke.
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  6596.  @cristo6007  No one is interested in your expensive overcapacity. Your oil isn't better because it is murican. It's just a hydrocarbon.
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  6597. I can back it up. The top 1% will be able to get away with not paying an estate tax for real estate worth $10 million or more which they were previously taxed 77% as a inheritance tax. Now, those rich people don't have to pay a estate tax. At the same time, if you have a mortgage on a home, you will get less tax deductions for your home every year. It doesn't help the middle class, it helps the richest Americans.
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  6598.  @Intranetusa  I can assure you my wage didn't increase much from 2020 to 2024. It went up 10.6% in the past 4 years. Prices have gone up more than that for stuff like steak, a home, rent, petro, eating out at a restaurant, vehicle, etc. Some prices did go down, like consumer electronics, toys, and stuff people don't need. Some staple foods did go down, like corn, rice, potatoes, because global food prices are going down. Right now, we are seeing more people getting laid off in the US. People with good jobs getting laid off, and finding multiple part time jobs. I am seeing this more and more. I did look for another job about a month ago, the wages are much lower compared to 2 years ago.
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  6599.  @angelinazhuravleva5861  You can live on $10k/year if you live in some countries, like Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, etc.
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  6600. Japan is cooked. They will buy more expensive US energy, but this will increase their manufacturing costs. That will make it more difficult for Japan to export their goods to other markets. Japan can avoid tariffs, but it will increase inflation in the country. That might force some Japanese companies to go to the US. Japan doesn't produce anything their competitors, like China, and S.Korea make. Japqn's biggest export, like vehicles will be losing more market share in the world markets.
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  6601. Only ignorant people says everything is easy, and Trump is ignorant about trade. The man is full of contradictions, he is an idiot.
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  6602. They are just being racist to China.
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  6603. Relax man. If you didn't put your life savings in the equities market then you should be okay. Just hold onto it, it will eventually go up.
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  6604. I think Twitter should close Donald Trump's account, he is causing a lot of problems with it. Plus, presidents shouldn't tweet like this.
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  6605.  @a.r.gentum6517  The 1st Amendment doesn't apply to private companies. For example, you can't do or say whatever the hell you want in any private business, this is why they put up a sign "We have the right to refuse service to anyone". Private companies have policies you have to follow. The 1st Amendment protects individuals and private companies from the government trying to censor them. I know the law knuckle head.
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  6606.  @a.r.gentum6517  That isn't according to me. You can't say whatever you want in a private business. You can't say whatever you want at work without consequences. Just try to say some crap about your boss at work, and tell him/her it is my 1st Amendment right? You'll be fired, or they will make your life at work so miserable you will want to quit.
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  6607. Poisoning someone because they cheated? That's insane. My ex-wife didn't like me, so when she cooked my food, she cooked it with lard. When I went to get my annual checkup, my cholesterol was sky high. She was into that BDSM stuff, and I wouldn't play those sick games. That is why my relationship with my wife went sour.
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  6608.  @peanut0brain  I am divorced.
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  6609.  @inkbold8511  My parents are poor, they don't have any inheritance to give me. My father gambled all our family's money back in the 1980s in the stock market.
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  6610. I am going to be tuff on GM. LOL
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  6611. North Koreans aren't Chinese citizens, so the Chinese government is enforcing its immigration laws. If someone came to Germany illegally then they would be deported. So demonizing China with this nonsense.
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  6612. Western countries are acting like barbarian raiders.
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  6613. I think we are moving into a economy where you have to be your own boss. For those who have a lot of education or skill, it is easier to transition, but for those that don't it will be tough. You just have to be like a hydra, and do a multiplicity of things to survive.
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  6614. @Patrick Fischer Employers who want experienced workers without paying for benefits rely on independent contractors. These are mostly skilled workers, like computer programmers, engineers, or some highly technical field.
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  6615. @Anderson Dalmeus stable or permanent jobs don't exist in this capitalist world.
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  6616.  @Jj-gi2uv  I never really ate out much, I like cooking so I cooked most of my meals. I always bought new cars, and kept them for at least 8 years. It is cheaper to buy a reliable car than buying a used car. My last car was Lexus ES300. I was always a good saver. When I was 12 my father gambled away most of his money in the stock market, and when the stock market crashed in 1987 I experienced what poverty was. For much of my teenage years, I lived in poverty. When I was about 18 and out of high school, I worked part time while I went to the university. I graduated in 2000 with about $2000 in student loan debts. I paid that off in the first month after I finished university. If you lived through hardships early in your life, you learn to save, and be frugal. My coworkers who were making 6 figures really lived it up. They would go to bars and order $300 bottles of boozes. They invited me to those events. Some of my friends who graduated from Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and other Ivy League schools would wear $2000 suits, wear $500 shoes, wear $100 socks, $400 shirts, $250 belts, etc. Drove BMW 7 series, and really lived it up. I doubt they saved any money. After I lost my good paying job, my wife left me, and I am still living alone to this very day. I don't regret it, you can't make people stay with you if they don't want to. I am just content that I have no debt, my home is paid off, my car is paid off, and I am able to survive with the jobs I have now.
