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This country is moving in that direction, like it or not, at least on the state level…

* NY State did free tuition in state and city universities
* Marijuana is being legalized in states across the US; no one thought it would be in the 1990s.
* Every Democratic presidential candidate wants a public option for hellth in$urance, even “Slow Joe” Biden

All it will take is a recession to tip this country blue this year, and away we go. I don’t need to “take a few years” slaving for some fucking asshole to move out of this stinking excuse country, though; all I need is to sell or ATM a property LOL.

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The rhetoric has shifted to the left … even “Slow Joe” Biden is calling for a public option for hellth in$urance. All it will take is a recession at the right time (in the next few months) to turn Congress and the White House blue enough to make it happen.

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Oh, it’ll come … it’s always “different this time” until it’s not. COVID-19 is just an excuse or a catalyst for a long-overdue shitshow. Remember the 90s, with the “end of history?” Then came the 2000 dot.BOMB crash, and life was fun again.

I don’t want to HAVE to invest or take risks. I hope that we get national healthcare, etc, in the next 5-10 years so I can lead the rest of my life in comfortable mediocrity, working 30 hours a week, without having to strive, scrimp, or stress, just being comfortable, safe, and protected. That’s my goal: safe, comfy mediocrity, and a crisis that flips the 2020 election blue is the best hope of achieving that.

The goal isn’t even investment anymore, just getting a country where I can live in comfort without trying too hard or competing.

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Stocks still down a few %. Hope the fall continues till it looks like 2008 … having half their portfolios wiped out will expunge a lot of people from the property markets. People who are worried about money don’t feel rich, and people who don’t feel rich hunker down and don’t buy property.

This isn’t due to COVID… this is a long-overdue deflation of Trumpy’s “big, ugly, fat bubble.” Remember when he said those words. Remember him bitching about the Fed keeping rates low to help Obama? Hope he’s eating them now!

Ride the Slide!

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Are there limits on liquids at land points of entry to China? i.e. by train, bus, or car?

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Satire aside, I’m not implying it was caused by a bad actor, just that it wouldn’t be difficult for a state entity like North Korea to transport a virus into China.

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Won’t help values much if foreign buyers run scared and people get another 20-30% knocked off their investments …

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ucodegen — it would have been shockingly easy for (intelligence agency of choice) to transport a virus like COVID-19 undetected, even into somewhere like China. Infect a human or livestock (if the virus is zoonotic) carrier, bring the carrier into China. People and livestock cross borders every day.

The low lethality would be a feature, not a bug, assuming the goal was to shut down economies, not to cause a massive amount of deaths.

It’s also apparently stable in feces, urine, and liquid culture medium for 24 hours at room temperature. Sounds like it could have been brought to China in a Snapple or Gatorade bottle…

https://www.who.int/csr/sars/survival_2003_05_04/en/

Note that I’m NOT saying that COVID-19 is a bioweapon, just that smuggling a low-lethality weaponized virus into China would have been less difficult than you make it seem.

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Is there any proof of the unsubstantiated rumors?

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LOL this is why FIRE is actually a problem.

(Lean)FIRE isn’t a problem — it’s the solution. Consume less, Mother Gaia will thank you.

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How much of the economy is actual production and life improvement? How much is people spinning their wheels to get a slightly newer iPad or iPhone than last year’s model? Does this really improve the human condition or just toss resources down the bog?

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Crow on a Virus.

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The same diet you were eating during the last recession, assuming you COULD eat? 😀

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It’s like the Chernobyl reactor … they kept pulling out control rods to speed it up (growth via low interest rates). Short-term rise in power output, long-term ka-blooey!

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Higher it goes up, the more it will fall. I did well in the chaos of 2010, I’ll do better when the world burns again. Here’s to chaos! DRINK!

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