This division was a mistake we undid ultimately and their is continuity between pre ww2 Germany, nazi Germany, and present day Germany is many or even most respects.

We punished its leaders and some of the worst criminals. We did not declare the state which included millions of people to simply not exist render its land to France and drive millions into the sea or extermination.

Its people have every right to remain.

Even the allies didn’t deny Germany had a right to exist just its then leadership and most individually culpable

Bitcoin isn’t new. It’s almost 30 years old at this point. You don’t need to purchase any substantial amount of BTC to understand how it works. One can simply read the research papers and understand crypto (or pay people smart enough to do so). Also laughably the US government already has billions of dollars in BTC because it holds the funds it seized from criminals.

We don’t need to buy ANY.

Why should they have any?

Thank you for the link I would like to note that from said link I draw this quote

Since the Treaty of Washington in 1871, when it first de facto recognized the new Dominion of Canada, the United States has never suggested or promoted an annexationist movement in Canada. No serious force has appeared on the American political scene that aimed to persuade or coerce Canadians into joining the United States. And no serious initiative for any move in this direction has come from the Canadian side either.

Trumps trade war with Canada which he said is to force them to submit to annexation is uniquely crazy in modern history.

America doesn’t want Canada and Greenland trump does

If this was so it wouldn’t be half his ss in property taxes. Average ss is 1900 a month

It trivially is in any hot market

Depending on area 40k property tax means a 3-4M house. Poor rich people!

Outside of fantasy no that is just nonsense

Property tax funds important things like schools, emergenct services, etc.

if he was destitute otherwise would already have sold it. You are arguing in favor of a tax break for some rich prick probably worth north of 3 million not paying the taxes that pay for your kid to get a decent education because basically feels.

Its no more immoral than you giving up your income.

Comparing property taxes now in 2025 dollars to unadjusted original cost in 1950 dollars is nonsensical. The two numbers bear no relation nor should they.

The average social security check is $1,978 a month or $23,736 per annum. Half of that is $11,868. Lets suppose he lives in CA where the annual rate for owner occupied is 0.74%. His house would be worth approx 1.6 million dollars. To to be clear he is whining about paying the appropriate and legal tax on his fully owned 1.6M cash hoard. This is a great problem to have.

If its that burdensome he can cash out and even with rent payments for the rest of his life live great even if he has no other savings of any sort.

Looks like about $5800 a month gradually increasing with inflation for at least 25 years.

If he has another $400,000 which seems super likely since I don’t think he’s actually living in his 1.6M house on $12,000 a year it could be more than 7500 a month.

If we add a little realism and only include another 15 years he could probably actually withdraw about 11,000 a month.

https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/average-monthly-social-security-check https://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/property-tax-by-state

This could actually be serious until the second paragraph.

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Seems super likely that capitalism is going to be a major factor in our extinction. Maybe we could have a bit less of it and actually survive as a species

Russia literally said they want to take an entire list of places where 100M people live and make them Russia. The US said it intended to take CA and Greenland.

Anyone willing to stand up to defend these places would end up in a war. If everyone abandons their neighbors then there is absolutely no reason for Russia, the US, and China to divide up the world between them. These are people with their own plans, nations, cultures who don’t want to choose whose boot to live under. The only way to do this is to be able to fight.

We absolutely had a choice

Not murdering them all isn’t a concession. They can’t go live in Egypt. Egypt has 3x the population density of the US now they won’t accept gazans

I sympathize with the commentor who you are responding to although I know my present crap life could always get worse and probably will. Just doesn’t feel like much to lose

Why not just join non-political communities and focus on the content that they enjoy. If people are nervous about meeting assholes on the internet perhaps they should stick to cable tv or netflix.