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  6617.  @Jj-gi2uv  I don't have anyone to go vacation with, so I have not been on a vacation for a while. Doctors always want to prescribe medications, they never ever give you good advice on how to prevent health problems. That is what I noticed. I guess, the medical industry is just a business like any other business. Just like the military industrial complex tries to sell the government more weapon systems. The medical industry doesn't want solutions, but more problems. More problems means more opportunities to make more money. This is the nature of capitalism.
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  6618. She acted like an idiot, and she got what she deserved.
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  6619. The US is just accelerating their demise. Seize Russian assets, no one with a brain will ever put any money into the Western financial system. Get China to stop trading with Russia, so China could be the next target? Everyone can see right through these clowns.
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  6620. China tried to invade Taiwan a number of times after 1949, but they didn't have the capability to do it.
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  6621.  @thechaplainisin8598  Thanks.
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  6622. All the Russians have to do is, pump carbon monoxide gas into those tunnels, or just wait it out until they run out of water. A human can last 3 days without water.
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  6623.  @phillyray5444  No one fights fairly in war. The US used air strikes on insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan when the other side didn't have any.
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  6624. They want to make you big and fat, so you consume more of their products. It is that simple.
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  6625. Desperate people voted for Trump, and they will be disappointed yet again. History has a funny way of repeating itself, this is very similar to Reaganomics of the 1980s. The trickle down economics theory. By giving tax cuts to the wealthiest corporations, it would filter down to the average person. Didn't work then, and it won't work now. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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  6626. They want to make America w-hyte again.
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  6627. This crazy bastard flipped out because of his financial problems. So many more people will be flipping out like this guy. So why not just take guns away from people before they do harm to themselves and to others? It is called preventive homocide.
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  6628. The problem with silver is. When you try to sell it, they will not give you more than the spot price of silver.
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  6629. That is a lot of jobless people.
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  6630. There was no ethnic cleansing, they choose to leave.
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  6631.  @occupyyourmind4418  It is very expensive to live in California. If you leave the USA and go to another country, they aren't going to give you visa to work there.
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  6632.  @occupyyourmind4418  The Democrats are just as corrupt as the Republicans.
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  6633. Just because Countrywide was finished back in 2008, did that mean the US real estate market was finished?
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  6634. Alex Jones is crazy, and his cult like followers are naive, ignorant, and stupid fanatics.
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  6635.  @glennlongoria9952  I don't think I am illiterate, but I think people like you are ignorant about how things work in this country. You can believe whatever you want, but it doesn't make it true.
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  6636.  @glennlongoria9952  You people are a relic, and you will be left in the dustbin of history.
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  6637.  @glennlongoria9952  Trump is going to be evicted Jan 21th 2021, we all know it.
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  6638.  @glennlongoria9952  Trump is sending emails to his supporters to donate money to him. If you believe Trump give him your life savings. He will need all that money to get lawyers to protect him from criminal investigations, lawsuits, and pay his debts, and pay the IRS $100,000,000 in back taxes. Deutch Bank will call in all his loans next year, so he needs money. He needs suckers like you to be his foot soldiers and milk you for everything you got. LOL
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  6639.  @glennlongoria9952  Sure the Biden campaign solicited for money during the campaign, but not after it like what chump is doing.
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  6640. Russia can import a lot of what they don't produce, like sugar, coffee, motor vehicles, chemicals for medications, medications, & electronics. They can import these things from countries, like China, India, Brazil, etc. Russia is having difficulty getting higher end chips, and certain kinds of medications which is only made in Western countries. In turn, they can sell their natural resources, like oil, natural gas, military hardware, coal, lumber, wheat, chemical fertilizers, gas turbines, etc. Everyone needs oil, coal, and natural gas.
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  6641. Stop making up stuff. You're disgusting.
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  6642. That fat white woman is just racist, or she is a feminist.
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  6643. The idiots who believed that Bitcoin would go to $100,000 or $1,000,000.
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  6644. They are fanatics, so you they are true believers. There isn't anything you can do to convince them otherwise.
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  6645. It sure does. LOL
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  6646. The solution is simple, don't let Chinese people from the mainland travel to other countries, including the USA. Don't allow Americans to go to China either.
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  6647. Looks spectacular.
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  6648. You cannot outlaw guns in the USA, because the 2nd Amendment is a constitutional amendment. Just like you can't outlaw birthright citizenship which is also a constitutional amendment, the 14th Amendment.
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  6649. Trump doesn't understand economics, and this is why most of businesses didn't succeed.
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  6650. Trump surrendered. LOL I thought Trump was great at making deals? Maybe, "The Art of the Deal" was just all a bunch of bullshit. LOL
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  6651. It is acceptable, because chump is a zio-nist puppet.
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  6652. It isn't going to happen.
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  6653.  @jhr7190  Yes, he did. He said there were fine people on both sides at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Those fascists and white nationalists, like Richard Spencer, David Duke, and others were fine people too?
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  6654.  @joshgreen7992  Yes he did. He said I quote, " There were fine people on BOTH SIDES".
