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Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to world
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Yes keeping graphics cards cheap is definitely worth increasing groccery prices, privatized healthcare, unaffordable housing, state sanctioned violence against minorities, and 1000+ other issues. But hey at least the new Call of Duty is running great!
Ah, I see. You live in a white supremacist fantasy world.
Why are you feeding a troll?
You're probably right. Time to stop.
This is sad on many levels. You need to open your eyes.
Kash Pattel keeps trying that and it's not working...
I know this gets brought up a lot and maybe over done. But dude, that is 1) Not the case as being evidenced right now in large swathes of the US, and 2) Literal Nazi talking points. Like word for word what they told Jews before rounding them up and gassing them. (Also literally what US Japanese were told before being rounded up and put in concentrations camps despite obeying the law, but that's less known)
It's what they're telling people now, right up until they smash down their door, kidnap them and send them to an overseas torture/death camp. And when they see this happening to their friends and neighbours, cowardly fools like this will say, "You must have done something wrong, because the white supremacists told me that if we non-whites just do as we're told they'll leave us alone." And they'll believe this until the thugs arrive at their front door, then they'll protest that there has been a mistake, all the way to the death camp. It's just sad to see.
You played your hand here fukkin troll. I won't waste another glance and will never see a reply by you. Go scream into the void for attention.
Bruv they aren't committing more crime. That's one of the reasons people are mad. Immigrants literally commit less crimes than nationals. Your argument for minorities committing more crimes is flawed because the only reason you think they commit more crimes is because police arrest them more, whether they were doing something illegal or not. "We target these people because we've targeted these people before"
How tf did this maga ass Kool aid get over to Australia? You have no idea how shit it is here or how shit works here.
Turning Point USA pushed hard into several other countries (sometimes under other names but often still as Turning Point). A lot of rich assholes ate it up because they think less taxes is what they need to reach nirvana or some shit.
Dude would descend into Nazi fascism to save $130 on a graphics card lol
pissing your pants and saying its raining.
Please, please, please come tell my neighbors, many of them Indian, how they're doing fine. I would fucking love to see what they do to you. You're a racist idiot. Again, go touch grass and read economics books not fap to racist talking points from 4chan.
Also please come tell the legal Mexican and Somali communities being deported how they should have just followed the law. I think it'll go about as well for you.
You sound just like the Latinos for Trump. "I can't be racist, I'm one of the good ones". It's not going well for them.
YOU FUCKING NUMPTY! Legal immigrants deported . That's just the first result, ignoring the many more who haven't been reported on, including people I personally knew.
DHS (the organization above ICE, sort of, who handles immigration policy) have stated they want to deport 100 million people. There are ONLY 47 million foreign born people living in the US. That's total. Not just illegal. Total. He has literally already started deporting greencard holding citizens.
You're being lied to by right wing idiots and slurping up their lies.
This could use a tonguebath, and you're apparently ready to go:
You're presenting a graphics card as your entire argument? That's the left wing socialist screw up? Goddamn I thought you needed to go touch grass before but now I think you need to just walk to the beach and stare at the waves or something too.
You can do a lot less with $100K in the USA than in other countries. Americans get paid more because they immediately have to pay that back out on expenses that are covered by taxes in civilised countries. So the pay sounds much better but it really isn't. You're falling into the trap of thinking "if we just did it like the Americans and didn't pay for any common goods, we'd have more money in our pockets." You would, for about 5 minutes until the bills came. Then you'd have less, and also live in a dysfunctional society where everyone is miserable and angry and defensive. Left wing politics is what protects a society from this fate. It's not worth throwing it all away for a slightly cheaper graphics card.
If you move to Austin I will find you and kick your ass.
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Check your homeowners insurance cost and property taxes before you start talking about how cheap houses are in Texas. It can run $18k/year in insurance and another 10k in property taxes for a $400k house... If you put 80k down on a $400k house, the mortgage is roughly $2100/month in principle and interest, plus another $933ish per month for Property taxes($5000/year), insurance($5000/year), and hoa fees($1200/year). Your housing cost is ~$3k/month. Property taxes go up every year on top of that. They are limited to a 10%/year increase but historically, that translates to basically a guaranteed 10%/year increase, especially in the last 10 years. Insurance premiums have more than doubled in the last 10 years as well.
That's also not covering the god awful electricity stability so you want some sort of generator or battery backup so you don't literally freeze to death in the middle of winter. Basic starter generators are what, $10k right? And then $2k in gas a year? Minimum.
To run a heater or ac, you need a significant generator. I have been looking at battery systems and to run an existing residential ac, its like 10k and you need two inverters. Where I am, the power failures have been minimal and manageable (30 minute intervals every couple months) The exception was Hurricane Beryl and we were out of power for 3 days. I intermittently ran a generator for our fridge and the neighbors to charge stuff but even running a window unit was not an option on our 5000w generator. It burned maybe 2 gallons of gas?
Running an electric central air heater is also essentially out of the question. With a gas heater, you just need to run the fan and not heat the elements.
Despite the health risks, that is why we still use. Gas water heaters, gas furnaces, gas dryers, and a gas stove in our house. I want the fallback of running stuff without power. The grid is also shitty to the point (in some areas) that it fried my uncles induction stove, fridge, and ovens even living in a major city.
That also wouldn't have helped during the winter storm in Austin because the gas supply basically froze and lost pressure so those folks were really hurting.
I think the big built in generators run 15k plus and run off natural gas. I did learn that they also require a maintenance subscription (because of course they do) and thats like 2k a year iirc.
Gotcha, so I was in a very beginner ballpark. That sounds like a lot of no thank you hassle.
Not to rub it in but I'm going to go make hot chocolate on my induction stove and bump the heat up one for my wife.
Yeah if my wife's family wasn't here and unwilling to move, I would be somewhere less hostile and more functional too.
I think you're looking at averages and not median. The US has a lot more billionaires and now trillionaires. Median household income in Australia is $1800/week and in the US it's $1500/week and plummeting plus our unemployment is now through the roof to a degree that's not even being measured accurately. And we go broke from healthcare.
I know you pay more for some elements of gaming, and you're being shafted on that. But maybe check the news out a little and ask if Call of Duty is really worth all this.
We don't have the first trillionare yet. Musk hasn't actually been paid that package.
Yeah, I was being a bit glib about that. Who knows, maybe we can bankrupt Tesla before he does.
So your take is about fucking VIDEO cards? Do you understand that the price increases of PC hardware is tied directly the AI industry and crypto, which Trump and his admin have gone all-in on deregulating and endorsing for investment?
Please, I beg of you to learn even the most BASIC facts about your world outside of your gaming rig before making political decisions. You know well it has nothing to do with money either, you just hate feminists or some stupid social shit that you can't wrap your feelings around so you want to make everyone mad by electing some moron to lead you around by the nose. It's pathetic, be better.
Yeah but with the US in charge, that $650 will be spent on a hangnail.
Invade my country because graphic cards are too expensive.