u/tischbier

Oh I see I see it’s the stump has sprouts and they will maybe grow? That’s fantastic news! I wish the tree well. It’s probably wondering what the f happened. Hadrian’s wall is a cool place to set down roots. I hope the tree is stubborn as hell and can start a new life.

They were grown ass men. Why the hell would they kill a living being like that? Trees talk to each other and they live well beyond our human years. The local area belongs more to the tree than any individual man—they’ll be here for centuries beyond us if they are lucky.

People don’t respect trees as much as they do animals and I do think that’s wrong. We should be very mindful of how we treat trees. I think we arrogantly underestimate plant life.

I’m sure some dwarves would call me a dirty elf for my feelings on this but chopping down trees like this for no reason is painful. I hope they get everything they deserve.

You’re a genius. I’m on it.

Always split the cache up. Some behind a fireplace suspended from a rope anchored in your attic. Some behind baseboard that isn’t nailed down. Some in the toilet tank. Don’t waste it all on the backyard.

Ja it’s the half meter Bratwurst for sure. That’s the main motivator to move to Deutschland. Große dicke Bratwurst 🤤

I thought we already proved multiple times that work from home clearly increased productivity across the board and reduced costs for the employ and employer.

The push to go back to an office is more about control. Not in a “I need to get my money out of you and make sure you’re ‘working’” but in a “I would rather spend more money to remind my workers that if they work for me—they are owned.”

It feels more like an issue with worker flexibility than worker productivity. Workers having a life and workers being happy means that they will eventually want other things. And usually those “other things” eventually lead to the owners losing a grip on societal and economic power.

Better to have workers not be people. People are unpredictable and profits need to predictably rise forever.

Oh that’s interesting. Thank you it’s great to know. I was just quoting Meloni directly—she’s stated verbatim in speeches last September (if my memory is correct) that she sees Russia as a threat. Now, do we take her word for it? Probably not. Probably not. It was a my a talk about EU/Nato defense spending.

I agree with you here-she’s absolutely saying one thing to the EU and keeping a backup plan with Putin. That’s what I really think too.

It’s funny you mention Locusts. I mentioned this analogy to someone recently. I see it exactly the same. Locusts triggering serotonin spikes in otherwise normal grasshoppers to join their locust swarm. And the swarm consumes and eats everything. And then when there’s nothing left to eat they eat each other and die.

Lack of territory, lack of resource, and high population density make locusts. I don’t think we are that much different .

Yeah exactly. Meloni has ripped apart lesbian families already. She’s only pro-EU because she’s Italy First. Italy is in the EU. Right now, this suits her position.

But she also praised Trump when he was elected. And while she sees Putin as a threat to Italy, she is ideologically closer to Trump than she is to the EU in many ways.

I’ll take your word on her praising Orban. Meloni is sharp and she understands posture and signals. This is a signal.

Ultimately she’ll probably fall in line with the other fascists. I feel like Italy could flip to Axis/Anerica/Russia if it gets bad enough. Which is one of my long term fears.

So, I agree with you. I’m rooting for the EU. Italy hasn’t had a good leader in a very very long time.

Great plan! I’ll tell all my EU family to vote for you—haha

I like this list. Should have been done already. Especially Le Pen and Orban—they have been on our radar for so long it’s absurd how they’ve been allowed to fester. AfD needs to go. I also am extremely skeptical and have my eye on Sahra Wagenknecht with her praise of Putin.

Sovereign countries have the right to remain sovereign and defend against foreign and domestic interlopers who wish to end their sovereignty. I’m rooting for you and if I gets bad enough I hope I can be allowed to lend myself to your fight.

You nailed it. I agree completely. This is getting a bit off topic now but it’s worth talking about. Sorry for the novel. It’s how I am.

I don’t know if you remember. In **2021 Spring** in America was a time when Americans had a renewed sense of hope (and for the first time in a long time, labor rights). That’s when that sub antiwork took off and it was before they paraded a Reddit mod stooge on Fox to mock the concept of labor rights.

Those short few months— the air changed. People were starting to realize we have collective power. That we were underpaid. People started quitting in droves. They changed jobs. There were many spots opened we had many die or become disabled, after all.

I drove across America twice during that period and people were quitting their shitty jobs in droves—Arizona, Kansas, Ohio—all the same. Sometimes during the shift they’d up and leave. *Incredible,* I remember thinking.

