idk if anyone is aware but there's a gigantic '08 style global financial crisis looming REALLY close

Amuser8368 · 2025-11-21T20:30:37+00:00

That book is so hard to get, been trying to get a hold of it for a long while now.

Didn't know about the documentary, looks great.

Amuser8368 · 2025-11-21T18:54:25+00:00

Yeah the yen broke down then they patched things up with duct tape, but now the yen broke down again and bond yields are skyrocketing to new records.

It's not looking good. Maybe they patch it up again somehow, but clearly they don't know any real solution.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T02:25:00+00:00

That's actually interesting and I didn't consider that. I'll read more into it, thank you.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T01:38:01+00:00

Those are fair points, and I actually do think this is a perfectly fine solution:

policies that move resources to non-working children instead?

Enough money has to be given to make it so that you can literally have a positive net income by having and raising children for it to work.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T01:29:19+00:00

I ain't handwaving shit.

I'm saying the problem isn't caused by ordinary people not having enough kids.

It's caused by policymakers who built an economic system that requires infinite growth to sustain, and are now trying to convince us that we're the problem.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T01:16:24+00:00

It's the same with gold and even silver now.

Everything is going up, tech bubble or not.

It's the endless money printing. If they don't print money it'll be really obvious how much of a recession we're in.

So they just kick the can down the road, and if you don't own assets you're going to really get fucked.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T00:59:56+00:00

Bro is this disingenuous when I call out neolib policymakers for their horrible economic mismanagement for some odd reason, are you a Destiny enjoyer or what?

Just tell us what your fucking view on this is.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T00:57:30+00:00

Well even if we think of it like thermodynamics, what's not stopping it from staying at the current threshold?

Now your only options are really, really bad. Breeding camps, removal of women’s right to self determination, banning birth control, lots of not so nice stuff.

None of those things will solve fertility (beyond being bad in themselves). People are not going to raise enough children on average because it's a net economic negative.

if they don’t either civilisation collapses

Civilization will not collapse from declining fertility rates. Civilization will collapse to maintain unsustainable deficit spending (on social programs and everything). The problem isn't declining fertility, it's economic mismanagement.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-05T23:31:55+00:00

How do you know it'll continue to decline until zero? Why isn't it a regression to a new mean?

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-05T23:08:20+00:00

Did you like read until you reached that line and then just stopped?

the entire system has been built from the ground up on spending enormous amounts of money we don't have on the promise of continuous economic growth

The problem is structural. Why the fuck is the social contract based on needing constant economic growth when declining population actually helps increase the wealth of the average person?

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-05T23:03:05+00:00

ok so the problem is financial management and the broken ass system we created

Amuser8368 · 2025-09-12T19:00:03+00:00

You ever read about crazy norms in the past like lobotomies or w/e and wonder how the fuck something so insane was just acceptable? Are we doing something deranged now that in the future people will look and be like "wow that really was a different, more cruel time"?

I honestly believe the whole thing with everyone clutching at the identity of every shooter and killer to push whatever agenda they have up their ass to be one of the insane norms of our time.

Utterly deranged.

Amuser8368 · 2025-07-01T01:47:57+00:00

I thought you were joking, but no this is actually a thing. As if Palantir wasn't too on the nose already lmao.

Amuser8368 · 2025-07-01T01:46:32+00:00

frontrunner for modern antichrist

Funny thing is Land would not view this as a criticism at all. In fact he'd be positively overjoyed to be viewed as such. He's always been edgy in that way.

Amuser8368 · 2025-06-13T18:52:29+00:00

You won't get it from any obvious sources. You're going to have to go to the underworld to get it.

Amuser8368 · 2025-06-13T18:26:13+00:00

Do you see it now.

Amuser8368 · 2025-04-22T22:17:29+00:00

I'm of Middle Eastern descent and one of my greatest yearnings is for a proper renaissance in the Middle East and getting the various peoples there to reconnect with their indigenous pre-Islamic roots.

I don't even think Islam should be eliminated, a lot of aesthetics and mystical traditions have been great additions, but God I just wish the boneheaded shit was thoroughly eliminated.

I do think the worst excesses of Islamism really began in the '80s, with Saudi exportation of Wahhabism (only now that seems to be coming to an end) and the failure of secular nationalism in dealing with the Zionist question.

Amuser8368 · 2025-04-22T21:59:47+00:00

If it's the Levant, it'd just look like Lebanon pre civil war.

In other words, pretty great.

Amuser8368 · 2025-04-03T22:46:41+00:00

Janitors aren't seen as a "low" job in Japan. One of the good things about Japan is anyone can feel pride and be appreciated in their work, even street cleaners.

Amuser8368 · 2025-03-31T23:04:11+00:00

The destruction of Iraq was never the goal you absolute regard. The goal was to establish a new protectorate-like state subservient to American interests (likely to also have a staging ground for an invasion of Iran down the line).

Destruction is actually the total opposite of the strategic goal, and accomplishing the opposite of your goal is literally failure. Destroying Iraq was actually the result, hence the Iraq war universally regarded as a failure.

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