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2024-10-03 18:01:29

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2024-09-11 13:54:14

Debates are the wrong litmus test for a good leader.
Partially because of why they matter (an uninformed public using entertainment disguised as important statecraft which they substitute for doing their own research).
#skibidibate

2024-08-19 19:42:07

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Can't escape supply and demand no matter what your system is.

2024-08-18 13:06:21

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On a related note, it's interesting to see what the Orthodox church is doing in West Virginia..
https://youtu.be/st0JsDKpcI8?si=OLn55_RDFiBDgwXf

2024-08-18 11:23:44

Imagine feeling something about anything.. 😏
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2024-08-05 16:53:37

Impeccable timing! What a genius!
(Why don't you just be a genius like Buffet? 🤨 )
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2024-07-19 13:40:20

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Red is worse 😓

2024-05-28 00:44:12

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2024-05-23 15:07:10

Even people who hate stereotypes don't disagree with the premise.
You're allowed to complement (almost) any group and people are OK with it.
You just can't follow through with that logic to criticize.

2024-05-18 16:20:50

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The only way Democracy works is if you disenfranchise anyone without a vested interest in the long term and set minimum standards around wisdom.
It should be a narrow body of eligible voters.
Honestly the best scenario is probably something like county councils are the voter pool for Federal elections. That might work.

2024-05-18 00:19:14

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I do wonder about how many great books are out there that just never got popular

2024-05-02 02:44:09

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He was willing to risk the male population of Ukraine to try.
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2024-03-22 18:56:20

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Oh, so it turns out the nut job conspiracy theorists were correct again.
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2024-03-16 12:40:54

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It doesn't make sense until you understand it is about power.
Mass importing immigrants dependent entirely on the State = more power
A citizen looking to reduce his needs and increase his independence = less power
Simple as.

2024-03-14 02:27:41

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Interesting.
Tell me more about who did the study and who funds them.

2024-03-12 15:27:00

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2024-03-12 13:21:18

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2024-02-02 15:58:24

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But that was the whole point. They just wanted to shut it down.
They got the last laugh.

2024-01-14 01:22:04

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Everything is so manipulated it's hard to know what the true state of things are.
Maybe markets are just sustaining the burden of all the nonsense. I do think a lot of wealth is being expended as the economy seems to be moving toward everyone driving each other around for Uber

2024-01-12 13:32:04

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> Chinese Communism
China may be authoritarian, but show me an example of communism in modern China. In many ways it is more capitalist than the West. You just become a target once you're successful.

2024-01-12 13:21:53

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You don't have to be an Ayn Rand fanboy to appreciate how well she described how society slowly breaks to pieces under the weight of what we call "leftist" ideas.
Maybe because she lived through it.
But society doesn't break apart in a moment. It slowly corrodes; one decision at a time. Once it becomes more important to avoid thought crime than do the right thing, a series of responsibility avoidance over a long time frame across a large number of people leads to a blown out window. It isn't a random event. It's a chain reaction of decaying society where everyone is just looking out for themselves and the highest goal is avoiding responsibility and virtue signaling rather than pride in the best tool you can make, and the best designs, and the best windows, and the best workmanship, and pride in a plane that can fly.

2023-12-29 19:15:24

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Is it possible history is nuanced and complex? No, it must be so simple a child can understand and align with current standards of morality.
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2023-12-19 14:01:17

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2023-12-09 00:20:27

Guys, have you heard about WWII?!?
Hollywood is FINALLY making a series about it!
> Spielberg and Hanks have chosen a new home for their next WWII epic: Masters of the Air. This time, the focus will be on the war in the sky as the 100th Bomb Group takes the battle to the doorsteps of the Nazis. But these are incredibly dangerous missions, and not everyone will make it back home.

2023-11-22 01:51:20

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Senators answer to the people, not the state.

2023-11-22 01:48:27

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How so?

