pathos

Yet again more fascist ideology embraced and embodied by MAGA.

I understand your reasoning but tariffs all around are just not the right tool as they affect your own market first and while the eu is the second biggest consumer market after the us, it just hasn’t the same margins to cut into for tariffs to properly bite.

So all the EU can do with them is to make it hurt while trying to avoid exactly the damage to the own economy that the US is causing. That way you try to leverage the reciprocal approach while trying to carry the economy for as long as possible.

That Trump is willing to escalate is apparent with China, but contrary to the EU, China has monopolies on goods and resources that it can (and already does) utilize to supplement tariffs. That will cause bigger damage than tariffs over time.

Of course the biggest absurdity is that a trade war like this harms the engine of every single country affected, destroying value AND lives just as much as a real war does but without the visibility.

Most people do not care if some corrupt politician whose activities seem inconsequential to their own circumstances is getting away. It needs to affect them in a tangible way for people to care.

Imagine Alaska seceding to Canada because the angry orange turd couldn’t help himself 😂

‘Chamberlaining’ has never worked.

That is correct. But in this case, we can absolutely blame a specific part of humanity for this.

There have been historical reasons for the US to eye Greenland, mostly related to cold war defense strategies. It’s confusing that a Trump would want to realize these thoughts when it would be a offense to his handler in moscow. Suggests that these historical reasons are not his motivation.

WWIII and no time to deprogram the military infrastructure aka MaaS to not adjust savings time.

I’m just sorry for the wife, having to deal with such a brainwashed wimp.

Read the story. Waltz set parts of the messages to be deleted after a certain time period. That by itself is illegal as hell and does indeed pertain to record keeping requirements and down the line FOIA requests.

What are you on about? The law I mentioned specifically means that they are excempt from measures that would go against their religious convictions unless these convictions do not withstand ‘scrutiny’.

What I am saying is that if a group of people is posing a public health risk because of their religious convictions, they should be treated as a health hazard and for example be quarantined, even against their will - if they are unwilling to compromise on these convictions.

Slippery slope arguments help tackling issues at hand how exactly? ;)

This isn’t an issue that just spontaneously arose. This has been an issue ever since the implementation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Said it before, will say it again: While I am aware that it violates the dignity of those in question, I am strongly opposed to to the excemption of people from public health measures for religious reasons. I do not care if your god commands you to suffer. If your beliefs are standing in the way of protecting uninvolved members of society, it’s your beliefs that have to take a backseat, not other lives. No exceptions, no compromise. If they do not want minding the society they exist in, they can leave.

If it was only that easy. The quasi-religious convictions that Musk specifically holds in regards to Longtermism go ideologically deeper than just lust for power. Why do you think he still propagates his unrealistic ideas about spearheading a mars colonization?

Greed everybody can understand and reckon with. These ridiculous ideas make people do unintelligible things.

Yes. And yet, they used the same concept to justify their grasp for power.

The important part to understand is the paranoid style of the appeal. It’s not an appeal to unity. It’s one to vigilance.

I would disagree on your Musk-analysis. He and the other techbros are not after the money but after the power and influence that being in these positions nets them. The monetary gain is a side-effect. The goal is to enforce their unrealistic ideas about how to reshape society. Look up ‘Longtermism’ and the ridiculous ideas of one Curtis Yarvin. Remember MAGAts are fond of yammering about the World Economic Forum and the Gates, Soros etc? How these are supposedly trying to reshape society into some big brother-esque dystopia?

That is what the tech-oligarchs are facilitating.

Oh you mean ignoring the rule of law makes the judicative branch irrelevant? Who would’ve thonk.

That shit already started with Washington, the first american conspiracy theorist poisoning the ideological well of the nascent country by cautioning against enemies from within and without trying to undo the country instead of appealing to the coherence of a newly forming society.

While I get the cynicism, it’s not like there are no means to stall a possibly illegal practice until a proper ruling has been done. The judicative branch isn’t entirely toothless and isn’t ignorant of the reality of time-sensitivity.

In case you missed it: most of the people crying about their 2nd amendment rights and duties are the people that applaud this. The rest is aware that making use of their right would mean a civil war with former group.