hotcouchguy [he/him] @ hotcouchguy @hexbear.net

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Can't let some random Arabs interrupt global trade, that's the job of the president!!

It's very incoherent, because it's American normies with no leadership, but I do think there is opportunity to put out a useful message before the dem-aligned professional activists take firmer control. People are probably open to "we need a new constitution" for example. And there are definitely some small percentage of people that can be recruited to actual leftist politics. Still a big opportunity IMO, a lot in flux, a lot of foundational assumptions being disproven.

People are pissed at management writ large, with those who run the country. Not just Trump or Elon, not just Republicans or Democrats, not just the appistocracy or corporate America, but all of them.

Why the past tense? They banned?

this theory that the dollar's purchasing power increases at times of historical high inflation

Ok how? "Higher taxes cause lower prices actually" is not something I would have expected from the right

How does she feel about South Africa?

About to make a killing in treat arbitrage

I do think it's interesting that they've created a positive vision of the future after their project for decades being a slightly improved version of the status quo. I guess it's hard to sell people on that when things have been getting incrementally worse that whole time

Luxury YIMBY neoliberalism

I would have guessed tomorrow, but it looks like they're not done moving equipment

Decades where weeks worth of mechanical wear happen, and then weeks where decades of mechanical wear happen. They just took the average but didn't consider the distribution.

Wait, without the monarchists they can't use the name "democratic alliance"? And the name of the coalition actually matters electorally somehow?

Even if they damage the wrong equipment in the right factory, it still gives a financial incentive to cut ties, raises insurance costs, etc. And the general disruption will still delay production of material.

Woke MacArthur smdh

I hadn't heard of it before, but it seems feasible, and has some attractive characteristics for someone like China with a longer perspective on its investments.

Participation trophy

Wait, maybe a different one? The mural in Kansas?

That's what, like 5 cents for each American? Trump gonna send out rebate checks for that one?

So is this like Twitter, Musk overpaying at the peak? A sign of the top?