no no you see we need to spend a record-breaking billion dollars in federal funds on condos in a city with an average income of 30k and then retire as a casino executive. (actually fucking happened)
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there was also the Canal also a nearby asbestos factory remediated into a nuclear waste storage that ended up in obvious environmental disaster. The area is riddled with them.
In my opinion the city is still a unique shithole and it's gotten SIGNIFICANTLY better (due to migration, much to the chud's chagrin) but it's got one of the lowest income rates out of any major city in the U.S with some areas still entirely abandoned/demunincipalized with rampant drug-use, alcoholism and violence. Average income is 30k.
I don't like to make much information about myself available online, but I will say that you can find a lot of those where I used to live as a young child. Most of the city lived in the shadow of the economic collapse of Bethlehem and some parts still do. It was a rusty, salty shithole.
Seeing the skeleton of the industry that was the very economic foundation of the Rust-belt and the city laid out in a display for a corpo-festival (looks like) is quite hollowing in a way that can't be described. Imagine the greatest pieces of Soviet industry laid out at a rave for rich, older adults, best comparison and I don't even think that's quite apt as much of Soviet industry survived. That era is long-gone in the U.S.
I can't say I mourn it either. Bethlehem piled slag feet deep on the bottom of Lake Erie, near-irreparably destroying the environment as any mediation efforts will disturb the literal tons of slag and toxic materials at the bottom of the lake. They also hung thousands of people out to dry with nearly no warning, all for greed as well.
In the wake of one of America's greatest steel industries it left nothing but ruin.
young people with jobs can barely afford your slop-bowl. I honestly swear to good more "well-off" people use it for their dogs rather than their own food. I have seen this a few times.
I could spend hours devving provinces, microing trade, buildings/sector creation and playing with my civics/society modifiers; it does depend on the game/faction but I generally love to play tall unless I'm doing a hivemind in Stellaris that requires constant growth to survive. I've had many hours on Eu4 as a tiny german bumfuck city-state that use that strategy especially
as a war-gamer I play tall and I have to care about my logistics/soldiers or else my entire run is fucked and hinging on rng in each single division push.
Please, I need a photo of this. I really need a photo of a mall-strip filled with Charlie Kirk memorial fronts leading down to a rifle store. That's some fucking divine irony especially because HE PROBABLY WOULD BE OKAY WITH IT.
posting hog and calling it "My Pete"
Lowest-bidder earthquake-proofing springs in Cheyenne Mountain causing immediate foundation damage leading to entombing the entire upper echelon of the core
expand the fuhrerbunker, get ready to deploy the I.C.E and guard from southern states, double them right near election season, insurrection act/martial law. Worst comes to worst, 40 billion in Argentina sitting there waiting for them. DOJ wants to send election monitors to each "blue" state.
Or? Nothing happens and the guy has a heart-attack leading to a fickle J.D Vance presidency with the next democratic presidency turning down the boil and letting out the biggest vent you ever seen while they continue on as normal; basically polymorphing into another republican presidency.
not that laws matter because, ya know, it's all bougie bullshit but this is a straight-up violation of the anti-deficiency act.
https://budgetcounsel.com/cyclopedia-budgetica/cb-antideficiency-act-violation
brilliant
"What's natural for Taiwan is we produce 95 percent" and "we feel great about it," Lutnick said, conceding that "you can imagine when someone has 95 percent, convincing them that they should only have 50 percent. That's a lot" to lose.
But "Donald Trump would say it's not healthy for you or healthy for us because we protect you, and for us to protect you," then "you need to help us achieve… reasonable self-sufficiency," Lutnick argued.
To close the deal with Taiwan, Lutnick suggested that the US would offer "some kind of security guarantee" so that "they can expect" that moving their supply chain into the US won't eliminate Taiwan's so-called "silicon shield," where countries like the US are willing to protect Taiwan because "we need their silicon, their chips, so badly."
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declaring anti-fascism a terrorist organization and decrying the balances of the humors in our modern infants.
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A very tiny category. There is quite a few people on here that act like a majority or even half of the U.S armed forces are from poverty or tough conditions. Most soldiers give up class and wealth to join the military, a large chunk of that most likely being "tradition"/military families.
https://archive.ph/2x19K
"This has been documented by the neo-conservative Heritage Foundation in their study on the recruitment demographics of the united $tates military, which found that only about 10-11% of the united $tates military recruits come from the poorest quintile (defined as making less than $33,000 annually), with a fourth of the military coming from areas whose median income is more than $65,000 annually."
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