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Cake day: February 5th, 2025
  • Xanza@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump threatens to blow apart entire G7 to protect PutinEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Have you uh… actually been to China?

    Yes. Almost a dozen times.

    Or talked to anyone from China (in real life)?

    Yes.

    Without fail, anyone with the means is actively trying to leave.

    Have you thought about why? Ask them to describe the US. They’ve been told an astonishing amount of propaganda about the US that is all incredibly untrue. I’m telling you. Actually talk to these people that you’re “in contact” with about how they view the US. They believe that every US Citizen is a millionaire. They think we have good healthcare. They think we all live in great houses. They think we all work a few hours a week and get paid a lot for it… It’s never ending. So I mean, yeah. If you get told there are places like that in the world of course you would want to leave your home country.

  • Xanza@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump threatens to blow apart entire G7 to protect PutinEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    I’ve come to notice that the rest of the world is already beginning to leave us behind. The realization came with the TikTok ban. Soon as I heard that TikTok could be banned, I started looking for alternatives because I was pretty sure it was going to happen. I stumbled upon XHS by accident and about a month before everyone else. I was absolutely fucking blown away by China. It’s unlike we’ve been told in almost all respects…

    I really came to realize that other countries are leaving us in their dust and it’s only a matter of time before we’re not the Apex predator anymore, and frankly I can hardly blame them.

  • Xanza@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump administration labels 8 Latin American cartels as 'foreign terrorist organizations' - ABC NewsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I quite literally don’t have the mental fortitude to fight with your incompetence. It absolutely amazes me that we live in a day and a time when people like you don’t understand what renaming something is. It makes me want to fucking cry–how we could have fallen so far as a civilization…

    See my analogy about the school principal. I pray you’re smart enough to connect the dots, but I’m not holding out hope.

    I can’t find reference to this, and Google’s saying that it’s their choice here:

    Of course it’s their choice. In the same way that it’s your choice whether or not to pay taxes. That doesn’t mean there’s no consequences if you don’t.

  • Xanza@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump administration labels 8 Latin American cartels as 'foreign terrorist organizations' - ABC NewsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    A country can specify use of an official name internally.

    Which is not renaming. That’s not what that word means.

    But a leader could tell the government that he runs to use it.

    Yes, this is exactly what I’ve said. Trump spent tens of millions telling his own Government to change the designation of a location that we don’t own, and people suck his dick like he did something amazing. He quite literally wasted everyone’s time and money for nothing.

    Even in the US, private organizations are not legally-required to call it “Gulf of America”.

    This is incorrect. Google, a private organization is legally required to call it the Gulf of America because they’re a defense contractor.

    It’s not that unusual for names to differ across countries.

    This isn’t a difference in language. It’s been called the Gulf of Mexico globally since 1550. So for 475 years every single country in the world has called it by its proper name, and now, for no reason whatsoever, we call it something different. The sheer ignorance and stupidity of it is positively baffling–most of all because people pretend like it’s not a big deal.

  • Xanza@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump administration labels 8 Latin American cartels as 'foreign terrorist organizations' - ABC NewsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This is why I hate you people. Like truly hate you. Because you’re so incredibly fucking stupid. Trump didn’t even rename the damn thing. Not only does he not have that power, but it’s not an asset owned by the US. But even if we did own it, he still couldn’t do it. What he did was change US official policy to reflect that the Gulf of Mexico should now federally be referred to as the Gulf of America.

    You don’t even understand what it is that he did. It’s tantamount to getting a phone call by your kids Principal saying “hey, I renamed your kid to Samantha” and you being like “well, that’s not legal… why are you so goddamn stupid?” and people being like “LOL THE PRINCIPAL ALREADY RENAMED HER, YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH REALITY! TEEE HEE!” when in “reality” the only thing the Principal did was update your kids name in the schools computer software because it’s not possible for someone to rename shit that they don’t own…

    That’s not even a statement I can respond to

    Yeah. I figured you couldn’t.

    You just showed proof that Trump provided lower gas prices than other presidents.

    I even specifically took the time to tell you how to read the chart, and it’s blatantly obvious that you not only didn’t read me telling you that higher numbers are better for the ratios, but you don’t understand it, either.

    Intelligence is trying to catch you, but you’re just too damn fast, aren’t you?

  • Xanza@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump administration labels 8 Latin American cartels as 'foreign terrorist organizations' - ABC NewsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Reminds me of the ‘gulf of America.’ No, it’s not an egomaniac move. Changing the water nationality changes the tax rate on oil aka gas prices. Trump has historically maintained favor with gas prices.

    You completely lost me.

    1. Trump cannot rename the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not land that the US owns. It’s international waters.
    2. The “nationality” didn’t change. So your little tirade about taxes is not only supreme bullshit, but it’s not even in the same universe as correct.
    3. Trump has historically had higher gas prices than almost any other President.

    The proof is in the pudding;

    President Years in Office Avg. Gasoline Price (USD/gallon) Median Household Income (Approx.) Ratio (Income/Gas Price)
    Joe Biden 2021–Present ~$3.50–$5.00 ~$70,000 ~14,000–20,000
    Donald Trump 2017–2021 ~$2.30–$2.90 ~$65,000 ~22,400–28,300
    Barack Obama 2009–2017 ~$2.00–$3.80 ~$55,000 ~14,500–27,500
    George W. Bush 2001–2009 ~$1.50–$4.00 ~$50,000 ~12,500–33,300
    Bill Clinton 1993–2001 ~$1.00–$1.50 ~$40,000 ~26,700–40,000
    George H. W. Bush 1989–1993 ~$1.00–$1.20 ~$35,000 ~29,200–35,000
    Ronald Reagan 1981–1989 ~$1.20–$1.40 ~$25,000 ~17,900–20,800
    Jimmy Carter 1977–1981 ~$0.65–$1.25 ~$20,000 ~16,000–30,800
    Gerald Ford 1974–1977 ~$0.55–$0.60 ~$15,000 ~25,000–27,300
    Richard Nixon 1969–1974 ~$0.35–$0.55 ~$10,000 ~18,200–28,600

    The price of gasoline means absolute dick at the end of the day. The ratio of median household income to the price of gasoline is what’s important. The closer to 0 = more expensive. These numbers are skewed by 1 year and stop in 2024, unfortunately. So that means that COVID is showing during 2021 of Biden’s Presidency. But if you take Biden out to account for COVID you’ll see that the only other President, during which the price of fuel was extremely expensive, was Bush 2 and that’s because we went to War in Iraq which is reflected in Obama’s term…

    There’s absolutely zero validity to your statement whatsoever.