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Why are the Chinese are punishing their own people in this way??
And I thought the organ harvesting slave camps were bad...
Never, EVER underestimate the capacity for inhumanity an Asian communist regime is capable of.

As bad as the USSR could get, the chinese cultural baseline of cruelty and apathy to the plight of others means some insanely evil shit is done to human beings. Add communism and totalitarianism and it gets almost supernaturally bad.

Why are the Chinese are punishing their own people in this way??
And I thought the organ harvesting slave camps were bad...


Lol, they import tons of food from us. We import shower curtains from them. Let's see who hurts more.
Hey, having a wet bathroom floor is pretty fucking awful.
 
A thought crossed my mind about the tariffs today and that was of the unions. Union workers in the United States are many things but a core requirement to be in a US Union is to be employed in the US. Chinese bullshit manufacturers aren't paying union dues, they aren't voting for union interests. Mexican auto workers aren't either. Going down to brass tacks it's nothing but a major advantage to the various union powers in the United States to support ditching overseas manufacturing as much as possible and bring jobs (and new possible union members) back into the fold. I think that's why you had the head of the Teamsters speaking at the RNC back in the day, something that hasn't happened for as long as I can remember. The Teamsters don't give a shit if they're driving from some port to their destination or if they're driving from a factory in Indiana either, but they do care if their members are getting replaced by imported scabs.

Right now there's a lot of screeching about stonks but the unions, one of the DNC's most powerful voting blocs, have everything to gain from people getting work in areas that they control. Double the auto workers and you double the power of the auto union. I'm no expert but I'd say that's worth ditching the Dems who would choose the coveted tranny vote over them.

We live in strange times.
 
What has Trump done or at least plan to do about the cost of housing the main cost of living crisis ?
  1. Deport illegals who're getting houses on government money
  2. Restrict HB-1 visas so jeets who live 20 to a house and arrive by the million can't simply buy up everything
  3. Point and laugh as housing prices collapse
  4. Younger voters now have a small piece of America and tangible wealth to pass on to their descendants
 
Reagan didn't sign NAFTA or admit China to the WTO.

That was Clinton.

You can always sniff out a Zoomer/Late Millennial because they have no idea that the 90s and 80s were different decades. And they'll call Van Halen "boomer rock."

inb4 "but Eddie Van Halen was born in 1955," his fans weren't, that's what matters
 
The seethe over the next few days will be astronomical as the switch 2 has been confirmed to have delayed its preorders because of tariffs, and the console was already expensive itself with the games being a even greater travesty.
I don't think it'll be that much seething. Everyone already seemed to have a massive problem with the entire concept of Switch 2's features as being selling points. (Price, only resolution and frame-rate improvements, increased game cost, increased monthly subscriptions for basic features, ect...). I saw more excitement for the WII-U than this, and the WII-U was a fucking joke as well. Might have a few Zoomer autists freak out about it though. you know, the ones who make bukakke videos with their Amibos.
 
A thought crossed my mind about the tariffs today and that was of the unions. Union workers in the United States are many things but a core requirement to be in a US Union is to be employed in the US. Chinese bullshit manufacturers aren't paying union dues, they aren't voting for union interests. Mexican auto workers aren't either. Going down to brass tacks it's nothing but a major advantage to the various union powers in the United States to support ditching overseas manufacturing as much as possible and bring jobs (and new possible union members) back into the fold. I think that's why you had the head of the Teamsters speaking at the RNC back in the day, something that hasn't happened for as long as I can remember. The Teamsters don't give a shit if they're driving from some port to their destination or if they're driving from a factory in Indiana either, but they do care if their members are getting replaced by imported scabs.

Right now there's a lot of screeching about stonks but the unions, one of the DNC's most powerful voting blocs, have everything to gain from people getting work in areas that they control. Double the auto workers and you double the power of the auto union. I'm no expert but I'd say that's worth ditching the Dems who would choose the coveted tranny vote over them.

We live in strange times.
Unfortunately, union membership has declined significantly since the 1970s along with good salaried jobs through laws and punitive justice and I don't think it will ever come back. Look at all the Right to Work states and other laws and policy designed to break up unions.
 
