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   Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 12:42:18 JST Hoss Delgado
   There is no political solution. Only [FEDPOST REDACTED].
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     CMD (ceo_of_monoeye_dating@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 12:55:14 JST CMD

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     @Hoss If the money can expire, why wouldn't you just immediately use the money to buy things that can be exchanged for money later? It sounds like they just made their money useless.
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:12:14 JST PodunkPotato

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     How many properties can they break and still use the same word? This is beyond parody.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:16:47 JST grizzlywhisker

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     Yeah it's too bad, I always thought White Australians seemed like cool people and I wanted to visit there but it seems fucked.
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     ApocalyptoLatte1488 (apocalyptolatte1488@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:16:48 JST ApocalyptoLatte1488

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     This country is fucked
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     Dr. Btc (drbtc@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:17:32 JST Dr. Btc

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     That's the idea, they want to encourage putting money into the casino (stocks/crypto) and spur more spending from the poors. They floated ideas about reverse interest in the past.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:19:48 JST Hoss Delgado

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     All part of the grand design of a wealthy few who believe it is their birthright to own literally everything. The very idea of you owning anything is an affront to this plan. You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
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     Yuri Prime (lizard_person@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:22:44 JST Yuri Prime

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     @MeBigbrain @Hoss "their" idea of helping "them" selves
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     Coon Appreciater (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:22:45 JST Coon Appreciater

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     @Hoss Is this really their idea of "helping?"
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     CMD (ceo_of_monoeye_dating@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:23:30 JST CMD

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     @f0x @Hoss Sure, you do want to buy the stonks and stuff, but at some point you look at it and you think "I don't even want to hold this at all."
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     Vepkhia (f0x@darkdork.dev)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:23:31 JST Vepkhia

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     @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Hoss that's what you're supposed to be doing anyway

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     Makako (mamako@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:32:51 JST Makako

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     @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @f0x @Hoss I was looking into dividend stocks for awhile, specifically shipping companies, but the more I looked into it I realized it was all fake and gay. This company was giving like the highest rate of dividends just to make itself appealing while buying tons of new ships and going super into debt while all their actual profitable ships needed to be decommissioned due to new EU pollution laws.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:35:29 JST Hoss Delgado

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     I talked to a guy who managed shipping operations for a big corporation a while ago. He said the whole industry is a huge racket, things could be shipped more efficiently but small players are effectively locked out of the game without a heavy amount of startup capital.
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:38:17 JST PodunkPotato

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     Many such cases. Entire economies built upon it.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:39:04 JST Hoss Delgado

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     This is why I've started referring to the system of "neoliberal capitalism" that we live under by a name that I consider more fitting: corporatism.
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     CMD (ceo_of_monoeye_dating@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:43:32 JST CMD

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     @Hoss @f0x @PodunkPotato @Mamako Corporatism is already a political philosophy that exists in the same vein as fascism.
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:43:32 JST PodunkPotato

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     The union of state and industry still fits, what is different is who runs it.
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     Qadse Sanur Qut ibn Quaadibz :catsader: (nerthos@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:44:59 JST Qadse Sanur Qut ibn Quaadibz :catsader:

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     @Hoss Average day in Australia, the world's jail.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:45:09 JST Hoss Delgado

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     I've heard of it used in the context of Fascist Italy but never outside of that specific historical and regional context. I'm creating a new definition.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:46:37 JST Hoss Delgado

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     It's an internationalized corporatism, one where nation states have become little more than tendrils of multinational interests. Not a cooperation between state and industry for the good of a nation.
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     PoalackJokes88 (poalackjokes88@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:48:25 JST PoalackJokes88

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     @Hoss @Mamako @f0x @ceo_of_monoeye_dating This is true of manufacturing, most agriculture, and tons of other businesses. Well-connected companies get multi-million dollar grants to build a business in their state. Non-connected companies have to pay millions of dollars in regulatory compliance before they even break ground.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:50:59 JST Hoss Delgado

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     State functions meant to keep corporations from raping the commons with no accountability inevitably get subverted and turned into a tool of regulatory capture for the first entities powerful enough to seize influence over the government. Unfortunately, there is no easy solution to this problem which has plagued us since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 13:54:21 JST PodunkPotato

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     >I'm creating a new definition.
     Yeah, you should probably coin a new term to avoid unnecessary confusion then, but I like your working definition.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 14:14:18 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Plato had it figured out when he first coined the concept of philosopher kings. Unfortunately, rarely if ever do you see an unbroken succession of philosopher kings. The closest historical occurrence I can think of are the first few Augustinian emperors.
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     PoalackJokes88 (poalackjokes88@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 14:14:19 JST PoalackJokes88

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     @Hoss @f0x @Mamako @ceo_of_monoeye_dating The only solution that seems workable is revolution for a based dictator that's working for the common good. That's a temporary solution that, if it works, might go for 1 generation. After that you've got succession crises that could easily lead to someone just as bad, but hope for the best. Maybe the same supporters that brought him to power can have some kind of citizen councils that could provide feedback and accountability to the government.
     
     Democracy incentivizes organized liars so much that you inevitably get them at the top, so there's no possible way for a democracy to work without being an oligarchy in practice. The more the population is lied to the less able it is to fight for its own interests.
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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 14:53:46 JST WilhelmIII

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     There is no political solution

     To our troubled evolution

     Have no faith in constitution

     There is no bloody revolution

     -- Sting (The prophet of our time)

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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 14:57:55 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Inb4 Australia copies FDR's homework.
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     WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 14:57:56 JST WhitestTemplar

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     @Hoss Everyone suddenly spends all their excess cash on gold and silver coins. lmao
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     :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:03:09 JST :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:

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     I don't think anyone buys stocks for dividends. It's not reliable income and in order to access enough to live off you'd have to have so much money it doesn't matter anyhow.
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     :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:06:18 JST :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:

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     I used to think mercantilism was backwards, but now I see the appeal.
     
