Economic Impacts of Iran War
04-12-2026 | 02:55 PM
#871
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America has been at war with itself for the last two decades. We’re less of a society and more a collection of independent contractors trying to make enough money to outrun all the problems that the boomers did nothing to try to solve and which we continue to not try to solve.
If you’re asking Americans to get together and face 5-6+ gallon gas with a brave face for the “greater good” it ain’t gonna happen.
If you’re asking Americans to get together and face 5-6+ gallon gas with a brave face for the “greater good” it ain’t gonna happen.
04-12-2026 | 03:09 PM
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You know what would be hard obstacles?
Epstein files (actually not, just release them).
Daycare - have you seen birth rates? Record low. Going even below replacement minimums. So either you allow more immigration and/or make it easier for new parents to work and have more kids.
Instead, we get “we can’t do daycare. We can’t. We need even more money to defend America.”
Healthcare - Trump’s always got a plan. Never shared nor executed.
SS / Medicare - crickets
Hard obstacles, what a joke. Bombing brown people is easy. It’s mostly pushing buttons. And as this Iran incursion shows, you don’t even need a plan for that. Or an exit strategy. But Trump had a great exit plan for Vietnam for himself.
04-12-2026 | 03:13 PM
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America has been at war with itself for the last two decades. We’re less of a society and more a collection of independent contractors trying to make enough money to outrun all the problems that the boomers did nothing to try to solve and which we continue to not try to solve.
If you’re asking Americans to get together and face 5-6+ gallon gas with a brave face for the “greater good” it ain’t gonna happen.
If you’re asking Americans to get together and face 5-6+ gallon gas with a brave face for the “greater good” it ain’t gonna happen.
The only question is if the cult will finally break free and realize who caused their problems and be honest about it.
04-12-2026 | 03:47 PM
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Iraq and Afghanistan would have never happened without 9/11. 9/11 occurred directly as a result of 8 years of horrible and weak foreign policy under Clinton. OBL should have been taken out in the mid-90s.
04-12-2026 | 03:49 PM
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04-12-2026 | 03:52 PM
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Fighting without fear of losing isn’t fighting. But while on the topic, ufc crap, sad substitute for the sweet science imho. Wild world
https://youtu.be/RV67UVgtpFU?si=ljYr9H8gqiy2o5nY
04-12-2026 | 03:54 PM
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"For nothing works so well in getting someone to give up a position as making him feel ashamed of it."
Once one becomes emotionally invested or ideological in certain views, suasion has little effect.
It took the calamity of total collapse to break the fever of the Riech's Nazis.
And even then, many went to their graves as true believers. Publicly calling 'their' monstrous crimes contrived falsehoods/propaganda, while privately fiercely proud of what 'they' did.
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