StJohnMcCrae

joined 8 months ago
[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The fact he hired a stylist to help him look more like Jack Harlow is hilarious. Bro, you're 40. Trying to look like Augustus Caesar is finally age appropriate - why are you changing it up NOW?

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

The taxes will continue until manufacturing improves.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Depends how you phrase the question. If you ask people "do you think the nation of Israel has a right to exist" (are you a Zionist) it probably would be closer to 60%.

Plenty of "Zionists" (in the non-slur sense) are sympathetic to both parties. It's just that internet discourse on the subject has become so radicalized and binary that it gets lost in the conversation.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Written English should widely adopt accented letters. Our spelling would make a lot more sense if words were written the way they actually sounded. Half the words I'm talking about are rooted in Old Norse anyway.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just more evidence that trump doesn't understand his own plan and doesn't have what it takes to effect it. His desire to have foreign dignitaries come and kiss the ring outweighs his political conviction that tariffs are the correct way forward.

The only possible way that tariffs work is if investors are confident that the trade barriers will stay in place - not just for the 4 years of this administration, but for the time that you would need to generate a return-on-investment from the factory that they're being incentivized to re-shore in the USA.

By signaling that the tariffs are open to negotiation, he disincentivized those investors from investing in American manufacturing when overseas manufacturing could become re-advantaged depending on the mood and disposition of a tyrant.

For example, nobody is going to build and staff an entire textile mill in Arkansas if it's cheaper (both long and short term) to just buy the product from overseas.

Even if tariffs were sound economic policy (they are not), they require a steady and predictable hand at the wheel to give confidence to the market, which is something that this president (and country seemingly) is incapable of.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

"I dont believe AI will ever be more than essentially a parlar trick that fools you into thinking it's intelligent."

So in other words, it will achieve human-level intellect.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

Not a wild take at all. I'd bet money the guy you're replying to thinks America's evil is unique to it alone.

In reality, evil is just part of the human condition.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wow what a bunch of freeloaders!

What has science ever done for me?

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Actually sir, have you considered that religion bad?

I have read a quote by Marx, and am very smart.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 9 points 8 months ago (11 children)

"the question of "should Christians strive for a classless society" is a complex one."

Not to the early Christians it wasn't. The early Christians movements (before they were co-opted by Empire) were radically egalitarian.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What do you think that chart would show?

(Aside from a huge drop in democratic popularity following the anti-israel media blitz following the Oct 7 massacre)

Do you think Republicans are the only ones susceptible to propaganda?

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