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IMHO America has way more Inflation than the Offical Figures.

Because the Official Inflation is matemathically related to the Official GDP (which is the Real GDP, calculated from the Nominal - in USD - GDP by deflating it using the Inflation rate, so more inflation means less GDP), it's a Politically Important number, complex to determine, with a lot of room for rigging (just change the composition of the "basket" used to calculate it, plus there's a big difference between including or not Housing costs), generally considered good if small and gets less focus than GDP (GDP Growth is widelly paraded by ruling politicians as a measure of their success, Inflation much less so), so I suspect the political pressure to make Official Inflation figures small is HUGE.

As far as I can tell that official figure has been heavilly rigged for quite a while (though I expect that in Trump's America it's worse), hence why the blue collar worker salary which could pay for a house, a car and a family of 5 back in the 60s and which according to Inflation has around the same real value as a blue collar worker salary nowadays, can't pay for anywhere close to that anymore.

(By the way, this is not just a problem in America - you can see the same in Europe - it's just that judging by the growth in housing costs, food prices and salaries in certain areas, America seems to have had way more inflation since 2008 than Europe).

Also it depends on the tip used for the soldering iron: those large surfaces have a lot more volume of metal that needs heating (plus you also need more volume of solder) so if one uses a conical tip it doesn't transmit heat fast enough and you ended up with an irregular solder hill like that.

If you're use to soldering smaller components, doing something like that is quite different and won't come out as well until you get used to its peculiarities.

If you're not at all used to soldering, that's actually pretty good.

Totally agree on "works" being the gold standard, especially on a something like that which isn't subject to significant mechanical forces (like, for example, a push switch would).

Maybe, just maybe, the US Administration shouldn't be discriminating in favour of the Empathy Impaired.

It makes total sense that a guy like Vance with his very narrow life experience as a populist politician in the social, political and press environment of America would absolutelly believe that his presence in Hungary would be a massive help for Orban.

The idea that Far-Right American politicians suffer from American Exceptionalism even more than most Americans (who, judging by their behaviour as turists abroad, in the most have some serious delusions of grandeur) and thus genuinelly expected that their presence and support would sway elections in favour of their ideological brothers, doesn't seem at all far fetched.

This goes double if you think they're used to a political environment were the masses are under-educated (the quality of average Education in the US has for decades been lower than Europe) and politically simplistic due to being brainwashed by the Two Party Duopoly and a mindless take on the Constitution (treated almost like a Holy Book), and a Press thoroughly captured and turned into Propaganda outlets for DECADES leading people by the nose: it's not outrageous to think that because of the environment that made them what they are, in the eyes of American Politicians (not just Republicans but also Democrats) most of the common people are easilly swindled muppets.

Vance thinking he's a very important person and superior politician with vast experience in swindling the populous who can be a great help in convincing the european riff-raff to vote for Orban isn't exactly beyond belief.

I've lived in a couple of countries in Europe and in my experience the American style of Far Right doesn't really go down well around here, not even in Britain (though that seems to be changing with all the transphobia popping up over there nowadays).

Certain American Nationalism isn't welcome and the (pseudo-)religious crap doesn't land well here either nowadays (it's funny how in the XXI century the US is the closest to a Theocracy of all Western nations whilst in the rest religiouness has been seriously dampened by Universal Education).

Only the anti-immigration talk goes does well with supporters of the local Far-Right around here.

Further, I suspect that the side-effects of America's and Israel's attack on Iran are switching people of from Islamophobia - except perhaps in the UK the local Press just isn't anywhere as unified in using Manufacturing Consent techniques to spin American and Israel as the good guys fighting the evil "Regime" in Iran, so people seem to be blaming America and Israel for all this shit rather than Iran.

Last but no least, there's not really any MAGA over here, so from hearing and seeing him talk on TV people have an almost universal opinion of Trump as a disgusting liar because he's constantly and very obviously contradicting himself and his body language just shouts sleazy asshole and without the mindset of constantly coming up with excuses for him of the True Believer, Trump just looks like a slimy shity loudmoth.

First things, first: Congratulations to all Hungarians!

As for the rest of Europe, does this mean the other Russian agent, Fico, won't have anybody covering his back in the EU anymore?

What's next: America blowing up its own bases in the Middle East? Killing its own soldiers? Crashing its own planes?

I reckon the Epstein pedo honeypot that was run by Mossad and the CIA is a lot of that reason.

Also the US runs tons of digital surveillance of their allies and Israel specializes on things like remote hacking smartphones (most companies doing that shit aren't based in Israel by chance), so even when they don't have photos of the politicians diddling kids they'll have other compromising material on them such as evidence of Corruption.

Most politicians in the West nowadays are little more than posh salesmen devoid of ideology who were attracted to the job by the Power and/or Money, so the chances of them not being crooked in some way are pretty low.

Calling this kind of thing "anti-semitic" implies that committing war crimes, including Genocide, is a fundamental Jewish trait.

THAT is about the most anti-semitic thing imaginable, way beyond most of the slander against Jews from the traditional anti-semites.

Oh, wow, now Netanyahu himself represents the entirety of the Jewish People.

I did nazi that coming.

He would me more successful in trying to proclaiming reality into being if he said he was considering getting a pony.

My latest theory is that the best way to spot the Racists weaponizing it for Racial-objectives amongst those who talk about the Holocaust, is to notice the ones who only ever talk about a single one of the groups targeted by the Nazis and literally never mention any other group.

The Roma People, for example, were targeted by the Nazis for extermination right alongside the Jewish People (their extermination having been ordered by Hitler himself), yet they are never mentioned by Zionists and their supporters, nor are they claimed to deserve "unwavering support" by German politicians (the double standard in terms of recognition of their victimization and of who is deserving help for being victimized, depending on their ethnicity, is a pretty clear continuation of the Racist Discrimination mindset of the NAZIs in Germany).

There are countless movies about the victimization of Jews in the Holocaust, including Oscar winning ones, but only about 14 movies in the whole World ever made during all this time, about the victimization of the Roma in the Holocaust.

There is The Holocaust, the extreme Genocide in Europe in which the NAZIs targeted Jews, Roma, the Handicapped and other smaller groups, and then there is The Holocaust^TM^ which is a Propaganda story created based on that true event which changes it to one where only ever the Jewish People were targeted and the goes on and uses that to justify as acceptable for the self-proclaimed representatives of the Jewish People to mass murder innocents who were never in any way, form or shape involved in The Holocaust, much less to blame for it.

I absolutely can see why people cast doubt on The Holocaust^TM^ the Propaganda adaptation by White Jewish Supremacists of a cherry-picked subset of the story of what happened in real Holocaust, leveraged using "they're all the same" Racist Logic to justify that people who share nothing with said victims but an ethnicity to be the recipients of such extreme special treatment not extended to other ethnicities that a blind eye is turned on the extreme murderous behavior of some because of nothing else than their ethnicity.