TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
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TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
1d ago
Either acquiesce to being partitioned or fight it out.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
1d ago
Because unconditional surrender is always an option.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
1d ago
For all sides
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
1d ago
All wars are "wars of choice".
It strikes me as painfully naive of you to assume that the US would not eventually see itself drawn into a Sino Taiwanese-Japanese-Indian-Phillipineo war.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
1d ago
The suggestion that China was ever respecting ip is absurd. As a movie-lover, market stalls full of high quality bootlegs used to be one of the perks of visiting Hong Kong.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
2d ago
Really? Arguably one of the defining aspects of 'reform' in the traditional sense is it's opposition to special and entrenched interests...
Yes. Really.
Who are "the Swamp" if not "entrenched interests"? Much of complaints about Trump being erratic and not listening to the experts reads to me as "special and entrenched interests" frustrated by Trump's refusal to "stay bought".
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
2d ago
Much like the entire MENSA brand.
Speak for yourself, serf.
What I see is the inverse. The professional managerial class seems to have internalized this idea that intelligent reasonable moral people should not exercise agency.. That intelligent reasonable and moral person does not just do things, and if they do the inescapable conclusion is the individual in question is not reasonable, not intelligent, not moral, and possibly not even a person.
Ironically this valorization of non-agency and the demonizing of those like Elon Musk and Daniel Penney who break from this is itself the road to serfdom. The serf is a serf because he prefers the guarantees of servitude to the risks of being a free agent.
Whenever I read something by Hanania about a topic I am familiar with, I notice that he has a tendancy to get basic details wrong and grossly mischaracterize interactions. Furthermore I notice that his "mistakes" seem to have a consistent directionality to them.
Hanania's right-wing views on crime or race and IQ are indistinguishable from those of Woodrow Wilson or any other "centerist" Democrat from the last century. Which is to say that they are not particularly right-wing at all.
My read of Hanania is that while he may have been willing to disagree with his fellow affluent costal blue tribers when he was confident in his tribe's ascendence, now that it looks like they might be on the back foot he is joining them inside the wagon circle.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4d ago
Are they?
What is it supposed to prove? It is supposed to prove that the economy under biden was not all sunshine and cute woodland creatures. That the official definition of recession used by NBER, the FED, Et Al. was revised from "more than three consecutive months of negative growth" to "more than one full calandar quarter" the same week Biden would've crossed the old three month threshold.
That is that, the definition was revised such that declining growth for the last 2 months in Q2 plus the next 2 months of Q3 would not count because even if together they constitute 4 consecutive months of negative growth (a quarter being 3 months long), niether of the 2 two month blocks together would constitute "more than a full calendar quarter".
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4d ago
It wasn't a story for the same reason Trump's tariffs are a story.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4d ago
Only if you believe that markets are universally rational and efficient in practice not just theory.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
5d ago
The best security is still a locked door and an armed guard where only a few people have the key, and the guard is not one of them.
Hanania occupies the same memetic ecological niche as guys like David French.
His role is to write things that flatter the sensibilities and biases of the priestly caste from an ostensibly outside view so that his readers can then pat themselves on the back for being so reasonable. Reassuring themselves that thier opponents are indeed stupid, and don't have any legitimate concerns by telling themselves "I listen to people with outside views and they agree with me on all the important things. We even boo the same outgroup!"
In this case the outgroup is the Tea-Party/MAGA right to which Hanania is opposed, and people who don't trust "the media" or "the experts" classes with which Hanania identifies as a member.
His characterization of Rogan is particularly egregious. Rogan wasn't "radicalized" so much as he was told to "get the fuck out" by all the "serious people". He did, and he took a lot of his listeners with him. Now all the "serious people" like Hanania are shocked and appaled to see former Bernie-Bros walking around wearing MAGA hats because while he was berating them, the populist right was telling them "pull up a stool and watch the game with us". The same thing happened with RFK Jr.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
5d ago
So we're just throwing the spring and summer of 2022 down the memory-hole are we?
I do not believe you.
I believe that to the degree that substitution might be difficult it is difficult because affluent blue tribers on the coast want it to be difficult, and actively work to make it so.
I believe that "They are doing jobs Americans wont" is code for "I don't think I should have to pay 'the help' the going rate" and "I don't want an emplyee with legal rights and delusions of equality, I want a serf I can exploit"
Finally i beleive that @coffee_enjoyer is correct that roofing companies will start increasing the wages and quality of life they offer thier employees before we go without roofs. If they don't, screw 'em.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
5d ago
As @Primaprimaprima observes, I think a moral judgment towards those unwilling or too lazy to support themselves is one of the distinguishing features of Tea-Party/MAGA right. That there is dignity and virtue in hard work and doing the needful but dirty job. That the slothful degenerate should be either pittied or whipped into shape rather than catered to. The "Gods of the Copybook Headings" are real and walk among us.
Also, it seems I have been blocked by this user. That's news to me.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6d ago
60% chance of recession seems far too low given that the priestly caste is fully capable of manipulating the definition of "recession" to punish Trump just as they did to protect Biden.
For all intents and purposes, yes. This (among other things) is what i voted for.
Democrats' rhetoric surrounding immigration and wages has always stood out to me as an obvious example of politically-motivated doublethink. "The experts" are asking us to hold two contradictory axioms simultaneously. One is that maintaining a supply of "off the books" labor is essential to the survival of multiple industries (such as roofing and agriculture) and that ideally we should be increasing the supply of labor to reduce costs (ie wages) even further. The other is that the available supply of labor has has little if any effect on wages (ie costs).
This allows the Democrat to maintain a smug confidence in thier own intellectual and class superiority through convincing themselves that the working class only opposes immigration because they are a bunch of ignorant racist hicks who do not understand the nuances of economic theory, and have been "tricked" by men like Trump into voting against thier own interests, rather than people with legitimate grievences and concerns, who don't like seeing thier wages under-cut and culture denigrated.
I also agree that the moral judgment towards willingness to work and "going without" is one of the core ideological differences between the Tea-Party/MAGA right and other political factions within the US.
Im confused.
Why would you expect the EU-based management of Stellantis to be in favor of US tariffs? (Or Trump for that matter?) I would expect them to be opposed.
And you believed them when they said this is about specifically about Tariffs and definitely not because of volatility in the stock market or because this Friday is the new quarter?
This is "optics" pure and simple.
Niether did Ukraine up until a few years ago.
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