You don't have to worry about foreign currency reserves. — ssu

I think all large banks keep foreign currency reserves.

The new world order is that of China's strategy to buy in and own companies in other nations while setting up dependence trade between them and the rest of the world. — Christoffer

It's better than military influence, right?

Why haven't we done the same when you nuked Japan? — javi2541997

You know, Japan started that.

definitely one of a kind! Enjoy it — Alonsoaceves

Thank you!

Which region and currency could be considered more stable going forward? — Christoffer

Mark Blyth said the Russians asked the Chinese to ditch the dollar (which could have resulted in a run on the dollar). The Chinese refused because they're too heavily invested in the US. The world economy is too integrated right now to do much about the reserve currency. Somewhere down the line they might change, but I don't see how it really makes much difference.

Americans don't seem to understand how much of their prosperity did come from role that the US dollar was given — ssu

How do Americans benefit from the dollar being used in global trade? It's just something the world did because of perceived American stability.

The NATO alliance was beneficial to both sides. By keeping the EU as US vassals militarily, also benefitted the US greatly. — Tobias

EU countries were terrible vassals. They never paid any tribute. :grin:

the EU will also withhold its support and its resentment towards the US will have dire consequences for both blocks. — Tobias

How so?

Do you guys think the thread suggested demands an acceptance that one's ideology is the only one worth having, or do you distinguish it from this rule? — Hanover

I don’t suffer fools. I don’t like them, I have little tolerance for them. Especially sanctimonious ones. But I do hope they find the shining path to self awareness and their own gross hypocrisy someday. — Mikie

If I had been moderating, I would have deleted and warned Mikie too, several times. I might even have deleted some of my own posts. If you are trying to make an argument that the standards are very low, too low, I agree. If you are trying to argue that Mikie is the main problem here or in the other thread, well that would be another matter entirely. — unenlightened

Thank you for saying this. I wish Mikie the best. I hope he finds a way to let go of whatever it is that makes him lean into bitterness. I hope he finds the way to have a little faith in other people.

I'm just saying that it looks like you flamed for years and years, and now you want the moderators to do something about the fact that your thread is a cesspool. *shrug*

This is another of Mikie's comments from a week ago:

Answer these questions first:

1) what is it like being a climate denying idiot?

2) is moving on to the next stupid thing after prior humiliation really a winning strategy? — Mikie

If what we desire is a high quality thread, maybe cut down on the childish flaming? I mean, these types of comments go on for pages and pages.

:up: :up: :up:

This is a comment from Mikie to Agree-to-Disagree from a week ago:

Oh hahahahaha! A line from 40 years ago that’s been quoted about a billion times before! What wit. What humor.

Just also worth pointing out how Incredibly unfunny this guy is. (Besides when he’s pretending that he’s not thought of as a complete baffoon — that’s actually hilarious.) — Mikie

This is a discussion site, and I want to discuss. But I don't want to discuss garbage. — unenlightened

Then your point is that they should ban Agree-to-Disagree? I think he's the only person who posts on that that thread with any regularity (other than yourself). His posts aren't really bad enough for banning. They'll probably ban me before they do him.

Why not make a new thread devoted to climate change links, like a reddit style listing. Leave the climate change thread for general discussion, including disagreement about details. I think that would be less confusing.

Some languages have two verbs that mean "to be.". One is for matters of identity, and the other is for transient states. That probably affects the way those speakers think. Spanish is like that.

That sounds like a large topic of its own. If you would open a new topic with it, I would follow it through. — Corvus

That's ok. I've thought a lot about time and identity. Just wondering what your thoughts were. :up:

What is the nature of identity?

So they're the same, but they're not the same?

They are different Banno in time, not in identity. — Corvus

So they aren't actually different.

What do you think? Give us some examples for such existences please. Thanks. — Corvus

Well, didn't you say the Banno from the past is different from the Banno in the present? So they couldn't be in the same room at the same time, right? They have to be separate?

Can anything from the past coexist with the stuff in the present?

But it's great days for Russia and China as Trump is rapidly eroding the US position. — ssu

:up:

Vicepresident Vance gave a speech, — ssu

Some expected him to announce a massive withdrawal of troops from Europe. That didn't happen. Yet.

He is almost a Hollywood caricature, a Bond movie villain — Wayfarer

True.

Lopsided, yes. "America First"

The US domestic market and/or the US export market? — kazan

The US domestic market.

I think the goal is to shut the rest of the world out of the US market.

What is the point of being a killjoy? — javi2541997

Keepin' it real, man.

I took your invitation to indulge in irrelevant shit throwing. — fdrake

You're misunderstanding me. I was being completely honest. I wanted you to think about it going forward.

and the majority of posts you've made would've gotten you banned if we kept the editorial standards from the old site. Your move! — fdrake

What does that have to do with anything?

I see. Well I suppose you could make a Feedback thread. — fdrake

Very funny.

This was my goodbye message to him. Don't defend abusive people.

Dude. She was abusive to everybody every single day.

The majority of Mikie's posts that you were talking about, I believe, were directed toward people who he believed - reasonably - were supporting genocide, the thorough subversion of democracy, and the annihilation of the human race. It is unreasonable to expect anyone to be civil about such things. — fdrake

And you really believe this is what was happening?

Oh? Who? — fdrake

Mikie was just one long stream of verbal abuse. There wasn't even any philosophy in it. Just abuse. You defended her every step of the way. Why did you do that?

You defended people who were abusive. Maybe don't do that in real life.

It occurs to me that democracy probably wouldn't mean much to a sociopath.

Aah yes, manufactured talking points. Projection is one of the biases I was speaking of. — NOS4A2

Gaslighter. :lol:

Like I said, the usual suspects — NOS4A2

I think you're the usual suspect in this case. You're repeating manufactured talking points like a good little soldier. :grin: