It doesn’t even require some imaginary motive. When oil prices go down, some oil projects get below their breakeven extraction cost, and thus...
Race to the bottom baby.
Other than regional pain in TX/OK/LA, and perhaps causing us to import a bit more - net-net it’s good news. Esp as it further damages Russia’s...
The problem is the right wing’s interests largely *is* bigotry/culture war nonsense. It isn’t protecting the sanctity of women’s sports. To be...
The jury was full of lib women so they aren’t trustworthy of anything, and the victim was a lib woman so she deserved it anyway. Really these lib...
You already have that choice now. Other than computers and electronics, almost every product category can be found made in USA or at least a 1st...
I am not in favor of companies using “slave labor”, and some FoxConn factories are notoriously bad. Nevertheless I’d be more in favor of some...
I don’t think Title IX created women’s sports per se. Granted, as it demands equal scholarships it is why schools like UF have women’s soccer but...
This is so true. What fundamentally is a tariff? A tariff is a government getting between the individual/business and their ability to buy an...
Post stroke dimentia turned him into a dangerous self-destructive asshole with some simplistic MAGA tendencies? That sort of lines up! I’m...
Well considering that’s 200 or 400 years, not sure anybody’s worried about that. 200 years ago the country (a country of barely 10 million...
I think the problem with this “there are two sexes” is that isn’t 100% true. There are people legit born with intersex conditions. Like that...
The importer pays the tariff. The importer, being an American person or business, passes that cost increase onto you. You may grasp onto reports...
Well it makes sense in the same way Canada does not celebrate July 4th. Canada celebrates their own independence on July 1st. I’m sure they...
Similar to “Indigenous people’s day” vs “Columbus Day”, I don’t think “Victory Day for World War II” rolls of the tongue compared to Veterans Day....
There is no “substance” to any argument suggesting the U.S. has ever in its existence been homogenous or could be so. Not from the very first...
On the surface it’s a good thing, esp with the stern warning towards Russia. At least it means we ostensibly are backing Ukraine. But in practice...
Obviously there was going to be a “fall guy”. Problem with firing “the guy who added the journalist to the signal chat”: NONE of them should have...
Because now we don’t trust private figures but instead trust government figures??? Really??? I know these two don’t always line up, normally what...
The govt demands that a tariff is not a tax, it’s a “special revenue operation”.
