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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @KaiserKitty @Elliptica @Frondeur @KingOfWhiteAmerica "china does not rely on a single drop of oil from the usa."
Says the man who doesn't realize there's a world price in crude oil, which is a moderately fungible commodity.
You aren't a serious interlocutor on this topic, perhaps out of ignorance, and there's certainly a TDS component. No point in replying any further (again, on this topic).
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @KaiserKitty @Elliptica @Frondeur @KingOfWhiteAmerica "if his plan was to decouple from china or a trade war with china, why not just do that?"
Given that Team Trump is explicitly talking about creating a coalition against the PRC, this was one way to do that, to make it a world group effort. Which again we, the whole world, really needs to do, the CCP is evil distilled.
You claim that "china has already insulated itself with reroutes over the past 10 years" might have been true when this was less intense, but it's now so big there's no way a) the PRC can dump in all senses of the word that much stuff they were selling to the US on the rest of the generally poorer world (by design, often, like Western Europe including the UK), and b) as that fails, so do a lot of their businesses.
To quote many people including the plain speaking (((Treasury Secretary))) deficit trading nations hold all the cards, the PRC has a couple of twos.
BTW, why did you go back to the formula when making that point? It's not been relevant since the cycle of retaliatory tariffs went figuratively nuclear.
Do you even want Trump to win this? Your very beginning reading of what's happened so far is a) just that and b) totally unrealistic given, geeze, for instance that the US largely feeds itself, a (worse) economic recession or depression will drop PRC oil consumption (although that gets complicated due to the costs of fracking here in the US), etc.
It's just silly to look at this as a static thing vs. a work in progress.
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@KaiserKitty @Elliptica @Frondeur @IAMAL_PHARIUS @KingOfWhiteAmerica They're real variables and have to be considered for all this. That they sum to one is, again, just a starting point in the whole process.
What's your alternative? Pretend for real there's no elasticity invoked by changing formal and informal tariffs rates?
Did the whole equation result in desired or necessary results for Team Trump or not?
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@qwerty Not all bad:
"unusual_whales @unusual_whales
"BREAKING: United States Secretary of the Treasury (((Scott Bessent))) has seemed to suggest that the federal workforce fired recently 'will give us the labor we need for new manufacturing,' per CNBC"
[I've observed Bessent to be very plain speaking about what Team Trump is doing.]
"David Burge @iowahawkblog
"Look I've been as critical of tariffs as anyone but if the long term vision is domestic Nike sweatshops filled with fired DC bureaucrats, I'm willing to listen"
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@JoshuaSlocum @Terry :cirnoDoubt:
As recently as the 1980s Red state flyover country was manufacturing sophisticated, consumer electronics using surface mount parts, including RF stuff. It would take a while to regain that, in some cases for passive components I assume we might have to make the tools to make the tools, but it could certainly be done if our ruling trash wasn't intent on destroying the sorts of people who once did this.
Note the period; that's just based on my personal observations, but we're credibly told deliberate deindustrialization really started in earnest the next decade. For seed corn, the (((NSF))) started its campaign to replace American STEM workers with cheaper Third World ones in the mid to latter part of the 1980s.
Even then, the US makes a disproportionate amount of Wafer Fab Equipment for semiconductors to this date, including for example the lasers that power the Netherlands' ASML's all but magic EUV lithography machines. (You know you're in trouble when the process starts with "emit 50K or more tiny molten tin droplets every second...").
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Third known direct attack Tesla attack on a person (previously elderly woman beaten up, man run over).
"Pregnant Tesla passenger injured by flying rock on Vancouver street"
"Seriously injured" but expected to make a full recovery. "This very serious incident could easily have resulted in someone’s death, but for a few inches."
From the location just a bit towards the passenger side from the centerline, I'd guess something like a broken arm, but not hitting the torso. Rounded two pound rock.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11114500/pregnant-tesla-passenger-injured-flying-rock-vancouver/
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Whoops, forgot about another violent physical attack on Tesla, a guy in Portland using a standard Antifa tactic of trying to blind people inside a Tesla dealership with a green laser. And he's NGO scum:
"Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt ["United States Senator for Missouri"]
"And — surprise! — he was working at a taxpayer-funded NGO.
