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| 5 days ago | mod | Removed Post This dumb clown JD Vance is lecturing Europe about lack of free speech reason: not about europe |
| 6 days ago | mod | Banned subversive_dev@lemmy.ml from the community reason: Ragebaiting, wiederholte Verstöße |
| 6 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Yes, I dare you to challenge your media bubble and fact check my comment instead of posting cheap and lame thought-terminating clichés by subversive_dev@lemmy.ml reason: Ragebaiting |
| 6 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Is that really the best you can do? What single fact in my comment do you dare to challenge?
The Russians don't care. They're winning decisively ON THE BATTLEFIELD. Any geopolitical "realist" will tell you this, no matter which country they are based in.
I'm here as a curiosity. Will the Europeans really destroy themselves because they can't adapt to a post-unipolar world? Will any EU citizens here on the fediverse see reason? So far results are EXTREMELY un-promising. by subversive_dev@lemmy.ml reason: Misinfo |
| 6 days ago | mod | Removed Comment 1. This war started in 2008 at the Bucharest NATO summit, when the US announced its intention to expand NATO into Ukraine and Georgia. EVEN EUROPEAN LEADERS like Merkel and Sarkozy noted AT THE TIME that the Russians would view NATO expansion into these countries as tantamount to a declaration of war. Over the next 14 years the West did a "color revolution", the Banderites did an ethnic cleansing campaign in the Donbass, and the West sabotaged and undermined THREE DIFFERENT PEACE AGREEMENTS before the Russians' famous patience finally expired in 2022.
2. Ukraine doesn't need money to win the war, it needs TRAINED INFANTRY and to a lesser extent weapons. MOREOVER, anyone who thinks this money will last Ukraine even a whole year is delusional. The annual BASELINE burn rate of the Ukraine regime is 150B+ annually, and tax receipts are essentially nonexistent.
3. They must be REALLY DESPERATE to risk the CREDIBILITY OF THE ENTIRE EUROPEAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM on this foolish gambit. They are breaking the very "Laws of Capital" that the West itself wrote. The Europeans seem determined to beat the Americans in a race to economic decline and collapse.
Tell me again about the "moral case" for stealing sovereign assets to prop up a stunningly corrupt regime in terminal collapse?
Looking forward to the tortured logic justifying my ban. by subversive_dev@lemmy.ml reason: Misinformation |
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| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Russians are like animals. by notsosure@sh.itjust.works reason: racism |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment I have a book called **"Warren Buffet on practically everything"**
For those who don't know him, Warren Buffet is, alongside George Soros, one of the best investors of all time. He is single largest investor in Coca-Cola and Apple.
He is basically the godfather of american capitalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
One of the strangest thing about him is that he owns ruthless corporations, but on a personal level, he is actually surprisingly human. For instance, he publically criticized the Bush administration for cutting taxes on rich people:
https://www.npr.org/2007/11/15/16314513/warren-buffett-backs-the-estate-tax
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/buffett-backs-estate-tax-decries-wealth-gap-idUSN14423830/
Don't get me wrong. I [**don't think he is a good guy**](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/special-investigation-the-dirty-secret-behind-warren-buffetts-billions/), but as far as billionaires are concerned, I would
put him in the *the least evil* category.
Anyway, I got that book right on my shelf.
It's a collection of news stories about Buffet published in *Fortune Magazine* and carefully selected by the author because she found them interesting. One of the chapters is about why he decided in 2009 to invest in an unknown chinese company called BYD.
Here is the original story in PDF:
**Warren Buffett takes charge - April 13, 2009**
>Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact. You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will. And perhaps most famously, Never invest in a business you cannot understand.
>So when Buffett's friend and longtime partner in Berkshire
Hathaway (BRKB), Charlie Munger, suggested early last year
that they invest in BYD, an obscure Chinese battery, mobile
phone, and electric car company, one might have predicted
Buffett would cite rule No. 3 above. He is, after all, a man
who shunned the booming U.S. tech industry during the
1990s
>Buffett, who is 78, was intrigued by Munger's description
of the entrepreneur behind BYD, a man named Wang ChuanFu, whom he had met through a mutual friend. "This guy,"
Munger tells Fortune, "is a combination of Thomas Edison
and Jack Welch - something like Edison in solving technical
problems, and something like Welch in getting done what he
needs to do. I have never seen anything like it
>Coming from Munger, that meant a lot
>Last fall Berkshire Hathaway bought 10% of BYD for $230
million. The deal, which is awaiting final approval from the
Chinese government, didn't get much notice at the time. It
was announced in late September, as the global financial
markets teetered on the abyss. But Buffett and Munger and
Sokol think it is a very big deal indeed. They think BYD has a
shot at becoming the world's largest automaker, primarily by
selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing
solar power industr
>In acquiring a stake in BYD, Buffett broke a couple of his own
rules. "I don't know a thing about cellphones or batteries," he
admits. "And I don't know how cars work." But, he adds "Charlie Munger and Dave Sokol are smart guys, and they do understand it. And there's no question that what's been accomplished since 1995 at BYD is extraordinary."
