I wonder if this is the final nail that will decouple the world economy from the dollar.
But then, I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time. Trump is clearly playing 5D connect-4.
Checkers, not chess.
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marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Soulphite@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Wish the bastard was playing hangman.
neonchaos@piefed.social 1 day ago
“Its a 7 letter word, E_stein. Just need one more letter, any guesses?”
“China!”
Mac@mander.xyz 1 day ago
“It’s a three letter word synonynous with father. What’s your first guess?”
My first guess: Z
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If anything Trump was trying to prevent the change away from the petrodollar standard. That “currency” allows the US to run up debts because nobody wants the dollar to collapse and wreck everything traded in USD.
reuters.com/…/trumps-venezuela-oil-grab-revives-p…
I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: factually.co/…/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-pe…
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Iran has been out of the petrodollar system since the maximalist sanctions the US imposed in 1995. Sanctioned countries don’t have a use for dollars.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You were not born when the decoupling began. You will not live to see it end.
I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time.
I mean, depends on who you ask. But there’s definitely been a deliberately effort from within the Silicon Valley wing of the economy to force people into using Cryptocurrency as a legally-compulsory dollar alternative.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You were not born when the decoupling began.
As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Eh, he’s pushed around and bribed to make certain decisions. He’s the right man for the job of accelerating the decline of the empire and the beginning of the multi-nodal world, whether he and his followers know it or not, simply because he truly has no spine, no morals, no ideology, he just cares about his money.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Silver linings, I guess?
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I hope gas goes up $10 a gallon. You oil dependent suckers.
Get a bike
Syndication@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately we still get screwed even if we don’t drive, how else would food and supplies get delivered to shops? It’s all dependent on fossil fuels… Everything is going to be more expensive. I guess this is what Trump supporters think “owning the libs” is.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
This is oversimplification, the market adjusts to price increases. Making new tech more and more options preferable.
Stop subsidizing gas and see how other fuels, other transportation. Options flourish.
An electric large carry truck will only happen when the market can prioritize it…like woth 10$ dollar gas.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Topped off the tanks yesterday. Since I mostly bike each tank lasts a month or more depending on how many times I have to shuttle kids.
I’d love for gas to go to $10 a gallon. I5 would be a ghost town. No traffic, save the environment (kind of). Oh yeah!
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I want $15. Let’s price everyone out of commuting.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I just walk mostly
autriyo@feddit.org 1 day ago
It kinda is / getting closer in Europe, people still drive a lot though… And my city has decent public transport.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
It has that decent transportation be wise of that pricey gas
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s an ambitious perspective for a stick figure artist. I respect the effort.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I kind of forgot about this angle. That rich libs in the middle classes are affected less than the lower classes that were duped. It’s all really shitty honestly.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We need “Thanks sleepy Don” stickers on every gas pump stat!
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Its on. I have one hundred A4 sticker sheets. To the gas pumps.
Ghostie@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
3D Chutes and Ladders: Oops All Chutes edition.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The MAGAts are a bunch of weak willed, emotional snowflakes.
db2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So connect 4, but he can’t count that high…
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Connect 4 is still played in two dimensions tho…
Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s what THEY want you to think! Wake up sheeple!!!
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
2 normal dimensions and one very very small one?
FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Imagine playing Connect 4, or any game for that matter, against him; halfway through the game he’d yell “STOP THE STEAL!!!”
El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Stop counting your points! Keep counting mine!
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
3D version of 52 pickup is more like it.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So throwing the cards down a set of stairs, or maybe into some dense bushes.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The thing is that it’s really just regular 52 pickup except that people are tricked into it by preposterous claims of it being “the best card game in history, maybe ever.”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
The cost of filling 52 pick-ups would be astronomical.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wait. So the president do control has prices? It’s so much different this time!
Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s crazy, this one little trick. Kicking off World War III. Why didn’t the libs think of it!?
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Silly question for the lemmy brain trust: what happens when most people are priced out of commuting?
Seems like that would inadvertently bring about a general strike.
blarghly@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Unlikely. Lemmy is, like, 50% doomers who think everything in their lives is hanging by a thread at any moment and that everyone else is the same.
The reality is that even the doomers have far more slack in their lives and options for alternatives than they realize. People will tighten their belts, bike or take transit, carpool, start private transit businesses, move closer to work, get jobs closer to home, move in with family/roommates, etc.
StonksDiff13@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Oh please. Don’t you see they always keep you squeezed just enough so the hopeless balance of inaction is protected?
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Found out this morning that my supervisor can’t afford to drive to work. He has a big truck and a long drive but… It’s already happening.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Once again the American people have decided to/tacitly accepted to invade, murder and pillage another society far away. Once again many Americans will doom themselves to Hell, where they rightfully belong. And the only way to make a Burger oppose this new human tragedy is to tell him the gas prices are up, lol. I have to laugh not to cry at how ridiculously vicious and inhumane that is… but this IS America. 😔🤷
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok, so, what is your suggestion? The people who are directly perpetrating this war are hiding behind armed guards. Have you noticed that no rightwing politician in the US has done an interview outside since September 10th of last year?
It’s easy to sit at your keyboard and suggest people on the other side of the ocean fight and die for your conscience. It’s harder and more time consuming to build parallel systems to support those who are against the regime.
You probably think the media is telling you what’s happening over here, don’t you?
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 day ago
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” -John Brown
The war isn’t just with those in power, who as someone else pointed out are far beyond the reach of the average American, it’s with our neighbors and family members that support these leaders and policies. This administration is the fruit of a rotten tree, remove it without addressing the roots and it will just grow back in some new form, maybe next year, maybe next decade. Our elected officials that oppose this admin on paper do nothing with their power to stop it. Our courts either rubber stamp it or when they do rule against it get ignored because law enforcement is complicit.
A lone wolf might strike back here and there but such actions don’t make a difference because they are quickly neutralized, their targets are easily replaceable and elevated to martyrs.
Until the opposition has some semblance of unity, leadership, and the resolve to see through what is started to the brutal, bloody, bitter end; this is America. We’ll either keep telling ourselves “next election, next release of files, next court ruling, next protest will change this” and live under perpetual disappointment and tyranny (at home and abroad), or we’ll accept violence and gamble on which side has a better resolve. Gonna get real ugly once that Rubicon is crossed, and we all know it so that’s why nobody wants to be the first. Just ask true American hero John Brown.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 1 day ago
I need this meme format. I am willing to invest $.
legolasfanboy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AI slop
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The background photo is from 2020 december 5th according to some image matches from 2023 and 2021.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 1 day ago
1D Ludo be like: .
TomMasz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Perhaps, but maybe he shouldn’t be using Skittles to play it.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 1 day ago
Or human lives.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
“I DID FACT CHECK! IT SAYS ‘30 CHECKERS’ RIGHT THAR”
Someone showing me this meme as justification for their position, somehow
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Here the price always starts lower on monday and then rises to the highest price on the weekend and then repeats. Not surprised by anything tbh
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
More like 3D Chutes and Ladders.