Restrictions and boundaries spur innovation.

Another Tesla innovation, fraud.

I heard the next model, the Tesla SS, with innovative features like doing Nazi salutes out the windows to indicate is going to be a huge hit.

phpBB was the best.

The old forums I frequent have all seen their activity drop, which sucks.

I prefer the smaller forums centred around common interests. I made a load of friends through those forums.

I quit reddit recently and it occurred to me that after 10 years, I didn’t make a single friend on reddit.

This was the UK electorate with Boris Johnson.

It takes an absolute economic shitshow for people to stop wanting “change” and wanting simple good governance.

While this is true, I suggest reading “All trade war are class wars” by Michael Pettis and Michael C. Klein.

Basically, both China and America have been persuing trade policies (which result in persistent trade imbalances) which are unsustainable.

China through subsiding it’s export sector through preferential interest rates (transfer income from savers to borrowers like industrial enterprises), managed currencies (transfers income from importers to exporters), weak labor laws (workers to companies), etc. which results in smaller household sector which cannot consume what it produces.

These policies primarily benefit industrial exporters at the expense of everyone else.

Note: This is not unique to China. Germany, Japan, Taiwan, America (up to the great depression), etc. have persued such policies.

American subsidies consumption via policies which encourage a higher dollar (being attractive for foreign capital), higher debt, etc. which results in an household sector than consumes more than it produces.

Note: This is not unique to America. The Anglo-Saxon economies all have this issue (noting that at times of high commodity prices Canada and Australia sometimes run trade surpluses).

These policies primarily benefit importers and financial sector at the expense of everyone else, particularly the industrial sector.

Although in America’s case, being the reserve currency provides great geopolitical advantages.

These policies are unsustainable. One cannot import more than you export forever.

America cannot to grow such vast sums of private and public debt. Eventually, there is a limit.

Every other country that has persued such policies in the past have had difficult corrections. These can be quick and brutal (the great depression for the USA, where the economy shrunk 1/3 but the household sector only shrunk ~17% and thus the economy was rebalanced) or a slow adjustment like Japan (where household consumption grows marginally faster than overall GDP growth for 1-2 decades).

This issue was seen and written about during the great depression (“beggar thy neighbour” policies). After WW2, John Keynes suggested a mechanism to rebalance trade so there were not persistent trade imbalances (the USA opposed this mechanism because it was running surpluses).

Why does this matter in this instance? China is having great difficulty raising consumption and moving away from it’s export driven model. So it is looking for new partners to export to (given the West and even other devleoping economies like Brazil and India are unwilling to accept more of China’s subsided exports), like Kenya.

It is running into the trouble Western counties had in the 1980s with developing countries being unable to service their loans for infrastructure, etc.

China may not be popular soon because it (like the West during the 1980s) is unwilling to write off loans which cannot be paid.

Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.

• George Carlin

Because he is a white conservative.

The New York Times downplayed his racist, sexist and violent rhetoric and doing “both sides” shit for the last 8 years (the best word I have heard to describe this is “sanewashing”)… and now they are coming out with this?

Fuck the New York Times.

He could literally piss on them and they would cop it with a grin.

CANCEL CULTURE

The political press corps understands that Trump coverage generates great ad revenue, so they are willing to compromise their principles on this matter.

If you have wondered how some people deny obviously documented things like the Holocaust, this is a prime example.

“The starvation and mass killing of civilians in the Warsaw Ghetto is a legitimate strategy” - This guy.

In America, it is.

Is there a link for this?

I agree but they are not as influential as AIPAC regarding supporting the mass punishment and murder of civilians in the middle east.

Weapons manufacturers will be busy for years resupplying stocks that were provided to Ukraine.

They have spent $100 million dollars this cycle.

Any politician that stands up to AIPAC gets millions (if not tens of millions) raised for their political opponents.

The vast majority of politicians are far too frightened to anger this lobby in an election year.

It’s called AIPAC.

Their lobbying power is perfectly legal and immense.