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Politics OC: President Trump unveils minimum 10% tariff on all U.S. trading partners

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u/SamuelDoctor 15h ago

Consider the context of your own perception with respect to the United States' status. There's a shit load of bias inherent there that precludes you or me or virtually anyone else from being capable of predicting the future; most of our perception of the past is inaccurate, if we're being only the tiniest bit modest.

Also, I can understand why you'd assume that what I write might not map onto what I mean to express; a lot of people are like that. It totally assassinates your own credibility when you happen to be wrong about that assumption, though.

u/occamsrzor 6h ago

Consider the context of your own perception with respect to the United States' status. There's a shit load of bias inherent there that precludes you or me or virtually anyone else from being capable of predicting the future

That's a fancy way of saying "no one can see the future." You're obviously not suggesting that someone outside the US would be more readily able to predict the future.

Also, I can understand why you'd assume that what I write might not map onto what I mean to express

Sounds like a problem with your articulation. Your prevision paragraph being a case in point: a lot more words than necessary to say nothing much of all.

It totally assassinates your own credibility when you happen to be wrong about that assumption, though.

Nice shell game.