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I wish. They're just going to lie and say their life is actually better now, or they're going to lie and say prices have actually gone down somehow, or they're
by tombert 2y ago
I wish.
They're just going to lie and say their life is actually better now, or they're going to lie and say prices have actually gone down somehow, or they're going to lie and say that this is all the Democrats' fault, or they're going to lie and say it's some kind of divine thing.
His followers just make shit up. I think trying to prescribe logic to it is akin to trying to "prove false"; the entire premise is malformed.
- nico 2y agoThis is how it went down in Venezuela, very quickly, unfortunately
- kragen 2y agoDo you mean in 01999, in 02002, in 02006, in 02013, in 02014, in 02015, in 02016, in 02017, in 02019, or last July? There are a lot of events in Venezuela that vaguely resemble your description but none that really match. This comment is getting downvoted now, presumably by people who think it's totally obvious which event in Venezuela nico is talking about, but can't be bothered to enlighten me. I wonder if the different downvoters even agree with each other about which one it is.
- Tadpole9181 2y agoWhy are there leading be zeros?
- szatkus 2y agoIt's one of those weird HN things... https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550
- stogot 2y agoI don’t think it’s a “HN” thing
- eesmith 2y agohttps://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/ https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an... > The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. As you may have noticed any reference we make to a year begins with a zero: 01977, 03012, 02000, 00521, 01215, etc. > It’s an idiosyncrasy to which we are dedicated. It’s nerdy fun, but it has a serious point, too. As our co-founder Stewart Brand points out: the present moment used to be the unimaginable future.
- orwin 2y agoGP probably mean 2014, that was the year everything went to shit there. But thinking about it, it's probably more like 2013. Like people say: slowly, then all at once. The "all at once" of venezuela was 2014. But the US president don't have the same power Maduro had, and have competent bureaucracy (in this case, the Fed). Anyway the comparison does not really work anyway. We lack data points. I'll wait 6 months before making any judgments.
- inverted_flag 2y agoHis dedicated followers will, but a lot of low information voters voted for Trump primarily because prices ballooned after covid, and the first tangible effect they’re going to feel from his presidency is a rapid increase in prices.
- tombert 2y agoI just genuinely hope that we are all wrong, and that massive tariffs will somehow lead to prices dropping. I am pretty confident that I am not wrong, but if prices do somehow drop I’ll admit I was.
- pupppet 2y agoEven if prices do go down, are you going to be OK with Trump reneging on the USMCA that was signed on his watch?
- tombert 2y agoNo, probably not. I'll admit that I don't really know enough about unilateral trade agreements so as to understand the details of the USMCA or NAFTA, but it does seem like just reneging on a deal that the US (and specifically the same president) signed is going to lead to a lot of ill will from our allies. I don't really know if countries have a "credit score", but it does seem like it's greatly going to erode away at foreign nations' trust of the USA if we aren't going to honor our trade deals.