Just more evidence that trump doesn’t understand his own plan and doesn’t have what it takes to effect it. His desire to have foreign dignitaries come and kiss the ring outweighs his political conviction that tariffs are the correct way forward.

The only possible way that tariffs work is if investors are confident that the trade barriers will stay in place - not just for the 4 years of this administration, but for the time that you would need to generate a return-on-investment from the factory that they’re being incentivized to re-shore in the USA.

By signaling that the tariffs are open to negotiation, he disincentivized those investors from investing in American manufacturing when overseas manufacturing could become re-advantaged depending on the mood and disposition of a tyrant.

For example, nobody is going to build and staff an entire textile mill in Arkansas if it’s cheaper (both long and short term) to just buy the product from overseas.

Even if tariffs were sound economic policy (they are not), they require a steady and predictable hand at the wheel to give confidence to the market, which is something that this president (and country seemingly) is incapable of.

I know it’s not trendy to say, but I’m gonna say it anyway: Bill Clinton is a bad person, but he was a good president.

Try not defending Stalin?

“I dont believe AI will ever be more than essentially a parlar trick that fools you into thinking it’s intelligent.”

So in other words, it will achieve human-level intellect.

I will never, ever, apologize for liking Billy Strings, Michael Cleveland, or Doc Watson.

Ok. Godspeed 🫡

You’re tripping dawg. Your argument is weak, which is why you’re trying so hard to twist people’s words into something they’re not.

Culture is a set of norms, attitudes and behaviors. It’s not racist to predict behavior based on whether said people self-identity themselves as members of those cultures. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp, so stop intentionally misinterpreting what people are saying. What you’re doing at this point is trolling, and you know it.

Race/ethnicity is an immutable physical characteristic. Culture is a set of norms and attitudes that people choose to (or not) adhere to. Nobody would fly off the handle if you said new yorkers are stand-offish. It’s generally true - even if it doesn’t necessarily apply to the whole.

“Judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Basically all names have meaning if you trace the etymological roots back far enough - even American’s. In most cases, those meanings are just unknown to the people passing them down.

I may be too dumb for web development, but I’m just smart enough to explain it to the other dummies.

Not a wild take at all. I’d bet money the guy you’re replying to thinks America’s evil is unique to it alone.

In reality, evil is just part of the human condition.

Wow what a bunch of freeloaders!

What has science ever done for me?

Kill me.

I just tell people it’s a network of websites that you can use one login for. Like using your Google account to sign into pornhub.

No follow up questions.

Operator error.

Actually sir, have you considered that religion bad?

I have read a quote by Marx, and am very smart.

Different enough that you don’t mind having shit smeared all around it?

“the question of “should Christians strive for a classless society” is a complex one.”

Not to the early Christians it wasn’t. The early Christians movements (before they were co-opted by Empire) were radically egalitarian.

What do you think that chart would show?

(Aside from a huge drop in democratic popularity following the anti-israel media blitz following the Oct 7 massacre)

Do you think Republicans are the only ones susceptible to propaganda?

I’ve only been here a couple days, but from what I’ve seen so far, lemmy is significantly more left wing than reddit at large (which is really saying something), and I’ve seen basically zero pushback on that.

Obviously we don’t want to encourage extremist right wingers to come in and trash the place, but it also wouldn’t hurt to have some more mainstream appeal.