Guys, come on. It’s not debatable whether Bloomberg slants left editorially. This isn’t an “Overton window” thing, either, other than it being likely that you’re pretty far left if you’re surprised by this.
Over the next few weeks, keep your eyes on the Middle East
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It’s an Overton window thing when “commonly aligns with mainstream corporate dems” becomes synonymous with “left” for a company that makes the majority of its money supporting global finance.
IOW @ChicagoTiger85 - in keeping with the last 10-15 pages - we’re here to validate feelings. Not discuss facts. And we’re going to do it very verbosely.
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I was reading somewhere else his wife was killed running ops in Syria a few years back and since then he's been staunchly anti-interventionist.
Listen you don’t get to kvetch about digressions when you’re the one that wrote some “well AKTCHULLY” paragraphs in response to a clearly sarcastic comment in the first place.
Anyways, Bloomberg is a financial services company owned by an actual billionaire who routinely uses his wealth to leverage his personal interests in politics. Editorial direction on petit social issues only makes them “left leaning” when the rest of the discourse has abandoned any sort of economic dichotomy. Thats an Overton window thing. Sorry about your feelings on verbosity. I’ll try to use smaller words.
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@P. Marlowe has a lot more insight on this topic than you or myself will ever have...trust me on that. He is just tired of the B/S being spewed in this thread from random and uninformed twitter sources
Oh did he go to the citadel, too?
The administration has got to be sweating bullets. Hell I'm sweating it for them.
Israel is claiming that they, along with us, hit some Iranian gas processing facility in SW Iran. Iranian officials said that they will now start targeting Gulf energy sites
My extremely conservative farmer friends out here are sweating this year’s diesel and fertilizer costs hard already.
He's just trying to keep this thread in check. There are about 3 posters that try to take it off the rails multiple times a day.
Got an acquaintance in Kansas who sold the farm (I believe), got out at the right time. Fertilizer costs will only go higher the longer this drags on
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social)
* GERMANY'S MERZ: THERE IS STILL NO CONVINCING CONCEPT ON HOW DEMOCRATIC CHANGE CAN BE BROUGHT TO IRAN, WE WERE NOT CONSULTED @reuters.com
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Its almost as if the plan is to destroy americans ability to grow their own food independent of corporate owned or government funded agriculture.
An interesting interview this morning with Marty Skovlund on Joe Kent. Sounds like Joe Kent may have been the most experienced guy in the room. Well, unless he was not in the room.
That, along with the potential global shift from the petrodollar to the yuan as global reserve currency, is one of my bigger long term concerns about this conflict. Hanlon’s razor, I don’t think it’s The Plan because I don’t think anyone calling shots right now is smart enough to have a plan, but I think it’s a definite consequence.
I never listened to liberals who kept screening Trump would start world war 3 and the pedo actually did it. Crazy world. Still praying every politician who takes money from AIPAC kids have a chance to fight in the Middle East.
Yep. Oh you’re one of those guys that thinks this is a 5 week job in Iran…. I’m sure you also believed Trump when he said 2 weeks to flatten the curve before he shut down the country for a year.
DM me if you want me to educate you on actual conservative politics and why you’re a liberal.
It won't be WW3. China isn't interested in Iran like that
How ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended Iran nuclear talks
Negotiators had reached agreement on key issues despite Trump team’s idiosyncratic approach. Two days later, war began
www.theguardian.com
Per a recent TruthSocial post, sounds like Trump is floating the idea of abandoning objectives around the SOH because none of our allies will help us
The Middle East has been declared ‘the final battleground’ by every generation for the past 2,000 years. I’ve been told the end is near for my entire life. At some point we have to acknowledge that interpreting current events as the fulfillment of prophecy has a 0% historical success rate.
Signal vs noise. If we’re headed towards multipolarity and the US continues our current trajectory of being an unreliable partner then there’s plenty of incentive for foreign holders to find new safe havens. If the proposal for keeping the strait closed except to tankers moving oil transacted in Chinese currency happens then that certainly doesn’t help, does it? I saw plenty of the posters ITT cheering this admin on wringing their hands over de-dollarization resulting from Biden’s russia sanctions 3-4 years ago. Europe has only grown closer to China economically since then and I’d say it’s a bigger risk now than it was then.
Not to mention it's simply bad theology (dispensational) that hasn't been widely accepted in even the most conservative/evangelical schools of thought (unless your pastor went to DTS) for over 20 years.
It’s not word length that’s the issue. It’s word count. Apologies. I assumed that was clear when I used the word verbose.
And, seeing as how I’m sitting in front of a Bloomberg terminal right now, I realize they are a fintech/services company. They are also a media company. Hence the journalists, the magazine, the website, the TV channel, the radio channel, the podcast arm, etc. Saying they - the media arm - lean left isn’t a criticism. It’s simply fact. We can sit here and parse this argument and obfuscate by calling them a financial services company and ignoring the other side of the enterprise, but it does exist. And, that’s obviously the portion we’re talking about when we discuss a leftward lean. It’s like calling Amazon a retailer. Or General dynamics a business jet builder. Sure. That’s part of what they do. There are large parts that do other stuff.
I agree with 0% success rate to date. But, that will change one day. In our lifetime or another's who knows? But, bible prophecy will come true at some point in mankind's future.
Right, but the scope of what actually qualifies them as “left” is editorially petty social issues and that fact is the Overton window issue. Capitalists for gay marriage vs Capitalists against gay marriage is only a meaningful left vs right dichotomy when the rest of the political landscape has been homogenized away.
What?
Edit: weird point of distinction, AIPAC doesn’t donate to individual politicians, they bundle donations from individual donors which are then donated to individual politicians by their PAC, AIPAC-PAC.
The dedollarization talk the last 10 years has always been stupid. I’ve said that numerous times on here. When people were wigging over the BRICS currency, I said it was dumb then too. And got shouted down. Fact is in the first week of this conflict, there was direct, observable flows of $60B into the $. Global developed and EM saw huge capital outflows. Dollar index saw large moves and significantly outperformed the other safe havens - yen, CHF, and gold. While it’s not directly measurable as flows into the $ (happens via FX swaps, hedging adjustments, reserve repositioning, derivatives, etc.), when you see moves like that it’s pretty indicative of hundreds of billions in FX repositioning to the $. So, at the height of recent uncertainty geopolitically and for the current iteration of US leadership, the flight to safety still flowed to the dollar. Begs the question - why? And what is going to change that?
Not really. There are other Israeli connected pacs that donate to individuals. Sure. There are AIPAC donors that donate to individuals and/or PACs that distribute money to individuals. AIPAC itself has made it policy not to donate to individual candidates. Not really what they do.
That said, if you removed every sitting legislator at the federal level who has taken money from any of those sources, you’d be left with like 8 legislators - Tlaib, Omar, AOC, Hirono, a couple from Cali and the guy from Texas.
I’m not saying that it’s a certainty that it happens, just that I think it’s a 1% chance and that’s enough to make me uncomfortable. Allegorically, Europe was the center of the economic universe until it wasn’t. Obviously there’s a whole century of events that contribute to that flip but when you zoom out, you can make the case that history might rhyme. Internal discord, overextended foreign presence, high debt, rising foreign superpowers, etc.
No they don’t. Why is it frowned on if Russia influences US elections but not Israel?
You left out Massie. Currently Israel is spending millions in Kentucky because he won’t take their money. Thankfully each election Trump insults Massie he wins by a bigger percentage.
was also nice to see that one eye loser in Texas get voted out.