Yep. John bogle famously never wanted international AFAIK.
And the favorite saying is past returns don’t guarantee future performance. This couple administrations have turned the world on its head so I’m not surprised to see people looking at things differently even if it goes against how things have trended for a half century plus.
I hate to break the news to people but there was an article just the other day about “swing voters” in Arizona. It was a mix of Rs, Ds, and independents who voted Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024. They asked their opinions on ICE, etc. etc. Pretty much all IIRC said that ICE is going too far, people are living in fear, etc.
The thing that stood out is the last sentence- NONE said ICE should be abolished/dismantled.
Reading in here you’d think the popular opinion is that it should be. I can tell you it’s not true. Even some of my more liberal/left friends don’t always think it should be abolished, not to mention anyone more center.
I personally think it should’ve been abolished yesterday and the entire DHS dismantled but I also realize that is not the popular opinion, or at least seen through polling etc. I hope all the people thinking it should are voting in primaries for candidates who argue it should. Or convincing their neighbors that it should and they also vote accordingly.
I mean, I’ve been doing that.
Youre right- the general logic was sp500 and if anything, a bit in international to diversify. With the way the us is being run it’s way more savvy to hedge your bets with vtiawx/vxus, especially when you know the ai bubble is propping up the American side.
Perfect.
I mean, it certainly is an alternative to all three morons using discord as some sort of forum for an app or similar. The same way discord is the worst for easily searchable info like a forum is basically the converse for discourse. And exactly the opposite for real time chat obviously.
He at least mentions outright it’s a forum tool. The real problem is having to include it because people misuse discord.
Kind of like anyone using SharePoint for anything. It’s not meant for it.
Yeah. Nowhere have I ever seen the ldp being accused of taking Russian money and there’s really no reason to.
Would love to see an actual source for that claim.
I mean, Im on board with the message overall but I very much think people not getting to the polls is an issue. 90 million chose to sit out last general election. That is a HUGE problem IMO.
Maybe people will actually vote in primaries this year then.
You… I like you.
The thing is- most cars have ongoing costs if you use anything data wise. I don’t get the selective outrage here.
Agreeing with you.
People say discord and my God, to be that is one ugly ass program.
I feel like most people here use ublock origin already so should just use that JS blocking in that instead of adding on noscript.
The truth is there would be more incidents of people fighting back if all the people here actually stood by what they say.
Notice how there isn’t. Talk is cheap and this place proves it.
The truth is- youre exactly right. People don’t stupidly sacrifice themselves knowing there is no popular pushback. And at this moment there is not that popular notion that things need to be overturned.
Same. This is easy for me and great for the best browser. Better late than never.
She’s almost cartoonishly evil yet is reelected all the time. Both crazy and impressive, in a terrible way of course.
I mean, I’d argue the absolute lack of participation in primaries is the problem. In general complaining but doing nothing is the problem.
The most upvoted garbage here is always blaming Democrats instead, ya know, the party ACTUALLY in charge let alone the ones covering up and grovelling to a fascist pedophile.
The hope that enough people are aghast at what happened and stop supporting him leading to shithead Republicans doing their job (only for the purpose of saving their own cowardly hides) and dumping him. This doesn’t assume it is standalone- combine rampant pedophilia with a terrible economy. Whatever it takes for the awful, awful people who prop up the Republican party to finally say enough.
Whether that happens…
I’m not saying they can’t be better.
I’m saying people should vote as a civic duty and maybe shouldn’t be complete jackasses who sit at home and let fascism win. Two things can be true at once.
Do they? Because they did jack shit in November to support that notion.