"In 2023, his employer received over $16.3 million in government grants, including more than $3 million in federal tax dollars.
"Your tax money is funding a permanent class of left-wing extremists."
Generic but thorough (((Legal Insurrection))) coverage (quotes from local news):
This being Portland, Antifa capital of the US, "He was released on his own recognizance from jail the same day of his arrest."
This also being Portland, the police justified their arrest of him in real time to other protesters, who agreed his "actions were not okay and were supportive of [his] removal." And I suppose this also being Portland, he made it easy by trying to escape on a bicycle....
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@teto @p @teto @tiddlywinkler Below see a link to the page about the paper, and yes, it's always better in the original German, this is a translation of one such document, the first org being Jewish. BTW, CASM Technology is an org, is not CSAM.
Is there any real connection between PeerTube and the Fediverse, besides both being likely to be used by certain subsets of people??
https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/about-fedilist.html
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Expanding an OK observation a bit:
"The fundamental challenge for every left-leaning managerial government in the West today is whether you can bring in migrant voters at a faster rate than your current voters turn against you" and you have to start jailing the opposition.
Which doesn't always work in the short to medium term.
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Posted by the kosher cuckservative Powerline blog, this meme is not quite as devastating as they think. And they're mostly Minnesota based, so no excuse.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/the-week-in-pictures-ad-vance-guard-edition.php
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Preemptively pardoned traitor Mark Milley was double-plus unpersoned; this article clears up confusion I had about claimed "Stalinist" tactics after Hegseth became DoD Secretary:
"He also [in addition to pulling Milley's security detail and ordering an IG to review demoting him] removed an additional portrait of Milley from the Pentagon from his time as Army chief of staff. (An different painting of Milley from his time as chairman was removed from the Pentagon on President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day)."
"[Democrats whine.]
"'Accountability is back,' Hegseth said about the move. 'If you actively undermine the chain of command as Gen. Milley did under the previous Trump administration, we are going to review those actions.'"
The Chief of Staff is not in the chain of command. It goes President -> Secretary of Defense -> unified combatant command(s). The latter are like the Central Command for the sandbox and the Northern Command for North America including Mexico.
(Whatever Hegseth had planned for immediately afterwords was derailed somewhat when that evening an Army Blackhawk crashed into a passenger jet, the former now confirmed by the NTSB to be flying too high for "route.")
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@Honkers Do you think our ruling trash can keep Antifa et. al. from attacking the inauguration?
Do you expect "Biden" to provide adequate defenses against such attacks? Do you think he wants Trump to get off to a good, dignified state like in 2016?
A lot of us are also ... suspicious about the rally planned for the day before. I'd like to think a Nika riots denouement is out of the question, but....
This also could be trolling, JD Vance now has a world class mentor in that art.
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@Arkana @sickburnbro @suquili Sony burning $400 million on Concord, the worse media failure in all of history, is a good demonstration that the first bit of your model is incomplete or just wrong.
Who are "money men" nowadays? Special cases with tight ownership, and activist investors, who's been making runs at Disney and I'm not sure who else. And Ubisoft is also in trouble, yes?
In most cases, we're talking about executives who's first priority is keeping their jobs and careers in globohomo Clown World where a work dud ... maybe not as bad as Concord, but there's plenty others, is less bad than "just want fucking white males to consume product" for games. Or normie families for most of what Disney does. And there are probably some true believers in there as well, or so I guessed about Concord.
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"Guy Who Said Facebook Was Not Suppressing Free Speech Announces Facebook Will Stop Suppressing Free Speech"
There's several reasons to believe this, though:
Someone on Hacker News I think pointed out Facebook's top down, "fact checker" organization initiated censorship style was expensive. Whereas X style community notes has communities do most of the work.
Another reason that just occurred to me is that Trump should be turning off soon the government's commands to censor stuff which works in the same manner.
