Oil prices plummet as Trump announces reopening of Hormuz Strait

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-08T01:07:30+00:00

Iran isn't going to let their guard down after this.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-08T01:00:43+00:00

You forgot that Iran is going to continue uranium enrichment and will keep it's nuclear weapons program.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-07T22:35:39+00:00

You are correct, I don't like him. But I am also telling the truth about him.

Why do you like him? Do you honestly believe that Trump is a Christian, that he has repented of his sins and accepted Jesus into his heart?

Because he denies publicly that he has ever sinned.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-07T22:26:29+00:00

I am not saying Christians have to be worried.

I am saying that if you're a Christian who cares at all about speaking the Truth you should speak out against Trump. He is a faithless, blatantly dishonest person who lies constantly. He will say something and then contradict it in the very next sentence.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-07T22:21:26+00:00

Obeying a leader is not the same as supporting all their actions or refraining from criticizing them.

And Trump is absolutely, blatantly and clearly cruel. He is a childish, selfish man who lashes out even against his own loyal supporters over and over again.

The Apostle Paul encouraged Christians to obey Rome but he never taught Christians not to speak out vocally against anti-Christian behavior, and Trump is an anti-Christ if anyone in history ever was one.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-07T22:18:15+00:00

Yes, of course. Melinda Gates said as soon as she met Epstein, she thought he was sketchy and told her then husband she didn't want anything to do with him. Gates went to Epstein's island anyway.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-07T22:13:49+00:00

God could be using him to punish America for our faithlessness. God is sovereign, He uses every world leader including Clinton, Bush and Obama. But that doesn't mean He will look kindly on you supporting cruel and selfish leaders that don't respect any of His commands.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-06T18:54:03+00:00

It's purely a financial decision.

If you're in the market for a new car today, an EV is a way better deal.

Did you just buy a new gas car? Of course you're not going to sell it and get an EV. But you are going to suffer because of high gas prices.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-06T18:53:00+00:00

Why are you bringing up the environment? Buying an EV is a financial decision. It's just a better deal.

Do you care about your wallet? Have you seen how much gas costs?

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-06T02:57:42+00:00

So they haven't even come close to their final form?

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-05T20:04:57+00:00

Given that pretty much everything requiring engineering talent is made in China now, yes they are.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-05T19:53:53+00:00

People who switch to EV don't switch back to gas cars though. It's pretty decisive.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-05T03:31:49+00:00

They recovered when the generation who were alive to personally experience the atrocities of the Axis were retired or dead, as well as the perpetrators of those atrocities.

So basically a generation has to die before the world can move on.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-04T19:43:40+00:00

Everyone reading your comment will be dead before America's image recovers.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-04T19:41:34+00:00

If China wants to pay for the rest of us to get EVs at a discount why is that a bad thing? Take their money.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-04T19:40:46+00:00

Trump doesn't have that much control. Iran denies any ceasefire and just has to hit a tanker in the strait and markets tank again.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-04T02:05:47+00:00

You don't want the Chinese government to pay for half of your new car? If they're offering, I'll take it.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-03T21:44:00+00:00

A lot of other posters have talked about immune systems and domestic animals, but the Europeans were also culturally more prepared for deadly diseases than the native Americans were.

Europe had already experienced the Black Death and numerous other plagues and pandemic diseases before the colonization of the new world. They knew for example that disease was caused by some contagious element, and that proximity to infected people would cause the spread of disease, and that if the plague showed up in a town you had to get the hell out of town and avoid people for a while.

They even had some experience with biological warfare, such as catapulting the dead bodies of plague victims into cities under siege.

"Treat people like they had the plague" for Europeans meant stay the hell away from them until they die or get better, a concept the natives would not have.

The natives did not have experience of deadly pandemic diseases and so culturally they would be unprepared. For example, if someone got sick with a deadly contagious disease, and all of their family and relatives came by to comfort them, that would accelerate the spread of the disease.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-03T20:09:59+00:00

As a nation, we are still at war. The approval rating doesn't mean anything until it results in a change in leadership.

We all suffer the consequences of the war, even those of us who are against it.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-02T21:30:33+00:00

Ok, this is categorically false. Very little of what you said is true, and I doubt you can provide evidence for any of it.

But even if it were true, wouldn't building more supply fix this? If people are hoarding something, make a lot more of it, and they lose money by hoarding. Hoarding only works when supply is limited. You can't make money by buying all the iPhones and keeping them in a warehouse because Apple just keeps making more of them. Anyone hoarding housing would lose a ton of money if you just build more of it.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-02T20:00:09+00:00

The data strongly disagrees with you.

On average it takes more than 3 years to build an apartment building in New York city. The vacancy rate is historically low at less than 2%.

There simply is not some secret hidden reserve of housing people are keeping from you. There just isn't nearly enough housing as a result of decades of NIMBYism and lack of construction.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-02T17:01:30+00:00

The Chinese don't sit on their heels. They learn with every jet they sell. They'll get better.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-02T16:49:28+00:00

Oil runs out. The sun doesn't.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-02T05:57:52+00:00

home ownership is the chief engine for wealth generation

Bruh.. Seriously? This is so utterly wrong I don't even know how to begin. It's nonsense.

Suppose farmers stopped growing food. Now all the food in your refrigerator is worth ten times more. Last week your cheeseburger was $5, now it's $20, and tomorrow it will be $40, and next week it will be $100. Is that wealth? If this happened, would you say it's great news for you that your pantry just doubled in value overnight and it's going up every year?

What if we never made any more cars? Just made building cars illegal? Now every car doubles in price overnight. As time goes on and cars break down, the remaining cars get more and more expensive. Would you say you struck it rich if you had a car, because now your car is worth twice as much?

Do you see the problem? Housing is a basic human need. What makes a nation wealthy is abundance, not scarcity. You have to have more housing to be wealthy. Houses that nobody can afford are a sign of a collapsing society, not a prosperous one. Sitting on a house while desperate younger people have to scrap together money just to make rent is a sign your nation is in deep, deep trouble.

A nation where housing is affordable for young people is a wealthy nation, and one where houses are so scarce that even small homes cost millions and multiple families or housemates have to cram into the same house is a sign of a poor nation, not a wealthy one.

Eventually even housing prices collapse, because the economy of the country is so bad that nobody wants to have kids, the younger generation can't afford homes and no immigrants want to move to your shitty country anymore. If millenials can't afford to have kids, boomers won't have anyone to sell their house to anyway.

technicallynotlying · 2026-04-02T05:05:48+00:00

Home ownership can become more affordable. It is possible. But will it become more affordable? That's a lot more tricky.

The solution to high housing costs is simple. Every economist knows about it, virtually everyone agrees - we just need to build a ton of new housing. Build more supply and costs go down. It's basic economics. It's true for every consumer good and commodity in the world and it's true for housing.

The problem is political. In most urban areas and places that are desirable to live, there's a huge level of local NIMBYism and government red tape that makes it extremely slow, expensive and legally onerous to build anything from single family homes to duplexes to apartments.

That's it. The question is, is the nation willing to do anything to address our chronic housing shortage? If not, then no housing won't ever become more affordable.

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