Yes I agree bartering is mostly as you describe. I only want to point out that economies are not only bartering, and that no one should ignore the authoritarian nature of how a “market economy” is formed and maintained.

Market economies have authority from the very beginning. You have to take land and resources away from people communally using them, and then keep them from using them again with soldiers or police.

Hope everyone here in the USA pays attention to this!

It’s so frustrating. You don’t have to warn anybody, it’s already happening! You have to do something.

A quick internet search shows 15% or food imported and 1% or electricity. So yeah prices might increase a little but I feel it pales in comparison to genocide, concentration camps, environmental destruction, and nuclear war.

Am I the only leftist that doesn’t give a shit about the tariffs? I feel like 95% of articles attacking Trump go after tariffs when everything else he is doing is probably 1000x worse and deserves way more scrutiny.

Reverse the numbers and you get 1220. Feel old yet?

I don’t know enough Star Trek to make an amusing change to “some mothafuckas always trying to ice skate uphill” but I wish I did.

“What you can do about it”

I’ve been reading books about the region for about 20 years. Where have you been? There is no difference between the parties when it comes to that conflict. They have other differences but not about Israel Palestine. Israel is the major Middle East foothold for American empire and policy has been consistent there for 50 years. Biden/Harris are currently committing genocide there, escalating the terror there to the worst levels in the history of the conflict. It does not get worse than genocide, nothing republicans can do is worse than genocide, there are hundreds of thousands dead. Fuck Harris, Biden, and Trump for this. Don’t come to a thread about what to do about ending the genocide and defend a comment that says voting for Harris (SECOND IN COMMAND OF SAID GENOCIDE) would have stopped it.

You can’t get worse than the Biden Harris stance. And there is no way Donald Trump is going to be better. So yeah equally bad.

That wouldn’t have helped this situation EDIT: I voted Harris, but if you think she would have changed course away from pro genocide once elected you are insane. She has been second in command of the genocide for a year. She made very clear statements of total support for Israel. She was confronted by the left to change course and she told them to go fuck themselves.

Jesus christ ppl don’t downvote someone for respectfully asking a question.

I couldn’t find it either

Pro necromancer doing God’s work

What if the person gives him the gun, tells him how to find his target, watches him kill, and keep killing. And whenever his gun runs out of ammo he helps him reload it. And whenever anyone tries to stop the killer, this person prevents it because they are the biggest and toughest guy around?

The united states is just as culpable as israel

Ah yes the infamous dinner she had with Russian notable. Having a dinner with a foreign power obviously means you are a paid spy to disrupt elections. Lots of dots to connect there!

It’s true. She’s speaks truth to power and is therefore kept out of political discussion.

Israeli military is funded by the US. They are given weapons. They are given logistical and intelligence support by the US. They are given diplomatic support. They are trained by the US. In almost everything but name, they are a US force. They would not exist without US support.

Joe Biden can tell them what to do at any time, and he chooses to ok the genocide.

He was 20 years old. He might have registered republican just to try ways of getting closer to trump