Only the turd? I feel we’d be underplaying them. Why don’t we offer them the whole US government, scotus, senate and congress and call it even?

I don’t think the second option is viable.

You have whole states loving the pedo unconditionally. And they would need to sign a constitution that specifically bars them to try and summon a new trump.

They simply won’t sign it. So you better start thinking as separate states that join to stay relevant and hope the red union that will shortly after form doesn’t have imperialist aspirations. Otherwise you’ll be in for a second civil war.

He owes us money because a paper says so. If we decide that paper has no value, we can simply act as if the money he owes us is ours again, since it’s just a contability annotation.

You don’t even need to add them. After all, that money doesn’t physically exist. It’s just an annotation on a contability book. Just erase it and the debt is no more. If the world decides to “erase” those debt annotations on their contability books, the US debt stops existing.

Yes, because until not long ago, the US were a country with shit stuff but somewhat reliable.

If you remove the reliability from the equation, one of the parties will most probably stop lending money to the other.

High doubt. Musk and other billionaires don’t have that money. They have shares of companies that are worth a lot… today.

They are rich, they do have money, a lot. But most of it comes from those shares. Is tesla’s shares drop to near 0 value, musk will have shit.

Also, the us can’t make any primary goods on their own. Whose iron are they gonna buy? Whose aluminium? Rare earths? Hell, even the oil will be a problem. Not to talk about electronics; do you think china won’t take taiwan if all this happens?

At a certain level, economics are just about good will.

If the whole world sees that the US don’t want to pay, on mutual accord, we can decide that they don’t owe anything to anyone, effectively cancelling the debt.

After that, the US will remain out of the rest of the world without the possibility of borrowing any money at all.

They have to eat. They need to buy guns, gear, ammo… an army is expensive af.

An army of “free patriots” will last more or less a couple of months if lucky before they realize they need money to eat.

I’m dreaming with this. Burgerland stops paying a loan and not only they stop getting any more loans, they simply could close the binders and say there is no country anymore.

The internal chaos that would ensue would force us to invent a new term: fourth world, for a country that fell so low that even third-world sounds too good for them.

how long can an army obbey orders if they are not paid?

it would be the bank’s problem if burgerland stopped borrowing money. Instead they keep going because they can’t fund themselves. I wonder what could happen if nobody lent them any more money.

The balance right now is 39 dead, 12 people are in IC and might not survive. Among them there’s a minor.

They suspect the number will rise because the train cars that got the worst part fell down a 4m ravine and they still didn’t recovered them. Under the train cars there will probably be more people

Not a fucking child, but fucking A child (or two, or who knows how many).

Just wanted to point this out.

After the child rapist in chief is dead (hopefully, soon), does anyone in that shit country expect we take them seriously when they talk to the world after the complete shitshow Mango Hitler is doing?

I mean, this is something I expect from a toddler that has zero negotiation skills but not from the fucking president of a superpower.

If he was the president of a less armed country, the world would be laughing at him openly

You mean the iranian one, right?

If things keep going like this, she’ll only have customers among the 0.1%

If I as a customer pay, idk, 10€ per gb of RAM and an AI data center pays 20, do you really think they are going to consider how they are feeding a bubble that in the not-so-long term will burst and fuck them up too?

Nah, mate, they are capitalists, they only care about the money they can make in the extremely short term.

Magat’s are waiting The Great Leader to tell them to be angry at the baby because they were resisting the Proud and Commendable Officers.

As I said in my first comment, I am not happy with it, but the other option is worse.

I am aware this is the lesser evil, hence “Go China”.

The fact that they already have a de-facto monopoly on consumer goods doesn’t mean I want them to have another one for other products.