Yeah he’s an unholy mix of Palpatine and the goblin king from the hobbit movie.

This is also a favored tactic when it’s time to hold the budget hostage with threats of a government shutdown a few times every other year too.

I feel like most people I have heard talking about them while supporting Trump seem to know that tariffs are taxes, but have no concept of how they play out in a real economic situation. Most fall into one or both of two camps:

A) Tariffs are taxes, but they’re taxes for companies not individuals, and they’re only applied to importing, so they won’t affect me.

B) Tariffs are taxes for foreign companies, to level the playing field and keep American business competitive. Since the companies that have to pay it are foreign, it won’t affect me.

Spoiler alert, guys: no matter where the tax is levied in the system, the consumer is the only person who ever pays for it, since they’re the only ones that can’t pass that cost on to anyone else.

Also, while this can make domestic competitors more competitive, it’s important to remember two things: first, if it works, it’s only working by making things more expensive for consumers, and second, this assumes that the domestic competitors want more business, have the ability and posture to increase their production to meet the new greater demand, and will operate in good faith. Much more likely is that they simply also increase their prices in reaction to the tariffs, so they’re not producing or selling any more volume and aren’t creating any jobs… they’re just padding their profit margins at the corporate/shareholder level while doing nothing for their employees, all while having the average consumer foot the bill.

That’s exactly what happened with the steel tariffs in the first Trump term and that’s exactly what will happen now…the only difference is that this time it seems like there will be significantly fewer economic buffers between the tariff and the consumer, so more people will more directly feel the sting here…and presumably the mental gymnastics from the MAGAts will be even sadder in their attempts to somehow make it not a criticism of their orange leader’s incompetence.

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Super weird correlation, I admit, but in my city it’s been my experience that one odd trend I’ve observed has been that Tesla drivers do three things disproportionately more frequently than drivers of other vehicles:

Lack of using a turn signal (which they arguably share with BMW drivers.

Forcing their way into lane changes and/or cutting people off (often accompanied by a noted lack of signal).

And flat out just plain running red lights. This last one is the most alarming and honestly the one I’ve noticed to be most closely linked to Tesla drivers. It’s so bad that even if I have a solid green when approaching a red light, if I can see a Tesla in approaching or crossing lanes, I’ll let off the gas and hover over the brakes, just in case they “pull a Tesla”. I’ve seen many of them pull up to a solid red, drift to a stop, then find a gap in the cross traffic that has a solid green and just dart across. I’ve seen them turn left on red without stopping. Seen them cause near accidents, all running red lights like they’re just a suggestion.

edit: i just reread your initial comment. you literally bring up getting a snack and using the restroom. ahaha you can’t even keep your own story straight.

What the fuck are you talking about? I never said that.

Maybe learn to read a username before you cock off.

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Nah, Lemmy seems to have both a much more specific and narrow range of acceptable beliefs as well as much less tolerance for the sharing of any view even a little outside that range.

At least in my experience. Wouldn’t want to presume to speak for anyone else.

I don’t know of any liquid or gas hairdressers, so I’m guessing it’s good for all of them.

If her partner drives the car, is she required to wear the onesie?

The sticker makes no mention of driving, so I would think that as long as someone in the vehicle is both lesbian and wearing the onesie, its conditions have been fulfilled.

Ahhh but you have to remember: if you want anything that an EV doesn’t do better than ICE, you’re wrong for wanting it and should change your life until that’s no longer something you want, at which point you’ll see that an EV is perfect for you.

Not to mention, how often are you making these drives?

This is always the point in the EVangelizing where the person doing it loses me.

The whole point of the objection, whatever it is, is that it’s a way the person uses their car that happens often enough, to them, that it’s a concern. A rebuttal based on “well how important is that, really?” isn’t an argument against an ICE at that point, it’s essentially just an argument saying, “You’re wrong for wanting that.”, which is basically presuming that one knows better than that person what that person finds to be important.

