No gonna lie, that headline sounded like a setup to a joke.

Even Best Korea makes mistakes sometimes…

Confusing thing #1 was actually a smart move.

Reform party, who has been a bunch of useful idiots and have been diluting the Tory vote significantly have not got enough members in place to stand in every location as this will be their first general election and they are a new party.

The SNP has only just picked a new leader after the previous one stepped down and they have fallen out of favour in recent times.

Labour (main competition) was not expecting anything until November time as the running theory is that the Tories would wait for a bit to see if something would “come up” and rescue their awful polling (as per your suggestion). So even they were caught off guard and now have to scramble to organise everything. This shit isn’t easy, even for established parties.

Hell, even the Tories were caught off guard by their leader doing this.

Sunak has played an interesting card here. I doubt it will make any difference but at least he is being somewhat clever with the surprise timing of this.

My counter offer would be: fuck right off. Don’t care what you think you can do sanction or punish me.

Well, sure, but it doesn’t change the facts on the ground that you can shoot whatever you like at a nuke and it’s exceptionally unlikely to explode.

But if you just want to scream “bullshit” for no reason in the face of the facts then I guess there isn’t much point in continuing. Not sure why you just choose to believe whatever you want, but I guess I can’t stop you.

Oh, okay then. Yeah sure, I made it up. It’s a 90% chance and we’ve just been exceptionally lucky.

Its not 1%.

It’s not even 0.01%

You could try it once a second for the rest of your life, and it still wouldn’t go off.

You’d just damage it at the most. Maybe trigger a safety system which will need to be reset before it can be armed again.

Nobody is saying it’s a good idea, it’s just a complete non issue.

Pardon me sir, but I did say “boom boom” which is roughly equivalent to one “BOOOOOOOM”, assuming we’re using the metric system.

If we’re you’re using imperial boom scale, then frankly you disgust me.

It’s actually pretty difficult to detonate a nuke by shooting at it, if that’s what you’re getting at.

A certain set of things has to happen in a very specific order with tight timings (milliseconds) in order for it to actually explode.

Hence all the incidents in the US of accidentally dropped nukes on domestic territory and no boom boom.

And who says Russia will use “modern” nukes?

We’ve already seen rusty museum pieces on the front line in this conflict.

What’s c/pyongang?

A misspelling of what I wrote

You are now moderator of /c/Pyongyang

They don’t care.

If they cared about the truth, we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.

Fuck them. They are literally killing people with their fucking stupidity. I didn’t mind if they killed themselves by not reading labels and drinking bleach or whatever, but now they are putting everyone at risk from their willfull ignorance and stupidity.

Again, from the bottom of my heart: fuck these knuckle dragging truth denying idiots who don’t deserve any time, effort, patience or sympathy. Fuck. Them.

Thanks, antivax morons

And if you are an antivax moron: fuck you 🖕

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So I didn’t state that. Thanks for clarifying.

What a silly waste of time.

Please point out where I stated that.

So do you agree with the idea that Milei’s austerity measures will work in the long run?

Probably not. The politics won’t allow for it: everyone’s thinking is short term and nobody cares about 10 years down the line. He will be blocked and sabotaged and removed before this gets to play out. Then the money printer will go brrrrrrrrrrrr

If it’s allowed to stick, then yes, it should work in the long term, with some short to medium term pain. It’s not impossible but it seems unlikely to work out that way. Maybe enough Argentinans with a long memory and basic math skills will allow it to happen. But don’t count on it.

Similar to how an addict has to get off the drugs: hurts in the short term something fierce, then it gets better over time. Except here the drug is free money. Of course, many don’t make it.

If you do, is there historical precedent to guide that belief?

Every fiat currency has eventually failed. Going right back the Romans and probably before that. When the greedy idiots in charge learn they can print money seemingly without consequence, then they will print.

They keep doing the same thing again and again without fixing anything.

Imagine you earn $5k a month, but you spend $10k a month. You will eventually run out of credit and will go into default then bankruptcy.

This is what Argentina is doing.

It’s also what America is doing, but so far she is getting away with it, mostly because she can just keep printing as many dollars as she wants as it’s the reserve currency and therefore easy to inflate away the debt.

And remember, every bit of inflation is spending power out of your pocket. Remember what $100 bought you ten years ago?

Keynesian economists think this is fine and you can just going like this forever (running a country isn’t the same as running a household, duh!). Those people are idiots and apparently don’t understand basic math, but unfortunately they are running the show right now.

Eventually the good times will stop. The results will be catastrophic when this happens. People will die and more wars will break out. Even first world countries will not be immune.

Only question is when. For both Argentina and America and everyone else.