As soon as he was killed, Netanyahu started going all over American TV right away saying "it wasn't us".
Because he was asked
all the israeli killed kirk conspiracies are dumb. having said that, the netanyahu response was pretty fucking crazy. dude is such a monster he literally just can't be normal
just to re-emphasize: zero chance this was a Mossad op. but LOL at netanyahu not helping people realize that
Kirk might've had private, critical dislikes about Israel, but ZERO chance he'd ever "turn" on Israel in public with any sincerity besides offering occasional / mild criticism.
He's a mouthpiece for the GOP (if there's any doubt see Exhibit A: JD Vance hosted Turning Points this week). Until the GOP turns on Israel, he's saying whatever line they tell him to.
anecdote time: some personal finance book had a study about a frugal tradeskill worker driving the same f150 had almost double the money at retirement than the keeping-up-with-the-joneses lawyer who kept buying a new BMW every few years
Like Hasan is a reformist IMO and he's reaping reformist prizes that any revolutionary socialist could have seen coming from a mile away...but I don't want to see him get hurt.
he's on stream right now playing Lenin speeches and reading them
you might be right it's just funny cruising through these comments and reading this while Lenin/Hasan is blasting in the background
there's a bunch edited out and they're combining multiple lines into neat paragraphs for the court
but yah i text (hell i ramble on hexbear) in short incoherent sentences. it reads weird but i think that's just how they packaged it for the court. if they're fabricating evidence the prosecutor is losing their license so i really don't think that's it
i was doing a local library on my NAS with jellyfin+plugin (can't remmber) and soulseek. i still host on soulseek but stopped trying to build a mega local library because i'm lazy.
it was me i'm trans we drove to cracker barrel with the WOKE logo and we talked about how he transitioned to female to win the sportsball tournament at his school but they wouldn't let him compete so he shot charlie kirk
couldn't read the article because 404 error so wrote hope not / if
doing trades outside the dollar would soften it as well though. the impact would be minimal (going to take decades to de-dollarize the world) and just judging by the free-trade economist source they're just writing shit because mad at trump over tariffs
edit: copy/pasting full article after ripping from vk. it's just more evidence of China slowly becoming the world's reserve currency.
China is ditching the dollar, fast - The Economist
China’s leaders sense an epic opportunity. Trump’s erratic trade policy, gaping fiscal deficits and threats to the independence of America’s Federal Reserve risk badly hurting the dollar. It has slumped 7% on a trade-weighted basis since January, and had its worst start to a year since 1973. By contrast, the yuan, has reached its highest level since Trump was re-elected. Foreign investors are piling in. So are many governments looking for dollar alternatives.
But even after America became the world’s largest economy, it still took decades for the dollar to achieve dominance. By that timescale, China is making surprisingly rapid progress. Its modest share of international payments has doubled since 2022. That is mostly thanks to changes at home. Increasing the yuan’s share in China’s own trade was an important step. Over 30% of China’s trade in goods and services is now done in its own currency (compared with 14% in 2019). It settles more than 50% of its total cross-border receipts (including financial flows) in yuan, up from less than 1% in 2010
What policymakers ultimately want is to create a stable circulation of yuan in and out of the country. That should boost the use of offshore yuan and improve foreigners’ ease of access to the currency. In May regulators told big banks that no less than 40% of trade-facilitation lending should be done in yuan. To increase circulation, officials want to encourage trade partners to accept China’s currency as payment. A major lure is offering them yuan liabilities. A study released in May found that after sanctions were imposed on Russia in 2022, Chinese banks switched nearly all of their new overseas lending out of dollars and into yuan (previously only 15% of loans were made in yuan), thereby tripling the stock of outstanding yuan debt
The government is pursuing the same strategy with its own balance-sheet. In the time since it began its internationalisation push, China has extended 4.5T yuan ($630B) in swap lines to 32 central banks, creating a global financial safety net that rivals the scale of the IMF’s. Only a fraction of such lines has actually been drawn on. The idea is to guarantee countries’ access to yuan in a crisis, giving them the confidence to borrow and buy in the currency.
China has also sorted its own financial plumbing. Now it can transact with others without touching the dollar system through a variety of means. These include the digital yuan and non-bank digital payments (QR code apps). CIPS, which bears similarities to SWIFT.
More than 1,700 banks have signed up to CIPS across the globe, up by a third since before the war in Ukraine. Transaction volumes rose faster than ever in 2024, up by 43% to 175T yuan ($24T).
Last year several billion dollars were said to have been transacted over a digital-currency network called mBridge, built by China with other central banks. An American official speaking in January said that although such payments were still economically insignificant, they had “already surpassed a threshold of geopolitical consequence”.
The coming months could prove crucial. Waning trust in the dollar and a supportive macroeconomic environment should boost China’s efforts. A lift in the stockmarket has given foreigners a financial incentive to hold yuan assets. Interest-rate cuts and deflation have pushed borrowing costs in the offshore market to below 2%, the lowest level since 2013. Firms, including foreign ones, are on track to issue a record amount of so-called “dim sum” yuan bonds this year.
China’s next safe move is opening up its onshore capital markets to its pals. Hungary issued about 5B yuan in so-called “panda bonds”, the largest single sovereign issuance to date. The FT reported that Russian energy firms had been given the go-ahead to issue yuan-denominated paper. Kenya may soon swap the dollar debts it owes to China into yuan. Brazil is mulling a new issuance and Pakistani officials have been in Beijing to pitch potential creditors.
honestly i hope not. strong/weak are dumb terms. hard/soft are better. china has been cooking the US by holding and hardening the US dollar for so long. if they're dumping it back into yuan it's going to soften the dollar which is what Trump admin wants
i hate that this might've been a part of a deal they worked out
zero chance any of the submissions will be vetted.
easiest defamation lawsuit ever
edit: if you're usa and depending on your state (california for sure), you "can't" be fired for political opinions. the quotes are because you still can be fired but you will have an actionable lawsuit
all the israeli killed kirk conspiracies are dumb. having said that, the netanyahu response was pretty fucking crazy. dude is such a monster he literally just can't be normal
just to re-emphasize: zero chance this was a Mossad op. but LOL at netanyahu not helping people realize that