I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever

They almost always mean “economic sanctions”.

Cutting them off from “western banking”…

Essentially not letting them buy/sell any stocks in the western market.

Which unfortunately is headquartered in NYC, explaining why it’s the NY Stock Exchange.

There are others, Europe has 5 worth over a trillion each and some others, Asia has the NICA index. But the American NYSE is worth over 25 trillion. It’s the big one.

But trump personally would be very hard to sanction in other markets, because he’s so shady banking institutions usually won’t deal with him. It’s why he pivoted to crypto.

He does have some money in NYSE, but that’s overseen by the SEC, and trump won’t sanction himself.

Ironically what we’d see is tarrifs. America doesn’t make shit, and can’t afford to buy a lot of stuff now. So other big buyers can pressure the “producer countries” into marking up anything that goes in/out of America.

Always have…

If you’re over 145 (where a normal test stops), it’s only like 1 in 750, but it means you’re over 30 points above around 80% of the population.

30 points is the line where communication is noticably difficult.

Being smart is like being tall. A little over average is great, but once you’re statistically insignificant you’re still jammed in the same hole as everyone else even tho you clearly don’t fit.

Like, that was the whole point of the movie. It wasn’t a warning about the future it’s how an intelligent person has always viewed the world.

The drug abuse correlation with high IQ isn’t just “novelty seeking”, it’s actively and intentionally getting on everyone else’s level, at least for a little bit.

His leadership position was voted on before the DNC chair.

So his threats to cut off funding to the state of any Dems that wouldn’t back him still had some teeth.

It doesn’t now, mainly because the DNC immediately jumped into the largest twin esture into state parties, ever.

He’s been a lame duck all but maybe a month of this senate leadership term, and will almost certainly lose it next year.

If he doesn’t, it’s a bad sign.

What are you talking about?

There’s no American troops there now.

If you’re arguing there’s going to be a response or separate action in the future, yes…

That’s how time works, there’s always something happen, obviously something will happen next

When you get the time it’s worth reading up on, super interesting and I’m surprised there hasn’t been a big movie about it despite America being the bad guys.

That was an invasion, not a kidnapping.

The first hint is the situation was called “invasion of Panama”

Nah, Hawaii was an invasion, I believe the Queen was travelling to DC.

She left Hawaii as a queen and when she got to Hawaii to negotiate a treaty, she was told Hawaii was already an American territory

Approximately 24,000 troops descended upon Panama in December 1989, beginning a weekslong siege of the country that scattered the government and military officials.

That’s an invasion, not a kidnapping…

No, this is different and completely unprecedented.

We went into a foreign country, abducted their leader, and brought him back to America to be tried under our justice system for laws he was never subject to for crimes he almost had nothing to do with.

I’d love to see a source for America abducting the leader of a country we’re not at war with, and bringing them to America for trial.

It might have already happened…

Capturing a foreign leader you’re not at war with like this is a huge fucking deal, but it hasn’t even been 24 hrs yet, we can’t act like there won’t be a response.

Not anything overt, but our election system is sloppy as fuck.

Why wouldn’t foreign governments start using all the loopholes to pay (relatively) nothing to limit his powers in midterms and get rid of him in the presidential? A couple million thru a PAC isn’t even really breaking any laws, and compared to the cost of the chaos from trump, it’s a no brainer decision.

It’s why turnout for primaries is so important. We have to ensure that the people who make it to the general are going to be good in office.

Patriotism is fine, like it’s even a good thing.

Because it’s about being proud of your country, for the good shit it’s doing.

Nationalism is bad, because it ignores reality and is just belligerent yelling that their country is the best while disregarding facts and repeating propaganda.

Like, Norewegians are proud to be from Norway, because they have a great society that looks after the weakest, that’s patriotic and something we should strive towards.

That’s different than a trump supporter flying flags and laughing at how much people with empathy are upset, that’s nationalism.

There’s a reason we have two separate words for it, but the fascists keep wanting to erase the differences in usage.

I know Vasha is a giant piece of shit too. But pretty sure she is actually raising the kids, so yeah she’s still putting some effort in.

the difference is that one is still ongoing while the other ones are largely ridiculed and understood as nonsensical.

What?

Loads of people believe both…

It sounds like this is one of those things where you’re just gonna keep saying false things no matter what I explain.

You don’t seem to have any intention to learn and change.

You have an opinion and nothing can change that, which is fucking depressing because loads of people think like that now. So I’m going to block you now because it’s already too much like Idiocracy without running into your willfully ignorant comments again.

Bruh…

Fucking ridiculous and western centric as fuck to say Jesus was the first person labeled “god personified”…

Like, the current Japanese emperor is “believed” to be the descendant of a literal god. And that shit took off long before AD or Jesus. But it undoubtedly happened much earlier all over, we just don’t have evidence of pre-historic times, that’s literally why we call that period “before history”.

Doesn’t mean nothing happened, just that we don’t know what was happening, yet.

they are seeing the hijack

Someone call zerocool and acidburn!!!1111

The biggest problem with the Doctrow shit where you “coin a term” is it inevitably leads to confusion when it becomes widespread.

OP doesn’t understand any of this, they just heard “enahitification” and that people up ote it. So when they get confused, they call it that and share it for the likes.

New people see the misuse, and have no idea what the word is even supposed to mean.

What OP is complaining about doesn’t make sense and is nonreproducible, but their brain jumps to “enshitification” first because brains are lazy

Yeah, but that’s India…

There’s lot of American movies where the American government is the bad guys…

The thing with cops and military, is they only cooperate with production if they’re the good guys.

So it saves money on props like vehicles, uniforms, advisors, etc.

But still, loads of shows and movies still have the American government as the baddies

looked it up and an IQ below 50 means you probably can’t ever live independently, and below 25 means you’re pretty much a vegetable.

Nah man, not even close…

Besides, at the extremes if either side of the scale the overall number becomes pretty meaningless because the individual scores are going to have high variance.

I did an internship working with people with learning disabilities from “passable” to me having to change adult diapers for clients who were completely nonverbal and thought it was game.

I don’t know where you looked it up, but you’re way off.

But for this:

much less take an IQ test.

A normal test only covers 3 standard deviations. So if you’re over 145 or below 65, on a normal you take a specialized test if you want to actually know. There’s just not enough outliers to make the normal test able to cover everyone

Well I’m not going to keep making guesses in the hopes that same day you’ll elaborate on what you meant.

Have fun with your sticks I guess