Florida likes to speedrun the decimation of civilization.

They produce solid content, especially long form journalism but their subscription cost is fairly high.

Develop a public healthcare system and we’ll talk.

There’s no way the wall would look real as your perspective shifts while yoi over closer to it. Most humans would react to that by at least slowing down.

Interesting that in the most consumerist nation on earth, objects have more value than people.

This is the type of reporting that feeds into Trumps hierarchical world view. Anything short of blindly agreeing with what he says is an affront, a ‘smackdown’ even.

Dude politely declined to address it. Which he shouldn’t given his position. Not news worthy.

McDonalds app already does this. Their shit food is absolutely terrible value if you don’t use their app. You’re basically trading your personal info to get a few dollars off a Big Mac.

Most civilized countries would respond to this situation by denying entry. Not throwing a person into your for profit detention system to make a quick buck.

At long last the world gets to see America’s true colors.

The vast majority of people either voted for Trump or didn’t vote at all. Americans chose this madness either through action or inaction. They should feel accountable for the forthcoming consequences. Democracy in action.

Glad to hear that. Any resources you’d recommend? It sounds like a very level headed way to see things.

An American with self awareness. So glad I left corporate shithole Reddit for this place.

Hopefully it gets to that point. More than half of the guns that enter Mexico and Canada are from the US. It’s about time America got called out for its cultural shortcoming of valuing gun rights more than its children.

He also used the conflict with the US to quietly get re-elected a few weeks ago. So he’s playing his political cards well even if he’s a dumbass.

New York is Trumps home state. Fuck em.

You’re correct though the hope / theory is that by subsidizing the upfront expenditure of building a new factory it will eventually become cheaper to build domestically than to import foreign parts, such that the artificially boosted market share due to tariffs will persist even after tariffs are removed.

The flaw in that is that the cost of labor in countries like China, Mexico, Brazil and India is a significant factor as to why importation is cheaper. The cost of American labor is never going to be competitive against those countries unless the average worker in the US accepts substantial concessions in standard of living.

Global / multinational capitalists look at the cost of labor in those countries and figure that if a job can be done remotely, why not have it done where there are limited labor protections and you only have to pay an employee $1/hour (or less).

To get around that flaw, government has to invest in / subsidize domestic manufacturing which Trump’s government has made no meaningful effort at.

Skipping that step is akin to ejaculating prematurely without foreplay, an uncomfortable experience for all involved.

Maybe it’s time we let people who know how to handle an economy run countries? It’s not like the alternatives have been that great so far.

JD Vance showed how much he cares about rural communities in Hillbilly Eulogy. Rural Americans are just impressionable pawns to Trump and his ilk.

At least they didn’t carve them into a mountain though?

Canada as a nation has a concept of common good.

America is obsessed with the idea of not helping the poor because if they’re not incentivized to “bootstrap,” they’ll get lazy.

Americans die of not having access to drugs that are developed In America and subsidized by American tax dollars.

I think we all know which is more ethical.