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“you have to look at it almost as a war,” asking “who the hell cares if there’s a trade war?”
Err, the people who voted for you, numbskull.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/tr...6-12?r=US&IR=T
Oh, and every other person on the planet.
Thanks guys!sigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostCorrect. Until such time as another nation developed the capability.
Fighting is part of human nature, just as much as breathing is. The only ways we will ever have protracted peace are these:
1: Humanity is wiped out.
2: There is one non-aggressive superpower that no one else on the planet has the ability to challenge on the battlefield.
And with # 2, it won't be complete peace, there will be wars as people try to challenge the king of the hill, but those wars will be short as the superpower will just swat them like flies.
Not a pleasant thought, but that is just the way that we are built.
Hey, it worked in many sci-fi shows..
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Oh hey, energy worker requests are so last week, let's go for a bigger target............
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.ea6889b3184b
Is it getting through yet?sigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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Originally posted by Gatefan1976 View PostOh hey, energy worker requests are so last week, let's go for a bigger target............
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.ea6889b3184b
Is it getting through yet?
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostAn aggressive superpower decides to take over the entire planet & succeeds. That would also put an end to war.
Plus, people seem to forget the radioactive fall-out which contaminates everything for miles around the blast zone.
Originally posted by jelgate View PostIt worked well for the Roman Empire. How does that story end?
Originally posted by mad_gater View PostI call dibs on all the Nuka-Cola
Fall-Out, haven't played (yet) but I do see people replicate the Nuka-Cola bottles and caps.
Originally posted by aretood2 View Post
The same way it worked for the Aztec Empire. Another power showed up and ruined everything.
Originally posted by garhkal View Postor #3. An Alien race comes in and whups our collective behinds, forcing us to unite as one..
Hey, it worked in many sci-fi shows..
Originally posted by Coco Pops View PostExcept if it happens for real we are screwed.
Originally posted by Gatefan1976 View PostOh hey, energy worker requests are so last week, let's go for a bigger target............
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.ea6889b3184b
Is it getting through yet?Heightmeyer's Lemming -- still the coolest Lemming of the forum
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Originally posted by Falcon Horus View PostQuote Originally Posted by Annoyed
An aggressive superpower decides to take over the entire planet & succeeds. That would also put an end to war.
Plus, people seem to forget the radioactive fall-out which contaminates everything for miles around the blast zone.
Originally posted by Falcon Horus View PostQuote Originally Posted by garhkal
or #3. An Alien race comes in and whups our collective behinds, forcing us to unite as one..
Hey, it worked in many sci-fi shows..
Quote Originally Posted by Coco Pops
Except if it happens for real we are screwed.
Originally posted by Falcon Horus View PostIt won't ever get through. Not until it's too late, probably, and by that time the US is bombed back into the stone age.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostI was presuming that the aggressive superpower manages to succeed in the takeover without resorting to nukes. JUST FOR EXAMPLE, I am not suggesting this: Take China and the former Soviet Union out of the picture, and the U.S. could probably pull this off if it desired. A while back I read an estimate that just one of our carrier groups is the military superior to most other countries on this planet. While that may have been a slight exaggeration, take China and Russia out of the picture, and we could probably do it.
Quite correct. Any species that has mastered the control of energy enough to allow FTL travel would swat us like flies. It wouldn't matter a bit if we joined together or not. We simply couldn't stand against them.
Aside from all out nuclear war, resulting in the Earth being wipe clean of life, do you think there is anyone that could do that?sigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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Originally posted by Gatefan1976 View Post“you have to look at it almost as a war,” asking “who the hell cares if there’s a trade war?”
Err, the people who voted for you, numbskull.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/tr...6-12?r=US&IR=T
Oh, and every other person on the planet.
Thanks guys!
Here's the problem that people filled with pure stupidity just don't realize. When it comes to Mexico, a lot of what they manufacture requires inputs that have to be imported. The biggest source of those inputs is the US. There is no way a free market system can support the return of many of those manufacturing jobs (to do so would require the government strong arming businesses into producing X goods with Y number of workers at Z wages. And that's called Socialism). So if Mexican manufacturing falls, so do the American producers of said inputs.
But of course, people like Annoyed don't like facts because facts are only made by "elitists" and "fake news". Facts like, China being the number two destination for American exports and Mexico being number 3 and Japan being number 4. So if trade wars start, it will hit American exporters very hard. That's nearly half of all American exports. (Source)
Or facts like the ones posted in CATO's website (Link). Interestingly enough, CATO isn't a liberal site, it's a libertarian one. And Libertarians aren't exactly "elites" in this country. Sure, they may not know what an Aleppo is, but aside from that, they tend to have a better understanding of economics with out the reactionary tendencies of Conservatives or the socialist tendencies of liberals. It's an interesting read really, the link. It's a bit of a crash course on the subject of trade deficits. Long story short, it is not the same as a budget deficit.
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