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I have no dog in this race, but stock bros are parasites who contribute nothing to ANY society, all they do is try and benefit off of others hard work, have 0 morality, would sell their mother if her cleaning efficiency dropped 5%, and have no loyalty to anything other than their own numbers.

Sorry, that's a lot of text to call them Jews. Get fucked. Globalism is literally killing the western world.
 
I used to see clothes from Vietnam but not anymore. Also lol these tariffs are going to (hopefully) kill fast fashion and I'm all here for it.
Me three. Here's an article for posterity:
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Everyone who's quoted in this article is with a professional organization or is an analyst, so of course they're dooming, but then you get this:
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"Sustainable fashion" is already a trend, just yesterday I saw a viral post on twitter that said something to the effect of "It took 5 years but I finally got all the polyester out of my closet." Buying secondhand has long been a sensible option that a lot of people take, but in addition to the usual thrift stores and hand-me-downs and clothing swaps there are more hip boutique resale chains than ever before like Second Street, Buffalo Exchange, and Crossroads. And then add to that all the basic resale apps like ThredUp, Poshmark, and Depop. And on top of that add that secondhand luxury or otherwise high quality clothing is more accessible than ever, so people are using apps like Vestiaire and The RealReal to buy high quality things secondhand that they will use for decades.

There's also already a successful model for bringing clothing production back to America. Unfortunately it involves lecherous Canadian jewbag Dov Charney but the guy is following through on manufacturing. It used to be American Apparel before he was outsed from that company for being creepy, and since then AA cut all the good stuff, but for several years there it was all made in the USA. Dov has a new thing, Los Angeles Apparel, which is essentially the same as old American Apparel. Everything is made in downtown LA, the workers are making $20-35/hr, they buy their cotton from American farmers, etc. and the prices aren't that expensive when you take all that and the end product's quality into account.

I'm stoked for TFFD.
 
Nigger yesterday you were trying to argue that losing $4000 in gold is somehow better than losing $4000 in stocks because it's heckin physical or something and that somehow makes the $4000 different.
my gold is the only thing keeping me alive with the stock market dumping like this
why own gold when you can own stocks, stupid poor? anyway, my physically owned gold is more stable than stocks

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have a tiny bit of self awareness and question why you're crying about a US ship getting attacked 58 years ago but are ignoring active attacks on US ships now. The Houthi who's slogan is literally death to America just fired missiles at the USS truman and you're sucking them off.
"have a tiny of bit of self awareness and question why you're crying about some minor terrorist attack from nearly 2 years ago everyone already forgot but are ignoring active terror attacks you're doing to everybody else around you"
See, it's not that hard. You're doing a great job being Israel's representative for this thread.

#BoycottUSA is trending?
The rest of the world doesn't have power to ignore us, we can literally outlast all these shitty irrelevant third world countries(that includes entirety of Europe) even if we made nothing but retarded decisions for the next 4 years. Let's see how long this little temper tantrum of theirs lasts, before they come crawling back and begging for good deals again like Canada.
 
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China's new middle class with disposable income that has emerged during the past 20 years is larger than the entire US population. That's why every Fortune 500 company is willing to sell you out as fast as possible for access to them.
this is a false dichotomy. chinese corporations rule the roost in china, and always will. every single american company that tries to get a solid foothold to access that chinese middle class find themselves immediately at a disadvantage due to the dozens and dozens of laws ONLY foreign-owned companies have to deal with. that middle class is nowhere near as accessible as the US's, and it's also only in a few select cities. the vast majority of china's population wastes their money on the bread and circuses the government makes available easily to them. just look at how much is spent by the chinese on gacha, and how the chinese govt had to regulate children playing video games made directly in china.

that is one city. the overwhelming majority of china is shithole slums and rural countryside. are you a chinaman or something?
 
It’s depressing actually knowing how the shit we all use is made. I honestly would gladly pay more for items if I knew those people weren’t being treated like shit.
for 3rd worlders its either be a manufacturing slave or a sex slave. if there were more factories in SEA there
You really want to fix this shit? Increase taxes on corporations and the rich. Corporations only pay taxes on profits
corporations, just? anyone can create a corpo and c corps pay taxes twice. and there's always a practical limit regarding reinvestments like overhiring.
I'm sorry, can you point to me toward the workaholic GenZAlpha willing to work
Let me know if you find any willing to work and not fuck around their phone all day.
 
