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1 hour ago, JonnyF said:
They did a great job taking down the coward. If more members of the public took things into their own hands they might think twice about carrying out such attacks.
Trouble is, if the coward suffered injury the Wokeists would probably want them charged with assault, or a hate crime or something.
First: deranged minds don't think like that.
Second: that stuff about 'Wokeist' has no basis in reality. Dutch reality.
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1 hour ago, chickenslegs said:
Those guys did a great job, and were very restrained once they had disarmed/pinned down the terrorist.
Yes, I noticed that too. Admirable job!
He's not necessarily a terrorist, he seemed quite off his rocker by the account of Litecia. And now I read he was known by the police.
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A video (nu.nl) of how the knifeman was taken down. Litecia in the green shirt.
As you can see many people involved in this citizens arrest.
Beelden tonen hoe verdachte steekpartij Rotterdam wordt overmeesterd https://www.nu.nl/311385/video/beelden-tonen-hoe-verdachte-steekpartij-rotterdam-wordt-overmeesterd.html (via @NUnl)
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2 hours ago, john donson said:
why is the stabber still alive? if only the dude in the gym would have brought a dumbell bar to beat him with....
You don't know what you're talking about.
Litecia is a personal trainer, he was working with a customer (1) outside, close to the river.
And he did knock the knifeman out with a squat bar, in 'Remastered', under the bridge.
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20 minutes ago, jvs said:
Yes i agree and lets not forget to mention that his name does not sound
Dutch.
Curaçao origin probably.
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'The attacker was subdued by Renil Renato David Litecia, a sports coach ...'
To offset the usual islamophobia and hatred of others, I like to notice that Litecia is a true hero.
Thirty years ago I lived very close to the Erasmusbrug, Rotterdam is a very multicultural city. I miss it.
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So, Trump wrote a book? Now I've heard it all!
That guy can hardly read, is incapable of telling something truthful if his life depended on it, but I guess the gullible Americans will lap it up.
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5 hours ago, JoePai said:
a car abruptly overtook her twice
So she had to overtake the offending car once ?
That reminds me of a famous dialogue in Police Squad ...
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8 minutes ago, TedG said:
The high interest rates are pushing up the cost to service the debt.
First inflation rises, fuelled (at least in part) by the trillions of borrowed money pumped into the economy by Biden. Then the Fed steps in and raises interest rates, from the extremely low level it was. Than people get angry, first because it hurts their insatiable credit card use, and second because it hurts mortgages.
Make a comparison between mortgage interest in America and Western Europe, and you'll see the difference.
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31 minutes ago, Cameroni said:
Sure, countries like Russia, China, and even Germany, are taking steps to be less exposed to American use of the dollar as a political tool. However, they can only achieve minor success in this. There is no way in human imagination that the dollar will be knocked of its top spot by China or Russia or the Euro any time soon. I trade Forex, and I can tell you even now, if the Dollar sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold. All currencies are basically derived of how the Dollar is doing.
There may be less influence for the dollar, but it will still be the undisputed King for a very long time.
All fine with me, my points were, that despite the cheering about Biden, with regard to the national debt, there is no difference with Trump. We could have a discussion about how all that borrowed is spend of course, and I could go into a diatribe about the Infrastructure bill. But I won't.
Plus, it doesn't seem to bother Americans that they're paying 900 billion this year on interest, about the same as the defense budget. That interest sum is only rising, at some point American will wake up and ask themselves: for what? Interest? Nothing tangible?
How long this situation can go on, I don't know. Common sense tells me, not long, but common sense doesn't matter here I guess.
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9 minutes ago, Cameroni said:
Yes, I know but not in a serious way. By "endangered" I mean, the debt rating are so bad that no country wants to buy American debt. That's nowhere near happening.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/246420/major-foreign-holders-of-us-treasury-debt/
If foreign countries keep funding the American lifestyle of excess, all is well.
The thing about those downgrades is that they are for a large part unnecessary.
They are in part, caused by silly political processes like the debt ceiling and funding the government.
Processes unique to America, and politicians from whatever side have never expressed a willingness to get something sensible in place. I guess they love the annual circus, and maybe it gives them a sense of power and competence.
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3 minutes ago, Cameroni said:
First, we’re an outlier in how small our fiscal footprint is. Compared with the rest of the world, we don’t tax and spend much.
Second, raising U.S. revenue levels to the average level of our peer countries would raise the equivalent of $2.61 trillion, roughly five times the amount needed to close the fiscal gap. Importantly, places like France and the Nordic countries collect this level of high revenue while still delivering reliable growth in living standards. These rich, high-functioning countries don’t seem hampered by excess taxation.
https://www.epi.org/blog/could-tax-increases-alone-close-the-long-run-fiscal-gap/
I've occasionally thought about how much tax would I, or anyone else, be willing to accept. And I mean income tax and VAT. 50%? Maybe that's a psychological limit?
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15 minutes ago, TedG said:
Biden had record revenue in 2022 and managed a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit.
You should read this article. There's no difference between Trump and Biden with regard to borrowing and adding to the national debt.
