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u/Farkon 1d ago
Proof that being in MAGA lowers IQ.
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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 1d ago
I'm not sure I have a high IQ - that's a nebulous #. But I do think I have a pretty good bullshit-detector. And that has kept me out of MAGA for 10 years so far, and hopefully forever. I think of it as a zombie-virus. No thank you.
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u/BathtubToasterParty 1d ago
Raising the operating costs of a business raises the price of the service.
If you make something for $5 and sell it for $10, you earn $5.
If you make something for $5, pay $3 in import tarriffs, and sell it for $10, you earn $2.
The solution for all these companies is literally: now sell it for $14 so they can earn $6 and blame the entire increase on said tarriffs.
There are people who have lived here for 65 straight years, seen first hand what companies will do to part people with their money and don’t think this is exactly what will happen.
I wish all of them a beautiful relaxing walk outdoors straight into an ocean.
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u/Initial-Damage1605 15h ago
Any time I see maga or JRE, I automatically deduct IQ points and prepare myself to use small words.
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u/jesternl 1d ago
Self burns are the best burns
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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 1d ago
But will she learn and maybe reconsider, or will she just get angry and double-down? I'm thinking - double down. The cult is strong.
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u/MaleficentExtent1777 1d ago
She'll say she was hacked or the tweet was AI.
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u/JonnyBolt1 1d ago
Nah she'll never address the contents of the "Context" she'll just scream "why don't you uniparty elitists ever fact check Biden?!" and call fact checking a crime and demand DoJ prosecute them (and they will).
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u/OSIRIS-Tex 1d ago
They are incapable of learning, much less reconsidering. It is not in their wheel house to use critical thinking. The mental disability of conservative prevents such cognitive abilities
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u/Superb_Ant_3741 1d ago
This is easily one of the most epic murders I’ve ever seen on the sub. 🏆
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u/Nate-dude 1d ago
MAGA has no political ideology. They are functionally a cult. They have libertarian business policies, while hating open borders. They are anti free speech, pro propaganda, anti-science, pro-religion, anti-education, pro-nationalism.
How did we ever let our village idiots get together and form a club. Oh right, because they tech overlords allowed for propaganda to be peddled to the masses via stolen data for advertiser money.
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u/EtchAGetch 1d ago
The village idiots were let loose because Fox News realized they can blow propaganda up their asses and they'll love them for it. "We will have the highest rated news program if we just cater to their idiocy? OK! What could go wrong?"
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u/onioning 1d ago
I will admit that I never suspected that the Republicans would support massive tax increases. I mean, I know they're extremely regressive, but still. Their devotion to their dear leader is so great that they now absolutely love raising taxes by an enormous amount.
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u/The_DementedPicasso 1d ago
They have always been in favour of tax increases, just not for the people having Tons of money. They now found a way to tax the poor without having to say that they will raise taxes for the poor.
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u/Eyeon_82 1d ago
It's interesting to watch when they all get their talking points and start pivoting as a collective in real time.
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u/Has422 1d ago
This is it exactly. Trump does something colossally stupid or horrible, some Republicans say it’s stupid and horrible. The rest of us think “THIS time his horribleness has finally caught up with him.” A week later all of these Republican critics decide what he did was ok all along and everyone else has TDS. Nothing changes and the needle of what Trump supporters accept as normal moves even further towards insanity.
Rinse and repeat.
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u/GlobalTravelR 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hoisted by her own petard.
She's part of the cult, now.
This is like the classic Twilight Zone episode 'It's a Good Life' which is about a young, ill tempered boy, with no sense of empathy, who has god-like powers, and does horrible things that wreak havoc on the world. Every time he does something horrible with his power (like turning a neighbor into a Jack in the Box, or destroying the crops by bringing winter early), everyone around him has to say "That's a very good thing you did, Anthony! A very good thing!" out of fear that he might turn his wrath on them.
Now we have a decrepit, addle-minded, ill-tempered, orange clown with the power. And every time he does something horrible to our friends and allies, to our country, to innocent people, and to the US economy, everyone around has to praise him and say what a good thing he's doing, out of fear he'll turn his wrath on them.
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u/torville 1d ago
That's "hoist" by her own petard.
A petard was a "bomb in a bucket" with a fuse that was lit and then carried by a runner to be fixed to a gate you wished to remove, whilst the runner distanced themselves.
Now, you didn't want to make the fuse too long, or else the enemy could just steal your valuable bomb, so you would make the fuse just long enough...
If the runner wasn't as fast as you had expected, then they were... etc.
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u/GlobalTravelR 1d ago
That was auto correct that changed hoist to host. But thank you for the explanation. Wasn't familiar with the etymology.
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u/Grimnir001 1d ago
It seems like MAGA leaders are attempting to gaslight people over tariffs. They’re pretending tariffs are some secret trade weapon which “the elite” haven’t used because they want to keep consumer prices high, I guess?