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  6655.  @joshgreen7992  We can't talk, because you are trying to be dishonest.
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  6656.  @joshgreen7992  All the people who were in the unite the right rally were alt-right, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and white supremacists. The other people there were leftist counter protestors. Trump was saying there were FINE PEOPLE on BOTH SIDES, the people on the Extreme Right were fine people?
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  6657.  @joshgreen7992  That's why those right wingers were chanting "Jews will not replace us" with torches, and chatting " blood and soil". Nazi chants. David Duke was at that rally, and we all know he is an anti-Semite. We all know who these right wingers at this rally was. You must be a white nationalist for making excuses for them.
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  6658.  @110000116699  Ben Shapiro is not part of the alt-right, he is just a regular conservative.
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  6659.  @radagast1184  If that were true, Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo weren't violent. LOL Ultra-Nationalists, like Hitler, Mussolini, Augusto Pinochet, Tojo, Franco, and others like them who used violence to get power. They legislate unfair laws to people who don't belong to their race, ethnicity, or other nations. This is why they made Nuremberg laws in Germany, Apartheid in South Africa, and put up all kind of trade barriers. Fascism is an extreme right wing ideology which promotes nationalism. You're claims of nationalism not being inherently violent has been proven false. You're a white nationalist, and you want a all white country. Just like Adolf Hitler, wanted a ethno-state which was all German. Just like in Portugal during the Estado Novo from 1926 to 1974 which was a fascist corporatist state had slogans, like we are going to build our prosperity on the backs of our African colonials. This is why you had insurrections in Portuguese colonies in the 1960s in Angola, and Mozambique. Those countries eventually got their independence. In South Africa, we had the Apartheid state from 1948 to 1994. You had fascist right wing laws which disenfranchised black people, just like you had the Nuremburg laws in Germany that disenfranchised Jews. You guys are full of shit. We should have a world where we have free trade, and laws should apply to everyone equally regardless of the person's ethnicity, race, religion, or creed. This is what we have now. Under the Republican system of government, we are all legally protected under the law regardless of who or what you are . I know most of you losers don't like the idea that you have to compete with other people now, and there are no laws that give you any special privileges or protections. You people are whining about how mainstream platforms, like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and others are kicking you off their platforms. When Nazi Germany instituted racist laws, a lot of countries around the world boycotted Germany. During the apartheid regime of South Africa, the U.S.A., Germany, France, U.K., and many other countries conducted economic embargoes against South Africa. This isn't anything new. If you promote your racist ideologies, you too will be ostracized, lose your job, when you are exposed very few people would want to do business with you, etc. People like you will be marginalized, it is that simple. Antifa has a lot hackers, who dox people. You can call them domestic terrorists, and they don't have to really use violence in this information age. Getting people fired from their jobs, or de platformed from mainstream social media is enough. If you can't make a living, you will end up like the millions of people in this country who live and die in the streets.
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  6660. @UCAvMszELBPvUjmSkCurD2gg No one has any special privilege. Youtube banned Mr. Farakhan who was a black nationalist and anti-Semite. Arguing with Nazis like you is pointless. I am glad groups like Antifa and other anti-hate activists exist. They will continue to do what they do, get you people fired, and get you people de platformed. Anyways, go get a life.
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  6661. A loser like chump will lose. Chump always talks about winning, but all he does is lose. LOL
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  6662. The Ukrainian banzai attacks didn't work, like the Japanese banzai attacks didn't work against the US marine corps. The Russians have too much firepower for them to make that work, just like the US marine corps had enough firepower to beat back any Japanese banzai attacks.
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  6663. I am sure a lot of these politicians have as much dirty laundry as Trump, just look at Joe Biden's son. Since Trump was an outsider, they are just laying it on him.
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  6664.  @nekiachambers5602  I am someone who doesn't have any debt. Home paid off, car paid off, student loan debt paid off, no credit card debts, etc. My cost of living has gone up drastically, because property values had gone up a lot. When property values go up, property tax, and homeowners insurance goes up. I am not an old man, so this isn't a problem. However, people who have a mortgage, and other debts piled on top of that will have problems due to this inflation.
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  6665. Trump is an enemy of the state, and his hardcore supporters are traitors. Most of his hardcore supporters are KKK and Nazi party members, and this is why Trump took these groups out of the terror watch list.
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  6666. We have a troll toddler as president. LOL
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  6667. @dertythegrower  If people's wages kept up with inflation then we wouldn't have a problem. The price of an average house in 1971 was about $30k, and today it is about $450k. The median income in 1971 was $10.5k, and today it is about $80k. The price of an average home went up 14 times, while wages went up 6.6 times. This is the problem.
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  6668.  @jgalt308  ur mom
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  6669. Chump needs to punished for his crimes.
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  6670. Your right about that. There is no standardization in the American public school system that is one of the major problems. That's why President Bush came out with standardized exams for high schools, and most students in the USA couldn't pass them. Obviously having a centralized educational system has its advantages, and we have had a decentralized system for quite some time.
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  6671. Hehehehehehe. LOL
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  6672. He is being stupid that is what is going on here, because he is stupid.
