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  • TankovayaDiviziyatome_irlme_irl
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    6 hours ago

    Two of my apps probably blocked me temporarily for using VPN. It’s sorted now but for months I was not able to log in to my shopping app and I have missed out on some deals. My gym membership was also inaccessible for two months.



  • I have to vehemently disagree because the Nazis are fucking overrated and don’t deserve too much credit. Very little known fact that most people don’t realise is that Nazi Germany was on a brink of another economic collapse before invading Poland. In spite of warning from his economic minister at the time, Hitler let government spending balloon because of rearmament and increased public spending including pageantries to distract and awe the public. Hitler did not want to hear any contrarian opinions and sidelined his economic minister. Hitler had to absolutely invade countries to plunder and fund his government. If there was no war, Nazi Germany would have just collapsed on its own.

    And lastly, if the Nazis were forward thinking, then why were they shocked when the Allies declared war on them? Hitler was deluded enough to think he could even convince the British to side with him to fight against communism.


  • So many Brexiteers despise EU’s regulations. They were not even hiding it when they released a book stating they will make London the “Singapore on Thames”. They tried to implement a libertarian economics under Liz Truss but it proved to be unpopular.

    There are interest groups in the EU who are pushing for more digital surveillance, but they kept losing (for now). With the UK no longer in the EU, such interest groups find it easier to impose their desire in the UK because the country is no longer subject to EU laws and regulations.



  • The problem is there isn’t actually centralisation on the global level, let alone harmonisation. Fiscal policies don’t work if there is no political streamlining. There is no such streamlining if there isn’t any grassroots and political will.

    I’m speaking from the EU experience. The euro isn’t really causing problems. The difference is that the European Central Bank is regulated than IMF.








  • Unsurprisingly, some U.S. lawmakers are already trying to stop those cars from coming over the border.

    Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Rep. Haley Stevens recently introduced the Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act, which aims to ban connected cars built or designed in China, as well as other adversarial countries like Russia and Iran, from entering the U.S.

    This is something Ford CEO Jim Farley called for earlier this year.

    “We should not let them into our country,” Farley said during an appearance on Fox & Friends, according to Bloomberg. “Manufacturing is the heart and soul of our country, and for us to lose that to those exports would be devastating to our country.”

    Capitalists and CEOs: It’s not free market when I have to compete!


  • TankovayaDiviziyatome_irlMe_irl
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    1 day ago

    And in Ireland and UK, we’re all a sarcastic bunch. It’s “a you problem” if the person can’t get sarcasm. I refuse to add /s for the rest of the serious world!