Thank you comrade @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the Venezuelan election posting on the prior thread

Absolutely heartbreaking. Couldn't get through a single section without tearing up. Death to Israel

while losses like these are large and indicative of poor lending practices for mortgages, there was more at play for the 2008 market implosion. It wasnt just defaults on mortgage-backed securities, but the widespread failure (fraud imo) of rating agencies giving these MBS good ratings, the trillions of dollars of derivatives betting on those false ratings, and the failure (fraud imo) of regulatory bodies to identify and mitigate any of this. A mortgage crisis is surely happening but i doubt the fallout will be anywhere near 2008. but i stopped paying attention to financial regulatory policy in the early trump years after he undid the measly measures obama put in place post-crisis so your guess is as good as mine

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This is wild. I would imagine you shed some turnout for an incumbent, but this is a reduction over 50%. My vibes based analysis to this point expected this, but the results are so much more extreme

Everything remotely bad is attributed to Russian/Chinese subterfuge. I'm reminded of the nordstream explosion. every liberal in my personal life was convinced russia sabotaged their own pipeline. no amount of common sense or evidence could override the decades of propaganda.

This is their own update as of 1/25, showing 152 workers killed

there are comments in this very thread that are doing that lol

It finally happened, today is a good day

Absolutely. The way that I have been able to break through with the liberals in my life has been by comparing it to the Nat Turner's rebellion, the Haitian slave revolt, or the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Sure, you can sit here comfortably in the imperial core and talk about how no violence is acceptable, but could you honestly blame the slave or the ghettoized for their violent uprisings? Especially since any attempts at negotiations or peaceful protest have been met with violence in this case - the 2005 ceasefire and the march of return.

Abhorring violence of this type is liberal idealism at its finest

On the topic of uranium / enrichment, its interesting to note that uranium & SWU trade between the US & USSR never really faltered, even during the height of the cold war. The global market for raw uranium is small, and its even smaller for SWU. I think its just once of those industries that doesn't always feel the same disruptions from international relations