First, I will introduce the combatants.

Here's Carp, your beloved Jannie. I secured this picture of him soliciting votes from an undisclosed source in my netowrk.

And here's a real, authentic picture of me, CanIHaveaSong, taking a break from working my garden to say hi to you!

Butticord was running March madness, with every user competing against eachother in brackets. Carp and I both survived days one and two, and were matched together finally. I had, of course, voted for him day 1 and 2, as he'd asked me to. How else to treat such a good friend? He'd generously offered to vote for me when we were matched together in return.

But then, when we were matched against eachother, he didn't follow through on his promise!

Moreover, he started trading votes with people, creating a coalition to defeat me and win.

I was disappointed, of course, but if it made him happy, so be it. I get my personal fulfilment from my family, and I don't need internet wins to know I'm worth it.

...Then Carp called me a thot.

Now, I am a good, chaste Christian woman. I cannot let such slander to my character slide. So I finished kneading my bread for the day, then got to work securing my own votes.

Carp fought back.

Carp offered to buy people Nitro.

He threatened to ban Rdrama users

He invited people to the server to boost his numbers.

But in the end, justice prevailed!

Carp has been knocked out of the competition, and I can rest, knowing he has been suitably punished for attempting to tarnish my reputation.

Shreddy would love a trip to here!

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I hope every future passenger of yours does the same. I wouldn't set foot in one of those Nazi death traps. (161)

Remember when Elon was a Democrat, and it wasn't a "Nazi death trap", you know, climate change, and all that bullshit. You have issues with your triggered by a vehicle. It's always the people that have never lived communism like I have, who speak bullshit and are the most clueless about extreme political authoritarianism. (-33)

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Until the next POTUS pardons them, right? (4)

May as well. If Biden can pardon people pre-emptively for setting loose a pandemic that killed millions of people, Trump can pardon people for being sent to prison for praying on a sidewalk. (-13)

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That way your GPS and theirs both show "same place" at nearly same time. (35)

yea! and if the passenger takes a video being in a different car at the same time as you're ghosting the ride, you get deactivated! but at least you got the $15? assuming uber doesn't claw it back after you commit fraud... (-14)

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This is a truly dumb statement. A car with a gasoline engine is more likely to catch on fire than an ev. Do 5 seconds of research before making a stupid comment. (2)

I never said anything about likelihood of a fire. What you say may or may not be true. Are you not aware that when exposed to air, the contents of the batteries catch fire and that fire is harder to put out than a gasoline fire? If you crash and a single battery pack is cracked, it becomes exposed to air, which causes a pyrophoric ignition.With ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars, all the cars have sensible door handles and everyone knows how to get out of the vehicle even if it has no power or gas.The problem with Teslas and fire date back to before DOGE and all that, this is a problem that existed before Elon took a turn for evil.In a Tesla, the doors are powered and after a crash the vehicle loses power, meaning the doors can't be opened via the usual way. There is manual releases, however they are HIDDEN in different locations depending on model and where you are seating in the vehicle. (0)

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"principled stand" against whom? "I will waste a drivers time because I don't like the car they drive" The only principled way to make a stand is don't buy a Tesla, anything else is being performative at best.Edit:"I will take a stand against a company that is 100% US based manufacturing their US product, employ over 125,000 people, is the most green company around and whose demise will hurt many many more millions of people because of the effects of the stock devaluing in pension funds and 100's of thousands of people being out of work." But it's ok because as long as I hurt Elon Musk the collateral damage is worth it.I have to laugh of the idiocy of the people participating in these "principled stands" (3)

But if owning a Tesla becomes a liability, it can make you not buy a Tesla. Consumer boycotts typically don't accomplish anything because people are generally too politically apathetic to reach any critical mass. But "I'm not buying that because it will make my life worse dealing with the blowback" is a potentially much larger group of people. It's a tricky balance though because the right in particular loves spite buying shit, so you need to make sure it's a product that is too expensive to buy solely out of spite and no utility. A car is a really good target because not only is it an investment, it is something you have to go out in public with every day. It is attached to business as well, so it becomes a liability to you and your employer. I do have sympathy for anyone stuck with a Tesla on a car loan, but saying it isn't effective at making people think twice about buying one seems misguided. (0)

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Someone catch me up, ion watch the news. What's wrong with Tesla??? (1)

Nothing. Elon is discovering all the fraud and waste in gov, the Progressive dems are terrified of being exposed, the nut-jobs are burning, dealers, threatening the workers, threatening Tesla owners and damaging Teslas out on the street & at people's homes. The irony is left loved Tesla for the "environment". Most people who buy Teslas were Dems. Now it seems the only EV that doesn't help the environment is Tesla & Elon is a Nazi. 😂 The people terrorizing and committing the crimes, have no idea what they stand for; They have no moral compass. (1)

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I don't think this is good policy at all.

