re: Regardless of your political affiliation what concerns you most today?

Freedom…

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. Plus, we're completely independent in terms of agriculture and energy when asshats in Washington aren't intentionally hamstringing us.

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No, we're not.

Good grief some of you people astound me.

Producing enough oil or enough food to supply the US's needs does not mean we're "independent."

If there is a large war prices for both of those things are going up. (Hell, there's only a small war going on right now and prices have gone up noticeably). The international going rate for a barrel of oil or a bushel of corn are going to skyrocket.

You are a US based oil refinery or farmer. You are going to sell your product to domestic buyers only when you could sell it for 1.5-2 times as much to an international buyer?

Of course not. You're going to sell it for the going rate, and so will everybody else, and Americans will end up paying the same inflated price for things as everybody else, including the countries involved in the war. You think the economy is bad under Biden? You've never seen an American economy like what it would be if a large world war was going on.

Please stop listening to Huckster Carlson. What happens around the world does affect America and American citizens, even if it doesn't happen inside the state lines of Texas or North Carolina or California.

Populists need to let actual grown-ups worry about our foreign policy.

Leftists

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If there is a large war prices for both of those things are going up. (Hell, there's only a small war going on right now and prices have gone up noticeably). The international going rate for a barrel of oil or a bushel of corn are going to skyrocket.

You are a US based oil refinery or farmer. You are going to sell your product to domestic buyers only when you could sell it for 1.5-2 times as much to an international buyer?

Of course not. You're going to sell it for the going rate, and so will everybody else, and Americans will end up paying the same inflated price for things as everybody else, including the countries involved in the war. You think the economy is bad under Biden? You've never seen an American economy like what it would be if a large world war was going on.

Please stop listening to Huckster Carlson. What happens around the world does affect America and American citizens, even if it doesn't happen inside the state lines of Texas or North Carolina or California.

Populists need to let actual grown-ups worry about our foreign policy.

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Weaponized wokeness championed by the left. It has ruined entertainment (I miss old disney/Star Wars) and despite flop after flop they keep doubling down on their idiocy.

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The state of Louisiana voting to remove government and government officials public records access

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Well that’s concerning

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If there's a war that America isn't a party to and prices skyrocket, you can bet your arse that our government is going to sequester American oil and food.

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To the detriment of markets and interest rates. It’s folly to pretend we’re isolated from any major geopolitical happening in today’s world. Given that, we have a legitimate national interest in being involved in most things affecting the industrialized First and Second world.

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Given that, we have a legitimate national interest in being involved in most things affecting the industrialized First and Second world.

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We may have an interest, but that doesn't mean that we have to sacrifice ourselves to those interests. We could simply hit the Monroe Doctrine with a shot of Test and Tren and tell the rest of the world to frick off if we so desired. We would suffer inconveniences, but there's nothing that the rest of the world has to offer that we couldn't live without in a pinch.

1) failure of the public education system to teach useful life skills like reasoning, nutrition, and personal finance
2) inflation
3) entitlement spending neither staying constant nor decreasing
4) The number of capable people I meet each week who want to be deemed disabled
5) obesity + sedentary lifestyle and general disdain for sweat
6) glorification of promiscuity and normalizing which parts of yourself you like to put inside of other people or which of their parts you like to stick in yourself as a cultural identity.

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but that doesn't mean that we have to sacrifice ourselves to those interests.

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How are we sacrificing ourselves to those interests? I’d argue maintaining the world order only reinforces our hegemonic dominance of it.

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We could simply hit the Monroe Doctrine with a shot of Test and Tren and tell the rest of the world to frick off if we so desired.

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I mean I guess we could, but we may not like what the world looks like once we stop that isolation. There’s also no telling who and what consolidates power in our absence.

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We would suffer inconveniences, but there's nothing that the rest of the world has to offer that we couldn't live without in a pinch.

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yea, global economic meltdown and massive devaluation of our citizens’ wealth would be an “inconvenience”. That’s not even getting into the core nature of capitalism that requires constant expansion of markets and efficient allocation of capital wherever that may occur.