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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.
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.
/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.
Because apparently the only country that isn't allowed to use tarrifs is the United States.
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.
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 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
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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
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Mario Kart World First Look
— Bear (@BearUNLV) April 3, 2025
84 playable characters
24 vehicles (no more part combos)
28 tracks (at minimum) pic.twitter.com/OfKt2dVkQG
Ngl, kinda want a switch 2 to flex on normies, they're pulling me in
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Weirdly enough Street fighter 6 is half the cost of Mario kart
Nintendo can sell Mario cart even at 200
Since previous one is still sold at full price and previous one is a remaster of Wii u game so 11 year old game, even gta5 ain't sold at full price anymore.
But it will be hilarious when gta6 is announced at 100 buxx
Well, if Switch 2 has any hope of competing with Steam Deck to be a catalog system (i.e. a system people buy as a portable/handheld way to play a lot of older games they have already played), older games will have to be cheaper. On Steam Deck basically everyone who has done any PC gaming in the last 18 years already has a built in library (and frequent opportunities to get games for cheap), so it will be hard to compete with that if older games launch at $60-90 on Switch 2.
Here comes the genius steamgayck gaymer
R-slur doesn't realises that the steam deck didn't even sold 5 millions and is more expensive and weaker than switch 2
He thinks a super nich gigantic dildo that normies don't even know exists will be danger to switch 2 ?
Exactly how socialism manipulation works. Taxes are 10% ...Right we want to raise taxes to 20% . The keep it secret and tell everybody they want to raise taxes to 30% ...everybody's angry. Alright we budge we will only raise taxes to 20%. The $80 Mk game lets the expensive 2024 $70 look cheap
Have no idea what neighbor is smoking
Personal opinion: when I played Mario kart 8 deluxe for the first time and only time, the game felt so bareboned. So I absolutely don't care about that game
Sony fanboys also so mad
After seeing the performance and quality of the games being inferior on switch 2 I'm curious to see the sales when released for switch 2 because those games are available now at discounted prices on pc handhelds and consoles with versions of those games far superior to what was shown on switch 2. Im wondering if millions of g*mers will buy inferior versions of older games for switch 2 when they have better avenues of experiencing multiplatform games in way better quality
Ff7 remake released on ps4 and cyberpunk on Xbox one.
Maaaaaaa inferior switch 2 version
Great. The Switch 2 can play Playstation 4 games released 5 years ago.
It's ff7 remake integration a version not on ps4
Nice try.
It will also run current gen games like Split Fiction, Star Wars: Outlaws and the upcoming Borderlands 4, to name a few.
Take dislikes
In other post they claiming that ps5 is actually cheaper if it's digital and on sale
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GOOMBLE in comments
In the most predictable development of all time
is about to ditch
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will soon be stepping back from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.
— POLITICO (@politico) April 2, 2025
Read @rachaelmbade's full scoop: https://t.co/olM5jKUKAX pic.twitter.com/8TAcfU0SiV
Who could have guessed making an incredibly unlikeable sperg a very prominent public-facing part of your team wouldn't be a great strategy?
Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.
The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship.
Musk's looming retreat comes as some Trump administration insiders and many outside allies have become frustrated with his unpredictability and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points.
It also represents a stark shift in the Trump-Musk relationship from a month ago, when White House officials and allies were predicting Musk was "here to stay" and that Trump would find a way to blow past the 130-day time limit.
One senior administration official said Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser and continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. Another cautioned that anyone who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump's orbit is "fooling themselves."
The transition, the insiders said, is likely to correspond to the end of Musk's time as a "special government employee," a special status that temporarily exempts him from some ethics and conflict-of-interest rules. That 130-day period is expected to expire in late May or early June.
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Almost every single person on a major nba discord got banned because this got flagged lol https://t.co/G4im7TIDXo pic.twitter.com/XPPdDeJEG7
— Basil🧡 (@LinkofSunshine) April 3, 2025
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What makes this all extra funny is that orthonormalist is just a Texas dad who eyeballed the math on his phone while on a grocery errand based on his memory of what Vietnamese trade data looks like.
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) April 3, 2025
It's not his job to know this calculation or anything.
@Redactor0 he's just like you: a grillpilled boomer with a suspiciously keen interest in southeast asian economies!
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bahahhaha they did this in real life https://t.co/0ip0BAFwjk pic.twitter.com/bftRiJWOJx
— Havoc 2-1 (@HavocTwoOne) April 3, 2025
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https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations
the reason the US has a huge trade deficit with CAMBODIA is 100% because they're leveraging unfair tariffs on American goods and that is why they're not buying stuff made in the US.
cannot be because the textile industry is huge in Cambodia due to very cheap labour, which means Americans buy a ton of clothes made there, while Cambodians cannot fricking afford Ford F150's in the first place!
