Teacher's Pet wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 1:31 pm One micro-sector of the economy that is currently booming is news photographers with stock shots of "white trader guy looks into monitor with worried face, holding his head." Good week for those folks.

I laughed, thank you.

I saw this and had to look this up to see if was true and there's tons of articles on this: Trump's tariffs also target places where there are no exports, because there are no people.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ld-islands

In his defense, Trump didn't know where those places are. They just sounded like good places to tariff.

Serious Q:
Does this mean all the weird cheap Chinese music gear soon disappears?
$30 delay pedals, $40 bass guitars, etc?

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losthighway wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:28 pmI think part of your being coy (and irritated) is that you understand that the drug is kind of symbolic for a movement that you don't want to defend on here, but maybe feel some allegiance to.

no, that's definitely not it either. i don't live in a bubble so when someone takes ivermectin i don't assume he listens to joe rogan.

why should i subject myself to your scrutiny when i've been called

• misleading yet predictable
• longwinded yet terse
• incoherent yet simple
• billy joel AND billy corgan

why should i put myself in a box when i never did the same to you?

and what would it solve anyway?

I did not call you Billy Corgan; I called you Billy Corgan's homunculus, implying that he grew you in a vat using alchemy.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 2:43 pm

losthighway wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:28 pmI think part of your being coy (and irritated) is that you understand that the drug is kind of symbolic for a movement that you don't want to defend on here, but maybe feel some allegiance to.

no, that's definitely not it either. i don't live in a bubble so when someone takes ivermectin i don't assume he listens to joe rogan.

why should i subject myself to your scrutiny when i've been called

• misleading yet predictable
• longwinded yet terse
• incoherent yet simple
• billy joel AND billy corgan

why should i put myself in a box when i never did the same to you?

and what would it solve anyway?

This is a basic disconnect about how people discuss complicated or important things. Notice how I've never called you names or mocked you? If we discuss an issue and you don't get where I'm coming from, I might say something to explain my M.O. such as:

I believe the government has the power and responsibility to solve problems private industry will not solve.

By your lead that's somehow pigeonholing myself. You can post a dreamy meme postcard with Dylan's most taoist take and I might high five you over a spliff on a camping trip about that, but here in the politics thread we're talking politics. Radical relativism is fundamentally apolitical.

Krev wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 7:15 pmI did not call you Billy Corgan; I called you Billy Corgan's homunculus, implying that he grew you in a vat using alchemy.

It's not that complicated

losthighway wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 8:04 pmBy your lead that's somehow pigeonholing myself. You can post a dreamy meme postcard with Dylan's most taoist take and I might high five you over a spliff on a camping trip about that, but here in the politics thread we're talking politics. Radical relativism is fundamentally apolitical.

i guess i'm just not political then. not in any simplistic declarative fashion. and not when it is used to other sick texans who resort to using horse dewormer on themselves.

Why do you guys insist on feeding the trolls? Mute and move on. You'll save us the headache.

cakes wrote: Fri Apr 04, 2025 8:07 am Why do you guys insist on feeding the trolls? Mute and move on. You'll save us the headache.

they don't bother me. families are like that.