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Unhinged FT Comments @unhingedftcomments.bsky.social · Jun 11
Thank you, "Years of Lead are Coming." Very cool!
Years of Lead are Coming: Food is too cheap, so demand is too high. Economics 101. As long as food remains as cheap as it is now, there will be problems with obesity. No wonder that 120 years ago very few were fat.
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Recession indicator: I've been enjoying looking at the FT comment section less recently because it has been getting a lot more bloodthirsty
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Learning a lot about, cultures,
FT comment: Japan has already given away far too much of its own culture. They let Chinese immigrants impose their writing system on the country and let Korean immigrants import a foreign religion - one that originated in India! This has got to stop. One of the few places where original Japanese culture is still safe is Hokkaido. Let’s hope the real Japanese Jomon heritage can stay intact. Reply: for goodness sake Japan's dna is largely Korean as for culture, nothing much was 'given away' but a lot was certainly imported (China and latterly the West) Plato and Aristotle debating in the Renaissance painting "The School of Athens"
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Woke has ruined France. Street vendors sell knock off Eiffel towers. Back when De Gaulle was in charge they would try to sell you the *real* Eiffel Tower.
FT comment: The state of a nations capital city is often a reflection of where society is. Visiting Paris not long ago, I witnessed huge societal decline. Once beautiful buildings, covered in graffiti, street vendors selling knock off Eiffel towers, aggressive harassment of tourists into buying junk. Litter strewn streets and an epidemic of bedbugs. It was like something out of the medieval dark ages. And the French population? Tired. Angry. Rude. A shadow of their former selves. One only had to walk around the military museums to see this was a great power, all be it, it must be said they did lose to Britain, but credit where it is due they were powerful. They gave their country away to woke. Now? now we see the fruits of such a failed political ideology and it is the next generation of French who will suffer as the country falls further and further from grace
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Sorry, my inclusion in this study has been skewing the data
FT comment: Is screen time going down by a corresponding amount? If not would be interesting to see where the time is being shift to. Ai apps perhaps? Reply: Or, the FT comments section.
October 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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No I think he was on to something with the last sentence, the FT's editor definitely used a photo of a corn farmer as a middle finger to people working in the soy industry
FT comment: City boys FT. Not only is yer photo corn, but the old man is merely getting on (or off) his vintage tractor. Three city slicker errors at least! Can't you correct the photo? Or the caption? Or is telling falsehoods about farmers just fine in London, New York, and Tokyo? You want to know why the middle of the USA voted the urban coasts out of power? Look in the d@mn mirror. "It's just a photo..." may satisfy your conscience. But Middle Americans see disrespect like this and take deep offense. Another - "deplorables" comment by the ignorant press. Ignorant of farms. Ignorant of rural peoples concerns or feelings. I hope ignorant - one would not want these offensive lapses to be intensional? FT article with a picture of an old man on a tractor surrounded by crops
September 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Showed up today at the forced metaphor factory and someone tortured the foreman to death in his office
FT comment: Better for me to inherit a filet mignon than for 1,000 people to get a single cracker with the same proceeds, especially if my dad owned the cow. Reply: After they steals your family’s cow, how many more will you raise? Where will tomorrow’s crackers come from? If all the annual income of America’s billionaires were seized it wouldn’t cover one year’s deficit spending. If all of their wealth were seized it would cover only 25 percent of the outstanding debt. Then what?
September 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"Nice to see a Brit make it to the FT."
IT'S AN ENGLISH PUBLICATION
FT comment: "Kudos to him. There are many coffee influencers in this space. Nice to see a Brit make it to the FT. Watch his review of Aldi coffee maker. The intro must be one of the best roasting on a machine I have ever seen"
September 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Guess the news story
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September 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Thank you for the advice, Chumbo
FT comment: All graphs show that France is not the problem. Brexit Britain is the biggest threat to the entire region! The EU should impose severe sanctions on Britain; basically seal it off economically so that its implosion does not contaminate the region.
September 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Thinking back to the good old days,
September 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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I don't think this one is going to catch on
FT Comment: Re the opposite of a "dead cat bounce." How about a "dazed bat dip."
