I wonder if this is the final nail that will decouple the world economy from the dollar.
But then, I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time. Trump is clearly playing 5D connect-4.
If anything Trump was trying to prevent the change away from the petrodollar standard. That “currency” allows the US to run up debts because nobody wants the dollar to collapse and wreck everything traded in USD.
I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: https://factually.co/fact-checks/foreign-policy/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-petrodollar-275c36
Iran has been out of the petrodollar system since the maximalist sanctions the US imposed in 1995. Sanctioned countries don’t have a use for dollars.
You were not born when the decoupling began. You will not live to see it end.
I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time.
I mean, depends on who you ask. But there’s definitely been a deliberately effort from within the Silicon Valley wing of the economy to force people into using Cryptocurrency as a legally-compulsory dollar alternative.
You were not born when the decoupling began.
As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year.
We began decoupling when we took a militant policy against immigration. You can take that back to Clinton in the 90s or all the way back to Eisenhower in the 50s. But we’ve been adopting strains of isolationism straight back to the final days of WW2.
You could describe the Cold War as an enormous globalized decoupling event, which we tentatively recoiled from a few times before collapsing back into it.
it depends where you look. there’s been intentional economic globalism in areas. regionalism? we applauded nixon for making inroads with china.
an interconnected global economy is the soundest defensive military policy i can think of. what government is going to be fool enough to blow up iran’s economy when iran’s economy is their economy too? (yes krasnov is fool enough it was a stupid question but you get it right?)
we applauded nixon for making inroads with china.
YMMV. The John Birchers hated that shit.
yeah they are a bunch of shitasses
Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world
Silver linings, I guess?
Eh, he’s pushed around and bribed to make certain decisions. He’s the right man for the job of accelerating the decline of the empire and the beginning of the multi-nodal world, whether he and his followers know it or not, simply because he truly has no spine, no morals, no ideology, he just cares about his money.
Wish the bastard was playing hangman.
“Its a 7 letter word, E_stein. Just need one more letter, any guesses?”
“China!”
So glad I got those solar panels, and an ev when Sleepy Joe was in charge. And I’m in a town small enough for most of my errands to be by bicycle. People are already having an affordability crisis, so this will hit them in the pocket, and they’ll blame trumpy, who quite obviously is the sleepy one. Every tiny lever against the current administration, every one, counts, and we should keep pulling those levers.
Really regretting putting off that panel installation.
My brother dragged his heels, too. Our Mom passed, and that’s how there was enough money to take that step. She wanted us to do it, heck it’s something I’ve wanted since early childhood. So it goes.
You can DIY relativlty inexpensivly, at least until it gets to the electrical interconnect.
Im eyeballing a home battery pack from ecoflow:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/ecoflow-delta-pro-ultra-smart-home-panel-2-review/
The newish one, newer than that article, can take 6k of input panels with it built in solar. If you go with that smart panel, it seamlessly integrates with your house. 15k for the battery + panel + install, 2-3k for the panels if you DIY the install, which will just be climbing on the roofs, drilling racks, and running an electrical cable to the battery pack.
It likely wont power your whole house, but 6k is a good start. You can also double up on the controller and install 12k of panels if you want, so on and so forth.
laughing from my desk job at a Fortune 500 O&G company
I kind of forgot about this angle. That rich libs in the middle classes are affected less than the lower classes that were duped. It’s all really shitty honestly.
We need “Thanks sleepy Don” stickers on every gas pump stat!
Its on. I have one hundred A4 sticker sheets. To the gas pumps.
You can order the premade ones on aliexpress by the hundreds really cheap even with the illegal tariffs.
I already have the sticker sheets and access to a color laser.
So connect 4, but he can’t count that high…
Imagine playing Connect 4, or any game for that matter, against him; halfway through the game he’d yell “STOP THE STEAL!!!”
3D version of 52 pickup is more like it.
So throwing the cards down a set of stairs, or maybe into some dense bushes.
It’s really just regular 52 pickup except that people are tricked into it by insane promises of it being “the best card game in history, maybe ever.”
Wait. So the president do control gas prices? It’s so much different this time!
It’s crazy, this one little trick. Kicking off World War III. Why didn’t the libs think of it!?
They did.
Wrong, not even the neo libs wanted this both sides man.
Source: 12 years of Neoliberals rule and zero wars with Iran and instead a workable peace treaty.
Neocons all the way.
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The MAGAts are a bunch of weak willed, emotional snowflakes.
Once again the American people have decided to/tacitly accepted to invade, murder and pillage another society far away. Once again many Americans will doom themselves to Hell, where they rightfully belong. And the only way to make a Burger oppose this new human tragedy is to tell him the gas prices are up, lol. I have to laugh not to cry at how ridiculously vicious and inhumane that is… but this IS America. 😔🤷
Ok, so, what is your suggestion? The people who are directly perpetrating this war are hiding behind armed guards. Have you noticed that no rightwing politician in the US has done an interview outside since September 10th of last year?
It’s easy to sit at your keyboard and suggest people on the other side of the ocean fight and die for your conscience. It’s harder and more time consuming to build parallel systems to support those who are against the regime.
You probably think the media is telling you what’s happening over here, don’t you?
Silly question for the lemmy brain trust: what happens when most people are priced out of commuting?
Seems like that would inadvertently bring about a general strike.
Unlikely. Lemmy is, like, 50% doomers who think everything in their lives is hanging by a thread at any moment and that everyone else is the same.
The reality is that even the doomers have far more slack in their lives and options for alternatives than they realize. People will tighten their belts, bike or take transit, carpool, start private transit businesses, move closer to work, get jobs closer to home, move in with family/roommates, etc.
Perhaps, but maybe he shouldn’t be using Skittles to play it.
More like 3D Chutes and Ladders.
Here the price always starts lower on monday and then rises to the highest price on the weekend and then repeats. Not surprised by anything tbh
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