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It’s hard to avoid completely. Just clicking the link can be considered buying American. (Even worse that Wife and I subscribe to NYT. But WaPo got cancelled)

No one is saying neoliberalism is as far right as fascism.

GP comment said exactly that though. Although they did throw in an “about”.

Poland actually got rid of their right wing government in the last election in 2023 and are hopefully dumping the president who’s been blocking reform. It can be done.

https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2025-03/tusk-eyes-chance-purge-far-right-polands-presidential-election

Amazon can eat the tariff costs

There is no way they can eat a 135% (or whatever the lunacy dial is at) price increase. Nobody can and those items just won’t get sold now.

It’s not just you. We’ve all had a mild stroke now from reading this headline. I dare not open the article.

Nobody considers him a threat.

Thats not quite right. He’s a threat in the same way as a toddler with a hand grenade.

I agree there is a simple and more concise way of answering, but I saw it as a teaching moment to go a bit more in depth.

Yeah, I think what you’ll really get with a wall of text like this is that people don’t read it and you missed the chance to influence them at all. Case in point: I didn’t read your response. Just skimmed it for the above paragraph.

If you feel the need to write a lecture, at least answer the why question first. Otherwise people really don’t care about the mechanics of the damned thing.

You’re answering the wrong question. That’s a “how” answer, not a “why” answer. Surely there is a simple one-paragraph explanation of why FPTP is terrible

On a side note, Ranked Choice specifically is only slightly better than FPTP compared to say Ranked Robin, STAR, or Score voting.

Whatever you do, please don’t split the alternative voting vote and let FPTP win with 40%.

In fact you’ll find that the work sets you free.

Do you also expect the cost of titling and taxes be included in the advertised price?

As a European, yes. Absolutely fucking yes. I drove a Model 3 away (a while ago obviously) with all papers in order paying exactly the listed price.

And a guillotine.

Fermented orc blood. Distilled for a really good time. There was a really good vintage out of the East recently.

Statista puts their 2024 GR at $164 billion. That would make a max fine of $6.5 billion per year. I’d almost be willing to just take that deal.

Fines for violating GDPR can be up to 4% of the previous year’s global revenue. Not just profits. Not just within EU. They’d have to fully withdraw from the EU market to flaunt the law this egregiously.

Honestly, I don’t quite remember the details of what happens when you export an item. There won’t be a sale to collect VAT on, but you’ll have paid prices including VAT to your suppliers and there is something about tax credits. But at the end of the day it’s a conceptually more complex sales tax but when you’re working with it it’s simple enough.

No, things produced in-country are taxed bit by bit along the production and transport chain, each time someone takes the thing and “adds value” to it. It’s a value-added tax. Imported things are taxed all at once when imported. In the end it’s the same amount of tax.

You could say imports are subject to a sales tax exactly equal to the value-added tax on domestic products. Sort of.

I’d like to see the stock devalue to normal levels, taking most of Elon’s wealth with it, the board deciding that Musk is a major detriment to the company and fire him as CEO and then get back to their core business of making cars without the regular injections of Musk insanity.

Every time we complain about the pay walls and (demand that someone) paste the full article text then we’re making journalists beholden to people like Bezos. Wife and I used to subscribe to WaPo and NYT. Now it’s Wired and NYT.

No, you see, Trump expects Europe to pull their own weight now. So Belgium will do the invading and then hand Greenland to the USA.