Even if they’re only making this drive once a year, it’s clearly important to them that the vehicle they own is capable of handling it at least as smoothly as an ICE. If an EV can’t do that, it’s just a shortcoming of EVs for that person, end of story. It doesn’t make the EV suddenly immune to that criticism to suggest they just not make that trip or rent a vehicle that can do it when that time comes. It’s a way they are currently using their vehicle, and a way in which they want to use whatever vehicle they own in the future. If a certain vehicle can’t do that, it’s a shortcoming that is worth noting and accepting.

Modern EVs charge in less than 15 minutes so… it’s really not longer than a gas stop, at least not in any situation I’ve been in and I own two gas vehicles and an ev. Like I literally get 200+ miles of range in 15 minutes. Your numbers are just way way way off.

I’d say the same about yours.

Maybe those binders are correct for you in your EV but not for me with my ICE.

I’ve never needed 15 minutes to get gas. As long as there’s an open pump, if all I’m doing is gassing up, it’s 5 minutes, if that.

And I’m getting 400 miles of range for that time.

And I can do that literally anywhere in the entire US. If a town is big enough to have a red light, it’ll probably have a gas station within 5 miles.

I like that EVs are a thing, and that they’re becoming even more of a thing as time goes on. Someday I’m sure I’ll own one too.

But if I need a new car in the next 5 years, I’m not even considering one, and most of the reasons for that are reasons that proponents are acknowledging, even as they’re trying to be patronizing and condescending and shaming anyone who points out valid drawbacks.

It’s not like people are saying EVs are bad, just that the reality of the situation right now is that, for many, deciding to switch over to one from an ICE will mean, in some ways, changing the ways they live around the limitations and necessities that come with the EV, and that for many, these changes tip the scales away from the EV.

People don’t want to accept the changes and added concerns that come with making that switch, and that doesn’t make them wrong or stupid or bad.

When EV infrastructure gets to the point where owning, fueling, and servicing one is as cheap, quick, effective, and ubiquitous as owning, fueling, and servicing an ICE vehicle then I’m sure many, many more people will be convinced. Until then, it’s less a matter of needing to dispel rumors and more a matter of the technology needing to catch up to the level of ICE.

Shit then, shit now.

Comments have gotten worse.

Look at the quality of content showing up on Lemmy before compared to now and you will agree it is night and day different.

I haven’t seen much of a content quality change at all since I’ve been here, so no, I wouldn’t agree.

what was Lemmy before this?

A microscopic collective few had ever heard of.

And what is it now?

That same thing, just slightly less microscopic.

Honestly while I’m obviously still here, anyone pretending this is any sort of apples-to-apples replacement of the overall Reddit community is only engaging in so much wishful thinking.

Not that it’s impossible for Lemmy to get there eventually, but it’s not even close to it, and honestly I really don’t see it happening.

This is one of those times where the neurons in my brain have turned on each other in a sharply divided civil war.

Although to the MAGA wing, things that the rest of us consider embarrassments are seen as positives, so who knows anymore?

That’s exaggeration to the point of being just plain false…but she did totally tarnish her own legacy with the way she handled the latter years of her term, setting her own causes back decades, and greatly diminishing the regard for the court.

While I do agree with you, nearly completely, one nit that I would pick is the implication that “the aggrieved right”, and the emboldening of same are a point of concern to be avoided.

At this point, I feel that the right, and the actions and positions they’ve taken, have removed them markedly from the realm of a worthy and respectable political bloc, even if one I rarely agree with, and moved them squarely into the realm of radical and destabilizing faction that pushes for goals which can and will permanently destroy the foundations of the democracy I stand for as an essential underpinning of personal liberty.

At that point, they deserve to be aggrieved, and I see pissing them off as a necessary by-product of preserving democracy.

They’ve chosen to place themselves at odds with democratic rule, not the other way around.

That being said, however, I feel it would be a bigger win for everyone if Trump loses the election while appearing on ballots than if he’s absent from ballots in battleground states.