No, I don't think I will. I enjoy exposing lies like "while the present behavior of the illiberal right is abductions and overseas slave camps" by pointing out that 2 out of 346 million is simply not that at all. I also enjoy pointing out lies like this:
> whatbaoutisms, pedantry, and goalpost moving
All three of these things are false. You know very well that 2 instances out of 346 million is none of those things. I don't know what to call this other than malice, because it's extremely clear to anyone with basic reading skills that the two data points provided do in no way support the claim "the present behavior of the illiberal right is abductions and overseas slave camps".
The administration admitted that they deported a legal resident to a fucking concentration camp in El Salvador! How is this something we’re like “oh but the illiberal left!” This is literally Stalinism!
I don't see how that follows. It's not a step up to be forced to work in a factory, compared to before when not working was an option because costs were lower.
Well, the good news is almost nobody is gonna like this, so I don't anticipate it lasting beyond Trump's presidency, assuming he makes it 4 years at this rate. The bad news is that even after tariffs are removed, it will take years for prices to recover, if they ever do.
Actually one policy that Biden kept in place after the 2020 elections was the Trump Tariffs.
I think we are underestimating how popular protectionism is with progressives, it may turn out to be an unusual alliance between disaffected voters on the far right and left outnumbering free trade advocates in the center of both parties.
I haven’t seen any progressives in favor of this. Disaffected voters on the left want more housing and universal health care, not tariffs on avocados. Disaffected voters on the right just like to see libs getting owned… but they won’t appreciate their wallets being liberated of their money.
You know back in the 80’s free trade was a right wing Ronald Reagan Republican position and it was the left wing democrats who supported protectionism.
Even in the United Kingdom. The neoliberal Margaret Thatcher supported free trade and an end to the manufacturing jobs of North England and it was the left wing socialist Labour Party of the UK back then that wanted protectionism for English manufacturing workers
Yeah, I know protectionism used to be a ‘left’ position. I agree with parts of the reasoning, like opposing transnational DRM schemes, which the TPP tried to push. But hardcore protectionism has always felt more populist than leftist to me, kind of like how hardcore nationalism isn’t inherently right-wing, but often ends up there.
They're going to try to make sure we never have fair elections again. I'm not saying they're going to succeed, but they're sure as hell going to try, which is terrifying.
After this, I don't think they'll succeed. This is Trump's Afghanistan pullout moment. His approval will crater and never recover. He's not surrounded by adults like the first time around.
This sounds like typical NYT sane-washing. After the Signal fiasco I've lost all confidence this administration is secretly super competent but just refuses to let any of us see it. There is no big plan here. This is just an old man surrounded by too many yes-men.
There is also a camp of ideologues that don’t care if they implode the economy if they get to LARP the TV version of the 1950s. Imploding the economy might even make it easier to sell traditionalist politics.
That was a rainy day argument for not caring too much about debt. But what's happening now is we're raiding our savings account to pay for bath salts. No, it was not "the plan all along".
Tesla took over a decade before they open-sourced their supercharger standards.
From Tesla's own website: "NACS was originally developed by Tesla, deployed in 2012 with the first Supercharger and Model S vehicle and eventually published by Tesla in 2022 with the goal of industry-wide adoption."
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