zloubida
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- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 20 hours ago:
I put no maybes. I put mainlies. Do you understand the difference?
It’s easy to take a sentence without context and making it say something else, but it’s a bad faith argument. You only discussed in bad faith until now.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 23 hours ago:
I counted, I say 5 times “mainly” or a variation of “mainly” in our discussion and I wrote one ambiguous (if taken out of context) sentence. You’re trying to save face at this point.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 1 day ago:
Show me where I said that European governments owned no US debt, please. I said that it was mostly owned by private agents. The keyword here is mostly. Mainly. For the greatest part. Predominantly. Don’t change the terms of the discussion now that you feel cornered.
Of course the UK, Luxembourg, France or Ireland own US bonds. But what is owned by European countries is largely dwarfed by what’s owned in European countries. Not a word in the Congress’s document contradict that, and I provided a source that you conveniently ignored.
So if the European countries sold what they own directly, the effect would be weak. For this idea to work, they’d have to make private agents cooperate, and I don’t think they can.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 1 day ago:
As you can see from the actual beginning of the paragraph rather than picking out the words you like at the end.
The beginning of the paragraph changes nothing. Two different sentences can have two different meaning; the text says “in the US and abroad”.
As I’ve already posted and mentioned right at the start of the pdf
Again that’s a worldwide average. It’s not equally distributed. Prove me wrong instead of repeating your error.
there are plenty of European nations in there.
Again, this table mixes public and private investor and is then irrelevant. Prove me wrong instead of repeating your error.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 1 day ago:
Again, your table doesn’t differentiate public and private ownership. You obviously don’t understand the numbers you’re sending. Citing page 1 of your own link:
Investors in the United States and abroad include official institutions, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve and foreign central banks; financial institutions, such as commercial banks; and private individual investors.
Both financial institutions and individual investors are private. So your link is totally irrelevant to our discussion (as you would know if you had read it). Yes, for example Luxembourg holds $423.9 billions, but do tou actually think the Luxembourgian state owns it? Of course not! Luxembourg is a trading place where a lot of holdings are based. These holdings hold the far biggest part of those billions. It’s the same with the UK (the London City is another trading place with a lot of holdings). And most of European countries.
As far as I know, the US Treasury doesn’t communicate on this, so we don’t have strict numbers. But it’s a well-known thing, as stated the Financial Times recently:
But this doesn’t change the fact that most of these assets are not actually owned by European governments (the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund being the only notable exception). These stocks and bonds are actually overwhelmingly held by the private sector: thousands of insurance companies, pension plans, banks and other institutional investors, and millions of ordinary people.
I’d love for Europe to have this kind of power, but we simply don’t have it (we have others however, like the “commercial bazooka”).
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 1 day ago:
Ok except you’re completely wrong. Governmental investments in US are mainly made by countries outside Europe, like China. The only European exception is Norway, which alone can’t do much (and is not in the EU).
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 1 day ago:
No, unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that. “Europe” doesn’t owns a lot of US bonds; private investors from Europe own them. There’s no way to compel them to sell them.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 2 days ago:
I love typewriters. When I write with them, I write differently than when I write with my computer. Just one example: if I write something i find shitty with my computer, I just delete it; if i do it with my typewriter, I have to physically strike the “bad” text. This has two consequences : I have to think more of what I’m writing, and if i finally change my mind the bad text is still there for me to work again or put somewhere else in my text. The “tangibleness” is important not only for conservation reasons.
But computers are better at sharing what in wrote, and polishing my texts. I like to scan and OCR-ize my pages and finishing the work on a computer. I don’t oppose analog and digital, but i find it sad that most people chose one (the digital generally) and reject the other. It’s like not using your left hand.
- Comment on atlas shrugged as jesus wept 4 days ago:
My tolerance ends the moment someone else is intolerant of me.
That’s legitimate. I’d say it’s even the only case where intolerance is legitimate.
Christians think I am going to hell and plenty of them would happily kill me if they thought they could get away with it. I won’t tolerate that.
Some think that, some would do that. And you’re 100% right not tolerating that. But none of that is inherent to Christianity.
