See. When countries rely on tariffs to protect local manufacturers - there should be way way way better social system in place and laws protecting working class. Because we are the ones in this case allowing this ineffective manufacturing to exist by paying tariffs
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Let’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—125% on China, 25% on Canada’s autos, a global trade war in the making—suddenly softened. A “pause,” he called it. A complete turnaround from the chest-thumping of the past week. And the reason? Mark Carney and a slow, deliberate financial maneuver that most people didn’t even notice: the coordinated Treasury bond slow bleed. (https://lawandsocietymagazine.com/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet-bond-play-forced-trump-to-drop-tariffs/) This is Mark Carney. Thank you, fellow Canadians, for voting for the experienced Captain to man the helm in the rough waters ahead!
Thanks for that, really interesting article.
Yah, you missed an election
Hopefully this is a wakeup call for the folks who don't vote because they think that both parties are the same.
spoiler
It won't be
I still hear plenty of people say that not only are they the same but what is happening right now would have happened regardless who was president.
I simply do not understand the world these ppl live in
I dont understand it either and get massively downvoted for discussing that they aren’t the same.
It’s disheartening…
Cognitive dissonance is a very real thing. I think it's a defense mechanism since these people need to believe the group who reflects their beliefs and values must but the best option, bending their (perception of) reality to their opinions rather than the other way around.
Don't know these people could live with themselves if they suddenly realized the people they support have no interest in solving their problems and just using them.
No you do understand the world they live in. The problem is they don’t understand the world they live in
Wait there's a racist version of Pikachu?
what electrocuting Pokemon of other races until they submit isn’t racist enough for you?
All versions of Pikachu are racist
Especially green Pikachu
What people in the US also need to realize is, that the rest of the world still enjoys more or less unchanged prices on these sites. It is only the US that has put tarrifs on them and it has only affected the American consumers
On the other hand, American products are getting more expensive everywhere else, because of the retaliational tarrifs by the usa.
So it is a double edged sword, but the US is holding it by it's blade! With both hands!
The US is screaming and holding a hot pan fresh out of the oven, but refusing to just set it down and use the fucking oven mits next time.
Meanwhile, other countries are watching this happen, but somehow having a relatively difficult time deciding if they maybe want to give it a try with their own government.
was an article that EU is gonna get flooded by super cheap items now, china will sell at a loss. that is gonna take shares from US items even more, and US items was already overpriced and gonna become even more expensive.
its like triple loss for US. they need to lower US wages if they want be able to compete.
Been speed running a slave class with private prisons. I believe they are prepared.
China has more people willing to work for low wages than the US can find or make prisoners.
I'm aware of that. Not sure the dictator is though.
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Cambridge Analytica is the reason we're in this mess. It's the actual Deep State the Republicans were pointing fingers about
Americans are dumb as fuck
I think you're misconstruing hate with stupidity. Many are more hateful than dumb.
hate and stupidity go hand in hand
I always knew this based on education standards/testing, but I wasn't thinking we were a special needs country. All that revolution and democracy and hundreds of years of success and growth and then we just shoot ourselves in the face.
But hey, at least we got... to own the libs?
Americans didn't realize 1/3 lb burger is bigger than a 1/4 lb burger...
There's also the time JCPenney's actually had everything at the best price and so they weren't doing discounts. But everyone was waiting for the 'sales'. Your average American would rather have something be marked up $200 and then listed as 75% off than just pay $50 regular price.
Americans would work as a dishwasher and believe it's the American dream.
Yup.
Gonna spend the rest of my life knowing I'm surrounded by fucking morons. And I'm not some genius. I had a typical public education. I guess the difference is I actually paid attention.
Not a great feeling. Especially since that probably means things aren't generally gonna get better. Can't have a good society if it's overflowing with dipshits.
Gonna spend the rest of my life knowing I’m surrounded by fucking morons. And I’m not some genius. I had a typical public education. I guess the difference is I actually paid attention.
Yep, I'm smart enough to know I'm not that smart. But I can at least look around me and go "This isn't normal, right?"
It's a weird fucking curse to have. Smarter than the average American due to the decades of under-funding the education system. I know how to use a computer more than boomers and younger people stuck using machines locked down by corporations.
Ask me to do a math question higher than high school level? I'm going to flounder. You ask me who was president in 1890 without looking it up, I probably know it. And I know that's not exactly a flex, it's probably overall better to know more advanced math than trivia, but it's just how my brain works.
And yet I'm still smarter than Trump and his cultists.
This post resonates very muchly with me.
What's the George Carlin quote? Something about how stupid the most average person you know is, then realize that 50% of people are dumber than that?
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This is by design. Decades of eroding education and critical thinking have produced a populace that is highly ignorant and extremely easy to manipulate.
There is a reason why attacking education is the first thing any right-wing government does.
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If you're gonna be dumb, then you got to be tough
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