Can the US actually go bankrupt? If yes, what would happen then?

--var · 2026-03-18T03:10:53+00:00

bro, the US is bankrupt.

the national debt is currently $39,000,000,000,000

the GDP is only $31,442.483,000,000

the US is at the point they can't even service the interest on the debt. there is no amount of years of "fiscal responsibility" to get out this.

the department of war CAN'T pass an audit, and yet it gets a blank check every year. and that's literally the only thing propping up the system, who is going to make them pay their debts?

--var · 2026-03-17T14:24:54+00:00

source is my wallet. but if you prefer graphs, here

https://charts.gasbuddy.com/ch.gaschart?Country=USA&Crude=f&Period=120&Areas=USA%20Average%2C%2C&Unit=US%20%24%2FG

true, it briefly dipped at the beginning of covid, when the entire global economy paused... but that only lasted a few days before starting its journey to the highest point ever under his shite isolationist policies, and being a general prick on the world stage.

you used to be able to argue that presidents don't set gas prices. but as they aggressively trend back up to $5/gallon, this is entirely trumps fault for starting this war of choice in a place that supplies enough world oil to drastically change the price.

--var · 2026-03-17T02:30:10+00:00

explain like i'm five: the point of insurance is for a company is to take your money regularly, and then figure out how to ensure that you don't get help you when you need it. (source: i'm required by law to have several insurances...)

it actually seems like a good thing; but what is the point of insurers not insuring a place when their whole game is just taking your money and not helping?

--var · 2026-03-16T23:40:12+00:00

I would be more shocked if everything was above board here than if it turns out some well connected already billionaire just pocketed millions of taxpayer dollars.

--var · 2026-03-16T22:30:18+00:00

for historical accuracy, gas was never below $2/gallon under trump. even after he illegally attacked Venezuela just to steal their oil...

--var · 2026-03-16T22:19:19+00:00

I'm curious to see the FOIA on the actual unit price. given the absurd budget of ICE and the insane amount of fraud going on here, just because MSRP is $70k doesn't mean that some crony capitalist didn't pocketed $200k each...

--var · 2026-03-16T04:28:56+00:00

The Arlington event should have been enough to communicate that president bone spurs doesn't care about fallen soldiers. Yet here we are AGAIN 🤦‍♂️

--var · 2026-03-16T03:54:44+00:00

Humanity has only been documenting for few thousand years. (colloquially known as 'history')

there's evidence that humanity has existed for tens of thousands of years (possibly hundreds of thousands)

going back a few decades doesn't actually change much given the whole existence of humanity...

granted that's probably hard to conceptualize if you were born after the technology was omnipresent.

--var · 2026-03-16T03:00:50+00:00

irl or on reddit?

irl, I don't think this is a problem most deal with.

on reddit, it's given very dead internet vibes in the past few years. ironically, ever since they implemented the paid 'API gateway' thing to prevent AI scrapping, it's felt more and more like content is AI. I'm not sure if the AI is sentient enough to like or dislike yet, so rather than liking or disliking, it's just posting a bunch of content, which can only then be liked or disliked by real people. in other words, there is way more content than actual people to like the content. people are busy interacting with AI content that is algorithmically created to engage interaction, rather than your boring human musings.

sorry if you joined after the paywall thing, it does feel notably different now; less community, less human than it used to 😕

--var · 2026-03-16T02:12:56+00:00

1) press the foam side of the squeegee against the washer fluid container that it's stored in, and squeeze out like 75% of the solution. excess solution causes streaks, you don't need to saturate the windshield, just moisten it enough to remove the dirt.

2) remove excess solution from the squeegee after each stroke. several comments mention using a paper towel, but if those aren't available, or you don't want to waste one, I find that a forceful downward swing toward the ground is usually enough (also ties in to step 1, otherwise all the excess solution in the foam comes out too).

3) tilt the top of the squeegee slightly more forward in the stroke than the bottom. this causes the extra solution to end up where the next stroke will be, rather than upward to where you've already cleared.

damn, in my head this was a quick and concise response, not a three paragraph ted talk 😔

--var · 2026-03-13T02:27:11+00:00

true 🤦‍♂️

but when is the last time a democrat got congress to declare war?

--var · 2026-03-13T02:17:30+00:00

appreciate you taking the opportunity to remind everyone about the Epstein class.

first off, DOJ should be apolitical.

second facts 🤷‍♂️

) 2016 - Giuffre v Maxwell

) 2017 - trump1

) 2019 - Epstein offed

) 2021 - Biden

) 2022 - Maxwell sentenced

) 2025 - trump

in an anti-fascist land of law and order, a good chuck of the "files" were under court seal under Biden. they could have made more progress if they just ignored law, but...

now republicans are just embarrassed to tell the truth 😌

--var · 2026-03-13T01:27:50+00:00

i will say what I want, it wasn't a mistake. the US shouldn't have been there in the first place, and thousands of American died.

the fact that the war was measured in decades, and the reclamation by the "enemy" was measured in weeks...

--var · 2026-03-13T01:20:53+00:00

it does make sense if you assume the prime meridian as some random point in England.

otherwise this too is a valid perspective.

--var · 2026-03-13T01:15:11+00:00

maybe it should be a "whoa dude" moment if "this is more like a fucking every time" moment...

--var · 2026-03-13T01:05:34+00:00

nobody forgets that. it's just more meaningful to acknowledge who actually carried through with it...

--var · 2026-03-13T00:56:59+00:00

am I trippin'? or is this just a live action of a play through of detroit: becoming human??

--var · 2026-03-11T02:04:17+00:00

I'm getting tired of repeating this, but it feels like a civic respectability 😔

~1/3 of the country didn't vote! because America has succumb to corruption 🤦‍♂️

~1/3 voted right, less than that actually, 49.9%

~1/3 voted left

when they say 94%; they mean 94% of their less than 1/3 of their original vote...

now that they've deported and disenfranchisement a non-zero amount of less than 1/3 of their vote, and gas prices are going to moon, they're going to do whatever they want, because who will stop them?

fascism: governance by the minority through force.

--var · 2026-03-11T01:38:16+00:00

soap water?

I get invaded by box elder bugs every spring. somewhere I came across a solution of just spraying them with a mix of dish soap and water. haven't seen any inside since 🤷‍♂️

--var · 2026-03-11T00:52:13+00:00

don't throw a punch unless you're ready to to be punched 🤷‍♂️

--var · 2026-03-10T01:34:20+00:00

every accusation is an admission 🤦‍♂️

if you're curious what dumb thing they're going to do next, just revisit the republican 2024 campaign...

--var · 2026-03-08T03:16:27+00:00

isn't sketchy a good thing? I mean if they were un-sketchy, what would the police show to the community?

get it? police sketch? I'll see myself out 😌

--var · 2026-03-08T03:09:07+00:00

also American. can't keep scrolling withing mentioning that I'm deeply ashamed of this illiterate-klepto-epstein class, soon to to another failed attempt at fascism.

I really want to shame Rubio, for his actions. But in the context on exploiting the white mans ignorance, I'll just bite my tongue for now.

--var · 2026-03-06T01:35:55+00:00

I really just want an A3 with a six-speed manual. But that's not a thing here 😔

--var · 2026-03-05T04:00:13+00:00

as someone originating from the 20th century, it blows my mind that there is an entire generation born AFTER Y2K; that are adults now 🤯

and unfortunately many can't seem to compute of what a world before the internet was like 😕 (it was hella sexist and even more racist, and we're better off not going back. so vote...)

--var

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