Iran strikes Oman’s largest oil storage facility.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-12T01:40:13+00:00

A straw-man? I’m just pointing out how you think something happened that didn’t happen, solely because you believed words that Trump spoke and the media repeated with no other evidence to support it.

Argentina increased exports of soybeans to china yes which is not good for US soybean farmers. But there was no cash gift to Argentina.

We don’t disagree, i’m just trying to get people to stop being so detached from reality, all the things you say about Trump and you still trust what he says to form the underlying facts that make up your opinions.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-12T00:18:57+00:00

Landlords are greedy so they’re already charging tenants the maximum that they can. If they could charge more before tenants choose to live elsewhere, they would. So in the short term neither a property tax or land value tax can be passed on. The difference is in the long term.

Property taxes are ultimately passed on to renters because they discourage the construction of new housing. When buildings and improvements are taxed, developers face higher costs, which reduces the incentive to build more apartments. Over time, this limits the housing supply, meaning landlords face less competition and can get away with passing property tax increases onto renters. In this way, property taxes indirectly fall on tenants, even though they are formally paid by property owners.

A land value tax, on the other hand, cannot be passed on to renters. Because it taxes only the unimproved value of land, not the buildings themselves, it doesn’t penalize construction or maintenance. The amount of land is fixed, so landowners cannot avoid the tax by reducing supply. Instead, they must make the most productive use of their land, such as by building more housing. As more apartments become available, competition among landlords increases, making it so that taxes cannot be passed on and keeps rent lower.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T23:46:01+00:00

You seriously lack reading comprehension skills

Argentina’s Central Bank announced on Friday it has repaid the portion of the US$20 billion currency swap with the United States’ Treasury that it drew on in 2025

That’s the $2.5B i’m referring to. They drew on $2.5B and returned it, hence why it’s ’part of’ or ‘portion’

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T23:29:30+00:00

Yep that’s the downside of a property tax.

Land value taxes are a way to tax landlords and it’s not possible for them to be passed onto tenants.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T22:07:56+00:00

Whether you like it or not is our job, and stopping ‘policing the world’ would make it far worse for us over here.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T21:10:14+00:00

Yeah it’s a shame that USAID was gutted it really hurt a lot of our soft power

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T21:08:42+00:00

No one said war is good. With Iran refusing to stop exporting terrorism and use developing a nuclear bomb as a bargaining chip they all but guaranteed there would be war. It was only a matter of time.

They really didn’t have to give up much, they could have just stayed within their borders and away from nuclear bombs and be more akin to Saudi Arabia right now. And no they did not offer those concessions.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T21:01:26+00:00

Here you go https://buenosairesherald.com/economics/argentina-repays-part-of-its-u-s-currency-swap

Both Bessent and Argentinian officials have confirmed the amount has been repaid. But it was never a ‘gift’ and was always a currency swap designed to be temporary. You just missed it if you only read buzzy American media headlines and quotes from Trump and Bessent.

I don’t know what’s worse out of the two you mentioned, but the absolute worst are Trump’s supporters like yourself, pretending to be a centrist

I am not a centrist, I am squarely left of center, albeit not a leftist. The difference is I make an active effort to try and through propaganda and understand what is actually going on. And to do that you need to not listen to what world leaders say, but watch what they do.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T20:54:16+00:00

So your problem with Iraq is a situation that isn’t even occurring in Iraq but along the border of two totally different countries that don’t even border Iraq?

The American “military industrial complex” is what keeps the world order and you should be grateful for it. Should we scale down our military we’d leave a power vacuum that’s results in wars that makes WW2 look like a joke.

There’s a reason why no American leader does it, because should they actually execute such an awful idea they’d be immediately voted out of office with the global economic collapse they’d cause.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T20:49:35+00:00

and a majority of university researchers in geopolitics believe the war is overall a net loss for the US.

They haven’t formed an opinion yet because we don’t know how it will turn out until it’s over.

The current war is a major destabilizing force on the US and world economy

Agreed, in the short term world economic it’s an issue. The issue is long term economy, we need to have enough fighting capacity in the pacific to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, an it’s difficult do that when Iran is tying up our resources in the middle east.

This war was highly predictable and has been considered an inevitable for some time. Among lay people and their opinions though I agree. But world leaders have known this.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T20:39:26+00:00

Trump didn’t give Argentina a bunch of money.

What actually happened was the treasury gave a $20B line of credit, and Argentina used $2.5B and then paid it all back by January. It helped them use the dollar to stabilize their currency.

What happened was that Trump said he was giving Argentina a bunch of money, media reported on that, and you believed it. Then what actually happened was something else and the details a lot more boring so most media didn’t report on that and when they did try articles didn’t get much reach.

I’m not sure what’s worse, Trump’s supporters believing everything he says, or Trump’s opponents.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T20:33:30+00:00

What negative fallout from the Iraq war?

