@akarlin I mean if they mange to get it down to close to the status quo ante bellum, that would be a victory for them and with Trump that may well happen?
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Aaron Egon Moser
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The problem is that Iran's demands are absurdly maximalist:
* Permanent Hormuz tolls
* Reparations
* Unblock frozen assets
* No restrictions on uranium enrichment
* Ceasefire includes Lebanon
It's what you would only reasonably demand after a crushing military victory!
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If a state were to exist, it should:
- bust all unions
- illegalise cooperatives
- legally enforce only tort and contract law
- attract foreign direct investment with no corporate tax & protection of corporate taxes
- have a policy of strict austerity
- get its only source of revenue from state-owned companies that operate off profit and loss on strategic sectors (manufacturing, ai)
- outsource defence and public goods to private companies
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I know how to deal with NIMBYS ⬇️
Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯@akarlin
@FoxNews The British knew how to deal with Luddites 200 years ago. Let's nip this in the bud.
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@Landchadchud @CLChennaultAlt God watch them larp as IPJA soldiers and ruin all that good will with some war crimes
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Literally a suicide squad, and not the badass martyr kind.
由仁アリン Arin Yuni@Arin_Yumi
With the massive soft power Japan has, if war were to break out a foreign legion would unironically be a very good idea Fight in the frontlines for 24 months, and you get free PR forever!
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@sp6runderrated No reason you cant go to trade school and college but thats always lost on these folks
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Yup same thing as "go to a state school over an Ivy" from a Finance dude who only hires Ivy grads.
Encouraging trade school is good advice but is good advice for NEETs not young people with the opportunity for a 4 year degree.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
“Just go to trade school instead of college” -Guy who got rich off going to college and has never met a single person who went to trade school
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Amusing development: 10% of property sales in Minsk now accrue to Russian citizens.
Easy to move to and no culture gap. Dictatorship yes, but few Internet restrictions, Western and Russian payment systems, access to Western brands, significantly freer than Russian itself now.
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@Onmyrail1 Unfortunately democracy may require a median IQ level thats higher then any society has even had in order to work? In the past you could get away with it with gate keeping but that eventually becomes untenable
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We are at the “self destruct” phase of democracy. America has had a good time for a long time but looks like both parties are embracing feel-good slopulism.
Grant Cardone@GrantCardone
🚨 DONALD TRUMP DEMANDS ‘NO MORE PROPERTY TAXES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES!’ You can’t hate this! President Trump launches national revolution to abolish property taxes which would result in the most powerful economic expansion in U.S. history.
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@authdevelopment I agree with @akarlin , saving for retirement is pointless because you will be a criple that cant enjoy anything at that point
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There are mole people everywhere for those willing to see:
Aleph@woke8yearold
He REALLY likes trains
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@SaladBarFan Ya this is mostly retarded but Japan might be the only case were they have a mild(very mild one) point? The pledge to defend Taiwan(the most weeb country on Earth) and article 9 discourse is more about larping as the IPJA/N then it is about making a competent defense policy
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What’s the theory of mind they’re supposed to understand here? That we’re retarded?
Tacos and Airplanes@blob_watcher
These US vassals (and also pre-war Iran) literally have no theory of mind of the US or understanding of how the US operates.
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@PNACstreetgang @MakeUSAVAT Its funny this was an old lefty meme but now the rightoids use it
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@MakeUSAVAT But this post isn’t condemning GDP in and of itself; they’re just raisng a strawman that mainstream conservatives are all this uniformly GDP-reductionist block
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Hippie conservatism, to condemn higher GDP is to condemn higher standards of living
Paisios@AngloVarangian
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@akarlin @RokoMijic @WorldByWolf This guy is delusional. The SNP wants more immigration then the British government does
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@RokoMijic @WorldByWolf British identity is boomer coded, you'll have an additional uphill struggle on top of your main remigration one.
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End stage nationalism.
The break up of Britain after remigration will be the guarantor that replacement migration can’t happen again.
The British identify was always too flimsy and open to abuse in a way the English identity isn’t which is why it’s so hated within SW1.
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@akarlin @xlr8harder Vance thinks the only way for his mother to not relapse is for her to work a low wage cleaning job. Thats what he really thinks of the plebs
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Rationalists aside, this cause appeals to economic leftists (muh water, "intelligence isn't real", oligarchs, Palantir, etc.) and social conservatives (undermines human dignity, traditional values and social relations, etc.). This seems to have its purest synthesis in publicists like Sohrab Amhari and Dugin, or politically, people like Bannon and JD "let's make toasters in America" Vance (which TBF is funny, since Bannon is an actual Epstein guy and Vance started out as the Tech Right's candidate).
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Japanese rail/plane fans are completely 平和ボケ(living in a Japanese peaceful bubble), so they don’t realize that taking pictures at airports or stations is often highly suspicious and illegal, because of military use, sabotage fears etc..
I feel bad for him :(
Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸@mrjeffu
In 2024 a Japanese man was arrested in Belarus for taking pictures of trains. They thought he was a spy, but he was actually just a railfan who was really interested in former Soviet trains. He's written a book: "My Study Abroad Experience in a Belarusian Prison," detailing how he was interrogated by the Belarusian KGB and spent 200 days in prison. In an interview with Bunshun he said he'd studied the experiences of other Japanese railfans who'd traveled to former Soviet countries and expected that he'd only be asked to delete some photos and be released with a warning. However, he wasn't aware of how strict the situation is in Belarus. Although Belarusian authorities confiscated his Android phone and had access to his Google Photos app, they seemed to have forgotten that photos are automatically backed up on the cloud, so the pictures he took were preserved.
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I don’t think Westerners realize just how prevalent and open Japanese men are about using prostitutes.
Survey below↓
KK@kenki_kids
手コキ店で20代前半のオキニとイチャイチャしてシコシコしてもらった後は行きつけの寿司屋へ。最高です。
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The “sure one more lane will fix it” people are fundamentally wrong/dishonest and it’s incredibly easy to see why:
Is there traffic in a small town that has a lot of road capacity per capita? No
There IS a level of road capacity at which all latent demand is met, and it’s not a theoretical level, it is met in virtually every low density small town.
If induced demand were real then every small town would be drowning in traffic, which they obviously aren’t.
The problem is that the road capacity in cities is so far below latent demand that every additional capacity gets immediately used, but that is a good thing that means there are trips that could not be made before that are being made now.
Now the question of whether the benefits of one additional lane outweigh its costs in an urban environment is a valid one, but saying it does not do anything to satisfy demand is just wrong.
ApoStructura@ApoStructura
We are sleeping on the value of tunnels. Even in the largest and most sprawled out cities things are just not that far, if you could drive at highway speeds from the suburb of Scarsdale to downtown NYC it would take only 20min instead of 1h. It takes me 1h to go from Greenwich to the center of London by train or by car. With a tunnel it would take 6 minutes. It’s only 8 miles. The problem is that there is no room to build highways, we have limited land area available. So let’s just build them underground. There is unlimited room underground, no concern about noise pollution, no nimby, almost no impact on the surface during construction. It’s virtually perfect, we just need to reach the scale so that construction gets cheaper. We can also settle for much smaller diameters and less amenities than for subways, essentially what the boring company is doing. I truly think that if they manage to do what they are planning to do it will completely revolutionize how we think about distance in cities.
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@Onmyrail1 Ya but it might be a good idea for a cut off in a referendum?
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Sounds like a great idea if you’re 5 years old
Libertarian Party@LPNational
New election rule: If “Nobody” is more popular than the candidates, nobody should be president.
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