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spdrun
ParticipantSounds like there are fucking idiots in Germany too.
spdrun
ParticipantNope. Sanders would be the most reasonable government.
Americans are generally authoritarian cop-huggers at heart, no matter how much they quack about liberty. Sanders is fundamentally an anti-authoritarian who recognizes that coercion can come from corporations as well as government.
A good counterpoint to the authoritarian teabaggery of the average American schmoe.
spdrun
ParticipantFact is that NOW, their economy is tied to oil/mineral prices. What happens in 10-15 years is anyone’s good guess.
spdrun
ParticipantThey’re also heavily based on resource extraction — their economy is less diverse than the US. Dirty little secret.
spdrun
ParticipantAlso, who’s to say that you (or your kids) won’t fall in love with a Muslim or Latino and marry them? You never know who your family will be in the future.
spdrun
ParticipantInterestingly, no one in Brasil appears to care about his rhetoric, but maybe that’s because they consider themselves “better” than other Latin Americans 🙂
spdrun
ParticipantBut Hillary will be the nominee.
Unless the rumors about her ill health are true, of course, and that cough is really lung cancer. Maybe Sanders donors should chip in and send her packs of unfiltered Camels.
spdrun
ParticipantThere’s not expected to be a rate rise at next week’s meeting. But let’s hope that lack of QE3 will be enough economic chemotherapy to temper growth.
spdrun
ParticipantThey already have high-end marques. They’re called Audi and Bugatti.
spdrun
ParticipantWhich rates? FED rates, foreign bank rates, mortgage rates, savings rates? 🙂
All are not tied together.
spdrun
ParticipantDiesels = less CO2 emissions. If they add a bit to smog, so? Smog might block enough light to temper the greenhouse effect 🙂
spdrun
ParticipantMaybe North Korea will EMP us before then, setting the state of tech back 50 years, and we won’t have to worry about this crap.
spdrun
ParticipantConsumption is a disease.
Growth is a cancer.Stagnation is better. We have it well enough, no point to grow.
spdrun
ParticipantNo. Operating in the real world, not the sanitized techdweeb world.
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