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The gently caress did they think, he was just going to put tariffs on one product? Jesus christ, companies are dumb as gently caress.
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Grondoth posted:The gently caress did they think, he was just going to put tariffs on one product? 3 decades of them fighting for laws cutting worker pay, then having customers have less money has not already taught you that?
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Jul 17, 2018 14:43
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Grondoth posted:The gently caress did they think, he was just going to put tariffs on one product? the washing machine and steel tariffs aren’t really related at all. the tariffs on inputs were going to happen anyway, because of the lobbying from other industries. the bourgeois don’t really have class consciousness, because they constantly gently caress each other over pursuing their own narrow self-interest.
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Jul 17, 2018 14:45
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:the bourgeois don’t really have class consciousness, because they constantly gently caress each other over pursuing their own narrow self-interest. All hail Adam Smith and the invisible hand!
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Jul 17, 2018 14:49
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Jose posted:huey long was supposed to be bad and idk why he owns. or is this just american revisionism because he was left wing "Corruption", but I don't know how much of that is real or not.
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Jose posted:huey long was supposed to be bad and idk why he owns. or is this just american revisionism because he was left wing As with almost everything hosed up about America, there a really good Dollop podcast about what a piece of poo poo Huey Long was here http://thedollop.libsyn.com/215-huey-long. I'm sure a good bit of the racist was just being from Louisiana in the early 20th century. However that doesn't excuse the fact that he was a corrupt violent ignoramus much like our current president. He just leaned socialist/commie instead of fascist/Nazi.
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Jul 17, 2018 15:44
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1redflag posted:All hail Adam Smith and the invisible hand! 5 minutes ago: “ha ha these tariffs are going to help my company and screw my competitors!” 5 minutes later: “help the invisible hand is up my rear end and I can’t get it out, it hurts!”
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Jul 17, 2018 15:49
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Trump can do whatever he wants to these people. they will never vote for anyone but a Republican. they've been fed the ideas their entire lives that being a democrat is anti-American, weak, and smarmy elite. these people are so obsessed with portraying the opposite of those things that they will let Trump completely destroy their lives before they vote for a democrat
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Shaffness posted:He just leaned socialist/commie instead of fascist/Nazi. Yeah, that's why he was good.
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Jul 17, 2018 16:31
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Epic High Five posted:I'm 90% convinced that most of the MAGA chuds will vote just as enthusiastically for the destruction of the indolent billionaire class and seizing of their fortunes for the public good, the movement just needs a firebrand beligerrent jackass to lead it who isn't the sort of bloodless technocrat that the Dem party has been cultivating for decades. These same chuds hand waving toddler concentration camps were not too long ago dragging mine bosses out of their mansions and tarring and feathering them every war needs cannon fodder, may as well use the people who suck
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Jul 17, 2018 16:51
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"I didn't think they'd raise MY steel and aluminum prices" says person who voted for the higher steel and aluminum prices party
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Ripoff posted:“help the invisible hand is up my rear end and I can’t get it out, it hurts!” Neq
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zegermans posted:"I didn't think they'd raise MY steel and aluminum prices" says person who voted for the higher steel and aluminum prices party
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FMguru posted:The way all these smart, savvy, sensible businessmen convinced themselves that Trump's tradewar campaign talk was just a smokescreen to gull the rubes, that he didn't really mean it, that he'd drop it once he got into office, only to discover that no, he actually meant all of that tariff war stuff, he really meant what he said about tearing up all our trade deals and negotiating newer, better ones in their place - that will always be funny. but not as funny as the thousands of ignoramuses who never doubted that this was a real, good plan trump could enact using his superhuman dealmaker powers
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And that's nowhere near as funny as the dipshit who thought Trump was serious but assumed that he would grant them, someone he's never met before an exemption from the tariffs
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Just a matter of time now for him to make good on his, "Maybe just forget the national debt, why not done?" suggestions during the campaign.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Yeah, that's why he was good. I'm not saying his heart wasn't in the right place in that one instance. It's just that everything else about him was bad and corrupt and crazy. He was definitely on the express lane to autocracy and dictatorship before he wound up dead.
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Shaffness posted:I'm not saying his heart wasn't in the right place in that one instance. It's just that everything else about him was bad and corrupt and crazy. He was definitely on the express lane to autocracy and dictatorship before he wound up dead. Presidential Dictator Huey Long would be unironically good.
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Agean90 posted:And that's nowhere near as funny as the dipshit who thought Trump was serious but assumed that he would grant them, someone he's never met before an exemption from the tariffs that idiot thought he would call up the loving president and demand an exemption for his little company
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Presidential Dictator Huey Long would be unironically good. Every Man a King!
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Jul 18, 2018 02:59
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I know it's a banal point by now, but it really is funny how this is all a classic tale of gullible overconfident Americans getting totally fleeced and owned by a fast-talking rich New York conman. The Trump campaign & presidency has to be one of the all-time great cons of history.
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Shaffness posted:As with almost everything hosed up about America, there a really good Dollop podcast about what a piece of poo poo Huey Long was here http://thedollop.libsyn.com/215-huey-long. I'm sure a good bit of the racist was just being from Louisiana in the early 20th century. However that doesn't excuse the fact that he was a corrupt violent ignoramus much like our current president. He just leaned socialist/commie instead of fascist/Nazi. Anyone who threatened the grand wizard of the KKK was probably pretty good on race relations in comparison to the rest of 20th century america
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wasn't Huey Newton named after Huey Long because his dad respected Long's use of southern racist sentiments to create jobs and improve the living conditions for blacks by things like "we can't have blacks in this hospital, we need another hospital staffed only by blacks and for blacks" and such things, or am I drunkenly remembering this very wrong?
