As I have intimated many times....if carriers are so easily countered like this (by literal pennies on the dollar), why build them yourself?
If US bonds are crap (cuz USD and US economy are soon to be wastelands)... why buy them by the truck, train, plane and ship loads each day?...given by your own logic they will not be good for it?
If the US is such a doomed bad country facing the precipice....why immigrate there in record numbers?
I could go on at some length regarding these pretty brazen juxtapositions (between "powers that be" that "run" the system and those underling larpers well below within the system)....that create the silly walk mouthbreathing "little red book" quote response from the "red guard" dullard variant (of the latter) predictably.
Honestly I do feel for those intellectuals that had to face in real life.... their (earlier variant) "struggle sessions" face to face, spit and shine, kafka traps, stick to head and all the rest and even worse....past the repetitive attempted deafening and spam-vandalism/defacement like found in certain areas of the forum here (that can at least be in its case voluntarily ignored unlike the former).
The larger point is it needs a cpl basic elements of civility and integrity (a balanced upbringing often helps but is no full guarantee) to actually try cultivate some critical thinking with time (to answer these questions yourself quite easily without airing out .
Its only when you get past that first step, can you get to step 2 with some people.
Its only when you get to step 5 , critical knowledge and thinking of earlier steps illustrates to the elevated mind....such things as why the self-criticism and wide opinionated media articles arise from the US system (as it seeks to channel certain funding and attention into certain forces)...
Things we have seen time and time again if one know how to analyse an actual well-versed superpower (with the track record)....compared to unproven aspirers.
Steps 6 and beyond are worthy ones to get to discussion, but exceedingly rare and specific....needing excellent honing of knowledge and experienced application.
These people are quickly recognised by others of that realm....I'll leave it at that.
But some are lost causes, step 1 is simply impossible for them....they love the self generated body odour of step 0's constant circular mud crawl.
It is frog in well stuff I had a chat with my friend
@UkroTurk 🚬 elsewhere earlier.
Lately, I simply let the rest of the people (in some place I choose to frequent for whatever reason) figure for themselves where automatons with megaphones (and boors in general) fit in this process.
It is simply best for people to learn things themselves sometimes....on their time and cognition.
Time is precious for me lately. The free dabble aspect of it must be spent on worthies as far as possible....for the interests of all involved (IMO).
Some people here have spent some vast amount of time and actually inversely taken down the impression of their country here with it by the excessive addiction to a whole new level of selective spam-cringe. Yet they remain oblivious to it, as their personal emotional need for it triumphs.
Frankly ridiculous.
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That giant old country I have so much (deeper) respect and knowledge of, takes this sad localised extra hammering here (by "own hand") past what its current "drop of time" totalitarian regime already did, does and will do....as every stereotype gets proven somewhat incredibly non-ironically.
My evenings of measured musing these days involve schubert, shakespeare and scotch....and variants thereof....shared with friends and worthies...along with the day to day things of some relevant note....or days gone by.
All things furthest from the clownish vapid walkers and stalkers here from some earlier circus graveyard I long left and recedes in memory....as I want it to.
I partook in the foolish spectacle there and made only a fool of myself in the end I think....I abhor that all now.
Let every man be master of his time.
@VCheng @Joe Shearer