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  6673. How boring, still talking about this? This is old news.
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  6674. The US is all talk and no action. No wonder no one trust em.
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  6675. Trump is too stupid to realize the world economy is interconnected. Having free trade benefits all parties, but Rump is too stupid to realize that.
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  6676.  @marygard4608  My father started to abuse alcohol when we had financial problems in the early 1990s. He was already an alcoholic, but his alcoholism got worse when he had serious financial problems.
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  6677.  Underground Frenchy  Didn't your orange wannabe dictator say the Coronavirus is just like a mild flu? Gimme a break stupid, not many of chump's hardcore fans wore masks, nor did trump. Trump's fans don't wear masks, or believe this Covid-19 virus is even real. It is obvious, chump is becoming less and less popular.
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  6678. This is what US politicians do, they make promises and break it. LOL
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  6679.  @kenji4596  I don't El Chapo likes him after what he said about about his people. ROFL 🤣
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  6680.  @davidcollin1436  Exactly. LOL
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  6681. GM has never been a good company. They sold poor quality vehicles back in the 1980s. They said when people bought a GM car, it is like buying a GM stock back in the 1980s. They are the same slimy people today.
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  6682. Looks like Trump lied, and the Maga hat wearing morons believed it. LOL
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  6683. Barbarism happened there.
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  6684. The whole plant is automated, no humans. LOL
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  6685. Mr. Edge, since the beginning of civilization. The state builds infrastructure to provide clean drinking water, roads, rails, ports, airports, so people can move from point A to point B. Public safety to protect people from marauding bands, and national defense to protect the country from bandits, and foreign armies. The educational system to help educate the public at large, so people in our nation can participate in the economy. Therefore, the state does have the interests for the average people in mind, you DOLT!
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  6686. Mark Haas, which country are you from?
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  6687. mark haas, I don't know if ever been to a ER in a hospital. They charge you $100 for a aspirin tablet, and $10,000 a night at the hospital. I would rather have universal healthcare for all than not have it.
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  6688. I live alone, but I don't feel lonely or vulnerable. LOL
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  6689. I don't think so. The 200,000 artilley rounds along with 90 howitzers along with old armored vehicles isn't enough. The Russians are using 400,000 to 500,000 artillery rounds in Donbas in a single day. Most of the supplies sent by the West won't make it to the frontlines in time.
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  6690.  @JaeyGim-jk2zt  You got Korean people living in China, and they are called 朝鲜族(Cháoxiǎn zú) They were Korean people that were captured by the Manchus and sent to China in the 17th century.
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  6691. I have a solution, Canada can sell their oil to the EU, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and there are many countries in this world that doesn't produce oil.
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  6692. You will live in a police state whether you like it or not. We will take your guns away from you by legislation and by force whether you like it or not!
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  6693. You always have to eat a balanced diet, or something like that can happen.
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  6694. This is why people want to leave China.
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  6695.  @eddiehulk7804  We have local elections all over the USA, you can vote in city council leaders that can make laws like I proposed. It's possible.
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  6696. @Joe-no7gs It isn't just Blackrock that's fat and greedy. Some of my friends who are lawyers and medical doctors own 5 to 25 homes. I don't participate in such things, because its wrong and f**ked up. That is why I didn't do it even when I had the means to do it.
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  6697.  @kimilsungthefirst6840  You can only have so many homes in a county. Land is limited. Even if you build more homes, big investment firms will keep buying them up, because they have unlimited amounts of money. They won't stop.
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  6698. The people who lost their jobs, and the people who lost their jobs and livelihoods will lose their homes. If you paid off your home, or if you have millions of dollars then you will be alright. I see a lot of money from investment companies, like BlackRock capital, and Zillow dumping real estate. In other words, real estate as an investment isn't looking good. Too many delinquencies from renters.
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  6699. Krugman's Keynesian economics works, the economy is rebounding.
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  6700. Punk was caught red handed. LOL
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  6701. If you have a university/college degree then you have to use it. Leverage your education and skills to make money. After the USSR collapsed in 1991, a lot of scientists, engineers, a lot of skilled, and educated people couldn't find a job. Companies, like Sukhoi which made military aircraft laid off many people. Some smart people in that company figured out they could sell their stuff to governments around the world. You have the internet, you can talk about your expertise on social media, you can get a following, and make money.
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  6702. If you lose your job, and if you have no savings you're toast. It's that simple.
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  6703. This is great news for China.
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  6704. A APC can run on flat tires for a while, but it will destroy the suspension system.
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  6705. Here are the facts.... According to the government census, the population younger than 18 years is 72 million people, people who are 62 and over are 41 million people. 113 million people out of 313 million people are too young or too old to work. You made a claim that 90 million people are out of work out of a population of 313 million. Your tried to lie with the numbers, but I am too smart to be fooled by such propaganda.
