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But he has ironclad control over Congressional Republicans, which no previous president would have when they're anywhere near this unpopular. It's hard to see him maintaining that, but it's also hard to see what would change it.
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To be fair, the prospect of missiles coming over the Canadian border is slightly less absurd today than it was when Trump was flogging missile defense on the campaign trail.
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I just interviewed for a job at Ramp and got turned down. Maybe I dodged a bullet.
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It's bizarre that nobody picked up on that.
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Why do you hate freedom?
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No, I'm exhausted from all the winning.
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Doesn't it all fall on Mike Johnson? I'm sure if he held a vote revoking the emergency declaration today it'd pass, but will he bring it to a vote?
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I spoke with a guy who runs a bandage company that produces domestically for federal contracts with a buy American clause, and all his machinery and raw materials are imported.
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Pretty much everything a hospital uses is imported.
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They post the same job in multiple cities so for every open role there's a dozen listings.
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It's also an admission that tariffs are a bad policy.
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Oof too soon.
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Or you could just ignore them? Unlike the right, tankies aren't well funded, numerous, or influential in any way.
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I've never been repressed in China. Is the US not repressive because the police have never bothered me? You seem to want to fit everything into a simplistic binary, and I hope that works out for you. But it doen't strike me as a useful way to think about things.
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Is freedom a single axis? You just said that freedom is different in the US based on race, social class, and location. That's not a neat binary.
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I was there well before wet markets became politically sensitive. What is or is not interesting to the Chinese state can change rapidly.
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You seem to want things to fit into a clear binary. China isn't as repressive as it was in the Cultural Revolution era but is significantly less free than the US.
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Why would you say that? I was researching a politically innocuous topic. Had I tried to research anything politically sensitive I wouldn't have been allowed into the country. Even then there are things I couldn't write about because my research subjects could have been persecuted over it.
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I, a random person on the Internet, did an ethnographic study of wholesale markets in Wuhan that has relevance to the lab leak debate. It happens.
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There are definite challenges in doing research on Chinese society as a journalist or social scientist, but it's possible.
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Or killing political prisoners and harvesting their organs.
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Then there are the extralegal "black jails" where local governments imprison people for lodging complaints to the national government without trial or any legal authorization.
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They are horribe,sure, but do they really matter? The only good thing about tankies is their complete irrelevance.
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It won't take six weeks, more like two.
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Will the finance or corporate sectors get congressional Republicans to block the tariffs?
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There's literally less than a one in a million chance of being the victim of a violent crime on the NYC subway.
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Having plucked chickens, I feel confident in saying that last people would rather avoid it.
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I feel like the practice of harvesting the organs of political prisoners fits into the discussion somewhere. The US prison system is horrible, but they don't do that.
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There's nothing Sinophobic about criticizing the Chinese state.
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I don't think he's trying to.
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There's nothing Sinophobic in accurately describing the repressive nature of the Chinese state.
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All the things the Chinese state did to juke GDP in the short term will crater it in the long term.
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🕯️
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They can't even tell us what the payoff is, just that we have to suffer.
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Your credulity towards the Trump administration's motives is some quality journalism.
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Yes, having lived in China where there were constant food contamination scandals, people take a well functioning administrative state for granted and only focus on inconvenience rather than benefits that come from regulations.