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I got this nurse tonight, the guy is completely off. First I thought it was because he was foreign, the south-eastern European type. He kept giving me lingering stares, I figured he was looking for his words, but no he just keeps doing it.
The guy's come to see me four times in a couple of hours, I've been here a week no other nurse has come this often and they usually leave fast because they have work but this dude stayys and how he stays.
Last visit he wanted to go over my pooping habits, also asked me if I needed help peeing.
I am definitely going to die tonight. Send help.
- Assy-McGee : Scientifically made for Circumsized peepee too
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By all means, have pride in your culture and history. However it is PURE COPE to deny that white women naturally have the highest SMV. Denying this is as foolish as denying that tall men have the highest SMV. No, it is not cultural. There are universal standards of beauty that white women excel at more than any other race.
Light Skin
The preference for light skin is beyond cultural, although it can be amplified by cultural factors. Light skin is a better indication of good health:
Some research has suggested that redder and yellower skin tones, reflecting higher levels of oxygenated blood, carotenoid and to a lesser extent melanin pigment, and net dietary intakes of fruit and vegetables, appear healthier, and therefore more attractive.
Clearly, white women have the advantage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness
Expressive features
Males seek expressive facial features in women. On this category, white women excel thanks to their wide, expressive eyes. East asians, with their small eyes, cannot express as much emotion
Expressive cues, such as a larger-than-average smile, could suggest happiness and congeniality vivid lips and dilated pupils could suggest excitement and arousal {Hess, 1965). Thus, expressive features may suggest a warm, responsive friend. Expressive features also may accentuate the effects of other facial attributes. The combination of expressive with sexual maturity features may suggest an enthusiastic and assertive sexual partner.
Eyelid Crease
East asian women may be beautiful, but they lack the eyelid crease
A study that investigated whether or not an eyelid crease makes Chinese-descent women more attractive using photo-manipulated photographs of young Chinese-descent women's eyes found that the "medium upper eyelid crease" was considered most attractive by all three groups of both sexes: white people, Chinese and Taiwanese nationals together as a group, and Taiwanese and Chinese Americans together as a group. Similarly, all three groups of both genders found the absence of an eye crease to be least attractive on Chinese women.
Gorgeous Hair
White women have the best hair. I want to bury my face in a blonde girl's bush. Black women attempt to mimic white women hair, and it is not a coincidence.
Men have been found to prefer long-haired women. An evolutionary psychology explanation for this is that malnutrition and deficiencies in minerals and vitamins causes loss of hair or hair changes. Hair therefore indicates health and nutrition during the last 2–3 years. Lustrous hair is also often a cross-cultural preference.
OBJECTIONS
Beauty is Subjective!
To some degree, yes. But the bulk of sexual attraction is genetic. This has been proven using pheromone studies. Women given the shirts of various men were able to smell out attractive men.
Muh Butt!
White women may lack butt, but this is actually a cultural trend.
In a 1995 study, black men were more likely than white men to use the words "big" or "large" to describe their conception of an attractive woman's posterior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness
I could go on, this is not even the whole list. As research reveals: "The heterosexual evolutionary perspective suggests that men, over time and across cultures, prefer youthful features (smooth skin, white eyes, full lips, good muscle tone, leg length, lumbar curvature, facial symmetry, long/full hair, feminine voice) as indications of fertility or healthy genes." On these factors, white women MOG every other race on planet Earth. You have not heard a feminine voice until you've listened to the sweet notes from a white princess. Are there any whiter eyes than that of a Nordic diva?
If you prefer other races, that's fine but I'm SICK AND TIRED of folks pretending white women don't objectively have the highest SMV. It is not cultural. They won the genetic lottery and their genetic features tick all the features that trigger arousal in men.
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These policies are in place because of cases like Clayton Lonetree. In the 1980s he was having a pretty miserable time as a Marine guard at the embassy in Moscow. (This may shock zoomers, but Moscow under communism was one of the bleakest, most boring and depressing places on Earth.) He was honeytrapped by a Russian working there. It's a pretty tragic story. As far as spies go, he's one who's relatively easy to sympathize with. He wasn't going out trying to get rich or frick over his country, he just made a mistake banging this "Violetta" and then dug himself in deeper by continuing to make bad choices after that. Eventually he did the right thing and confessed, ending up spending 9 years in Leavenworth.
This came out in 1986, just after the infamous "Year of the Spy" when many high-profile traitors were caught. It was known that there had to be more because everyone in the Soviet Union working for us was getting caught and executed. At first it seemed like Lonetree's espionage explained it. But the investigation found that he really hadn't done that much damage. It was only in the 1990s when Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen were finally caught that the CIA finally understood what had really happened.
Speaking of getting cockblocked...