2023-11-22 01:46:11

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Germany has more direct representation in Washington than the state of Georgia.
Georgians have representation, but not the state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

2023-11-16 16:08:10

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OK, but why do the politicians allow them to have that influence?

2023-11-15 23:36:31

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> I didn't realize Musk was running for the US Presidency.
The libertarian right has no answer for corporatist influence over culture.
> He has changed his positions on some of your very dated screen captures.
Has Musk changed his position on verification of difital identities?
He changed the name to ”X" because he wants it to be a single app for everything in your life including banking.
Online id and opinions and banking in one app.
Seems like a tool the globalists would love to have.

2023-11-09 11:36:02

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It will improve lives!
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2023-11-04 14:43:12

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Not really "my dualism" more "observed reality" ..
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2023-11-04 14:16:09

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> From the western POV
What does this mean?
> God has also said to be completely beyond, behind, outside of and separate from His creation
Sure, but I think Lewis is referencing the reality of man not God in that quote
> Monists vehemently dispute this
Im sure. Of course they would.

2023-11-04 12:15:35

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2023-10-28 14:15:01

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2023-10-25 12:56:31

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What is it that society is giving zoomers to make it appealing for them to sacrifice themselves?
Asked differently, ..why wouldn't they?

2023-10-22 18:31:54

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It's puritanical.
They are the ideological descendants of the Puritans.

2023-10-20 02:50:56

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2023-10-13 13:44:44

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> boomers left the world in disrepair
> boomers remain disproportionately in power positions
> young people are the problem because they don't know how to fix it
??
Well maybe, but they arent in positions of power to even try 🤷‍♂️
Anyway, who raised all these kids?

2023-10-12 00:56:52

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Interesting.
Can we see his stock portfolio?

2023-10-12 00:20:00

@npub1k9r…ynfh
"..the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them.
He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.”
Thomas Jefferson
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2023-10-09 01:10:23

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Boomer reveling in schadenfreude over knowing that the world they left for younger generations is exponentially worse and bleaker than the one they got to enjoy.
Sounds about right.

2023-10-06 11:12:11

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2023-10-05 17:38:59

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This is like throwing stones at a normal house from a glass house..

2023-10-04 11:53:45

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> call you a Karen
I'm convinced that "Karen" is an AstroTurfed talking point to keep people from taking agency against bad behavior
Just like "toxic masculinity"

2023-09-29 13:21:06

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The important thing to keep in mind here is that Fienstein was insignificant compared to the organized machine that ran her office, which is the same machine that runs most of DC.
This is why it didn't matter that she was still in office beyond her physical capabilities. Same with Biden and others.
The machine will replace her with another human and "Our Sacred Democracy™" will be no different.

2023-09-26 16:56:58

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This isn't intended to fix anything, it's just going to be a shakedown for a share of that sweet Amazon money

2023-09-23 13:27:51

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Very interesting point about the depth of oil.
Either it isnt dino juice, or it means we need to dig deeper for more dinos?

2023-09-19 21:16:44

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Cant believe a two thousand year old prophecy of the Antichrist controlling payment processing missed so hard by calling it a "mark" instead of a "unique palm fingerprint" 😏

2023-09-17 23:28:14

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> What Ivan fails to understand, he's fighting the tools of American's, not Americans. If he wants to see what Americans can do when they put their minds to it
This video paints a different picture..
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_commons/comments/vcmc2n/military_recruitment_videos_china_vs_russia_vs_us/
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2023-09-15 20:18:43

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Exactly.
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2023-09-15 18:14:40

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Right. This stuff started around then.
Someone can correct me but i think the "zero tolerance" stuff started in the 90s as a way of allowing the school administration to absolve themselves from having to do the right thing. It is much easier to just follow the policy when the policy makes no determination of right and wrong.

