Matt 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇩 @MattStirner

@AncapHeretic I'm not saying Milei has bad policies. His support for Israel and the US engratiated him with the right people as well so he has good international support (look at US swap lines as proof of this). I'm saying the Peso is a shit currency and there's nothing that can stop collapse.

Remember when Milei said he would dollarise and people talked about competing currencies... The good old days of libertarian fantasies.

Barchart @Barchart

a day ago

BREAKING 🚨: Argentina Argentina's Peso has fallen to an all-time low against the U.S. Dollar and has now collapsed 99.8% since 2009 🤯 👀

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Net Zero is evil. Pass it on.

@TheNewAmerica77 $200 GDX in 2027 still my target. Likely at ~$6500 gold, maybe $7000. That's when I sell out the rest of what's left and likely buy a beautiful farm in East Africa.

@AncapHeretic Only a matter of time until the next elevator down.

@iAmJoshHunt Especially in an English speaking country which is already multi cultural - the UK has primed and trained a workforce ready to leave and go wherever they like. British workers are welcomed abroad with open arms.

Physical Gold is my cold wallet. GODL, don’t HODL.

@stephenituruka Exactly.

@mikecosgrove The debt markets are insane. All thanks to global central banks. This is by design.

Let’s not pretend this doesn’t happen in every corporation/government across the globe.

Dirk Bruere @DirkBruere

2 days ago

Sociology is a Joke A man BSing his way to a professorship at one of the world's greatest universities could not happen in STEM subjects

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@StanphylCap @michaeljburry Cuban?

81 years ago today, the atom bomb was needlessly dropped on Hiroshima. The standard narrative says that Japan refused to surrender and that an invasion of the mainland would have cost millions of lives. The bombs, we're told, prevented that. In reality, Japan had made overtures to surrender as early as May 1945, asking only for basic legal protections for Emperor Hirohito. The US oil embargo had starved the country of fuel, and by late July its navy had ceased major operations. America's top military leaders knew it. Eisenhower pleaded with Secretary of War Stimson to reconsider, believing "Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary." Admiral Leahy, the highest-ranking officer on active duty, called it a "barbarous weapon" that provided "no material assistance" against an enemy already ready to surrender. MacArthur, Nimitz, and Halsey all agreed. And Oppenheimer regretted his role, feeling that "I have blood on my hands." Some 225,000+ innocent civilians died, likely so American "leaders" could flex to the Soviets. The result was a new arms race, the military industrial complex (God help us…), and the Cold War. Targeting civilians for mass death is never moral. As one religious leader, J. Reuben Clark, said in 1946, "the worst of this atomic bomb tragedy is not that not only did the people of the United States not rise up in protest against this savagery, not only did it not shock us to read of this wholesale destruction of men, women, and children, and cripples, but that it actually drew from the nation at large a general approval of this fiendish butchery." For all its complaints about certain other countries gaining access to weapons of this nature, the United States of America is the only one to use one—twice—against another country.

🚨📉THE SLOW DEATH OF BRITAIN: We have shit water companies so we buy bottled water. We have rubbish police so we hire private security. We have terrible healthcare so we pay private hospitals instead. Airbnbs in Cornwall pay council tax but get no rubbish collection, so they pay Biffa on top. An awful lot of firemen are now volunteers. NHS dentists don’t really work anymore, so you go private or you pull it out yourself. Our roads are littered with potholes nobody fills. Your privately funded tyres and suspension are the collateral. You are forced under threat of criminal prosecution to fund the BBC, and it’s so bad you pay for streaming to get news or entertainment anyway. Your bins are collected fortnightly, so you drive to the tip. The tip now requires a booking, a permit and proof you live in the county. Garden waste is a separate annual subscription. On top of the council tax that used to cover it. Your GP surgery is an 8am phone lottery, so you pay £40 to an app to speak to a doctor in a different time zone. CAMHS has a two year waiting list, so parents remortgage for private assessments. Your child’s SEN provision is a legal entitlement, so you hire a solicitor to sue the council for it. The council spends more fighting you than the support would have cost. Physio is a forty week wait. Your back does not have forty weeks. Schools teach in portable cabins bolted to the playground because the actual building is held up by aerated concrete and hope. Half of them are technically insolvent. Parents fund the reading books, the glue sticks, the photocopier, the roof and increasingly the teachers wages - all via a PTA raffle and local fundraisers. The state offers “free” childcare hours that don’t cover the nursery’s costs, so the nursery bills you a “top up fee” for the free thing. Shoplifting under £200 is functionally legal, so Tesco hires guards - who crucially don’t even try to stop it - and you pay for them in the price of the milk. 999 takes an hour, so you buy the Ring doorbell, gather the evidence, file the report and get a crime number for the insurance you also pay for. Court backlogs run to years, so anyone with money settles privately and everyone else gets nothing. Legal aid is gone. Represent yourself. Passport and DVLA backlogs are chronic, so the state sells you a fast track service to escape the queue the state created. The trains are late whoever owns them, so you drive on the roads with the potholes. Public toilets are shut, so you buy a coffee you don’t want. The library is staffed by pensioners working for free. Street lights are switched off at midnight to save money in a country with a burglary charge rate near zero. You pay National Insurance for fifty years and they move the pension age. You pay the adult social care precept every year and then sell your mother’s house to pay for adult social care. Leaseholders pay for a “waking watch” because the state signed off the cladding and then billed the residents to fix it. Social housing sits on the most valuable land in Britain, allocated by need rather than proximity to work, 48% of zone 1 social housing is occupied by foreigners mostly welfare dependent - while the nurses, teachers and other workers who keep zone 1 running commute ninety minutes each way from Kent because we stopped building anything in 1979. Every one of these is a service you have already bought. The receipt is your payslip. The tax burden is heading for its highest sustained level since the 1940s. The service level is the worst in living memory. You are not overtaxed or underserved. You are actually BOTH, simultaneously, and the gap between the two is where your standard of living went. The state has become a subscription you cannot cancel and cannot use.

@DonDurrett Aris finally waking up.

@beinlibertarian The US had this slavery and still has people register in case there may be a need for kidnapping them in the future.

Perhaps the most disturbing element in the fantasy world of (ex)-Professor Jason Arday is not his proclivity to embellish his achievements (or lack thereof) in absurd ways that were easily exposed or Cambridge University’s facile complicity in his whole scam but that a reporter at Times Higher Education, who was looking into anomalies in Mr Arday’s dodgy CV, was subjected to a four-month police investigation for allegedly harassing him. The police need to be held to account for this abuse of police power to thwart a journalist from doing his job.

@TheAliceSmith Because "sociology" is just a code word for "Marxism". He was professor of Marxism. And Marxism has never required any qualifications from anyone.

Precious metals are setting up as if there's a major DXY decline coming in the near future.

@hummusboi17 I think that's a pretty standard situation. They got people used to this. "Boiling frog method".