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Cake day: October 22nd, 2024

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  • I saw someone say it seems that the tariffs were calculated by dividing our trade deficit by their exports to us and cutting that number in half. Another person analyzed his charts and concluded they look a lot like they were generated by AI.

    So, there is, literally no basis in logic. Either one of Trump’s minions calculated what it would take to recoup the difference in the trade deficit and just wrote it down and he announced that as the new basis for international trade, which has never, ever been done, for the reason that it is fucking idiotic, or he asked Gemini how to execute his already objectively stupid policy and wrote an Executive Order making it the law.

    And the fact that we are forced to accept people on the Internet’s guesses about how he calculated these numbers may actually be worse than the fact that just about every product on the market more complex than a stapler just jumped about 30% in price.





  • You keep insisting that you’re not on their side, but you do insist we more or less are morally obligated to let them try to kill us without responding.

    Furthermore, you demonstrate a clear double standard in your argument. If the only logical response to being bombed by the West is to attack Westerners, then doesn’t it stand to reason that the logical response to being attacked by the Houthis is to attack the Houthis? It’s the same as the arguments defending Hamas. You treat the Arabs as if they’re too stupid to try diplomacy while arguing we are morally obligated to endure being attacked by them.


  • Well you did just say you support the Houthis attacking Israelis, so you are rather proving my point.

    They haven’t fired any rockets since the last bombing.

    The Houthis are murderous terrorist slavers. I do not trust them. I do not care what they want. I want them dead. I may not support Israel’s war effort, but that does not justify the Houthis attacking us. They have chosen to make themselves the enemies of America and I expect them to be treated as such.













  • Israel didn’t purposefully attack Americans because they are Americans. It’s not much, but it’s a difference.

    All of those descriptors except for the slavery one apply to israel and half of Americans give them unequivocal support. And? That doesn’t dispute anything I said.

    First of all, the UN would gladly vote Israel out of existence. Second of all, I do not necessarily oppose a ceasefire. My point was that letting the Houthis get away with attacking us is stupid and, more importantly, politically indefensible.