MTZCheckers, not chess.
marcosI wonder if this is the final nail that will decouple the world economy from the dollar.
But then, I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time. Trump is clearly playing 5D connect-4.
UnderpantsWeevilYou were not born when the decoupling began. You will not live to see it end.
I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time.
I mean, depends on who you ask. But there’s definitely been a deliberately effort from within the Silicon Valley wing of the economy to force people into using Cryptocurrency as a legally-compulsory dollar alternative.
You were not born when the decoupling began.
As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year.
We began decoupling when we took a militant policy against immigration. You can take that back to Clinton in the 90s or all the way back to Eisenhower in the 50s. But we’ve been adopting strains of isolationism straight back to the final days of WW2.
You could describe the Cold War as an enormous globalized decoupling event, which we tentatively recoiled from a few times before collapsing back into it.
MinnesotaGoddamit depends where you look. there’s been intentional economic globalism areas. regionalism? we applauded nixon for making inroads with china.
we applauded nixon for making inroads with china.
YMMV. The John Birchers hated that shit.
yeah they are a bunch of dipshits
Yerbouti
RememberTheApollo_If anything Trump was trying to prevent the change away from the petrodollar standard. That “currency” allows the US to run up debts because nobody wants the dollar to collapse and wreck everything traded in USD.
reuters.com/…/trumps-venezuela-oil-grab-revives-p…
I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: factually.co/…/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-pe…
Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world
Silver linings, I guess?
Eh, he’s pushed around and bribed to make certain decisions. He’s the right man for the job of accelerating the decline of the empire and the beginning of the multi-nodal world, whether he and his followers know it or not, simply because he truly has no spine, no morals, no ideology, he just cares about his money.
TomMasz
definitely_AIOr human lives.
laughing from my desk job at a Fortune 500 O&G company
TheAsianDonKnotsThat’s an ambitious perspective for a stick figure artist. I respect the effort.
Lemmyoutofhere1D Ludo be like: .
rustydrd
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 The cost of filling 52 pick-ups would be astronomical!
I hope gas goes up $10 a gallon. You oil dependent suckers.
Get a bike
Topped off the tanks yesterday. Since I mostly bike each tank lasts a month or more depending on how many times I have to shuttle kids.
I’d love for gas to go to $10 a gallon. I5 would be a ghost town. No traffic, save the environment (kind of). Oh yeah!
It kinda is / getting closer in Europe, people still drive a lot though… And my city has decent public transport.
It has that decent transportation be wise of that pricey gas
I just walk mostly
I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately we still get screwed even if we don’t drive, how else would food and supplies get delivered to shops? It’s all dependent on fossil fuels… Everything is going to be more expensive. I guess this is what Trump supporters think “owning the libs” is.
This is oversimplification, the market adjusts to price increases. Making new tech more and more options preferable.
Stop subsidizing gas and see how other fuels, other transportation. Options flourish.
An electric large carry truck will only happen when the market can prioritize it…like woth 10$ dollar gas.
You get it
I love you, let’s run away together.
I don’t know why you are getting down voted. It is a harsh reality that yeah cars suck, but if there is a near instant harsh transition away from cars that will directly harm the more susceptible groups like disabled, elderly, and very low income families far far worse than the people who are the actual problem. I feel for you and hope you do alright in this shitty future.
IMO People who are against cars should be advocating in support of real alternatives. Like well funded public transportation that working people can actually use and don’t make the commute twice as long.
Wait. So the president do control has prices? It’s so much different this time!
It’s crazy, this one little trick. Kicking off World War III. Why didn’t the libs think of it!?
They did.
Wrong, not even the neo libs wanted this both sides man.
Source: 12 years of Neoliberals rule and zero wars with Iran and instead a workable peace treaty.
Neocons all the way.
Once again the American people have decided to/tacitly accepted to invade, murder and pillage another society far away. Once again many Americans will doom themselves to Hell, where they rightfully belong. And the only way to make a Burger oppose this new human tragedy is to tell him the gas prices are up, lol. I have to laugh not to cry at how ridiculously vicious and inhumane that is… but this IS America. 😔🤷
Ok, so, what is your suggestion? The people who are directly perpetrating this war are hiding behind armed guards. Have you noticed that no rightwing politician in the US has done an interview outside since September 10th of last year?
It’s easy to sit at your keyboard and suggest people on the other side of the ocean fight and die for your conscience. It’s harder and more time consuming to build parallel systems to support those who are against the regime.
You probably think the media is telling you what’s happening over here, don’t you?
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” -John Brown
The war isn’t just with those in power, who as someone else pointed out are far beyond the reach of the average American, it’s with our neighbors and family members that support these leaders and policies. This administration is the fruit of a rotten tree, remove it without addressing the roots and it will just grow back in some new form, maybe next year, maybe next decade. Our elected officials that oppose this admin on paper do nothing with their power to stop it. Our courts either rubber stamp it or when they do rule against it get ignored because law enforcement is complicit.
A lone wolf might strike back here and there but such actions don’t make a difference because they are quickly neutralized, their targets are easily replaceable and elevated to martyrs.
Until the opposition has some semblance of unity, leadership, and the resolve to see through what is started to the brutal, bloody, bitter end; this is America. We’ll either keep telling ourselves “next election, next release of files, next court ruling, next protest will change this” and live under perpetual disappointment and tyranny (at home and abroad), or we’ll accept violence and gamble on which side has a better resolve. Gonna get real ugly once that Rubicon is crossed, and we all know it so that’s why nobody wants to be the first. Just ask true American hero John Brown.