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  6706.  @mixedbag7126  It doesn't seem like the US pushing for EVs, because they can't produce them at a competitive price, and the US is banning imports of EVs. Now, they changed the narrative. EVs bad, ICs good. LOL
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  6707. Chump is full of crap. He knows he is going to lose, so he wants to postpone elections. It is okay to open up states, and send kids to school. Hahahaha. Chump thinks we are stupid, but we all know he is stupid.
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  6708. Back in the 1990s, they said VR was going to be the next big thing, we had movies, like The Lawn Mower Man (1992), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Strange Days (1995), The Thirteenth Floor, etc. It never became popular, and they re launched this idea with Oculus VR in 2019. That never became popular. I wonder why?
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  6709. We will see hyperinflation in the end, like the Soviet Union back in 1991. The Soviet Union had a massive military budget, and they produced so much munitions and military equipment the Russians still have a surplus of it even now. Producing too much money on the defense industry will eventually collapse the economy. You can't spend money on infrastructure which is required for any nation. The resources that go into produces munitions are diverted from food production in the form of nitrite based fertilizers. This causes food shortages and inflation on food. People are diverted from the consumer economy to the defense industry.
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  6710.  @phils4634  I agree with that 100%. They were able to produce a lot of military equipment. The same cannot be said about the U S. The U S military industrial complex charges inflated prices for military equipment and munitions.
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  6711. Hill billy militia, ROFL. They will be fighting against the entire population of the USA, along with most of the law enforcement agencies, the U.S. armed forces, and every other sane person, LOL. Alex Jones and the people like him are domestic terrorists. Alex Jones said, the people at Waco, Texas were heroes, LOL.
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  6712. Peter has been proven correct, today the Dow Jones went down about 1700 points. Looks like the bubble has popped.
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  6713.  Beast Mode  The problem is if you start a nuclear conflict, no one will win. For the past 77 years, the US has been picking on smaller countries that couldn't do much to them. The stakes are much higher today. China and Russia have nuclear submarines with multiple nuclear missiles + warheads, hypersonic missiles with nuclear warheads, ICBMs, and vast amounts of military hardware. If the US decides to fight it out with larger states with nuclear weapons and vast armies, like Russia, China, and India, they cannot win such a conflict. If these 3 big states decide to trade with each other, there isn't anything the US can do about it. China and India alone can consume of the world's energy, because both states have large populations. Global politics is all about securing strategic resources, like oil, bauxite, copper, neon gas, cobalt, palladium, etc. Wars have always been fought over resources. The people who have the power in this world are the ones that have the resources, and not the ones that print money. The US will realize this in the next 5 years.
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  6714.  @RussCR5187  If tactical nuclear weapons are used, it will result in other nuclear weapons being used.
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  6715.  @RussCR5187  A conventional war would be like a fist fight between two people. If someone pulls out a gun in a fist fight that escalates things to a whole new level.
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  6716.  @rorywest4937  Do what I and my friends did. Go become a medical doctor, engineer, CPA, successful businessman, scientist, dentist, or some kind of professional.
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  6717.  @diviajar1411  Before income tax.
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  6718. I agree with that 110%. LOL 😆
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  6719. ZCorp Alpha, people still use landlines to send faxes. All modern offices have phone lines to send faxes with a 56k modem. Other than that, most people don't need analog phone lines. Almost all large corporations don't use file cabinets anymore. Everything is backed up on local servers and cloud servers. Some of it is backed up on physical hard drives as well. Hard drive space is very cheap these days, 2 terabytes of space cost about $60. Plus, it takes up almost no space. One gigabyte can store 64,782 pages, 2 terabytes has 1000 gigabytes; therefore, you can store 129,564,000 pages on a 2 TB hdd. You just buy 4 of these and back up all your important files. How much does one page cost? One page costs 1.1 cents and to print it costs 1 cent per page in toner. That is 2.1 cents to print one page. If I wanted to get the equivalent of $60 in paper and toner, I would get 2857 pages. It is economically viable for a large corporation to use a computerized filing system.
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  6720. Corvus1970, he was being sarcastic. LOL
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  6721. Nick Fortin, there is a lot of click bait in these alternative media channels. These alternative media channels also make up a lot of stuff as well, not all of them. All the right wing alternative media channels are very dishonest, and they are very biased.
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  6722. Joe Harte, the US Postal service may not make much money selling postage stamps for snail mail, but we all buy stuff online. A lot of it is shipped via USPS, so the Postal Service is still viable.
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  6723. Tom Jones, news and media organizations aren't funded by taxpayers. Where do you come up with this nonsense?
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  6724. That is why he got shot.
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  6725. Preying on the destitute, this is what Wall Street is good at doing. LOL
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  6726. That is true, but Trump can't wiggle out of pressuring the FDA to rush a experimental drug.
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  6727.  @fungames24  Because they got surrounded.
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  6728. This will be interesting. Chump is going to print his way out of the recession the US is in by lowering rates to zero percent. He can try that, but without anyone backstopping that. It will cause runaway inflation. I think chump will be the last prez of the US. Grab some popcorn and watch the show.
