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To paraphrase John Green, when you stigmatise suffering you're not only saying the victim morally deserves it, you're thinking you don't need to worry about its cause because you think it'll never happen to you.

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Further to the penguin tariffs, as well as a range of educational books apparently electronic devices and machinery were imported to the US under the last trump administration to the tune of 577345663 with a second amount given as 5318008. The importer was a Mr Kowalski of New York. A shell company?

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One problem with calculating tariffs based on trade deficits is that US tourism counts as an export by the countries they visit. So tiny little tourist destinations and big ones will face big tariffs if they let US citizens in to visit.

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The problem with trickle down economics is that the economy is an inverted pyramid, the workers producing the wealth at the top and the billionaires collecting the wealth at the bottom. When a billionaire buys the thing you made, it's with the wealth you generated.

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In ancient times they spoke of a strange magic, a man would place a gift inside folded paper affixed with his stamp and this being of certain value, should he then place it in a hole of the right post, his runes being well formed, it could travel the earth to be delivered to a loved one.

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It is when you eat something, and you realise it has dirt on it, that you recognise sometime in your past you must have appreciated the complex flavour palette of dirt before.

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We need an economic model that promotes sustainable resource use and population maintenance. The materials we use, the energy we burn to supplement our productive capacity, competitively easing, and entertaining our lives has to come from a source where the cost of supply is stable.

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Lifting birthrates isn't the answer, yes we should shift the highest wages from the oldest and richest to those wanting to have a house and family. We could try families having older fathers and younger mothers as some places and times have done. That doesn't solve the depletion of resources.

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The world's population has grown, but resources have stayed the same. Mines and fuel sources that were uneconomic to exploit are now being used. Costs are increasing, but the quality of the durability are dropping. Wages were structured to provide more as men supported a house, a wife and kids.

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I never really understood what gaslightimg was until I heard vance's speech in greenland.

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I'd say tariffs aren't a revolutionary idea, but there's a reason the 13 colonies decided on a change of government.

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Religion used to be exclusive until Jesus replaced the idea of elitism with DEI. Women, the poor, the unclean the crippled, the sinners, different ethnicities. Christianity is now the world's biggest religion.

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Jesus talked about the Roman tax. He also knew if everyone gave what they could afford, there would be enough loaves and fishes for all. Some have more, some less, but all are worthy of feeding.

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Someone said America would never get over the embarrassment of this week. Well, remember when a rich guy brought over indentured workers to build a town and they ended up cannibalising a teenage girl to survive. The time the US burnt cities of civilians. The current guy isn't even on the leaderboard

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