willing to debate anyone who thinks the tariffs are genuinely bad for America. I don’t care about whether they’re bad for Europe.

Elon dying to act 1 starter bosses while being trolled relentlessly in PoE 2

put 10,000% tariffs on china fuck them

Why I find the arguments of Strasserists, cryptocommunists, and basic bitch leftists repulsive is that they're driven by petty resentment, hyperbolism, and fundamentally flawed understandings. It's mostly the petty resentment though.

"A well deserved punishment to boomers" is the type of petty resentment that I despise. The whole thing is just "wahhh I'm in my 30s and mad at my parents still." Fucking grow up. Being mad at my parents was a defining part of my worldview when I was like, 15. It's a juvenile phase you're eventually supposed to grow out of. I guess if your whole work is reading Nietzsche to 15 year old boys you don't have to though.

Yes boomers are by default largely responsible for the current state of things because they're the oldest majority alive generation. They're also a generation that appears on average 15-20 points lower IQ than their successor generations, probably a result of things like leaded gasoline, lead paint, retarded diets, and abandoning most forms of mental exercise once they reached middle age. Most boomers have ektch-a-sketch brains that get reset daily by the television. This is valuable to understand, but that's just a first step to being able to do anything to improve your own situation or society as a whole within the circumstances that they created.

There's an attitude from various people of "BOOMERS JUST DIE ALREADY" and then what? Your whole plan is Total Boomer Death, ??????, Profit. Even if you deleted every boomer tomorrow you would still be stuck in the same world, and you'd have no plan, because you spend all day wallowing in resentment as an excuse to do nothing.

Keith might be so stupid he can't even read a chart. There is no spike in rates. Rates are lower today than they were 2 weeks ago. Where is the spike Keith? Show me on the chart the fucking spike. Not the one day chart, but on a time frame that actually makes sense in the context of the mortgages you're talking about, which would be a minimum 90 day period. There's certainly been spikes in market volatility over the past 2 weeks, but this is not really relevant to many people besides day traders and market makers.

The fundamental mistake most political commentators make when incorporating market data into commentary is an assumption that today's market prices are rational, or yesterday's market prices are rational, or the past 6 months of prices have been rational, or the past 2 years of prices have been rational. When left leaning people try to incorporate this presupposition they also create a self-exploding argument because they're basing their argument around the efficient market hypothesis, when one paragraph later or the next day later they'll also start advocating for centralized/socialized resource allocation, because they don't believe in the efficient market hypothesis.

Like I've mentioned previously, the drop in most stock values over the past 2 weeks is not a direct consequence of tariffs, but a direct consequence of the reality that the stock market had turned into a retarded casino where bulls hammering the bid on everything felt like they could just do it forever because government policy would always backstop them and paper over any inconvenience like poor earnings, logistical or development delays, and even bad corporate management. Trump's tariff announcements were a declaration that his administration were not going to just pump up the market at all costs, which was the more meaningful impact than the impact on trade. So you had an immediate revert of a full year of market insanity. Now new conditions are established and there's short-term volatility as we see how things actually shake out and analysts assess what the long-term implications on trade and earnings expectations really are.

There's also general incoherence in Keith's argument. Punishing China and reindustrialization are two sides of the same coin from a nationalist perspective. From the perspective of an international socialist, like Keith, they're not, but from a national perspective they are. Reindustrialization naturally entails creating demand for American manufactured goods at the expense of Chinese manufactured goods.

This is a long-winded rant but in summary there's something generally suspicious about anyone who takes the stance of "Yes I support the American worker NO NOT AT THE COST OF THE CHINESE WORKER 😡"
https://t.me/keith_woods/6116

"eVeRy bUsInEsS wILl JuSt rAiSe PrIcEs tO aDjUsT FoR TaRiFfs"
ok and what if their competitor doesn't?
since 2020 we've seen record corporate profit margins while labor has also seen their wages decimated.

BRING BACK PRICE DISCOVERY

do you actually think that when the market was sitting at all time highs, 20% up on the year, that companies literally couldn't afford to make less profit? lol, lmao.

Protestants can’t meme.

Talked to someone about this earlier today, but if it’s at all possible you should never interact with HR/a recruiter when you’re looking for a job. Unless you’re like a top athlete and the recruiter is going to send a convertible to your house to get on the phone with you, but that’s not you.

