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Companies can make more baseball cards and beanie babies. Enforced scarcity gives bitcoin value.

Thank you for writing this. You are absolutely correct and made me step back to realize that the dollar is a global reserve currency and the US will do everything it takes to keep …

Oh, Erdogan consolidated his power over the last few decades democratically. Rural turks came out in mass to vote for him over past decades. Incidentally, in the past he was actual…

You must be confusing my posts with someone else. Or claim doesn't mean what you think it means. Forgive me if it's difficult to forgive you when you place so much negative spin on…

Or if the judiciary has any sort of bias as is implied in this case. (I don't pretend to know the details) I enthusiastically endorse the separation of powers and firmly believe th…

> The only thing anti-democratic is to allow someone that does not respect the democratic rules for running for office, for they will undermine democracy from within. Surely you se…

If we've learned anything from the California fires, the culprit will be global warming.

Thank you for clarifying, it did not occur to me that member states paid VATs. From outside the EU, the VAT is no different than a tariff. They are both taxes which inflate the cos…

I could be wrong, but think the German economy just broke last week when they blew the cap off their debt ceiling and kicked current day payments to future generations. Note that G…

Oh, I think that's inevitable for the reasons you listed. DOGE would need to do way more to actually matter. Observing the current upheaval due to minimal cutting guarantees the fu…

> Who will afford to buy their expensive products? Fewer and fewer people. Yes, a shrinking of the consumer economy. It will work, just not like it has in the past. As I see it, yo…

Perhaps? I can't imagine that either could take the loss of production capacity the way the US has. The global inflation of product prices alone is staggering to consider.

> Which parts will benefit from higher inflation? All domestic producers which produce products that cost less than imported competitors. I agree with you. The question to be answe…

China would absolutely not want to have a reserve currency. Their export economy would be destroyed overnight.

Consider that this is the point of all the machinations. The US having the reserve currency is a liability in many ways and the direct reason why it's a consumer not producer econo…

This sounds like a straw man. Do you have a link showing where supporters think Canada won't resist the US?

Columbia university can do whatever it wants. However, if they want to take free money from the federal government then they have to jump through more hoops. That article you refer…

Democracy works just fine either way. You just might not like the results. Also, because a person doesn't have an education doesn't mean they are stupid or can't think critically. …

Trump can't run for election again as it's his second term. Voting doesn't apply.

TIL, diplomas are not actually owned by the recipient.

I'm guilty of all your examples. It pains me so.

A legal procedure that protects citizens, which she isn't.

I'd invest large amounts of other people's money into it too.

One gamble her campaign made was that more people would vote for her specifically because she was black and/or female. I doubt there are any hard numbers, but I'd guess that number…

The ending of that comparison is that Twitter's strength is that it takes far more effort to build it's network effect. Air quality data is easy.