oh definitely. I'm not claiming that these people are stupid through inheritance, but instead because they are marinated in the most despicable propaganda
CTHlurker
joined 4 years ago
I mostly agree with you, but any time I have to interact with right-wingers I get reminded that they are indeed unfathomably stupid people. Just no thoughts, head empty and running on vibes and racism.
Which he stole from Thatcher, who came up with "Make Britain Great Again" because the pun actually works on Britain / Great Britain
Sorry if my post was unclear, but yes. Mexico and Chile are both extremly catholic countries, while my part of Scandinavia is extremely protestant and we famously work 37 hours every week and not a second more.
IIRC Mexico and Chile has the highest average workhours per year in the OECD. I remember once arguing with a guy at work about "protestant work-ethic" being a myth and showed him the graph. He's quite the neoliberal, so he puts a lot of stock in graphs compiled by NGOs, so after a while I finally shut him up.
To add to your last paragraph, you shouldn't underestimate just how much the current crop of republican reps. derive their power from being near Trump. Like, obviously the house reps are all ghouls, but it seems like a solid chunk of them now just consider themselves Trumpists primarily, and anything going against trump is considered political suicide to such an extent that nobody wants to go first.
You don't even need to revoke the entire law. Just pass a resolution saying that the crisis that Trump uses as a legal basis is over (or that he made it up), which should theoretically dissolve his legal ability to enforce the tariffs. Of course, this is speaking from a lawyer POV, which trump has shown the correct amount of respect for until now (none).
I assume that he was writing a massive thinkpiece with lots of graphs, then saw the announcements and had to delete it all. Though I look forward to reading his piece when he decides to post again.
English is the colonial language, but when India gained independence, the educated class already spoke and read it, which was more convenient, and since India has something like 121 recognized languages, English being a foreign colonial language made it easier to adopt, since they avoided "favouring" one indigenous language over another.