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[–] [email protected] 154 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Right wing does not argue in good faith. I'm reminded of that Sartre quote

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

that is the MO for troll comments on many sites.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Heritage deletes the article in 30 minutes lol.

So where's the article archive?

[–] Loduz_247 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Here you have the Internet Archive Link

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait a second, that article still exists. Twitter lied to me!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup, non-archive link.

I guess there's a first time for everything. Lying on the internet, who knew you could do that?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Assigned to Patrick…

…before theycanned him

sorry :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Restored before Streisand

or

Lies from poopsite

My vote’s on…

number two 😎

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Drunkenness is sobriety

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

this economic model is closer to 1684 via Philipp von Hornigg

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (4 children)

In case there was anyone left who wasn't already certain that he was lying when he said that he had nothing to do with the Project 2025 people.

Not sure how that could be possible given the events of the past several weeks... But I'm continuously astounded by people's ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Someone shared this, project2025.observer

Would journalists get clicks if they gave weekly progress reports on this? I’m guessing not or those articles aren’t making it to my screens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Blocked on the wifi where I'm at rn. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd recommend getting Mullvad, IVPN or Proton VPN, or at the very least configuring DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (second one is free) to circumvent these kind of blocks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I know. Its trivial to get around it. Its just funny that that website was blocked.

[–] asteriskeverything 5 points 2 days ago

The days left number in this context is really sobering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I remember he specifically said that he hadn't read it. Which is something I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I haven't heard anyone say that after the election tho, but I guess there would still be people like that out there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Trump is clearly playing 4d chess.
He's already on project 2029.
Project 2025 is a given, it's just the details that need to be worked out by minions and rubber stamped by trump.
Musk has already approved project 2025, and is giving it face time. 2029 is obvious to him, so he is working on project 2033 where he gets to ban unions.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly I think tariffs could be a good thing if used in certain ways, but certainly not in the manner that the orange idiot has been applying them. They act to make targeted products more expensive, so if one was to specifically tariff goods made under labor conditions that would be illegally substandard in this country, such as under safety conditions that wouldn't meet our regulations or with purchasing power adjusted wages that would be below our minimum, and set the tariff amount so as to make those goods just a bit more expensive than if they had been made under conditions that at least met our standards, you could reduce the economic incentive for companies to outsource to places where they can exploit their workforce more, and reduce the incentive for those places to avoid improving their labor laws. Trump would never use them for something like that though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Agreed, but I would use tariffs as a form of carbon tax on countries w/o sufficient climate policies. Individual companies/products could reduce the tariff by proving how much pollution is actually produced.

I suppose you could extend that to other negative externalities we want to control for as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Great use for them. If the reason it's cheaper is that they aren't paying the externalities, then adding a tariff is a great way to compensate for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or tariffs on countries with terrible labour policies. It's always annoyed me that labour is never involved in free trade negotiations and the stuff that makes it in are requirements for standardisation or intellectual property, but never anything about labour standards.

Of course, that's by design, because all of those things are neoliberal constructs and the whole point of those is to break labour power, but it's disappointing you never even see anyone pay lip service to anything like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you not read the first comment in this thread? It talks about just this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I thought I was adding to the conversation by mentioning free trade agreements, but ok.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Good. It is preferable if that organ of conservativism is dragged down when Trump's ship sinks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Why would the heritage foundation support a border wall and capital punishment, two crazy things Trump just happens to have been talking about for decades.

It has a section on restructuring the Fed, removing bailouts for banks, and setting a 3% annual growth in the money supply. Which is amazing, so I'm not even mad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

We need a CleverComebacks and the like communities!