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  6729. The US is the one that is saber rattling. China is strengthening its national defense, because they need it to safeguard their sovereignty. China is already ahead of the US in terms of PPP(Purchasing Power Parity). Type 99 mbt costs about 2.5 million USD compare that with a M1A2 costs $10 million. A QBZ-191 rifle costs 450 USD to produce. The XM5 rifle costs 8,000 USD, and a XM7 costs 5,000 USD. Is the XM5 11.11 times better than the QBZ-191. Is the XM5 17.78 times better than the QBZ-191. China just has more industrial capacity, so China can produce more stuff which brings down the cost. It's supply and demand. You have state owned defense firms that don't have a middle man profiting from it. The US has an inflated defense budget. It all boils down to one thing. How many pieces of equipment can you produce to replace losses if something happens?
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  6730.  @ihunt12903  I bought my home in the late 1990s for about $100k, and today it is worth $650k. I live in California, so my property tax didn't go up much. We have different laws when it comes to property tax. In most other states, property tax is appraised every year, but not in California.
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  6731.  @ihunt12903  Back in the 1990s, interest rates hovered around 5% to 6.5%, so money was more scarce. It was difficult to find any job back then. All it boils down to is, how much education you have, and is the career you picked in demand. If it is in demand, you will get a lot of work, and you will make a lot of dough. The next thing is how hard did you work? I worked 12 to 14 hours a day. I wanted to work as much as possible, pay off all my debts quickly, and enjoy life.
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  6732.  @ihunt12903  I paid about 100k USD for my home in the late 1990s.Today, it is worth about 650k USD, so the price went up 5.5 X in the past 27 years.
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  6733. No wonder CNN is losing viewers.
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  6734. Alex Jones is nuts. LOL
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  6735. Central banks create booms and busts. The booms starts when central banks loan a lot of money into existence, and the busts start when the central banks increase interest rates. Happens every time. The only difference is this bubble is one of the biggest bubble in history. When it does pop, the sound will be deafening.
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  6736. US needs to compete instead of complaining. LOL
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  6737. Every non-western country knows you're bad.
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  6738. People who refuse to eat bugs will be Putin supporters. ROFL
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  6739. He was a racist troll on the internet before he became a vicious hate filled killer.
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  6740. Trump took a pen and drew that, it is obvious. This old kook should just retire; after all, he is over 70.
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  6741. The war in Iraq and the repeal of Glass Steagall caused this whole mess. These libertarians will say, the free market without regulations will solve all the world's problems. Repealing Glass Steagall turned most commercial corporations into banks. For example, companies that sold cars now became banks, they had a department that can give loans for their goods. Now the motivation was about giving loans, so people can buy their stuff. As a result we have this mess today.
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  6742.  @AnotherExtraFist  Sure, troll.
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  6743. China didn't take US jobs. US corporations sent the factories to South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong Macao, Mexico, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc. Chump does what he does best, he makes stuff up. They can try to put 60 to 100% tariffs on imports from China, and it will only hurt the US. If a smartphone was made in the US, it would cost $5,000, and if a computer was made in the US it would cost $7,000 or more. Just look at the prices of automobiles in the US, the prices have gone up. This idea, that those factories are coming back in fantasy. It costs too much to produce stuff in the US, so if they do produce stuff in the US none of that could be exported to other countries. What will Chump say? Stuff made in the US is the best stuff ever, so a US made smartphone is worth $5,000 when they can buy one from China for $800?
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  6744. 25th Amendment, we need a sane president.
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  6745. Sure, the Fed Reserve and other central banks can create inflation, but it can be absorbed by rising prices of real estate, and prices in general. It can also be absorbed by more production of goods, the more you produce the cheaper it gets.
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  6746. If you live in the US, you can see that things aren't getting better, we have a lot of inflation, homelessness, income inequality, lawlessness, drug epidemic, stagnant wages, crumbling infrastructure, etc. 40 years ago, i didn't see homeless people everywhere, people stealing in broad day light, and inflation like this.
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  6747. If Israel commits genocide in Gaza, they are going to have bigger problems. Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon will get involved.
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  6748.  @askjapan9669  No problem.
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  6749.  @pennyc7064  I make video game consoles and sell it on platforms, like Ebay. I use my money and buy bonds and collect interest. I buy stuff from China and sell it on Ebay, and my own website. I do affiliate marketing using social media.
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  6750.  @pennyc7064  I do e-commerce.
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  6751.  @JaggedMercenary  IT jobs are the worst, there is no stability.
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  6752. My GPA was about 3.5, and I only borrowed $2000. I did all this working for a call center doing customer service working about 35 hours a week. I did live with my parents and this was back in the mid 1990s.
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  6753. justgivemethetruth, you don't have to take bad professors. You can pick which professors you want before each quarter or semester starts.
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  6754. Justgivemethetruth, no it isn't. I asked my friends. For example, I had to take a Differential Equations class, physics class, so I asked a couple of friends of mine which professors are good for these courses. For me, it didn't really matter which professor I took. For the most part, I just read the text book, and took notes. I passed most classes with high marks even if I took a professor I didn't know anything about. It depends on your level of intelligence. For me, for any math, science, or computer science classes I just looked at a few examples read the theory, and I understood it. I also took notes, and asked the professor if something wasn't clear after class. Not everyone can is equal when it comes to intelligence.
