It’s said that the good die young. That orange shitstick might be nearly immortal.

Right, you and I get that, my point is that the people who are confused why their tariff-impacted goods cost more don’t get that. They think the other country pays it, full stop.

The catch is that the ones who don’t understand always, ALWAYS think it’s the other country that pays the tariff. Every time.

I’m comfortable with saying it fits as deliberate in-setting.

The manholes used are thinner and weaker, but cheaper to make. Night City would be the kind of place that would try to save cash on manhole covers, then if someone caves one in by driving over it, they charge the poor gonk for the replacement with a fine on top.

Don’t assume anything that happens with Tesla stock actually has anything to do with the value of the company. It was WILDLY overvalued for a long time and now it’s going to be complete chaos for a lot of obvious reasons. One day it may bounce up considerably only to crash hard the day after.

They don’t want to talk politics because their political belief was in hurting other people.

Fuck em. If they voted for this shit they deserve the suffering.

Oh I didn’t refuse to participate, and I still encourage any effort we can manage, but these “don’t buy anything on X days” concepts are themselves just deeply flawed. Don’t buy anything for a week? Alright so either I just don’t eat for a week, or I’m only offsetting purchases to before and after. It still doesn’t make a dent. If your protest doesn’t hurt the corpos, they don’t care. Showing we can organize is great, but iterating on this format can’t be the end goal.

If I wanted to interact with AI content I would be on Reddit.

The problem I’ve found with the “Buy nothing days” is that it’s not really encouraging buying less. With the possible exception of a few in the moment things, it’s really just pushing purchasing to the day before or the day after. Someone seeing economic data for that specific day might notice something, but even just factor in the day before and the day after and it’s not going to make much of a difference. It didn’t cost the corpos anything, so they won’t even notice.

All the cruelty and hate, all the blatant lies and rampant criminality, that’s fine as long as he wasn’t lying about that one thing, right up until it’s her turn to get hurt and it turns out liars lie.