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@AssalRad I think they mean by jews

Real life vs The Onion

@proto_bit @SandyofCthulhu local delivery

@TriNakw3 @SandyofCthulhu What is the point of having 7 railcars per loco, we have like 1.5 million railcars to go with the locos

Total railway length: America 220,000 km Europe 211,000 km China 165,000 km We also have more locomotives. We use them for cargo not humans. But we use them a LOT.

@TallowFan @DAKKADAKKA1 The same shit applies to america. 60% of the us population lives within 100 miles of the eastern seaboard.

@TriNakw3 @DAKKADAKKA1 The parts of China that matter could fit on the eastern seaboard.

I love this analogy. Not comprehending that China and Europe could fit on the eastern Seaboard.

@JoedeNada @SandyofCthulhu Ah yes that's why travel times on US highways are so great and airline tickets are so cheap compared to europe.

@SandyofCthulhu Freight is more important than people on trains in the U.S. Been that way since the end of World War II. Along with the creation of the U.S. Highway system in the 1950s and the use commercial jet airplanes in the 1960s.

@RyanMDowning @JPBillingsgate @pythonrocksnake I like how you argument as to why sioux falls is better is that you can leave

@JPBillingsgate @TriNakw3 @pythonrocksnake Also 5 hours from Duluth, 4 from La Crosse. The Loess Hills, Palisades, and Newton Hills are evening trips. Within a comfortable drive from other major pockets of society and you can live in the boonies. Not to mention the place itself is significantly better to live in.

>job listing says “remote” >click into the description >“full time on site in Aberdeen, South Dakota” I can’t even be mad.

@The_Davos_Man Call me undisciplined but I don't really care to learn about economics from a guy who didn't understand/believe in calculus.

I'm not going to condemn all leftists. But fucking hell, we should have taken a far firmer stance against marxists a long time ago.

@medievalmlord Not a huge fan of Margret Thatcher but she definitely doesn't deserve to be on this list.

@RyanMDowning @JPBillingsgate @pythonrocksnake I was talking about the black hills. They are actually pretty nice even with all the meth.

@TriNakw3 @JPBillingsgate @pythonrocksnake Meth usage out west is as big an issue as it is east river. The beautiful thing about flatlands is it breads society.

@lukeisamazing Bold of you to assume Americans know anything

none of the Great Lakes states are landlocked, they have a seaway that connects to the Atlantic. shouldn’t a Midwest stan account know that?

@GenFitzhughLee @beatmastermatt The US hasn't "let" any vessel through, they sailed a destroyer through but that is not remotely the same as a civilian cargo vessel. Iran is still preventing civilian vessels from transiting.

@TriNakw3 @beatmastermatt They don’t control who goes through. The US already let vessel through to the UAE. Maybe because the people will get fed up with starving to death. Long term it at minimum turns Iran into a rump state

“Blockade us? Fine, we’ll blockade you!” Yeah the war is not going to end any time soon.

@TheBigTicketJS @GenFitzhughLee @beatmastermatt What the fuck does this have to do with Iran?

@TriNakw3 @GenFitzhughLee @beatmastermatt US can export Oil at global market prices without high costs meaning higher profits

@RyanMDowning @JPBillingsgate @pythonrocksnake There is at least something other than endless flat land and meth.

@JPBillingsgate @pythonrocksnake Rapid City isn’t the best place in the state

@andrew__reed "Why bother investing in real solutions when magic might fix our problems in a few years?"

Waymos are better for making cities bike friendly than bike lanes

@GenFitzhughLee @beatmastermatt Iran is still keeping the strait closed to everyone else this doesn't effect their leverage at all. While they probably would like to sell oil I don't understand why people think a regime held together by Islamic extremism is gonna stop cause they are broke.

@beatmastermatt Clearly you don’t understand the strategy. Iran has dictated what ships pass through. Now the US does and this removes any leverage Iran has. They’re also 2 weeks from reaching oil capacity meaning they can’t sell or off load them. They’re out of money and time.

@mattforney So if Trump won then the strait is open right? All the objectives he set out to achieve are complete right?

Weird how Iran isn't moving to attack the Navy blockade despite assurances from retards on here that Iran can totally blow away the Navy if they want. Almost like Iran lost and Trump won.

@cremieuxrecueil Other than a Marco Rubio power fantasy what is the actual end game here? Last I checked we don't really need anything from Cuba? Nor are they in any position to threaten us. If Rubio is in charge it at least won't be as retarded as the Iran stuff... but still why?

@owenjonesjourno Yes when a country is no longer able to exploit it's colonies for economic gain it is bad for that country. Any other genius observations you have for us?

12 million people are estimated to have been killed by economic 'shock therapy' in Russia alone. Russia suffered the worst peacetime economic collapse of a major industrialised nation in history. The Russian economy nearly halved. The fall in Russian output was much worse than that caused by the Nazi invasion in the 1940s. Russian male life expectancy fell by 6.5 years, to 57.6 - back to its mid-1950s level. The overall fall in life expectancy was on the scale of Vietnam during all-out war in the 1960s. The suicide and homicide rates doubled. Real incomes collapsed by 40%. At the time of the Soviet collapse, one in fifty Russians lived in poverty. By the end of 1998, that surged to nearly one in every five. Full employment gave way to mass unemployment. As healthcare funding collapsed by a third and poverty surged, disease such as diphtheria, tuberculosis and syphilis rampaged. Russia was taken over by oligarchs, gangsters implicated in serious crimes who stole the country's resources. Murderous conflicts in the former Soviet territory included Chechnya, where potentially hundreds of thousands were killed. Yeltsin's contempt for democracy was underlined by his bombing of the Russian legislature - and the undemocratic farce of the 1996 election. Putin came to power after the Russian secret services almost certainly staged apartment bombings which killed hundreds. The invasion of Ukraine has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Need I go on? Yes, the collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the great catastrophes of our age. An alternative would have kept the USSR together (Baltic states aside) on a democratic basis, without ruinous shock therapy. Notably, a Soviet-wide referendum in March 1991 overwhelmingly voted to keep the Union together (although it was boycotted by six of the fifteen republics - in the Baltic and three small republics).