- Comment on atlas shrugged as jesus wept 4 days ago:
you’re making up a definition of bigotry that fits your identity as a victim
I didn’t wrote this definition. It’s from a dictionary; check yours. Of as dictionaries stupid too?
You’re just upset because I think of your religion the same way you think about the religions that aren’t your particular flavour of stupidity.
No you don’t think of my religion the same way I think about others’. Contrary to you, I respect people I disagree with, and religions and schools of thought that aren’t mine. Most of my friends are atheists, one of my closest one is Muslim. Because I may be religious, but I’m not a bigot.
- Comment on atlas shrugged as jesus wept 4 days ago:
If you were born in an other country, an other time or just in your country and your time but in an other family, you’d probably have other religious views.
And even if it wasn’t the case, if you lose respect for people just because they made a stupid choice, you didn’t have a lot of respect for them from the beginning. Tolerance reserved for people agreeing with you is not tolerance, it’s agreement. It’s bigotry.
- Comment on atlas shrugged as jesus wept 4 days ago:
Bigot /bĭg′ət/, noun: A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
- Comment on /c/fuckai in shambles rn 6 days ago:
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses,
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- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 4 weeks ago:
The law is the entirety of the law. Paul doesn’t says that the law is not important; but it has nothing to do with salvation. There’s no guilt anymore.
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 4 weeks ago:
That’s the original Christianity :
O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Sin doesn’t have power upon us because the Law is not to be followed anymore thanks to Jesus.
- Comment on 102% 5 weeks ago:
What I say is that there is more than three variables. The three variables are already the result of addition if other variables rounded.
- Comment on 102% 5 weeks ago:
Unless 40.5, 56.5 and 3.5 are themselves additions of rounded numbers. It’s generally how that works.
- Comment on 102% 5 weeks ago:
Approve and disapprove are generally a collection of different possible response generally (for example strongly approve, approve, slightly approve) which all can be rounded. When you round the result of an addition of rounded numbers, the result can be slightly off, without changing the significance of the result.
- Comment on 102% 5 weeks ago:
It’s called rounding, and it’s quite common.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I agree, I’m as much pro-abortion right as one can get, and yet I understand the fox’s reaction. He speaks about sin just one time, and his reaction would be understandable even without it. I imagine a man, in love with his wife and who would love to be a father, be renounced to this dream because his wife is sterile, and he chose her over his own desire to be a father. And one day she announces him that she’s pregnant and want an abortion… you can be in favour of this right, and still feel very bad.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ll regret asking I’m sure but… which comics?
- Comment on We live in alien zoo 1 month ago:
Of course science evolves, but that shouldn’t be a reason for a vulgarization book to teach something else than the scientific consensus of the time.
- Comment on We live in alien zoo 1 month ago:
I didn’t read Sapiens, but if this book claim that homo sapiens is responsible for the disappearing of Neanderthals, you can close it. This idea was disproven by research long ago: when sapiens arrived in Europe, Neanderthals were already on the verge of disappearing.
- Comment on It's the only logical future, captain. 1 month ago:
It may be possible in English, I’m not competent enough to have a strong opinion.
In French, as all words are gendered, the things are different.
- Comment on It's the only logical future, captain. 1 month ago:
The invisibilization.
- Comment on It's the only logical future, captain. 1 month ago:
goddesses are already gods
That’s called invisibilization of women. The French language, which is my mother tongue, does that a lot, and we’re fighting against that.
- Comment on Would you date someone that uses a hammer? 2 months ago:
I only use this kind of hammers.
- Comment on What are the important differences between the RSF and army in Sudan? 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t say the RSF is atheistic, but it’s a secular group, in a country which was islamist until 2019. Officially, the regular forces are secular too, as the religions and the State were separated after the protests of 2018-2019, so it’s not the main difference.
I’d say it’s mainly a fight between two dictators who tried to form an alliance but were not capable of sharing the power. There’s a little more ideological diversity within the regular forces though, as the RSF is deeply and strongly Arab-supremacist.
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 2 months ago:
