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Now that you mention it, the real life DoW does feel like a parody of the TV show Space Force.

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Oh no. How will France survive now!

Well, the rich didn’t get rich by giving away their money.

To them it’s a status symbol - like how Apple products used to be status symbols for the plebeian (aka us).

Having multimillion dollar supercars, villas, mansions, seven bedroom apartments, etc., works well, but you’re only truly rich if you can show off how you didn’t actually lose any value to get those benefits. How you didn’t need to spend a single penny of your wealth to live the rich life.

The idea is that “rich people spend their money” - which, let’s be honest, is blatantly untrue.

The rich don’t spend their own money. They trade favours. Hell, if you have $1mil on your hand, you can easily walk into a “rich people bank”, open an account and get free shit every month, beyond the very generous interest rates. Free concert/theatre tickets, and such. It’s like a casino hotel that tries to get you to stay with the freebies, but on an “I have a few million dollars in your bank” level.

Yep. Millionaires threaten to move away if they’re taxed, but they won’t. The convenience of having their high value properties in highly sought after areas, where all the services they use are present, is too enticing, and even a hefty tax won’t be a deterrent.

Just imagine how much upheaval it would cause you to move a few states over. For a millionaire… it’s the same except they’re used to so much beyond basic survival - their parties, their exclusive clubs, exclusive gatherings, private boxes in theatres, the list goes on.

Do you really see such a person moving to Bumfuck Nowhere, Nebraska, just because that town doesn’t tax millionaires? Do you really see them giving up 80-90% of the “rich life” just to save their wealth? Hell nah. As long as you’re not explicitly threatening to tax them out of existence, they’ll stay. Because unlike the average people they can afford that extra expense.

But of course they don’t want to, they just yap around threatening the move without committing to it.

Is there like, an actual list of shit these DOGE dumbasses did?

Not that I’m questioning that they did shit, but so far, being outside of the US, all I got was general accusations without any proof. I’d love to see the list of actual damage done, with receipts and all, just so it’s quantifiable.

And to suck Bubba off

Sadly the interconnectedness of the modern world means people of prominence need to suck up to those in power as to not draw their wrath.

Ronaldo might be representing some organisation that needs to be on the good side of the orange shitsack.

Pro doms do exist. Technically, it would be at their job…

The only time the US is united is when they’re under threat from an external source. Let it be the Soviet Union, or 9/11, y’all need an external enemy to unite against, otherwise all the differences come up… and y’all are simply incapable of discussing political differences because half the population still thinks black people were better off as slaves, while the other half simply demands basic respect for all people…

Not the 50 shades of grey I expected.

But dare even mutter a sentence akin to “Mossad must have kompromat on half the US establishment” and you’ll be labelled a conspiracy theorist…

So, Conservapedia, but with even more hare brained conspiracy theories?

Can we make one small change? Instead of legislature, make it legislator :3

The fact that you believe there’s actual talent overflow in the US makes me question just what you might consider “talent”. A warm body with the ability to turn on a computer is not “talent”.

No, the talent simply isn’t there in the numbers companies would need them. And this isn’t limited to the US only - even here in the UK, it’s a struggle to hire good talent, because the fields are incredibly muddled, especially since AI-aided engineering came to be.

For example, I work in software engineering. My role, aside from being a senior engineer, a systems architect and designer, also involves hiring. We’re actually hiring in a number of countries, US included, and I’m overseeing most of it. The applicant rates are simply abysmal. HR pre-filters our candidates, and that usually boils things down from around 1000 CVs to about 50 who actually make it to first roster, and from that 50, we end up actually interviewing maybe 5, because the rest obviously lack the required (and clearly indicated!) skills. And even from those 5, more often than not we choose none to hire because they don’t really reach the bare minimum for the position (and to be perfectly fair, the bar isn’t set too high). I’ve recently had a candidate who had a Masters in Computer Science and some 8 years of work experience, yet couldn’t name base components in the specific segment he’s been working in, nor could he define basic terms like SOLID or KISS.

And I’m hearing similar experiences from other fields too. Reality is, there’s not a lack of people but a lack of talent, which often needs to be imported. And blocking that import will simply result in the companies moving to locations where they can source the talent or where the talent is willing to move to. Previously that was the US, because even though the situation was quite shite, your country has done a great job hiding that via media propaganda. Now it isn’t, simply because y’all had to elect a racist demented dipshit.

Because without those visas, the non-American talent can’t be employed, and the US simply doesn’t have the local talent to fill those spots.

Which means companies will have only one way to keep up with the talent demand: employ it abroad. Which reduces the amount of tax paid to the US government, the amount of money that circulates in the economy, and so on.

Of course it won’t.

Just like how restoring the various production pipelines after the initial COVID lockdown shocks did nothing to grocery prices - because the prices didn’t go up due to actual hardship, it was all down to corporate greed. As it is right now.

Any reduction in the tariffs will be seen by corporates as a freebie, all the while they get to blame Trump (or even more likely, Biden) for it.

I mean ffs did any of y’all look at the various grocery corpo earnings in 2020-2023? Did y’all not see the massive bonuses handed out to the big bosses, while people were being laid off “due to economic hardships”? Did everyone just fucking forget that part? Or the part where prices could’ve come down, but they didn’t?

Base necessity foods - and thanks to the past 30-50 years of general improvements in living conditions, that category has been expanded quite a lot - simply won’t correlate with the “supply and demand” myth of the “free market”. People will need to buy bread regardless if a loaf is 80c or $5, regardless if that loaf went from 1kg to 500g, or if the quality dropped sharply. People will need to buy eggs even if it costs ten times as much as it did just a year or so ago. Grocery prices never ever go down because people NEED to buy them, corporate knows this, and will milk the pricing of these items as much as they can.

So all y’all can do, short of what most of your country would falsely call “communism” (things like price control on staple foods), is elect a fucking leader who’ll do preventative measures against price raises. And if you’re too big a dumbass to understand how tariffs work, maybe the right to vote is something you shouldn’t have.

The Memorial Hall for the victims of the Epstein-Trump Trafficking Organisation.