So you're agreeing this is a Bill of Attainder limited to a single group of American citizens?
Thanks.
So you're agreeing this is a Bill of Attainder limited to a single group of American citizens?
Thanks.
Trump was more than happy to sell Ukraine surplus munitions back in 2018, when a diplomatic solution was still possible.
Drenching the conflict with lighter fluid and waiting for someone to light a match.
Deflated because China is subsidizing these vehicles
What do you think those $7k US tax credits for new EVs constitute?
Turd on turd violence. But it did seem like Kennedy was ready to fix Truman's mistake in kicking off the Cold War.
And then...
Sadly, I'm an English speaker so I'm very limited in my options.
This is good advice on it's face, but what if you're living in a country full of Nazis?
Like, let's say - hypothetically - the cops are Nazis. And all your mass media is full of Nazi agitprop. And friends and family are periodically repeating Nazis talking points. And you are feeling increasingly isolated by the sheer madness of the outside world.
Hypothetically, of course.
this guy is not even being charged with anything
He feels threatened, though. That violates his NAP.
If these were black kids playing across the street rather than armed FBI agents pounding on his door, he likely would have tried to gun them down already.
Libertarians denounce Lincoln as a tyrant, then spill a gallon of ink praising Coolidge, Eisenhower, and Reagan for brutalizing Latin America and terrorizing American immigrant communities.
They don't give a shit about Freedom and Liberty. They're just white nationalists. They want to bring the old plantation system back.
And these Chinese vehicle prices are artificially deflated.
Deflated thanks to the buying power of the US dollar. That's just more US economic policy rebounding on itself.
You state that companies here are artificially inflating their prices but then state that you’ll buy a foreign brand electric
Domestic automakers are running enormous administrative overhead, thanks to their focus on stock buybacks and investment in kitsch features like AI. That, plus the high cost of computer chips created by the AI/Metaverse/Crypto bubble which is, itself, feeding into buybacks and other corporate accounting tricks to boost executive and board compensation.
Chinese firms don't have that baggage. So they don't need to put enormous markups on their vehicles. The real cost to produce for a new car (especially a small one) is fairly low and you can still turn a big profit on volume if you can outcompete American automakers on price.
There are only a handful of US car makers
Thanks to decades of consolidation. But those car makers have millions of workers spread across dozens of factories. They command hundreds of billions of dollars in domestic capital. Its not like these are three smol beans fighting the Big Scary BYD. These are three of the wealthiest and most profitable businesses to ever exist on the planet.
And they can't compete.
It's the same cycle we had from back in 2002, under the Bush Hummer tax cut. Government subsidized light trucks and made gasoline artificially cheap, so people went out and bought these enormous vehicles and dumped millions of gallons into them for power.
Then 2008 hits, gas prices go vertical, car loans go bust, and the Big 3 are out begging for bailouts. Obama delivers (while Mitt Romney signs his own death warrant in Michigan by telling Detroit to go bankrupt) and rides a popular wave of support for saving the American auto industry from itself. But he doesn't bother to do any kind of regulation or curb the consumption of fossil fuels, because that would make soccer moms still driving their 10 ton vehicles sad.
Then the bubble pops in 2020 thanks to COVID and everyone runs into receivership again and we've got to flood the zone with taxpayer bailout money.
But that's okay, because COVID actually gave us cheap gasoline again! So we get another era of cheap gasoline and big cars and a brand new automotive industry bubble.
Gee, I hope history doesn't repeat itself.
Also a great place for training bots and gauging responses.
Hey, now. They also really hate FDR and LBJ.