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21 hours agoAsk Jews and Muslims if they believe in the trinity. It’s not the same god.
They all claim to believe in the god of Abraham so they are stuck with each other while disagreeing on fundamental stuff.
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2·2 days agoMost people get conned. Some cons are just more obvious than others.
I agreed with you. I just think that Varoufakis knew and just was not willing to write that the dollar will depreciate so he gave an explanation that doesn’t make sense.
Nevertheless, I appreciate your detailed explanations.
Btw, here is a link of a blog post from 2023 that warned about the tariffs, with a link to the washington post:
https://www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-newsletter-that-forewarned-of
1·4 days agoInflation takes care of that.
Same with slavery
Britain always had bad news about the EU in the newspapers. Their population was never fully committed so it was possible to create a majority against the membership.
Likewise US companies will regularly discuss what they will do when China is going to overtake them. That moment has come. I don’t believe in the coincidence that the US is doing its biggest blunder at the most crucial time of their history.
Of course, the strategy can be that half the workers are fired, but with the expectation that they are hired by somebody else.
This article has been posted by me several times. You are only the second person who notices. The US cannot have it all. I think Varoufakis just doesn’t want to be the one who delivers the message. He must have known better.
I don’t fully agree with your outlook. The companies are not massively objecting. I think the concept has already been discussed by key people, in the US and internationally. Like Japan is prepared to build a nuclear bomb and Britain was prepared for Brexit, the big companies are prepared for decoupling from China.
Even though every economist since the 1700s will tell you tariffs result in less imports, and higher prices for consumers.
That’s the plan:
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/
tariffs are taxes paid on imports, paid by those who import them.
The importing company just adds the tariffs to their sales price. Tariffs are paid by the last one in the chain, the customer. That’s why it’s like a sales tax.
What was your question about?
Not to forget the ability to let middle management go when there are no workers to be managed as well as the people for low level optimization and planning.
This is a major thing and the reactions are unfortunately downvotes.
They don’t know what they want. They just know what they don’t want.
So simple, but that explains a lot.
If Trump had introduced a 10% national sales tax, would the perception be the same?
Tariffs are a patriotic sales tax with an exception for US companies. Of course MAGA likes that.
The bad thing is that it is a flat tax and not progressive. Why is that not the main issue of the debate?
He is named Elon after a character in a novel by Wernher von Braun. The boy had no chance.
No, it was real. He is complaining that the left is misrepresenting him by claiming that the Nazi stuff was fake, OBVIOUSLY!
Why was there a space race?
Libertarianism =/= “I can be racist and take others land in order to avoid having to follow the laws, social and governmental, of the rest of society”.
Let’s stop here. I agree.
Or they teach us to fear death. Nothing to worry about death unless you will live afterwards forever and take your memories with you. Now you have to make good memories soon.