One time I heard Scaramucci on a podcast and the guy is legit really smart. I can't remember what it was, but he was saying something about American history in the 1800s and I was like "darn, that's really insightful". I have no idea how the heck the guy got mixed up with Trump, but I make sure to pay close attention to what he says now.
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Well we're back for day two, I doubt this will go any better but this site isn't even for drama anymore at this point.
After going through all the answers, discarding obvious meme answers unless the rock, paper, scissors commenter is talking about the Sega Saturn game where women take off their clothes based on the outcome of a series of rock paper scissors matches, the real winner is:
Winner: Nioh 2 for best Combat System
I personally haven't played Nioh 2, I got filtered by Nioh 1. The combat system in Nioh 1 is pretty interesting but haven't had a chance to play 2 for obvious reasons. Definitely a reason to try and beat the first game.
Now for today's voting we're choosing the best Open World.
Best Open World
The way I'm gonna assume what they meant is the best designed open-world regardless of actual video game quality but of course that has to come into play as well, literally. I know my first couple of picks seem basic but they'll get more interesting as time goes on I swear!
Personal Pick
For today's personal pick I have to go with one of my GOATs, GTA IV.
Yes I know nowadays GTA IV gets a bad rep, I'm not entirely sure why but I do love the game. But even ignoring the story, driving, and combat I truly do enjoy the world that Rockstar built for the game. Liberty City to me is the absolute peak of Rockstar's open world game design. Sure it's not the most varied compared to something like GTA:SA but I think GTA IV does a lot more with the amount of space it uses compared to other similar open worlds. There's just tons of details in terms of the places you can go, buildings you can enter, things you can interact with, the way each district of the map looks unique and the ability to remember where to go just based off landmarks. If you look for it, you will find tons of detail and things hidden and packed in the world. Traffic density actually feels somewhat realistic, perhaps not as much as the real NYC and NJ but it at least feels more realistic than other contemporaries or even modern games. Not to mention all the little distractions like Bowling (hey cousin), darts, getting drunk, taking women on dates, going to internet cafes, listening to the radio. And say what you will about the driving mechanics in the game, I thought they were fantastic and was so disappointed they went back to the toy car feel in GTA V when I felt like they had already perfected in IV. Not to mention how different the city feels when you play as the different characters in the DLCs. Each character has their own unique aesthetic for the city and it really does help keep the game feel fresh especially since each story focuses on specific areas of the map and doesn't make it feel overused or underutilized. Niko's story makes the city feel modernist and grimy, Luis's story makes the city feel cosmopolitan and vibrant, while Johnny's story makes the city feel grungy and ramshackle. GTA IV is a near-perfect game, shame that people look down on it nowadays.
Honorable mentions: GTA: SA, Saints Row 2, GTA V, AC2, Fallout New Vegas, Death Stranding
What's your pick for Best Open World?
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Perhaps the Greatest of Leaps!
It's gonna be Yuge, I tell you. We're bringing back All the Industry, America is Back!
Be ready to win like we never won before, making heavy steel products! You're gonna be tired of winning!
Every Worker a Patriot, Every Job a Mission!
Three Years of Hard Work, A Century of Prosperity!
A RED, Blue and white dawn upon us!
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Amid student demonstrations in Paris, sparked by reductions in university funding, protesters burned the American flag.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 3, 2025
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/world/asia/united-states-of-kailasa-bolivia.html
https://rdrama.net/h/bharat/post/151288/i-found-a-cult-island-marseysoypoint
https://rdrama.net/post/155078/newark-city-scammed-by-a-hindu
He went from being schizo to based. I hope you get your latam dharma raj to turn into your personal harem someday kang
Very multiracial(no way chinki guy is not chinese )
Meanwhile we're paying $200,000 for 1k sq ft area in dalli lmao
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🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | People say women are mature and well adjusted if they're married an... | /r/AskMenAdvice (481K) | 56% | 567 |
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🤓🤓🔘🔘🔘 | LiDAR vs camera | /r/TeslaFSD (9K) | 51% | 291 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Our country is fricked :3 | /r/ProfessorMemeology (9K) | 50% | 162 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | So I have seen stuff about women not getting treated the best on th... | /r/MarvelRivalsQueens (5K) | 51% | 73 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | We don't have to call trump Hitler our own vice president did it fo... | /r/ProfessorMemeology (9K) | 47% | 77 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Protest in Helena, Montana - April 5th, 12-2pm | /r/helena (7K) | 54% | 71 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | They even cropped out the community note | /r/ProfessorMemeology (9K) | 51% | 64 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | I think we need to have a discussion about AI on this subreddit | /r/twilightimperium (34K) | 54% | 219 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Why Anti-Zionism Is the Ultimate Form of Anti-Semitism | /r/IsraelPalestine (97K) | 54% | 520 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | And this is why Exclusives still and always will matter, Phil Spenc... | /r/XboxSeriesXlS (32K) | 46% | 105 |
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