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Epic High Five posted:wasn't Huey Newton named after Huey Long because his dad respected Long's use of southern racist sentiments to create jobs and improve the living conditions for blacks by things like "we can't have blacks in this hospital, we need another hospital staffed only by blacks and for blacks" and such things, or am I drunkenly remembering this very wrong? http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/new5427.0458.119hueypnewton.html the survey, ah, says that thats, ah , correct
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Huey Long had an ego bigger than the world and everything he did was to feed it. He built a governor's mansion based off the White House, he made the state capital building 34 stories tall so it would be the biggest, pumped gently caress loads of money into LSU. His leftist stuff was done so he'd be remembered as the greatest politician ever and ran Louisiana as a dictatorship to do it. He held the governor seat and his senate seat for a year just so a political rival wouldn't become governor. Dude owned, but also wasn't good if you cared about democracy or something.
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Turncoat Mommy posted:Huey Long had an ego bigger than the world and everything he did was to feed it. He built a governor's mansion based off the White House, he made the state capital building 34 stories tall so it would be the biggest, pumped gently caress loads of money into LSU. His leftist stuff was done so he'd be remembered as the greatest politician ever and ran Louisiana as a dictatorship to do it. He held the governor seat and his senate seat for a year just so a political rival wouldn't become governor. Dude owned, but also wasn't good if you cared about democracy or something. tbf i wouldnt really care about democracy in Louisiana in the 1920's either because it wasnt one you see
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Kung Food posted:Just a matter of time now for him to make good on his, "Maybe just forget the national debt, why not done?" suggestions during the campaign. to be fair, the GOP freedom caucus has wanted this for years at this point i'll reserve my concerns for when he remembers his "why have nuclear weapons if we never use them?" musings
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Agean90 posted:http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/new5427.0458.119hueypnewton.html lmao owns
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somewhat more on topic: https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1019398962019819520
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Lock him up! Comey I mean, for the crime of not locking her up.
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Turncoat Mommy posted:Huey Long had an ego bigger than the world and everything he did was to feed it. He built a governor's mansion based off the White House, he made the state capital building 34 stories tall so it would be the biggest, pumped gently caress loads of money into LSU. His leftist stuff was done so he'd be remembered as the greatest politician ever and ran Louisiana as a dictatorship to do it. He held the governor seat and his senate seat for a year just so a political rival wouldn't become governor. Dude owned, but also wasn't good if you cared about democracy or something. Huey Long is one of my favorite people ever. Here are some quotes from an article about the construction of the governor's mansion: quote:The Times-Picayune and other outlets called it the “Louisiana White House” and his contemporary biographer Forrest Davis quotes Long as saying about the building’s look, “I want to be used to the White House when I get there.” (New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling tells a different version, wherein Huey “wanted a replica of the White House so he would know where the light switches were in the bathrooms when he got to be president.”) quote:One night in March 1929, Long called up the warden of the “Alcatraz of the South,” Angola State Prison, and ordered him to send a number of convicts (reports range from 30 to 100) to Baton Rouge. Huey personally led the chain gang down from the Capitol to the mansion and watched them tear it down. “ quote:In all fairness to the mansion, the real culprit for Rose’s distance was likely Huey Long’s secretary, who was rumored to be his mistress. The giveaway might have been when he named her secretary of state for Louisiana and possibly had her ex-husband kidnapped and stashed on a remote island. But yeah he was distinctly undemocratic, however his road to power was by enfranchising the disenfranchised. That having been said, politics in general was super corrupt back then. It's honestly astounding in comparison.
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PosteriorChain posted:I know it's a banal point by now, but it really is funny how this is all a classic tale of gullible overconfident Americans getting totally fleeced and owned by a fast-talking rich New York conman. The Trump campaign & presidency has to be one of the all-time great cons of history. I mean, it's far dumber than the Monorail Guy from Simpsons. Those chump towns at least didn't have previous victims screaming about about the con artist and offering proof and testimonies only for Springfield go "lol, you jealous. "
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Presidential Dictator Huey Long would be unironically good. Huey long wanted to cap total wealth at a million bucks that owns his campaign song was called "every man a king" also owns
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Long is what Trump would be if Trump knew what he was doing, helped his electorate instead of loving them over, and fought against corporations instead of politicians and celebrities. Long just wanted power and was riding a wave of dissent much like Trump. He was mainly interested in glorifying himself and he knew what strings to pull to make that happen, not saying he didn't accomplish good things but in the end people who only want to get power for themselves end up being destructive. On the other hand it's interesting how Long was hated by many in his day for things that seem mild compared to what Trump is doing today.
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Democrats are weak, smarmy elites. That's the loving problem. I'd rather have Huey Long than Chuck Schumer running the Democrats.
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bollig posted:But yeah he was distinctly undemocratic, however his road to power was by enfranchising the disenfranchised. That having been said, politics in general was super corrupt back then. It's honestly astounding in comparison. imagine being worried about a left populist leader being undemocratic in a state where the right to vote was determined by skin tone
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