I have a fairly robust education in economics, but I'm certainly not an expert. I've tried to keep thinking, "There are some very smart people behind these moves," but this is all making me uneasy. And I think what bothers me the most is that I get the sense I'm not being told the truth. Not necessarily "lied to," not yet at least, but it's like they don't think the masses are smart enough to understand what their reasoning is. So they trot out bullshit stats to justify what they're doing, which people on the right side of the bell curve can easily see through.

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Only reason the U.S. economy grew at all the past five years was because of trillions in new government spending and an associated growth in personal debt powered by new ways to get into debt.

It's all a mirage and I am as guilty as anyone of pretending it was real. But no more.

All the people angriest about Trump's policies are all the people who directly benefited the most from that spending boom that comes at a big cost to future generations.

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/u/One_Fix5763 I hope you go broke, lose your trailer, and spend the rest of your life working for minimum wage in Dipschitz American-Made Widget factory.

Because I'm already stretched thin, and the promise of taxes going down doesn't mean shit until it's passed. As of right now, the company I work for just sent out an email to everyone in the company telling us that because we have a 46% tariff from Vietnam, if it doesn't get dropped that they are going to do even MORE layoffs after they laid off 200+ people not even 3 months ago. They explicitly said that paying the tariffs is STILL cheaper than moving everything back into the US, and I would really prefer not to lose my job when I'm about to get married, buy a house, and have kids.

I feel for you. Hopefully this isn't long term. I wonder if its all for bargaining agreement. Only time will tell.

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Because apparently the only country that isn't allowed to use tarrifs is the United States.

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makes an incredibly strong basis for fiscal policy

They're "unfair" because everyone else has gotten so utterly used to playing on an uneven field for so long that when it suddenly isn't that way anymore it feels unfair to them.

Their ideologies and the egos tied up therein simply won't allow them accept the idea that we've been competing with them with one hand tied behind our back this whole time.

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This one calls himself a classical liberal.

Trump critics (particularly the ones who, if he found a cure for cancer would just complain about him single handedly ruining the pharmaceutical industry) claim that tariffs will only alienate us from allies and cause them to seek other partners, and the cost will just get passed down to the consumer.

They don't get, or conveniently ignore, that the U.S. economy is not dependent upon other countries and that we can outlast them in a trade standoff. As for the "cost passed down" argument, they don't seem to understand that tariffs are temporary and are a means to end to get other countries to do what we want. Yes, it may require us to crack open our wallets a little bit wider for a time, but I think that's preferential to the decline we were on before. This is an attempt to fix things that have been long broken.

Yes, it may make allies mad, but turnabout is fair play. If they're doing it to us, we have every right to return the favor. We can't be subsidizing other countries at this rate while our own debt is already at such a high level.

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You do NOT need the new iPad
You do NOT need the new Cell Phone
You do NOT need the new video game console

You WANT them

There is a big difference and if you look at the people whining about the tariffs I challenge you to ask them how their lives have been affected in any way

— TheQuartering (@TheQuartering) April 3, 2025

theory chads literally cannot stop winning

It's been up since the day after the election and he just came out of his garage and took it down.

You idiots. The Trump team didn’t use a formula of (exports-imports)/exports. As Kush here points out, the formula was (exports-imports)/exports*4*.25 https://t.co/trOF3nGrLW

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 3, 2025

https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/event-thread-nintendo-switch-2-direct-is-60mn-long-treehouse-on-april-3rd-4th.3616/page-17#post-315418

I can totally believe Sony pooping themselves over this thing since it can play sportsball games and cawadooty and they don't have exclusives of their own anymore. Not sure if true but funny as frick in any case.

/v/ thread:

https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/707267640

I am so proud! We also have lots of wild mugwort c: time to look into recipes!

I teach in the History of Science program at Harvard. My research and teaching focus on the intersections between various forms of expertise and alleged expertise (especially psychology and economics) and the ways that all of us make sense of our day-to-day lives. My new book, which you can order here and elsewhere, is about how Americans came to view "entrepreneurship" as the pinnacle of the good life, and what I see as the pernicious consequences of that development. I recently wrote for the New York Times on how this history can help us understand why Elon Musk is such a psychopath.

I also help edit a magazine about politics and culture called The Drift, and I've written essays for a public audience in a wide range of outlets on subjects ranging from the films of David Lynch to the exploitative labor practices of Amy's Kitchen.

