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It’s important to note why he did the tariffs.
It wasn’t because there was an economic trade imbalance.
It wasn’t because he thought they were unfair.
It was because it is essentially the only non-military weapon he has and he wanted to look powerful.
It was because he wanted to alienate our allies under the direction of Putin.
It was because he wanted to feel like a big man. He wanted to show the world he was a dictator.
It was a selfish, dick-measuring move.
Laws don’t apply to the president and the police.
“Achually, she was a journalist, not a prisoner of war. So we can fuck her shit up.”
- Russian propaganda, probably
There was a podcast episode about this. I want to say freakonomics or similar.
Iirc, the margins on mattresses are crazy. People will comparison shop, not realizing that many of the stores are subsidiaries of the same company. Stores often don’t have the exact mattress (different models at different stores making pricing matching impossible) so you’re down to making gut decisions.
Truth and reality have a liberal bias.
Have Frozen running in the foreground. I’m half tempted to install Windows on a VM and just have Frozen running on a loop.
Make Disney and Microsoft fight it out in court.
Settle down Satan.
How fucking
stupidracist were these independents 6 months ago?
Ftfy
“I expected to be the exception! I’m one of the good ones! It wasn’t supposed to happen to me.”
Because of the implication that something could go wrong if you didn’t work for them on their boat.
As of tomorrow, my 401k will be 75% in international stocks, 15% municipal bonds, 10% domestic stocks.
I’m making similar moves in my IRA but can’t for the life of me see an easy way to make the same changes.
I felt like Matrix Resurrections was kind of a circle jerk against itself.
Boss: “Mr. Anderson. We want you to write a game for this old franchise”
Neo: “but it’s dead. Why don’t we make something new, and exciting.”
Boss: “💵”
It’s about exerting power.
These assholes pretty much control their base. Their base plugs their ears whenever facts are presented to them.
The question that I raise is “then why care about what factual news people say? Why care about any protests when you can spin it effortlessly?”
Because fascism and authoritarianism is primarily concerned about flexing their muscles, their power. Demonstrating their reach.
It’s a dick measuring contest, so that their followers can see how big and thick their leaders can punish “others”.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
The problem isn’t litigation. The problem is that we have a fucking monkey at the wheel of the government that doesn’t believe the law applies to them.
I don’t care if every court case against this administration is successful: we need to see enforcement of judgements, by force if necessary.
You KNOW they are going to “tip” you with one of those gospel tracts that look like a folded $100 bill.
There are five possibilities:
All of these have problems.
If they keep clutching those pearls any harder, they’re going to get carpel tunnel.
I don’t think so. I just rewatched it. It’s the one where Data finds out something to make himself more human. Picard tells him something profound and moving.
Jfc… people are going to die needlessly.