Plebcouncilman @ Plebcouncilman @sh.itjust.works

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Sure the implementation is fucked. But the basis of it is not necessarily bad. And I believe that even botched implement would have resulted in long term gains that would have been beneficial.

Also economic experts are almost exclusively coming from a neoclassical vision, which is incomplete because it disregards the role of money. Modern Monetary Theory simply fixes that limitation and adds a new perspective that is more complete than the neoclassical vision.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gvDcMU_ko1h5TeVjQL8UMJW9gmKY1x0zcqKIRTZQDAQ/mobilebasic

When the experts of any given field are said that they are incorrect they tend to react with rejection, so it is no surprise that they would reject MMT, as it destroys a lot of what their work has been based on. So don’t just listen to what the experts say, they have incentives to reject revolutionary ideas in their field.

Excellent rebuttal. Well thought out.

International laws are not real laws. Unless the countries are willing to bomb to oblivion a country that breaks international law, there’s nothing to enforce it and therefore they do not exist in practice. They only exists when the US says they exist because they are willing to bomb the country breaking the law.

I reached the same conclusion. But at the end of the day it’s your system, if losing Gamepass doesn’t bother you go ahead and install SteamOS. I did see a few people say that it is somewhat buggy and that Bazzite is still better for the Ally.

Yeah medicine is bitter. People can suffer now, or they can suffer later but the path we’re on will lead to suffering all the same. I prefer to suffer now frankly.

Edit: Let me get into this a little bit more, do you think the current economy is unfair to everyone except the elites? Your guttural reaction to this tells me that you might be, as most people on Lemmy. Well here’s the thing, changing the way things work, a revolution if you’d like to call it that but I don’t because it conjures images of a big uprising and I don’t think that’s necessarily how it’s gonna happen, will result in an upending of the system in such a way that it will be inevitable that people suffer. Change in human systems is followed or preceded by suffering. The possibility of suffering should not stop us from doing what will be best for future generations. I don’t understand where this mentality of avoiding suffering at all costs came from, but all it leads to is complacency and a continuation and proliferation of the current system. The worst thing is that the people that profess it the most tend to call themselves “leftists” which boggles my mind.

It’s been mostly on podcasts, mainly 1Dime radio which has been having MMT people for a while and I highly recommend. But I believe this blog post by Bill Mitchell, who is one of the main forces behind Modern Monetary Theory enters into the rationale of why he would think the tariffs have a solid foundation:

https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=34677

It doesn’t matter if he considered the conditions because he can’t force them to stop exploiting their workforce. But the net effect would have been a floor to the price of production at a global level so corporations would have to choose between slave labor, complex supply chains and overseas shipping costs or domestic labor with lower shipping costs and somewhat simpler supply chains.

Yes the economy would suffer. Medicine is bitter. The option is watching the train derail in slow motion.

Oh I agree. I just also happen to know that the people who should be imposing this tariffs are the ones with the biggest incentives not to do so, so they won’t do it. Look at all the disgusting things they let him get away with and the one thing that would upended the economic order in ways that would not benefit the elites got stopped.

I had some hope that this would be the one thing to slip by. Instead they will let him send people to foreign gulags without due process. But nope, don’t touch the billionaires supply chains! That’s no bueno.

Unfortunate why? It just means Asus sold you a pretty well optimized product.

Despite what neoclassical economists will have you believe, many economists do believe Trumps tariffs had solid grounds. The cutting edge of economic thinking is Modern Monetary Policy. And most of the experts I have heard from that school of thought agreed with the tariffs at some level. They mostly disagree with the implementation but they agree that the principles behind them are sound.

Just know that you cannot in one breath criticize billionaires like Musk and Bezos while defending the global neoliberal order in the other. They are one and the same thing.

Yes there will be pain, but that pain will come for us sooner or later and I think it better come sooner rather than later when we are in a worst position to recover from it. You can let a leg fester with gangrene or you can cut it off and save the rest of the body.

For some of us the recession is a feature not a bug.

Yes I’m sure this would have been the one time the neolib/cons at congress would have acted against their own interests.

I am under no impression that manufacturing would return to the US to create jobs. If it did came back it would have needed to be highly automated. That being said, for me it is a moral imperative that we stop mass consumption of goods produced by people in abhorrent conditions. Bring it back here automate it all. Like Apple says they couldn’t produce the iPhones here but put enough pressure and I bet they’ll figure out a way; doesn’t Huaweii have a factory making phones with no humans in it at all? I do agree that the haphazard nature of the implementation meant that this was doomed from the start. But I was hopeful.

To address your second point:

I would argue that mangoes aren’t a necessity to your diet, you can replace them with fruits that do grow in the US. But I agree monoculture is a huge issue that has a somewhat easy solution but no one wants to touch the farmers living of the governments teat. Tariffs could have been a good tool to stop subsidizing them, without having a collapse in their agricultural sector.

We stop exploiting cheap labor in other countries that maintain said labor cheap by giving no protections to their workers. It stops the abhorrent consumerist culture that permeates society, and its ecological implications. And like there are of course, national security concerns that have been exposed with COVID-19.

Not thrilled about this. The tariffs were about the only damn thing I agreed with Trump about. Not exactly the way he was going about them but nonetheless they could have done a lot of good over the long term. Some damage on the short term, but that pain is overdue frankly.

Don’t take this as a defense of the current administration but this is a baseless thing to say and honestly nothing points at this being the case. They are just doing everything carelessly and without any regards for decency or due process in order to deliver on their promise to export all immigrants. This is the bone they throw to their base in order to maintain support while they grift their assess off pulling all kinds of corruption behind the scenes. It’s clear at this point that there is no ideological backing to Trump, it’s all about enriching himself.

But here’s why these happens: they are not looking at each case individually they are simply canceling visas en masse hoping that cases like this will self flag. Which was the case here. It’s not a good way to go about things but the conman ran on doing just this, this is what the voters chose and in a way it’s his duty to do so. I don’t agree with it but that’s democracy at work.

Second there’s no mechanism for a president to declare martial law. I mean he can declare it as much as you can declare you’re brankrupt, but that is not the same thing as going through the process of bankruptcy. The only ones that can actually declare martial law are the states. There are various laws that prevent the deployment of the military inside the US in such a way.

Of course you could retort with something along the lines of “do you think the laws still matter?”. In which case we can sit here and dream up all kinds of things they could do if they really wanted to do what you say. Like start rounding up immigrants and shooting them on the spot. Or maybe they could start bombing sanctuary cities. Why not drop a nuke in Chicago? It’s all game since the laws don’t matter and they explicitly want people to revolt. Hell why not put everyone that is registered as a democrat behind bars, that’ll do it in a day.

It is not even clear to me that a martial law would be successful in the US except in the cities. Too much space, too many armed people. So please stay grounded in reality.

So far it seems to be an issue with the Legion itself. The ROG Ally sees no meaningful improvements with SteamOS.

It has the most insane user tracking you can imagine given how hard it is to evade bans. The system will literally flag you as a possible ban evader through your behavior only. So not even having a VPN and a new device can hide your identity completely. You have to act different to throw the system off.

Yes but that defeats the point since you still have to go into desktop mode to install the other games. And more importantly It doesn’t support Gamepass.

For the Ally there’s just not enough benefits to go through the effort, I’ll reiterate.

Better or equally good, not comparable. I know there’s a bunch of them, but none offer better or equally performance for the price, only “comparable”.