Comment by rootusrootus
19 hours ago
> looks like a benefit
To who? I don't think the people paying half again as much at the pump feel like it benefited them.
19 hours ago
> looks like a benefit
To who? I don't think the people paying half again as much at the pump feel like it benefited them.
Oil producers that weren't disrupted over the last few weeks.
> I don't think the people paying half again as much at the pump feel like it benefited them.
Since when has the current US government done anything to benefit average citizens?
The war in Iran helps those who actually matter -- the oil companies that spent 445 million dollars getting Trump and other Republicans elected in 2024.
I think you may be agreeing with my sentiment, though it is hard to tell since your point is entirely orthogonal.
I am definitely agreeing.
Just pointing out that oil prices going up definitely looks like a benefit to the people the government is beholden to (which ain't the average citizen).
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> I cant even talk without insults when it comes to you, and so does everybody I know.
That sounds awful. Touch grass, perhaps? Even MAGA does not talk about me that way.
> microscopic shrivelled balls
I would like to think HN participants were better than this type of rhetoric. But I see your account is fairly new, so maybe things are changing.
On the one hand the comment was highly emotive and out of line.
But the basic point does stand that the US has not done itself many favours in worldwide relations recently.
Think of all of the people worldwide associating "US war with Iran" and their personal living cost inflation.
With a large population the US surely has many nice/intelligent/courageous/competent people.
Not very many of them are visibly meaningfully active to the rest of the world however.
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