>One more thing reassured him. Berkshire Hathaway first tried
to buy 25% of BYD, but Wang turned down the offer. He
wanted to be in business with Buffett - to enhance his brand
and open doors in the U.S., he says - but he would not let go
of more than 10% of BYD's stock. "This was a man who
didn't want to sell his company," Buffett says. "That was a
good sign."
(..............)
>Wang typically works until 11 p.m. or midnight, five or six days a week. "In China, people of my generation put work first and life second," says the CEO, whose wife takes responsibility for raising their two children
>Wang himself grew up in extreme poverty. His parents, both farmers, died before he entered high school, and he was raised by an older brother and sister. The train ride from the village where he grew up to Central South Industrial University of Technology, where he earned his chemistry degree, took him by Yellow Mountain, a popular destination for hikers and tourists, but he has never visited there. "I didn't go then because we had no money," he says. "I don't go now because we have no time."
>As for accumulating wealth? "I'm not interested in it," he claims. He certainly doesn't live a very lavish lifestyle. He was paid about $265,000 in 2008, and he lives in a BYD-owned apartment complex with other engineers. His only indulgences are a Mercedes and a Lexus, and they have a practical purpose: He takes their engines apart to see how they work
>The company itself is frugal. Until recently, executives always flew coach.
>One told me he was appalled when he learned that Ford, which lost billions last year, had staged a gala at the Hotel George V during the Paris auto show. By contrast, the last time BYD executives traveled to the Detroit auto show they rented a suburban house to save the cost of hotel rooms
(.................)
>"How did BYD get so far ahead?" Warren Buffett asked Wang, speaking through a translator. "Our,company is built on technological know-how," Wang answered. Wary as always of a technology play, Buffett asked how BYD would sustain its lead. "We'll never, never rest," Wang replied.
https://ganahl.info/2010/byd.warrenbuffed.pdf
This story was originally published in 2009. The book was published in 2012.
Look at BYD now... by kwero@sh.itjust.works reason: Spam |
| 14 days ago | mod | Removed Comment More like erasure in 10 years or less by  Agility0971@lemmy.worldreason: "Great replacement" conspiracy theory, racism |
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| 15 days ago | mod | Removed Comment right right, i forgot that orban came to power by god and not by election. sure the hungarians are known for their friendliness, openminds and great culture. LOL.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/03/hungary-pride-ban-is-full-frontal-attack-on-lgbti-people-and-must-not-be-signed-into-law/
**FUCK THE HUNGARIANS!** they are retarded imbeciles from the past with the dominant mindset of hate towards anyone who is different. The dumber americans just coin it "woke".
by zehnkirchen@feddit.org reason: Bigotry |
| 20 days ago | mod | Banned Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works from the community reason: Abusing report system, Insults in the report system, Spiteful expires: 13 days ago |
| 21 days ago | mod | Removed Comment From you filth and from Hamas. You're welcome. by ShotDonkey@lemmy.world reason: Insults. |
| 21 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Coward. Ostrich with your head in the sand. Literal chicken shit.
Closing your eyes won't help you, or anyone. by  know_your_place@eviltoast.orgreason: Insults. |
| 21 days ago | mod | Banned know_your_place@eviltoast.org from the community reason: Antisemitism. Ragebait. Insults. Polemics. |
| 21 days ago | mod | Removed Comment You're just an angry Zionist mouthpiece. Probably Jewish as well. And you're conflating the two because you felt attacked lmfao.
Ruminate on the fact that a group being essentially called nazi was felt as an attack for *you*, you worthless piece of shit. by know_your_place@eviltoast.org reason: Antisemitism. Ragebait. Insults. |
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| 21 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Zionism is NOT Judaism... Zionists are NOT followers of Judaism... they are no different to literal Nazis and you cannot be antisemetic towards Zionists.
It's also worth noting the semetic people are NOT just jewish, they are ALL people from the region across multiple religions, including Palestinians. by Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org reason: Antisemitic apologia |
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| 21 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Absolutely wild to watch Europe commit economic suicide to prop up a failing proxy war.
How quickly can the world's most corrupt regime spend 140 billion euros?
I await your seething replies. by subversive_dev@lemmy.ml reason: Trolling, ragebaiting |
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| 24 days ago | mod | Removed Comment > i am not a small woman
how you doin by HugeNerd@lemmy.ca reason: uncalled attention |
| 25 days ago | mod | Removed Comment No they aren't.
By international law they're seeking asylum and thus are the exact opposite of an illegal immigrant, as the law explicitly states that seeking asylum is legal.
