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I'm a high school teacher, today I taught my class about the Bolshevik Revolution and they mostly agreed that Marxism is the only path towards liberation. One student argued but we changed his mind quickly.

— andrew (@mrnastynodrama) June 19, 2024

Lol look at this cute twink

I thought this was a troll. Hes an actual bugman Will Stancil retweeter

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That would explain why nation states like China and Japan, even though they are smarter than the modern day US, are doing worse than the US. They haven't had as much time to optimize their societies for the area their nation covers and the lifestyles they live.

The US has existed in its current form since 1787 ( Delaware, last state to join the union ). That's 237 years to optimize the same land area.

Modern Japan historically came to be in 1868, which gives it 156 years to optimize itself. Although I would argue that Japan was completely changed after WW2 where they had to surrender their territories that were considered part of the Japanese empire outside of Japan. Which makes it 67 years to optimize itself.

The republic of China was founded in 1912. That's 112 years to optimize itself. However, it took over Tibet in 1951 which is a big enough piece of land to count as a major change in its territory that it has to work over. Which makes it 73 years. 1949 when the Chinese government fled to Taiwan which makes it 75 years.

India gained its independence in 1947. That's 77 years.

Stability leads to growth when it isn't leading to stagnation.

The US is the only place that has had the chance to be stable for as long as it has at its current size.

The fact that even with that large a time gap, the US isn't centuries ahead of the rest of the world suggests that the US has actually been underperforming taking all of its advantages into account.

The modern Chinese state has existed for half as long as the US and already crossed it in terms of PPP GDP.

China has 4x the population of the US, and a higher IQ.

China taking into account that it is half the age of the US, has been growing at a rate of more than 3x compared to the US since its inception to be able to keep up.

Even now the Chinese economy continues to grow at a more rapid rate than the US.

Given enough time the Chinese would obviously outgrow the US, being smarter than them long enough would accumulate the benefits.

The primary challenge that persists for the US is that the population of China is too high compared to that of the US.

The average Chinese is smarter than the average American. The average Chinese needs to be only 1/4th as efficient as the average American to surpass their economy. The Chinese economy is not 1/4th as efficient though, it is far more efficient than that even if not as efficient as the US economy.

China will naturally surpass the US if both the entities maintain their current form, given enough time there is no doubt about that.

The disadvantage over the long run exists for the US as it has to remain 2x more competitive than the Chinese at the end of the century even when taking population loss into account.

Conclusion:

The only solution for the US to remain a future global hegemony is to form a larger union. The average Chinese is well on his way to be more competent than the average European. The US could maintain a 10-15% performance lead over the Chinese into the next century but it is not possible for them to remain two times more productive than the Chinese for that long as the Chinese intellectual competence accumulates over time.

China is guaranteed to overtake the US by 2100 at most if the US does not become an expansionist empire.

Technologically the Chinese are catching up at a speedrun pace.

https://international.la-croix.com/world/objective-moon-china-is-20-to-30-years-behind-the-united-states

Even with all the current disadvantages, we can expect a 1.5x growth advantage in favor of China vs US.

That's easily enough for China to cross the US by the end of the century in terms of nominal GDP.

The US has no choice but to increase immigration and to expand its territories this century to maintain its position as global number 1.

Conclusion 2:

North American Union formed before 2100 to be able to keep ahead of China.

Keine Rettungskette.
Keine Kultur.
Kein Erbarmen.
Keine Chance.pic.twitter.com/XhFyaS10ae

— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) June 22, 2024

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Watching how they slowly realising that they got owned is kino. But another kino they been using for a new Maidan

Basically opposition started targeting very close folks to Zelenskyy like

@Arestovitch says

“ convincingly shows that Energoatom is embarking on an uh... to put it mildly, dubious project (very similar to cutting for unfinished construction) 140 billion hryvnia - almost 3.5 billion dollars.

So that you understand, this amount is 100 F-16.

In words - one hundred.

A certain Natalya Boyko, adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, appears under the post of Sergei Makogon, and answers the question:

• Aren't you going to spend 3.5 billion in your pockets there, in the government, he answers that Russian content is not being used.

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This is how it all works here, dear “patriots”:

• we frick and frick in embroidered shirts.

It's been working for a hundred years now.

By the way, about the F-16.

Don't rely too much on the F-16.

With this level of organization, Western assistance will not be used with the required degree of effectiveness. “

Other started attacking some minister that is covering some call Center

This guy is supposedly the 3rd man in Ukraine and the goal of opposition to show he is corrupt and get rid of him. And it's seems it had some effect:

He closed his Facebook profile and there already memes about it:

As you already know Yermark the guy who stand last on the pic is the main guy in Ukraine.

This also wouldn't happened without oppositions support.

What funniest in this situation is that all the opposition were saying

Oh no Russia will start non stop propaganda when Zelenskyy will become officially un elected president on 23 May… but in reality he will still be legal president to us Ukrainian.

