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Who's going to build these factories in the US when the tariffs are on-again off-again like a sitcom couple?

We've had about 9 different tariff regimes (all responding to the same "emergency") in a little over two months. Trump thought he could ride into Tokyo on Godzilla's shoulders only to raise a white flag out the bottom of a footprint moments later.

Steiner can still tariff from the North.

While 84% Tariffs is outrageous, It's a measured response compared to 104%. The whole point is that China looks like the reasonable ones. They are the reasonable ones.

Applesauce and sausage gravy.

It shouldn't be a surprise since pork pairs so well with sweet foods, but it's as essential to biscuits and gravy as hot-sauce.

Just finished "blackpilled" by Reeve and enjoying "Go tell it on the mountain" by Baldwin.

Blackpilled is about Reeve and her reporting on the alt-right. (you may remember her as the bespectacled blonde reporter for Vice embedded with the Nazis at Charlottesville).

Go tell it on the mountain is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a black homosexual teen-aged boy in 1930s Harlem.

CMV: Linguistics is a slippery slope to philosophy.

This is bad history.

Please explain what Chamberlain was supposed to have done differently. Explain how he was supposed to protect Czechoslovakia with zero military presence and zero contact with any resistance. Explain why Churchill's plan to protect Poland was identical to Chamberlain's plan to protect Czechoslovakia. (thoughts and prayers)

No, the "Chamberlain could have stopped Hitler if only...." meme is reactionary missive against diplomacy. It makes perfect sense, if you don't think about it.

There were two kinds of people in our movement back then, the conservatives and the reactionaries.

No Mr. Brooks, you were all reactionaries. Just because MAGA doesn't go around quoting Edmund Berk doesn't mean that they don't understand him, perhaps better than you. What did Burke advocate for if not for the French Revolutionaries to be brought low and for the kings to be restored?

You're heroes resent extending political power to the bourgeoisie, so please stop talking about what conservatives thinkers want to do for the "working people". Fuck off.

Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn't gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?

It seems like if you want a trade war with China, you'd want partners to help you apply pressure and replace Chinese goods you can't do without. Maybe somewhere like Vietnam for cheap labor; Canada for rare-earth minerals; and the EU to buy expensive American goods and services. Oh no.

I would band up with individuals possessing superior ability or perhaps even supernatural power and strength to help the cops, the government, and protect the status quo.

I once saw a guy steady himself with a "do not feed the animals" sign in order to reach across a fence to give an apple to a deer.

It's not really hypocrisy, it's that they're jealous that black Americans took that word away, and if they can't get it back, then they should be able to delete a word TOO, IT'S NOT FAIR!!