>Why da fuck you trying to oppose focking logic, are you insane?
Why the fuck won't you **employ** logic, and instead just allow shitty right wing rhetoric to infest your easy-to-cheat mind?
You need a more robust frame of mind so such low grade propaganda can't get you that easily.
[Asylum: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtdU5RPDZqI)
https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/who-we-protect/asylum-seekers by  Dasus@lemmy.worldreason: Toxic, insults |
| 25 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Yes they are. The idea here, that you either come legally, or you request asylum on the border, hence does not cross it illegally and does not considered illegal immigrant. If you managed to get in country illegally — you, by FOCKING DEFENITION, illegal immigrant. Because:
1. You get into country illegally;
2. You an immigrant.
*Then*, you can still request asylum, what will erase that status temporarily, untill and if asylum is denied/approved. [Here shiny cute pdf for your small tiktok deluded mind.](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/fc4223a9-bb9a-4ca5-b9f5-8182ea373ca0_en?filename=Infographic+on+border+procedures_en.pdf) [And here official EU article on that matter.](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asylum/asylum-eu_en)
I will not continue arguing with you, cause you clearly have your own world with own rules and I'm not even from EU, so there no point for me to argue in the first place. by  De Lancre@lemmy.worldreason: Toxic |
| 25 days ago | mod | Removed Comment ...that doesn't defy what I said? He still illegal immigrant by definition. Why da fuck you trying to oppose focking logic, are you insane?
Upd. Also, one of the major rules regarding asylum seeking — you should request it in the first country you fled to. If you then ran to second country, asylum will be rightfully denied, cause at this point you don't really search for asylum, rather than searching for better life in general, which should be done FOCKING LEGAL. by De Lancre@lemmy.world reason: Toxic, abusive |
| 26 days ago | mod | Banned Prunebutt@slrpnk.net from the community reason: Uncivil, ragebait, misinfo expires: 23 days ago |
| 26 days ago | mod | Removed Comment > Yeah, just keep repeating your propaganda and ignore all my points and questions
What points and questions? You did nothing, but insult me.
> It's not a matter of what I count. IT IS in Europe. Fact.
I already told you that I'm not interested in this discussion.
> As I have said, the EU has been under Russian attack for at least a decade. And I have even listed proof in one of the comments.
Yeah, sure. And *I* am the propagandist? Show me the Russian tanks crossing an EU border.
> Please do tell me how exactly is it propaganda
You're peddling talking points by western nations to convince people that Russia is definetly going to invade. Do you think only "evil" nations propagandize?
> It is YOU who is spreading Russian propaganda that they do not want to invade other post-soviet countries in Europe.
I'm sure you can prove that that's the case? /s
> It serves them by keeping the EU's military weak and reliant on the USA. However the USA cannot be trusted, since Trump is in love with Putin and he will sooner help Russia than the EU.
Holy shit, you're embarrassing. Your level of geopolitical competence is on the level of a literal school child.
> So fuck you for spreading Russian propaganda. I bet your daddy Putin is crapping its pants now that his attempts to divide Europe backfired.
I'm pretty sure that kind of insult is against the rules. Reporting you... by Prunebutt@slrpnk.net reason: Uncivil, insults, misinfo |
| 26 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Yeah, just keep repeating your propaganda and ignore all my points and questions, like a true propagandist.
> Would you count Russia as Europe?
It's not a matter of what I count. IT IS in Europe. Fact.
> I'll repeat: Russia doesn't have any interest in attacking any EU country. Claiming they do is propaganda.
Really? As I have said, the EU has been under Russian attack for at least a decade. And I have even listed proof in one of the comments.
What is your *opinion* that they have no interest in invading the EU based on?
> Claiming they do is propaganda.
Please do tell me how exactly is it propaganda, who is spreading it (Russia?) and to what ends?
It is YOU who is spreading Russian propaganda that they do not want to invade other post-soviet countries in Europe. It serves them by keeping the EU's military weak and reliant on the USA. However the USA cannot be trusted, since Trump is in love with Putin and he will sooner help Russia than the EU.
So fuck you for spreading Russian propaganda. I bet your daddy Putin is crapping his pants now that his attempts to divide Europe backfired. by falseWhite@lemmy.world reason: Insults, uncivil |
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| 27 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Didn’t we just start doing that at national parks as part of our slide into letting the absolute worst Nazis we have to offer running our country?
Also what the fuck is your argument? That it’s somehow ok? That French unions should actually focus their attention on US problems?
This comment has all the attention-whoring “but pay attention to my contrarianism!” of the last decade of reddit brainrot and honestly it needs to stop.
Relate your point to the point of the thread in a meaningful way or fuck off with your toxic little ragebait engagement farming. by 4am@lemmy.zip reason: Toxic, Abusive |
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