  1. Deport illegals who're getting houses on government money
  2. Restrict HB-1 visas so jeets who live 20 to a house and arrive by the million can't simply buy up everything
  3. Point and laugh as housing prices collapse
  4. Younger voters now have a small piece of America and tangible wealth to pass on to their descendants
“Restrict H1B visas”
Yeah not with musk around
 
Unfortunately, union membership has declined significantly since the 1970s along with good salaried jobs through laws and punitive justice and I don't think it will ever come back. Look at all the Right to Work states and other laws and policy designed to break up unions.
The unions have been nothing but an arm of the DNC for decades, happy to destroy their members' employment prospects as long as they deliver elections for the Democrats.
 
Never, EVER underestimate the capacity for inhumanity an Asian communist regime is capable of.

As bad as the USSR could get, the chinese cultural baseline of cruelty and apathy to the plight of others means some insanely evil shit is done to human beings. Add communism and totalitarianism and it gets almost supernaturally bad.
Chinese civil wars get apocalyptic, and if you look at history the cycle is repeating
 
Is the Right comfortable with saying Reagan and the free trade ideology that removed good paying jobs from America was a mistake?
Yes dumbass. The "right" is currently being run by democrats of 20 years ago. Which is precisely what the "conservative" movement was designed for. Until you idiots realize you aren't dealing with the fundies that didn't want you playing dungeons and dragons you will not get anywhere. There is no small goverment party, there is no free trade party. Reagan fucked up.

In more important news, how does the farms feel about a third term?
 
The seethe over the next few days will be astronomical as the switch 2 has been confirmed to have delayed its preorders because of tariffs, and the console was already expensive itself with the games being a even greater travesty.
Feels like even giving a preorder date was something the retailers wanted more than Nintendo. Because if you registered to preorder on Nintendos own website you won’t get an invite until May. I doubt the price is going to change much on the system, especially if the countries are already in talks. The biggest seethe seems to be coming from the same retarded libshits who don’t know how to read or understand the world, or the Brit*sh if you go on the comments of sites like NintendoLife and etc. Certified retards crying and screaming about shit they don’t understand or care to learn about because a new toy might be delayed or cost more.
 
The Right, the most ardent capitalists, spent 30 years saying how based and epic it was that we could buy cheap goods from China when we sent all our manufacturing overseas. Free trade was largely a Reagan creation and the Right still sucks him off to this day. NAFTA was only protested against by leftists at the time now it's correctly stated by the Right that NAFTA was a mistake.

Is the Right comfortable with saying Reagan and the free trade ideology that removed good paying jobs from America was a mistake?
Yes. The right who wanted nafta and free trade are buddies with the democrats who helped pass it. Thanks Bill!
 
The seethe over the next few days will be astronomical as the switch 2 has been confirmed to have delayed its preorders because of tariffs, and the console was already expensive itself with the games being a even greater travesty.
Adjusted for inflation, Switch games cost the same as SNES games did when they were new. Some SNES games even cost more, depending on how much storage was on the cart.

Also, the Switch 2 and it's Games' prices were set months ago, so the tariffs cannot have anything to do with it, unless they decide to raise the prices this week during the delay.
 
Unfortunately, union membership has declined significantly since the 1970s along with good salaried jobs through laws and punitive justice and I don't think it will ever come back. Look at all the Right to Work states and other laws and policy designed to break up unions.
True, but a lot of those right to work laws are backlash to unfettered union support for Democrats. They start switching sides while getting a shit ton of new members and all of a sudden that whole Right to Work thing might slowly start to be dialed back (with little fanfare). If these tariffs actually manage to bring the auto industry back to the US it'll be hard to ignore the kind of numbers the old unions will be showing.

Might just be wishful thinking on my part, of all the Democrat voting groups I've liked union people the most. At the end of the day they want to own a home, work a job that isn't shit and decentralize power in their respective industries. It's an honest and reasonable thing to want. Obviously union organizations are very far from perfect and get corrupt as all get out in their leadership but it's hard to argue against their core ideals. If there's a chance that this common ground is recognized and brings them together with people who really want to see America succeed outside of foreign influence than I think it's at least worth it to risk a little optimism. Optimism has been working out pretty well for me lately anyway.
 
Also, the Switch 2 and it's Games' prices were set months ago, so the tariffs cannot have anything to do with it, unless they decide to raise the prices this week during the delay.
Did everyone just sleep through the PS5 Pro price near riots a few months ago? Or the last 4 years of Biden where everything besides TV's doubled or tripled? People acting like prices going up in the last week at all is some new thing.

Oil is down, gas is down. That's what I wanted to see most from Trump on inflation. He promised 50% cut end of first term. If he gets close to that I'll be relatively ok as long as we get otherwise still less than under Biden, and it's looking likely on that for now.
 
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