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He means surrender or fight.

Are there real concerns? Yes, some.

And a lot of those concerns will get worse by poverty and inequality but the right wing policies usually make that worse while blame it on the migrants. Rinse and repeat.

That’s what’s being reported. Tourisme to USA is down with 8% and everywhere else in the world it’s going up. Europe is breaking records this year.

Then you have conferences and conventions that moved out of the USA. Lots of anecdotes of an empty Vegas strip, guides in cities cutting back, airports not that busy anymore, etc in part because Americans can afford less, places for greedy/private equity and foreigners staying away more.

And next year might be worse.

“You fool, your have doomed yourself!”

"Look, I know, but it’s the end of the month. It’s buy now, pay later or nothing.’

It triggered a fetish in a number of people and because of that there were a number of disturbances in graveyards. The cartoons have been taken offline because of that /jk

it’s okay for other countries to charge this BS, the US should be able to as well.

That’s because other countries have the systems in place to handle the additional charges, but the US suddenly demands money for a package but doesn’t have the systems in place to handle the anything. No paperwork, no procedures, no amounts list, no account number. At this point all other countries are just waiting for the US to gets it shit sorted out so they can actually pay.

Bikes get a 2000 bikes per hour throughout on a 1 meter (3 feet) wide lane. Cars can get about 1900 vehicles per hour on a regular lane. Give bikes the same space as you give cars and bikes move a lot more people.

and the ones that knew how to get it all properly set up seems to have been fired or they’ve quit.

the lie that the US started the in Ukraine

That reasoning is simple. Putin lost his sock puppet in Ukraine in 2013 with the large protests. He blames the West and especially the USA for this by putting ideas of freedom in people’s head. Now, instead of having a sock puppet state he had to do things the hard way and invade. In Russian that translates to “They started the war”.

You’re not supposed to remember the Holocaust by repeating it, you know?

So busy being afraid of the West they’ll end up as a vassal state of the East.

just slim down the government

It’s an easy thing to say, but even with the waste and bloat the government function itself is just a few percent of the expense. Pensions, health, education and child support are the vast majority of expenses. Remove the money from government, tack in on to pensions and you kicked the can down the road for another few years. After that the pension and health costs increases and eats up the extra money due to ageing of the population. Now you’re back at square 1 but with a lot less people in government to keep things together.

You can’t use immigrants to work jobs and pay taxes. It was tried, got a bunch of backlash in the end and by now the right has their campaigns ready to go all out if somebody suggests this. Birth rate is going down so it’ll be rising costs of ageing and no new incomes from new workers. They’re f-ed and know it. We all knew this moment would come, but if somebody suggested saving now for later they got voted out of office so nothing got done.

It’s not that exclusive, it’s just the same as before. Although usually Putin also mentions something bout a regime change in Ukraine too.

The equivalent of the wife saying: “Happy wife, happy life!” then turning to her husband with a very terse “Isn’t that right?” to get a meek “yes, dear, of course, dear” back.

They’ve been privatizing the post in my country too. Competition sprung up and they only want to do the most profitable tasks of course, like package delivery and newspapers. The postal service is of course still stuck with letters. But they seem to have an advantage with package returns with their offices everywhere.

Then people only enable the option for one or two months during holiday season and they freak out and insist you have to subscribe for the full year.

Without any guarantees for peace, like joining NATO, any peace agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Putin will demand such things won’t happen and Trump will immediately agree.

So the parents should get additional fees for disturbing the peace if the kids go too far?

When current news gives you flashbacks to the Cyberpunk 2077 lore. The names and dates are different but the trends and events match enough to give the uncanny feeling. Agencies in the streets being deployed, USA in trade war losing irrelevance, going for the Central American war and then losing. By the way, that’s why cybernetic limbs got so good, they needed them to patch up the soldiers from that war.

There is no reason to believe this would end any different than any episode of Puppet Regime