the pope dying is entertainment. giving feedback is only par for the course
CarmineCatboy2
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Liz Truss killed the Queen. JD Vance killed the Pope.
That is not what was meant as unprecedented. Of course US policy has triggered global debt crises before. The weakest countries in the world have been in one for years at this point simply due to high FED interest rates. Rather, what is unprecedented is how the underlying assumptions of US policy would render the washington consensus financially obsolete. One thing is to say that neoliberalism is hurtful austerity. While that's the truth, what is also true is that oligarchy benefits from the sort of measures countries have taken when dealing with dollar scarcity - hyperinflation, devaluation, and export volume increases.
If we get to a point where South Korea cannot acquire dollars and there's nothing it can do to finance itself and its trade, if every single thing that the US government claims to believe about its consumer market's importance in the world is true and nobody except China can retool their economies to face the new normal then this isn't just another sovereign debt crisis. It is much bigger than that.
South Korea is a country at the highest levels of technology and firmly within the center of center-periphery relations. If we get to a point where it and other major economies cannot acquire USD simply because their exports to the US are down, then its unprecedented. We might as well entertain a global sovereign debt crisis and the collapse of the dollar as a reserve currency.
the bad part about living in south america is that you're in here. the good part is that i dunno i think people will just forget to nuke us.
milei accused of not lying when he called himself a libertarian
Pillars of Eternity's Chanter is all about summoning, with the sequel adding more options there as well. You have many different types of Summons, and on the side you also juggle some active spells and buffs as 'Chanter' in this universe is kinda like a 'Bard': their songs and poems is how they summon things.
Few people know this but the Fiscais do Sarney were actually engaging in a ritual to increase his lifespan.
I wouldn't put it past good ol' Bill.
The death of the PSDB gave rise to one of my favorite unintentional memes.
founder of the party (picture, right) reading the auto-biography of party's destroyer (picture, left)
I think that at one point Shatner was gearing up to Act and make this heartfelt speech before the cameras - only to be cut off by Bezos summoning women from the ether for a champagne bottle opening. It felt like the guy was allergic to even performative introspection and it's not like I can't buy that Shatner was genuinely moved by going to space.
Most gazans are minors and Lancet estimates of the famines/killings we saw put total deaths at close to 200k. That was in Oct ~~2023~~ EDIT: 2024, thanks for the correction truthcarp.