Greenland and the NATO/EU/UN

[kyle]

Be honest did you edit my post?

Nope, would never* do that, and the moderator logs say nobody else did. I occasionally hit "edit" instead of "reply with quote" and notice only after I hit submit... but of course I try to repair that and publish what I did.

* maybe in a non-serious topic, for comedic effect, and only if I can be 100% certain everyone gets it, and even then I probably will leave a "harr" edit note to make sure, and probably only on Word or Lucifer, because they deserve it.

I actually feel bad asking you that, there was literally No edit to it before I made the edit I made, Just the system wanted some humour on it's own from logging me out

kyle wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026 22:40
Not to say some companies will have evil CEO's, take a look into Trevor Milton, that pretty much so eliminated pretty early.

Ah, he is the guy I wanted to bring up at some point, pardoned by Trump presumably as a "thank you" for campaign donations, and he does not even have to give back the money he embezzled. Yep, a scumbag all right.

Yep another things I disagree with Trump in doing

I can and will be angry at both because even moderately wealthy millionaires and industry heads have major influence on the government. Also, no one needs a billion dollars. And I know you like to parrot the propaganda that these ultra-rich CEOs don't aren't really rich because their wealth isn't liquid. The way you describe it, you would think they are driving Toyota Corollas and living in two-flats. No one earns a billion dollars. You can only get it through exploitation, and that is a bug in the system we need to correct.

I agree thee are other billionaire CEO's that do exploit a lot of crap, but Elon just sleeps on the factory floors and sells all of his home (Ok now he does own 1, and rents 1 from SpaceX)

Aside: I have some wealthy friends. One of them isn't comfortable with the corruption in our government even though he benefits from it. I said we should have major wealth taxes and laws that prevent the concentration of wealth. He didn't like the idea. I asked him, "what is the ideal number of oligarchs for our democracy?" He hasn't gotten back to me on that.

We need major spending reform, before looking into adding new taxes, The problem with the wealth gap today is because of government spending, most of it leads to inflation, inflation leads to companies ballooning in valuation. driving up the wealth of people with ownership in them, and those not invested, basically loose money, you have roughly 3% inflation, stock market goes up 10% or so banks pay you at most 3% and that's for a high yield others are tenths of a percent, so your money in banks is almost always loosing money. meaning you are loosing purchasing power every year, Right now we are at break even on HYSA, but if rates fall, HSA yields go much lower, and inflation is supposed to stay around 2 to 3%, that's the feds ideal goals.

Medical costs are all ****** because of obamacare and how the insurance companies "negotiates" rates with places, I was not feeling well the end of last year, so I went in just to make sure I did not have the flu, went to my in-network urgent care my bill, still to be negotiated with them, was $411, this was after the agreed upon price markdowns. for 5 minutes with the Dr, 5 to10 minutes with a nurse, and 3 tests, Flu A, Flu, B and strep, I did have strep, probably could have gotten over it without meds. But with researching a bit, out of network places charge around $200 for the same service

Now you say let's throw more money at healthcare, it's only going to get worse, the innovation in healthcare should make costs trend down, not stay the same or inflate. But the intensives are there to charge more, because the government is going to pay for it.

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...because of obamacare ... Now you say let's throw more money at healthcare, it's only going to get worse...

Just want to point out that the ACA is not socialist health care, it's capitalist. It's literally a law that says you have to buy private insurance. I don't want to throw money at healthcare, I want to abolish private health insurance or make it obsolete for the majority of people. I've said it before but you probably need a reminder: all the "innovations in healthcare" are largely funded by grants at research universities. That is, our tax dollars spur the innovation that a few people then profit from at our expense, and they use those profits to buy politicians in order to keep it that way. You like to blame the government for everything but still keep missing the reason why the government is like this.