Daniel Rubin ✅@plutus @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach
Massive inflation https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrD50idsmNf/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Japan Travel & Life Guide 🇯🇵 on Instagram: "🤯 What a huge difference! 🤔 JR Group will revise the content and price of the Japan Rail Pass around October. The Japan Rail Pass will be available on routes that were previously inaccessible, and the price will be substantially increased by up to 77%. 🙄 The revised service is for the “Nozomi” bullet train on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines and the “Mizuho” bullet train on the Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines, which are currently not available with the Japan Rail Pass. 🤭 After the revision, passengers will be able to board only the “Nozomi” and “Mizuho” bullet trains by purchasing a special ticket prior to boarding, in addition to the Japan Rail Pass. Prices and other details will be announced at a later date. 🥺 The price of the 7-day pass for standard cars used to be 29,650 yen at JR-appointed sales outlets and 33,610 yen at the dedicated website, but after the revision, the price will be unified to 50,000 yen, a maximum increase of approximately 69%. The price of the 7-day Green Pass was 39,600 yen and 44,810 yen, respectively, but the price will be unified to 70,000 yen, a maximum increase of 77%. 😶 More Details coming, stay tuned! #jrpass #jrpasstrip #jrpassjapan #japan #japantravel #japantrip #japannews #japanculutre #japanlife #japanesestyle #japanlover #japanawaits #japangram #japanlife #visitjapan #visitjapanjp"
4,066 likes, 322 comments - Japan Travel & Life Guide 🇯🇵 (@flipjapanguide) on Instagram: "🤯 What a huge difference! 🤔 JR Group will revise the content and price of the Japan Rail P..."
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Plutus@ForeignSubstance @rubecube12 @johnserwach
Why are those like you Daniel so disillusioned while many of your forefathers who had much much much less, never were? Yet these same ppl, especially the young, are totally incapable of self-reflection - what mistakes have they made (regardless of this supposed agenda society has against them)?
The Coddling of the American Mind moderated by Malcolm Gladwell
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I assure you there are ppl in your life, friends or acquaintances who've had it 100x worse than you growing up or at some stage, yet don't constantly bitch and moan about it.
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Yeah. I agree I see people who have been abused and had their lives ruined because boomer indulgence
All in the Family - Archie's first dinner with the Meathead
John Serwach ✅@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @plutus
When I was a kid we had to walk to school into the wind in winter. and we got real@snow back then.
@plutus @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach
I agree. And we didn't bailout the silent generation
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Really roughin it in SoCal
https://twitter.com/FT/status/1648542876433825792?s=20
@johnserwach @rubecube12 @plutus "And God forbid a (likely Christian) immigrant looking for rule of law and/or economic opportunity should get that job ahead of my 14-year-old."
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Need youth and charisma - this ain't the CCP politburo where 80 is middle age. Democracy at stake, ppl don't vote on nostalgia.
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You don’t want some crank like Bobby debating Biden - allow some real prospects to come through please. https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1648745205414125575?s=46&t=myUg8E_NfUxKRXrtk0UUnw
Brian Krassenstein on Twitter
“BREAKING: As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Officially announces he will run against Biden for the Democratic nomination, I think it's important to point out that he has propagated way too many conspiracy theories. RFK Jr. has claimed the following outlandish things: - Covid and…”
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That's the point - crack-pots don't care about respect or precedence and have no qualms getting in and revealing Joe's obvious weaknesses. Bobby is just the start, there will be other eminently more qualified.
Hang up the boots now Joe.
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Bobby ain’t gonna get any play on tv etc. ain’t heard boo from him yet and the crazy anti maskers are all in for trump- so where’s his base ?
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Who in their right mind with a d next to there name is going to challenge the Messiah - Joe Biden ?
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If I didn't think the rank and file were not so deferential to the office of the presidency - I would not be hitting on this point so much.
It is the very idea that there is no competition to Joe unless he/dem leadership allows it - I find troubling.
