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the deficits have increased massively in places like the USA and UK, and not because of public overspending on wasteful things like community libraries or subsidised tuition fees. the money printing - 'quantitative easing' - was all done for the benefit of the banking class and major financial institutions. we had 15 years of belt-tightening austerity only to spaff gigantic quantities up the wall on keeping the 1% solvent.

not to mention things like covid. probably wasted 5 years worth of cuts to public services for openly fraudulent PPE contracts, etc. a literal black hole. the UK spent several hundred billion on a track-and-trace app that never worked and wasn't fit for purpose. the govt can barely even say where all the money went. but sorry! that one bus a day connecting your market town to the nearest post-industrial dump has to be cancelled. we're all in it together ...

australians are dealing with some of the highest house prices in the world. money printer goes zoom, asset prices go sky high, major financial institutions and investors snap up housing stock, and ordinary workers get shit. yet you're full of stupid boomer-coded tabloid rhetoric about the fecklessness and irresponsibility of proles. next you'll be telling us you deserve all your comfort and young people need to quit netflix and avocados.



currently the political class aren't opposed to borrowing to spend on public investments. austerity seems to be a spent force. but let's not pretend the reasoning beyond a lost decade of productivity and growth was 'principled'. we had the LOWEST INTEREST RATES possible for 15 years and the government built zilch, with simultaneously the LOWEST RATES OF INVESTMENT in europe. when you wonder why the UK looks like a post-apocalyptic shithole today, and why everyone seems to have given up, it's because the political class absconded for 15 years and became chaperones for bankers.

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lol.

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Well like I said I would have let the banks fail and jail some bankers and politicians.

Not sure thats boomer-coded exactly but aanywaay.

MAGA had to make the Olympics gay.

I was enjoying watching culture war over hapa women loyalties.

But then the MAGA people wants us to celebrate men's hockey or something.

A very gay diversion. The Hindu midget they sent there reminds me of

nhl saying they're trying to attract a wider audience, right? here's the usa men's team laughing along with trump's misogyny, apparently some apparently throwing their own family (who are involvled in women's hockey?) under the bus? the women's team politely declines. 'prior obligations.' i imagine some speck of that was not wanting to be disappeared by dhs for angering the rotten tangerine.

the replacement guy's name is seriously markwayne? that's a first name in the states?

you really are not sending your best at this point. entering the biggest security+energy crisis since the 1970s and you've got a bunch of useful redneck idiots in charge. it would be funny if it weren't for the fact that a gaggle of morons in the west wing are materially making life worse for every other person on the planet.

mullin's just another sellout. he was there during the jan 6 attacks behind barricades. thought the violent protestors should be punished! when pressed, he's all like, "what about biden's pardons, huh? bet you didn't think that through!"

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He's native American you racist

i wouldn't mind hearing a press conference detailing the deaths of 150 iranian schoolgirls or 100 out-of-combat sailors if it came from a MF'er with a name like Stolid Eagle or Constipated Buffalo or whatever.

It was a training ship, a condition of attending the event was it carry no munitions, the US knew this.

So the mighty US Navy blew up an unarmed ship miles from the 'warzone' and not connected with its supposed pretext for going to war - Iran's nuclear capability.

it's not even the first torpedo kill in a long time. kind of tasteless seeing a 'secretary of war' beat his chest about the 'awesome killing streak multi-frag ultra-kill -- the first one since ww2!' not even close. how is your LARPing tough-guy secretary of defense so historically illiterate? the UK sank the flagship of the argentinian navy with a torpedo as recently as the 1980s ffs. americans should know ... you sold the fucking ship to them!

i’m not really sure what’re the intended ‘optics’ of the white house posting kill compilations set to grand theft auto music, but it actually makes your leadership look certifiably more nuts than the supposed religious extremists you’re fighting against.

watch an interview with an iranian military head or one of their media spokespeople. they’re more sober and eloquent than anyone from trump’s whole administration. i honestly think america is mystifying all its allies with the exception of israel.

yeah, you basically just took 2 years off the lifespan of 8 million people. dumbest administration in history.

and, of course, it won't be the human cost that leads trump to back down: it'll be an economic crisis, and rich people around him leaning on him.