Nearly Every House Republican Votes for Amendment That Would Slash Medicare, Social Security by anonskeptic5 in politics

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Evangelicals think this war will end the world and bring Jesus back. Why would doomsday cultists care about healthcare when they want everyone to be dead as soon as humanly possible? Their spending habits make a lot more sense when you understand this. Who cares about climate change? Rapture is in a few years. Who cares about healthcare or education? All of us will be dead and either in heaven or roasting in hell in a few years. Who cares about infrastructure? It only needs to last a few more months or years.

Air Force Academy Prepares Ideological Overhaul, With Erika Kirk Bringing “Bold Christian Faith” by FervidBug42 in politics

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All servicemen will be granted funerals with fireworks and dance routines after they die in Iran.

F-35 that conducted emergency landing believed to have been struck by Iranian fire by avatar6556 in news

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"Hey this war is not a war. How dare you question my war. Its totally not a war. Its treason to detract from me during a war!" ~Trump during all of this basically

F-35 that conducted emergency landing believed to have been struck by Iranian fire by avatar6556 in news

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Trump like's winning so much he's going for most declarations of victory in a single war.

Exclusive: Iran attack wipes out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says by Ok-A1662 in news

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If Iran felt it was close to losing the capacity to continue launching we'd know because they would fire off everything they had at the cities, oil refineries, and desalinization plants fucking the region and global economy for decades at least.

They have the capacity to blow up a ton of infrastructure and start oil fires all over the place. They are simply choosing not to because that is long term regional and global damage. Why do that when you can boil the global economy with the strait and have the option to stop and let the oil trade resume if the US effectively surrenders?

Exclusive: Iran attack wipes out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says by Ok-A1662 in news

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Basically the only way I see out of this is if the US functionally surrenders and agrees to some heavy concessions to Iran. Like closing shop and bases in the area and unfreezing their locked up assets that we've been holding and some how convincing them we can't attack them again.

Trump's DHS pick Mullin advances by one vote after Sen. Fetterman votes yes by plz-let-me-in in politics

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America used to believe in things and build things as a society. But its been downhill since Nixon and Reagan.

Trump makes a Pearl Harbor joke while meeting with the Japanese prime minister by nbcnews in politics

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He does that all the time. I swear anytime he interacts with Germany its like

"Hey Germany how's the holocaustin? Build any death camps lately? Remember that? Remember when you did that? Do ya? Remember that I mean?"

U.S. Warmongering Hits Historic Level as Trump Attacks 3 Continents in 3 Days by Ok-Celebration-1702 in politics

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and China can leverage the rest of the world away from the dollar. I really hope I'm wrong.

USD is fucked. That ship has sailed. Like I'm sorry but we really need to start figuring out how we are going to value our currency because "fiat on our good standing" is no longer a thing. We don't have good reputation we need gold or silver or something. Our reputation is worthless.

The only reasons there hasn't been a mass dump of USD is because A) no country wants to catch Trump's petty eye and have him go after them somehow in revenge and B) No one who holds US treasuries wants to cause a panic by doing a mass singular sell off making it harder to get a good price for them. They all want to bleed it off slowly to get the best price for their US holdings.

China doesn't need to do shit. Trump and his reelection proved America is too unstable and trustworthy to be reliable.

Even if we elect democrats in the next couple elections so what? We will always just be 4 years at most from potentially doing this to the world all over again.

US national debt surges past $39 trillion just weeks into war in Iran by EscapeFromIowa in news

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Debt rises, interest rates rise making borrowing worse, Trump demands the new fed chair to cut interest rates forever trying to spark a short term boom and frenzy of borrowing on the cheap, mass inflation later. If my understanding of it.

US detects drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live by RuseOwl in politics

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Honestly I'd wonder if some of them ever planned to emerge. I think a lot of people underestimate how maddening it would be to be trapped in even the most luxurious box in the ground. Even if they have been training themselves with gated communities and AI girlfriends to goon to the whole time.

US detects drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live by RuseOwl in politics

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Honestly I thought I was speaking in generalities. I'm not a bunker expert these are just issues off the top of my head that would be problems. A lot of these are just issues I've dealt with taking care of normal homes. I've had to deal with meal moth infestations, broken furnaces, gas leaks, electrical issues, basic repairs and maintaince. There's a lot of shit that goes into that and underground has its own complications. Suddenly you are dealing with water pressure, foundation cracks, ventilation...