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  6755. Justgivemethetruth, even after I graduated university after 18 years, I still have to learn stuff on my own. The university degree I got just helped me get jobs in the corporate world, but everything else was up to me. No company is going to train you, because they expect you to have all the skills before you get hired. I still have to learn new programming languages, have to learn new things like Arduino and programming controllers, even develop new skills for other jobs, etc. It seems like you are a millennial. I am a generation Xer, so back in the 1980s I learned how to program computers on a Apple IIc with no GUI interface. We weren't allowed to use calculators in class, so we had to do everything by hand. If you can't understand stuff, that is your fucking fault.
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  6756. It isn't my fault your not smart.
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  6757. If you can't hack it, you can always find a job at Walmart or Mcdonalds.
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  6758. They are tired of puppet leaders plundering these countries, and impoverishing the majority of the population.
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  6759. It is sad to see people living like this.
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  6760.  @ladyJustis  LOL
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  6761.  @beachcreekkennels7873  Lucifer means the bearer of light. The enlightened one. Just like Prometheus gave fire to mankind, so they can pursue their quest for enlightenment. You Christians have it all wrong. Lucifer was trying to free us. When the Christians had power, what did it lead to? The dark age, ignorance, filth, and backwardness. The enlightenment movement was progressive, got people out of poverty, ignorance, superstition, and regression. With science, and learning, we can improve humanity reach for the stars and become like the Gods!
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  6762. Dis is America.
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  6763. These people are just being racist, it is as simple as that.
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  6764. No joke.
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  6765. The plan I followed was being frugal, and not buying unnecessary things in life. I never bought coffee at a gas station, or a 7-11. I usually made the coffee at home. When it comes to durable goods, like automobiles, appliances, and stuff like that. I just buy the most reliable models and brands. Reliable stuff will save you time and money. Just try to use the stuff you have as long as possible. For example, you don't smartphone every 1 year, you can keep the same one until they stop supporting it. I always tried to cut out expenses in my life. If I can setup a solar panel array, and if I hook it up to my refrigerator, television, and lights in the kitchen. I could save money regularly every single month on my electricity bill. If you grow a garden in your yard, you can save a little bit of money on your groceries every month. If you get a hunting and fishing license, you can get a source of protein for much less. Use your time wisely to learn skills that will allow you to find better jobs. You can save your money, and invest it. The important thing is don't waste your money and time in meaningless things. Spending your time watching fear porn is not productive. Wasting your money on buying more things you don't need is wasteful.
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  6766. The mega rich are buying stocks, dividend yielding stocks, and real estate. They aren't buying gold and silver. If dollars are so worthless, how come most people don't have it? How do you know what the mega rich are doing with their money? I can see that they are buying investing it in America.
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  6767. The Ukrainians can use their Leopard 2s as defensive weapons. The Leopard 2 series has a very good reserve speed, much better than the T-64, T-72, or T-80 mbts. The main gun on the Leopard 2A4 can penetrate the frontal armor of most Russian tanks with the right APFSDS rounds.
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  6768. It is a bad idea, it is a dangerous neighborhood.
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  6769. No, he is getting punished because he is a cheater, and a criminal!
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  6770. There is a countermeasure for it, smoke. I can't believe the Russians couldn't figure that out. Most modern tanks have smoke grenades.
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  6771.  @dubious_potat4587  That's why the Russians developed the Arena APS back in the 1990s. It uses a doppler radar, a computer, and a explosive dispenser to shoot down rockets and missiles.
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  6772.  @dubious_potat4587  I am sure you can mount a Doppler radar on a mbt to scan 65 ° to 75 °. The current system the Russians have on T-80 mbts scan 20 °, so it isn't effective against Javelin FGM-148. The Javelin is a top attack missile, so the radar would have to scan at a higher elevation to use countermeasures, like IR smoke or a explosive dispenser.
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  6773.  @bighands69  IR smoke grenades can block thermal imaging.
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  6774.  @bighands69  Most modern battle tanks have IR smoke grenade dispensers. I am not talking about regular smoke, I am talking about chemical smoke.
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  6775.  @bighands69  You can detect flying objects in the air with doppler radars, and the Russians have one called the Arena active protection system. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to use it correctly to detect Javelin missiles. You just have to scan at a higher elevation, because a Javelin is a top attack missile. The trajectory of the missile is predictable, and you can program that into the computer. The radar is a sensor, and that data is fed into the computer. The computer will determine which countermeasures will be used, it could be IR smoke grenades, or using the Arena APS.
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  6776.  @bighands69  You can use doppler radars as sensors to detect javelin missiles flying in the air. Then, you can deploy IR smoke as a countermeasure.
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  6777.  @bighands69  Any other military would have figured out how to make a countermeasure for a top attack IR image lock missile. There are a number of ways you can counter it, you can use sensors, like doppler radars scanning -10 ° to 75 °. When the projectile gets to a certain distance, counter measures, like IR smoke grenades from a mortar, or explosive dispenser can be used to protect the tank. Any junior level engineer can figure out this problem, it isn't hard. I am surprised the Russians couldn't figure this out when they have a system like Arena APS. The Russians are really incompetent.
