• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    You don’t even need to add them. After all, that money doesn’t physically exist. It’s just an annotation on a contability book. Just erase it and the debt is no more. If the world decides to “erase” those debt annotations on their contability books, the US debt stops existing.

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      2 days ago

      But… we do want the money they owe us back right? Just not in worthless dollars.

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        2 days ago

        He owes us money because a paper says so. If we decide that paper has no value, we can simply act as if the money he owes us is ours again, since it’s just a contability annotation.

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      2 days ago

      I think this could be a potential play in a 2nd American Civil War. The EU and others can delay or restructure the debt of the Blue Union, while refusing to do any sort of trade with the Red Confederacy.

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        23 hours ago

        I mean, the Blue Union isn’t particularly great either, it’s just the lesser of two evils.

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          21 hours ago

          Personally, I would prefer a new nation, wholly progressive and garbed as a Green Democracy to separate it from the old guards. Hopefully, this…everything, has an emerald lining at the end.