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really big physics
Apr 01, 2025
Last reply: 1 year ago
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"Globalism", like "cultural Marxism" is just one more lunatic right-wing conspiracy theory. Cursitor Doom likes his plitical delusion to be totally implausible, so he's big fan of both.
Health care does seem to be an obvious exception. The less efficient competitors kill people more often, but it takes a while for the customers to notice. Regulators look out for this kind of incompetence, and get rid of them before they kill quite a many people as they do in a competitive system.
The whole point of the European Union is that it s a free trade area, and all the producers within those countries compete. There is a a Europe-wide regulation system, and England got out in part because their manufacturers disliked having less influence on the regulators than they had been used to. I was involved in part of the UK regulation system in a small way in the early 1980's and was surprised by the antics of some of the UK manufacturing representatives.
<https://x.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1907545520303714520> 25% tariff on vehicles and a 20% tariff on Israel, really putting previous "left wing" administrations to shame in certain areas to be fair.
If the US shuts out the whole world, then the whole world will be all alone without us. Checkmate, world!
If the US shuts out the whole world, then theUS will be all alone without the rest of the World. Checkmate,US!
The ski lift lines will be a lot shorter. Sounds good to me.
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Open borders and wildly asymmetric tarriffs benefit the coastal elites and hurt the flyover-territory working class, namely increase inequality in the US. I think the working people feel this intuitively, and voted suitably.
US inequality is remarkably high, and has been for years.
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was published in 2009, and documents a long established situation.
Trump is introducing asymmetric tariffs, and these will cost consumer's money. There's a real chance that they will trigger an international recession, much as the Smoot-Hawley Act did in 1930.
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This isn't going to help the flyover-territory working class in the US, and if Trump's clown car knew what they were doing they'd know this. You should too.
It would. Somebody with more sense might wonder if was going to profitable to keep them running for the few remaining customers. Ski lifts are a luxury servic, and they tend to shut down during recessions, which is what Trump's antics are likely to provoke.
"Fog In Channel; Continent Isolated" ;)
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Phil Hobbs
It's The Art of the Deal. Somebody wrote a book about that.
I can't imagine anyone making a deal with Trump now. He has amply demonstrated to be utterly untrustworthy.
Jeroen Belleman
One of the best things people could do for the environment is buy fewer cars, and most of them were silly-priced to begin with.
How so?
Tony Schwartz wrote the book for Trump as his ghostwriter.
"Donald Trumps Ghostwriter Tells All"
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"...over the decades, Trump appeared to have convinced himself that he had written the book. Schwartz recalls thinking, 'If he could lie about that on Day One when it was so easily refuted, he is likely to lie about anything'".
Actually Tony Schwartz ghost-wrote it to be published to exploit Donald Trump's public image.
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It was a great investment for the publisher, and boosted Trump's image no end. The fact that a number of Trump's business deals lead to huge bankruptcies is a warning that his supporters don't seem to be aware of.
If you haven't noticed any of the evidence yet, your powers of observation aren't up to much (as we've noticed).
The US declaring bankruptcy is certainly an option
Oh, <shrug> nothing.
Jeroen Belleman
Exactly. Nothing.
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