[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 23 points 22 hours ago

China is issuing dollar bonds at lower rates, so investors will buy China bonds instead of US treasury bonds, so the US government can no longer finance its spending

China is not issuing bonds at lower rates. It issuing them at very slightly higher rates.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

Ukraine arresting Zyklon Bibi would be a surefire way to get Biden to stop arms shipments lol

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Is that where they are holding the Nazi convention this year?

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been busy so haven't posted much lately, but I have been thinking about this a bit, and I think this is a pretty decent analysis, and in line with what I have said before about China's seeming reluctance to dedollarize at the moment. China's huge dollar surplus benefits their foreign policy/development plans. The dollar spends more farther than any other currency. They have a giant pit of dollars that they access very cheaply that they can throw at all sorts of BRI projects that foreign countries are going to be more than happy to accept. He's also right, IMO, that the US is kind of in a bind in that any way they attempt to fight China on this is going to hurt the US a lot, as well.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

The US I can understand. But why do the UK and France still have veto power?

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Chuds love to tell people how much more racist Japanese/Asian people are than Americans as an excuse for American racism. Will be very funny to see it flipped on them lol.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

Will is so jealous lmao

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 61 points 3 days ago

Seeing rumors that, in the wake of Dr. Oz being appointed to run CMS, Maury Povich will be appointed to run the Administration for Children and Families.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Trump said the pair would take on "the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake" as well as cutting what he called waste and fraud.

"Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country’s budget," Trump said in a statement. Saying Oz would be a leader in "incentivizing disease prevention".

The average time a person is with one health insurance company is 3 years in the US. That is because the majority of health insurance in the US is employer-funded, meaning the plans switch when the company switches administrators/plan offerings (like going from BCBS to UHC or not offering a PPO anymore), or when people move to a new job. There is no incentive for long-term preventative care. Insurers play hot potato with patients until they can finally dump them on Medicare, when all of those years of minimal preventative care results in chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. that CMS has to pay for. The only way to solve that is single payer healthcare.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 64 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The reasoning behind this attack seems to be to force Russia's hand, lest Putin look weak, and then in turn force Trump's hand, lest he look weak should he come in and attempt to deescalate after Russia and NATO start actually trading blows without all the subterfuge. It seems like the Biden/Starmer/Macron triumvirate are hoping for a "heads we win, tails you lose" style scenario. A "November Surprise" if you will. I'm not sure if it will play out that way, since a significant portion of Trump's base don't want war with Russia and he can probably come in and blame this all on Biden and the Democrats being warmongers.

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EDIT: Apparently the prior portrait was not of Nat Turner, despite what Google and some other websites said.

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