There's also the context in which this started, the self-originated collective guilt of the totalitarian tech Left in letting Trump win in 2016, and the particular focus on FaceBook and Cambridge Analytica. The Left went insane and was looking for scalps, and Facebook was also fined upwards of six billion dollars (!!!).
Also political, trying to dance to the tune of increasingly totalitarian European countries and their impossible demands may end up not being worth it. The Left is getting hit hard there, and lashing out as people try to hold them accountable for their genocidal sins.
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What's happened recently in Syria to allow this current but not yet final collapse of the Assad regime?
From the very unreliable ZeroHedge, some credible claims:
"Below, a prominent and longtime Syrian commentator who goes by Bassem gives a quick bird's eye view explanation...:
"1) Russia got distracted with the war in Ukraine and resources diverted there.
"2) Hamas idiotically went on suicide mission in October 2023 and dragged Hizbollah into the conflict indirectly and exhausted them.
"3) Israel weakened Iran in Syria past few years.
"4) Assad did nothing to improve the lives of locals. Electricity for few hours a day, not enough fuel for daily matters, corruption, made the lives of Syrian business community hell (customs, etc), to name few.
"5) all the while opposition was rebuilding, changing their message, training, even Ukrainian intelligence came in to support them with intelligence and drone technology."
The messaging is certainly true, these apparent kinder and gentler jihadists are not (yet) doing the swagger around in black and executing random grannies on the street after a one minute "trial."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-preparing-possibility-syrian-state-collapse
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Obamacare. which is access to health insurance, not healthcare, is a lot more cunning than I'd realized:
"These people cheered Obamacare, which turned the health insurance industry into a government vassal but want people murdered for the consequences of what they supported."
https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1864794680233218289
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@Elliptica @Pete Law professor Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds suggests an angle:
"And saying it was okay to pardon Hunter because it was a political prosecution instigated by his enemies plays right into Trump’s hands in pardoning the J6 defendants — and, for that matter, himself."
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@griffith @blaaablaaaa @Eternal_Iratus @DrRyanSkelton @BowsacNoodle @Xenomorph I seem to be missing some context here.
Isn't Soyjack supposed to be horrifying, thus this Jew is angry over it? How it is bad when it's used to denounce our enemies? Or is it used for more than that?
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @_Seraphim_ Maybe.
Trump (along with many Americans) certainly has a legit beef with European/NATO spending on defense or lack thereof. Threatening to pull out of NATO based on that is entirely appropriate now, and if they reverse policy (Labour won't, Germany can't without reversing on Russian gas) that would of course have them spending more with the US military industrial complex. But its silly to blame everything on the 1950/60s MIC trope when social spending has completely overwhelmed it.
And only so much US MIC spending because they have their own, including a number of good or good enough items, and for some time a good part of the US MIC is capacity limited. There's a few other non-Combloc or former Combloc players as well, South Korea for example has state of the art artillery, good tanks, and defined a new state of the art by creating self-sharpening tungsten kinetic kill tank ammo, vs. depleted uranium like the US uses.
Another major tension is that Europe has literally declared Musk to be public enemy #2, and Trump or Team Trump has remarked that such an action based on free speech is incompatible with us staying allies.
In general, to the extent Trump can rein in the US Deep State on population repression, the distance between the US and Europe will grow to the point we truly won't be compatible for this sort of thing, absent a big bad like the Evil Empire. "Putler" just isn't credible as such.
Another big problem is that France and the U.K. especially are rapidly turning Muslim, and that's not going to fly even if you don't count AIPAC and company. I've been wondering if and when we'll start sabotaging the U.K.'s nukes when they send them to us for tritium replenishment.
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@icedquinn @mia @mangeurdenuage @sun @frogzone I'm sorry??
I didn't do anything special except make a direct reply to your comment for the first posting, because it was the best jumping off point in the semi-hell thread. Maybe that also had an effect on this new subthread ... this post from you I am replying to is is well down stream of the new semi-start.
Will (try to remember to) remove you from any future posts. Qualifier because I may not return to this topic for a while.
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