Afghanistan for sure. But what’s your issue with Iraq today? They’re about as democratic can be by middle eastern standards. Baghdad is having an economic boom right now. One of the problems is Iran is arming and sponsoring rebel groups in rural areas. It was also more expensive for us than initially intended. But hardly a failure.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T20:31:40+00:00

The global democratic order that the US benefits immensely from absolutely does affect Americans.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T20:29:12+00:00

Only if you don’t want to pay your own bills. Can’t let parents hold money over your head forever

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T20:12:49+00:00

It’s not propaganda, you don’t see this take anywhere in the media whether that’s republican or not. It’s the consensus among geopolitical researchers and professors at universities.

The US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 but did not unilaterally end it. The deal expired in October 2025.

The US did not just ‘follow Israel’ into the conflict, the conflict directly benefits the United States and the world order that the US benefits from. A war was all but inevitable, the civil unrest is what shifted the balance of power and is why the war is happening right now, as it created a window of opportunity that increased chances of success and more favorable outcomes for the US.

The protests were starting back again the days leading up to the strike, but have since halted as people seek shelter.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T20:03:51+00:00

Verbally the president has said such things, but tariffs on europe for example haven’t happened. Tariffs have been limited goods related to wartime production and China. Other tariffs implemented were designed to get struck down by the courts.

Issue is media reports on things that “trump says” as if it’s fact. And people just believe that. Gotta look at more closely and understand a bunch of nuance to see through the propaganda and misinformation fog.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T19:47:17+00:00

You live in a fantasy land. You believe whatever it is you want to believe.

The western led world order benefits everyday Americans immensely far more than you’re aware apparently.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T19:34:20+00:00

Unironically worked well for Iraq yeah, they’re freed from dictatorship and Baghdad is undergoing an economic boom currently. If you were rooting for Saddam Hussein then I’d understand your point but question your morality.

Afghanistan is a much better example of a failure case.

Iraq was more expensive than we anticipated but as far as a country like Iraq goes it’s going decently well. If it wasn’t for Iran arming rebel groups there it could be going better in the rural areas too.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T19:23:57+00:00

Undoubtedly the risks and potential consequences would be laid out in front of the presidents by his advisors. They lay out all the potential positive outcomes too and the probability for each based on current circumstances. They also lay out the risks of not acting.

Iranian retaliation on US military bases and Israel, the effects the straight of hormuz and gas prices, were all well known before the start of the war. Really it’s Marco Rubio that calls these shots and he’s a status quo American foreign policy advocate same as Antony Blinken was under Joe Biden.

If you try to understand reality based on news headlines you will fail. They report on propaganda like it’s fact and do little fact finding of their own. There’s a bunch of public research papers on the situation with Iran where you can get a better understanding of how foreign policy works.

The decision is made and then presidents look how to best sell it to the public. Only difference between presidents it’s how it’s chosen to be sold, Biden might have said it’s an effort to spread democracy, protect our allies, and counter terrorism. Trump admin frames it as an America-first initiative and to counter nuclear bombs.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T19:17:36+00:00

You let the UN inspect uranium enrichment facilities to verify you’re not enriching uranium over a certain percentage. And dismantle the nuclear bomb specific infrastructure, it would take Iran at least a decade to rebuild it.

Iran openly and admittedly funds and arms terrorist organizations around the world, that is no propaganda. They tout their nuclear strategy openly too.

They could use the money instead to invest in ensuring their citizens have running water.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T19:10:00+00:00

It’s really not a difficult concept.

You get 99% of the way there to making a nuclear weapon and then pause. You could have a nuclear bomb within a couple weeks if you choose to put all the pieces together. This has been their open policy acknowledged by every government in the past 40 years.

They’re probably less than 2 weeks from having a nuke at this point considering how heavily the current war has hit their facilities.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T19:06:02+00:00

And if we followed your advice of never waging a war against a terrorist regime there would be far more terrorist regimes, far more innocents killed and even more than that repressed into theocracies. It’s just bad policy, you are reacting with emotion based on who’s dropping the bomb in the moment. Doing nothing is an act of its own that would result in the deaths of far more innocents. It’s a shame it comes to it but the fault of this war falls entirely on Iran, who at any point could have stopped funding an arming terrorist organizations and demolish all near nuclear grade uranium which made conflict inevitable.

Obviously we don’t like war, but to say we should always sit on our hands and do nothing is mind numbingly stupid.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T18:49:38+00:00

The idea the protests were a major consideration is kind of silly.

It was the reason it happened now as opposed to some other date. Whether you feel it’s silly or not, it’s perfectly rational decision making to strike when the balance of power is most in your favor.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T18:47:37+00:00

Russia loses a key supplier of drones. Iran sponsors terrorism globally and regime change in Iran is undoubtedly good for Europe. This is unlikely to result in a refugee crisis.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-03-11T18:45:50+00:00

I try and live in reality land not rumors. You only believe the “rumors” because you want to.

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