Also, really heavy focus on Bewbs, which is rarely a good sign for a reboot.

Not that the original was exactly chaste, but the hyper realism gave the art a certain hard boiled grittiness. Nothing about this character looks ex-military.

So google, amazon and Microsoft are hostile actors

Obviously not. They’re happy to give MI5 a backdoor into all their systems.

This is the apoteosis of incompetence.

The age old question - malicious or stupid.

Males haven’t even hit beta yet?

This explains a lot

The importers are then able to attempt to get restitution

They can certainly try. Idk how long they’ll need to wait before the Treasury starts cutting rebate checks.

Meanwhile the prices were raised downstream

The tariff rates far exceeded the inflation rate. And inflation has been driven by a host of non-tariff factors - AI driven chip shortages, supply chain disruptions at the Suez and the Panama canal, labor shortages driven by our pogrom against migrants.

Trump policy is shit. But it isn’t exclusively bound up in the tariffs. If anything, his tariff policies seem to be his least disastrous, as there’s been some degree of insourcing as a result

Sealioning is badgering people for details after they’ve met the burden of proof.

I’ve already cited multiple Bible verses.

But these are trivially easy to research on your own.

taxes

robbed

:-/ Libertarianism is the last refuge of scoundrels

refunds are going back to corporations

Furious Trump signs global 10% duty after supreme court issues tariff blow

Trump said he would immediately sign an order increasing tariffs globally by 10% under section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 and will begin investigations of unfair trade practices allowing further tariffs. He asserted that he had the authority to impose additional tariffs under existing statutes without congressional approval.

…

Section 122 has never been used, and therefore courts have had no occasion to interpret its language. Some news reports have noted this provision appears to authorize the President to impose across-the-board tariffs on imports in some circumstances.”

I’m not seeing anything in here about when refunds are going out. Much the opposite.

Haha. That’s not even the right fallacy.

The idea of Adult Baptism could really only occur during the Enlightenment, when people felt the ability to reason their way to their religious beliefs was more important than adhering to a mystical tradition

Matthew 10:34-36

Wasn’t Christopher Hitchens one of the guys who accepted that Iraq had WNDs without any evidence?

I believe he also smoked himself to death, because he wasn’t satisfied with the scientific link between cigarettes and cancer.

Go back 50 years ago and even most US Baptist churches wouldn’t recognize the contemporary version of it.

I’d strongly disagree. The 70s era Evangelical movement has enormous amounts in common with the modern movement. Largely as a result of Televangelism and the political entanglement between conservative politicians and the church.

The Billy Graham Crusade would fit in just fine in the modern American church

Go back 100 and you’ll find more space. But then you’re seeing all sorts of differences socio-economically.

The burden of proof is on the person making the claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

That’s a shitty response

Pointing to 1700 year old document

“Prove it doesn’t say something!”

“Brother, you can just Google this”

“Fuck you, asshole, how dare you make me do even the modest amount of leg work. Also…”

I don’t see anything telling people to have a personal relationship with Jesus

“I simply cannot read”

Paul the Apostle is the Ur-Example of an individual experiencing a sudden overwhelming personal urge to convert, and the primary model around which Evangelical Christianity is based.

Acts 9:7 and Acts 22:9 even lay out the mystical mechanics of this conversation, straight from the horse’s mouth.

This is a concept as old as the Gnostics and expressed most vividly within the concept of the Holy Spirit.

If anything was invented, it was the Catholic Clergy as spiritual interlocutor. The entire Catholic/Protestant schism is predicated on reformers in the early Protestant sects denying Papal Infallibility, the sacrament of Confession, and the need for a singular Apostolic Church to officiate over the blessing of Communion.

And the Thirty Years War that followed was an attempt by the church to reassert control through military force, when dogmatic religious assertions failed to sway the public any longer.

I’m not going to explain the oil trade

To someone who works in it and sees the price figures every day?

I would love to see you try

US oil which costs 25x+ Saudi crude

West Texas Crude does not cost 25x Saudi Crude. Neither is it the primary US importer.

Saudi Arabian imports dropped to roughly 336,000–349,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2023–2024, down from over one million bpd in previous years. Meanwhile, Canada is the largest supplier, accounting for roughly 55-61% of U.S. imports, followed by Mexico.

Oil companies could actually use a boost right now. And the US is a net exporter.

The US positioned the world’s largest warship, the USS Gerald R Ford, in the Middle East to join an earlier aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, that had moved to the region last month.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded by threatening to sink the carriers.

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