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  6778.  @kathrynj.hernandez8425  I am a electrical engineer, and I don't believe in cryptocurrencies.
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  6779.  @nette9836  Minimum wage in the state(California) that I live is about $13/hour to $14/hour. For other states, it could be more or less. If you live in California, you need to make at least $20/hour. Renting a 2 bedroom apartment will cost you anywhere from $1800 to $2200 per month.
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  6780.  @suryasingh_12  That is nothing. I need to bring home at least 5000 bucks every month to maintain my standard of living. This is from a person who has no mortgage or any other debts.
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  6781.  @suryasingh_12  I still want to go out to eat, go to bars, go to the ski resort, go on vacations, etc.
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  6782.  @pmscalisi  Not really. If you own a home, you have to deal with expenses, like maintaining your home, like painting the interior and exterior of your home, replacing the central AC, replacing the water heater, etc. All of that costs a lot of dough. The same goes with health issues. I had to get two root canals and two crowns, and it cost me about 3k. I don't spend much on unnecessary things. I only own like 3 pairs of shoes, and I have handful of clothes. The lion share of expenses is used on business expenses and expenses for my home, vehicle, health, etc.
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  6783. It's called gaijin tax. LOL
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  6784. It was intentional. I call Trump Rump. I call Mitt Romney Meat Romney. LOL
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  6785.  @infamoussnyc3761  That isn't what I said. Prices of commodities and goods are determined by global supply and demand.
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  6786.  @infamoussnyc3761  For all the essential commodities, like oil, natural gas, copper, aluminum, coal, various grains, chemical fertilizers, etc will not go down, because everyone in the world needs those things. I don't think the Fed can tame this inflation, because they have no control over it. On top of that, you have countries that are larger commodity producers, like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and others that want to get away from the dollar. They aren't cooperating with the USA to produce more oil to reduce the price of oil.
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  6787. It makes sense. The EU, and the USA took assets from Russian oligarchs, so Russia will seize the assets of Western corporations in Russia. LOL
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  6788. The best thing China can do now is to liquidate all US assets including treasury bonds. If they don't do that, their assets will be seized, like what happened to Russian assets.
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  6789. 0:36 those guys look shady.
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  6790. We all need to celebrate this, I feel a great deal of elation. Evil was scrubbed off of Youtube! Cheers.
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  6791. They shouldn't have invited all those people in. When people are desperate, have no money, they will do stuff like this to survive. The Democrats are so irresponsible, they live in a world of fantasy.
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  6792. I s r a e l is strangling the life out of Gaza. This is what the U S A is doing to other countries it sanctions, like Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and others. It is about time for all the sanctioned countries to get together and form a unified front against these imperial powers.
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  6793. Criminals do get banned, they get locked up in prisons.
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  6794. You can't ban guns, so they need to make it easier for average every day people to report people who have thoughts of harming others.
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  6795.  @Abolish_The_ATF  They tried to ban handguns in Washington DC, and it got struck down by the Supreme Court. Now, you can buy handguns in DC.
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  6796.  @Abolish_The_ATF  I don't believe in conspiracy theories.
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  6797. I worked in the Information technology industry for about 9 years, and I got laid off about 2 years ago. I was writing computer code, and now I work part time jobs. While I was working, I paid off all my debts, and have no mortgage. Now, I am in my late 40s, and I can't find the same kind of job that I loat.
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  6798. The price of being cheap with food is going to the emergency room, and getting a $100,000 medical bill. LOL
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  6799.  @Pajusa101  True, but I would rather not get sick like that and go to the emergency room, period.
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  6800. Interesting design.
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  6801. This is why the U.S.A. is falling behind. Instead of putting money building up the country's infrastructure, funding education, and putting money into investments like research & development, and manufacturing facilities which can help society as a whole. Investments are made in financial markets to increase short term profits. You have vulture capitalist firms that don't produce anything of value preying on distressed companies and destroying them from the inside out. A good example would be comparing a Japanese car company to a U.S. car company. A car company like Honda invests money into real R&D, they spend money and time to improve on quality control, and they get input from everyone in the company to improve the company as a whole. Compare that to GM which does everything to cut costs at the expense of quality, cut costs on R&D so better products aren't developed, and focus on how we can give cheap loans to people to buy our products. Even if the products they sell aren't very good. U.S. companies that do business in a country like China are complaining about losing their technologies. Even through the it was in the agreement for them to partner with a Chinese company. After several years, the Chinese sub contractor or contractor gets the technology becomes a direct competitor to those companies. The parable of the greedy dog that saw a reflection of the bone he was holding in the water, and the dog tried to get that bone lost the bone he had. This is what is happening to the U.S.A.. It is rotten from the core.
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  6802. If South Korea shoots down any of those aircraft then that country would be at all out war with North Korea, China, and Russia. Somehow, I don't think South Korea could survive as a country if that happened.
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  6803. It is a fake rally financed by that $2 trillion stimulus bill.
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