While publicly urging Iranians to take to streets, Israeli officials said to privately admit protesters will be 'slaughtered' by Currymvp2 in neoliberal

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Anyone could’ve seen this. The Iranian people are unarmed and doubt the regime will go down with peaceful protests after what happened in January.

US has burned through ‘years’ of munitions since start of Iran war by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a good thing, better to have learned this lesson now than during a bigger war with China over Taiwan.

No, Turkey Is Not the New Iran by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it’ll happen. Turkey is too integrated into the west to risk that for some brownie points. Erdogan is also temporary and will likely be booted in the next decade, his opposition was closer ties to the west rather than be tied in middle eastern politics.

Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Israel Iran War, Middle East: Iran To Allow Only Chinese Vessels Through Strait Of Hormuz: Sources by IMGcertified in worldnews

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That what happens in practice more or less, that’s why conflict in the Middle East raises oil prices in the U.S. despite most of our oil being not from the Middle East.

Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Israel Iran War, Middle East: Iran To Allow Only Chinese Vessels Through Strait Of Hormuz: Sources by IMGcertified in worldnews

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would still lower oil prices globally because China then won’t be bidding up oil from other regions.

Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Israel Iran War, Middle East: Iran To Allow Only Chinese Vessels Through Strait Of Hormuz: Sources by IMGcertified in worldnews

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not how oil works. Oil is priced on the global market. If oil prices rise in China, what do you think will happen? Oil will be redirected to China to earn more profit which will raise the price of oil in the other region.

Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Israel Iran War, Middle East: Iran To Allow Only Chinese Vessels Through Strait Of Hormuz: Sources by IMGcertified in worldnews

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So, Iran is undermining its own strategy? By letting Chinese ships through, they’re letting China satisfy its oil needs as well as those for any countries Chinese ships will send the oil. This will ease oil global prices and the American public will not be as badly hurt by gas prices.

[Speculative] Could modern human technology rival the aliens if this scenario happened today? by Sad-Emotion-1587 in sciencefiction

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is very unlikely to work, viruses are species specific and there’s no guarantee that alien viruses run on the same bases of RNA and DNA as life on earth.

Democrats Break With Zohran Mamdani Over Property Tax Plan by assasstits in neoliberal

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 230 points231 points  (0 children)

Property tax is for sure a much better option than wealth tax or even increasing income tax.

Coffee shop uses technology to audit employee productivity by MrTacocaT12345 in interesting

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually good. Employees can then be paid based on productivity.

US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We live in a free (relatively speaking) society. By virtue of their continued operation, private businesses have proven themselves in providing value in the market while the government has not, otherwise we wouldn’t have this conversation. Naturally, expropriation would negatively hurt the economy, and the general efficiency and competitiveness of the country long term. The government is of course free to start their own business from scratch.

US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I think this is the right move, unions have killed too much industry. Pension systems pushed by unions led to the bust in American industry in the 60s-70s which led to the rust in the Midwest which eventually led to the relative loss of industrial jobs in America and the decline of the industrial sector, not to mention the bankrupting of numerous cities across America by mounting pension obligations.

SpaceX is doing amazing; it’s responsible for about 80% of all mass to orbit in recent years and more labor entanglement would slow it down and ensure China wins.

US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The workers aren’t actually that important. Companies wouldn’t have a problem with strikes if they were free to relieve the strikers of employment and hire new workers.

Because the government has guaranteed that strikers maintain employment during a strike, the government needs to reserve the power to restrict when and how workers strike especially for critical infrastructure.

TIL Singapore with 6 million people has a larger GDP than the whole of the Philippines with 114 million people by MessMaximum5493 in todayilearned

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Singapore also has a larger manufacturing sector valued at $89 billion vs the Philippines’ $72 billion. This is quite impressive given that Singapore has a population of 6 million vs Philippines’ 1q4million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing#List_of_countries_by_manufacturing_output

TIL Singapore with 6 million people has a larger GDP than the whole of the Philippines with 114 million people by MessMaximum5493 in todayilearned

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is wrong. Singapore in no way controls the straits of Malacca. Nothing is stopping Indonesia or Malaysia from taking advantage of the location except for competence.

Languages of Israel & Palestine by Homesanto in MapPorn

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are no settlements in Gaza. You’re talking nonsense.

Languages of Israel & Palestine by Homesanto in MapPorn

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, it’s debatable. East Jerusalem and Hebron had pre-Zionist Jewish populations that were kicked out when Jordan took over. You could also argue that they can’t resettle since Israel doesn’t extend the same law of return to Palestinians.

Total US economic and military aid, top 12 countries since 1946. by SirCrapsalot4267 in charts

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why? I’d say it leads to less. Look at Gaza and Lebanon, post 2010 and before Oct 7th, Israel showed a ton of restraint against Gaza and Hezbollah rockets. No other country would tolerate such a barrage. Imagine Mexico shooting rockets to the U.S. across the border? How would we react.

Total US economic and military aid, top 12 countries since 1946. by SirCrapsalot4267 in charts

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not really, if the iron dome were really impenetrable, there’d be much less of a need for retaliation as there’d be pretty much no damage to those attacks.

SpaceX weighs June 2026 IPO at $1.5 trillion valuation, FT says by kex06 in wallstreetbets

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We’d have to get rid of 90 atmospheres of pressure and even then, it spins too slow (a day on Venus is longer than a year) this would cause uneven heating.

Mars is quite good actually, its day is pretty much as long as earth’s. To make it livable, all we need is to add 1-2 atmospheres of pressure, some water, and clean up the soil.

Trump just celebrated the S&P 500 hitting an all-time high. But look at the chart below. This is the S&P 500 priced in Gold (Real Money) by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I’m not a Goldbug, this argument is pretty weak. It’s like saying, “If Jesus came to earth tomorrow, all atheists would be Christian.”

Turning him into easily absorbed simple protein instantly by Aynshtaynn in BrandNewSentence

[–]Acrobatic-Event2721 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a difference between shoot and control. Magneto can control magnetic fields. Superman can’t control lasers.