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Randalor posted:Weren't the Kurds supposed to be decent allies? I mean, before the US stopper supporting them. Decent, yes, useful, no. It’s the realpolitik bullshit that tries to justify attaching ourselves to these nightmare regimes.
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Basticle posted:Are...are there good regional allies in the middle east? Winston Churchill, ladies and gentlemen! America has shown that it will tolerate foreign interference in our elections for some time now. PACs, dark money, etc etc. Anyone without their fingers on the scale stand a good chance of getting frozen out. This isn't to say its right or acceptable, its not, but it's reality. Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Nov 13, 2022 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:"Dubai: Not only is anything and everything we do an opulent, obnoxious dick-wave to show how much money we have, but we also gently caress with America's elections!" Playing around in US politics is just another way to use money.
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Grip it and rip it posted:Winston Churchill, ladies and gentlemen! can you really call it "interference" in a post-Citizens United world
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Zamujasa posted:can you really call it "interference" in a post-Citizens United world sure can when that money comes from foreign nationals
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Basticle posted:Are...are there good regional allies in the middle east? Iran, apparently. If they can sort out their theocracy issues, maybe we'll see Iranians going back to being the bluejeans-wearing US arms clients they used to be.
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Basticle posted:Are...are there good regional allies in the middle east? Egypt and Jordan.
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Sexual Lorax posted:sure can when that money comes from foreign nationals What about when foreign nationals funnel money to American citizens ostensibly for investment purposes but really in the interest of having some of those funds diverted into forming a super pac?
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Dance Officer posted:Egypt and Jordan. Egypt is a whiny basket case of a country that throws temper tantrums and threatens to align itself with Russia any time a U.S. diplomat raises the slightest objection to its atrocious human rights record.
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Yes and it's stayed aligned with the US since, what, the 70s? Both sides are playing pretend, nothing more.
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lol Saudi Arabia has been openly loving the US any way it can for ages, idk why it surprises anyone see: sucking SW US aquifers dry to irrigate livestock feed
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Grip it and rip it posted:What about when foreign nationals funnel money to American citizens ostensibly for investment purposes but really in the interest of having some of those funds diverted into forming a super pac? no idea honestly but if one layer of money laundering like that is enough to stump investigators we probably deserve what we get id be interested in learning more about low profile foreign election interference charges but my gut says theyd wind up as people on the us citizen side getting popped for not registering as a foreign agent for lobbying purposes or whatever
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CommieGIR posted:Something something golden calfs The aluminium mooncalf.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I liked with how crypto had folk handwaving stuff like “this exchange was originally for selling magic cards,” or “this fund’s founder may not really exist,” or “everyone involved in this fund lives somewhere far outside the reach of litigation” as long as numbers were going up. Even better: it wasn't for real Magic cards, it was for cards in Magic: The Gathering Online. Obviously a trustworthy institution to put all your money in.
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Floodkiller posted:Even better: it wasn't for real Magic cards, it was for cards in Magic: The Gathering Online. Obviously a trustworthy institution to put all your money in. Oh yes, the game they have rebooted and taken away all your cards in at least once
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Well I was just now years old when the Mtgox name suddenly made sense. I didn't know about the MTG thing lmao
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Coasterphreak posted:lol Saudi Arabia has been openly loving the US any way it can for ages, idk why it surprises anyone I'd like to know more.
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Floodkiller posted:Even better: it wasn't for real Magic cards, it was for cards in Magic: The Gathering Online. Obviously a trustworthy institution to put all your money in. Ahahaha I didn’t know that
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Yup. It was Magic: The Gathering Online - eXchange. Mark Karpeles didn’t start it, but rather bought it after it had already pivoted to bitcoin iirc.
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MA-Horus posted:Mtgox feels like another lifetime ago I'll say. There's whole new generations of cryptobro that don't even know about it. I was trying to explain to one why I had been loosely following along with cryptonews without telling them about SA but had never bought into it. When I mentioned that the 1st big red flag on it was their most popular exchange site for years being repurposed from MTGO they had no idea.
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A.o.D. posted:I'd like to know more. Ag stuff like alfalfa and almonds take a lot of water and are exported due to market price. Saudi Arabia and China invest in producers to increase food security in their country. It is basically just exporting water.
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lightpole posted:Ag stuff like alfalfa and almonds take a lot of water and are exported due to market price. Saudi Arabia and China invest in producers to increase food security in their country. It is basically just exporting water. More. What percentage of western aquifer produce is funded by Saudi Princes? How dependant are they on US production?
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lightpole posted:Ag stuff like alfalfa and almonds take a lot of water and are exported due to market price. Saudi Arabia and China invest in producers to increase food security in their country. It is basically just exporting water. That doesn't sound sinister at all?
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Grip it and rip it posted:That doesn't sound sinister at all? probably why coasterphreak said it a different way when they brought it up
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Grip it and rip it posted:That doesn't sound sinister at all? Its not some sinister plot as much as market inefficiencies and poor water policy. In any length of time its extremely bad for the environment as aquifers are a limited resource. A slightly different can of worms would be water policy on Pacific Islands since those rely on aquifers as well and their collapse would make fresh water almost impossible to get. A.o.D. posted:More. What percentage of western aquifer produce is funded by Saudi Princes? How dependant are they on US production? That was just a nutshell view. I think the economist has decent articles on it but you might have to do your own research. As far as food security, it should be obvious that SA is almost 100% reliant on food imports.
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lightpole posted:As far as food security, it should be obvious that SA is almost 100% reliant on food imports. I initially read this as a slam about forums posters living entirely off pizza until I remembered Saudi Arabia.
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/10/legoland-south-korea-bond-market-crisis/quote:Imagine the turmoil if a newly elected president of the United States announced that the U.S. government would no longer honor any outstanding Treasury bills because most of them were issued under his profligate predecessor. That’s essentially what Kim Jin-tae, the governor of South Korea’s Gangwon province, did. In doing so, Kim sparked a nationwide credit crisis that is spreading internationally, in the most farcical and unnecessary economic self-destruction this side of Liz Truss.
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I don't dare log out. https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1592188128944705537 https://twitter.com/Cartoonbrains/status/1592233920036315138 Also unclear if he outright fired an engineer that called him on his bullshit in public after ol' Elon decided to vibes out his mouthhole. https://twitter.com/ShivAroor/status/1592201321830322176
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facialimpediment posted:I don't dare log out. Let me guess, he saw the list of "bloatware" that was abbreviations, didn't know what any of them meant and rather than ask what they meant, just assumed they were unneeded and broke another chunk of Twitter by disabling/deleting them.
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Randalor posted:Let me guess, he saw the list of "bloatware" that was abbreviations, didn't know what any of them meant and rather than ask what they meant, just assumed they were unneeded and broke another chunk of Twitter by disabling/deleting them. It appears to be something dumb like that. https://twitter.com/zachsilberberg/status/1592228112770924544 https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1592207891624505345
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