President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
I'm gonna go with zero, because I am the now-unbanned Karl_TheOG_Marx who forgot his password. Sick read tho.
The average consumer paid exactly $0 more than he otherwise would if there were not tariffs for everything he buys for the year.
But she would have not bought as many things.
I'm gonna go with zero, because I am the now-unbanned Karl_TheOG_Marx who forgot his password. Sick read tho.
OK. I guess it was just coincidental timing.
The post about forgetting his password doesn't make much sense. I just checked and the Karl account is still banned.
Wasn't he self banned though? Maybe he meant to unban himself and couldn't remember his password. (which was probably IsraelIsTheGreatSatan or IluvVictor)
I think I requested a self-ban for 6 months approximately a year ago, but I could be misremembering.
Anyway, no, corpus vile, Israel is not the Great Satan. The US is, and Israel is its client state
That isn't how self-bans work. You can't lift it yourself. I assume you could get a mod to lift a self ban before the term of the ban expired.
You make a bad read and, upon getting informed that it's a bad read, plow ahead regardless with zero reflection or even an acknowledgment you were wrong.
I've missed your type of super high-caliber centrist posting. During my time away, have you learned to actually stand for any kind of principle or exhibited any connection to any kind of coherent ideological platform?
You make a bad read and, upon getting informed that it's a bad read, plow ahead regardless with zero reflection or even an acknowledgment you were wrong.
I've missed your type of super high-caliber centrist posting. During my time away, have you learned to actually stand for any kind of principle or exhibited any connection to any kind of coherent ideological platform?
Huh? I have no problem admitting that my read was off. I 100% believe you when you say that you are Karl.
I'm not sure why you are pissed at me. I didn't ban you and I didn't lobby for you to be banned.
On an unrelated note, is there some story behind your new screen name? What does Empty the Cities mean?
That isn't how self-bans work. You can't lift it yourself. I assume you could get a mod to lift a self ban before the term of the ban expired.
In any case, I was under the impression that King Spew perma'd Karl. But I guess it doesn't matter either way. It has been quite a long time since permabans were permabans.
Thanks for the heads up, as I'm unfamiliar with how self banning works, as I'd simply take a break if I was tired of here. I had thought he'd requested a ban but maybe you're right about KS.
On an unrelated note, is there some story behind your new screen name? What does Empty the Cities mean?
Didn't the Khmer Rouge empty the cities? Probably a homage to them.
I'm sure you are correct. I'm not sure why I didn't make the connection to Phnom Penh and Year Zero. I didn't have an homage to the Khmer Rouge on my bingo card for the day. Yikes.
Your boy Donald Trump openly disrespected the US women's hockey team in front of the men and they yukked it up with him, a complete lack of professionalism. Why should anyone stand up for these clowns when they won't stand up for their gold medal-winning colleagues?
And of course, lozen and all the village idiots who spent the last two years railing about the importance of women's sports have jack shit to say when female athletes get insulted.
I'm sure you are correct. I'm not sure why I didn't make the connection to Phnom Penh and Year Zero. I didn't have an homage to the Khmer Rouge on my bingo card for the day. Yikes.
Any second now Victor should be popping in to tell us that Pol Pot was actually a great guy.
Any second now Victor should be popping in to tell us that Pol Pot was actually a great guy.
the USA was on their side. thats your team bro.
they literally killed anyone who wore glasses but i'm sure that nothing compared to the genocide committed by Jimmy Carter and Obama
bruh, you confused cambodia with east timor
get your indoctrination straight at least
Your boy Donald Trump openly disrespected the US women's hockey team in front of the men and they yukked it up with him, a complete lack of professionalism. Why should anyone stand up for these clowns when they won't stand up for their gold medal-winning colleaguesAnd of course, lozen and all the village idiots who spent the last two years railing about the importance of women'
Wait, they don’t actually care about women athletes? I’m shocked.
you should have deleted your post like the other guy didhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegation...
bruh - even that link talks about the us actively bombing them into oblivion because we supported their enemy over them
it wasn't until vietnam - who we saw as the much bigger threat had issues with them that we chose them over a vietnamese puppet state
you're not looking at it with nuance, if it was choose them over choose vietnam it's a very different story than how you are attempting to portary it
and it wasn't material support, if we wanted, we absolutely could have funded them to retake the country but instead just decided to lol at vietnam and not hand over the un seat - which... the usa can't do alone, so long as 2/3 of un general assembly thinks you should have it - yes we wield an incredible amount of influence but the idea that we alone held the keys is crazy talk
and again, us telling china we were ok with them aiding pol pot is very different from aiding them ourselves - especially given that it was to fight another commie group that was a much bigger threat
yes it's gross, we still aided them a little, but this was at the time seen as an attack on vietnam who had growing influence in the region with fears they'd dominate all of southeast asia
and importantly, notice we stopped our tacit support in 1989 and stopped it completely by 1993, would it shock you to learn that's when the vietanm puppet state fell - it was propped up by an armed force that was 90% vietnamese military
they were governed by cambodians - but only after they'd been trained and indoctrinated in vietnam, and they were still under the guidance of 35k vietnamese commissars - and if any of the cambodian leaders fell out of orbit, they'd be purged and sent back to vietnam for re-education
it was absolutely a vietnamese puppet state - an extension of vietnam - absolutely not a legitimate state - so the un seat was less about recognizing vietnam but more about nations refusing to acknowledge a foreign occupation as legit
it was not a peaceful occupation either, they never controlled more than 90% of the country and 25 to 30k vietnamese troops died trying to keep control - it was their own version of vietnam
and... you'll notice, the usa and the west ceased everything once vietnam pulled out and stopped propping up an occupying communist force - and they immediately transitioned to a constitutional monarchy
it all happened not because vietnam was magnanimous, but with soviet collapse, they lost all support and themselves could no longer to continue spending money on that occupation - unable to pay for it anymore and facing their own economic crisis, they pulled out the troops and released the yoke - which were also conditions from both china and the usa in order to re-establish ties, which was more important than ever with no more ussr
it was such a mess after vietnam pulled out that the un actually took over the country to administer it
we absolutely only tacitly supported them as a thorn in vietnam's plans to subjugate all of SEA and the minute that threat dissipated we ceased all support - we were never going to actually support that monster - just allow that monster to bite other monsters
Do you honestly believe that the prices move in response to tariffs in as uncomplicated a way as you describe?
No, I am slightly simplifying them, because of my audience.
I thought about describing the logic using only grocery store items where some products are effected by a tariff while others aren't, but I thought this would fly over nearly everyone's' head.
What you are describing is a reduction in demand. What happens to the price of a product when the demand goes down? Hint: I mention wants happens in the post you responded to.
