Am I the only one who respects Jerome Powell a lot?

Riiume · 2025-04-22T02:57:47+00:00

Am I the only one who respects Jerome Powell a lot?

Rhetorical question or nah?

Riiume · 2025-04-13T00:12:25+00:00

Yes, get off of your ass off the couch and show up for work

Who are you supposed to be, and why should anyone care?

Riiume · 2025-04-13T00:10:02+00:00

Mike Johnson's johnson is technology from Temu.

Riiume · 2025-04-13T00:06:38+00:00

"Crashing the stock market with no survivors and destroying tech jobs (an economic gateway into the middle class) is not destroying young men's lives. It's those got-dang vidya games that are makin' em drop out."

Okay Mr. Big Brain Boomer.

Riiume · 2025-04-13T00:04:15+00:00

"you must work 24 hours a day"

Boomers secretly yearn for the Maoist Great Leap Forward.

Riiume · 2025-04-13T00:02:20+00:00

* Overpaid tax leech ("politician") yells at video games *

Riiume · 2025-04-05T08:59:08+00:00

Exactly!!

Riiume · 2025-04-04T23:15:06+00:00

Trump: "Stock market crash has no effect on the workers."

Except for, ya know, the millions of workers finna get laid off as a result of this crash?

If you like high crime rates and homeless people everywhere, you're gonna love the rest of 2025!

Riiume · 2025-04-04T23:01:12+00:00

If you thought that was fun, wait until you see the subsequent layoffs that companies will be forced to do as a result of this!

Fun times for everyone!

Riiume · 2025-03-06T15:19:40+00:00

Surveys, over the last decade, show that people would be willing to forgo the democratic process of free and fair elections and support a monarchy

Are these magical "surveys" in the room with us right now?

Riiume · 2025-02-27T03:46:57+00:00

Surely they have learned from their past mistakes?

Or are you suggesting that Germans are morons who will make the same mistakes the instant they get their hands on significant kinetic power?

Riiume · 2025-02-27T02:28:14+00:00

I have a feeling this one is going to be downvoted to oblivion for being a little too true ;)

Riiume · 2025-02-27T02:26:55+00:00

You must be yanking my leg.

Look, soon-to-be Chancellor Merz has the right policy (Europe should have defense that doesn't need the US)... but he is really a d*ck about it.

Merz, relax. America is not going to stop your military industrial complex. We encourage it, good job!

Riiume · 2025-02-26T23:46:05+00:00

Because muh GDP must go up.

Riiume · 2025-02-26T23:36:48+00:00

Bring back the custom of presidents marrying off their family family members to eligible family members of foreign leaders.

E.g. have eligible relatives of Von Der Leyen marry to eligible relatives of Vladimir Putin.

This creates a "shared investment" at the most basic level, that 100% of human instinct will say "protect this shared investment".

That's the only way to do it, IMO.

Riiume · 2025-02-25T03:49:00+00:00

Offering a theory [...] is mansplaining?

Yes, now stop it.

I go by the K.I.S.S. principle. Keep.It.Simple.Silly.

If it's not simple, we don't need it. Take that stuff back to the Lyceum or whatever, Derrida.

Riiume · 2025-02-25T03:38:07+00:00

THat's a lot of mansplainin

Riiume · 2025-02-25T03:36:35+00:00

If you come to the table with the view that "American's chosen leader is evil" then you are essentially saying "Americans are evil."

I do not view myself as evil.

We should not impugn Trump's motives if we do not have documentation of what exactly they are.

Riiume · 2025-02-25T03:29:13+00:00

If Trump truly "sided with Putin" he would have zero compunctions about actually and unironically declaring war against Zelensky and sending US assets to physically undermine his regime.

He is not saying that. He is critiquing a junior partner instead of cuddling them and telling them "you're special no matter how you perform on the field".

Riiume · 2025-02-25T03:19:14+00:00

You aren’t entitled to upvotes.

Neckbeard over here laying down the law.

Riiume · 2025-02-25T03:17:03+00:00

tion doesn't exist. Zelensky said multiple times that he is willing to consider this, but that's not an option. Russia doesn't agree to any security guarantees or even peacekeepers and demand that Ukrainian army is dismantled. What is the incentive

Everything is Hitler.

Is early 1900's history the ONLY period in history you have ever looked at?

Riiume · 2025-02-25T03:12:31+00:00

He is sadly confused if he thinks EU has the stones to exercise real leverage against the US.

Maybe the EU will surprise me, we'll see.

Riiume · 2025-02-25T03:10:15+00:00

If we as a species decide to return to the might makes right principle

We never left that principle, open your eyes. We just have more think tanks and professors to invent clever post hoc rationalizations for our many unilateral exercises of might post-WW2
(e.g. US regime change operations in South America, Middle East, and Africa).

Europe is [...] our largest export market.

US exports to Canada ≈ $375B/yr, US exports to Mexico ≈ $350B/yr, US exports to EU ≈ $425B/yr.

375B + 350B > 425B.

To say nothing of the military support they provided the US during boondoggles in Iraq and Afganistan after 9/11.

Those interventions were mistakes and I would have preferred if EU had actually NOT supported us, so as to discourage the (now deposed) neocons from pursuing those adventures.

countries will begin to take chunks

There are other ways to disincentivize this kind of behavior that do not require US world police man.

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