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Cake day: October 23rd, 2024

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  • A meme repeated in Africa is “US and British come to lecture us. China builds hospitals”. Legalizing bribery is a path for US privatization of energy boondoggles on the continent. Bribes always cheapest way to corrupt economics.

    Africa has fantastic solar resources, but more importantly, does not have established monopolies that make home/community solar expensive in US. The cost of a western built coal plant, and electricity transmission/distribution in Africa is high. Importing coal also higher there due to less infrastructure. Coal prices rose to extortionist levels from war on Russia, and extortionist LNG prices in Europe.

    Even if you want to build a utility scale power plant in Africa, solar and batteries are cheaper than coal, and dependence on coal/fossil fuel supplies and price fluctuations. African grid reliability is poor largely because fuel supplies are already unreliable. Trump/US saying that Africa selling cocoa and coffee that no one else can grow is taking advantage of US with upcoming tariffs, would make it clear corruption to submit more strongly to US. The decolonization of Africa moves that have taken place the last 2 years as the west devolves to irrelevance, is not something that will likely be reversed… depending on those bribery levels.




  • The appropriate criticism here is about corrupt markets resulting from restricted/scarce housing supply. Fair markets that encourage abundant housing supply, are ones that would lead to “perfect competition” and fair ROI on capital. The oligarchist/capital supremacy model of US/west corrupts markets against abundance, because extortionist profits fund politicians to protect extortionist profits.

    UBI, not democracy, is the important freedom that can address structural corruption, but still the option to rent still needs to pay for the capital/expense investment in allowing you to rent.












  • an existential threat that is unsolvable through capitalism.

    Capitalism is the wrong word choice. It is unsolvable through oligarchy that prefers to protect their assets and buy Government fairly cheaply to achieve the goals. Markets and overall ROI from lower insurance costs, cheaper energy, and rational avoidance of future cleanup costs does not contradict rational market theory that is the core of what capitalism was defined as. Modern definition of all isms is simply that Capitalism is supremacy of capital. Protection of previous capital investments is not supposed to mean capitalism.


  • NATO/Asian allies of the US increased their sycophancy level to 11 under Biden. The most absolute evil neocon Republican the DNC could unleash on the US. Biden launched a war and propaganda campaign against Russia that made Russia stronger instead of weaker. US economy still did very well compared to its sycophantic colonies who sacrificed themselves for this evil.

    Instead of continuing a losing war, beating up the pathethic subserviant slaves seems like easy wars/domination in his mind. It is mostly an ego play, where pie in the sky manufacturing investments don’t need to materialize as long as there are press releases supporting him, or announced investments. US can go in a depression, but he will say US is doing amazing thanks to him because of those press releases, and UAW support even as he removes auto tariffs the next day.

    Europe is just cowering. Canada shamefully echoed the (state sponsored) terrorist designation of Mexican cartels which enables US war on Mexico, which is one big real win from the chaos. Where win = privilege of a war on Mexico. If he does cause an economic depression, surely that is Biden’s fault, and a war on Mexico will make it all better soon enough after the elections.

    It was a miscalculation to say that Canada will gladly become 51st state under governor Wayne Gretsky. The backtracking on tariffs the last 2 days will probably backtrack on energy tomorrow. Canadian hatred towards US is the miscalculation and permanent chaos.

    Causing shocks to the stock market and profiting from them sounds plausible.

    Currency markets offer 99% leverage, and being an insider to chaos direction is massive profit certainty. Grifters get to grift harder.

    Russian influence farms didn’t shut down after the election

    Pure loser disinformation. Trump hating you needs you to gaslight yourself/others into hating Russia instead. Need to combat Russophobia for your own sanity.