Message from @Coltwind

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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  

Like

2019-01-23 07:03:07 UTC  

Where I live (Australia), our middle class is fucking massive.

2019-01-23 07:03:27 UTC  

and factor in stuff like cost of living?

2019-01-23 07:03:33 UTC  

Don’t get me wrong, our lower class is bigger but not by much.

2019-01-23 07:03:41 UTC  

Well not really imo

2019-01-23 07:03:49 UTC  

Like the minimum cost of living is important

2019-01-23 07:04:40 UTC  

But when you’re comparing the three major income classes, the cost of living is different for each

2019-01-23 07:04:59 UTC  

Like I may choose to buy a $5 million house if I’m upper class and that would significantly raise the cost of living but if you’re lower class you can’t do that

2019-01-23 07:05:39 UTC  

Cost of living is actually heavily subjective in inter-class comparisons

2019-01-23 07:06:18 UTC  

It’s much more relevant when talking about communities that are considered to be lower class

2019-01-23 07:08:08 UTC  

alright, nice. good to know