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FriedButter

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Bro. This is fucking hilarious.

Twitch banned the channel tho lmao.

The first stream was launched on September 17 by a user named russiangas1 and showed a kitchen where four gas burners were running on full blast for hours on end. A thermometer could be seen in front of the stove showing audiences how hot it was in the room and a clock in the background showed that the stream was not on a loop.

Russiangas1 added a caption to the video reading: “From Russia with Love!” and stated that he pays just €1.44 ($1.43) a month for all the gas he is burning.
One channel, russiangas2, is similarly running a gas stove around the clock while another channel, russianhotwater, is endlessly filling up a tub with hot water.
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BoraTas

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That's the playbook of the neoliberal. Offshoring of everything, consumerism, tax cuts, low interest rates, high government spending, slashing of regulations and worker rights, etc... These of course lead to high GDP growth figures for a few years or so before inequality and debt start weighing the economy down.

The UK of 2022 has very little industry for an economy of its size and a massive proportion of its GDP is generated by retail, real estate, sports, finance, entertainment, education, media, legal services, fashion, etc... Pretty much everything that doesn't involve actually designing and building stuff. This was caused by neoliberal policies adopted in the 1980s. The result is massive inequality, low growth and massive debt. Liz Truss will double down on the same policies. She will also launch a trade war against China and increase military spending. She will do all of these without Russian and Arab corruption money. The forecast for the British economy isn't rosy, to say the least.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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NEW YORK -- The U.S. is not interested in decoupling its economy from China's but only in ensuring fair competition between the countries' businesses, Jose Fernandez, a senior state department official, told Nikkei.

"We would welcome competition that's on a level playing field, where you don't have unfair subsidies, where you have no violations of human rights, where you have full respect for intellectual property rights," said Fernandez, who serves as the undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment. He is deeply involved in U.S. President Joe Biden's economic security policies.

"We just want [U.S. companies] to have a fair shot," Fernandez said. "We are sure that if our companies play on a level playing field, we will get our share of projects and wins."

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Again that argument about fair trade and unfair subsidies. What they want is everyone to bow for Pax Americana which includes implementing free market orthodoxy/Washington
consensus/neoliberalism.

A country deciding its own economic destiny by not having the economic model we deem fair and universal is playing unfair.

A continuation of the Abrahamic unipolarity, white mans burden and civilizing mission. There is only one economic and political (democracy and neoliberalism) way and that is my way. Do not dare to decide your own economic, technological and political destiny.
 
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