lmao

This seems to be the bottom of every “America Good, China Bad” argument.

Just 😂🤣🇺🇸😹. It’s Obvious, Idiot. Just Think Logically.

Its not that Chinese tech is any more secure fundamentally

Is it? Is this worth interrogating, even slightly? Is there any actual difference between industrial models or design philosophies?

No. Lolz. Roflcopter.

An anti-colonial Europe.

I never thought the Leopard would eat my face!

I gotta ask who the Abe Lincoln and the Jefferson Davis are supposed to be in this American Civil War. Because from where I’m sitting, its just forty flavors of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Texas is undergoing plenty of anti-immigration enforcement, especially in border towns. But because there’s no elected opposition and the media landscape in the state is fully captured by corporate interests, ICE gets to operate fully uninhibited and unreported on.

35 dead bodies showed up in the Houston Bayou in 2025, the bulk of them homeless, during a state sponsored purge of homeless encampments across the city. No suspects have been identified. All these cases go cold practically as soon as they’re opened. The only thing the Houston DA’s office seems able to say definitively is “it’s not a serial killer, stop talking about it”.

It’s not just a Blue States problem. What Blue States appear to have are large activist communities congealing in self-defense. Red state communities continue to be fractured and alienated, unable to resist the iron grip of a fascist police force.

It’s a throw back to 2014 and the BLM protests.

Easy to forget the time two journalists working for the WaPo were covering a protest in Ferguson, shooting footage from the inside of a McDonalds. The police saw the cameras and sent in officers in full riot gear to tackle the reporters and arrest them. No reason for it save that these were liberal reports filming a gestapo raid on civil rights marchers.

This was under Obama in a city with a Democratic Mayor that was fully in the thrall of a police-instigated terror campaign. The events surrounding Ferguson opened up a whole pocket of inquiry into why this branch off of the Greater St. Louis area with an enormous minority population was operating as some kind of colonized satrap of St. Louis proper - no control of their own police, no control of their own budget, an absurd rate of citations and arrests per capita, abysmal voter turnout in large part thanks to felony disenfranchisement, bad education, poor civil maintenance, and endemic inter-generational poverty.

If you want to talk about the state of American Democracy, you have to start talking about Ferguson, MO and how it is increasingly the benchmark for how civil society operates in this country.

You also have to start talking about The Network State and the Silicon Valley vision for American anarcho-capitalism.

The Dream of the 90s is Alive in Portland

American Exceptionalism means always insisting this bad policy is an aberration from the virtuous norm.

What ICE is doing is exactly what the US did abroad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Grenada, Latin America, Vietnam, and Korea. It is how we fought the War on Crime and the War on Drugs and the War on Immigration. It is why black men are terrified of police interactions of any sort and why homeless people so often go missing.

Jonathan Ross spent two years in Iraq as a machine gunner, before returning home to join the border patrol, SWAT, and to operate in a joint FBI anti-terrorism task force.

This is absolutely the kind of guy who has been trained from day one to shout conflicting orders at you before shooting you in the face. He’s been doing this his entire career.

I don’t see Sam Harris growing out of his face, but Christopher Hitchens is already a bad look.

Dude probably vapes like a fucking chimney

you get into a hyperinflation situation, right?

You need a sharp drop in available commodities, services, and investments to achieve hyperinflation. It’s a phenomenon mostly confined to countries trapped under sanctions or trading in very low volume circulation currency.

The US petrodollar balances supply of money against supply of oil (and other major benchmarks - US real estate, US financial debts, etc). This guarantees a strong global demand for dollars, even (perhaps especially, with respect to debt) during downturns.

And Trump and co have been doing a lot to destroy the underlying productivity of the us economy over the last year.

He’s been undermining the global trade economy. But it’s a big rock and even the President only has a small hammer.

What has historically triggered big contractions in the US economy has been large scale debt defaults - '20 COVID induced oil price shock, '14 government shutdown, '08 Lehman/AIG massive fraud, '01 Enron/Worldcomm fraud, '87 S&L fraud + oil price shock, etc - all resulted in industry wide credit failures on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars.

What rapidly ended these rescissions was direct intervention by the federal reserve, flooding the financial sector with money and devaluing all that bad debt.

Trump’s a dummy, but he knows this One Neat Trick.

Quite a few. But, just for starters, you’d need the Federal Reserve to turn off the unlimited money spigot.

American storm troopers are going to be marching through Copanhagen and all in going to see on my social media will be “Small hands Cheeto sucks Putin dick”

Mr. Carney, welcome to the Global South

It’s highly unlikely under current conditions

Dems growing a spine is a story worth telling.

Secretary Kristi Noem is skyrocketing, nearly doubling in the last week to 100 co-sponsors.

That’s still less than half the Dem caucus on a motion that should be a litmus test for Rules Based Intentional Order liberalism.

I’d say the most damning indictment of impeachment is that it’s not along party lines. 113 House Dems aren’t sponsoring a bill to remove the most corrupt bureaucrat to hold the DHS office.

Dems should be talking about DHS like Republicans talk about the IRS. Not whatever this is.

They’re great to hold when you’re worried about interbank lending getting locked up by sanctions.

Real lifesaver for Russia, too, since they’ve been gold heavy since the war started.

They’re coming off a nine month long bull run. P/e values remain obsene, especially across the MAG7. And the money just keeps flowing, with banks seemingly unable to see credit risk on some of the shakiest assets since the DotCom bubble.

Whatever needs to happen to end this streak hasn’t happened yet.

my kneejerk reaction

:-/

The global market will pounce on $100M in underpriced Treasuries.

A better question is what the Danes plan to replace the reserves with. Now would be a cool time to roll out EuroBonds.

That said…

Schelde chiefly cited the ballooning debt bill facing the U.S. after decades of government overspending.

This is, has, and will continue to be a dumb reason to sell US Treasuries. The Bond Vigilantes always lose their shirts in the end.

Unironically.

Shame none of the Dems are taking notes

They are right to do so. But also, this is a market measured in trillions

That’s a graphic of the last twenty days