It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of "experts" absolutely sure that the future is communism and "stupid you brainwashed fool" if you don't get it.
JumpyWombat
joined 2 weeks ago
Didn't the Americans impeach Clinton simply for hiding that he got a blowjob?
It's very disappointing if you wanted a strong response for an ephemeral short term win. In the long run, the 15% tariffs alone will harm the US while the EU will diversify more its market.
How can you tell it's sarcasm when the POTUS himself says stuff like that?
and why would you need them back
Exactly! What's the endgame here?
The only explanation I have is that in his (and Musk's) mind all intellectual jobs will be replaced by AI, and the US will need to shift everybody to manual jobs to assemble stuff. It's so stupid and dystopic that it may even be true.
Apple has an history of resisting surveillance and that's true. However, it's subject to regulations, they lower security in some countries (see UK), it's based in the US which is definitely not encouraging, and... it may just end becoming like Google in the span of a few years.
That said, I prefer Apple to most of the other brands.
Except that even if you buy 100% American products, those selling them may not. When inflation happens, it happens for everyone.
Unless of course you talk about the perfect MAGA in a self-sufficient farm in the middle of nowhere, with a tinfoil hat and a cork in his ass against alien probes.
Wait until MAGA-fans will find out how tariffs work.
...oh yeah, that implies being able to do math.
That's true. Tariff will likely decrease the demand of some products that have an elastic demand. The result will be that Americans will pay 15% more for all the products, for some they will buy alternatives (where they exists) or less, and Europe will need to increase the market in the rest of the world for the share of products that cannot be sold anymore. In the short term it will likely hurt Europe too, but in the long term the impact will be basically only on the US.
Rationally, the EU agreed to buy stuff that would have bought anyway and the US decided to self impose taxes raising its internal prices.
But yeah, politically it sucks.
Funny thing: probably it sucks for Americans too.
Maybe now they have a chance to demonstrate that these filters don't work.
No. He uses directly the White House account on X for that BS.