Wait. So the president do control has prices? It’s so much different this time!
Checkers, not chess.
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Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
marcos@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I wonder if this is the final nail that will decouple the world economy from the dollar.
But then, I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time. Trump is clearly playing 5D connect-4.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Silver linings, I guess?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 57 minutes ago
Eh, he’s pushed around and bribed to make certain decisions. He’s the right man for the job of accelerating the decline of the empire and the beginning of the multi-nodal world, whether he and his followers know it or not, simply because he truly has no spine, no morals, no ideology, he just cares about his money.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
Wish the bastard was playing hangman.
neonchaos@piefed.social 5 hours ago
“Its a 7 letter word, E_stein. Just need one more letter, any guesses?”
“China!”
Mac@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
“It’s a three letter word synonynous with father. What’s your first guess?”
My first guess: Z
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
If anything Trump was trying to prevent the change away from the petrodollar standard. That “currency” allows the US to run up debts because nobody wants the dollar to collapse and wreck everything traded in USD.
reuters.com/…/trumps-venezuela-oil-grab-revives-p…
I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: factually.co/…/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-pe…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You were not born when the decoupling began. You will not live to see it end.
I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time.
I mean, depends on who you ask. But there’s definitely been a deliberately effort from within the Silicon Valley wing of the economy to force people into using Cryptocurrency as a legally-compulsory dollar alternative.
marcos@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You were not born when the decoupling began.
As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
Silly question for the lemmy brain trust: what happens when most people are priced out of commuting?
Seems like that would inadvertently bring about a general strike.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Once again the American people have decided to/tacitly accepted to invade, murder and pillage another society far away. Once again many Americans will doom themselves to Hell, where they rightfully belong. And the only way to make a Burger oppose this new human tragedy is to tell him the gas prices are up, lol. I have to laugh not to cry at how ridiculously vicious and inhumane that is… but this IS America. 😔🤷
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
Ok, so, what is your suggestion? The people who are directly perpetrating this war are hiding behind armed guards. Have you noticed that no rightwing politician in the US has done an interview outside since September 10th of last year?
It’s easy to sit at your keyboard and suggest people on the other side of the ocean fight and die for your conscience. It’s harder and more time consuming to build parallel systems to support those who are against the regime.
You probably think the media is telling you what’s happening over here, don’t you?
Ghostie@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
3D Chutes and Ladders: Oops All Chutes edition.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
3D version of 52 pickup is more like it.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
So throwing the cards down a set of stairs, or maybe into some dense bushes.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
The thing is that it’s really just regular 52 pickup except that people are tricked into it by preposterous claims of it being “the best card game in history, maybe ever.”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 hours ago
The cost of filling 52 pick-ups would be astronomical.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
That’s an ambitious perspective for a stick figure artist. I respect the effort.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
We need “Thanks sleepy Don” stickers on every gas pump stat!
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Its on. I have one hundred A4 sticker sheets. To the gas pumps.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 3 hours ago
1D Ludo be like: .
4am@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
“I DID FACT CHECK! IT SAYS ‘30 CHECKERS’ RIGHT THAR”
Someone showing me this meme as justification for their position, somehow
TomMasz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Perhaps, but maybe he shouldn’t be using Skittles to play it.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 3 hours ago
Or human lives.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
I hope gas goes up $10 a gallon. You oil dependent suckers.
Get a bike
Syndication@lemmy.today 56 minutes ago
I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately we still get screwed even if we don’t drive, how else would food and supplies get delivered to shops? It’s all dependent on fossil fuels… Everything is going to be more expensive. I guess this is what Trump supporters think “owning the libs” is.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 48 minutes ago
I want $15. Let’s price everyone out of commuting.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I just walk mostly
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Topped off the tanks yesterday. Since I mostly bike each tank lasts a month or more depending on how many times I have to shuttle kids.
I’d love for gas to go to $10 a gallon. I5 would be a ghost town. No traffic, save the environment (kind of). Oh yeah!
autriyo@feddit.org 2 hours ago
It kinda is / getting closer in Europe, people still drive a lot though… And my city has decent public transport.