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.
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Wish the bastard was playing hangman.
"Its a 7 letter word, E_stein. Just need one more letter, any guesses?"
"China!"
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"It's a three letter word synonynous with father. What's your first guess?"
My first guess: Z
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.
I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: https://factually.co/fact-checks/foreign-policy/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-petrodollar-275c36
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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.
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.
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Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world
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.
More like 3D Chutes and Ladders.
So glad I got those solar panels, and an ev when Sleepy Joe was in charge. And I'm in a town small enough for most of my errands to be by bicycle. People are already having an affordability crisis, so this will hit them in the pocket, and they'll blame trumpy, who quite obviously is the sleepy one. Every tiny lever against the current administration, every one, counts, and we should keep pulling those levers.
they will just blame the next dem in the whitehouse, they cant afford to blame trump.
Really regretting putting off that panel installation.
My brother dragged his heels, too. Our Mom passed, and that's how there was enough money to take that step. She wanted us to do it, heck it's something I've wanted since early childhood. So it goes.
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I hope gas goes up $10 a gallon. You oil dependent suckers.
Get a bike
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.
That assumes the market just sits still when oil prices rise. It doesn’t.
Yes, higher fuel prices can raise shipping costs in the short term. But they also create strong incentives to shift to cheaper alternatives. When oil becomes expensive, companies move freight to rail, electrify delivery fleets, source goods more locally, and invest in more efficient logistics. Higher oil prices don’t just make everything permanently expensive. They change the market.
Price pressure pushes businesses toward transportation methods that use less or no fossil fuel, which becomes more competitive over time.
Markets adapt. That’s how price signals work.
You get it
I love you, let's run away together.
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!
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laughing from my desk job at a Fortune 500 O&G company
That’s an ambitious perspective for a stick figure artist. I respect the effort.
I kind of forgot about this angle. That rich libs in the middle classes are affected less than the lower classes that were duped. It’s all really shitty honestly.
The MAGAts are a bunch of weak willed, emotional snowflakes.
We need "Thanks sleepy Don" stickers on every gas pump stat!
So connect 4, but he can't count that high...
Imagine playing Connect 4, or any game for that matter, against him; halfway through the game he'd yell "STOP THE STEAL!!!!!"
Stop counting your points! Keep counting mine!
3D Chutes and Ladders: Oops All Chutes edition.
Wait. So the president do control gas prices? It's so much different this time!
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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.
Unlikely. Lemmy is, like, 50% doomers who think everything in their lives is hanging by a thread at any moment and that everyone else is the same.
The reality is that even the doomers have far more slack in their lives and options for alternatives than they realize. People will tighten their belts, bike or take transit, carpool, start private transit businesses, move closer to work, get jobs closer to home, move in with family/roommates, etc.
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