How does the World view America these days?

We've got a couple of those credit card cashback things in Norway, I never got into it, the whole concept seems a bit scammy.

  On 8/30/2021 at 8:24 PM, Silent Member said:

the whole concept seems a bit scammy.

Yup!

shoulda known y'all euro mofo's be too smart to fall for scams like this. here in trumpistan, we love scammy things! 

wait, you’ve gotta pay off the money you charge to a credit card?

shit…

  On 8/30/2021 at 8:24 PM, Silent Member said:

We've got a couple of those credit card cashback things in Norway, I never got into it, the whole concept seems a bit scammy.

As long as you pay it off every month, it's free money.  If you have to carry a balance, then stay away from them as they probably have higher interest rates.

A coworker of mine actually used one to buy $25,000 worth of gold coins from the gov't, then deposited the coins at his bank and used that to pay off the credit card, basically giving him $250 for free (1% reward).

  On 8/30/2021 at 11:06 PM, auxien said:

wait, you’ve gotta pay off the money you charge to a credit card?

shit…

only if it's your credit card. 

  On 8/31/2021 at 12:05 AM, randomsummer said:

As long as you pay it off every month, it's free money.  If you have to carry a balance, then stay away from them as they probably have higher interest rates.

A coworker of mine actually used one to buy $25,000 worth of gold coins from the gov't, then deposited the coins at his bank and used that to pay off the credit card, basically giving him $250 for free (1% reward).

Yeah, but the ones over here mainly give you bonuses and discounts for using bottom tier web shops and stores, there's barely any incentive to use it if you don't shop at those places.

  On 8/31/2021 at 12:05 AM, randomsummer said:

A coworker of mine actually used one to buy $25,000 worth of gold coins from the gov't, then deposited the coins at his bank and used that to pay off the credit card, basically giving him $250 for free (1% reward).

Proof that the finance industry is an absolute sham.  In essence, this just exploited contractual agreements to transfer money from the merchant who sold the gold (the government) who was accepting the payment minus the fees that cover this 1% reward, to the purchaser who resold the gold without fees.  What a waste of resources, energy, time, and effort on everyone's part in this transaction.

It would have been faster and easier for the government to just transfer $250 to your friend's bank account, it would have been functionally the same and actually cheaper for the government since it would only include the 1% "rewards" not the additional fees, but this would never occur because it does not exist within the web of contractual agreements that condition behavior.

Capitalism truly must be transcended because this shit's pathetic

Now there’s the Taliban ingenuity we all know and love. I’m waiting for them to start crashing their new jets.

  On 8/29/2021 at 7:20 PM, cichlisuite said:

*insert your fav meme response*

 

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  On 8/31/2021 at 6:22 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Now there’s the Taliban ingenuity we all know and love. I’m waiting for them to start crashing their new jets.

 

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As someone pointed out in the YouTube comments, it looks like a controlled taxi and there are other vids of it flying around at 100 feet. The Afghan-now Taliban Air Force pilot knows what they’re doing. We trained em! 

It looks like they were able to scuttle some of the weapons and vehicles before bugging out 

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/us-troops-disabled-aircraft-weapons-systems-before-leaving-kabul-airport-1847349-2021-08-31

Gilead is becoming a reality. Overturning Roe vs. Wade is huge, and they did it almost in secret.

  On 8/31/2021 at 7:34 PM, chenGOD said:

 

 

A deal is a deal

  On 9/1/2021 at 3:47 AM, Upset man said:

As someone pointed out in the YouTube comments, it looks like a controlled taxi and there are other vids of it flying around at 100 feet. The Afghan-now Taliban Air Force pilot knows what they’re doing. We trained em! 

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby says all helicopters, aircraft & vehicles abandoned at Kabul airport were disabled before leaving:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/pentagon-taliban-fighters-abandoned-us-helicopters-095050149.html

  On 9/1/2021 at 2:28 PM, cichlisuite said:

A deal is a deal

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  On 9/1/2021 at 4:41 PM, chenGOD said:

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I posted a picture of military equipment left behind(*) for Afghan army

You replied with Rubin's video post how Talibans can't operate the given equipment

Hence, I replied: "A deal is a deal"

Explanation: Their bad (Taliban's) if they can't operate the equipment, they should've opted for Training also, so: a deal is a deal, and now they just got a bunch of useless equipment

Smartass extra: the helicopter is probably just taxiing (it has wheels to do so)

lol

( * ) payed by US taxpayers to US government contractors

this guy decided to hold up a black lives matter sign in the most racist town in america

video is extremely american and NSFL to foreigners

  On 9/1/2021 at 10:36 PM, Nebraska said:

this guy decided to hold up a black lives matter sign in the most racist town in america

video is extremely american and NSFL to foreigners

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i remember when this first got posted. so crazy. imagine living in that place? looks like they're mostly all on their way to diabeetus heart failure etc. 

  On 9/1/2021 at 10:36 PM, Nebraska said:

this guy decided to hold up a black lives matter sign in the most racist town in america

video is extremely american and NSFL to foreigners

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You gotta make it all the way to the end. But yeah scared old white people who don’t understand demographic/social change. 

Texas really going hard for worst state for women to live in:

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033202132/texas-abortion-ban-what-happens-next