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Pretty sure the "you" in the post you're responding to is the "you as in one as in some hypothetical person" and not "you as in UnderpantsWeevil" -- perhaps not but I've definitely been in this change where I use "you" instead of "one" and had people jump all over me for attacking the op.

The stock market is up because nothing has fundamentally changed. Tarrifs are only going to hurt the consumer.

The stock market is based on value extraction and as long as everyone keeps on working and consuming at reasonable level it will continue to hum along just fine.

Some markets and industries will be harmed by this the tarrifs but these are small fractions of the overall economy. There is also a ton of uncertainty since Trump has a tendency to pull back any measure that affects the market averages.

The pain will be felt by workers and consumers but people have to work and we cannot stop consuming so affected workers will ultimately shift to new places and consumption will shift to new products and the skim will continue.

Global markets aren't going to get shaken up because the global market is incredibly resilient. Prices will quiver for a bit but in the long run they will simply route around us and new normals will emerge.

The only way things change is if the people cause it to change. Either accidentally or on purpose. But the change has to be sudden and swift because there are tons of levers built into the system to force us to participate.

Something like national strike might not be enough unless it can be sustained indefinitely and it's not clear how that could occur. I suspect will take several events each gaining the momentum of the last and there is little chance of a first event for occurring.

The stock market is indicating it doesn't think we have the fortitude and despite what we may want to be true, they know a lot about us and our patterns. Our predictability is to their profit, literally.

Never contribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by dumb fuckery.

I have seen no proof that Trump or Musk are smart. It can all be explained by birth lottery and survivorship bias.

The civil war itself destroyed the south's market for cotton. The number of slaves that fled was ever increasing and the war made it even easier.

If the north and south were separated they would have continued to come north but would then be asylum seekers.

The north of the south would have been the main producers of economic growth as mineral exports from that region exploded after the civil war. Based on this alone it's not certain the confederacy would have actually collapsed.

It would take someone with deep historical knowledge of that era to make any realistic predictions of what would have happened.

For instance, the likelihood of the confederate states not further splittering isnt known. And then there are issues such as if the west coast or other regions would do attempt the same break from the union.

There are all sorts of trade imbalances that would be in play. But it's hardly an idle thought experiment. There are simply too many pieces.

The fun part of IQ is that by definition the average is 100.

Having a Mensa qualifying IQ has never been essier!

People getting upset about handicap spots are morons. I'm sure there is some overlap between them and those who don't return carts.

Damn. That's some commitment.

They didn't ask for an example of American broken thinking but you provided it anyway because it's another thing Americans excel at.

Tell me you don't live somewhere where it gets well below freezing without telling me you don't live somewhere where it gets well below freezing.

Have had mutinies small children. Always put the cart away. Doors lock and children aren't that fragile.

Anyone parking in a handicap spot is the one type of person no one should judge when they don't put their cart away.

This guy can control these attacks.

For instance, he could unalive himself.

A casino no less. Multiple times.

A business where even the patrons understand "the house always wins" and he lost the fucking house.

So much efficiency!

Knowing how the right has characterized Greta, comparing them like this is a huge insult against Musk from Couch Fucker Vance

Cheese balls are most certainly not equivalent to cheese curds in any form.

Cheese curds are an ambiguous term, they are either fresh or fried.

Traditionally, fried cheese curds are what one does with their extra cheese curds after they are no longer fresh.

Cheese curds are no longer fresh once they have been refrigerated and lose their squeak. Only thing left to do with them then is to batter and fry them. But they still aren't cheese balls.

Silly blue plates don't know shit about cheese.

She's has a lifetime appointment.

However polls show that Americans consistently have the opinion that Republican admins are better on economics.

Newsflash: Americans are fucking dumb. Mind numblying fucking dumb. Their stupidity triggered an overflow in the universe to where they've looped around and think everyone else is dumber than them.

I think the fastest option is to take over the party. If the right wing nut jobs could do it it the republicans, certainly we can as well.

XP was fine after sp2 but to claim it was good is to give it too much credit.