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by refurb 2y ago
Vietnam does manipulate its currency. It’s not something that hasn’t been widely discussed for the past decade or more. And if you artificially keep your exchange rate 10% higher, that’s an effective 10% tariff on US imports. I have no ide
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Saying either the world is perfect or not perfect is a false dichotomy? I’m sure that encompasses all possible outcomes, so clearly it’s not false.
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The tariff’s aren’t entirely based on the trade deficit. Vietnam artificially keeps its currency undervalued to boost exports. Trade with other nations? These are exports to the US, which is 25% of the world’s GDP. Who is going to replace
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But the countries hit with high tariffs have specifically uneven trade arrangements. When countries put a high tariff on US goods while enjoying low or no tariffs when exporting to the US - that’s an unfair arrangement.
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True, but a $5 trash can with a 10% tariff is $5.50
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The missing piece is not all costs are passed on to consumers. Company absorb costs all the time. If you think cutting your price by 10% will boost sales by 20%, you do it because total profit is higher even though per unit profit is lower
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How about steel mill jobs paying $35/hr? Saying Americans haven’t been hurt they’ve benefited applies to white collar workers only - no change to jobs and cheaper goods.
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This explanation doesn’t make sense because dollar denominated debt doesn’t change with devaluation. What is the more likely explanation is all the countries with trade surpluses will feel the pain long before the US and agree to much bette
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by refurb 2y ago
How does Trump "make tools"? You think he can twist Congress' arm? And no, Trump couldn't have been stopped because the US has very limited rules over criminal convictions preventing running for President. This isn&#x27
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Fair point. So if we create a system that allows people to be banned from holding political office how do we stop it from being abused? We know that justice is subjective, and mistakes can be made. I would point to Singapore as an example w
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I didn’t ask if Trump should be able to take those tools. I asked if you would be comfortable if he did. Either you believe it is possible to create a perfect political system which never makes a mistake, or you believe mistakes can be ma
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As you said “no system is perfect” so you’d have to accept that it fails to stop someone like Trump from getting into office. It’s like having a gun to defender yourself then the criminal takes it from you. So are you comfortable with someo
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> someone who deliberately breaks the rules isn’t fit to enforce them To give an American example, if someone deliberately broke Jim Crow laws in the South they should be disqualified from office? The problem with this approach is that i
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But what is gained from barring people convicted of a crime from holding public office? - Keeping people out with questionable character? - Preventing crimes from being committed while in office? Neither of those are all that convincing. V
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"Politicization" is just politics, which is nothing more than how human interact when it comes to gaining power. Your problem is with human nature - it's not going to change. We'll never have a system where we find &quot
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> If it's been proven that a politician will cheat democracy, how is banning them from running for office a bad thing? You just answer your own question! Since politicians will cheat democracy, they will use the system to ban people
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I see countless discussions on HN about: - innocent people convicted in court in error - laws selectively enforced where this person never gets charged, yet this person gets put in prison for the exact same thing - a byzantine legal code th
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> As a duel citizen of the US and another Commonwealth nation, I have to say that this is exactly the ridiculous self-caricature perspective that gives foreign nationals a sort of combination of pity and contempt for the average US citiz
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Canada does the opposite of America even if it hurts Canada - it’s a part of its identity. Redefining freedom as “forcing something on people for their own good” is not how anyone actually defines freedom. It’s like saying children have the
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by refurb 2y ago
My comment was in response to the complaint about outbreaks at all.
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This makes no sense. He sold a bunch of Tesla stock, used other stock as collateral for a $6B loan and the rest was outside money. He did all this for a $6B loan he could repay no problem?
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Indeed. Grandparent is not correct, you can’t just assign “whatever” value in self-dealing transactions. The SEC and IRS weren’t born yesterday. It reminds me of people who come up with basic self-dealing transactions with some tax benefit
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Downvote and move on.
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Having an active measles outbreak is a pretty routine occurrence. France, Germany and Greece are included not just the Eastern countries. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11588923/ While it’s easy to blame
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by refurb 2y ago
Instead of replying with reasons why you won’t engage in a respectful discussion you could just downvote and move on. Like I said it would save both of us a lot of time.
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> I can be, but not with an obviously dishonest user like yourself. Dishonest how? By holding views you disagree with? I’ve engaged on a good faith effort so far and your first response was to act like my questions were some nefarious a
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And the really ironic thing is that RFK’s general message of “this is a toxin” is aligned quite closely to the comments you see on HN about PFTE’s, air pollution, food additives, etc. Then suddenly the other team brings up the same thing an
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If you’re not interested in an actual discussion just be upfront about it and save both ourselves the time. I didn’t make the claim, so asking what backs up that claim is called “discussion”. If you’re more interested in shouting people dow
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If you’re looking for sinners and saints I don’t think you’re going to find it. If I were to summarize the disagreement in the most neutral terms, it’s the risk vs benefit of vaccines. And like all risk vs benefit choices, it comes down to
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I would question your true interest in understanding when you use the words “this clown” and “all moronic”. We tend not to use those words when we have an honest intent to understand someone else’s position. You also have access to the inte

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