No one here wants this.

I agree with your post otherwise, but clearly the food industry wants things to be the way they are. So, some people want this, and they bought the politicians to make it so.

Yep 100% agree.

Both “free trade” and big stupid blanket tariffs are extremist positions and it’s America so they’re the only positions discussed.

They think the stepford wife look is a vibe. (It isn’t.)

Pussies

I think there’s room for reasonable tariff policy, but unfortunately the US is a nuance-free land full of extremists so Trump’s terrible implementation will make tariffs radioactive for another generation if there’s a large public backlash.

It doesn’t need to be absolutely free trade with slavers or tariff man hell. We could raise the standard of living by allowing free trade but imposing tariffs – or even outright bans on imports – from places legalizing slave labor and other close to slave labor conditions. But obviously none of that fits into Trump’s dumbass worldview.

If you have Hulu or sail the seven seas, check out “The Dropout” which is a mini-series about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes.

🎶 we’re morons! 🎶

No it’s gross

Just because it’s insane doesn’t mean it won’t happen

Useless comment.

I disagree, his comment made it obvious that I should block him.

Gotta keep those guns cool

Edit: fallout fridges are miles more sane than animal crossing: nh fridges… I still find it funny, you open a fridge and it’s like “a refrigerator, should i change?”… Into what? A fucking pair of cold cuts?

CLIs are almost always magnitudes more expressive than their feeble, derivative GUIs.

At one point, it seemed like we were getting smarter, and then we very didn’t.

Yeah, I’m a hunching it up a bit, but I can’t imagine it’s a good thing (for reasoning) to have your brain full of microplastics.

It’s a bit of an aside, but there’s a large amount of absurdity in expecting scientific rigor in lemmy comments when purportedly scientific bodies are being led by vaccine-denying simpletons.

That ubiquitous expectation of powerless individuals to reason and behave perfectly while ultra-powerful people can behave like spoiled five year olds is foundational in making life fucking miserable for me personally.

Every country suffers from what? Mass stupidity?

Maybe that’s true but it certainly seems like we are more individualistic and stupid than most…and I don’t think those two things are entirely unrelated.

America is more car-oriented than most other western countries and leaded gas is how we did the majority of our poisoning.

Yes, of course microplastics are everywhere, but I’ve read studies saying that internationally they’re eating about the same amount of plastic as we did years ago, but they kind of plateaued whereas here in the good ol USA people still don’t know that it’s not a good idea to eat three meals a day of microwaved food cooked in plastic containers.

Read the book “bowling alone” if you’re interested in someone’s attempt at researching why we went from collectivism to individualism as a country. There are a large amount of factors but if I were to take a crack at it, I’d list a few: TV, the Internet, smart phones, air conditioning, capitalism, and (last but certainly not least) racism. Racism is foundational to the country and its history.

As far as the stupidity, some of the same factors apply, but there are also additional ones like environmental factors (US citizens eat more microplastics than any other major country since like 2020 and we lead poisoned ourselves for a century), a deep-seeded anti-intellectualism, and we’re a large part cultist/religious idiots that see everything through the lense of “some guy” being the best thing ever and the source of all truth.

Same reason why Hip Hop sucked in 96: https://youtu.be/yKf40CLF9MU

Of course he doesn’t, he’s got TDS.

Guys, just steal this and use it to describe deranged Trump idiots. The right wing steals useful words like “fake news” and “groomer” and alters their meanings for political purposes all of the time. This one should be a layup because without reading into it everyone already thinks it’s the condition those everyday July 4th cosplay, big truck with tattered flags morons have.