• Jhex@lemmy.world
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        Not as easy as <checks notes> marching on weekends to ensure minimum disruption while your country massacres school girls under the command of a pedophile… but certainly non of this if your concern

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        It’s not their responsibility to bail you guys out.

        At least not until you’re officially wartime refugees. Keep in mind how long it took the US to step in and do anything about Nazi Germany.

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          What’s my responsibility as an American stuck in this shithole as someone who is poor and has no resources? Should I go try to off the Nazi lord here and immediately get killed to then go on and make no difference whatsoever and die in vain? Maybe I could get in a car crash on the way there and then lose my sources of income while in the hospital and end up homeless due to medical debt and die of a minor infection face down in a gutter!

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            Sounds like you are already in precarious condition… if that did not make you act, I doubt you would for a bunch of murdered school girls in a country you likely cannot place on a map

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      “Americans, why haven’t you built a parallel system that can take on the strongest military in the world yet? It’s been over a year.”

      Edit: see what I mean?

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        So maybe if you could not be responsible with it, you should have never had it.

        Isn’t that one of the excuses you use to keep bombing children around the world?

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            You can’t pretend you are up against your own military when you have literally done nothing yet

            But no worries, you take this lazy stand because you couldn’t care less about the harm caused abroad as long as you can keep sipping your latte… but the USA is already falling off the cliff, you just prefer to keep your head in the sand a long as possible

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        It’s been over 60

        But also, we keep paying one half of America to kill the other half. That’s got a stabilizing effect

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      Even years ago, you could tell how honest the Tea Party people were by asking if they’d defund the police or military.

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    They have a plan: They’ll borrow money to pay the debts and to spend on top of that.

    Literally infinite money glitch

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    I disagree, according to my observation U.S. borrowed at least $69.7B per week 1 394,11 / 20

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    United States of America 3,375% 26/28	US91282CQB09	99.71	27/02/2026	USD	100	28/02/2026	3.38%	29/02/2028	77.27 bn	
    United States of America 3,5%   26/31	US91282CQD64	99.24	02/03/2026	USD	100	28/02/2026	3.50%	28/02/2031	78.39 bn	
    United States of America 3,75%  26/33	US91282CQC81	98.78	03/03/2026	USD	100	28/02/2026	3.75%	28/02/2033	49.27 bn	
    
    • robocall@lemmy.world
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      I don’t understand why anyone would select travel miles/points when cash can be spent on anything and doesn’t expire.

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        Well usually it’s because the rewards when in points are usually a much better return than 1:1 or 2:1, which seems to be the best you’ll get for cash back in most cases. Obviously, you can do more to get 3:1 or even 5:1 with cash but at that point you’re jumping through almost as many hoops.

        I tend to do cash back, but after learning about how to best take advantage of points through a couple of well known experts, I’m eyeing a travel card because I travel a lot both for work and personally, so points are a good idea for me.

        That’s not even to get into the concept of churning, which I don’t do and wouldn’t recommend if only for how annoying it seems to keep up with, but I’ve seen some pretty crazy points exploits by friends. When they started to explain the steps to get there though it sounds exhausting and I wonder if any of them still do it.

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          Years ago, I was on Reddit wanting to learn about making homemade butter, and found r/churning, which was all about maximizing the benefits of credit cards and switching credit cards to game them. It had a bit of a wallstreetbets vibe to it but more serious.

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    Just for the sake of argument: It’s possible to create gasoline from any hydrocarbon feedstock (wood, cow shit, OSB scraps, rice hulls, sugar) for about $12/gallon. At 42 gallons of gas/jet fuel/diesel/kerosene per barrel of oil, that’s roughly $504 of finished product per barrel (@ $12/gal).

    That means $50 billion would get you about 100 million barrels of synthesized oil. Since the US consumes about 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day we’d be able to synthesize 5/7ths of our oil consumption from waste biomass for that $50 billion per week. Food for thought.

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      wouldnt it be pretty expensive to bio-convert plants/animals into fuel. instead of just extracting it from the ground. and not even including extracting it from things like corn.

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    The Rothschild family and banks are delighted with the shit situation. They have the USA by the balls.

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    Bigger shock is that somebody loaned him anything since his bankruptcies have been public knowledge for decades

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      It’s the federal reserve loaning the government money, there’s no way they’re paying for all this in bond auctions.

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          I mean ya he’s handing himself money and handing your grandchildren debt. They’ve been doing this around the clock since 2008. The government only exists to help billionaires steal your hard earned money.

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    so rather than just pay a tax like a socialist country would up front, US is now only just surviving on tariffing …which is paid … by their own people ….as a tax. On top of whatever tax you already pay ……while digging more deficits.

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      You know, I used to think that “our children will have to pay for it” only applied to the working class.

      Now I’m wondering if the people in power recognize how this might end badly for their offspring. I hope it does.

      There’s a 0% chance I’m going to slave away while some rich family’s children live like gods.

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          Not everyone got trapped in wage slavery, just the majority of you. Those of us who didn’t still care tho. We want you to have a drug dealers life style without having to sell drugs ❤️