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.
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
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.
Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world
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.
Silver linings, I guess?
Wish the bastard was playing hangman.
“It’s a three letter word synonynous with father. What’s your first guess?”
My first guess: Z
“Its a 7 letter word, E_stein. Just need one more letter, any guesses?”
“China!”
“Djy-nah!”
Lol stupid.
I’d like to solve: BIDEN
No, seven letters. It’s “Brandon”
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. 😔🤷
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” -John Brown
The war isn’t just with those in power, who as someone else pointed out are far beyond the reach of the average American, it’s with our neighbors and family members that support these leaders and policies. This administration is the fruit of a rotten tree, remove it without addressing the roots and it will just grow back in some new form, maybe next year, maybe next decade. Our elected officials that oppose this admin on paper do nothing with their power to stop it. Our courts either rubber stamp it or when they do rule against it get ignored because law enforcement is complicit.
A lone wolf might strike back here and there but such actions don’t make a difference because they are quickly neutralized, their targets are easily replaceable and elevated to martyrs.
Until the opposition has some semblance of unity, leadership, and the resolve to see through what is started to the brutal, bloody, bitter end; this is America. We’ll either keep telling ourselves “next election, next release of files, next court ruling, next protest will change this” and live under perpetual disappointment and tyranny (at home and abroad), or we’ll accept violence and gamble on which side has a better resolve. Gonna get real ugly once that Rubicon is crossed, and we all know it so that’s why nobody wants to be the first. Just ask true American hero John Brown.
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?
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
AI slop
The background photo is from 2020 december 5th according to some image matches from 2023 and 2021.
1D Ludo be like: .
I need this meme format. I am willing to invest $.
My b, here ya go.
Aw.
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.”
The cost of filling 52 pick-ups would be astronomical!
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.
Oh please. Don’t you see they always keep you squeezed just enough so the hopeless balance of inaction is protected?
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!!!”
Stop counting your points! Keep counting mine!
Connect 4 is still played in two dimensions tho…
That’s what THEY want you to think! Wake up sheeple!!!
I’m really starting to question the world and that dude from reddit was probably ahead of his time.
2 normal dimensions and one very very small one?
“I DID FACT CHECK! IT SAYS ‘30 CHECKERS’ RIGHT THAR”
Someone showing me this meme as justification for their position, somehow
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.
That’s an ambitious perspective for a stick figure artist. I respect the effort.
Perhaps, but maybe he shouldn’t be using Skittles to play it.
Or human lives.
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.
The MAGAts are a bunch of weak willed, emotional snowflakes.
3D Chutes and Ladders: Oops All Chutes edition.