September 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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"Confucian maglev"
FT comment: "Using CRRC maglev technology it would be possible to construct a Confucius bridge linking Chinese cities with Taiwan. It’s important that this is a cultural, not a political gesture. It could incorporate academic exchange, cross-strait ecological research, joint Confucian cultural centers and neutral infrastructure with multilateral oversight, perhaps including ASEAN or international observers. It would succeed only if backed by Confucian ideals including respect, dialogue and mutual benefit. It would need to be a vision of connection without coercion, emphasizing peace, harmony and cultural values. An 180km Taiwan Strait crossing could cost about $100 bn including maglev and earthquake resistance. As an example, Beijing and Shanghai are 1,318 km apart by high speed rail. A new maglev service can reduce this journey time to 2.5 hours"
August 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Idiots spend thousands on financial advisors when the FT comment section is free
FT comment: "Reduce expenses, cut every unnecessary expense, sell everything unessential. In the words of Bruce Lee: be like water The man that needs next to nothing cannot be bought."
July 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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dear god
July 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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What did they mean by this
FT comment: "If we wanted to boost the birth rate... the NHS maternity ward would feel more like a hotel than an episode of M.A.S.H after the helicopters have landed. Once you've done that once, you never choose that again..."
July 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Applying to a pull-him-down program in underwater basket weaving
FT comment: What a great man. Yes, all the phd's in the press are the commentariat (phd- "pull him down") will enjoy writing sarky comments, but really, he deserves feted, celebrated and admired.
July 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The FT comment section is a great home for digital romantics
Several consecutive FT comments: "I once emailed a haiku as a breakup letter. Maybe an LLM would have suggested a longer form... or could have condensed it to a couplet?" "Given correct instructions Madam ChatGPT can be brilliant 🤩🙊" "How to break up with a vegan: “it’s not you, it’s meat.” …. Thank you, I’ll be here all night."
July 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Most deranged thing I've ever seen in the comment section
FT comment: "Looking at it from afar I like Mayor Adams is there any chance he could carry on?"
June 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Legally changing my name to "Teflon Don Pedro"
FT comment: Teflon Don Pedro is a lame duck leader, saying anything and everything to stay in power. This is a demand from his partners in the government (Sumar), who know that the current government are days away from calling an election due to corruption and lack of support for legislation. Pure political posturing.
June 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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It takes a true poster's spirit to say something like "Anyone who has followed my comments over the years"
FT comment: As always the key with trump is to take what he says and essentially apply it to him. I have rather always had a rule with relationships, no name calling and no violence. the name calling thing ended in about 6th grade, which is perhaps the level we are here. this should be powell's response: "I'm rubber, you're glue what ever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" or the other classic: "I know you are but what am I?" Anyone who has followed my comments over the years knows I am no fan of central banksters (as far as I know I invented this term). But trump has always called for lower rates, and in that I think it's insightful, because IMHO most economists are shills for the asset industry and call for lower rates. it's essentially a lobby group. (Which by the way is a big reason I have problems with warren and others in the dem party who think always lower rates is good). it benefits asset holders, so I wonder what their motivations are.
June 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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FT comment: In the nordics we have the legend that when old people could not contribute to the society anymore they were thrown down a cliff ("'ättestupa"). The example presented seems to be a modern version of the same. The fact is that overall the modern spending of the state controlled apparatus is insane. Elon Musk tried to correct but failed. Pensioners are not the problem. And remember Janan, some day you (hopefully) will be old too.
June 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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"The Japanese made a huge mistake in not invading Australia."
FT comment: Think about the way countries are governed. No country is perfect, but some are less perfect than others. The Japanese made a huge mistake in not invading Australia. China isn’t expansionist in the way that Russia is, but it is obsessive about natural resources. What is all the nonsense in the South cchina Sea telling us? Reply reads: Big if true
June 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I need you to understand that this is responding to an article on *Japanese birth rates*
FT comment: Maybe with people staying home during COVID we all discovered that we don't like each other. Although actually my wife and I and the dog did just fine. Well not the dog. He was 13 and it was his time. But we might say that the old dog and the new dog did fine.
June 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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What do I do if I have theories? I contacted a college and they ignored me.
FT comment: I am working on a theory that every large organisation ends up being run in the interests of its own employees. This is a good example
June 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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TACO
FT Comments: TACO TACO TACO
June 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM