Pseud Maestro

Babbling fool and a ravishingly handsome Turing Cop

[ᡏᠠᡅᡆᡛᡄᠴ Mayo-Mainz @MayoMainz]

Shia Islam: "Well you see, according to Plato and Aristotle doing this is considered makruh on Tuesday nights because as Sohravardi pointed out in his essays..."

Shia folk Islam: "Ali was late for Fajr once so he used the force to move the sun"

[Pseud Maestro @ZeRichterTrain]

@loongshih The classic “Just wait and see when I am gonna get real serious! But like not now, but just you wait.”

[Pseud Maestro @ZeRichterTrain]

@vonderleyen Speed running selfimmolation. Classic Technocrat move.

[Pseud Maestro @ZeRichterTrain]

@JoshuaBailey184 Dude that fucking Elite is gonna open up that SOB no matter his gear. They cannot even do good propaganda AI slop! Smh

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

If your grandfather murdered someone, you do NOT have a “special responsibility” to help the victim’s grandchildren murder other innocent people, that’s not how the law works!

A crime is a crime, an accomplice is an accomplice, no excuse!

[LeeKuanYewRespecter @LeeRespecter]

If you’re wondering how he learned to move like this, consider that the guy could plausibly be a veteran of five major wars and as many as eight or nine armed conflicts.

[J Evrart Hoover @DurstofTimes]

@peoplesposting @posting_forever It’s every right winger’s fantasy to murder someone from the comfort of your own couch.

[Pseud Maestro @ZeRichterTrain]

@ZeBolshevikman The Last man of History craves what he has but shall never be content.

[Pseud Maestro @ZeRichterTrain]

@AFP Most whipped people in the world

[Pseud Maestro @ZeRichterTrain]

@nise_yoshimi He is the “He can’t keep getting away with this!” type of guy. He will have to grift like a motherfucker to not end up on a gibbet at this point

[orange cat 🐈 🩺🇨🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇱🇧 @sertralinny]

@brent858 "Men are grounded and rational, not guided by emotion"

Meanwhile men:

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

Sébastien Jean and Jean-Pierre Landau: "In terms of welfare, European consumers should welcome cheap electric vehicles, batteries, and solar panels that are subsidized directly or indirectly by Chinese workers and taxpayers. But Europeans instead see them as a threat, which is rational from a dynamic perspective. Cheap imports may raise purchasing power today, but they can destroy the industrial base on which tomorrow’s income depends. The transfer is generous in the present, but costly in the future."

Jean and Landau are right, and they represent a real shift in the way the world understands trade, away from the complacent (some would even say condescending) neglect still favored by mainstream economists, to a deeper grasp of how trade imbalances allow countries that exert greater control over their external accounts to export their industrial policies (in reverse) to those of their trade partners with more open external accounts.

In a world in which some economies exert substantial control over their external accounts, in other words, while other countries don't, if the former decide to implement aggressive industrial policies, not only are they restructuring their own domestic economies, but they are also restructuring the domestic economies of the latter in a such a way as to accommodate their own economic needs.

Jean and Landau add: "A useful complement to this strategy is capital controls. Controls on outflows keep domestic savings at home, while restricting inflows prevents the economy from rebalancing from tradable to non-tradable sectors—the opposite of what the strategy aims to achieve. Capital inflows strengthen the currency, weaken exports, and support consumption. They accelerate domestic absorption before scale and learning are secured, thus impeding the pursuit of comparative advantage."

I agree, and this suggests that rather than encourage capital inflows, economies that want to strengthen their manufacturing and productive sectors and to benefit workers by raising productivity and wages should consider capital controls as a far more effective tool than tariffs. Unfettered financial inflows largely benefit the large banks and owners of movable capital at the expense of manufacturers and workers. They also force the economy to shift out of producing tradable goods (including manufacturing) and into non-tradable goods (real estate and services).
https://t.co/zaECptPGI7

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

After this absolutely meaningless war, longer than was WW2 for the Soviet Union, launched light-heartedly by Putin, but with unnecessary tensions and unfriendly moves leading to the war made by both sides, Russia and Ukraine will (if the war ends w/o the use of nuclear weapons) boast at the end of the war the following results.
About 2 million killed and disabled citizens in total, mostly males which will additionally destabilize gender balance that was already bad.
Destroyed large parts of infrastructure (heating plants, refineries, warehouses, roads, bridges), and also hospitals and schools, Most of it inherited from socialism which did build things that current regimes have a pleasure to destroy.
Openly crazy nationalist regimes whose main educational task is to twist history in a pro-fascist direction--while, unlike socialist education, not providing any uplifting and positive message re. the future: ideologies of gloom and hopelessness, of soil and blood.
In addition to military losses, both countries will lose millions of citizens who will emigrate for good.
They would lose best actors, physicists, writers, AI specialists, doctors.
In many areas the damage will take two or three decades of peace just to be fixed.
Ukraine will remain an armed camp, with half of its pre-war population only, and with most of its valuable assets owned by foreigners. It will be part of the EU with constant fights there arguing that no economic aid will ever be a sufficient compensation for Ukraine's human sacrifice.
Its ideology & art will be extremely nationalistic, with probably being the only country in Europe officially celebrating Nazi fighters.
Russia will remain for a long time totally cut off (economically, politically and culturally) from Europe which is its natural cultural milieu. It would produce art of ersatz nationalist quality compared to which socialist realism could be considered a top artistic creation.
Its proponents will mouth-off nonsensical things about Christian values while murder rates, domestic violence, abortion and alcoholism will be at all-time European and Asian peaks.
So both countries will decline demographically, economically, politically and culturally. And given low population growth rates, it does not seem that they would recover any time soon (I am speaking of half-a-century or more and assuming no new wars).
So enjoy the continued war!

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Deep cut here by the Reuters team on who exactly is supplying Sudan's genocidal RSF with weapons and mercenaries. Turns out a former Green Beret, now based in Singapore, is running the supply lines. JSOC fingerprints everywhere.

[🎄DEΛRG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Dearg_Gosling]

We've reached the "if it wasnt for international law we would be winning" stage of the Amerikike cope

(They literally kidnapped a foreign leader before this then started a random war with Iran and killed over 100 school girls on the first day btw)

[B.R. Valentine @BRValentine1983]

@fawfulfan It’s straightforward if your goals are to force women out of labor force and destroy public goods. Heritage is advocating that women shouldn’t be in competitive sports because fertility. Their crap makes sense if you accept they want a pre-civil rights social order.

[ergopraxis.bsky.social @ergo_praxis]

People with this attitude, who so often (and in my opinion extremely unjustifiably) praise Eggers for supposedly doing this (emphatically false imo) basically relate to the classics not as literature expressing something transhistorically true, but as a literary zoo or circus

[Pseud Maestro @ZeRichterTrain]

@davenewworld_2 Guy gotta put some bloody plates on. Damn larpers can't even larp right their mediocre fantasies.