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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • If the person in the US is only willing to pay 70, then the artist will get less than 70.

    Sure, the American pays the tariff. That’s not the point. The point is that this person wants to spend X total and wants most of that X to end up with the artist. And that doesn’t happen if they have to spend half of X to pay for the tariff.

    The point of saying “the American pays the tariff” isn’t to say that the seller makes the same amount. It’s to emphasize that the seller won’t absorb that cost, which is the lie Trump is selling.





  • Nothing you said negates the fact that a first past the post voting system always devolves into two parties. Add an electrical college, and you’re even more locked in.

    Given that one of the two parties WILL be in charge, you get to vote against which one you hate more.

    Don’t lie to yourself and think that a vote is supporting a side. That’s not how it works in America. Your vote is against whoever you hate most.

    Now if you hate both sides equally, you don’t care about your neighbors at all. Even though it’s all orchestrated, and pretend, and both sides are owned by corporations, and neither side will fight capitalism, there’s a clear better and a clear worse when it comes to quality of life for our neighbors.

    If you don’t like the fact that there’s only two options, you either need to push for ranked choice voting, which means working with one of the existing parties to implement it. Or you need to get out. There is no other way to escape this system.