To get the green card and payment (not much tho), actually there are a bunch of them active in chinese social media (i have no idea why).
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Twitter is brutal.
I said USD going to zero in 18 months, that was 16 months ago
What could our members living in the US do?
Looking for serious advice. Convert USD into RMB?
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I would probably put it in more qualified and convoluted terms but, broadly speaking: yes. Australia is characterised by a combination of arrogance and anxiety. On some level we believe that we have inherited from our British forebears and American cousins both the right and duty to run the world, as shared torchbearers of the Anglo-American enlightenment that has discovered the ideal configurations of cultural, economic, and political life, a mythology that shares most of the characteristics of a religion. On the other hand, we are acutely conscious of our marginal and peripheral role in world affairs, and buried deep in the Anglo-Australian psyche is knowledge of the injustices by which our nation was established atop the ruins of its indigenous inhabitants, contributing to the feeling of being a precarious Anglo outpost in Asia rather than of Asia. Collectively, these impulses manifest in a me-too-ism whereby we seek to ingratiate ourselves with first the UK and now the USA for our own aggrandizement and reassurance. We seek to maintain a "sphere of influence" amongst the small island nations of the Pacific in much the same way as the United States does over the Western Hemisphere, both as a quasi-colonial power in our own right and as Washington's . Yet nations and peoples are complex beasts and the wheels of history are always turning. The immovable certainties of today may become the quaint historical curiosities of tomorrow.
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I think what is wrong is that the US system allows scammers and grifters cashing out as much as possible, having funneled many people into that position by deindustrializing and focusing on finance and intangible services and products. For a lot of people there is literally nothing else to do... would you rather apply to mcdonalds for whatever the US minimum wage is, with a chance you don't get the job, or spend that time cooking up a scam / trading shitcoins?
I am going to use the phrase "collapse like an Indian bridge" from now on, it has deeper metaphorical meaning than you realize at face value, and most apt for describing what is happening in the US.
Party like its 1999 for the remaining amount of time left
I sort of understand Chinese 'expats' motivations (I will call them expats as they have the choice to move around abroad, rather than being driven by economic necessity) - it's like getting a role as an extra in a high budget, high profile movie, and once done (or real fighting starts), I go elsewhere for the next adventure.
The US military was the world's strongest when they were growing up, so there is a sense of adventure in being a temporary part of that.
I was thinking more the new US supapowa, now complete with 10000% grand claims, just like the original
The issue is that Australian society, like America and Israel are products of colonial genocide and are byproducts of racial apartheid. Yet, there is also a dishonesty about how they came to prosper at the expense of the aboriginals and Asians around them. You see them rambling useless preambles like “we acknowledge the First Nations peoples, past and present…“ before a political speech but still exploit the land and people for the enrichment of the Anglo and Zionist elites. Australia‘s very national identity is also built on a fear of being “swamped by asians” which immediately places Asians within Australian society in a precarious position of enemy of the state. The entire society declares an all of society war against Asian men unless they prove they will maim themselves for white primacy and deny their own cultural heritage and convert to Christianity and take on the white man’s god and by extension, the white man, as his god.