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Thanks for the insight, stacy! By the way, why are you still posting on a nazi platform? Oh for internet points? Cool, cool.
Edit: Damn, there’s more nazis on Lemmy than I thought.
Edit: Damn, there’s more nazis on Lemmy than I thought.
As a rule, Lemmings are steadfastly against any course of action that might make an actual difference. They’ll post about guillotines and green Mario until the cows come home, since no one actually expects them to act on that sort of thing, but whenever anyone suggests anything that a typical person could actually do it’s nothing but excuses.
Lemmingspeople in generalIt appears the extent of their participation is spewing vitriol and clicking downvote buttons. lol
Meanwhile, I’m going to a capital protest tomorrow. Those of you doing things, KEEP RESISTING THESE FUCKS.
It’s cause you’re over at lemmy.world
It’s the largest, and therefore has the most mainstream people, who tend to be some flavor of liberal
In theory, joining any server gets you the whole federation experience… In practice, your home server will greatly affect discovery and shape what kind of people you encounter most
Because that’s the platform that needs to hear it
Circlejerk preaching to the choir is fun, but doesn’t reach the people who need to hear it
Yeah that’s bullshit rationalization. You don’t pay nazis to advertise anti-nazi sentiment.
You’re right, we should send Bernie to CPAC. Bet he’ll win over lots of hearts and minds.
I mean… yes
I honestly want to see this.
It’s better than sending him to a room full of people who already aggrees with him. It’s kind of the point
That is the goal in a functioning democracy. That description no longer applies to the US. Our country’s voter base is made up of political illiterates, our new voters get less educated every year, and our elected officials and their oligarch counterparts are running at full tilt in an attempt to normalize and formalize flagrant disregard for our constitution.
Which means it’s even more important for charismatic people to talk to the proverbial “other side”, because they don’t have any other ways to hear the information they don’t know they need.
Only if you send him with a fucking machine gun. Although bless him, he would never be into that.
I so wish he hadn’t been prevented from being president by the corrupt democrats.
That’s what Teamsters did at the RNC and people were far more angry at Teamsters than Republicans happy at hearing a working class message.
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If I recall my history right, the 1929 stock market collapse precipitated the Great Depression, and the tariffs were a (misguided) attempt at trying to set the economy straight.
Ferris bueller kinda called this one.
The bueller… bueller… bueller bit is preceded by ben stein explaining the Hadley snoot tariffs to a visibly bored and distracted classroom.
From Smoot-Hawley to Bueller-Trumpy.
Dont let facts get in the way of a cheeky social media post.
Did it make it better or worse?
In case you are seriously asking this is from Wikipedia.
Intended to bolster domestic employment and manufacturing, the tariffs instead deepened the Depression because the U.S.'s trading partners retaliated with tariffs of their own, leading to U.S. exports and global trade plummeting. Economists and historians widely regard the act as a policy misstep, and it remains a cautionary example of protectionist policy in modern economic debates.
Soooo much much worse.
I figured as such but since he was saying OP was wrong, I thought it worth asking.
The causality there is misleading. We really don’t need any sort of misleading to criticize the cheeto. There’s plenty of legitimate points to make.
https://saifedean.com/the-fiat-standard-chapter-11
This ones got a good section on the great depression.
“The imposition of trade barriers in turn resulted in a further deterioration of economic conditions in the countries imposing them, even as their own citizens suffered from these very policies. The governments imposing such barriers, and the economists advocating them, would of course never admit that inflation, increasing centralization, and protectionist policies caused the progressively worsening depression. Instead, political leaders blamed other countries and local ethnic minorities. Years of scapegoating and growing hostility toward foreigners and minorities came to a head in 1939. The world’s totalitarian fiat regimes began to turn on each other and on their ethnic minorities. Hayek had identified this threat to global peace in his “Monetary Nationalism and International Stability” lectures in 1937.”
Yeah but THEY didn’t have the TECHNOLOGY we do to be able to RAMP UP our DOMESTIC PRODUCTION! So it’s a GOOD THING that President Elon Musk and First Lady Donald Trump HAVENT been Cutting US Investing and Production!
The definition of stupidity is to try things that failed in the past again in the hope to get a better result.
Insanity actually
Wait. I just realized something. One of the significant reasons humans are such amazing creatures compared to the other species is our generational knowledge we can pass down. But we have a saturation point. We need consciousness information downloading. Not immortality. But a way to download Wikipedia to our brains. That’s the next step.
I don’t think it will work. Some knowledge you just can’t acquire without lived experiences.
Sure. But you don’t need lived experiences to have full knowledge of economic histories or previous laws that have failed and should not be brought back. “Lived experiences” is just another bandwidth problem for most.
So basically ai chips.
Possibly. I think that might be a temporary stop gap until we get to bio engineering. I doubt we are going to integrate with AI
Or vampires.
???
Doritos.
economy collapsing and all we do is eat hot chip & lie
You can be bisexual too (until the camps for us filthy gays open)
Don’t worry. I’ll bath in the blood of the wicked to protect you. If they come for my gay autistic god son. I will eat the throats of the ones who step through that door looking for war.
not necessarily, just a brain chip, doesn’t need ai
The solution to that historically has been urbanization, which allowed people to become specialists in a chosen field. They get to absorb all the knowledge in a specific field of expertise, and then a select few are smart enough to push it further.
Unfortunately we haven’t really managed to apply this to politics yet, because those who are specialists in getting elected aren’t necessarily specialists in governing either. Nor are they likely good at governing everything, maybe just a specific part. But picking who is suitable enough is not done by specialists but by the general public, which is both democracy’s strength and weakness.
I can agree with that. But something has gotta give? I think we’re in the right direction, we have some significant spedbumps along the way is all
Agreed. It’s so tiring actually navigating Wikipedia. I just want a megacorp to select the best bits and inject them directly into my brain when they see fit!
But make sure they take out anything that would negatively affect their company!
Third time is a charm. No seriously this unhinged president will be the destruction of the nation as the Democrats predicted. It was fun while it lasted but since I’m not rich I’m screwed.
I’d like to see U.S become so weak that Natives are able to reclaim their land. Imagine them scalp those nazi regime supporting mfers. Brings a happy tear in my eye.
I theorize that this is why most/all US leaders have been pro-Israel. Because if they were anything else, the native population would be like “hey, so what about us and our stolen lands?” and US leaders will absolutely not deal with that.
300 years of the US not giving a shit about the native population or about appearing hypocritical towards them would argue with your theory.
There’s not a single US leader who worries what Native Americans would say if they turned against Israel. They would just ignore them like they always have.
I’m pretty sure it’s the money. If minority groups were lobbying just as hard to both parties, the populist leaders would switch.
Yes, that! Also for me U.S seems to think that somehow everyone from Middle-East is a terrorist, even though that they are the worst terrorists themselves alongside Russia and Israel.
This one is going to work /s
Third time lucky.
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Third time’s the charm right? Right!?!?
💀
It’ll work this time… trust me bro!
This is what happens when a populace isn’t properly educated.
Prepare for this country to be on a downward slope for the rest of our lives. That’s the most likely future for us.
The brain drain can already be seen, most have already moved abroad, or are waiting to.
