Bingo.

The idea that CEO’s will put morals over profits is hopelessly naive.

If you want companies to act morally, you need to implement legislation and be willing to enforce that legislation. And not small million dollar fines, serious fines like 10% of revenue and personal liability and even jail time for executives.

But the American public only cares about having the stock market go up. They don’t care about their data.

Correct, so what China does is ship almost completed stuff to Vietnam, they do the final piece of manufacturing and export that.

It’s not as easy as a transshipment, but for the longer term it works out.

He will backtrack when new inflation figures hit. It might take 3-6 months, but China definitely has the stronger hand, by far.

Trump can avoid the inflation by allowing Chinese goods to come through countries like Vietnam or Mexico. This is basically the status quo.

It allows Trump to save face without huge inflation for US consumers.

That’s what they’re trying to do.

It makes most sense to switch the email+office users to Linux and reserve MacOs and Windows for users who really need to run specific applications.

More or less, yes.

Germany and France have been trying this for more than two decades.

But every time, there is pressure from the US government (the stick) and Microsoft arranges a short-term deal to make Windows cheaper than the cost of transitioning (the carrot).

But this time, the EU is serious about decoupling from the US, so I think it will actually happen.

We have long passed the point where lobbying and bribing were just doing your fiduciary duty.

And indeed, it seems we are back to feudalism and you have to pay tribute to the divine king and kiss his ring.

It’s a bad time to sell, but anyone “buying the dip” will quickly learn what “catching a falling knife” means.

I think the road to the bottom still has some distance to cover.

The Fed won’t ever allow it to get as bad as the Great Depression again. Economic knowledge and monetary policy has greatly evolved since then.

The Great Recession is a more recent and likely scenario.

TIL 2000 and 2008 were just fluctuations due to big changes.

Stock market peaked 19 feb, 1.5 months ago. It has lost 17% since then.

That’s an awfully long and persistent fluctuation.

The US stock market has been liberated of 11 trillion dollars and counting.

What a party, what a party.

They are (or were) the biggest producer of Fentanyl (allegedly).

But I have also heard experts say that Fentanyl manufacturing is just moving to the US for domestic consumption, so I don’t know if it’s still true.

Not if a trade war can destroy it first!

And how will they know if you’re a fundie or not?

What they’re doing is checking phones and social media. If they see you are a member of some antifa or BLM org, they’ll get you.

So don’t do those things via Facebook. Use meshtastic and hide your receiver.

But if you practice good OpSec and all they see is baseball, BBQ and church, then they won’t be able to tell the difference.

Thanks for the effort post with great tips!

I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.

I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It’s not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.

This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn’t killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting “godless heathens” in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.

And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.

Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them

Looking like them provides a survival advantage.

Another reason to live in a blue state if you can.

I realize you are confused.

You don’t appreciate that having 200 shares of a fund today, at today’s valuation, is better than having 100 shares of that same fund today.

Because that’s the point I clearly made, which you ignored and constructed some kind of straw man on which you had your little Don Quixote party on.

And if you really want to understand the philosophy, the point is to take profits prudently and buy bargains when they present themselves. And that’s very much possible without exactly timing the market.

I have never sold at the top and never bought at the bottom. I have no crystal ball to time the market, but I have made a lot of profit buying low and selling high.

I remember the Russian military recruitment offices burning these past years, and their railroads getting sabotaged.

The western press proudly stated “this is what happens when you don’t allow people to protest, they turn to sabotage”.

But I guess this administration missed the memo.

My audience is people who are literate. You’re just reading stuff into my comments that a reasonable person wouldn’t.

And that’s fine, you do your investment strategy. I’m happy with mine.

I agree, especially since interest rates are currently relatively high, it’s quite OK to remain liquid these days.

If you can’t even understand that I am obviously not including things like stock splits, then I don’t think my comment was intended for you.