Message from @Coltwind

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2019-01-23 05:41:37 UTC  

there is

2019-01-23 05:45:09 UTC  

Yes.

2019-01-23 05:45:38 UTC  

The Turks invaded a part of Cyprus with no legal basis of justification.

2019-01-23 05:45:42 UTC  

*or

2019-01-23 05:49:27 UTC  

Yeah I remember watching a documentary on it awhile back on YouTube. It's been happening since like the 60's or 70's. Cyprus used to be a popular celebrity vacation spot back in the 60's until war broke out. Why did the Turks invade? They claim it's their land or something?

2019-01-23 05:50:18 UTC  

They do.

2019-01-23 05:51:19 UTC  

The Turks are basically using WWII Germany logic and saying “we have an ethnic minority here therefore we should unite our ethnic peoples”

2019-01-23 05:52:20 UTC  

Which is retarded because when they invaded only 17% of the population were ethnically Turkish

2019-01-23 05:54:58 UTC  

Even right now, there are roughly 650000 Greek Cypriots to Turkish Cypriots.

2019-01-23 05:55:06 UTC  

*150000

2019-01-23 05:56:03 UTC  

Lol that's fuckin' nuts. I know blacks aren't African, but that is like Africa invading the US because 13% of the population is black.

2019-01-23 05:56:31 UTC  

That's also why they've been deploying troops into northern Syria, since there's an ethnic minority of Turkic tribesmen there.

2019-01-23 05:56:45 UTC  

They were likely hoping Syria would collapse entirely so they could annex it.

2019-01-23 05:57:17 UTC  

The Turks aren’t to be trusted

2019-01-23 05:57:43 UTC  

And then they wonder why Christians were fighting the Crusades

2019-01-23 05:58:29 UTC  

Honestly, giving Cyprus to Greece would be better for everyone because Greece’s economy can be revitalised and everyone in Europe can benefit from Greece.

2019-01-23 06:21:06 UTC  

Yeah Cyprus has a lot of tourism potential, which could help with it's prolonged debt crisis

2019-01-23 06:21:36 UTC  

Exactly

2019-01-23 06:22:39 UTC  

Cyprus could be great but it cannot sustain itself as an independent state, nor can it sustain itself under the control of globalist Greece.

2019-01-23 06:23:27 UTC  

But tbh Turkey is by far the worst option geopolitically speaking because the Turks are just gonna use the oil money to fuck everyone over.

2019-01-23 06:54:56 UTC  
2019-01-23 06:56:20 UTC  

Look at the spending, debt, and GDP as base metrics

2019-01-23 06:56:29 UTC  

Like macroeconomically speaking

2019-01-23 06:56:34 UTC  

Those are the big ones

2019-01-23 06:56:46 UTC  

But it’s a bit more complicated than that

2019-01-23 06:58:03 UTC  

You’ve gotta look at state-specific tax rates, financial self-sufficiency, etc.

2019-01-23 06:58:16 UTC  

Average income rates in different areas

2019-01-23 06:59:22 UTC  

It’s actually funny because if you look at heavily blue states, especially the ones like CA, they have a much shorter bell curve when it comes to average income after tax.

2019-01-23 06:59:34 UTC  

To sorta unpack that

2019-01-23 06:59:39 UTC  

I am of the opinion that economics is in its infancy, and needs a lot of perfection.

2019-01-23 07:00:16 UTC  

More people make shit money, the middle class is very limited, and the rich are very rich.

2019-01-23 07:00:23 UTC  

I think some people understand certain markets, but the world is big

2019-01-23 07:00:30 UTC  

All true

2019-01-23 07:00:42 UTC  

Whereas a place like NYC

2019-01-23 07:00:43 UTC  

I'm going to screenshot that to remember. @Coltwind thx!!!

2019-01-23 07:00:49 UTC  

Even though it is rife with poverty

2019-01-23 07:01:00 UTC  

And does have some Democratic Party initiatives

2019-01-23 07:01:22 UTC  

Fiscally, it’s relatively centrist

2019-01-23 07:01:35 UTC  

So even in NYC, the middle class is a lot bigger.

2019-01-23 07:02:52 UTC  

I personally think that you have to look at the sizes of the various classes (judges by income) by population size to assess economic prosperity for people.

2019-01-23 07:02:53 UTC  

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