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Shahter wrote:
yeah yeah, largest economy in the world. measured in money they print themselves.Cybargs wrote:
Well maybe it has more to do with how massive the US military is and in addition the US is the largest economy in the world. nothing to do with "printing money."Shahter wrote:
zimbabwe can't - what did you call it? - "spam tomahawks" when others do not accept money they print. only civilized west is capable of doing that.
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i've lost track of who's trolling who.
maybe it's a massive layered nested trollchain
maybe it's a massive layered nested trollchain
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
you guys have got to admit that, from the perspective of a guy that lives in a country whose currency collapsed only two decades ago, the current state of the western markets must look pretty funny. i think you're denying him that fair criticism. our financial system is jacked up to shit with debt and defecit that is in no way ever really realistically payable. yet we consider ourselves very affluent. he's posting from a place where the entire economy was effectively wiped overnight.
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Its funny because shater is right. US in debt? PRINT MORE MONEY.
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Yeah, I don't know how Shahter was personally affected by the Russian economic collapse following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but while in Saint Petersburg, I heard many stories of families subsisting each day for a couple years solely on cabbage soup and similarly cheap and bland food. I imagine it was not a time he would be inclined to forget.
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Yeah, those couple years are called the dark ages.
Russia never really had a golden age like most of the rest of the world. Things have always been in some state of suck from what I understand.
Negative GDP growth from 50s-90s is pretty lulz.Macbeth wrote:
Russia never really had a golden age like most of the rest of the world. Things have always been in some state of suck from what I understand.
iirc their depression post 90s was worse than the great depression in most countries.
edit: mac it's not hard to see why when you consider that for 1/2-2/3 a year most of the country is frozen wasteland or boggy muck
edit: mac it's not hard to see why when you consider that for 1/2-2/3 a year most of the country is frozen wasteland or boggy muck
Last edited by Spark (2012-04-11 21:07:58)
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
macdonalds saved russia
I'll grant that the Russians are, as a people, historically some of the most stoic, grim, tough fuckers on the planet.
But, as a credible offensive military threat to the US.. Nope.
They're just enough to get the US to drop all the sideshows and focus on Russia alone.
But, as a credible offensive military threat to the US.. Nope.
They're just enough to get the US to drop all the sideshows and focus on Russia alone.
Good point. It's like playing rich with fancy cars and a playboy lifestyle whilst being millions of dollars in debt - or in the case of the US, thirteen-something-trillion.Uzique wrote:
you guys have got to admit that, from the perspective of a guy that lives in a country whose currency collapsed only two decades ago, the current state of the western markets must look pretty funny. i think you're denying him that fair criticism. our financial system is jacked up to shit with debt and defecit that is in no way ever really realistically payable. yet we consider ourselves very affluent. he's posting from a place where the entire economy was effectively wiped overnight.
They don't need to be, as they weren't in the cold war. Kept you running around like crazy chickens though.rdx-fx wrote:
But, as a credible offensive military threat to the US.. Nope
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Also helped make us a superpower.Dilbert_X wrote:
They don't need to be, as they weren't in the cold war. Kept you running around like crazy chickens though.rdx-fx wrote:
But, as a credible offensive military threat to the US.. Nope
World saw the US vs USSR as the major powers going toe to toe, and everyone lined up behind one of the two.
The show became the reality, because that's what people believed.
That's the magic in the US economy and politics, get enough people to believe the same half-truth, eventually it becomes the whole truth.
The only real 'hard currency' backing all of our political and economic confidence game, is our military.
Gold standard? Meh... We're on the lead & uranium standard
Biggest kid in the playground is still a big kidrdx-fx wrote:
Also helped make us a superpower bankrupt.
Fuck Israel
You're confusing the US with China.Cybargs wrote:
Well maybe it has more to do with how massive the US military is and in addition the US is the largest economy in the world. nothing to do with "printing money."Shahter wrote:
zimbabwe can't - what did you call it? - "spam tomahawks" when others do not accept money they print. only civilized west is capable of doing that.Cybargs wrote:
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economics how the fuck does that work.
any country can print money, look at zimbabwe theyre doing really well lol.
Purposely stupid, or just trolling?Chou wrote:
You're confusing the US with China.Cybargs wrote:
Well maybe it has more to do with how massive the US military is and in addition the US is the largest economy in the world. nothing to do with "printing money."Shahter wrote:
zimbabwe can't - what did you call it? - "spam tomahawks" when others do not accept money they print. only civilized west is capable of doing that.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Jay wrote:
Purposely stupid, or just trolling?Chou wrote:
You're confusing the US with China.Cybargs wrote:
Well maybe it has more to do with how massive the US military is and in addition the US is the largest economy in the world. nothing to do with "printing money."
And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.
shifty by the time you are middle-aged china will have overtaken america. bet it sucks that your wet-dream jingoism fantasy all through your teens was for 'mericuh now, doesn't it? if only you had grown up with an obsessive crush on china... you'd be in such a fortunate position!
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If Obama gets reelected I'm not going to disagree with you, We need drastic change and we need it now.
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he white boy from switzerland, great china will fuck him over his mortgage for sureUzique wrote:
shifty by the time you are middle-aged china will have overtaken america. bet it sucks that your wet-dream jingoism fantasy all through your teens was for 'mericuh now, doesn't it? if only you had grown up with an obsessive crush on china... you'd be in such a fortunate position!
Its my money and i need it now-Sh1fty- wrote:
If Obama gets reelected I'm not going to disagree with you, We need drastic change and we need it now.
i have a structured settlement and i need cash now
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