jwz
We are so fucked.
"Try not to stress out about the big picture", they said. "Focus on your community", they said. Great idea! Here are just two topics that kept me from sleeping last night: These asinine tariffs mean the price of all of our products...
https://jwz.org/b/ykcz
TronNerd82
@jwz Trump voter:
"things are too expensive with all this inflation, so I'll vote for Trump and things'll be better"
Trump: imposes tariffs on every non-Made-In-USA product (which is 99% of them), singlehandedly ensuring inflation is far higher than previously
Trump voter: so based and redpilled!!1!one!!1!
Anyone with more than two brain cells: [a long and loud string of expletives which is unsuitable even for Mastodon]
berdario
@jwz Can someone point me at an explanation for the expected impact of the tariffs? It's not clear if Trump will go ahead with 60% tariffs on chinese goods (I think that's unrealistic, because it would really screw up a bunch of supply chains), so I was thinking that the only realistic tariff implemented might be the "universal 10%". Ofc impact will be > 10% (because of inefficiencies, and people who will exploit the opportunity to increase the cost even more) but hopefully wouldn't reach 60%?
jwz
@berdario No, nobody can explain it to you. Because he's going to say some crazy shit, and maybe someone with financial self interest in having the economy not collapse will tell him no? But probably not?
jwz
It is 4 days after the election and we already had to turn away a MAGA hat-wearer at the door. "What if I wear it backwards?" "No. Have a good night, Sir."
jwz
@emag Racist Intel is not a protected class under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or the ADA -- yet.
Yet.
Michael Gurski
@jwz please please please tell me you'll start doing this...
Lyman Vunk: [instructing a managerial training class] We reserve the right... to refuse service... to ASSHOLES like YOU.
[the entire class repeats his example]
jwz
jwz
@jonpsp I feel like it's implausible that anyone told someone of Bowie's stature what to do. He had enough swimming pools. It's like claiming that someone told Prince to change something for mass appeal.
Jon PENNYCOOK
@jwz I always wonder if any material was recorded for the follow-up to 1. Outside, which was supposed to feature Trent Reznor. Apparently David Bowie had pushed his conservative fans too far when he refused to play his hits on the Outside tour and he was persuaded to become more mainstream again.
Michael Kohne
@jwz Good on you sir!
TronNerd82
@jwz I think Jello Biafra was onto something when Dead Kennedys played "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"
The song's gonna be pretty relevant come January.
jwz
@TronNerd82 That's "Fourth Place San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Jello Biafra", thank you very much. https://www.sfweekly.com/music/35-years-ago-today-jello-biafra-came-in-fourth-in-the-s-f-mayoral-race/article_104b162c-ab42-5d92-9738-b789e936ca0d.html
jwz
@donw Citation needed?
Don Whiteside
@jwz @emag Not in SF, anyway. Don’t open a club in DC - political orientation IS protected here.
Don Whiteside
@jwz See number 15. It came up a lot back when a restaurant in central Virginia told that Huckabee Sanders woman to piss off.
jwz
@donw Wow, that's some horseshit. Number 13 would also seem to ban dress codes of any kind, I wonder how DC's private clubs feel about that. Surely they wouldn't just ignore *the law*.
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