This works on an intra-state level and interstate level. Usually the poorer, rural areas of a state require financial assistance to support their people that comes from the higher taxes and earnings cities make. From there states that don’t have strong metropolitan centers with a lot of business and money flow require cash flows from those that do in order to support themselves. No one in those poorer states will admit to it because it also kills the self sufficient by nature image they have of themselves.

In the USA it’s either racism or Reagan that’s the cause of some of the most fucked up stuff.

I’d rather tax McDonald’s for an amount respective of their profits compared to me.

They’re trying to train us that impetus is on the common man to do something instead of them.

Oh yeah, I’m a big proponent of no more billionaires. But it appears to a lot of average people smaller amounts are more palpable because they think they’ll ever be that rich.

I whooshed that one, I blame a lack of coffee. :)

Winning. Because someone else might be winning they don’t like.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have enough in the end of taking care of myself to feed a person elsewhere but the 1% sure as fuck do.

That is happening everyday, done by thousands of people who could have stopped those deaths readily. Just they are obsessed with more wealth.

A million is easy to think about and honestly disappears pretty quickly compared to a billion. Between student debt, medical bills, private debt of various types, I’d eat up 100K in an afternoon alone. Then buying house somewhere else I’d like to live would take a huge chunk out of that. I’d have a much better setup than I do now but it’d be gone within a few years.

Doesn’t matter, they’re even the victims when they’re winning,

No, it should be 10% at least.

True enough, ratified in 1945 but it wasn’t that long afterward that the Cold War started.

It’s almost a complete circle.

Honestly, what game is coming out that’s a killer app that isn’t live service trash that they’ll cancel in a few months? I wish I still had my old consoles to play games on, some of them were real bangers even if I had beaten them. Space Marine 2 was my last top tier purchase and I only played it for a few weeks. Wasn’t a fan of their revision of the combat system.

Outside of that, none of the big studios are making ANYTHING worth the barriers to entry now. I don’t play at 4K, and I rather play New Vegas again for things I missed and different options.

We hold a seat on the security council which is essentially for the duration of the organization. It represents, or at least did, the largest, most influential countries in the world during much of the cold war. Russia’s kleptocracy has diminished its strength considerably and Ukraine is bogging them down so badly it’s ruin an already fragile economy.

France and the UK have diminished in scope now but the ratification in 1945 gave them the seats.

The USA is losing its softer powers which were usually economic control because we have the insane asylum patients at the wheel who understand geo-politics as well as a five year old quantum physics.

China is probably the only one whose gaining more power as others waver but that’s not to say they aren’t in some strained shape as well. China is second behind Japan for holding US Debt followed closely by the UK. The next country behind that is Luxembourg at roughly 40% of the UK. If the USA becomes heavily insolvent, which we’re heading because of run away austerity, those countries are not going to be in a good position for long.

With all that, they’re highly reluctant to consider the USA president a terrorist threat or more correctly a rogue national leader. It’d be a game of chicken where all parties would lose essentially.

The most vulnerable will be affected first and now, the privileged will face it probably by next year at the latest when fertilizer isn’t available on a massive scale.

Agreed, there should be at least two. So many devices use USB-C now it’s rather silly not to include it given it gets rid of an age old problem as well.

There’s going to be a lot of starvation in the near future.

If they’re the right people.