UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on It was rigged? 13 hours ago:
But, it was a media event. It wasn’t “rigged”
You could gamble on it, which means there was money to be made courting suckers.
I’m sure the lion’s share of “rigged” proclamations were coming from folks who got baited into bad bets.
- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 2 days ago:
Making all my toy cars out of plastic not because I’m cheap but because I’m authentic.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 3 days ago:
Read somewhere that it boosted Russian owned us steel mills somehow.
Given the degree of US sanctioning on Russia, I’m not clear what a “Russian owned US Steel Mill” is even supposed to look like.
I remember Japanese Manufacturer Nippon Steel is moving towards full acquisition of US Steel, the largest steel maker in the country. That has, at least in part, been driven by the threat of US tariffs. But this only further illustrates the problem. Foreign mega-corps gobbling up domestic industry do nothing to improve the US economy.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 4 days ago:
you can often get them for free
The maintenance cost of a “free” horse is anything but
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 4 days ago:
I’m also intrigued by the “costs $1000 and $750/year to maintain” claim, as the horse people I know spend closer to 20x that.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 4 days ago:
she wanted to keep him as someone she can spend time as a person and not a sexual object?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you can do both. That’s the entire idea of having a boyfriend/girlfriend.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 4 days ago:
I think any tariff that passes will have a swiss cheese of exemptions, because that’s just how the game is played in Congress.
Lobby hard enough and you’ll get your country excused one way or another.
Canada being the biggest trade partner would be prime for these.
It would be prime for Canadian ports, and for a host of middle men who get to launder trade goods through a legal loophole.
But that’s the real end game. Not domesticating manufacturing, but monopolizing channels for import/export.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 4 days ago:
Huge uptick in folks drinking 4 Loco.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 4 days ago:
Black Rifle Koffee
But (assuming a tarrif is something that can even pass) I imagine you’re going to see a swiss cheese of exemptions for favored countries. And these countries will become a back door for imports.
Expect all of your coffee to be mysteriously harvested from Canada.
- Comment on Can't sleep, he's watching 6 days ago:
Reminds me of those AI centers that drain the grid and suck up all the municipal water, only to run a fortune in PR about being Green.
As though using a Three Mile Island’s worth of electricity is doing the rest of the world a favor.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
American culture is still seen as something to emulate in many parts of the world. Hopefully less so after the next four years.
We used to export our culture to our satraps in Mexico and Germany and Japan and Korea. But now we tend to import more than we export.
I don’t see this as cultural though. It’s just a money thing. People ask because they know their customers will say yes. That’s all there is to if
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
Tipping doesn’t exist here BTW, because it’s idiotic
Idk where “here” is, but I’ve seen plenty of foreign countries’s restaurants adopting tipping, particularly at higher end establishments, as business owners realize they can just ask for extra and get it.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
Good news for Korea and Japan, I guess
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
most of America
One American in five.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
No need to invade when their economy collapses internally and Beijing can step up to buy the whole island out from the bargain basement bin.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
Unironically what we’re going to hear Trump say. But also, there’s so much money in imports, I can see this plan getting bottled up and strangled in Congress.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
Seeing a stark void of “Fuck China” posts all of a sudden. Crazy what happens when the treat train gets held up at the border.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
I wish more MCU Democrats would read this.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, we’re absolutely getting a fucking measles epidemic before the end of his term.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
At some point he needs to be able to physically enact proposals. Like, it’s one thing to say “Build a wall” and it’s another to get the land rights, hire the contractors, do the work, maintain it on competition, etc, etc.
You can go down to the border now and you’ll find this rink a dink bullshit that’s falling over in a light breeze. Then you’ve got spools full of razor wire tossed into the steadily shallower Rip Grande. People got paid tens of millions to put that garbage in the ground. And that was under an ostensibly competent administration.
I agree we’re going to get a ton of shit policy. Police violence under Trump is going to skyrocket. Vigilantee violence is going to jump. Border guard violence is going through the roof. But, like, is he going to build anything that can last? Or is he going to get the Americanized version of Neom? A bunch of scammers delivering invisible clothes to prance around in.
I guess we’ll find out.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
Between 2017 and 2021, things got pretty bad. Riots, wars, a plague, economic crash, and it ended with a mob breaking into the nation’s capital and trashing the place.
Can’t imagine a repeat will be better.
- Comment on Cable News Weighs In On What Went Wrong 1 week ago:
It’s not a pipe
- Comment on Cable News Weighs In On What Went Wrong 1 week ago:
The real lesson that Democrats will take away from 2024 is that they should never run a woman for President.
- Comment on Cable News Weighs In On What Went Wrong 1 week ago:
Only the mouthpieces of the Microsoft Corporation can save us now.
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- Comment on US Democracy 1 week ago:
America is dead
You’re thirty years to late to write The End of History. Fukuyama wasn’t right about it then, either.
Maybe those of you that stayed home
Speak for yourself. She only lost because you didn’t vote hard enough.
- Comment on US Democracy 1 week ago:
If American democracy survived Jackson, Buchanan, Hoover, and Nixon…
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 week ago:
Most well paid clueless man, maybe
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 week ago:
He expected to be his own brand, like Musk or Trump or Limbaugh. When he realized he was still just another faceless interchangeable mouthpiece, that definitely fucked his ego.