2023-09-15 14:11:57

re: Bullying
You hear too often about kids committing suicide from bullying. I wonder if this happened at the same rate in the 1950s and you just didnt hear about it because no internet?
Im assuming it didnt happen; at least, not at current rates.
So, why?
Schools added "zero tolerance" policies. In reality, these policies are similar to the policies of current leftist prosecutors, wherein they are more apt to come down harshly on someone for trying to do the right thing in a bad situation, than they are to go after actual bad actors.
Public school policies toward bullying are similar. The schools dont aggressively punish bad actors. They do punish everyone together if you fight back against a bully per the "zero tolerance" policies.
The result?
In the past, bullies were like wolves in a forest. Nobody liked it, but they are there, and your choice is fight or flight.
Now, they are still wolves in a forest, but if you fight, the forest ranger will come down on you and you'll be in just as much (or more) trouble than the wolf. In schools, there was a kind of Wild West code of Justice, and if you could hit the bully back, everyone knew they deserved it.
Now the system turns a blind eye until you are pushed to your limit and fight back, and then the same system comes down agaisnt you with prejudice for your pursuit of Justice.
I imagine this is what the kids are finding unbearable.

2023-09-14 16:03:21

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Indeed.

2023-09-14 16:00:51

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Mitt Romney:
When you want to vote for a Democrat but dont want to change your party affiliation.

2023-09-13 11:06:11

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I was just reading that hydrogen has come down to about the same price as gas
Hydrogen power + nuclear to create the fuel seems like an energy utopia?

2023-09-11 16:36:31

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Wow!
..Zalenski has two shirts now?!

2023-09-11 00:21:53

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2023-09-07 00:06:00

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One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.
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2023-09-06 17:30:07

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If he was going to do it he should have done it already.
He won't. Or it will be heavily redacted.
McCarthy isnt even on the right of the current overton window.

2023-09-06 11:11:03

In the last 5 years alone, the 200 most politically active companies in the U.S. spent $5.8 billion influencing our government with lobbying and campaign contributions.
Those same companies got $4.4 trillion in taxpayer support — earning a return of 750 times their investment.
https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/
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2023-09-02 01:11:02

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2023-09-01 23:31:50

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If humans were robots i would agree.
Culture matters. Community matters.
A healthy society needs to foster and protect those two, which can be negatively affected by uncontrolled immigration.

2023-09-01 18:04:29

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Whatever they are dropping, the public deserves to know about it ..

2023-09-01 17:50:01

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> Incarceration doesn’t work
But in your story incarceration was the only thing that worked

2023-08-27 13:09:58

Everything about redditor culture is centered around instant gratification. Common phrases:
- "insta"
- "immediately"
- "[noun]+porn"
- "edit: wow! Thanks for the [digital dopamine] friend!"
Im sure there are more examples, because it is ingrained behavior, but those examples came to mind.

2023-08-24 21:50:26

"When it's right there on Wikipedia but they still don't believe you"
"Death and the Miser" - Jan Provoost, 1462 Belgium
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2023-08-24 21:31:10

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2023-08-24 13:13:20

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> the Y chromosome is one of the most difficult to genetically sequence. Scientists initially believed it was nothing more than a genetic wasteland
> in reality, that’s not the case at all. As genetic technology grows more advanced, so has our understanding of the Y chromosome’s importance. Its loss in older men, for example, is associated with an increased risk of cancer and other chronic diseases. Its genes somehow play a part in multiple biological processes

2023-08-24 13:09:44

"The final missing piece of the human genome has been decoded"
Im sure this will be fine..
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2023-08-23 14:14:31

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Because we're giving away $12 billion
I agree with you in theory, but at this point there is no fiscal responsibility for anything, and it seems preferable to spend $12b rebuilding the lives of people than sending weapons of war to foment endless conflicts

2023-08-23 10:44:25

how many homes could you rebuild in Hawaii with $12b..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-approves-12b-arms-package-for-poland-including-apache-helicopters/ar-AA1fDFsf

2023-08-22 17:08:08

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Not from a libertarian viewpoint.

