But that’s also not Arnold - he’s publicly said that he arrived with like $20 in his pocket but he is not a self made man, he’s a community made man. He’s not a “bootstrap” believer, he’s very vocally against that mentality too.

He’s true old school Republican, where they have some misguided beliefs about national debt but aren’t absolute loons.

E: quick Google gives this https://youtu.be/DOldEbWxgdQ?si=uJ8_CsHzoUBHTbH4

Theres better vids of it, but still - Arnold has been pretty consistently a level headed guy politically, even if he’s not right all the time.

Approval voting is also good. Really any of the alternatives create more representative outcomes.

NCD leaking lmao

Not to mention this is essentially the same line of reasoning Repubs keep using to make voting worse for everyone. Can’t give out water in line to vote because you might be “buying votes”, so you gotta wait in line 6 hours in the hot sun if you’re in a poor district.

But hey, totally cool when it’s ol Musky doin it for cash not for health!

Well that’s just nifty. Thanks for letting me know!

That is a fun fact! What’s the difference?

Bud this is a US politics community. Using standard American TLAs (three letter acronyms ;) ) in an American community when discussing an American article is completely acceptable imo.

No point in getting a little spicy when you’re the one out of place - “when in Rome”, yeah?

Most of the EU has missed the target GDP spend by a significant margin for decades. The failure to penalize the annexation of Crimea and the EU’s almost wholesale inability to provide material to Ukraine without compromising their own defensive postures can be traced heavily to this funding failure.

Obama’s soft stance on Russia was certainly a large part of our current situation, but Merkel and the overly pacified EU were major contributors as well.

My sisters tongue swells up pretty badly if she has any mustard. Validated it with ground mustard seed. I had never heard of it either before that, but we did some googling and it’s a thing.

For sure, the lawyer is doing what he’s gotta do. Psychotic client, is all.

So the guys lawyer argued that he was just “trying to win an argument [online]”…

The guy doxxed his “opponent” and then went to her dying father’s hospital room while he was asleep, took a selfie without any consent, and publicly replied to her comment with the photo. I get the lawyer is just literally doing his job defending his client but holy shit that’s insane behavior.

How would “here’s me stalking your family” ever “win an argument” anyways???

You need to do it because it’s an unnecessary blocker. That’s the point. Poor people disproportionately struggle to jump through the hurdles in place for voting, and Poor people disproportionately vote D. R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of “fraud prevention”.

Teşekkürler!

I hope where you are now is more stable.

My girlfriend and her sister are also in the brain drain. Definitely a sad state of affairs, so many of her friends and friends family’s have been either political prisoners, or had ongoing court cases, etc.

I’ve been trying to learn Turkish so we can move her family over here too and I can actually chat with them, but I fear they’ll need to work on their English so they can get around.

I was just in Göcek and Ankara and I had some wildly interesting interactions with locals when they asked me how I liked Turkey.

“I like it, very beautiful country, lovely people, great food.”

“So you’d move here?”

“Uh… perhaps not”

“So you don’t like Turkey”

👀

lol

Pretty true. I have nothing really to add historically.

Having said that, there’s nothing preventing this status quo from changing in the future if enough economies decide the risk of an erratic main trade partner isn’t worth it anymore. The reward of controlling the main global reserve currency comes with the responsibility of not involving it in undue threats.

Ok, but why do all the major petroleum producers trade in USD? Yes the US buys a lot of oil, petrol, and natural gas, but the trading volume isn’t that atypical of other wealthy, large geographic regions. They use it because it’s stable, ubiquitous, and almost always accepted. If it’s not stable or ubiquitous anymore due to these sorts of sanctions, why would the petrol producers keep using it?

The who’s who of nefarious countries: “Hey US? Yeah some of us have concerns that maybe your currency can be used as a weapon against us, so we’re gonna do a whole bunch of political showboating to try to make a point. We’re not motivated enough to actually do something, though.”

DJT: “I’ll give you something to be concerned about. Our currency that I’m ostensibly protecting the use of will be totally useless for you!”

It’s like he doesn’t realize that the US dollar is the world reserve because of the stability and reliability of it. We got there using carrots, mostly, and he thinks the stick is a good idea…

My brother in christ you have less than a TB of storage. you’re very far from being a hoarder.

I still have my first 512GB HDD from when I was in high school and I’ve got over 32TB on my latest build, plus my archive of old drives I leave off until I need to access them. Join us, it’s better.

Solid assumptions! I’m actually a former competition shooter at the state level, but never national. I personally own an AR-15 that I use at the range sometimes.

I won’t be replying anymore, because you’re clearly as blinded by ideology as the people you rail so hard against. I hope you’re a teenager that will one day look back on this mentality with a sense of personal growth.

Have a good one.