*But.* Then—big tech companies started to lay their workers off. Starting with Facebook most loudly. Zuckerberg release a statement that they “over hired” during the pandemic. Many tech companies followed suit laying-off in the same or similar amount. Using the same reasoning. Amazing—they *all* over hired.

I raise one eyebrow. The atmosphere in the air was still up but it began to mix with a foulness. I wondered then—is tech working together strategically? Maybe.

The tech layoffs were so many that NSA then hired a new public facing woman who started a public campaign to hire the laid off tech workers from the tech companies. The NSA even said smoking wasn’t an issue.

**2022-2024.** Profits soar. Layoffs continue. Prices increase. Trillion in unsecured PPP loans rock the Real Estate market. Interest rates rise—too little too late. Americans collectively fall back into deep dispair. A constant pressure on all of our chests. *We are sensitive—we all feel it.*

**In 2025**–Tech CEOs all congregate in Washington now and rifle through America’s treasury and fire Government Agents.

I raise both eyebrows. They do this for many reasons—but do we see the connection here? Economically they delete the federal safety net as the largest American job provider. Corralling workers and kettling us economically. This is Siege warfare.

Over the preceding few years leading up to the American Presidential election, American news outlets pounded that the economy was “bad.” Prices of goods were out of control because of…the supply chain? But when looking at the numbers, the price of goods were being raised much higher than was needed to cover their losses. *It is no longer price gouging but an economic siege, who is there to stop them?*

The Biden Administration was better than other Administrations at pursuing Anti-trust cases. In my opinion, it was another too little too late, but still appreciated.

The signal, or so I hoped, was that if Harris got in that the DoJ would continue to pursue anti-trust, criminal conspiracy, and price market manipulation cases that Biden Admin scored on. If anyone isn’t familiar— Biden admin was dunking guilty verdicts on Big Pharma companies to the tune of *billions* for criminal conspiracy to rig prices with competitors and other unsavory economic criminality.

I’m a criminal defense lawyer in practice but I wanted to switch to prosecuting Anti-Trust.

Now, I don’t know. The air is curdled.

**TLDR/My Point:**

I believe that the Corporate heads colluded together in mid-2021 to crush the short lived optimism we all felt in America. They manipulated the labor market and worked together to manipulate the consumer market. This effect is felt collectively all over the world but very much so domestically in America.

What we are in now—the globe and domestically as Americans—is an **Economic Siege**. You feel it. I feel it.

Corporations have become so large they rival the power of Nation States. They move like ghosts through the sphere of International Relations. I call them, *Geldgheist* or “Money-Ghost.”

We are no longer in a uni-polar world where America is top. But we are also not in a normal multi-polar world where _only_ Nation States hold power.

We are in a new era where these *Geldgheist* bastards, whom have no nationality or loyalty except to their own individual power, seek to topple all Western Democracy and corrupt our lands. We cannot wage traditional land war on them. They have no land to physically attack. No soldiers to fell.

So, the only option we (the West and our Pacific Allies) have is *economic war.* Citizens Boycott. Governments freeze assets, break up and dismantle the Techbro Geldgheist Corporations.

**Straight from the mouth of Geldgheist Musk himself, “[…] If that [American] pillar falls, the whole roof comes crashing down. There’s no place to hide. There’s no place to run.“**

We face this together now or we lose Western and Pacific democracy — there is no other option.

This is one of the issues with oligopoly and unrestricted subsidiaries. At that point, every product is an A/B test for the same few companies. The illusion of competition is confusing for the consumer.

But it’s also the nature of our current supply chain and how we manufacture goods—we make products together and goods don’t have a strict nationality anymore like citizens do.

The confusion is maybe a good wake up call for how insidious this issue has become. America slacked on enforcing their anti-trust laws and now the world gets to pay for their mistake.

I hope all of you boycott the hell out of America. It will hurt me personally, but it is necessary. Don’t let up.

That’s good to know even if anecdotal. Damn shame. My brother was born in Kostroma. I can’t imagine getting out, choosing to indoctrinate myself, and then voting for the party that hates Ausländers. Thanks for sharing.

Is there any country that is unscathed from this instability? This is the most global instability I’ve seen in my entire life. The Great Recession was one thing—this is much different.

I feel like every week a new country is wavering.