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16 minutes ago, Cameroni said:
Americans don't care about their deficit for one good reason. They don't need to. America is rich beyond imagination.
If America wanted to, they could pass corporate tax tomorrow that would wipe out the deficit. But why would they do such a thing?
Many economists think the budget deficit doesn't matter, apart from generational inequality. Whilst America is still the most powerful ecnonomy in the world its debt ratings are not endangered and the Dollar is still the undisputed King. Why worry about the deficit at all?
It's debt ratings are endangered. S&P downgraded treasuries about 10 years ago, Fitch did it last year.
You should look up the yield of government bonds by country.
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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:His plan for increasing tariffs are an absolute economic abomination. I understand the desire to bring manufacturing back to the US, but you can't penalize American companies that are operating in China, and the plan would make more sense if you gave them a realistic window within which they could relocate manufacturing.
The secondary aspect of this is that there's a reason why a lot of manufacturing is not being done in the US, the costs are prohibitive, and the unions are very difficult to deal with.
Just another unrealistic Trump proposal that would not only sabotage the economy, but would penalize Americans and add to economic deterioration and unemployment.
The very stable genius keeps repeating that tariffs are paid by the country exporting goods to the US.
And, as the polls show, half of American voters believe that nonsense.
It says a lot about America.
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Remarkably, neither party has shown much interest in the national debt, the past decades. And that includes Biden, who can't achieve a balanced budget even in a booming economy.
National debt to GDP is about 130% I believe, and no end in sight.
Annual interest is 900 billion in 2024, apparently not a problem for the American taxpayer.
Note that 130% won't allow a country to become an EU member ...
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7 hours ago, gargamon said:Musk can't. Too many conflicts of interest. Most of his money comes from govt contracts.
What makes you think conflicts of interest would be a problem for a Trump administration? Grift is the goal, and having Musk there would be excellent for grifting.
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Chinese substandard products, to be replaced with quality products, manufactured in Thailand?
That would be a novel development, for sure! Revolutionary ...
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2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:There is no doubt that Musk is a brilliant guy, but he seems to be a terrible businessman, and would be well advised to take on some advisors in this role, if not step down from his positions as head of his companies. All too often he lets his ego get in the way of smart business decisions and he seems to be his own worst enemy on a lot of levels. This petty lawsuit is nothing but a move by a petulant guy who is used to getting his own way, and makes him look foolish. I don't have the legal expertise to know whether or not he can prevail in something like this, but it seems rather dumb and arrogant to think that you can sue and force advertisers into supporting you. Perhaps they are simply dropping X because of its financial failures.
The docs obtained by Bloomberg also show X lost $456 million in the first quarter of 2023. X responded to a request for comment from Business Insider with an auto-reply saying, "Busy now, please check back later."
Musk's relationship with the advertising community — from which X makes most of its money — has been strained.
At an event last year, he infamously told advertisers to go "f**k" themselves after several — including Disney, IBM, Apple, and Lionsgate — abandoned the platform following a post by Musk that was criticized as antisemitic.
Imo, Musk is using his billions, and X, to push the country in a far right, fascist direction. He doesn't care about money lost, he had enough.
And he's not the only billionaire doing that.
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7 hours ago, impulse said:If one advertiser decides not to spend on X, that's legal. If they independently decide not to advertise on X, that's legal.
If they band together that's collusion, and it's illegal. If they band together to squelch free speech, that's dangerous.
Glad to see that Rumble has joined the lawsuit.
Elon Musk and free speech! Have you considered a career in stand up comedy?
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19 minutes ago, Will B Good said:Cancer causing wind turbines?
Oh yes, that one too!
And of course: this man came up to me, big, strong man, tears in his eyes, and he said: Sir! Sir, thank you, thank you so much! 😂
Trump has a great repertoire of those stories, but it seems he keeps repeating himself. He needs new material!
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31 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:
I was actually talking about the people on this forum, they cannot communicate without epithets and 'clever' little jabs.
If you can point me to where the Harris campaign is talking policy rather than personality, please do.
Is Trump talking policy?
I thought he was mostly talking about razzias for mass deportation, how many times he has to flush the toilet, something incomprehensible about batteries and sharks and of course Hannibal Lector.
Anything you'd like to add?
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1 hour ago, Will B Good said:In the best traditions of Trump supporters......do you have independent evidence to prove or even support this statement?
Don't expect too much from people like that.
Don't set the bar too high.
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4 hours ago, Celsius said:It is also credible that Biden (both of them) could have had sex with children.
Which one is woese?
I guess you wouldn't have a problem coming up with a source for your allegations? A credible source?
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Dash Cam Captures Object Crashing Through Truck Windshield, Injuring Driver
in Central Thailand News
Posted · Edited by Presto
Sixty years ago my father had something similar happen to him.
He was driving behind a truck on the motorway, an object fell off, passed through the middle of the windscreen (fortunately!) and bedded itself in the rear seats.
It was part of the suspension of the truck that broke and fell off. No dash cam!