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Should be a wild four years.

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Looking at all these new about tariffs, here's my prediction

>announce tariffs with basically all your closest trade partners
>consumer prices are going to rise rapidly
>we'll see a small shift in the big picture
>Trump will announce that tariffs have worked, the US has now improved X percent it's foreign trade balance, objectives were achieved
>everyone rejoices
>consumer prices are not coming down to pre-tariff level, permanent increase of 10-15 ish %
>???
>profit for Trump and his Jew buddies
 
I read every single source you provided. I provided you more sources than you provided me. What, exactly, is the double standard?
I've already listed the Union states, by name, that allowed slavery during and after the Civil War. This is something that you, and others, have outright ignored and haven't responded to. Instead, you call me a "Lost Causer", which is wrong, and that I support slavery, which is even more wrong. I have nothing else to say to you because you made it clear that you're not interested in arguing in good faith. I am only make this response out of courtesy, little as you deserve it.
 
In my opinion, existentialism is about radical responsibility: to yourself, to set examples, and even to society, as you progress from one to the other.

Stop making excuses for yourself.
Stop making excuses for your behavior.
Stop making excuses for not reaching your potential.

Stop making excuses for other people.
Stop making excuses for their behavior.
Stop making excuses for not reaching their potential.

Show people what happens when you stop making excuses for yourself.
Show people what happens when you stop making excuses for your behavior.
Show people what happens when you stop holding yourself back and reach your behavior.

Nihilism is best defeated with agency. Yeah, clean your room, then go work out and learn something.
 
Wait, it's been confirmed, beyond a doubt, that China was completely responsible for COVID?
No, the CIA released a statement a few days ago saying 'covid was "more likely” to have come from a lab than a natural reservoir like a bat or other animal at the wet market. The conclusion did not come from new evidence—merely a fresh look at existing data—and the agency has “low confidence” in the findings.'

Doing so 5 years after the facts and amidst rising tension between the US and China come across as weak and opportunistic to me, even if I agree with the statement.

Best source I have is APnews, couldn't find the raw declaration.
 
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Slowly. If you keep drinking every day, you will work your way up to it. Take my advice and quit while you still have your life together. No one ever says "my life improved so much when I started drinking alcohol."
Y'all making me feel foolish over worrying about my 2-3 cans of beer a day habit. Haven't had any since the first of the month, but I'm not planning on never drinking again, and damn do I miss the stress relief and taste, even if it makes me less productive overall.
 
You know what else?

Back in the day, I can believe FDR loved this country. I can believe Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, and Clinton loved this country and wanted the best for it.

I don't believe for a God damn second that Hillary, Obama, Harris, AOC, Omar, etc ever loved this country but rather see it as a means to an end or something they want to transform into what they believe the country should be. I think they resent everything the country used to stand for. They resent the people who built it and shaped its culture. They resent the generations that came before them.
 
I brought up the line from the Sopranos where Tony said "It's good to be in something from the ground floor, and I came too late for that, I know. But lately I've been getting a feeling that I came at the end. The best is over" and how I kind of feel that way with America. How I got in at the very end and managed to catch the last gasps of the prosperity and feeling that the previous generations enjoyed.
Funny to think that quote your referencing is over 20 years old now.

 
TL,DR shit sucks and idk of it will ever get better.
I find it helps to contextualise our current situation in the broader scope of time. The past 30-40 years to the present are just a small slice of our overall history, and just a little before our present things were a lot better than they are now, but a little before the good times things were also bad. I think that we can get back to the prosperity and times of hope our parents/grandparents went through again, we just have to reach the end of this cycle of hopelessness and depression. I think the uncertainty of the future leaves quite a lot of room for hope.
 
In my opinion, existentialism is about radical responsibility: to yourself, to set examples, and even to society, as you progress from one to the other.

Stop making excuses for yourself.
Stop making excuses for your behavior.
Stop making excuses for not reaching your potential.

Stop making excuses for other people.
Stop making excuses for their behavior.
Stop making excuses for not reaching their potential.

Show people what happens when you stop making excuses for yourself.
Show people what happens when you stop making excuses for your behavior.
Show people what happens when you stop holding yourself back and reach your behavior.

Nihilism is best defeated with agency. Yeah, clean your room, then go work out and learn something.
I've actually been thinking on this a lot lately for reasons and I agree. Nihilism isn't meant to be an end state, it's a filter. You bottom out in life and you hit the filter of nothing has inherent meaning, no one cares, and no one is coming to save you. I mean, I'm a Christian, so it's a slight modification to only eternal things, the things of God, have inherent meaning because they're the only things that last, but that's just Ecclesiastes, go read it. So you either get filtered, sink into nihilistic hedonism "Nothing matters," or you pass through the filter, learn that you decide the meaning of things, no one cares and that's a good thing, because you can just do things. Maybe the climb back out of the abyss is Sisyphean, but you can imagine Sisyphus happy. Existentialism is about getting out of the Abyss. If we've learned anything the last two weeks, make it You Can Just Do Things.

The things I think about when I'm supposed to be working, chasing loose thoughts down.
 
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