The death of America and the collective west
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 15:16
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HOW COULD THINGS GET WORSE?
Well, aside from nuclear war, I suppose there's plenty of room for other disasterous decisions.
Getting rid of any credible opposition candidates and emplacing a brain-dead Kamala Harris or an even more brain-dead Biden* into the Presidency. Rebellion or massive non- conformance and social and political collapse
Openly inserting NATO into Ukraine and canceling elections bc of a 'state of war'.
Declaring war on China and canceling elections bc of a 'state of war'
Rebellion or massive non-conformance. A military coup by junior officers?
Sanctioning everything from China, or attempting secondary sanctions on Russia and forcing everyone outside of the 'collective west' off the dollar, leading to the dollar's international collapse. Hyperinflation and social and political collapse.
Not that these will happen, but considering our leaders' disastrous decisions at every step since at least 1990, I can't rule it out.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Originally posted by SignyM:
One guy took out AIG. (And no, it wasn't Barney Frank or Dodd! :))
The article explains how collateralized default obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps (CDSs) came about, how they were deemed to be "off books"- beyond oversight and regulation - and how money flowed to these UNREGULATED risky products, tainting insurance companies, investment banks, and everyone who touched them.
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
Boy you're a brainless twit.
T
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MAGA lawmakers have different ideas about where Trump should put 'DOGE dividend' money
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14418643/trump-republicans-do
ge-dividends-savings-taxpayers-congress.html
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Trump isn’t ‘un-American’, he’s just transparent
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-isn-t-un-american-080207603.html
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its still standing, the show must go on
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
its still standing, the show must go on
If you listened to the Media, Twitter was supposed to have fallen years ago when Elon removed 80% of the staff and overhead.
I think the Media is full of shit about literally everything.
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Quote:The media said Musk doesn't know how to run twitter as a business. The numbers since Musk took control say the same:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
its still standing, the show must go on
If you listened to the Media, Twitter was supposed to have fallen years ago when Elon removed 80% of the staff and overhead.
I think the Media is full of shit about literally everything.
Twitter revenue 2012 to 2024 ($bn)
Year Revenue ($bn)
2012 0.3
2013 0.6
2014 1.4
2015 2.2
2016 2.5
2017 2.4
2018 3
2019 3.4
2020 3.7
2021 5
2022 4.4
2023 2.9
2024 2.5
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/
Twitter net profit / loss 2012 to 2021 ($mm)
Year Net profit / loss ($mm)
2012 -79
2013 -645
2014 -577
2015 -521
2016 -456
2017 -108
2018 1206
2019 1466
2020 -1136
2021 -221
2022 Musk takes over. Profits Unknown.
On April 25, 2022, Twitter agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk. Its value in 2025 was estimated to be around $9 billion. The platform's ad revenue has declined significantly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter,_Inc.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I don't recognize "businessofapps.com", nor do I recognize leftys writing wikipedia articles out of their mom's basement.
Anybody with 2 firing neurons who is interested in knowing the truth and isn't just desperately trying to dig up whatever remains of confirmation bias they can still find in 2025 shares this opinion.
All I'm hearing out of you and Ted about Elon right now is how stupid he is and how he's going to go bankrupt, whether it's because of how he runs Twitter, or because he decided to stand politically against the only people who were ever interested in buying his cars.
Meanwhile, I've never seen the dude out in public without a big smile on his face, and Twitter has more users than it ever did.
I'm guessing, as is per usual in your case, that somebody knows something you don't know.
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Quote:6ix, if you have numbers for twitter's profitability that are different, what are they?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't recognize "businessofapps.com", nor do I recognize leftys writing wikipedia articles out of their mom's basement.
Anybody with 2 firing neurons who is interested in knowing the truth and isn't just desperately trying to dig up whatever remains of confirmation bias they can still find in 2025 shares this opinion.
All I'm hearing out of you and Ted about Elon right now is how stupid he is and how he's going to go bankrupt, whether it's because of how he runs Twitter, or because he decided to stand politically against the only people who were ever interested in buying his cars.
Meanwhile, I've never seen the dude out in public without a big smile on his face, and Twitter has more users than it ever did.
I'm guessing, as is per usual in your case, that somebody knows something you don't know.
Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine — could harm his companies
Jan. 6, 2024 9:00 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1
Elon Musk and his supporters offer several explanations for his contrarian views, unfiltered speech and provocative antics. They’re an expression of his creativity. Or the result of his mental-health challenges. Or fallout from his stress, or sleep deprivation. (Or he is fucked up in the head.)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, if you have numbers for twitter's profitability that are different, what are they?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't recognize "businessofapps.com", nor do I recognize leftys writing wikipedia articles out of their mom's basement.
Anybody with 2 firing neurons who is interested in knowing the truth and isn't just desperately trying to dig up whatever remains of confirmation bias they can still find in 2025 shares this opinion.
All I'm hearing out of you and Ted about Elon right now is how stupid he is and how he's going to go bankrupt, whether it's because of how he runs Twitter, or because he decided to stand politically against the only people who were ever interested in buying his cars.
Meanwhile, I've never seen the dude out in public without a big smile on his face, and Twitter has more users than it ever did.
I'm guessing, as is per usual in your case, that somebody knows something you don't know.
I don't have to provide you with shit.
The media has confirmed to the public, over and over and over again that their job is to lie to us.
My only point here is I keep hearing from your articles about how stupid Elon is and that he's going bankrupt and yet he's always got a smile on his face.
You gooners couldn't stop talking about how "stunning and brave" everybody you liked were for the better part of a decade. Meanwhile, you forgot what stunning bravery really looked like.
Elon bought twitter knowing that, at least for the short term, he was going to lose billions by making the purchase.
Elon decided to take a political stance against the only people who were interested in buying his EVs knowing full well that the Loud Online Left as well as the Legacy Media would turn on him and his company.
Meanwhile, you two dopes are cheerleading on his alleged failures because the Legacy Media tells you how to act and you obey. When you're not cheering on the failure of somebody who risked the billions they acquired to stand by their convictions, you're giving blowjobs to Liz Cheney and her father.
You're totally fucked dude. Your moral compass is broke beyond repair.
You can't win an a single argument because you have no core values and you do whatever your told to do on any given day with zero regard for what you did and thought the previous day.
6 months ago you lived in a world where that was okay.
That shit doesn't fly anymore in 2025.
We're living in a new age of accountability and receipts.
You keep behaving the way you did six months ago now that the old world is gone, you're not going to like the outcome.
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