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There could be competition- there certainly was in 2020 - and he destroyed them all! No one wants to put their privates in a meat grinder - what would they argue ? Unemployment is too high? He’s too old (that will play well) ? I clarion is too high? Stagflation? Hostages in Iran ? Ukraine ? What? The cupboard is bare.
The country wants a workhorse not a show horse.
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Sorry, but The country ain’t practical - models > moms
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Raising taxes is the only way to bring inflation down. Monetary policy is ineffective https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cqoo_fHrAl6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
The Australia Institute on Instagram: ""69% of that inflation is caused by excess profits from large corporations gouging higher prices." It's always great to see our research out in the world! Cheers to Alan Gray from Bush Money Mob for mentioning our research into the profit-price spiral on The Drum!"
13K likes, 575 comments - The Australia Institute (@theausinstitute) on Instagram: ""69% of that inflation is caused by excess profits from large corporations gouging higher prices...."
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How much does an abandoned house cost?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPK1uYM7xo/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Caleb Simpson on Instagram: "@antonwormann Location: Tokyo This is the last EP in the Tokyo Series! Such a highlight to end on. Thanks so much for letting me stay the evening was a beautiful place to stay for the evening. Very peaceful 🫶 I’ll be back soon Japan 🇯🇵"
417K likes, 1,423 comments - Caleb Simpson (@calebwsimpson) on Instagram: "@antonwormann Location: Tokyo This is the last EP in the Tokyo Series! Such a highlight to en..."
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Not Wong Danny not Wong
https://youtu.be/QGP1O38ynns
The Problem with "The College Experience" | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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What magas/Danny’s don’t get is that Macron needs the Chinese wealthy to buy French luxury-goods as that’s a mainstay of his economy. To deduce macron is pivoting is beyond insanity. https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1649155305400352772?s=46&t=myUg8E_NfUxKRXrtk0UUnw
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France needs china to manufacture its goods for cheep
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China pivoting from US manufacturing to European manufacturing
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You can't be that... and still call yourself a dem (that's just a play on the margins).
@plutus @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach
I'm just describing what's happening. France and Germany are getting flows from china reducing their borrowing cost and are increasing their outsourcing to china
@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach
2 years of lockdowns + 1 billion ppl - they have to eat at some point
* Yes, the country isn't blowing up tomorrow or next 5 years
* They have insurmountable demographics issues
* They have no fookin dollars to buy anything that's why every single billionaire has majority of assets outside the country
- not everything is binary
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Texture nuance/push pull
China may do better next year than now.
The dye is cast in terms of longer-term travails as Xi has been the dumbest chair in 50 years.
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That's pretty priced. Even Song said Mao 2.0. Everyone agrees
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Geezus H - Japan in 30 years of retrenchment - but everyone knew... doesn't mean it doesn't follow thru
China will suffer a much worse fate for its citizenry
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Mao 2.0 wont live more than 8 years. He's morbidly obease and chinese medicine is way behind. He's already 70
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The goal of every Matthew Pines Will DeCotiis is to (use clickbait type tweets) to build a following to start their own Youtube Biz
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I don't even know what they are thinking. Who cares
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Do you understand the mindset of the CCP cult is 100 times more entrenched and insidious versus say the Russian leadership or any other authoritarian state.
There has been a caste system installed since Deng - where sons/daughters of the revolutionaries are provided the only pathway to any type of serious leadership position.
Everyone is defined by their specific background and everyone know where everyone else stands.
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This is shit is even more refined than the state model described in 1984 - you have no idea.
The point being, the structure is maintained regardless if Xi is at the head of it.
It's very much like North Korea.
Eastern European or Middle Eastern autocracies have nothing like this.
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Song albeit having spent all of his formative years in China and having relatives high up in the govt structure - is not a student of history nor is he a deep thinker.
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Everything that's transpired under Xi - I foretold 5 years ago to him and he was poopooing it up until now - when his family is affected. That's how ppl behave.
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It's the very reason that dude Jah (alsynergy2020) can see very clearly what's happening in China but be completely blinded to Modi's deceit. Ppl are petty and tribal.