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- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 5 days ago:
Ha ok to put mainly rather than maybe. A typo by me.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 5 days ago:
Again your own post. You do put a couple of maybes in there but then say the only exception is Norway and finish with a very unambiguous final sentence that EU governments do not own US government debt.
It’s not me that’s trying to save face by bringing a load of maybes into it. You were wrong. EU governments do own US debt.
Just the last two sentences again since you seem to be a bit thick
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 6 days ago:
It’s the last line. Where they say it is owned by governments just not European ones. That’s just wrong. They do own some of it. How much is up for debate but to say they don’t is wrong.
Also agree they probably won’t do anything with it as using it as a lever will also damage global markets, increase the overall cost of debt and impact all the economies involved.
However the world seems so fucking mental at the moment. So who’s to say it won’t happen.
Also I do wonder if China might do it with theirs just because they can, to flex their muscles or as a big fuck you to the US.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 6 days ago:
Here we go your own post where you sat they weren’t owned by European governments…
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 6 days ago:
Nope your turn to prove that none of this debt is owned by European governments.
I’ve provided the most reputable source that says the debt is owned by governments and within their breakdown it says some of those countries are European.
It doesn’t provide a detailed breakdown of private Vs government for these countries but no where does it say that is debt is only privately owned in European nations.
You need to prove that or stop talking nonsense.
Although not technically part of the EU anymore the UK government has confirmed a number of times that it owns US debt. Other nations will certainly do this as well.
Unless you can provide a source that says that no European governments own US debt you’re just making things up.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 6 days ago:
The section you’ve quoted that line from is only talking about privately owned US debt.
As you can see from the actual beginning of the paragraph rather than picking out the words you like at the end.
As I’ve already posted and mentioned right at the start of the pdf
See where it says 44.2% are held by foreign governments. Governments.
In the document from Congress.
About their own national debt ownership breakdown.
Then when we look at the country breakdown of ownership of this debt later on there are plenty of European nations in there.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 6 days ago:
Hmmm except that just saying the same thing again still doesn’t make you right.
When you get further down the pdf from Congress (or any other valid source on government debt breakdown) there’s a number of European countries. Such as this.
Have you got any actual sources for your statements other than just repeating the same thing?
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 6 days ago:
Ok except you’re completely wrong. The foreign holdings are both private and government owned. From www.congress.gov/…/RS22331.51.pdf
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 1 week ago:
The wing commander games.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 1 month ago:
Brilliant, original game.
Certainly never thought I’d play a game with “On Ilkla Mooar Baht 'at” as part of the soundtrack!
- Comment on American exceptionalism 1 month ago:
Vomiting won’t get them out. If when you vomit you’re bringing up matter from where they live then you’ve got much bigger problems than just a worms infection.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Instead of the patients coming in already bleeding you’ll have to make them bleed and then stop it.
Seems like extra work to me.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 5 months ago:
Rogue Two.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 5 months ago:
Babes 2 pigs in the cities
- Comment on Signs that rhyme 6 months ago:
Zed’s shed baby. Zed’s shed.
- Comment on Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it? 10 months ago:
Snapping sounds like a real faff.
Keep them all in a special plastic box that is inside a powerful electromagnet.
Push button and a field that is strong enough to damage the cards almost instantly and over a short time would generate enough heat to physically damage the cards.
With enough power and time you could turn them into one hot blob that wouldn’t even be recognisable.
So near instant data damage and then physical destruction probably before someone can work out what’s going on.
- Comment on Tintin, Popeye, Hemingway among US copyrights expiring in 2025 1 year ago:
What I don’t understand about this is why it matters if it’s just the USA.
Tintin is Belgian. So almost certainly published there first and covered under their copyright law. I’ve no idea what that is but just because it expires in the USA can’t mean it’s just an intentional free-for-all.
Wouldn’t the work still be covered in Belgium and any reuse anywhere would leave people liable to legal action there?
- Comment on Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past 1 year ago:
Yeah but does anyone call them that? I’d still call that kind of fine cut a paper cut.
Never heard anyone say “ow I’ve got a cardboard cut”
- Comment on Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past 1 year ago:
Are the cuts from packaging different then?
Never heard of cardboard cuts…
- Comment on Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89 1 year ago:
That’s a shame. Although living in that van all those years probably didn’t help.
