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  • I saw an interesting stat today that relates to this.

    I’m in the EU, and this year for the first time my country spent more money buying Chinese solar panels than it did buying gas from the US, which has traditionally been a big national expense.

    Putting it another way: the Chinese are selling us fishing poles, while Trump wants to keep selling us fish. Sure, we’ll keep buying fish for a while yet, but not for much longer.

    I’m not even considering the climate and all that. It’s just a better economic investment.

    But sure, you pump up those barrel numbers as high as you can, up until it comes crashing straight into the ground.

    As for immigration, sure whatever. Kick out all the immigrants, but be honest and let me know how many people do you personally know that want to spend their life working the fields all day, or spend days at a time out at sea on a trawler, or mowing lawns for pennies on the dollar.

    Because as a dev, I really enjoy my air conditioning and nice comfy office, and probably make more money than half a dozen of those pesky useless freeloaders combined, so you won’t be seeing me doing those jobs anytime soon.


  • This sort of campaign isn’t designed to sway your average undecided Joe.

    It’s meant to reinforce the indoctrination of those already mildly radicalised, pushing them to the extreme. They will inevitably pull along some other inbred imbeciles along with them, and if they’re extremist enough and numerous enough, something like the invasion of the capitol would have worked.

    Note: it’s not only morons who get swayed. Elderly folk are especially vulnerable to this sort of explosive statements, they have a tendency to believe what they read or see (on TV or other platforms) disregarding their own better judgement…









  • Quite the drama queen huh.

    “Started accusing opponents he lost to of cheating”, there’s no plural there. It was the match against Hans Nieman.

    Who, by the way, has been convicted of cheating and banned from competitions in the past. What a coincidence huh.

    Also, I’m gonna need some references on when did Magnus sent anyone to harass Hans, because as far as I know, that only happened in your head.






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    This. Full AMD on my last build as well.

    I don’t care about any corp, I was looking at best bang for buck at the time. I was shocked how everyone I knew was like you should get this intel or that Nvidia, and when I asked why not <comparable performance AMD at 2/3 the price>, all I was getting back was marketing blabber.