GreyEyedGhost @ GreyEyedGhost @lemmy.ca

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Tariffs can have certain benefits if wielded with finesse in the right circumstances. Trump uses anything he has like a blunt object. The goal of the retaliatory tariffs was to cause key parts of America pain, rather than mostly Canada feeling the pain of these tariffs.

As for helping the working class. No tariffs are better than tariffs for that working class, but that group has been neglected or targeted for a long time.

This is a key point. A lot of Canadians are going to avoid buying American, at which point it doesn't matter if they're product is on the shelves or if the price didn't go up, so there will still be some economic impact even if our leaders kiss and make up.

Trump didn't piss off one person, he pissed off millions, then gave them a target. And this isn't a unique event. Similar responses are happening in the EU and elsewhere.

I'm not sure how you're going to talk politics without personality, and this is both indicative and typical of his personality.

Trump hasn't liked Trudeau since he won Trump's stupid little handshake game.

Hence, the plans in Project 2025 to remove people who resist their plans in most bureaucracies and replace them with loyal followers. While they may not be as effective at running the bureaucracy, they will be very effective informants. And the bureaucracy being effective isn't high on their priorities. And on top of all that, their base will approve of the bureaucracies running poorly because they've been taught that they represent government waste. At least until they learn about all the things they do that they never thought about until they stop being done right, on time, or at all.

I prefer the best money can buy. Best politicians, legal system, healthcare, education....all can be had for the right price.

As a general rule, if a politician won't give an answer it's because they know it will hurt their chances of being elected or reelected. So which answer is likely to hurt him or the conservatives?

The recent spate of broken underwater cables has been in the Baltic Sea, and I'm not sure if there is a short route between those two locations. I doubt this particular ship has any connection with those incidents.

Your gotcha is that it only cost $3000 per person to deport them?

While you're correct, another option would be to use that money to help his fellow countrymen, but apparently that isn't American.

More like $4.

If you try to get elected by blaming something on the currently elected official and say that you will fix that, be 100% prepared to take the blame if that thing gets worse even if it was something you had no control in whatsoever, because you stood up and took responsibility for it.

If you don't want to be blamed for saying stupid things, stop saying stupid things.

And also, "Why won't the opposition release details on this? I'm as in the dark as the rest of you citizens because those in power don't want us to know." But if he had the clearance and the briefings, he wouldn't be able to say that shit.

Welcome to the internet, you must be new. Keep scrolling through new here and you should see some pretty common jokes about the falliability of AI of various flavors. Criticism of the weighting on training models can be found with just slightly more effort.

I don't think you're wrong in general, and I could give you a list of criticisms of Gate's actions even today. But if we're going to have wealth disparity, and we probably always will, I'd rather it be pragmatic self-interest clothed in good will than rabid self-interest clothed in freedom.

I can't think of anything that would give more of an appearance of weakness than setting demands on another party for who they'd install in cabinet if they won.

An aberration like industrialization, greater transportation, and intragenerational mobility, causing widespread societal change and cultural norms?

For the last 200 years, a significant amount of slavery has been limited to certain phenotypes. I agree that prior to that, it was less prevalent. That doesn't mean we don't have a historical model of slavery based on phenotype, it's just more recent history.

The core tenet of tribalism is "They aren't like us." That might be based on skin color, hair type, clothing, smell (from different diets), behavior. Modern racism (from the last couple hundred years) likely has some elements of more traditional tribalism with relaxed standards so the people a few hundred miles away can start to wrap their heads around the idea that Irish, for instance, are more or less the same as British.

I do hope people can get to the idea that anyone from a given point on this planet (so far) is just a person and not an outsider, but it looks like we have a way to go.

I understand what you're saying, but you are still implicitly agreeing with the idea hardened criminals should be treated more harshly. If your goal is rehabilitation and not punishment, this is the wrong mentality.