It’s $300 less, not $300 more.

No matter how much you are paying, you can afford to pay $300 less.

A discount of $60000 is not “nothing at all”. At current rates, it’s about $300 off your monthly payment.

Just google “foreclosure auction” in your area. Those houses will generally sell below market.

“The market is having trouble digesting the multidimensional chess that Trump and his team are playing,” said Michael Block, market strategist at Third Seven Capital. “This multidimensional chess game is not going well for the grand master.

LOL, you aren’t playing 3D chess when you flip a chessboard.

The first line of your link:

Being part of the Kingdom of Denmark

Not the Netherlands.

The Netherlands does not in any way control Greenland…

Why is Greenland bound to a treaty signed by the Netherlands?

Technology is only one part of the equation. If a factory upgrades its machines but loses half its workforce, it could end up producing less than before.

In Japan, technology improvements are not enough to make up for an aging population. So either workers put in even longer hours or the country has to make do with less stuff than before. And workers are approaching their limits.

So we should be able to get by with less labor, right?…

Sure. Or everyone could get more stuff for the same amount of labor.

Suppose your boss told you, “You’ve been doing a great job at work. We could give you 10% raise, or we could keep your paycheck the same and cut your hours by 10%.” I don’t know which you would choose, but most people would take the raise.

Less productive means less things for you.

Suppose you ate 100 bananas this year. Suppose you were told that next year you are only allowed 90 bananas, and what’s more you will never have 100 bananas a year again. Even worse, after next year you will never have 90 bananas again. And the same is true of everything else you enjoy.

Most people hope, at a minimum, that next year will be no worse than this year. They do not like knowing, for certain, that every year will be worse than the one before. Forever. But that’s what happens when productivity inexorably declines.

In fact, in this situation the only way to make things better, for anyone, is at someone else’s expense. There is no such thing as a win-win outcome. That makes for a very unpleasant society and it’s easy to see why leaders want to avoid this.

If population is decreasing because of decreased birthrate, then the population is aging. And all else equal, an aging population is less productive because fewer people are working.

There are no commas in the text. And even under your interpretation, the US is only obligated to seek action by the UN Security Council. They have done so.

Section 4:

The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used

The US promised to seek action from the UN Security Council if Ukraine suffered or was threatened with nuclear attack.

Ukraine hasn’t suffered a nuclear attack. Even so, the US did seek action from the Security Council, but it was predictably vetoed by Russia.

The US promised they would not invade Ukraine, but they never promised they would protect Ukraine.

As if leftists care what happens to Palestinians lmao.

Yes, I’m sure this would all be very sad for Palestinians but the important thing is that Genocide Joe learned his lesson.

China and Vietnam have large private sectors with plenty of companies that attract foreign investment.

Venezuela does not. It had less than $1b in foreign direct investment in 2023. By comparison, Costa Rica had over $4b despite a smaller GDP and far smaller population than Venezuela.

Ukraine doesn’t want to get in the middle of US political spatting.

Ukraine was literally being blamed for exacerbating the LA fire damage.

They were in the middle of our politics whether they liked it or not.

Being a republic has nothing to do with whether ordinary people hold power. For example in Plato’s Republic, power was exclusively held by philosophers because ordinary people were unwise and could not be trusted.

I don’t believe Syria ever styled itself “Democratic”. But the Syrian Republic was certainly a republic.

For that matter, so was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

A republic is simply a nation with no monarch. If you don’t believe me ask any Canadian, as they are constantly debating whether to officially leave the British crown and become a republic.