@BynarsAreOk
@hexbear.netI'm not reading 250 comments fucking insanity.
But you're right, absolutely right. Skyrim was never good. Bethesda was carried by the modding community. Always was and would continue to be if they weren't so fucking incompetent because apparently the space game can't be modded or the modders gave up idk I saw this affirmation in a YT tittle so it must be true.
But yeah, Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul. That was the peak, a mound hill compared to NWN 1 and all the custom shit in that game even though I was too young to appreciate it so definitely no rose tinted glasses there yep definitely 100% nods.
If we do see a correction even close to 2020 the Fed will definitely cut rates.
IMO one point is that these people are not motivated by principled rethoric or fundamental theories, on the contrary mainstream econ is literaly vibes and buzzwords. You know the ones: "overheating", "sticky" inflation, "quiet quitters" etc. You know the idiots in charge are literaly making a separate inflation index to make it all look better. Its literaly "COVID inflation goes away if you stop testing measuring it".
The media and the financial market circus has the same ability to manufacture a narrative and in times like this, if the narrative becomes the Fed must cut rates now or the economy will crash then it leaves them no option.
Of course I do see the counter argument too, this isn't the first time either but I do note some differences
1- This is the first time I think there is any sort of call for "emergency" rate cut. The last time was during COVID.
2-There are correlating factors like Trump is almost a decided loser now and so goes the Trump bet narrative(major tax cuts, de-reg, incentives etc). Now the "market" wants another excuse to push higher and the only thing left is the holy grail aka rate cuts.
3- The AI bubble just isn't enough. The US market was primarily riding on these magnificent 7 profits and now even that is being called into question.
There's a lot of zombie companies doing business right now that should have gone bankrupt 5-10 years ago, and everybody and their mother is either opening up a restructuring & turnaround practice or expanding their existing one.
The point about these zombies is that they don't invest and they don't grow, they're not profitable and they barely survive only through debt.
The fundamental Marxist principle is capitalist economy only grows through corporate investment into productivity or larger scale. If there is no investment there wont be growth. Mainstream theories that say growth comes from consumer demand are all bunk nonsense anyway.
Even if you take that at face value US consumer demand is well known to be dependent on credit(e.g credit card) and the population is already scraping by with no emergency funds, with no wage growth, crippling inflation etc.
There's a lot of legal and financial institutional people who are planning as if the corporate debt reckoning is on the horizon.
If they're smart they damn well should be lol.
None of these look very promising
Default, Transition, and Recovery: Monthly Default Tally Reached Four-Year High In April
Of course, most of those interest payment went to the top 1-10% - the rich people. But at 8% deficit to GDP (and about half of that came from interest payment), even if we are talking about trickling down, that is still enough to keep the economy limping along without going into recession. A highly regressive policy, but the economy is still not crashing yet.
Come on dude, with all due respect, this is nonsense. You're unironicaly suggesting trickle down is not only real but the Fed can't lower rates otherwise the country breaks down?
Like even at face value why are you conflating US interest payments to rich individuals with "the private sector". Most corporations take on debt and are struggling to even be profitable, you should know there is already a permanent 5-15% group of zombie corporations in the US(not profitable and can only survive by taking or paying debt perpetualy).
Instead of a conspiracy there are other simpler reasons why the Fed doesn't lower rates, the most obvious one is monetary policy is nonsense, it is like faith healers and placebo. Inflation came down after COVID through '20-22 not because of interest rates but because the supply bottle necks eased up after the lockdown for example.
Now it is clear it doesn't work because the Fed interest rate goals to bring inflation down is head up against the greedflation from most corporations that raised prices and have no plans to lower them back again. These corps realized mainstream econ is BS and they can definitely get away with squeezing consumers because turns out elasticity and all that is nonsense, people are not "rational" and in fact some things are indispensable(or considered so) that people will endure almost whatever price for it e.g healthcare inflation in the US has been massive when the mainstream econ should say people would just go eat shit and die without insurance lol.
If "Biden" didn't endorse her there wont be a Democrat as Secretary of State to begin with.
Ukraine Is Getting Swedish Radar Planes. Expect Russia To Hunt Them From Day One.
I think another problem is NATO already providing this support anyway with only limited success, you'll see NATO recon aircraft and other patrols whenever they launch a drone/missile operation against Crimea for example.
The driver is 56yo so his parents are likely already dead unless you mean someone else lol.
The problem is that we don't realy know how serious the US realy is about winning the war in Ukraine.
By all evidence so far they're not actualy very threatened or willing to make any meaningful concessions to Ukraine. From day 1 they refused to give Ukraine cruise missiles etc. They tried to say keep the US out of the fight and they made sure Russia couldn't use US assistance as justification. Then the military escalation we saw was a complete joke as a result. The US said Ukraine can't attack pre-Crimea invasion borders for example.
Of course between incompetence, delusion and some deeper strategy perhaps its all three, but if we just take the incompetence and media narratives at face value, then Ukraine was nothing but a long term grift, meant to allow the US to encroach on Russia, a plan that backfired when Putin actualy decided to go to war at first and when their "contingency"(aka sanctions) failed later on.
I wont go further but you can see this is very different from the entire context and meaning behind Israel's existence and US support there.
If you want to have a peek at what the west is actualy thinking look at Rand corporation papers on Ukraine-Russia
It is very enlightening to see how they think of Russia as some "competition" for example. Some(most?) of these end up copy pasted over on western media btw.
Japan was a late industrialized country so if we consider the 20th century onwards then yeah they had a late start.
But to be sure whether you consider Japan a success or not is entirely irrelevant because I'm sure they'll are blissfully ignoring everything that happened since fucking 1980 or something. Japan was supposed to like China is today and it seems only god knows what sort of mysterious events stopped them surely nobody knows why their economy just "did that".
The Japanese miracle was definitely not intended and in the end should not be allowed to continue, but these idiots wont catch the irony there.