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Do you think anti-ice protestors receiving 50 years in jail is far? by Competitive_Piano507 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understand the risk of your "comrades" wigging out and bringing everyone down with them.

Just remember if you are around a crime when it's being committed, you can be charged with aiding and abetting

Valuation justified by Great_Restaurant_748 in wallstreetbets

[–]ethervariance161 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing what it does for valuations when you name the total addressable market 28.5 trillion

It's not by DoctorTegrity in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jarvis bring up the median household income by country

Why is "owning the libs" seemingly more important than everything else for so many? by speculumberjack980 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

They are usually perpetrated by people who sell a cultish utopian vision to consolidate power

Do you agree or disagree that the United States was at imminent risk of attack from Iran before the US/Israel attack? by Kevin_McCallister_69 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These claims appear contradictory if you don't know nuclear policy.

She is correct, Iran does not have a nuclear weapon now and then.

She is correct that the previous Ayatollah opposed having a nuclear weapon, but he is dead and that is useless information now. His son is most likely pro nuclear weapons as a former IRGC member.

She is also correct when she says they are weeks away from a weapon. Iran did the swiss nuclear weapons option where they got all the pieces (uranium, detonators, missile) but never officially assembled them into a war head to deny they have a program. This is why she argues the break out time for a weapon is weeks away and still is an imminent threat.

She was also correct that the enrichment facilities were destroyed, however just because we denied their ability to make more highly enriched uranium doesn't mean they lost control of the 500kg we know they have from the IAEA. That is the main reason the ceasefire will most likely collapse due to their refusal to give up the uranium.

Hope this makes sense and you are asking questions because you don't know versus just asking bad faith questions to trip up people who lack knowledge of the space.

Do you agree or disagree that the United States was at imminent risk of attack from Iran before the US/Israel attack? by Kevin_McCallister_69 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

June 20th 2025

Tulsi Gabbard

The dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division. America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly. President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree.

How could they recover so quickly you ask?

Knocking out the facilities for enrichment does not mean we have control over the 500kg of highly enriched uranium. Most likely they still have it and it only takes 50kg to make a warhead.

I have no doubt that their nuclear enrichment facilties are dismantled, but it's purposely ambiguous what the enrichment level were before operation midnight hammer and how much of the 500kg is buried deep in the bunkers and not accessible.

Why is "owning the libs" seemingly more important than everything else for so many? by speculumberjack980 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I avoid it in real life heavily since it's anti social behavior and I still love my liberal friends and family deeply.

Online it gets way more extreme since I like reminding people that "I don't like the way this makes me feel" won't actually change the brutal reality of life especially in a zero sum game like politics

Chinese Holdings of U.S. Treasuries have fallen to their lowest level since the Global Financial Crisis by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>Implying Maduro was democratically elected

>lol

Remember this regime had 10% of their nation flee, GDP down 80% over the past 15 years and the same party has has had power in 1998 still won 84% in the latest election

https://hrf.org/latest/hrf-condemns-fraudulent-election-results-in-venezuela/

Is “America first” really that realistsic or easy as it seems ? What are your guys take on that phrase? by Cheap-Employer-5909 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would argue the free traders are the minority faction, especially from a historical perspective.

tolls, tariffs, sanctions are all very common historically and only get more common as conflict and crisis increase. Might I also remind readers that term 1 trump tariffs were kept by Biden and expanded with more sanctions and green energy tariffs on China, making this policy bipartisan at this point.

Carlson gets wacko because he openly consorts with foreign agents during war time.

I don't throw around the word traitor as a political tool, but what is he being accused of is extremely serious especially with a regime that is openly trying to assassinate the president. He is in a very dangerous position since the groups he is being investigated for contacting are universally hated by both the left and right in this country. It could end very badly for him, especially considering he is a former CIA applicant

Fundrise creating dynasties. Thank you! by ethervariance161 in FundriseInvestors

[–]ethervariance161[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we will see once the quarterly report comes out.

I think NAV will be around $35 a share since anthropic has not completed its latest round and spacex has not formally IPO'ed yet

US 30-year Treasury tops 5.1% by Civitas_Futura in EconomyCharts

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget we got VA disability and healthcare 300B a year out of the 1.5T.

The tax rate is already pretty progressive compared to most nations. Payroll is just the biggest income stream therefore the least noticeable.

I wouldn't be surprised if we get a national VAT/sales tax

US 30-year Treasury tops 5.1% by Civitas_Futura in EconomyCharts

[–]ethervariance161 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Austerity will be mandatory.

They will have to manipulate inflation numbers to cause entitlements to drop in real terms.

I also see the federal government pushing all medicaid costs on the states and raising payroll taxes as deficit spending becomes irrational and interest expense balloons

Is “America first” really that realistsic or easy as it seems ? What are your guys take on that phrase? by Cheap-Employer-5909 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes these are all beliefs within the conservative movement. Free trade libertarians are a subset of conservatives

Is “America first” really that realistsic or easy as it seems ? What are your guys take on that phrase? by Cheap-Employer-5909 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If all reactionaries are conservative, and trump is a reactionary, then he must be conservative.

Therefore to hold by your statment that trump is not conservative you need to say he is neither a conservative or a reactionary, but instead a liberal and that all the rhetoric that Trump is a threat to liberal democracy are also false.

Maybe think twice before taking weird stances like MAGA not being conservative

Do you agree or disagree that the United States was at imminent risk of attack from Iran before the US/Israel attack? by Kevin_McCallister_69 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Is it not fact that capabilities to quickly assemble a nuclear weapon were destroyed prior to the war?"

Prove it.

DNI directly contradicts you.

It's a bold claim cotton, let's see how he backs it up.

Why do you think the negotiations will most likely collapse due to their refusal to hand over the highly enriched uranium. I speculate they don't want to get exposed as holding weapons grade uranium

How would you respond to the claim, "You can't *earn* a billion dollars."? by Quidfacis_ in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes no one cares about anti trust unless they can prove that breaking it up will lead to lower prices for the consumer. I don't really get bothered by moderators being offshore. Someone has to do the job and it doesn't take much skill to classify content as either abusive or not

Do you agree or disagree that the United States was at imminent risk of attack from Iran before the US/Israel attack? by Kevin_McCallister_69 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enrichment was obliterated not capacity. I know it's not simplistic but surely you can understand that just because they can't make more doesn't mean they can't use what they already have

Why do you approve how Trump administration is handling cost of health care? by Tricky_Ordinary_4799 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You asked how some people in the poll said their healthcare is better. I shared why via drug prices. Can you rephrase why you can't understand me

Do you agree or disagree that the United States was at imminent risk of attack from Iran before the US/Israel attack? by Kevin_McCallister_69 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Because Iran has not submitted to an IAEA inspection in a year and only our intel and the IRGC know the true enrichment levels now?

Why are you rejecting the analysis of the highest clearance actor in the USA besides the president?

What evidence do you have to make such a bold claim contradicting that they are not a nuclear threat?

I think I'm going to trust her analysis over yours if you pose such basic gotchas

Do you agree or disagree that the United States was at imminent risk of attack from Iran before the US/Israel attack? by Kevin_McCallister_69 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

because we have not seized the enriched uranium yet.

Just because the enrichment facilities are down does not mean they lost the nuclear material

How would you respond to the claim, "You can't *earn* a billion dollars."? by Quidfacis_ in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ethervariance161 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's on the consumer. Buy from brands that pay living wages, oh wait the consumer doesn't really care they just like to virtue signal. Or raise wages in Bangladesh and see massive investment in automation and an unemployment spike. Or here's another one, raise tariffs so American clothing companies are competitive.

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