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> Relics are only a way of advertising the religion. I can't follow you here. Relics only have a meaning when you already believe them to be relics and no just random bones. How is that advertising?
No, you don't have to be religious to understand what religious symbols are about.
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Labor laws, PPP and standard of living.
Then maybe it's morally right to tariff their goods? (As all countries already do, not only the US) Otherwise, what's the purpose of labor laws within the US or Europe?
I'm glad they've done the work here and put a figure on it - the impact absolutely needed to be quantified - but I also have to say... to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function. People, lots of people, lots of people who have a really deep understanding of national and global economics (unlike me), have been warning about this since talk of tariffs became common cur…
There is basically no overlap between the things that economists generally say are good (free trade, carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, immigration, land value taxes, organ trade, congestion pricing, etc…) and the things that populists of either the left or right say are good (rent control, price controls, tariffs, wealth taxes, debt relief, minimum parking requirements, etc…). Why would you (or anyone) be surprised that e…
I'm glad they've done the work here and put a figure on it - the impact absolutely needed to be quantified - but I also have to say... to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function. People, lots of people, lots of people who have a really deep understanding of national and global economics (unlike me), have been warning about this since talk of tariffs became common cur…
to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function. No, it is surprising, as noted in the article, because basic economics suggests that suppliers will adjust pricing, and eat some of the tariff to keep their products competitive. Page 5: This finding was initially surprising to some observers. Standard economic models suggest that the incidence of a tariff depends on the re…
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I can, and I've specifically said "guilty/liable", meaning that people will go to the highest court available to them to defend their rights. If in the last instance they are still found guilty/liable, they should suffer the consequences I've mentioned. These legal decisions, by multiple courts/juries, if you can't trust them anymore you have already lost in terms of democracy/republic. I still believe the SCOTUS is…
> still believe the SCOTUS is trying to uphold the principles in the Constitution, for now Republicans on court are very clearly pusuing agenda that has nothing to do with that.
The upcoming decision about tariffs might flip me completely on this issue, I see zero legal reason for global tariffs to be within the power of any individual, including the President. If the Court presents any argument in favor of them, I don't think I will consider it legitimate anymore.
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> A lot of Americans believed the guy they wanted to believe in, because they didn't want to believe the people they didn't want to believe in. It's sad but true. Deep down, political thinking is influenced by tribal thinking, a rigid us versus them mentality. This is, after all, how the "divide and conquer" method gets to be so effective. A house divided amongst itself and all that.
You're acting like Democrats are as deep in the cult of personality as Republicans are, yet outside of the most corporate liberal circles, Harris and Biden are heavily held in contempt by most of the Left.
> Harris and Biden are heavily held in contempt by most of the Left.
To be absolutely frank, I don't consider the Democrat party as "Left" in any (traditional?) sense at all, even though it may include Left and Left-leaning elements.
(But then again I don't consider Starmer's Labour as Left either, and one could argue that Labour is more Left than the Democrats.)
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I do not see why it would.
I agree - she would adopt the stronger position.
Are you saying that my aunt would suddenly change her mind about the nature of the Trump tariffs to understand that they achieve a totally different outcome than she thinks over a totally different time frame?
She already thinks that Trump has saved american manufacturing and that the deficit problem is gone. Why would she change that opinion?
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> A lot of Americans believed the guy they wanted to believe in, because they didn't want to believe the people they didn't want to believe in. It's sad but true. Deep down, political thinking is influenced by tribal thinking, a rigid us versus them mentality. This is, after all, how the "divide and conquer" method gets to be so effective. A house divided amongst itself and all that.
That’s a clever bothsiderism. However, these two tribes are not alike.
But I think the methods by which they're being manipulated are quite alike, and ultimately forced to side with the current tribal figurehead simply because it's not the other tribe's figurehead, even if there are many, and legitimate, contentions.