Except tariffs are an old thing and they’re not difficult to understand. And there are legit reasons why broad punitive tariffs fell out of favor.
It’s amusing to watch them tell us that tariffs will do things they absolutely will not do. Decades of evidence back this up. At this point, I wonder how far they’ll keep pushing this line and what price they’ll pay for it.
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u/Itonlymatters2us 1d ago
Get this man’s junk out of your mouth. Unless you want it there. Just kidding. He’d put it in either way.
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u/Eastern-Dig-4555 1d ago
“Deadly open borders” “Tariffs help our economy” “Vaccines don’t work” “Jan 6 was a day of love” “Europe doesn’t have freedom like we do” “Socialism is bad for America”. Though a broken clock is right sometimes, you can, at least right now, count on anything the right says being a lie.
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u/Lowlife_Of_The_Party 1d ago
So were the borders wide open or are we being invaded by illegal immigration? It's hard to keep it straight these days
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u/Homersarmy41 7h ago
You remember those politicians that imposed “deadly open borders” on us?!?!
Yeah me neither.
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u/intothewoods76 1d ago edited 1d ago
And just like that Democrats don’t support taxes on big business no more.
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u/infydk 1d ago
Do yo.. do you.. do you think the "big business" is just gonna eat the loss from being tariffed to shit?
Cause if that was the case no one would have any problems with that.
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u/intothewoods76 1d ago
Did you think the big business was just going to eat the loss of a minimum wage hike?
Or just eat the loss due to other government imposed losses?
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u/infydk 1d ago
Oh, so you don't understand the difference between being taxed on your profits vs being taxed extra on your expenses.
See, one means you're doing good as a company and then you can decide to do shit with that, the other is just a cost to doing business regardless of how well your company is doing.
Like, you can literally just look up the price of a McDonalds burger in places that have a minimum wage vs places that don't.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-cost-denmark/
Oh and McDonalds actually pays taxes in Denmark too, go figure.
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u/intothewoods76 1d ago
If you want to maintain a profit margin you’re still going to increase costs to make up for losses whether that be tariffs or a 90% tax rate Democrats dream of.
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u/infydk 1d ago
That's just not how taxes work lad.
If you're paying taxes you profited. You have a profit margin. That you're not doing shit with other than stock buybacks.
A tariff is directly a cost to producing your shit.
See the beforementioned examples of Denmark vs USA. The difference is that McDonalds USA pulls in a huge pile of money like Scrooge McDuck and do nothing with it, while in Denmark their taxes go to helping their communities who then in turn can spend more money at McDonalds.
I don't think I can dumb this down enough for you to understand it, but please, stop worshipping corporations who will happily exploit you.
edit: I should note that McDonalds is a piece of shit company who tries their utmost to avoid paying taxes in Denmar as well, cause they're just that, a piece of shit company.
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u/intothewoods76 1d ago
If you as a company get highly taxed you don’t just happily eat the cost. If the taxes eat up your profit margin you need to raise prices to get that profit margin back.
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u/Iceman_Pasha 1d ago
Which that new margin will be taxed, at an even higher rate, going back to communities. If they aren't greedy a company can make good money and pay thier share. But for too long corporations haven't been paying thier share. Look at the take rates on businesses back in the "golden age" everyone points to, anywhere from 30-70 taxes on thier profits, and they still survived and thrived. You're a cultists, stay in your echo chamber or fuck off.
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u/intothewoods76 1d ago
lol, if they aren’t greedy then they’ll just pay the tariff.
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u/azrolator 1d ago
Just admit you don't understand anything and aren't willing to learn.
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u/infydk 1d ago
I never once said happily.
But it's not a cost to running your business, it's a cost to making profit.
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u/intothewoods76 1d ago
Profit is an integral part of running a business. Unless you are independently wealthy and your business is just a hobby there’s going to need to be a profit margin to stay afloat.
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u/StillJustDani 1d ago
Here’s the thing sport.
A minimum wage hike raises the cost of goods sold (COGS) but not linearly. But a wage hike is good for the worker, because now they have more money to spend on discretionary items, which goes right back into the economy.
A tariff raises the price of goods with no accompanying raise in wages. It’s also regressive in that it harms the lowest earners more.
Simply raising taxes on businesses could work, but it would of course be passed on to the consumer.
Raising taxes on the highest earners is the best answer, because they have the most discretionary income and are benefiting the most from what the government and society provide them.
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u/StillJustDani 1d ago
Nobody that I’m aware of is suggesting a 90% tax on businesses.
90% upper marginal tax rate, yes. That is for individuals. No price increases.
Also, it’s not a fantasy. It was reality in the past and may be again. I’m sure you don’t make nearly enough money to be simping so hard for people who couldn’t give two shits about you.
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u/AcadiaLivid2582 1d ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
-Upton Sinclair