When he applied tariffs to washing machines in 2018, people stopped buying. Demand and production decreased resulting in domestic job losses.

Now, not everything is not a washing machine, but that doesn’t bode well.

Anyone who thinks this is just a shortcut to prosperity needs to look at history. In a country that expelled the Democrats due to affordability issues, this is not going to end well.

I love how they cite multiple papers to justify setting phi at 0.25 but for epsilon it essentially just says ‘it’s 4’

America pulled itself out of the great depression by becoming the worlds largest weapons manufacturer and staying out of WW2 until the very end.

They feel that they have been doing their allies a favor by having military bases in key locations that have allowed these nations to spend less than 2% of their GDP on defense.

This administration would like to reset the world order so that these countries pay for their own defense. Isolationists like JD Vance strongly believe in this.

They also know that allies will likely buy weapons from them which will help balance trade imbalances.

Here’s the problem - there is no situation where this does not lead to nuclear proliferation. It’s essentially inevitable if America continues down this path.

Also, when nations invest more in their militaries, they are more likely to use them, with or without adequate justification. The US is a prime example of this.

Perhaps the post WW2 period of relative peace and prosperity is about to come to an end, along with the concept of the Western world - leaving a power vacuum that I’m sure China and Russia are eager to capitalize on.

The prayer is to capitalism

I wouldn’t label the women as unsuspecting. We all knew who Musk was in Jan 2024. A concious choice was made to sexually engage with a terrible person. That is bound to have some unsavory reprecussions.

You better listen otherwise I’ll crash my economy!

Divesting in fascism is the only way forward.

Staring at Instagram and TikTok updooting anti fascist content and whining about the Democrats.

None of those affect Canadians directly. At the end of the day we’re all just monkies fighting for resources.

When America says ‘we own you now and if you fight it, we’ll make sure you starve’ it’s a different conversation.

People don’t (nor should they) take it likely when he says he’s going to use economic force. Canada already has an affordability crisis with its social services under incredible strain. If he proceeds full throttle, Canadians will die.

Free speech for any white person born on US soil absolutist just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

I wouldn’t blame an ordinary person for having money in this index ETF, but it is funny that he made a big deal out of it while having money invested in Brooksfield also.

I certainly wouldn’t use it as a point to discredit Poilievre. There are many other ways to do that.

I think those outside the US figured it was only a matter of time. The US voting population has only become more disengaged and the country has created and is the epicenter of most social media misinformation campaigns.

The US pulled itself out of the great depression first through regulation via the new deal and then by selling military equipment to allied nations during WW2 (essentially leveraging its geographical isolation during the war). Its been addicted to making and selling military equipment since then, in part due to the cold war but I think we can all agree there have been a few wars along the way that were essentially treated as test runs.

Hoover’s nearly 50% tariff on agriculture stretched the depression out by a few years. If we take history as any indication, tariffs are typically either a buildup to complete economic collapse or to a public bailout. One of those seems more likely than the other now. What would a 21st century ‘New Deal’ even look like?

That’s certainly an oversimplification.

Science has representatives that are susceptible to the flaws in human thinking that are also apparent in religion. The recent pandemic made that very clear.

There is a scientific community that has good and bad players in it. Science doesn’t get to wash itself of human corruption just because it’s a process

He has a very clear handle on this. He’s going to siphon the money made on tariffs to him and his cronies through some form of subsidy.

Florida likes to speedrun the decimation of civilization.

There are multiple points in human history where science has overestimated itself.

In Abrahamic religions, God is all knowing, not people. Eastern religions are more abstract, some have all knowing deities and some do not.

Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence states the nation was founded on the “national and historic right of the Jewish people”

Israel’s 2018 Basic Law constitutionally enshrined the state as the “nation-state of the Jewish people,” granting exclusive national self-determination to Jews, prioritizing Jewish settlement as a “national value”, designating Hebrew as the sole official language (with Arabic demoted to “special status”), affirming Jerusalem as the capital, and guaranteeing Jewish immigration rights.

This may be why people conflate the two. Israel has defined itself as Jewish state.

As Mo Amer says, it’s a marketing issue.

America is the epicenter of social media brainrot. ‘I’m not Trump’ would never be good enough there. It needs to come with a TikTok dance or something else flashy and provocative.

I can see how the genocide comment could rub people the wrong way.

This is a case where the outcome trumps process or rationale.

Regardless of whatever personal reason someone may have for not voting in the election, their lack of participation has allowed Trump to take power, leading to the global instability we see today.

They have therefore cosigned America’s role in leading the world into this period of uncertainty.

Which is why America’s standing in the world is about to diminish and the concept of the ‘Western world’ is growing increasingly fragile.

Non voters bear some responsibility for this, regardless of their personal views.

Which is why many outside the US put non voters and Trump voters in the same bucket. Both evil and apathy towards evil have the ability to do incredible harm, especially when paired.