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Should be a wild four years.

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WelperHelper99 said:
The prices of things are coming down btw. Not all at once, but they are. There are areas still high, but a lot of that can be explained by shortages in materials, like aluminum. Talked about cans like 20 pages back, but aluminum is worth a lot now. The US has some Bauxite reserves, but a lot is imported. Gas is weird. It depends where you are. It isn't Biden levels anymore where I'm at, but I'd like it to be under 3.
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I can buy gas at two different prices with a 40 cents split about five minutes apart. It's like they drew a line and everything west is one price, east is another. In the past the cheaper station was cheaper by like 3-5 cents. I have no idea what's going on here.
 
The Nobel Committee is five people, you say? Five......elders, as it were? Of course they would never give it to Donal D. Trump, and instead give it to inbred venezuelans.
 
mandatorylurk said:
[...]commie country that came close to being functional was East Germany [...]
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If having to build a wall to keep slaves from fleeing, having perpetual shortage of resources and finished goods, driving a deficit and debt that makes the US debt and deficit looks cute with the German territory probably going to have to pay off the GDR debt until the 2100s and the only ones that benefited being the Stasi and SED opportunists that Kohl let get away that hide the stolen liquidity and capital and used it to finance their regroup and infiltration of the BRD institution is "good" communist, well you don't need much.
 
Puff said:
I can buy gas at two different prices with a 40 cents split about five minutes apart. It's like they drew a line and everything west is one price, east is another. In the past the cheaper station was cheaper by like 3-5 cents. I have no idea what's going on here.
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I fucking know. It's the same here. You either go a ways out for cheaper gas or just pay the extra toll. I don't get why
 
KTA said:
If having to build a wall to keep slaves from fleeing, having perpetual shortage of resources and finished goods, driving a deficit and debt that makes the US debt and deficit looks cute with the German territory probably going to have to pay off the GDR debt until the 2100s and the only ones that benefited being the Stasi and SED opportunists that Kohl let get away that hide the stolen liquidity and capital and used it to finance their regroup and infiltration of the BRD institution is "good" communist, well you don't need much.
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The bar for successful Communism is, "Well, not that many people starved."
 
Hey Johnny Bravo said:
Anything by Robert Art, Barry Posen, and Robert Pape is great for politics, foreign policy, and grand strategy. Art 100% called the results of NATO expansion.

Edit to add: also Mearsheimer. The chuds will like him because he's very critical of AIPAC and the groypers will like him because he blames the West for the Ukraine War, but Conventional Deterrence is a great book regardless. His older writings are great.
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Here's some quotes from Aristotle's book that are as relevant today as they were back then:

"And it is a mark of a tyrant to have men of foreign extraction rather than citizens as guests at table and companions, feeling that citizens are hostile but strangers make no claim against him."

"These and similar habits are characteristic of tyrants and preservative of their office, but they lack no element of baseness. And broadly speaking, they are all included under three heads; for tyranny aims at three things, one to keep its subjects humble (for a humble-spirited man would not plot against anybody), second to have them continually distrust one another (for a tyranny is not destroyed until some men come to trust each other, owing to which tyrants also make war on the respectable, as detrimental to their rule not only because of their refusal to submit to despotic rule, but also because they are faithful to one another and to the other citizens, and do not inform against one another nor against the others); and the third is lack of power for political action (since nobody attempts impossibilities, so that nobody tries to put down a tyranny if he has not power behind him"
 
RantyAndy said:
What are your favourite/most looked back upon political or history books?
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Alone by Richard Byrd. The memoirs of a man who evidently thought Walden was pussy shit and decided to live by himself for months in a cabin in the middle of Antarctica during the long winter, all while suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by his only source of heating.
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro secretly offered the U.S. sweeping access to his nation’s oil, gold, and mineral wealth—proposing to cut ties with China, Iran, and Russia—to avoid military conflict with Washington. The Trump administration rejected the deal. - NYT

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Does Maduro honestly think that people have forgotten that Chavez nationalized foreign oil companies? No one trusts them.

Note that he didn't promise to stop the drug trade.
 
Candlelight Desolation said:
I know the proles in 1984 are fed beer and sports, but at the same time when you stop and look how widespread porn is, the former speaks volumes rather than the latter since sex is clamped down on in 1984.
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Isn't being a prole who isn't eligible for the military arguably the better life? they don't go to the party meetings/big brother worships. the worst thing that happens is you go off to war for a year or 2 and return home.
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro secretly offered the U.S. sweeping access to his nation’s oil, gold, and mineral wealth—proposing to cut ties with China, Iran, and Russia—to avoid military conflict with Washington. The Trump administration rejected the deal. - NYT

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Those sound like the actions of an extremely afraid man who knows he has no leverage and the walls are closing in
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro secretly offered the U.S. sweeping access to his nation’s oil, gold, and mineral wealth—proposing to cut ties with China, Iran, and Russia—to avoid military conflict with Washington. The Trump administration rejected the deal. - NYT

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As long as Maduro and his government is in charge, any words coming out of Venezuela have to be looked at with a level of skepticism.
 
Just to let you know the new Camp of the Saints reprint is coming in Hardcover soon, in case you didn't get the paperback. Unrelated tweet below:

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it is a moral imperative that Arch Dat Trump get built, just for the aesthetic karma that is needed to make up for the faggotry of a fallen continent.


edit: Hegseth dropping some common sense truth:

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mandatorylurk said:
Just to let you know the new Camp of the Saints reprint is coming in Hardcover soon, in case you didn't get the paperback. Unrelated tweet below:

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it is a moral imperative that Arch Dat Trump get built, just for the aesthetic karma that is needed to make up for the faggotry of a fallen continent.
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Does the United States have room in the federal budget to recreate Europe's greatest landmarks in case everything goes to pot? It would certainly be a worthy cultural endeavor to attempt though I have no clue where you'd put everything.
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro secretly offered the U.S. sweeping access to his nation’s oil, gold, and mineral wealth—proposing to cut ties with China, Iran, and Russia—to avoid military conflict with Washington. The Trump administration rejected the deal. - NYT

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But if we bomb Venezuela until he's dead or deposed (and then killed) we could get all of that, and a favorable regime, AND a cool fireworks show.

On top of which it would weaken popular support for our other enemies in the Americas by showing how easy it is to crush them.
 
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