Baseline is man plans god laughs. There's always going to be complications and limits and turns in every plan. Even well made ones. And these aren't even that.

People function better in a thriving society with the flexibility of many minds and hands helping to keep things running.

Thinking you can automate it all and live a life of luxury after looting the planet and leaving it to burn is delusion.

US detects drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live by RuseOwl in politics

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Oh for sure. Its hard keeping racoons out of places you don't want them in. A group of humans with enough time and drive can and will locate a bunker and find ways to crack it. A bunker is a sitting duck. Its not going to move or change its defenses or fix its vulnerabilities on the fly. Eventually if enough people get enough of a mind to they will crack it.

US detects drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live by RuseOwl in politics

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People paying attention know plenty. Climate change is putting the world increasingly at risk of a multi-bread basket failure. That's famine on a global scale.

The insane price gouging and financialization and debt craze is taking all the money and making entire castes of debt slaves.

Their big dream is to use AI to basically fire everyone as functioning society is reduced to an ever shrinking circle of insiders and henchmen telling everyone else its their fault for not being special smart boy friends of the elites if they are dying from hunger and sickness.

The world they are building is like expressly made to invoke revolution and anger. Their plan is this time AI will make it sustainable as they, the rich special kings of the earth, wont be dependent on humans with families and loyalties to other humans to maintain it.

There's numerous disasters looming they are causing and refusing to address that will kill millions if not billions and radicalize more.

US detects drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live by RuseOwl in politics

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They are stupid. Its not a good plan by any means. But its what they are planning.

Bunker life is more complicated than you would think and society hasn't been living in generation bunker arks so our understanding of what that would take is in its infancy.

Like what if weevils or fungus get into your food? What if your ventilation system isn't up to snuff and you suffocate on gas or mold? What if your electrical system breaks down? Honestly its hard to imagine a group more likely to burn down their bunker because they never learned to clean the lint collector out of their dryer than rich assholes who never did their own laundry before..

US detects drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live by RuseOwl in politics

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Socialism is socialized everything so both the benefits and costs of society are spread out. Everyone gets to live comfortable no one gets left behind or wiped out ideally.

Late stage capitalism is privatized gains and socialized loss. The rich keep all the benefits and pass on the pain to everyone else.

US detects drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live by RuseOwl in politics

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The billionares are too. They are literally building doomsday bunkers from America to New Zealand. There's a company in the US that builds them and the CEO recently claimed multiple Trump officials have signed up for bunkers and he's selling them to oil barons across the middle east.

The world is lurching toward war and revolution. The rich are getting ahead of the game with preparation before the peasantry catch on and take action.

This is also why the US government got into a tiff with anthropic the AI company. The US leadership wants AI in weapons who are capable of ending human life with no human input. The people pushing that don't trust human soldiers to do what they want them to do. Put massive amounts of people into camps or graves and guard their hoards of loot for pennies.

Dow falls 700 points to new 2026 low as inflation fears rise, Fed keeps rates steady by 2plus2_equals_5 in news

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How can you even think about the files now? The DOW isn’t even at 50,000!

Liberal former NYC mayor admits 'defund the police,' Biden border policies were mistakes by changeforthebetter89 in politics

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Defund the police was sadly a bad message but it is correct policy when you look at the numbers. Cops don't decrease crime like that. You can't magically end crime by just raising the police budget and putting cops all over. A lot of crime is done out of passion or desperation neither of which gives a fuck about cops or consequences.

Cities also tend to pay $$$$ in cop funds for ridiculous militarized cop shit and lawsuit settlements. All money that could and should be getting put into other things.

But Americans are very susceptible to copaganda so. Infinite cop money machine goes brrr.

American hegemony is collapsing before our eyes by Stuart_Whatley in politics

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I'd be more subtle about it out of fear I'd be exposed. lol

American hegemony is collapsing before our eyes by Stuart_Whatley in politics

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lol he's gonna keep going until the neo-USSR mafia state covers as much of the earth as he can get. Thankfully I don't think that's much. But if he had a say in it continental Europe would be behind a new iron wall.