Trump Just Pardoned ... a Corporation?
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I did some testing. The form accepts anything in the format @.* so long as each * segment only contains appropriate characters. The domain itself doesn't need to be real, but the suffix needs to be real.
"[email protected]" works.
Suffix? You mean the TLD?
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Suffix? You mean the TLD?
Yes, the TLD. Wasn't really sure if most people would know what a top-level domain is.
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12ft.io/in front of the URL. It's a proxy that bypasses paywalls.I feel like that site only works 10% of the time
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This is some serious unprecedented bullshit. Especially when their charge was money laundering. Basically he is making money laundering legal. Go ahead and break the law. Trump will pardon you...
Oh, I remember Citizens United
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I feel like that site only works 10% of the time
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Don't post subscription shit
Next time I will paywall remove it first.
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Meh we put ourselves at the center of globalization and trade by offering the Europeans access to our markets in exchange for being our meat shields if the Ruskies ever decided to get uppity.
Now globalization is starting to break down because we have no interest in maintaining it. Every president since Clinton has been more and more isolationist than the last. Even Biden had no interest in maintaining the order. The aid he offered to Ukraine was primarily military support, there was very little economic support for after the war.
Trump has moved the needle on populism in the US. Breaking global trade was always going to happen, but Trump is accelerating it. Yes he is a corrupt skum bag, but we’ve had skum bag presidents in the past.
America in the long term will be fine, our demographics are better than Europes or Chinas, we make our own energy and grow enough food to feed our population. We just need to restore manufacturing to North America (I.E. Canada, Mexico and USA).
America can exist quite happily as a regional hegemony and let Europe, India, Russia and China fight over the rest of the world.
our demographics are better than Europes or Chinas, we make our own energy and grow enough food to feed our population.
Except your infrastructure falls apart, because maintaining it all would be too expensive. Eisenhower didn't think of maintenance cost.
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I didn't either. But that was maybe because I was a long time subscriber...
i don't give them money but i'm on their email list. i just saw a request to donate that i dismissed and it went right to the article.
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HDR Global Trading, parent company of BitMEX
You're welcome. Fuck paywalls, and fuck clickbait that buries the actual info behind the paywall.
Thanks! But I could easily read the full article without seeing a paywall in this case
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Your democracy is falling apart because of it is an empire in late decadence. Its systems of checks and balances are collapsing.
The world is getting more war friendly because as dominant empires fall apart internally, nations want to do stuff they weren't allowed to when the big bad empire had more control.
This is all part of the natural life cycle of empires. Best case scenario is they fizzle out with protection from another empire, like Great Britain did. Worst case scenario is really bad.
Expect to see more of this kind of thing in the future. Might be a good time to consider going somewhere else, cause things could get really ugly. These problems are terminal and at this point it doesn't really matter who gets elected. It'll keep falling apart. I say this with sadness. My country also got screwed by the USA, but if it hadn't it would have been some other empire. Such is the life of the small poor nation.
I'm sorry, but I think it's important to see this for what it is and to adapt.
Decadence? No. Moreso vanity, moreso arrogance, moreso pride is our downfall. The American people feel the need to feel as if they are superior to everyone out there. We fucking placed tariffs on Taiwan. They basically already agreed to cuck themselves and build a chip fab on US soil, thus eventually removing our need to protect them for their chips. But no, we fucked their wife, and now we're going for their ass too. Vanity, arrogance, pride. We are going down the same path as the Qing. Autarkic, Insular, leading to falling behind and getting fucked.
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Decadence? No. Moreso vanity, moreso arrogance, moreso pride is our downfall. The American people feel the need to feel as if they are superior to everyone out there. We fucking placed tariffs on Taiwan. They basically already agreed to cuck themselves and build a chip fab on US soil, thus eventually removing our need to protect them for their chips. But no, we fucked their wife, and now we're going for their ass too. Vanity, arrogance, pride. We are going down the same path as the Qing. Autarkic, Insular, leading to falling behind and getting fucked.
I don't see why decadence is not an accurate conceptualization for everything you're describing.
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our demographics are better than Europes or Chinas, we make our own energy and grow enough food to feed our population.
Except your infrastructure falls apart, because maintaining it all would be too expensive. Eisenhower didn't think of maintenance cost.
European and Chinese infrastructure is the problem.
Our infrastructure has lasted over 60 years but it is time to renew it. We also don’t approach infrastructure the same way Europe or China does.
China has traditionally approached infrastructure by overbuilding well beyond any future need for the sake of chasing GDP figures and keeping the population employed (though this has changed in recent years). What they build can be dubious at times. They build apartment buildings, condos and houses much denser than in the US but they are built cheaply.
Europe tends to over build. Roads are usually much thicker, smoother, public transportation is top notch. Buildings are built to a much higher standard. But the population pays for that quality and it can’t be spread out as much. As a result your population density is much higher.
We build enough infrastructure to satisfy the need. If something is older we repair it and keep it in service well past its lifetime. Our houses are built cheaply and we tend to have less dense populations. That is the key to our demographics. No one wants to raise children in a small apartment in a city, let alone four or five of them. In the US large houses with a yard and 3 or four bedrooms is the norm. As a result it isn’t as hard raising kids so we have more than the equivalent couple in China and Europe.
As a result of 40 years of low birth rates most of Europe and China are aging rapidly. They have no large Millennial population like the US does. This means their consumer base is dwindling and if they want to maintain their industrial base they need export markets to sell their goods.
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12ft.io/in front of the URL. It's a proxy that bypasses paywalls.Never ever worked for me.
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i don't give them money but i'm on their email list. i just saw a request to donate that i dismissed and it went right to the article.
Same here.
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I don't see why decadence is not an accurate conceptualization for everything you're describing.
Not the person you're responding to, but it's hard as an American to see our country as decadent. The majority of us poors are barely making it paycheck to paycheck and don't experience anything you might call decadent. For the record I agree with you that on the world stage decadence is a valid adjective for the state of the US, but I don't know that I'd have that perspective if I never lived outside of the US and never got to see it from the outside looking in
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Not the person you're responding to, but it's hard as an American to see our country as decadent. The majority of us poors are barely making it paycheck to paycheck and don't experience anything you might call decadent. For the record I agree with you that on the world stage decadence is a valid adjective for the state of the US, but I don't know that I'd have that perspective if I never lived outside of the US and never got to see it from the outside looking in
I understand what you say, and yeah I get it. I'm sorry shit's so rough for you guys right now too.
The way I see it, decadence is always about the ruling classes. There are times where they are more about honor and the good of the nation, and there are times when they are just about luxury, pleasure, themselves and nothing more. That is what I consider decadence.
