The shipping rates will shock you but yes, you can find so many useful things on this site.

To be fair, economics is not intuitive. Half of it is built out of unicorn dust and human imagination. How else would bitcoin even exist? For those of you who are economists and love the money side, vs the behavioral side, that’s great, we need people like you to explain it to the rest of us.

I work with a real system that will still exist no matter what happens with politics or money, so it takes work, for me. That said, tariffs and inflation are not difficult concepts provided you simply take the time to learn.

I know someone who lost their job in December due to tariffs anticipation, and they were not alone in that group of layoffs. The effects are there even if you fail to learn the reasons.

My closest genetic link on the planet is a conservative. I feel like the MAGA part is as committed as simply staying conservative. They’re my 1.

Everyone else can go to Hell, granted, I speak to many people in the course of my job. Since these people discuss all manner of things with me, invited or otherwise, I do my job and listen, always.

So, who is going to offer themselves up as bait to find out what her scam angle is?

Scammers don’t spam unless it “sticks”.

I too received this.

Check your DMs. You’ll probably get one eventually.

The question that remains is: what does she want?

Exactly. And part of that infrastructure is the same person filing the paperwork, making sure it’s done right.

Talked to my MAGA blood again yesterday. Apparently, the conservative talk radio is telling listeners Europe and Canada have had tariffs on us from day one and trump is just trying to level the playing field. America is always paying for them and now it’s their turn to pay.

In addition, firings are “political reward” jobs being removed, because that’s not fair. (Injustice and not fair resonates with everyone.) And a caller apparently called in to talk about his government employee buddy upset that his job credit card he normally uses to buy lunch was cut off, discovered when he tried to buy subway. Again with the “not fair” because most jobs don’t buy you lunch.

They still haven’t told me what show they heard this is on, because I invariably listen and pick it apart and they find my “over-analysis” upsetting.

Ballot measures. Write them if your state empowers them. That’s where the democracy will happen.

If it’s personal, sure. But if it’s not impacting their nuclear family unit, high odds it’s not a consideration.

Really. Talk to MAGAs. These headlines are a manipulation to keep Lemmy calm.

No they don’t. These headlines are telling you what you want to hear. Talk to people. The MAGAs love it. And Elon.

This silo-ing approach to information isn’t going to help any of us.