u/leisesprecher

And you really think "the elites" are the ones buying and selling here?

Yes, they have a lot of wealth in stocks, but usually they simply own a large chunk of their (or their parents) company and the rest is managed by a fund manager. And if you have millions or billions, you don't need to think quarter to quarter.

One part is a reverse game of chicken, buy the dippest dip to realize most profit from less dippy dip buyers.

The other part is the assumption that this means the tariffs will never actually come or at least in a much relaxed form.

Hey, that's not fair! Most of them were not killed, but only mutilated too much to be ableish-bodied enough for the russian army!

(Serious note: this is the casuality number, that includes deaths, but also soldiers with wounds that put them out of service, like lost legs)

One might call me apologetic, but I personally feel like paying taxes is not exactly holocausty.

Then again, I don't know any rich people, so maybe I'm just biased.

Trump used to be rather transactional, though.

It's an evil logic, but there was an internal logic behind what he did in his first term. He bullied you into submission, and agreed to a deal if he thought it benefits him (him, not the USA).

Now, he's just on full autodestruct. There's zero logic behind it. Not even chaotic franticness like before, just erratic randomness.

Cattle cars, obviously.

I myself enjoyed every single lecture I had

I didn’t like all lecturers

Haters might call that a contradiction.

I didn’t confirm your experience, therefore I must be lying.

No, you're lying because you don't confirm the almost universal constant that nothing of that magnitude can be all positive. Net positive, sure. Mostly positive, absolutely. But *all* positive? Bullshit. Especially, if you keep backtracking.

You're lying to yourself, and you know it.

It is physically not possible to enjoy everything. You already backtracked, suddenly you were bored, but sitting through something boring is not bad for some reason?

And that is utter bullshit.

You can't be that dense to seriously say you enjoyed every single lecture. That's a lie, and you know it.

BTW, I'm from one of those "some countries". And no, nobody, not a single person enjoyed everything. That's not how reality works.

Who are you trying to impress here?

Sorry, but that's just an absolutely snobbish way of looking at education.

Of course it's an investment, you spent years of your life, took exams, wrote theses, sat in boring lectures because a person in their late teens and early 20s has nothing better to do than that? Yeah, sorry, that's bullshit and you know it.

If you look deep enough, pretty much every city's name is actually some banale description of the location or some guy who was relevant to it's founding.

Sure, but can you *prove* that they were not just incompetent?

You can blame the captain personally for negligence, sure, but unless he has instructions from an intelligence agency open on his desk, you can't prove anything political.

Considering the cable was likely cut by just dragging the anchor over the seafloor, there's not much to find. It's perfectly plausible that the crew consists of a bunch of idiots.

No matter what the truth actually is, it's impossible to prove.