Hello! I am wondering if you think the rise of the 401k as opposed to pensions has had an effect on entrepreneurship/hustle culture. And did it change the relationship of ordinary working people to the investor class? Thank you for this AMA!

Absolutely!! The dream of the ruling class since the nineteenth century has been to figure out a way to convince working-class people that they're like miniature capitalists. In my book I focus on organizational devices employers have deployed to that end, like independent contracting, franchising, multi-level marketing, etc. as well as tropes in advice literature that encourage people to think about their "skills" as a form of capital that they own. But expanding the ranks of people who have investments in the stock market (as well as other assets like homes) has also been an important part of that strategy, especially since World War II.

Also

>ruling class

/u/ErikBakerPhD

Philip Morris stock up 4.5% today. Makes sense pic.twitter.com/qeyA4CiH2W

— litquidity (@litcapital) April 3, 2025

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🚨TRUMP: OPEN TO TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS IF SOMETHING 'PHENOMENAL'

The door beginning to crack already?

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) April 3, 2025

Lutnick said he wouldn't back down lol

🇺🇸 HOWARD LUTNICK: TRUMP WON’T BACK OFF TARIFFS—TIME TO REORDER TRADE

"The world should stop exploiting the United States of America.

Let our farmers sell their products. Let our ranchers sell their products.

Let’s let American workers succeed and prosper."

Source: CNN,… https://t.co/dMrYt93Mg6 pic.twitter.com/YLg0Ies37M

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 3, 2025

Remember: if the economy crashes, the jeets move away.

— Josh (@XJosh) April 3, 2025

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Wait what? Was Jordan Peterson at ufv? (9)

It's true and when the school gains a bit of status he might even be teaching there too! (-13)

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Jordan Peterson is great. Maybe ask yourself why you hate public discourse so much. (-7)

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Jordan Peterson is dangerous! How dare he promote self accountability and improving your life one small action at a time. I will never clean my room before I criticize the world! (-6)

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He starts with harmless common sense advice and quickly starts taking problematic positions that force him to use psychobabble nonsense to defend. He is popular with men, particularly young single white men, bc he likes to explain all the reasons society/women are out to get them/things are rigged against them, and not in a way that lifts them up but in a way that invites them to blame others. But why listen to me when you can learn all about the absolute cuckoo weirdo nut job that is JP on this amazing episode of behind the bastards (part one) (5)

You still haven't explained why my comments are incel or right wing. Can you elaborate?I know he talks about young men because they are most likely to be in prison, homeless or die by suicide. I don't see how trying to prevent that makes him a bad person. Society would be better with less people in prison, homeless and depressed, don't agree?I won't listen to that podcast but sure maybe he has said some things I disagree with, does that mean we should throw out everything this person has said and done? Do we call Obama alt right and cancel him because he was anti gay marriage before being president, deported the largest amount of immigrants and the largest amount of innocent lives lost due to drone strikes compared to all presidents before him? (0)

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He was their highest rated prof before daring to be critical of modern gender theory (-1)

He sure as frick wasn't. They received complaints about his unprofessional behavior for years before he rage quit in disgrace. His students hated him because he would go on massive tangents about shit like ancient cultures just knowing what DNA is. He is and always has been a loon. (2)

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He's a psychologist best known for speaking on topics like political science, sociology, economics, and climate with the experience and understanding of a 12th grader. Even if he were a good person, outside of psychology he is working backwards from asinine conclusions that support his ideology. He is a person with idiotic opinions selling his toxic ideology to gullible people for profit. Please consider any other source of information for your position on anything that isn't getting organized.This isn't an invitation to debate. For an in-depth discussion on how transparently stupid many of Peterson's ideas are, see the video below. When you talk about Jordan Peterson in a positive light you're telling rational people to ignore you and grifters that you're an easy mark.

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He also based his entire professional career on the works of 2 debunked psychologists from a hundred years ago. Nobody in the psychology field attributes any value to Jung or Freud except as footnotes in the History of Psychology lessons that make up the first few weeks of Psych 101. He'd get absolutely embarrassed debating an academic that refuses to be bullied or drowned in word salad nonsense.That doesn't even touch his "Ancient Aliens" level of understanding of biology or history, it's shocking the UoT kept him as long as they did. (4)

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— Secular Talk ([email protected]) (@KyleKulinski) April 3, 2025

Every day is now opposite day in America

Trump doing what Occupy Wall Street and WTO 1999 protests could not

— Joel Gombiner (@joelgombiner) April 2, 2025

https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-tariff-rate-formula-replicated-chatgpt-observers-claim

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