     Even if keeping everything in your economy is less efficient and sometimes anti-competitive, the stability is worth it.
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     Makako (mamako@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:06:19 JST Makako

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     @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Hoss @PodunkPotato @f0x I want to go back to Mercantilism
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     LordOfTheKangs (lordofthekangs@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:11:20 JST LordOfTheKangs

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     @Hoss @Eiregoat @f0x @Mamako @ceo_of_monoeye_dating Are you questioning the validity of a 275 P/E ratio for companies that run websites?
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:11:21 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Dividends used to be the whole point of owning stocks. Now they're largely an afterthought in an era where firms are expected to chase exponential growth indefinitely.
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     :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:13:24 JST :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:

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     There has to be a balance between protectionism and free trade. If you allow too little international competition then you fall behind the rest of the world and your house of cards collapses at the first crisis.
     
     If you have too little then your economy can get too dependent on foreign goods and you end up extremely vulnerable to disruptions in supply.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:13:25 JST Hoss Delgado

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     A nation's economy is supposed to serve its people, not international interests. This is not a Marxist ideal, despite decades of neolib propaganda insisting otherwise.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:18:21 JST Hoss Delgado

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     First and foremost, stop conducting one-sided "free trade" with nations who tariff your exports. They may have their reasons for their tariffs, but you must match them with your own. You don't just let them take advantage of you.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:19:38 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Heavens no, I would never. We didn't truly understand how businesses worked until the exalted prophets of Silicon Valley showed us the way.
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     Dr. Btc (drbtc@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:29:12 JST Dr. Btc

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     The blue blood system works for a good while until secret society's and whatnot start going crazy and do demonic worship stuff. All empires and societies will eventually fail anyway, some sooner than others.
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     WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:29:13 JST WhitestTemplar

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     @Hoss @f0x @PoalackJokes88 @Mamako @ceo_of_monoeye_dating If you want a Thousand Year Reich or whatever with philosopher kings as the head, you need to build a very autistic infrastructure to ensure that that happens. Basically there is no way in hell that you are just gonna get lucky and get philosopher kings out of nowhere for an extended period of time. You need colleges dedicated to finding and producing such candidates(filter with an IQ test, you must be genius tier or above), then you need a council of spergs to select the candidate, the larger the council, the less it can be corrupted. The leader is then given his own council of spergs that will advise him on the situations going on within and without the Reich, these will be people who had potential to be philosopher kings, but were not selected by the Autistian Selection Council.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:33:56 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Nixon was allegedly our highest-IQ president. He came into power during a really tough spot in American history, so it's hard to gauge how much of what happened under his administration was out of his control. He called out the jews for what they were, but at the same time he had Henry "Wormtongue" Kissinger whispering in his ear the whole time.
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     Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:33:57 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

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     @WhitestTemplar @Hoss @f0x @PoalackJokes88 @Mamako @ceo_of_monoeye_dating It's my impression that people above iq X tend to be terrible leaders. I believe Jimmy Carter was one our smartest presidents and he is widely held to also be one of the worst
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:38:22 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Carter lead an ineffectual lame duck administration that was probably responsible for the subsequent rise of Reagan. He didn't seem like a bad guy, but absolutely not a leader.
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     WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:38:23 JST WhitestTemplar

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     @Escoffier @Hoss @f0x @PoalackJokes88 @Mamako @ceo_of_monoeye_dating Didn't Jimmy Carter just not do much? Sounds like a smart guy tbh. People always want leaders that change things in drastic ways when sometimes holding the course is the way to go and considering that he most certainly had kikes in his ear telling him what to do, him doing nothing is probably a good thing.
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     WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:39:00 JST WhitestTemplar

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     @Hoss @f0x @Escoffier @PoalackJokes88 @Mamako @ceo_of_monoeye_dating Nixon is such a mixed bag. I like a lot of what he said, but ultimately he never really did much in the way of action about it. Maybe he couldn't, maybe at that point the deep state was too powerful so he just went along with the current.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:44:20 JST Hoss Delgado

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     He gets a lot of shit for the death of the gold standard, but at that point the global financial system had almost completely undergone a complete transition to fiat and the alternative was that we'd give away all our gold reserves for practically nothing. He was reigning over the end of a financial paradigm shift that had been set in motion almost 40 years prior.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:50:07 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Whoops, replied to the wrong post.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:50:11 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Nixon deserves a lot of the criticism he got, but I do believe he's one of our most misunderstood presidents.
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     WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 15:50:14 JST WhitestTemplar

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     @Hoss @f0x @Escoffier @PoalackJokes88 @Mamako @ceo_of_monoeye_dating Basically all of our so called leaders only lead us into more and more jewish shit.
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     :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 21:58:40 JST :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:

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     That used to be strongly true back when there was a gold standard. If there was an imbalance of trade it meant that more and more gold (and therefore economic power) concentrated in their system and eventually you lost trading power at their expense.
     
     With modern fiat currencies it's less true. If there's an imbalance of trade it means they end up with a really huge amount of tokens which can only be spent in your economy. And they're subject to inflation so if they don't spend them they lose out.
     
     A stronger argument against free trade is that it gives the countries with manufacturing capacity a huge advantage during wartime. If china ever does go to war with the US the economic fallout is going to be way worse than any damage from combat.
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     bonifartius (bonifartius@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 06:30:17 JST bonifartius

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     @Hoss this is a commie wet dream since forever

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