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r/politics • 13 people here It Sure Looks Like Trump Just Lost a Major Trade Deal 7,7k upvotes • 466 comments Truthisnotallowed • 3h If you want the tariffs to make sense you have to look at it from Trump's POV. He has no clue about international trade, or economics, or taxation policy - and no real interest in learning. He is profoundly ignorant - but I digress. In short, Trump sees the tariffs as a means for him to extort cash and other support from others, for his own benefit. Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. Simply put the tariffs are a means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. Economists and political pundits can not explain how the tariffs make economic sense - because they don't make economic sense. They are not designed as economic policy. The tariffs are designed as a new, super dangerous political tool. The founders of our country created a President with limited and checked powers. they specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the Congress, because they had seen how Kings and Despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.
r/politics • 18 people here It Sure Looks Like Trump Just Lost a Major Trade Deal 7,7k upvotes • 466 comments British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent. Our revolution was spurred by the King's use of heavy taxation of the Colonies to punish our push for self-governance. The King's message was clear: stop protesting and I will stop taxing. Trump knows he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by spending and taxation in the same way. He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms, and State and Local governments into loyalty pledges. Healthy democracies rely on an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent State and Local governments to counterbalance a powerful Federal government - but the private sector also plays a role to protect democracy. Independent industry has power. The tariffs are Trump's way of eroding the independence of the private sector. Now, one by one, every industry or company will need to pledge loyalty to Trump to get the sanctions relief they need to stay in business.
r/politics • 10 people here 임. It Sure Looks Like Trump Just Lost a Major Trade Deal 7,7k upvotes • 466 comments What will Trump demand as part of these loyalty pledges? Public shows of support for all his policies. Contributions to his political efforts. Promises to police their employees to ensure that they support Trump and that none dare oppose Trump in any way. Trump did not invent this strategy. It is the playbook for destroying democracy, for those who get elected and want to ensure that they can never be voted out, those who want to remain 'President for life'. This is how a democracy becomes a dictatorship. When fascists are consolidating their power and dismantling our democracy, you have to find out if you will accept the situation you're in. Either let that become the new normal, or do something. And with that risk everything.
A comment clearly explaining the probable intention behind the ongoing #TradeWar.
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How do you know you're not an #extremist? An interesting and thought-provoking read from #MiniPhilosophy. Really makes you think and dig deep: how am I choosing to live, and am I letting others choose how I live? #WorthTheRead
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📚💙I am so excited to hold this book in my hands! I had to order both the hard cover and the soft cover to make sure they were both real. I was lucky enough to read this book before it was printed on paper, and it is just as moving on the reread. #booksky #buythisbook #worththeread #lovethisauthor
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Sharing this short I made about the book I’ve been reading “What you are looking for is in the library”. If you’ve been feeling stuck, the characters and their stories may just have something you need to hear. I know they did for me. #books #reading #worththeread
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Today in 1992, #PearlJam lived up to the hype by keeping a concert date at Peabody’s DownUnder in Cleveland.
*Read the entire post in the photo.
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"Wetland loss also deepens existing inequalities. ... For example, in Michigan, the destruction of wetlands has worsened flooding in predominantly Black and under-resourced neighborhoods."
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"The only thing less safe than an aging pipeline past its prime is a new pipeline primed to run safely for another century. There is no future for Line 5."
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The #read for #February #Worththeread
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Chilling.
We must be loud, irrepressible fighters to make sure this isn’t our story. Scary stuff. #worththeread
The Outgoing Ambassador to Hungary Is Alarmed by What He Has Seen www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/m...
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Be sure to check out this fantastic article about disability advocate Alice Wong. #worththeread #disabilityawareness #disabilityadvocacy #disability
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Hey y'all. My coworker wrote a beautiful piece on Thanksgiving, community, food sovereignty, and fighting the good fight against polluters.
Please take a gander and share. #WorthTheRead ❤️💧
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If you've never read McAfee's @newyorker.com story that built up to this book, start there, then read everything else he wrote. It's from 1987 but still incredibly #WorthTheRead. Also it's free.
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Choose 10 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order.
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"Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."
Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
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Read this whole thing - it's brilliant. (Note, in Bluesky there's a limit to how many posts get shown in a thread. To get all of the descriptions, click on the #5 post to see the rest.) #WorthTheRead #SavingForLater
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