In my view, support for him outside of New York matters even if he doesn’t win, insofar as his candidacy itself has made a difference, at least at the Democratic party. Other candidates could win primaries, as he did, and succeed, and even the establishment type might see the voter pool and promote some of the policies he stands for.

I agree; we need a democratic economy and the US-led system is not it. Note that I didn’t state that the US should wield the financial power associated with the status of its bonds; I merely stated it currently does enjoy that power and that giving it up by paying off its debt would be detrimental to the US itself.

Paying off the US debt would mean paying back existing bondholders without issuing new bonds. After all existing bonds have been paid back, there would not be any US bonds in circulation, and the US bond market would be no more.

US bonds are the backbone of the global financial system. If they were to disappear overnight, it would be a financial apocalypse. On a larger timeframe, I suppose the global financial system could readjust, but I can only speculate as to how it would do so and what consequences would follow.

In any case, paying off its debt would be detrimental to the US, because global demand for its bonds results in higher bond prices and thus lower bond yields. In other words, the US pays less interest than it otherwise would because its bonds are so sought after. By paying off its debt, the US would not pay any interest whatsoever, but it would lose a great deal of power abroad.

Hell one of my ancestors got away with it 5 times before the Mormons figured out he was just murdering them and pawning their shit 2 towns over.

I’d like to read that story if you’re willing to share it.

His brother? Spared “no expense” building a state of the art theme park that ended up killing so many people (and almost killing his own grandkids) before it opened that they had to scrap the whole thing. And it was a damn good thing his granddaughter knew Unix systems (and wasn’t eaten first), or it surely would’ve killed more.

You got me at first and I almost went looking for references of David’s evil brother. TIL the actor who played the character of John Hammond in the film Jurassic Park and its sequel was David Attenborough’s elder brother.

Das ist –für die, die es nicht wissen– Leetspeak für »Fotzenfritz«, einen Friedrich Merz von der Zeitschrift Titanic verpassten Spitznamen. Der Autor, Martin Sonneborn, ging in einem Vortrag darauf ein.

In some places it even has electrolytes lead, what MAGA brains crave!

Japan nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019.

Wouldn’t it be the other way around? I think Musk would rather have TSLA bagholders shareholders prop up his private companies, of which he likely owns a higher percentage than Tesla. The pitch could be that xAI has what Tesla needs for some of the vaporware he keeps promising and that Tesla should therefore acquire xAI.

The true Canadian deterrent.

I don’t think so, at least when it comes to US citizens, because deportations would cost them and spark controversy for no benefit. I think they’d prefer to keep these deeply indebted people in the US as indentured servants willing to work for pennies and too poor to engage politically.

I didn’t mean to dispute that. I just checked what you stated and posted what I found for anyone else who, like me, wasn’t up to date on this meeting. I share your assessment.

The AP reported:

The 88-year-old pope offered the Catholic vice president three big chocolate Easter eggs for Vance’s three young children, who did not attend, as well as a Vatican tie and rosaries.

The penguins will tariff him up.

You’ve conjured images in my mind. I wish you hadn’t.

Whatcha gonna do next, separate boys and girls again? Make all females wear sacks?

Don’t give them ideas. I wouldn’t be surprised if they promoted gender segregation as some form of “protection against the gay trans threat”.

I can’t even believe the trump admin is going after tech giants.

I share the disbelief. I think it is mostly a power play against not just Google, but all tech giants, which must be watching this closely, given most of them operate in a similarly anticompetitive manner: kiss the ring or else. The Trump administration could give Google reprieve in exchange for axing DEI further and helping push their political agenda.

I can’t imagine anything the admin does will be good for society so maybe its safe to assume they will be broken up so elon can buy a chunk?

I think so too: if Google doesn’t satisfy Trump and his administration, parts of it will be forcibly sold as private equity, outside of shareholder scrutiny and beyond the reach of the SEC. Such a private company would be easier to control than a publicly traded one.

Ich danke Dir und @[email protected] für Eure Erklärungen.

Was war die rassistische Bedeutung dieses Wortes? Laut dem entsprechenden Artikel auf Wikipedia wurde dieses Wort ausschließlich gegen „unmännliche“ Männer und „wenig damenhafte“ Frauen verwendet, bevor es seine heutige Bedeutung annahm.

I think what @[email protected] means is that the recent UK Supreme Court ruling gives some cover to Starmer, allowing him to pin some of the dissatisfaction with his eventual acquiescence to US pressure on the judiciary (even though Labour, being in control of the legislature, could fix the laws instead of washing their hands…).