And in early April they started questioning Zelenskyy legitimacy

It's normal politic tho everyone wants to eat each other but in Ukrainian case the fight could be very fierce since non of politics expect Ukraine to survive so Ukraine is on mode where they need to stealmax before it all falls apart.

very nice. now lets see men's crime statistics https://t.co/RJOIB38YBr pic.twitter.com/ePqcy96bdH

— iTalkShit (addy era) (@sigmathots) June 20, 2024

Another thread:

https://twitter.com/mehtabackupacc/status/1804018368300609780

This is basically the exchange whenever someone brings up race. I hate women.

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Maybe people are just tired of the constant whining that appears in almost every online fandom."The pacing on XXX is too slow, and the dialogue is forced and unnatural, and everyone NEEDS to hear my opinions about it!" No, we don't. We don't care. Your well intentioned, highly logical, nuanced but negative take on a TV show is just more online negativity, and it's not wanted. (-10)

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I will speak to my own experience with Disney Star Wars hereI think Disney has done a lot of good with Star Wars that tends to get ignored/overlooked. Generally due to over focus on shows that really are bad.Some of my favourite Star Wars media have come from Disney, and in turn my least favourite piece of Star Wars media has as well. Nuanced conversations need to be had, and minorities being in Star Wars properties isn't what's making the shows bad. It's just bad writing. But unfortunately there are some people in the community that seen inclusivity as automatically bad and therefore write a show off. Even if it's pretty good.I do hope as a community we can get past this. If you don't like a show, youre not forced by Disney to watch it. Just don't watch it, unsub from Disney+. Voting with your wallet is more impactful than whining on Reddit/Youtube/Twitter (4)

Hard agree. Even if you put a gun to my head I wouldn't be able to remember the plot of the sequels, but the Mandalorian (at least the first season) is one of my favorite pieces of Star Wars media.I think over-generalization is the biggest issue in the community right now. This obsessive "us vs them" mentality is doing more damage than anything Disney could do. There are racists who hate Disney because there's a black lady in Star Wars, but not everyone who criticizes Disney is one of them. Likewise there are people who call every critic racist, but not everyone who defends Disney SW is one of them.Instead of taking the time to notice these problem people and distance themselves from them, it becomes: "You (don't) like Disney SW? Me too, we are now part of a collective. Anything someone says about you must also apply to me." (1)

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Speak for yourself. People should be allowed to have opinions and most shows and movies are not worth remembering in the long run. (7)

Absolutely, you're correct. Of course people should be allowed to have opinions, and express them. But you can't expect other people to care about your opinion. OP seemed distraught that no one was taking his opinions seriously. Even though he isn't one of the bad actors online, he still had important criticism to render. I was simply pointing out why he wasn't be acknowledged. Because people are tired of 'your' opinion.In my opinion that is (1)

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So, if you follow Donald Trump at all, then you have undoubtedly heard of his social media platform, Truth Social. It was launched in 2021 after Trump was banned from almost all other social media platforms following the events of January 6th.

Truth Social had a brief moment in the sun earlier this year:

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246645808/truth-social-shares-windfall-trump-media-technology-group

Former President Trump is set to get $1.2 billion richer — at least on paper.

The windfall comes thanks to being rewarded with an additional 36 million shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind his Truth Social app.

The shares are a bonus provided to him after Trump Media traded above a certain level for a set number of days.

Well, that moment - which was only last April - is long over now.

Truth Social stock is now crashing almost as hard as Trump will in this year's presidential election:

In other words, a typical Trump business endeavor.

To be fair, though, Truth Social wasn't all bad. I mean, hey, it got Devin Nunez out of Congress.

Post title:

TIL that IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad (who started the company when he was 17) flew coach, stayed in budget hotels, drove a 20 yo Volvo and always tried to get his haircuts in poor countries. He died at 91 in 2018 with an estimated net worth of almost $60 billion.

Let's do this Sneedman style again. Tessa Fowler is the femme du jure.

!coomers behave

My favorite anecdote about him: "Even though he had a car, Kamprad often used the bus. In fact, he was once refused entry into a gala because he had arrived on the bus. He had to attend the event to receive a 'businessman of the year' award."

He also liked to eat lunch at IKEAs, preferably before noon, when the coffee was free. Oh, and also, he was an active member of the Swedish nazi movement in the 40s

True to the region he grew up in, he was stingy.

!chuds it is okay to label an entire race as monetarily stingy

A lot of it is myth that he carefully crafted. He most definitely drove Porsches and luxury cars, lived in mansions in Switzerland, flew private jets. They peddled this story so that when IKEA really fricked up (cutting down virgin forests, using prisoners as cheap labor, etc.), they sent out Kamprad in a off brand suit where he yapped about being a simple man and that mistakes were made, blah blah, the media fawned over it and the issue forgotten.

Whatever all this haircut nonsense is

!burgers

"Nobody needs $60B" and something about Costco

This concludes my effortpost.

P.S.

!alligatorfrickhouse and !fhqwhgads I forgot to say hi

We just busted the head of the LGBTQ Dems of Maryland going after a 14-year-old. 😳

Groomers are about to be mad.

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— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) June 22, 2024

Someone ping christcucks if you want to mindbreak them. I wonna see them refute this one