StJohnMcCrae

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Same. I'm about two days ahead of anyone else I know. If it's even slightly off, I'll start retching. I'm a cook, so it isn't actually completely useless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Minor correction; trump won't buy them, the American taxpayer will buy them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Lmao got his ass

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The taxes will continue until manufacturing improves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Depends how you phrase the question. If you ask people "do you think the nation of Israel has a right to exist" (are you a Zionist) it probably would be closer to 60%.

Plenty of "Zionists" (in the non-slur sense) are sympathetic to both parties. It's just that internet discourse on the subject has become so radicalized and binary that it gets lost in the conversation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Written English should widely adopt accented letters. Our spelling would make a lot more sense if words were written the way they actually sounded. Half the words I'm talking about are rooted in Old Norse anyway.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just more evidence that trump doesn't understand his own plan and doesn't have what it takes to effect it. His desire to have foreign dignitaries come and kiss the ring outweighs his political conviction that tariffs are the correct way forward.

The only possible way that tariffs work is if investors are confident that the trade barriers will stay in place - not just for the 4 years of this administration, but for the time that you would need to generate a return-on-investment from the factory that they're being incentivized to re-shore in the USA.

By signaling that the tariffs are open to negotiation, he disincentivized those investors from investing in American manufacturing when overseas manufacturing could become re-advantaged depending on the mood and disposition of a tyrant.

For example, nobody is going to build and staff an entire textile mill in Arkansas if it's cheaper (both long and short term) to just buy the product from overseas.

Even if tariffs were sound economic policy (they are not), they require a steady and predictable hand at the wheel to give confidence to the market, which is something that this president (and country seemingly) is incapable of.

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