I looked up their WY SOS filing, and yeah this is almost definitely an S-Corp. (S for small). That status is already an protectionist measure: it bypasses the corporate tax level so long as xyz conditions are met. One of those conditions is having no foreign ownership. (‘nonresident alien’). I don’t even really mean this as a hypocrisy gotcha, the whole article’s vibe is propaganda by juxtaposing two forms of corporatist protectionism and setting the pre-justification for raising prices.

Also the focus on racist cowboy garbage and electoralism disguises how important this stuff can be. Like I have no idea what the price of 10-gallon hats is because it doesn’t matter in the way that food or electricity or rent does. The target audience is libs who will say “haha maga ppl won’t be able to buy their 10-gallon hats anymore if trump wins but they’re so brainwashed that they support him anyway haha” It’s just ridiculously condescending.

Tariffs would make it harder for people to distinguish between price increase for the sake of profit and price increases from supply chain inflation. This makes it easier for large businesses to charge more and consolidate out the smaller players in an industry. It’s a short/medium term solution to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. This is just crocodile tears from an entirely irrelevant intermediary capitalist, presumably to get some kind of cushy small-business tariff exemption or tax credit.

Also the Tax Foundation is a very right wing (libertarian?) lobbying group who should not be taken seriously for any opinions on any topics.

Sellers Inflation

Hopefully you’ll be reassured to learn that McKinsey & Company is one of the larger industry players.

Thanks haha but for opsec reasons it has to be a joke.

The main thing for me is how libs nitpick and fight into fake ideas that they think are a ‘progressive middle ground’ which are just extremely evil and unserious. I distinctly remember a lib explaining an elaborate plan of how they would have NATO build a giant wall to enforce a two-state-solution and I just kinda started losing it and showing them pictures of the west bank barrier on my phone. They kept insisting that if NATO ran the wall it would stop israel from expanding.

I think the performative caring about anything gets undercut by how fickle and useless libs are as allies. Maybe a year or two ago I’d say that libs agreeing with the left with trump in office would be a silver lining, but honestly they’re just kinda useless. It seems harder to persuade libs than it is to persuade people entirely disconnected from politics even if they get the performative anti-trump benefit. Idk maybe I’m just in a doomer mood.

The euphemism is for getting pulled into an unmarked van and killed.

Like I’m already “on a list”, but for completely non-political reasons (crimes lol).

imo the site would just be shut down in some way. Many of the state’s domestic repressive functions are more easily carried out by non-state actors. Like FICO score or getting categorized as ‘extremist’ in an HR consulting database. This sort of thing materially pushes people into situations where they’d be arrested for something more mundane.

Other than that, there are other forms of carcerality or social ostrisization if people fall outside of social norms in real life. So maybe in IRL we say “hey isn’t making kids say the pledge of allegiance every day sorta weird and bad?” and someone responds that it would be unamerican not to and that their dad died in iraq or something and that the pledge honors them… and etc etc… suddenly vaguely left people irl who were gonna join the DSA but didn’t ever get around to it are indistinguishable from maoist guerillas because US body politic is ridiculous.

Special purpose vehicles (SPV) and special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC) - especially with 704© layers. It goes well with the new Form 7217. Also please get me a job lol

One-page RPGs might be better for this than 5e or 5.24. There are literally thousands of them and most of them are free or really cheap.

I’ve had libs/chuds/suburbanites very confidently tell me that everyone who lives in cities would die in an apocalypse because the rural farms wouldn’t, like, give them food, etc. Very obviously false if you’ve ever worked in rural health or rural anything honestly. If I get the chance again I’ll ask why they think cities are where they are. I usually disengage or deflect right away though because it’s basically a convo about zombie movies.

I swear I’m not saying this just to be mean, but the other problem is that lemmy.world is really boring. Like, actually go through the .world front page and imagine having to respond - even positively - to the majority of these posts.

That’s fucked up and I’m sorry. Your thesis sounds much better than the same silly essay about Margaret Thatcher.

The Death Panel Podcast is really good :)

How would identifying with Palestinians make you less empathetic and rush to the defense of the US?

I can’t tell if you’re doing “both sides”, “all lives matter”, or “whataboutism”. Other people care about things outside of meaningless platitudes.