Thanks free market.
Though they’ve been abusing “100 billion yuan loan” to the point so much has been built of questionable value that it’s completely fair to conclude their numbers are extremely inflated.

Recently learned majority of their high speed rail has been under capacity, and now they got a fuckload of debt from it since high speed rail is a money black hole if it fails to be economically viable.
 
It's not a weird thing at all. It's a short, punchy, visual manipulation tactic. "He's literally tariffing a bunch of penguins, what a stoooooopid dood head." It's why you keep seeing a bunch of idiots repeat it, because it's dumbed down to the point that idiots can remember, laugh at, and repeat it. It doesn't have to have anything to do with reality. It just has to be something idiots can laugh at on command.
The problem is people remember what they feel, they don't remember facts.
If you want them to fear omega Trump Hitler you can't make them laugh. It confuses their emotional programming.
Derisive condescension sure, but genuine laughter at the thought of cute little penguins paying tariffs on their little penguin goods will diminish their fear response to the idea of tariffs. Bad move.

Edit: This is the same reason encouraging the Vance edits was a bad idea. They thought they were mocking him, but instead they were making him funny and non-threatening and even worse: Relatable.
He did the right thing saying he knew about them, posting one once, then never mentioning it again. He doesn't kill the meme by keeping a death grip on it or participating in it constantly, but he affirmed the perception that he is the goofy looking guy in the edited images that make people laugh.
Leftists don't seem to understand this. You need consistent messaging and that messaging is what you make potential voters feel.
Note that whenever Trump makes fun of people (sleepy joe, crooked Hillary) it's humorous but also consistent in tone to his overall messaging of the opponent.
 
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for 3rd worlders its either be a manufacturing slave or a sex slave. if there were more factories in SEA there

corporations, just? anyone can create a corpo and c corps pay taxes twice. and there's always a practical limit regarding reinvestments like overhiring.

Let me know if you find any willing to work and not fuck around their phone all day.
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Naked shorting is not illegal. Market makers could not function without it.
Shorting is what keeps the market makers functioning, not naked shorts. Naked shorts provide no value to the market.
That lack of knowledge is why so many more people lost their ass on that GME gimmick P&D than "made millions."
Naked shorting is illegal when used to drive down the price of a stock, like what happened to GME. It has been since 2008.

"Failure to Deliver" is not per se illegal, but that's because some short trades end up costing more than you can afford to pay. You still owe the money.

Every sucker who loses on obvious pump-and-dumps blames the mythical naked shorts. Happens every single time. Promoters who do the P&D's depend on you believing it so you'll fall for the next one and the one after.

The people that lost their ass were the naked shorts. They lost billions of dollars and more than one of the hedge funds shut down completely. These are not suckers falling for a pump and dump.

Moreover, shorting has 0 to do with pump and dumps. A pump and dump is where you buy a ton of shares of a low volume stock at a low price, encourage others to buy too so the price continues to rise, and then you dump your shares at the peak. It is also illegal in the US.
 
The ability to feed ourselves is a matter of national security. If milk prices go down significantly, farms shut down and we lose the ability to be self-sufficient. That's worse than throwing some gibs to farmers.
I mean, that's a popular argument. But that also means the farming industry in it's current state isn't viable without government backing. We have the land, seeds and ferts. But the cost structures associated with those things have no reason to be managed because it's essentially free money. Vendors can charge what they can because they're government backed. They get to exist above and beyond more productive or innovative farms because the government keeps them at the top.

You can't compete with a government backed farm, even if your product/method is superior.
 
Thanks free market.
Though they’ve been abusing “100 billion yuan loan” to the point so much has been built of questionable value that it’s completely fair to conclude their numbers are extremely inflated.

Recently learned majority of their high speed rail has been under capacity, and now they got a fuckload of debt from it since high speed rail is a money black hole if it fails to be economically viable.
There are entire cities, fully built and finished, that are totally empty, just to keep the false narrative of endless growth going in China.
 
why own gold when you can own stocks, stupid poor? anyway, my physically owned gold is more stable than stocks

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When did I ever say you shouldn't own gold? I just said that the price of gold moving has the same effect on your USD value as the price of stocks moving, in either direction.
Gold is usually less volatile because there is lower liquidity
 
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