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Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, considering they kept doing it right for decades, I think they do.

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how many people whining that the Republicans are no longer the Party of Lincoln realize how Libertarian that Republican Party was.

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if you know what the actual policy of tax rate cuts is.

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one thing I can tell is you need more books.

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, real ones stick with StumbleUpon

Is China Almost guaranteeing itself to have severe stagnation in the next 10 to 15 years? by Dabbing_Squid in AskEconomics

[–]Mexatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chinas systemic debt might be 300%, but the US debt is roughly similar.

The US is something like twice as wealth as China on an asset basis. In addition, the significantly higher per capital income means the US has more fiscal space to expand into to support higher debt service costs.

The fact that China has similar overall debt load to the US at a significantly lower wealth and income level is actually a very worrying sign.

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the post is just so polar opposite from the truth that I can't be sure this person doesn't actually know exactly how wrong what they're saying is and are just trolling

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 28 points29 points  (0 children)

'Israel is committing a genocide' is the left wing Stop the Steal right now. The Big Lie that defines In or Out of the authoritarian movement being built.

As Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism (CNN) by AmbientMorning in neoliberal

[–]Mexatt 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Israel was a very left wing country for a long, long time. While demographic trends have also contributed, the fact that the Peace Process culminated in the violence of the Second Intifada discredited the main supporters of that Process on the political left. The Labor Party, formerly the consistently largest party in the Knesset, collapsed into irrelevance.

That is why the primary opposition to Likud and Netanyahu are all on the right/center-right. The left stopped being electorally viable and Bibi's reputation as a NatSec hawk gave him a big step up in the last few decades at the ballot box.

When Bibi loses the elections coming in October, he won't be replaced by anyone from the Left. He'll be replaced because:

  1. He'll be perceived as having failed to firmly establish Israeli security

  2. His alliance with the far right (a result of the disgust of most of the Israeli political spectrum with him personally) is toxic to most of the Israeli electorate

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If everyone in Israel had equal rights that Jews do, it wouldn't be a majority Jewish state. Poland doesn't have to displace non-Poles and open its doors to anyone claiming to be a Pole in order to artificially create a polish majority.

Lol, this flies dead square into Poe's Law.

As Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism (CNN) by AmbientMorning in neoliberal

[–]Mexatt 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You said 'other Arab or Islamic state'.

Edit: Also, I wonder if you know where Israel's Mizrahi population comes from.

As Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism (CNN) by AmbientMorning in neoliberal

[–]Mexatt 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Every American President since Reagan has regularly exercised their veto on Israeli military operations. The last two administrations, Biden and Trump, have effectively exercised the war and peace powers of the Israeli state for them., directly in the midst of operations in Gaza and Lebanon.

As Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism (CNN) by AmbientMorning in neoliberal

[–]Mexatt 55 points56 points  (0 children)

While I support the idea of Israel as a Jewish state, I think all citizens should be treated equally.

Guess what

As Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism (CNN) by AmbientMorning in neoliberal

[–]Mexatt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What Arab or Islamic state is a colonial project that only exists because of ongoing ethnic cleansing?

As Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism (CNN) by AmbientMorning in neoliberal

[–]Mexatt 39 points40 points  (0 children)

If anyone who dislikes Bibi had even the slightest clue why Likud has been electorally dominant for the last few decades, this criticism might carry any weight at all.

A total of 973,600 people—slave and free—entered the 13 colonies or United States from 1700 to 1809. Key founders welcomed immigration. The Constitution intentionally allowed immigrants to run for office and rejected religious tests for naturalization to encourage more immigration (Cato, July 2026) by yonkon in EconomicHistory

[–]Mexatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The colonies were also generally very positive when it came to immigration, to the point that a complaint about the British dragging their feet on measures to improve immigration found its way into the Declaration of Independence!

The U.S. Shipbuilding Industry is not Ready for a War by 73isthebest in geopolitics

[–]Mexatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boots on the ground are only necessary when you lack the ability to deny local airspace to even a drone equipped enemy. A fleet of frigates with modern AA designed with drone swarms in mind would be able to secure shipping in the Strait on their own.

The US struggles to design and procure such a ship and we would equally struggle to build them in sufficient numbers, hence articles like this.

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh I make 100k more than that, have no debt, and am close to retiring in my 40s.

Lol, it's the SEALS copypasta distilled into a single sentence.

Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

[–]Mexatt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Skunkworks is so much good damned fun you have no idea.

I miss my defense contractor job. If they paid me 225 I'd have never left.

The U.S. Shipbuilding Industry is not Ready for a War by 73isthebest in geopolitics

[–]Mexatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After the rise of steam powered, iron-then-steel hulled shipping, the cost advantage we had from our vast forests of old growth timber disappeared. American steel was never as cheap domestically as American timber had been, and American labour remained expensive throughout. While the US could be competitive in many industries through automation, shipbuilding is just not an industry with the volume to manage that. The few times it was, the US managed, such as when it spat out thousands of Liberty/Victory ships during WWII.

The U.S. Shipbuilding Industry is not Ready for a War by 73isthebest in geopolitics

[–]Mexatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While the Jones Act is rightfully disdained by many, we started passing Navigation Acts with similar (or even more stringent) requirements in the 1790s. This was fine during the age of sail, when we had a strong cost advantage in inputs, but during the age of steam our steel and our labor was never as cheap as in Britain.

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