I love the call to action from farming communities.
There's two types of farmers in America:
Those in it for the love of the game (who can simply continue to do it for the love of the game)
Guy who complains about handouts from the King Cab his subsidies bought him
Ok so it's fake... But also remember that rich British guy who got kidnapped by the Taliban? He and some like minded friends should try this for real.
I would totally root for this if it was a bunch of affable and charismatic adventurers looking for great riches in 2026 like a movie and not what it almost certainly is, either fake or a bunch of barely technically not enslaved global southerners being forced to do this
yeah if I'm stealing because I'm pretty sure there won't be any consequences due to my privilege, that's not cool, that's just having a little game for my amusement
This is what gets me. "The markets are acting rationally" Donald Trump said he has a new war goal in the theatre that has been fucking up the economy! He didn't even really say the war was over!
Comply with what Trump and the Markets want.
It's you who is showing 0 intellectual humility and is instead praying at the altar of the market and just assuming that, if the mechanism that brought us the Great Depression and the Great Recession days we'll be fine, we'll be fine! It just ain't right
in any capacity right now. One man does not decide how the world operates, yet, the market is operating like it does! There is still one angry side with men and munitions that has the ability to massively disrupt the flow of oil through there, and that side has said nothing to imply that it will
oversimplifying how finance works.
My frustration, at least, lays not in that the market oversimplifying how my area of expertise works, but instead in that it is a mass hallucination of how politics work.
There is simply 0 reason to believe that the strait will be opened and oil will flow through
Should not take a PoliSci degree to recognize that the president of the US saying that "the war is very complete" and that he is considering taking actions that will further war in the same does not magically mean that war is done.
Your frustration lays in the perception that we, the outsiders, are
Makes it so.
It should not take a PoliSci degree to recognize that a country with ambitions and a desire for revenge will not simply give up what, to this point, has been it's most effective tool (closing the strait of Hormuz) for nothing in return.
And again, not to beleaguer the point, it
Recognize that a missile shot at a boat full of oil will compromise that boats ability to deliver oil.
Now that we've gone through the econ side let's move to my area of expertise, politics.
It should not take a PoliSci degree to recognize that just because the president says something, that it
The price will go up.
It does not take an econ degree to recognize that if you make the substance that makes pretty much all of the global economy possible more expensive, things will get more expensive to produce and firms will be less incentivised to produce more.
It does not take any degree to
The problem here lays with the fact that it is the market acting like my field, PoliSci, is simple and is simply determined by what a noted liar says.
It does not take an econ degree to recognize that if you cannot pump and transport nearly the same amount of oil as you were used to doing,
I am a jobless college student, I literally do not. Doubly so that I am broke right now *and* being challenged to do this because a reality challenged class of this country is acting like we are not about to witness stagflation should the status quo continue.
Someone has to be irrational here, either Iran will back off for 0 gain when clearly their strategy of "keep the strait of Hormuz closed" is working
Or
The people who brought us the great recession are.
If my leading wording didn't tip you off, I am saying the latter are the irrationals
If I had the capital I absolutely would.
There is currently no reason to believe that the strait of Hormuz will be reopened at the current moment. 0. Zilch.
Unless I've been misled my entire life and stock prices are not supposed to reflect future profits.
Another reason we need mode shift to rail - with steel wheels, not tires. Fewer cars and trucks on the road = less plastic in your lungs.
I don't steal, I pay for transit, etc, because I don't want people who might genuinely need to steal to not have to face resistance because my fellow middle class people thought they were being cool
My hot take is that it's actively bad for anti-capitalists to steal if you have the means because you just make it harder for those who don't.
He is one of the dumbest mfers around and it pains me that I'm a quarter mile away from his office but can't personally hand it a letter expressing my frustrations because the genpop isn't allowed in there
"Hey you know that precarious, purely recreational business that operates on very valuable land? Yeah well what if we took arguably the most essential resource to the operation of your entertainment product and jacked the price up?"
This is an awful time to be concerned about the open status of your local tracks, huh?
Buy buy buy, its gonna go up eventually
If I'm Larson I'm taking the full dogleg here
1984 calendar meme but its "Kyle Busch has a RF flat as SVG spins to bring a yellow" laps
Turn it off then back on again
um
you could just say they're at their peak??????
I think its a good sign when Goodyear tweets out that "the recommended tyre pressures weren't guesses"
But why
