mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-223 hours ago"WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!)... BUT IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID"hexbear.netexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1105arrow-down1external-link"WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!)... BUT IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID"hexbear.netmar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-223 hours agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
2 days ago: Tariffs don’t cause inflation, they cause success. They cause big success, so we’re going to have great success.
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·19 hours agoWe buy all our shit from China, how can they possibly owe us money? Where is the idea even coming from?
minus-squarebarrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·18 hours agoHe somehow thinks that having a trade deficit with China means that they’ve stolen US money. This is because he has oatmeal in his brain.
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·15 hours agoCool how there’s massive state apparatus collectively engaged in pretending that that isn’t the case right now
minus-squareGrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·18 hours agoSomebody else having money is the equivalent of theft to these people. It’s the only way I can make sense of their behavior.
We buy all our shit from China, how can they possibly owe us money? Where is the idea even coming from?
He somehow thinks that having a trade deficit with China means that they’ve stolen US money. This is because he has oatmeal in his brain.
Cool how there’s massive state apparatus collectively engaged in pretending that that isn’t the case right now
Somebody else having money is the equivalent of theft to these people.
It’s the only way I can make sense of their behavior.