The last time I got a job by talking to HR was like 2013 or something. It sucks, it’s terrible, I don’t know a single person who likes doing this.

My strategy is always this: connect with as many high level and important people at the company you want to work at as possible. Talk to them, get friendly with them, be willing to spend months doing this. Then apply ASAP when a position you qualify for opens up, ask the people you’re close to if they can meet with you to talk about the company and the job opening, turn them into an advocate for your candidacy. Then meet directly with the hiring manager, bypass the gatekeepers entirely. Anything else is high probability of death by gatekeeper. Just jump the gate.

I’ve also done hiring before and I’ve never used HR people/recruiters to do it. It’s usually just me DMing/texting someone I already know and respect like “hey, would you want to work on X?”

This is how a lot of hiring gets done. Department Y needs person Z. Company person A looks through their contacts and goes, oh, random person B has the skillset that matches criteria C and I like them. Let’s see if they’re available to work. So your emailed in resume to HR never really stood a chance.

I was doing a booth at a college job fair once and two girls came up to me, I asked them what field they wanted to work in and they said enthusiastically “HR!” My skin crawled, my stomach turned, I referred them to Fiverr. I would have rather a school shooter walked up to my booth gun in hand. Someone deciding to go to college to become a person that works in HR is a man made horror beyond my comprehension.

You have to also understand HR is basically an insanity as a department, because HR is basically hired to solve for a problem that if they solved for well, they would also solve for themselves. Tenured HR people have already gamed this out. If they fill every role with the best candidate as fast as possible, then there’s no more work to do. If they allow a culture to develop where everyone is friendly and getting along together, there’s no more work to do.

Every other person in the company has different incentives. Everybody has some number they’re trying to hit, the manager has a number he needs to hit, even the CEO has a number they need to hit. If you can bypass the gatekeeper and convince the decision maker directly that you’re the person who is going to enable them to hit their number, you’ll have the job.

Why is it illegal to question if the Super Bowl is rigged in so many European countries? They didn’t even have anything to do with the creation of the NFL.

2012-2015 era Assad was peak masculinity. Stunning A10s, giving the order to drop bombs on Kurds, Redditors and Africans while blasting Primadonna Girl by Marina.

Best movie of the 2020s is still The Many Saints of Newark, AINEC

There’s no chance I ever watch the Minecraft movie but I do find it funny zoomers have turned it into the clean it up janny event of the decade.

I think why I find it funny is because at the heart of all the layers of irony and post-irony is soul. Minecraft was something made by notch with soul. I’ve never played Minecraft, it’s not my kind of game, but I like notch a lot. Overtime it’s become increasingly sloppified and the movie seems like almost total slop.

Movies as a whole have also largely become slop. My favorite movie theater is a small 1 screen theater, they do like 4 screenings a day, mostly movies from the 60s-90s before total ensloppification happened. They serve good real food, have a full bar, I go there just to eat and drink sometimes. They would never show the Minecraft movie.

To the zoomer though, throwing bags of slopcorn and cups of soda slop, setting off indoor fireworks, and letting loose live chickens during the “chicken jockey” scene is a way to connect and still appreciate the core genuine soul of something they love despite that it has developed an entire onion of layers of slop around it.

You either die talking about lobsters, or you live long enough to become the lobster

I used to think the most insane position Martinez had was getting rid of copyright law, particularly because it seemed like a position that was unique to him. Now though I see people like Jack Dorsey saying the same shit, “delete all intellectual property law”.

Dorsey cooked his brains out in the desert at Burning Man years ago, so I guess it makes sense he’s come up with ideas like this, but why the fuck would this be a good idea?

The only rational explanation I can think of is if you had a breakaway ethnostate that occupied like a small island or something, and you wanted to make it a nation of pirates as an economic strategy, in which case I guess it would make sense.

The entire industrial revolution and technological process since however is largely attributable to copyright law. For like 4500 years we had the greatest minds contributing themselves to stuff like philosophy, mathematics, scientific theory etc because they saw mechanical invention as beneath them.

It works for China because half of China’s economy is sweatshop labor and the other half is piracy. It’s, among other reasons, a reason tariffs are necessary because they can serve a role in protecting American intellectual property rights.

The moment you get rid of copyright, however, is when you go from being a country that rewards innovation to a country that rewards thievery.

Starbucks no longer takes the coupon I’ve been using for the past five weeks every weekday for a $2.50 large iced macchiato😔

why the fuck is 4chan still down