Economic Impacts of Iran War
04-12-2026 | 07:55 PM
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AI Overview"Caucasian" is generally considered an obsolete racial classification rather than an ethnicity, historically used to describe people of European, Middle Eastern, and North African descent. It is considered a social construct originating from 18th-century anthropology, though it is still used in the U.S. as a synonym for "white"
04-12-2026 | 09:16 PM
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"Caucasian" is an arbitrary historical classification, make of it what you will.
04-12-2026 | 10:34 PM
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You missed the satire.
04-13-2026 | 07:13 AM
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dude you’re a trip. Why do you feel the need to defend “your side” so aggressively? Like I want profit sharing and to not dump an increasing amount of my paycheck into a federal government black hole that I get nothing out of. That’s my relationship with whoever is leading the federal government. At best these people can keep some kind of a status quo (possibly doomed) ship moving in kind of a reasonable direction. At worst you have…well…this.
It’s like you have some weird parasocial relationship with the president. Dude he loathes you and me. We’re unionized worker bees who have the audacity to fight for our piece of the pie. Why are you carrying his water all the time? Can you critique him on a single point? Is he some kind of god to you?
I mean all this in the nicest possible way, it’s just so strange to me seeing people just so all in on one particular “side”.
It’s like you have some weird parasocial relationship with the president. Dude he loathes you and me. We’re unionized worker bees who have the audacity to fight for our piece of the pie. Why are you carrying his water all the time? Can you critique him on a single point? Is he some kind of god to you?
I mean all this in the nicest possible way, it’s just so strange to me seeing people just so all in on one particular “side”.
04-13-2026 | 07:24 AM
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As I've said this current adventure is a bit over the top... guaranteed short-term economic pain (loss of profit sharing for sure), with lots of risk of a variety of potential bad outcomes. The ultimate end-state is still likely to be better than the old status quo, but of course that's not 100% either.
04-13-2026 | 07:47 AM
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Politically I consider not only my short-term economic benefit but also long term structural, societal, and economic ramifications, mostly for the sake of my kids.
As I've said this current adventure is a bit over the top... guaranteed short-term economic pain (loss of profit sharing for sure), with lots of risk, of variety of potential bad outcomes. The ultimate end-state is still likely to be better than the old status quo, but of course that's not 100% either.
As I've said this current adventure is a bit over the top... guaranteed short-term economic pain (loss of profit sharing for sure), with lots of risk, of variety of potential bad outcomes. The ultimate end-state is still likely to be better than the old status quo, but of course that's not 100% either.
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04-13-2026 | 08:56 AM
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You must have lost everything on BITCOIN to have such simplistic short term thinking. We just survived 4 years of record inflation and an administration that waged war on anything oil, I think we'll be fine. btw, almost every union pulled their support for Kamala Harris. Just sayin
04-13-2026 | 09:02 AM
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04-13-2026 | 09:37 AM
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While mowing down relatives with antiaircraft guns for inattention at a meeting doesn’t strike me as particularly rational, even North Korea isn’t sponsoring international terrorism in multiple countries trying to spread their particular brand of irrationality. And yeah, if I thought that was going to change I’d be all about preempting them too.
But I’m still for doing what I can to keep the world a safe place for my kids, and teach them to do the same for my future grandchildren/great grandchildren/ad infinitum. It’s my culture.
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