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[-] [email protected] 107 points 3 days ago

"I don't even know what a fucking tariff is!"

We fucking know

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

It's a tax. We should have leaned into educating people about this simple fact when Trump first started raving about it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Canada has been renting billboards all over the southern States in the hopes of educating people about this.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

Glad he supported the guy who said he'd impose tariffs when he had no idea what tariffs were. 3 minutes of googling could have saved this guy 3000 bucks

[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

It's because people can't help but find thst shit boring. The thing is we gotta do boring shit all the time. Politics and the things like that should be like breathing, brushing our teeth, sleeping, or wiping our ass...it's all boring but needs to be done.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Bread 'n Circuses

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.

The dudes part of the problem.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I was going to go with "well, you just learned what it is just now. Open wide, buttercup, this is what you wanted".

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