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I mean, I can see that if you’re unaware and maybe from another country you can see them as looking pretty cool at first glance
Only if you’re Mr T, Liberace, or a French king. Those things are gaudy as fuck 😄
I mean, I can see that if you’re unaware and maybe from another country you can see them as looking pretty cool at first glance
Only if you’re Mr T, Liberace, or a French king. Those things are gaudy as fuck 😄
*~80%
Trump never got the votes of more than 20% of the population.
Are there, though? Or is it just people who won’t admit that they don’t plan on voting and/or don’t know shit about dick?
The time to switch candidates was 6-8 months ago. It’s too late at this point, at least for US politics
That’s simply not true.
If they were to not switch from Biden, Trump would win
in a landslidewithout having to say a damned thing or remind anyone he existed between now and then
Fixed it for you. His chances were already bad due to his insistence on not listening to the people telling him to stop participating in a genocide, and that debate killed it. Even Kamala Harris would have a better chance now.
The goal is, here, to have an accurate view of American history
By teaching bronze age fairy tales set in the Middle East.
Fun fact: the existence of atrocity factories like CIA and the US military doesn’t mean that benevolent public agencies, institutions, and social programs don’t exist.
Just like you being against murdering innocents abroad and also against paying your fair share to help protect them domestically, the US government contains both good and evil parts.
Unlike you, though, millions of people would not be able to survive without the good that government does.
Guess I wasn’t clear enough: use brain constructively, INSTEAD of for stupidity.
Because taxes AREN’T only federal. There’s federal taxes, state taxes and local (AKA municipal) taxes.
Libertarianism is stupidity. Use brain.
Nope. The location of the factories was never the point.
The point is what the effects of tariffs would be: they would help the bottom line of Western competitors and nothing else at the expense of Chinese workers and German consumers. It wouldn’t help Chinese slaves in any way.
THAT’S the point. THAT’S what matters.
It seems whatever one says, no matter if evidence proofs otherwise
Dude. You haven’t presented any evidence. You have CLAIMED that there is a car factory in Xinjiang and, rather than waste a bunch of time and energy confirming or disproving your claim, which is irrelevant to tariffs, I reiterated the important part.
continuing with your false narrative and spreading your opinion
I’m not making any false claims (with the possible exception of mistakenly thinking that there’s no car factories in Xinjiang) and the fact that the ones paying for the tariffs would be Germans buying more expensive cars as well as Chinese workers losing their jobs as their employers lose market share is just that: a fact. NOT an opinion.
To quote yourself to yourself, your points in your statement above are false again.
🎵 Come on JB now it’s time to blow doors down!
Even so, tariffs on Chinese cars won’t do anything to lessen the problem of slavery and will hurt Chinese workers and people who want to wean themselves off fossil fuels IMMENSELY.
The two issues of tariffs and slavery aren’t related and that you’re using the former as a defense department the latter is a sign that you don’t have any real reasons not to oppose such destructive protectionism.
It’s like saying that there should be a tariff on American cars because number plates are being made via penal slavery.
Guess what: Chinese cars aren’t even made in Xinjiang.
Politicians are just conflating two completely unrelated issues to drum up support for eliminating the supply of cheaper in demand products that consumers prefer over the overly expensive choices from the Western owner donors.
We agree that the ethnic cleansing and slavery in Xinjiang is absolutely abhorrent and that workers throughout China should have much better wages and conditions, but this would have no effect on the former and devastatingly negative consequences for the latter.
German companies support tariffs on Chinese products
Well, duh! It would be great for the bottom line of the German companies to have less competition.
Awful for the German consumers and the Chinese workers who’d be the ones actually bearing the burdens of the tariffs, though.
Counteroffer: it continues to mean asshole in Italy and now also the rest of the world.
Yeah, rights are for people. Not entrenched power structures arranged within semi-arbitrary lines on a map.
Fair enough lol
Something something dancers apparently aren’t humans (according to The Killers)
Alternative headline: 53% are ignorant, naïve as FUCK or both. Probably both.