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Proselytization must be punishable
Strictly punishable for the individuals and the NGOs involved
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This needs to be Federal law
Many people lost a lot on the $TRUMP meme coin!
BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law prohibiting public officials from launching meme coins.
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World Wars are not good for incumbent empires.
Four major empires collapsed in or right after WW1, and WW2 set off the end of most of the rest.
After WW1 (1917–1923)
> Russian Empire. The Tsar was overthrown in 1917, during the war. The Bolsheviks took power, and most of the empire was rebuilt as the Soviet Union.
> German Empire. The Kaiser abdicated in November 1918 and Germany became the Weimar Republic. It lost its overseas colonies in Africa and the Pacific, which were handed to Britain, France, Japan and others as League of Nations mandates.
> Austro-Hungarian Empire. It broke apart completely in 1918 into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and parts of Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania and Italy.
> Ottoman Empire. It was partitioned. Its Arab lands became British and French mandates (Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan), and the sultanate was abolished in 1922, followed by the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
Britain and France actually reached their largest territorial size after WW1 by absorbing these mandates.
After WW2 (1945 onward), these empires ended right away with defeat:
> Empire of Japan. It lost Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria, and its Pacific islands, and was reduced to the home islands under US occupation.
> Italian colonial empire. It gave up Libya, Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, and became a republic in 1946.
> Nazi Germany's Reich. Its conquests in Europe were undone, and Germany itself was divided.
> British Empire. India and Pakistan in 1947, then most of Africa and Asia through the 1960s.
> French colonial empire. Defeat in Vietnam in 1954, then most of Africa around 1960, and Algeria in 1962 after a brutal war.
> Dutch Empire. Indonesia became independent in 1949.
> Belgian Empire. Congo in 1960, then Rwanda and Burundi in 1962.
> Portuguese Empire. It held on the longest. Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau only became independent after Portugal's 1974 revolution.
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For such "traders", Brad Pitt aptly remarked in the movie The Big Short - "Just don't fucking dance"
Meme coins always take money from unsuspecting, naive first-timers and give it to those who know that, eventually, all these meme shitters are going to ZERO!
This trader just flipped his last $200 into 28k in ONE MINUTE 😭
Memecoins can change your entire life if you lock tf in.
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On one hand, America was officially run by "Autopen" for 4 years
On the other hand, Americans are blaming ALL Indians for being involved in the H1B scam
Make that make sense!🤦♂️
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Press Conferences have been done by PMs who had no spine whatsoever!
Total Number of Press Conferences Held by Indian Prime Ministers:
Dr. Manmohan Singh: 114
Jawaharlal Nehru: 75
Rajiv Gandhi: 62
Lal Bahadur Shastri: 56
Atal Bihari Vajpayee: 55
Indira Gandhi: 42
PV Narasimha Rao: 40
Narendra Modi: 0
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Focus on improving your skill of building it fixing things with your own hands
No matter how small it is, learn to build or fix yourself
Even if you can afford to pay someone, learn to do it yourself
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A day without Pakistan being insulted by the world is a day wasted!
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He doesnt understand that for a long time, Indira Gandhi was not popular in India
Modi ji has been popular since 2014, and enjoyed a high approval rating between 68 to 78%
RAHUL GANDHI : "Why has PM Modi never faced anti-incumbency? Even my grandma Indira faced it, why not Modi?"
Because There is no Anti-incumbency against PM Modi 😂🔥
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If there was an emergency no one is paying attention to, the bond crisis has to be it
Retail is still in the "bullrun is starting" and "buy the dip" mindset
Q4 2026 will be very interesting
The bond market just broke a ceiling it hasn’t touched since 2007.
The US 10-year Treasury yield climbed to its highest level since July 2007.
If that doesn’t make your stomach tighten, you don’t understand what the 10-year actually is.
It’s not just a bond.
It’s the interest rate the entire world uses to price the future.
Your mortgage? Priced off it.
Your car loan? Priced off it.
Your credit card? Priced off it.
Your company’s expansion? Priced off it.
The startup that needs cheap capital to survive? Priced off it.
The office building downtown that can’t refinance? Priced off it.
When the risk-free rate rises, money has to find a reason to do anything else.
Stocks need higher earnings.
Real estate needs higher rents.
Crypto needs a bigger fool.
Venture capital needs cheap money—which no longer exists.
The last time yields were this high, the first iPhone had just gone on sale.
Lehman Brothers was still standing.
Housing was peaking.
Subprime was cracking.
The Fed was about to cut rates to zero and keep them there for years.
That’s the world we just re-entered.
Only now the debt is larger.
The deficits are wider.
The refinancing wall is taller.
And the Fed has no clean escape.
Cut too early: inflation comes back.
Hold too long: something major breaks.
That’s not a forecast. That’s a trap.
The 10-year is the gravity of the financial system.
You can ignore it for a while.
It never ignores you.
Most people will learn this when their mortgage resets or their portfolio bleeds.
By then, the bond market will have already spoken.
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