Are going to lose their homes. Many of them here reading this now.

Trump is opened up high risk private equity investment to 401ks. So you're quote unquote safe retirement is going to be funneled into private equity firms that are currently losing money because all the high profit private equity purchases have dried up. It's the same thing that was done with public pensions but now with your 401k.

Meanwhile you can expect Trump to continue to use tariffs as a national sales tax so that he can keep pushing for more tax cuts for his billionaire buddies and himself. That will create runaway inflation which will in turn cause interest rates to shoot up. That means more layoffs because high interest rates are designed to cause layoffs.

We gave too much power to the president and then we elected a congress unwilling to take it away because they're terrified of primary elections. Nobody here is going to get away unscathed.

About what you tell them. By electing Trump you have signaled to them that 34 felonies and 26 credible Rape accusations isn't a deal breaker in the face of overwhelming propaganda and a handful of moral panics.

So if you are contacting a republican they could care less what you tell them. The Democrats will care but they will not act outside of the Overton window, meeting the acceptable political discourse. And privacy regulations are outside the Overton window because any serious discussion of them immediately has somebody shouting booga booga booga the big scary government is going to regulate.

People need to start seriously thinking about what they are getting in exchange for those moral panics.

You will notice that people immediately point to temu and other sites that sell incredibly cheap junkie Chinese garbage.

The point of my post is that there are tons and tons of businesses that aren't importing cheap Chinese junk. They have things built overseas that can't be built here that qualify for the exemption and they have successful small businesses selling them.

We could bring the manufacturing back but it would require trillions of dollars of government infrastructure spending and we just gave all that money to Elon Musk and Donald Trump's buddies. So that's not happening.

And even if it did the jobs don't come back because the factories are automated.

One of the things that the right wing news sources you're consuming will never tell you is what we get from all those imports.

We are an empire. And we extract tribute like any other empire. But we don't like to do things directly because that looks bad and it makes the citizens feel bad. It's why we use the complicated series of government programs to do socialism back when the baby boomers were coming up.

In this case we leverage military and economic power to force countries to buy into our bonds in the form of national debt. That artificially raises the value of the US dollar allowing us to purchase trillions of dollars worth of imports for a fraction of their real value. The system and the tribute extracted by it is why you can for example afford a big honking SUV instead of having to use a public transportation Network like Europe and Japan.

It's the classic libertarian cats problem. Utterly dependent on a system you neither appreciate or understand. Also known as a chesterton's fence.

Trump just took down the fence that's been maintaining your quality of life. And unless you die before the whole thing collapses you're going to live to find out what the hell that means and it's going to suck

But Trump never was good at spelling. Or reading. Or anything really.

I am looking forward to the cult coming up with justifications why this is okay though.

If the Democrats actually had a proper propaganda machine then Republican spaces would be filled with this and talk of the mark of the beast. But we don't so...

It was 38% in the days before covid.

It doesn't matter what his approval is except right before the election. The propaganda is at a lull and journalists are being allowed to criticize him so yeah his approval rating has dropped.

As we get closer to the midterm elections journalists will be instructed not to criticize Trump and anyone who does will be fired. That is exactly what happened in 2024 and it'll happen in 2026 and again in 2028.

A little bit of voter suppression and a lot of propaganda and the Republican party can do literally anything to us and we will just suck at the fuck down because we are a bunch of little bitches. Also we are absolutely terrified somebody is going to cut our grandkids dick off or that we will get drunk and drop n bombs in public.

Seriously there's solid polling that without those two moral panics Trump wouldn't be president.

This is about a national sales tax. It's about shifting $300 billion a year of tax burden from the top 0.1% to everybody else. Especially the bottom 99%. That's you and me.

We have a cult like admiration for the office of President and so we aren't equipped emotionally to deal with the president who is actively opposed to the interests of the United States of America.

Maybe for a BMW but I can generally get parts for my cars for about 2 to 3 times aftermarket markup and it's generally substantially better quality.

Car parts are also a hell of a lot more tightly regulated. I mean at least right now I'm sure that'll change soon what would the current American administration

They have been told they need to keep replacement parts around and it's been hinted at by a few Blue State AGs that lawsuits might follow if they didn't. So this is good old-fashioned malicious compliance.

The problem here is that this crap has a ton of externalized costs. When this stuff ends up in landfills we all have to deal with the environmental mess. And I don't mean save the whales kind I mean heavy metals in your drinking water kind. And not the cool kind of heavy metal the kinds that give you brain damage

Posting about how their businesses are basically finished. There's a Reddit forum dedicated to them called leopards eating faces and it's just one after another.

There's also a healthy mix of people posting about how in two years or so they're going to be dead because they are losing access to Medicaid.

I can't help but want to say, have the day you voted for. Every one of these bastards has learned nothing and if they happen to still be alive in 4 years will be voting for Trump again in the primary and the general election.

Oh and so far we have lost 30 billion dollars in tourist revenue because people are afraid to come to America because they might be thrown into a El Salvador gulag. Which has happened two or three times now to tourists.

I mean is there anyone here on this forum who will defend Donald Trump or their vote for him? Anyone? Bueller?

From way back in the day when Capcom sued Data East over a Street fighter 2 clone called Fighter's History.

You can't copyright or trademark a style. And you can't copyright and trademark a game genre.

If tencent was a smaller company then they could probably just be bullied but they were almost certainly expecting the lawsuit and will be able to get it shut down based on existing case law.

Then again the courts are pretty insane. I mean if you walk into a courtroom these days you practically flip a coin based on the judge. It doesn't help that we put some really crappy judges on the bench for extremely dubious reasons...

Sir I think you're forgetting president Trump's seminal discussion on the topic of modern cybersecurity and its effect on socioeconomics, to wit:

"Everything's computer!"

Now don't you feel silly?

But I just looked up the game and yeah, I mean holy cow.

With the way copyright law works in America I do think Sony will lose here. Never mind the fact that Sony's kind of copied zoids so it's going to be a tough thing to pull off.

But I mean this crap was decided years ago when Capcom sued Data East. Which hilariously the deposition video has shown up on YouTube and it's funny as hell to see a mid 90s lawyer try to talk about the differences between fighting games.

It's private companies spending billions to shut down public transportation so they can make hundreds of billions.

That the boring company only exists to stop high speed rail. You've got Google kiddo, you can look it up.

Why is Elon musk's dick in your mouth more important than reality? That's a question only you can answer for yourself.

Is not a lot cheaper in the long run. It does however get investors excited because you can constantly be presenting a new rocket that's going to be a revolutionary success. And the idea is you've got more than enough investors that you can keep blowing up rockets and moving on to the next batch.

It's the difference between doing something right and doing something to bring cash in. The government didn't have the luxury of failure because people expected real success not a short-term stock bump that would let them dump the stock for a profit onto a greater fool.