STOP DISTURBING THE ECHO CHAMBER! THE SPLINTER PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE IT WHEN YOU DISTURB THE ECHO CHAMBER!!!

HAHAha! I want to give a big Thank You to Bernie Sanders and his loyal followers, especially the writers here (former and current) who stanned for him so hard in 2015-16, and who helped us absolutely destroy Hillary Clinton. We literally couldn’t have done it without you!

you haven’t been paying attention, there is no satire here.

I would never own a full-sized pickup(except for maybe a SRT10), but warning bells go off when someone starts opining on what everyone else should drive. I can see similar arguments made against V8 ponycars- two inefficient, too big, too powerful, etc. My overriding vehicular ownership philosophy is: What car or…

After finally driving in a 2CV last summer, more power is 100% not what the 2CV needs.

What?

Yes, by all means, let’s look to the unassailably accurate financial markets for direction on how to run a country . . . 2008 much?

Short answer: no. US steel mills are currently operating around 80% utilization. Anything below about 65% is perilous for steel mill P&Ls. Anything above 74% is “workable” and anything about 81%-82% would be considered “good times”. Practical upper limit is around 95%. Lead times will get pushed out a bit - steel…

“Free Trade” as an unassailable good is kind of mind boggling to me. Anytime something is near universally advocated for by the biggest corporations, I take pause. These deals are 100% written to benefit multinational corporations (pay workers less, fewer environmental regulations, etc.) which necessarily harms…

You give way too much credit to Brussels, they are just as incompetent and petty they just drink better wine.

They will pass the extra costs on to the consumers. Which will raise the price of the goods and services tied to said new Tarriffs. And people will pay it and move on. I honestly doubt this will make as big of a splash as it’s assumed it will.

Fact: If Trump was a Democrat, Jalopnik would be telling us why this trade war is a great idea. And that’s a fact.

Looking to career politicians and academics for “direction” on this issue isn’t likely to net any opinions based in experience or fact.
Likely outcome to the current tariff situation is more immediate/urgent negotiation - which is likely the intent.
To be clear, this deadline has been looming for 60+ days (since the…

There are multiple contexts at play. There always are. The FOCAL one is the use of ‘powerful people’ (Josh’s words, not Musk’s). So no, Musk being an Afrikaner is not an instance of the context this thread was discussing (and which you were trying to derail with other contexts). If you’ll engage with the topic,…

And?
Just because some people can’t do it safely doesn’t meant that no one can do it safely.

It might be an awkward thing to say, but is not being attracted to an ethnicity really racism? Do we get to decide who we’re attracted to?

In all honesty, why get mad at this post?

That’s not fair, of course kids are being dicks street racing, but if the mother was crossing the street, regardless of the fact that she is dead, there is responsibility there. Your death does not negate your responsibility.

This is a tragic accident but who wheels a a baby on or around a busy street?

Because if you’ve never been in a union, and especially if you’ve never been involved in the union apparatus directly, it turns out some of the things they say about unions aren’t entirely bullshit. My time as a union steward made me disinclined to be part of a union again if I don’t have to.