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DixonHur

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  1. Cave to what? Has the administration issued any formal demands of Canada?
  2. The EV industry is a good case study on tariffs, because while the US would want to protect against a flood of cheap cars from China, the domestic industry relies heavily on rare earth metals from...checks notes...China
  3. Caption is wrong. Gilmore was not in the original lineup. Piper at the Gates of Dawn was released prior to him joining the band.
  4. What are you babbling about? What did I tell people would work?
  5. Have you considered going back to your cesspool CR? The adults are talking
  6. Sounds like it's time to adjust my international fund portfolio
  7. I don't understand the economics of it, but I'm assuming the US Dollar being the world's reserve currency is a big deal, so levying tariffs on BRICS countries in an effort to get them to back the dollar could make some sense. But, putting tariffs on our close allies, and largest trading partners (Mexico and Canada) makes much less sense to me.
  8. @GreenspointTexas 3 months ago explaining his plan to a neighbor...
  9. Interesting point. Are there any historical studies showing the impacts of tariffs on consolidation within industries? IE do smaller companies fail at higher rates leading to increased oligopoly?
  10. It's almost like @GreenspointTexas saw this coming
  11. Good point, thanks for the clarification.
  12. This coupled with fewer Mexican laborers in US agriculture should drive the produce prices through the roof, no?
  13. It is political to a point, but it is good color. I'm less interested in the how, who or why as I am in the thought process behind tariffs, there impact on the consumer, lessons from previous trade wars, how long they typically last, how they are typically resolved and the lasting impacts on the economy of the country imposing them. Trump ran a campaign on being the "tariff king" so I don't think his implementation of tariffs is unexpected or particularly noteworthy. The impacts are ...so that's what non-political means in this context.
  14. That sounds ominous, can you expand on it a bit?
  15. Please do not litter this thread with political garbage. Whether you support Trump or not doesn't matter. The fact is that he's the President and has just stated he's implementing 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada starting tomorrow. The purpose of this thread is to discuss the ramifications of these tariffs on the economy at large, inflation, and our individual wallets. Not just from the tariffs the US is levying, but any retaliatory tariffs from the target countries. A list that is likely to grow. The most obvious impacts will be increased gas, automotive and produce prices (along with my beloved tequila). But can the Surly economists walk me through the broader implications?
  16. You should give The Substance a try. I thought it was really good, and Margaret Qualley (Andie MacDowell's daughter) is a smoke show. I still Mikey Madison deserves the Oscar more than Demi. Don't get me wrong, Demi is really good, but she's only in 42% of the film as opposed to Mikey's 78% in Anora ...but Hollywood loves a comeback story and she'll likely get it for her lifetime body of work.
  17. DixonHur

    LBGTQ

    Oh, ok, so opinions are only correct if the state agrees with them. Gotcha. I think I need a break from the mental gymnastics of the CR. Goodbye.
  18. DixonHur

    LBGTQ

    Wow, some of you folks are so myopic it's hard to comprehend. Why do some on this board assume every post they don't agree with is an attack on gay and trans people. I only stated that I think marriage is antiquated to point out why I haven't paid attention to the gay marriage issue. Marriage was originally about pacts between families, tribes and nations. Literally placing a member of their family into another to stave off war. That is antiquated. Love does not require government approval. What you are arguing about is the tax code ...which is also antiquated. Did you know joint filing has only been a thing since 1948? Some of you act like it's some God given right that's existed since the dawn of time. Before that everyone, married or not, was taxed on an individual basis. Joint filing was only enacted because married people were trying to cheat the system. And because women started entering the workforce in greater numbers, it's been amended several times since then to try to keep women from being unfairly taxed. This has nothing to do with being gay or straight. And I've never once said, or even slightly suggested that gay/trans people should be taxed differently than straight people. Good god, have some fucking perspective.
  19. To be fair, no competent person of any color, creed, or gender would want to work for Jerrah, so it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy / feed-back loop kind of situation.
  20. DixonHur

    LBGTQ

    Fair. But perhaps you should question the government's control over these aspects of your life, and why they were enacted in the first place, instead of accepting them as natural.
  21. DixonHur

    LBGTQ

    Not sure why you felt the need to attack my personal beliefs, but I appreciate you answering the question. I just never felt like the government had a role in my personal life, or that my love needed to be codified by law. Those ideas are based on the familiar contracts that formed the basis for the origin of marriage. In most of the developed world today , marriage is based on lover, not arrangements between countries/families, so the legal contract is of little importance, IMO, which is what I mean by antiquated.
  22. DixonHur

    LBGTQ

    As someone who views marriage as an antiquated institution, I haven't followed this legal fight very closely, so I'd like to be educated on the issue. Since the Constitution doesn't mention marriage, on what basis did SCOTUS affirm the right and on what basis could they reverse it?
  23. You're probably right about Demi, given the Golden Globe, but Mikey 100% deserves it over her. The range she showed in Anora was insane ...but Oscar gonna Oscar.
  24. Admittedly I haven't seen all of the Best Actress performances this year, but I can't imagine anyone being better than Mikey Madison in Anora. The movie itself probably isn't Best Picture worthy (slow and repetitive for the first hour), but her performance in it was absolutely phenomenal. If she doesn't win, I'd have to imagine that most of the voters didn't watch the whole movie.
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