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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Drawbacks of living in a country where half the people are dumbshits. It's the new normal and we better get used to it. When you are out in public doing anything, look around. Roughly half the people you see are fucking idiots.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Does Trump not know what a tariff is? Or does he know, and he is deliberately misleading his followers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 50 minutes ago (2 children)

He likely understands what a tariff is well enough. His problem is that he either doesn't understand the implications or chooses not to communicate that part to voters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

He understands tariffs in his terms - that "tariffs" is a useful word to trick people into doing what he wants. How tariffs work in the real world is irrelevant to him, the word gets him what he wants, and that's all he needs from tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Trump understands tariffs, as far as they sound fancy and like a threat to foreigners, his followers understands it even less. Using fancy words make you sound authoritative. Trump's followers like authoritarian leaders.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Trump couldn't even spell tariff let alone define it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago

Just read estimates his tariffs would cost the average household 7600 annually. I told my folks and they didn't understand why I thought it was funny. I told them they wanted this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago

It’s like Brexit, but in America.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

this looks truthy

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I posted a meme last week before the election about a lot of my fellow Americans being depressingly ignorant and a bunch of people got pissed off about it.

I'm just saying...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, a lot has been said about why the 'Democrats' failed; sure they were/are imperfect.

Where are the articles bemoaning our stupid and/or mean citizens who have no curiosity and think being obstinate will work like a time machine? I'm frustrated to hell with apathy of my countrymen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

"Democrats" is too vague to be meaningful in this discussion. I do put a lot of blame on the DNC organization for deenergizing their base, but also the working class for not understanding basic economics and being taken by a carpet bagger.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Their ignorance is equally as valuable as your knowledge. To them, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Both sides-ism in a nutshell. Nailed it.

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

Sometimes in order to learn something is bad you need to experience it.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Maybe it's because I took economics as far back as high school, but even just from reading high school history books I knew what a Tariff was. How the FUCK did they not know that?

I am also willing to bet that they will eventually blame the democrats for breaking the system, as they always do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago

Maybe thr PA education system didn't include things like the great depression

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

One thing that fascinates me is that Trump's definition of tariffs seems more like the definition of kickbacks.

As he was (is?) a landlord, he may also think of it as seeking rent, like how malls get rent from the stores inside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As a foreign asset, I think Trump is just actively performing a proxy war to drain the US of money, power, and resources for Russia. If you think he's going to be doing anything else - lol.

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

It can be both. Lying is more convincing when it's felt as truth by the liar.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (4 children)

There’s a fair portion of people 21+ that have difficulty playing blackjack because they can’t add to 21. Last night I was asked by a grown man what 9+1+3 is.

You’d be surprised how incompetent some people are.

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

Even if you're competent at arithmetic in school, those skills can definitely atrophy. I say this as someone who's unreasonably slow at basic arithmetic despite being an ex-mathlete; I got complacent because I've been learning and using graduate level maths, so I thought that would keep me from getting rusty. Nope — it turns out that basic arithmetic that you'd use in daily life is a different "muscle" to the kind of maths you use in academic research (which is obvious in hindsight)

I can't imagine how much I'd be struggling if I didn't have a good foundation to be starting from

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

You aren't alone. Historically before calculators were common, engineers and mathematicians would actually have books with basic arithmetic answers already done, or they would hire people (usually women) called 'computers' (no joke, that's what the term was used for before computers as we know it were invented) to do the basic calculations for mathematicians so they can focus on the more complicated stuff.

So even a highly talented mathematician from the 1910s and 1920s would still struggle as you do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago

Math anxiety is real tbf, I can add that up real fast without the pressure of someone looking at me waiting for me to solve it, but the second another person is watching I can't even think about the math I just obsess about how I should be solving it faster and how they now think I'm dumb because instead of doing the math I'm thinking about this bullshit and it's taken 10 whole seconds which is a lot longer than it sounds..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Holy shit. I never put this together.

Last time I was at a casino I kept asking myself: who honestly thinks any of this is a good idea, or thinks that any of these are "games" in the conventional sense? Now I know.

Edit: I have also been confronted with people that simply cannot do addition, period. It's wild.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Funny you should mention a casino. Remember when Donald Trump bankrupted multiple casinos? That is actually quite impressive given how often casinos attract people even during recessions as they get stressed and desperate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The quickest and easiest way to win at a casino is not to buy in, don’t play. You’ve got the right idea!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I worked in customer service for 7 years. I am aware... so very aware...

To give you an idea, when I worked for Verizon mobile, it was a few times a week that I came across a client who did not know how to hang up their cellphone calls. No joke. It took such a while to get them off the hook it wasn't funny. And if you ask me why I wouldn't hang up on them, it was because Verizon had a strict no hang-up policy. You were not allowed to hang up on a client no matter what. It was grounds for immediate termination.

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

Maybe it was a HR call to test your patience with customers

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Some companies have already said they're going to pass the extra cost onto consumers, so while the companies will pay more, they'll make a lot of that back from the consumers that can still afford the products.

Electronics will probably be the hardest hit, with prices of cell phones, laptops, and game consoles increasing quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Medical devices too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago

Low inflation statistics have been helped significantly by cheaper electronics. So everybody who voted Trump to lower inflation is in for a surprise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

especially seeing how trump intends to treat Taiwan, home to TSMC

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