On the Nature of Things

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Bullying Vietnam. That's the spirit I was talking about.

Amazing.

It's like they do it deliberately

I still remember as the pre-Napster pop music industry collapsed, the biggest amount of piracy was coming from the Netherlands, which had laws in place making it hard for the English-speaking music industry to protect and enforce their property rights. Further complicating the picture was the fact ...

just to be clear, this happend WHEN we are under USA protection, with the 4 magor millitary bases you guys have here. China obviously doesnt beleive USA protection means anything anymore, Id be inclined to agree. probably best to cooperate with the new global powers now that the old one has thrown ...

I think they have treatment for hysteria now, it involves a special machine.

The big IT vendors and government are all in now, its only going to get worse, not better. doesnt matter what we think. they are perfectly happy for creatives to slip through the cracks - the perfectly statistically average , predictable , automated idiot, on current "best data" is the dream worker ...

prediction.

the war against china will be started by the usa, not china.

having to be culturally correct for whats left of western christianity against cultural norms in africa, asia and south america.

a task beyond my comprehension.

myth number 5, america is at the centre of world trade because america is awesome and everybody else wants to be part of it. quitely possibly true up until a decade or so ago. the real reason, was that america was a stable trading partner with free trade agreements to everyone else. even more ...

myth number 4, america is the biggest and most important economy in the world.

you need to be american, and not paid attention to the last couple of decades, to think this.

nobody else does.

myth number 3 - asia will collapse without access to america. https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3305708/how-dependent-are-these-6-major-asian-economies-us-market?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article the other sources of these stats are behind paywalls, this is the same numbers ...

myth number 2 - usa is the most important market in the world, everyone will have to negotiate with trump over trade This is australias export destinations, Asia is orders of magnitude more important than america. trade.png this is everyone else, only the blue countries are susceptable to american ...

myth number one - all other countries get free millitary support while america does all the actual heavy lifting and expense. let us consider a list of wars that australia has got involved in , during the last 50 years . most other American allies will have a variation on this. the US dragged us ...

deep down they crave the coherancy of the monocultural small village, but the absurdity of changing the modern world into that, causes em cognitive dissonance.

I like america, I hope these changes make for a better place.. i doubt it, but what would i know.

the politics is absurd, and the rhetoric unrelated to any form of reality visible outside the circle jerk inside your country.

shit is going to be interestring.

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:) What? Russia slingshotting missiles into Ukraine is chopped liver now? https://www.ft.com/content/edb590a4-f1b5-4b22-b41a-2dff90ee08c9 Donald Trump reignited his war of words with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, accusing the Ukrainian president of incompetence and blaming him once again for the ...

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/15/briefings-suggest-eu-faces-choice-between-us-and-china/ They suggest that the overall US strategy is to decouple from China, and that any country who wishes to have a trade deal with the US will also have to distance itself from Beijing. https://www ...

:) What? Russia slingshotting missiles into Ukraine is chopped liver now? correct, the official Trump policy is that the Ukraine asked for it and that Russia doesnt deserve tariffs because removing sanctions from Russia is part of the negotiations for giving the captured territory to Russia. best ...

The incessant chasing of economic growth and GDP per capita increases, rationalization, the min-maxing of all possible economic inputs and outputs, profit over people - all these plagues that neoliberalism has supposedly brought upon us - is ultimately all that the socialist himself knows of and ...

A good outcome.

Wait till you learn which is the only rogue empire threatning western countries at the moment.

workout why trump left service and media out of his maths on trade balance.

Then you can start to see how comical all.this is.

Be it a church group or a democracy. You either show up, be involved and argue your place, or you become an irrelevent other. In my country, democracy is just words.. hardly anyone gets.actively involved. The framework, the system, the rules, all applied by the people who do show up... and they do ...

I dont get it. You want america to be russia and then get upset that america is now russia. You seem to be confused about what has happened. None of the countries you used to have as allies ever took more than they gave, this is just absurdist trump rhetoric Every deal had quid pro quo attached to ...

the problem with all political theory is it is a bit like religion. clever people try and come up language and rules that stops humans being humans and lo and behold, the rotters keep on acting like humans. sometimes the culture has experienced an outcome so bad, it causes them to behave better for ...

nar, you assume too much. the difference between america and russia and china has now gone away - they are all entitled, mafia like organisations which will demand more in tribute than they give in services... the new world order is the rest of us treating you all equally, on a case by case basis ...

The quicker we decouple from the nazis like in modern america the better.

south east asians mastered free electricity decades ago, westerners are too passive against authority and government control.