BCR_9er
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He isn't that great. He sold out on Obamacare for instance.

You debate like one of my crazy leftist friends with TDS sometimes.

You think google maps faked 360 degree street photos to get maga supporters to believe a video of a Haitian guy butchering an animal in an apartment complex is in fact in Springfield? Are you ok?

Looks legit (drop the yellow guy into street view if it isn't) https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9658649,-83.7986538,3a,60y,17.24h,79.33t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8-AGO3IoW48cAuur_iHqVQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D10.667574306337727%26panoid%3D8-AGO3IoW48cAuur_iHqVQ%26yaw%3D17.24168209313998!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwMi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

That's clearly a chicken.

Pretty bad.

This is one of the most easy and logical issues you can explain to people using basic economics. The crazy thing is you can explain the whole thing, you can give an example of a store owner selling overpriced water bottles before a storm and how one person could come in and buy it all out for $50, or you can overcharge 10x and each person comes in buying only what they need, more people end up with the goods they need before the storm, saving lives. You can explain how overpricing helps bring in more goods after the storm by encouraging entrepreneurs to risk their safety to bring in goods to a dangerous area with looters and dangerous, damaged roads, etc, saving even more lives. Most people still won't change their mind, they think the value of things is just whatever the price tag at their local store says and anybody who charges more is just being greedy.. those are usually leftists tho. That said.. I saw some of these posts on X, and 95% of the comments beneath were MAGA supporters saying price gouging during a weather emergency is a good thing..

Oh ya, that's right, they were created to fight the PLO, then it backfired. Sorta like the Mujaheddin.

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Weren't they created to fight Hezbollah? Sounds like it backfired.

You don't think the invasion was justified?

I was never for the US war in Iraq.. Lol, that's one building, in all of Tel Aviv, and it is an administrative building..

Man, what a bunch of whiners. The Israel derangement syndrome in this thread is off the charts. Lebanon was launching missiles into Israel, then Israel 'invades' Lebanon and everybody here is just going to pretend like it was completely unprovoked? I mean, c'mon.. Oh they blew up a Mosque.. Well here's the problem. Muslims have blurred the lines between military bases and civilian structures and Mosques.. when was the last time you saw a military base that was also a Synagogue? Or a civilian apartment building in Israel? You people are so easily manipulated..

You just failed business 101. All equitable transactions benefit both sides of the transaction. Now what you may have a legitimate problem with is that to be hoenst a lot of trade today isn't equitable... and it isn't because governments intervene (due to restrictions, tariffs, etc). Free trade is undeniably good for the economy. But like with everything else, it isn't truly free because the government screws it up. This is again, economic ignorance. Industries and firm propped up by artificial government stimulus, handouts, restrictions, grants, taxes, subsidies, etc are clearly inefficient and needs to be liquidated. If a business can't compete, then it shouldn't be in business.

This is economic ignorance at its height. Specialization is critical, buy stuff from people who are efficient at making said stuff. Make something on your own and then sell it to market too. The idea of making things yourself for your own consumption is economically idiotic. (I'm not talking about prepping, gardening, hobbies, etc here). On a personal level, the best thing to do would be to sell it off, and invest the proceeds while gaining a skill or trade to bring in cashflow.

So this is a myth. First off free trade is good for the economy. But like with many things, we don't actually have free trade because the government intervenes and creates all sorts of rules and regulations for trade, ensuring that it isn't actually free.

Don't confuse isolationism with non-intervention. Commerce and trade is good, entangling military and political alliances are not.

If Trump could eliminate all other taxes and simply fund (a much smaller) government through tariffs, that would be a huge step in the right direction. But Trump will likely not be able to shrink the government and he has proven he doesn't care about cutting spending. I do think he plans to cut regulation a lot, which is good, and he wants to grow his way out of the government's debt problem, but again, that probably isn't realistic. He should know better, he isn't dumb. Growth alone isn't going to solve the problem, there have to be cuts, which there is never the political will to do. Oh, and Congress has to go along with it too which is unlikely.

Humans have always traded at a distance. And in the last 400 years it has grown exponentially. Steam engines, diesel engines, and then shipping containers. Trade is good for the economy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyNkcsQGaV4

No, not really, but kind of. All taxation is destructive, but consumption taxes (tariffs, sales tax) are less destructive and less harmful to the economy than income taxes. Taxes never help the economy, they only hurt. The exception being that some politically connected may benefit from market distortions due to specific taxes. Trade unions may benefit from certain protectionist tariffs for example while consumers suffer.

Exactly this. If the only tax was tariffs because the government was small enough that's all it needed, life would be much better. But it's not and it won't be unfortunately.

Yep, friends in the Tampa will be evacuating... likely to my place near Orlando lol

You sound like you’re arguing against US intervention in Iraq after 9/11… it’s not that simple. Unlike the US, Israel actually has missiles flying into their country on a semi-regular basis. What is simple is asking ChatGPT why they did it and what they targeted. Before you respond with "Ahh hah!! It says "PRE-EMPTIVE"!!" Again, not that simple.. it's not like it's pre-emptive, like they've never shot missiles at them before. More like a guy punches you, and then you punch him as he is winding up for his second punch.

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Certainly we should not have troops in Syria or be bombing Syria.. but they are their neighbors. I don't give a flying fuck anymore if Israel bombs their neighbors who are attacking them. They are at war.

I didn't say all Muslims, certainly not all Iranian Muslims, but it seems to be a majority of those in Gaza and a decent amount of the more extreme believers in other places.

Certainly not the people living in Israel.. I also think Mossad was involved in 9/11. But so was the CIA.. and Saudi Intelligence.. maybe even MI6, who knows. Again, that's not the people living in Israel, the Jews, the Christians, the US or even Saudi Arabia or the UK.