BoycottUnitedStates

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19638273

Edit: apparently they're posters you can download https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1KPaA4jNHcWLFNbjl4M1Q5HxXROnZtYXd

Air France promoting flights to Washington DC

Originally posted on Reddit

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27088970

• [PDF] Letter.

Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions

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Electric car buyers don’t like right-wing politics. This means Elon Musk’s position at Tesla is very vulnerable and susceptible to economic pressure.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

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In case you ever wanted to blur your house from google street view you can. A little privacy i suppose, its pretty easy. you dont need a reason to do it. This probaly the only thing google lets opt out of which is cool.

Originally posted on Reddit

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27285771

https://fixupx.com/elonmusk/status/1897954924337467555

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Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/9228

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26937940

The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).

The Polish investigative outlet VSquare revealed that the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures of the EU.

The “closed-door workshop” featured a debate on a new paper produced by the lobby groups MCC and Ordo Iuris entitled: “The Great Reset: Restoring Member State Sovereignty in the 21st Century”.

We are planning a site to list all of his supporters and appeasers.

If this is interesting, please check this.

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I’m challenging myself to buy nothing except groceries and gas. I’m canceling all my subscriptions. My spite and anger at the tariffs and bigotry is stronger than any need for anything else at the moment.

After a couple aborted attempts due to a car repair and a very desperate Culver’s stop (both after a few days of successful boycotting), I’m happy to say I’m back on track, on day 4 of my boycott and learned from my first attempts and in it for the long run.

I’m buying the bare minimum from the grocery and making everything myself I can from hair products to bread to pizza from scratch. I also have a few months of frozen meat I’ll now be dipping into. I encourage all Americans to do this since of course a full boycott isn’t feasible.

Originally posted on Reddit

Posted on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottUnitedStates/s/bAmQ1rFuaq

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27236764

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's kicking out the new Ambassador from South Africa — accusing him of hating America and hating Donald Trump.

Thousands of businesses and millions of people (Americans and Europeans) are going to suffer because of the trade war with the U.S. I’m not sure why the EU doesn’t instead just scrap carbon credits for Tesla (Tesla generated over $2bn in credits globally last year and will be unprofitable without them).

It is clear that Musk is a pertinent asset to Trump and that Musk has significant influence over the administration. So instead of implementing broad tariffs, why not isolate an obvious target?

Originally posted on Reddit

Originally posted on Reddit.

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/5471

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58323257

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9179673

Verwechslungsgefahr!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27233131

Near the start of this episode, Yeva Nersisyan talks with Steve about leftist economists who are still wedded to the belief that government spending relies on taxpayer money. She says if an academic on the left uses the ‘taxpayer dollar’ framing, then you cannot be surprised when the right uses it too – to say they’re saving taxpayer money, cutting wastefulness, cutting inefficiency. It’s why being consistent is so important. If one side can use it, the other side can too.

“It leads to the Elon Musks of the world using this taxpayer money trope to basically take a sledgehammer or a chainsaw to the public sector.”

Yeva and Steve revisit some basics of MMT, including the understanding that a government is not like a household.

Our own spending doesn’t really affect our own income. We’ll still get our wages, we will still have that, and then we will continue consuming, but consuming less and therefore end up with more savings.

But it doesn’t work for the economy as a whole. Because for the economy as a whole, if spending goes down, that means there is now less income, and less income means someone somewhere is earning less and therefore they have to cut their consumption and they also have to cut their saving. And it becomes this cycle where, okay, someone cut their consumption, now someone else is earning less or the grocery store is earning less, right? And now they have to fire their workers. Now their workers don’t have income and they are spending less, and so on and so forth.

Yeva and Steve go into other insights of MMT, including sectoral balances and the reality of the so-called national debt.

They unravel the absurd dynamics of current economic policy and look at the implications of proposed spending cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Fallout from the government’s ruthless abandonment of social programs will be disastrous.

Yeva Nersisyan is an associate professor of economics at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. She received her B.A. in economics from Yerevan State University in Armenia, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics and mathematics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is a macroeconomist working in the Modern Money Theory, Post-Keynesian, and Institutionalist traditions. Her research interests include banking and financial instability, and fiscal and monetary theory and policy. She has published a number of papers on the topics of shadow banking, fiscal policy, government deficits and debt, and the Green New Deal. Nersisyan is currently coediting The Elgar Companion to Modern Money Theory with L. Randall Wray.

Find her work at <levyinstitute.org/publications/yeva-nersisyan>