Yah it will get you Tankiepoints™ out the wazoo to say you pray for the collapse of the USA but with every other country’s economy tied to the US dollar, that outcome will be less than ideal when you want to go to your local market and buy food or medicine in almost every other country on Earth.
I get downvotes when I remind people of this fact like I’m making an argument for something. Talk to your local leaders about why they have invested so much in the US, not me.
Which is also a cute segue to remind people that all the loot and cash that Trump’s people are scooting out the back door of our treasury? That’s YOUR money also Mr and Mrs Europe, Canada, Mexico, etc.
Of the half billion or so actual joined-an-org-and-doing-work communists, the number who are fans of such a niche videogame category is basically a rounding error, and being a furry is even less common.
I’ve read more than one economist say there’s less than a year left of the dollar being the world reserve currency. Whatever timeframe I am not sure, but it’s definitely not a forever thing.
I mean, if the US dollar does collapse it certainly won’t be a forever thing, but the people with the most money in the world have a LOT of resources to keep things the way they are. I’ll be surprised if the keepers of the cash let the cash become devalued.
The wealthy don’t keep much cash. I’m pretty sure Trump has said that he wants a weaker dollar, or at least implied it. I’ve heard some people speculate that the admin is purposely trying to end the dollar’s status as the world’s de facto reserve currency. If they’re serious about bringing most manufacturing back to the US, the dollar needs devalued, and real wages need to plummet. The admin is also heavily involved in crypto schemes.
Almost every currency, crypto included is valued against the USD, I just don’t see everyone moving to dogecoins if suddenly it costs $340,000 to buy a hamburger. There is very real incentive to throw every possible resource behind keeping the middle-class complacent and comfortable for as long as possible.
Walmart or Amazon now a nuclear power is a terrible thought.
Given that the US government exists to make megacorps like that as powerful as possible, they already effectively are, they’re just saved the inconvenience/expense of directly maintaining their own military and nuclear stockpile.
My bigger concern tbh is a post-balkanization Texas or Utah. Evangelicals and Mormons are a whole lot more likely to let the nukes fly to bring about the end times imo.
nothing, because people who hope for this also think when it happens they will be the action hero that saves everyone else.
they tend to lack the understanding of complex institutional systems that safeguard things like nuclear weapons, because they basically hate/blame them for their own unhappiness with their lives.
Hmmm collapse of country with enough nukes to blow up planet several times. What could go wrong?
The USSR collapsed with a large amount of nukes.
The USSR has about twice a many nukes in 1991 as the entire world has today.
Californians: don’t make the same mistake Ukraine did.
Yah it will get you Tankiepoints™ out the wazoo to say you pray for the collapse of the USA but with every other country’s economy tied to the US dollar, that outcome will be less than ideal when you want to go to your local market and buy food or medicine in almost every other country on Earth.
I get downvotes when I remind people of this fact like I’m making an argument for something. Talk to your local leaders about why they have invested so much in the US, not me.
Which is also a cute segue to remind people that all the loot and cash that Trump’s people are scooting out the back door of our treasury? That’s YOUR money also Mr and Mrs Europe, Canada, Mexico, etc.
Yeah, US collapse means a billion people die as a result of the global economic collapse that would result.
I get exhausted on Lemmy in particular trying to explain to the nihilistic, cynical teens here that such an outcome would in fact, be a bad thing.
Can I redeem my Tankiepoints at a participating retailers whenever I want, or do they expire eventually?
In the Hearts Of Iron IV store you can trade them to have your custom fursona painted on the side of your SU-122.
Of the half billion or so actual joined-an-org-and-doing-work communists, the number who are fans of such a niche videogame category is basically a rounding error, and being a furry is even less common.
But I think I know every one of them.
I’ve read more than one economist say there’s less than a year left of the dollar being the world reserve currency. Whatever timeframe I am not sure, but it’s definitely not a forever thing.
I mean, if the US dollar does collapse it certainly won’t be a forever thing, but the people with the most money in the world have a LOT of resources to keep things the way they are. I’ll be surprised if the keepers of the cash let the cash become devalued.
The wealthy don’t keep much cash. I’m pretty sure Trump has said that he wants a weaker dollar, or at least implied it. I’ve heard some people speculate that the admin is purposely trying to end the dollar’s status as the world’s de facto reserve currency. If they’re serious about bringing most manufacturing back to the US, the dollar needs devalued, and real wages need to plummet. The admin is also heavily involved in crypto schemes.
Almost every currency, crypto included is valued against the USD, I just don’t see everyone moving to dogecoins if suddenly it costs $340,000 to buy a hamburger. There is very real incentive to throw every possible resource behind keeping the middle-class complacent and comfortable for as long as possible.
Happened to the USSR and we’re still around, but even Yeltsin was more rational than the christofascists running the US so who knows?
That’s some wild proposition, with a high value of truth. What is this?
Thats my fear. Imagine of the ppl that got trump in power got some nukes or like corpos?
Walmart or Amazon now a nuclear power is a terrible thought.
Given that the US government exists to make megacorps like that as powerful as possible, they already effectively are, they’re just saved the inconvenience/expense of directly maintaining their own military and nuclear stockpile.
My bigger concern tbh is a post-balkanization Texas or Utah. Evangelicals and Mormons are a whole lot more likely to let the nukes fly to bring about the end times imo.
Counterpoint: Yeltsin was drunk all the time, and ran out into the street naked, at least once. Trump has yet to do this.
Let’s forget about raping children… I guess.
Trump is a tee totaller, but we might get his demented ass stumbling into a river like Yeltsin.
nothing, because people who hope for this also think when it happens they will be the action hero that saves everyone else.
they tend to lack the understanding of complex institutional systems that safeguard things like nuclear weapons, because they basically hate/blame them for their own unhappiness with their lives.
Only the sick fanatic nuts of the shitraeli genocide entity would use them.
Well its the remnants of america. The same folks that cook bacon with guns. These are not the sane folks