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Only the dollar amount, the number of kids and wives is confirmed by a German newspaper
Snopes does that pretty frequently, adjust what about the story they are "fact-checking" and then rate only that aspect to try and discredit the entire story
Read more carefully, language can be twisted quite easily
Offshoring with free trade means the whole global population is effectively in competition for jobs. Pay and benefits is reduced to the country willing to provide the cheapest labor with least protections and benefits.
But the difference here is there's not choice. There's plenty of people who want kids or want to retire, but can't because the job market is garbage due to artificially increased labor supply and thus they are forced to live hand to mouth
hopefully the prison reform bill helps
Although an interesting though I've had is that in the future people might get sent to jail on purpose for a non-violent offense because they'll essentially educate you while providing free room and board. There was a 60 minutes episode on an inmate who essentially was able to educate himself enough about the law to help appeal other convicts sentences and he became a lawyer when he got out.
I know if I was homeless I would consider it
Their seems to be a concerted effort to propagandize the population into believing that lowered living standards is a GOOD thing
Not being able to get a full time job with benefits isn't bad, it's the Gig Economy!
Not being able to afford a house or car isn't bad, it's the future!
Not being able to afford to have kids isn't bad, it's more freedom to do what you want!
Not being able to afford to retire isn't bad, it's empowering!
All the while the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. Globalism is neo-feudalism, offshoring and massive immigration lowers the cost of labor for the rich and the result is death of the middle class and the creation of a global equilibrium for wages.
Riots like the Yellow Vests in France are going to become common if nothing changes, people aren't going to just sit back for much longer
yeah, if bulls had been correct and there was a paradigm shift and Bitcoin soared to 100k this guy would have simply kept quiet about his prediction.
If he was truly confident in it he would have taken out a loan and put it on a binary option for bitcoin to be below X price 1 year later, or as you said gotten a broker account and shorted with 100x margin
I mean they had museum exhibits dedicated to comparing black people to animals
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/14/chinese-museum...
And then the whole million muslim concentration camp. Chinese are pretty big on xenophobia. It's basically how the communist party is able to hold every thing together, the century of humiliation and us against the world mentality
Considering the US is, you know, the US and a majority white country, it's not weird at all.
Indians and chinese make up something like 5% of the US population so for them to take up 90% of a select group can really only be caused by favoritism. Unless you want to open up the can of worms that certain races are just so far genetically superior in terms of intelligence that they are 20x more represented
Do you think it's normal for tech companies located in India and China to have parts of their company that are 90% white?
we used to invest $3 into infrastructure and science for every $1 in entitlements spending. Now we spend $5 in entitlements for every $1 in infrastructure/science
And people wonder why the US is falling apart and technological advances have slowed down.
We're living hand to mouth instead of investing in the future. The sad thing is that many of our problems could be solved permanently via technology rather than government.
Instead of creating the automobile people are trying to make horses faster
In what free market does a government subsidize a company and force competitors to give their native companies their IP to do business?
China never cared about free trade, they use it like a weapon to beat idealists like yourself over the head
What happens in 20 years when China has complete dominance of the solar market and those "cheap" solar panels get tripled in price because there is no competition left and the rest of the world can only grit their teeth?
Everyone trashed Trump for the solar tariffs but I liked it for this reason. Sure, temporarily they get more expensive but what happens in 20+ years when the world is reliant on solar power and China has a complete monopoly because they played the long game and subsidized it until all competitors died out?
China is playing the long game, the west plays quarter to quarter because of the stock market
realpolitik, anything Trump can use to turn the international community against China will be used
Bolsonaro's big quote is that "China isn't investing in Brazil, it's buying brazil". If Trump offers Bolsonaro a good trade deal I wouldn't be surprised to see him take it to get away from China's influence
Brave browser is solid as well, built in ad blocking and Tor support. CEO is brandon eich and it's built on Chromium
trade, IP, muslim concentration camps, illegal island creation in south China sea, the list goes on.
Xi's power grab is only accepted because life is pretty good right now in China. He won't be able to maintain power over a billion hungry, angry chinese
The big thing nobody talks about with Bolsonaro though is the geopolitical implications with China. US and Brazil could starve China into compliance as they produce around 80% of the worlds soy and corn. Nobody is talking about that aspect,the fact that brazil has non-socialist anti-China leader for the first time in decades, although Trump must be aware because he sent Bolton down to Brazil and invited Bolsonaro to the white house
It applies beyond China as well. They could just become OPEC for food and both countries would benefit from being able to jack up prices on crops and livestock.
With how much money China has dumped into Africa and Nigeria it seems awfully suspicious that this would happen. From my understanding not only would the Nigerian ISP need to make a mistake, but the China and Russian ISPs would also have had to overlook the same mistake.