2023-08-22 17:03:51

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The core parts of Libertarianism that should be included as building blocks of a society are freedom of association, and an Austrian school understanding of economics.
But Libertarianism is not sufficient for a society. Libertarianism deals with the logical, but most of the problems are moral and cultural. Libertarianism is built in economic ideas and pretends to be a moral philosophy.
As a holistic model, it has no answer for (and often logically encourages) all sorts of societal ills, like strip mall blight, employer mandates, the toxic factory going up next to your neighborhood, degeneracy in general, consumerism, corporate farms, Walmart out competing local stores, etc
If you listened to the Reason Magazine during the lockdowns, they basically said, "ackshually Facebook censoring content and employer health mandates are fine, because they are a private company." Worse than worthless positions to hold.
For example, what is the libertarian argument against ESG funds?
What is the libertarian argument against a handful of giant tech companies controlling 99% of social media and pushing leftwing ideology?

2023-08-22 15:33:15

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> You can still have culture but not be forced to contribute to parts of society you don't agree with
This is increasingly not true.

2023-08-22 15:29:50

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The flaw is that they ignore culture.
Everything is downstream of culture.

2023-08-21 23:48:03

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Quite literally

2023-08-21 11:03:42

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Those same people arent generally sharing their struggles and downs.
Maybe that's what makes it so hard to bare.

2023-08-21 11:02:26

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I know it doesn't fix anything, but dont forget that social media is by nature a distortion:
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/15498/20140914/photoshop-fake-vacation-facebook-artist.htm

2023-08-20 23:47:34

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If it is AstroTurfed, then why?

2023-08-18 22:50:20

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Gunnar Kaasen with Balto

2023-08-18 22:49:47

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2023-08-18 15:49:41

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> It is so over for crypto.
CBDCs are just ramping up my friend.

2023-08-18 11:34:01

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2023-08-17 02:27:17

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This presumes that cats think there are beings higher than themselves

2023-08-16 22:37:53

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Reminds me of that Soviet joke:
"We pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us."

2023-08-16 11:27:39

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Ohhh…
that’s why the Biden administration isnt doing anything to help the people there.
All his friends want to buy their land cheap!

2023-08-14 14:11:30

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I think "escaping the wife and kids" is a physical manifestation of deeper societal impacts
Said another way, they wouldn't need to escape anything if they had a steam engine to restore..

2023-08-14 12:49:03

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Seems related..
@npub1d8p…0esx
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2023-08-11 17:57:30

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No. 😢
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2023-08-07 00:20:57

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At that point they got what they wanted with a CBDC.
"The experts say that according to the research a CBDC will protect us from economic disaster. Remember,, we're all in this together, so don't endanger others by using non-CBDC monies. ..or else!"

2023-08-07 00:08:41

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> still resilient to everything but direct violence perpetrated on users
It will be for the "safety of the economy" and once illegal, it would be mostly irrelevant whether the tech is disrupted or not.

2023-08-06 23:40:45

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What if "Satoshi" was never a single person, but rather a channel to release a concept to crowd source the development of infrastructure needed to support eventual CBDCs?

2023-08-06 12:06:58

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Your point about the cycle of civilization is valid.
I was comparing to more recent history, like the 1950s.
But yes, it's all one big cycle in the long term. Question is, are we creating string men already, or have the actual "hard times" not even started yet?

2023-08-06 11:49:55

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Of course theft has always happened, but not at this level:
> Target last week said it was bracing to lose half a billion dollars this year because of rising theft. Nordstrom, Whole Foods and some other big chains said they were abandoning San Francisco because of changing economic conditions or employee safety. Many other retailers have blamed crime for closing stores.

2023-08-04 23:06:00

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2023-08-04 19:27:23

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Everything is fine.
> Late Tuesday, Fitch Ratings became the second of the three major credit-rating firms to remove its coveted triple-A assessment of the United States government’s credit worthiness
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2023-06-16 17:58:11

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So, ..what's a good Lemmy instance?
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