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@GlennLuk

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This reflects both (i) an incomplete understanding of how debt is serviced in China and (ii) general financial illiteracy. It is not about liquidity via asset sales. Asset sales are rare. It is about how asset-backed means there is an attached revenue stream that is used to service debt … … in sh...

@VigilantFox

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Audience Laughs as Dr. Phil Stuns Trump Critic With One Simple Fact KEITH: “I still have a problem with voting for somebody for president that is a convicted felon ... I don’t think that somebody in that capacity should be allowed to run for president.” DR. PHIL: “That goes to our first ques...

@5149jamesli

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🚨 Gavin Newsom & his allies just forced 12 historic family farms & dairies out of Point Reyes National Seashore in California. They claim it’s about saving the environment — but the truth couldn't be more different. Here is the true story — and it's heartbreaking. ⬇️🧵1/ ...

@Will_Tanner_1

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This is an interesting question that comes up often Why don't our billionaires build beautiful things as their Gilded Age counterparts did? Because egalitarian mass democracy neither inculcates an honor-bound duty of noblesse oblige, nor incentivizes commons protection🧵👇...

@etirabys

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You buy $300 cardigan of the type you've never worn before. You also go to game nights ($15/per) for a new boardgame. 5 friends urgently talk to you: "You seem to not believe this, but your behavior is weird. I think you're having a manic episode, please go to the doctor now."...

@WesternLensman

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FLASHBACK to the time when Hollywood openly exhorted Republican electors to overturn the 2016 Presidential election results and Donald Trump’s victory. They called on electors to change their votes, defy the will of the people, and install Hillary Clinton into office instead. ...

@AlexFinn

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The way your posts are ranked has changed dramatically over the last year What worked a year ago no longer works I read through the 1000s of lines of algorithm code that is currently available Here is every action you need to take today to rank higher: ...

@Mylovanov

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Reuters published a full Ukraine-Europe peace counterproposal to the US from talks in London. There’re four main parts: Ceasefire, Security guarantees for Ukraine, Territory, and Economics. 1/ ...

@zhao_dashuai

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The most successful psyop in history was the creation of the "Judeo-Christian" narrative by Jews in the 1930s. Ultimately creating chaos in the Middle East to realize their Zionist dream. 🔻Here's how it works: Zionists were the original terrorists in the Middle East, they assassinated British offi...