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I read an article recently that suggested that Trump's mission was some sort of new world order. However, how I see it, seems more like a disorder here.
dingo wrote to Darkman Almighty <=-
On Saturday, February 15th Darkman Almighty muttered...
I read an article recently that suggested that Trump's mission was some sort of new world order. However, how I see it, seems more like a
disorder here.
Causing financial ruin and disruption to everyone and everything as a whole, even if it causes everybody to equally become less wealthy, by devaluing the dollar to 10% of its previous purchasing power, for
example, creates more poverty, thereby making the rich more powerful.
A 500 billionare's net worth devalued to 50 billion is much more
powerful in a world where a common person's 200k net worth is devalued
to 20k. It means more failed small businesses, it means we can pay more money for decreasing choices. For example, closing rural USPS means you will want to buy from Amazon through their "free shipping" prime membership rather than pay $25 carrier shipping from anyone else, as
one example. We become beholden to the powerful and wealthy
corporations, they "help us save money" during these times. Our
remaining available spending power is shifted towards fewer people.
It's worth looking at the great depression, how some wealthy people survived it by being conservative with their finances, while those with risky investments lost it all. It's also worth looking into the causes
of the great depression and the lesser 2008 and others, and the regulations and policies that were created to mitigate them in the
future.
It seems the very policies (financial deregulation) that cuased
financial ruin in the past are presently being re-enacted, and, the
very regulatory bodies created to prevent them (CFPB etc) are being dismantled.
So it just seems to me that we are headed towards an economic
depression not because of any specific circumstance, but by design. Several families -- The Rockefeller, Mellon, Ford, and Kennedy
families, for example, became even *more* powerful and wealthy because
of the great depression. They had the Liquidity and diversification of portfolio to wait it out, and, when conditions return to normal, the reserves to rebuild new business during a time when their detractors
are financially ruined and unable to fairly compete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism#Dark_enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#Dark_Enlightenment
If I weren't personally affected, I would think this is pretty cool,
that an old Cult of the Dead Cow internet zine author would become the philosophical engine driving a US Presidency to destroy the economy.
These wikipedia articles aren't doing a very good job of describing it
but it's a start if you haven't heard of either of them before.
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sco/On Saturday, February 15th Darkman Almighty muttered...There have been some fringe movements in San Francisco - check out thenetworkstate.com and an interesting article at https://www.thenerdreich.com/balaji-srinivasans-gray-vision-for-san-franci
That describes quite a faustian future, where "grays" (tech-funded control the city at the expense of "blues" (traditional democrats) by partnering with the police and controlling access to "gray" parts of San Francisco.
I read an article recently that suggested that Trump's mission was some sort of new world order. However, how I see it, seems more like a
disorder here. The guy is causing so much upset with Canadian neighbors and soon the international community. I'm pretty sure there's no super power motive behind other than the abuse of power.
Causing financial ruin and disruption to everyone and everything as a whole, even if it causes everybody to equally become less wealthy, by devaluing the dollar to 10% of its previous purchasing power, for
example, creates more poverty, thereby making the rich more powerful.
k9zw wrote to Darkman Almighty <=-
On 15 Feb 2025, Darkman Almighty said the following...
I read an article recently that suggested that Trump's mission was some sort of new world order. However, how I see it, seems more like a
disorder here. The guy is causing so much upset with Canadian neighbors and soon the international community. I'm pretty sure there's no super power motive behind other than the abuse of power.
It is the media calling the Canadians "Snow Mexicans" isn't it?
k9zw wrote to dingo <=-
This big drop didn't happen in the last 30 days dude, rather have been
the game all along.
Hedging for currency unit value loss is a lot of why certain
commodities and most property are high sought after.
I would argue that the knowledge and learning each of us has is
decoupled from inflationary pressures, though it may go stale in other ways.
Interesting times!
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We need a generation of independent, skeptical journalists. My daughter
did a stint doing investigative reporting in middle school, and it
inspired her. I hope she follows through with it.
It's interesting seeing the rise in precious metals compared against the devaluation of currency. When you realize gold isn't increasing in value over time, but the value of money is decreasing - and, when adjusted for inflation, the exchange rate is roughly the same, it's eye-opening.