and buying stocks in companies “Without asking Congress, Trump’s administration has bought stakes in dozens of private companies. These range from the massive – a nearly $9 billion lifeline to Intel in exchange for nearly 10% of the company – to much smaller stakes in mineral, quantum computing and semiconductor companies, according to a list of 30 investments.”

Even if the Trump administration says it won’t meddle in the operation of these companies, the genie is out of the bottle and the government will now have an incentive, according to DeHaven, “to privilege the companies that the government has ownership stakes in, and to disfavor competitors, and not just existing competitors, but potential competitors.”

In the Fox News poll, Americans are effectively split — 50% viewed capitalism favorably versus 46% who viewed it unfavorably.

He keys in on one particular data point: Only 41% of Republican registered voters have a strongly favorable view of capitalism in the most recent Fox News poll. Another 20% of Republicans registered voters expressed a somewhat favorable view of capitalism.

Not for me btw

Interesting ty!! and bit sad, that last part reminds me a bit of that series “1899” which features a mysterious ship where time and reality become distorted, leading to unsettling experiences for the passengers.

The ship has not docked for more than 200 days. According to Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, that is a record in recent history for the number of consecutive days at sea.

In recent weeks, family members of the crew have told U.S. media about exhaustion on board, food shortages, and poor sanitary conditions. Earlier this month, a sailor reportedly even jumped overboard. CNN (opens in a new window) reports, citing anonymous sources within the U.S. government, that the crew member was subsequently rescued from the water.

The news outlet also reports that the U.S. Navy is dismissing the incident as a “mental health-related episode.” The crew member has been brought ashore for further care. Other crew members are also said to have attempted to jump overboard.

There were already complaints about the food last April. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth dismissed the photos that surfaced as fake news.
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Last week, during a meeting with Navy leadership, family members asked questions about the sailor who had jumped overboard. They were told that he was doing “just fine,” according to a reporter from the news channel MS Now. “Those present reacted with outrage.”

Following all the commotion, the Navy issued a statement today: “We have not observed an increase in suicidal thoughts or attempts on board. We take the well-being of service members seriously and have chaplains, medical personnel, and mental health specialists available to assess and address any concerns.”

Hegseth then reiterated today that reports of poor conditions were “completely exaggerated.” Nevertheless, the Navy announced this evening that the USS George Washington is en route to the Middle East, reportedly to relieve the Lincoln.

The straight out lying tho

holy shit

interesting tysm!!

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Limit the amount of assets everyone can have to 1M-10M and tax inheritance, so peoples start position is drawn more equally. So the money will end up by people who start with none thru the government thru taxes. Solved next

Exactlyyy. The Hague invasion act is used when the ICC wants to investigate war crimes by america’s army (or israelians army). So america will go as far as to attack a country as soon as they want to investigate what happened somewhere … the ICC just went after Trumps government for sanctioning the ICC, aka international law. Bruh how obvious corrupt do they want to be… Trump for prison asap

Inheritance should be taxed if you really want equal chances lol but ig you dont want equal chances, one person can inherit millions the other inherits nothing, yeah thats fair /s

Imo there should be a law that limits the sum of assets everyone is allowed to have, say 1M-10M

I think americans education lacks desperately yeah but after a bad enough war they’ll maybe finally see why we need international rules. Why would anyone not sign it, do they want to be able to make rules that justify crimes against humanity or war crimes? Unless you’re doing shady stuff. And the lobbying of rich companies that want to keep resources poor, so maybe we should start with taxing big companies way more then and limiting the sum amount of assets someone can have, say 1M-10M. Cause the lobbying for human rights and average people seems nonexistent

and they should sign the Rome institute like 125 other countries in the world did

And bumble and even a Japanese dating app it says lol

But no aid to Ukraine means Europe, your biggest trade partner will be in danger, hence your economy will suffer and you’ll become more broke… There’s a reason why we have the ICC and why we have foreign aid, cause ww1 and ww2 taught us that peace is way more lucrative then getting sucked into a war… So idk foreign aid makes everyone richer imo

current population of Europe

Prediction in 50 years:

Happy birthday!!!

Thats what the full asylum procedure is for, to really understand what your situation is, cause some people are still threatened by something even if its a safe country and can get asylum but yeah you don’t get asylum for lack of jobs and low wages, no… so they should apply at work agencies to get a work visa’s lel semi /s or we could make their and our economy better by having free trade so they don’t have the incentive to emigrate iguess?

Amazing!!

Yeah I heard that too, this doesn’t just happen. On the one hand, there is a ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court stating that anyone who reaches Ceuta can apply for asylum and may not be returned to Morocco; that has undoubtedly had an impact. But it is also a land border between Europe and Africa that is jointly controlled. Europe wants to externalize the asylum and migration policy. To do so, they would have to cooperate, and that entails risks. And then as you said there’s indeed speculation that Spain has sought rapprochement with Algeria, so marocco sort of permitted or tolerated this surge. Externalizing your immigration policy requires good partners. It could therefore potentially be used as leverage.