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Under Biden/Harris there was 600 billion worth of tariffs... Trump suggests 80 billion in tariffs... Guess which one everyone lost their shit over?
@freemo Ah tricky word "tariff" and maybe this effects people who hear it without deeper context or familiriarity.
I admit the word didn't mean much to me, similar to my mobile tarriff which is simply the mobile plan I'm on, how many minutes I get etc.
But then I looked it up guessing it's obviously something more so it has another meaning I wanted to point out and where it can go wrong sometimes...
Noun: tariff
1. A listing of prices for different goods or services
2. ❗ ❗ ➡️ A government tax on imports or exports ❗ ❗
Verb: tariff
1. Charge a tariff
[WordWeb.info]
@freeschool I think for the majority of the people it doesnt matter what a tarrif is. They simply hear "the other side proposed a thing therefore its evil". Thinking is not something americans do anymore.
@freemo Dark times...
I guess apart from that unthinkingness one has to somewhat anyway "back your own team" or side with who pays the bills... ?
Not many relationships or structures seems to allow logic or reasoning...or space between people to figure it out using more moderated way... with all levels of management or peers present or just something more neutrally somehow....
looooool dream world talking there!!
So kind of I don't blame people, because those that do think (those I've seen and all the net I've tried) they themselves are in a big pickle about just speaking or thinking about how bad it is and constantly very troubled what to do about it (and a lot ignore it).
So while thinking is good process (lol funny to say that) there isn't much obvious way show by others other than semi-suicide to use your own body as a kind of undoing from being born in debt-based unthinking society that you can mostly ONLY either continue doing the same debt-based stuff or take the hit yourself somehow in doing something #Greta / #Rogerhallam / #Assange style to try wake others up a bit more.
Aaaaanyway... just on the subject of people in mass going along with evil, here's an interesting video that might explain it well !
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"Mass Formation Psychosis" by #MattiasDesmet
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https://pol1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=erXfyLJfquA&t=14m08s
#Psychology of people is perhaps not just a modern thing but it's stronger-than-ever today in the mindset and further design abusing it all.
Not least debt-based systems which result in lack of time from people trying to hunt constantly for negative-math money slipping ever far away from society... leading to not much incentive to think - it's a total loss to some degree, debt only being part of what people don't invest in each other without institution.
Investing in each other without institutions is difficult.
People want to feel more "in" than totally "out" in some collective and that is what systems are often planning to do that from those creators/managers behind it who don't really care...
Would love to hear your thoughts... hope it's not totally way off.
@freeschool Those thinkers in trouble are in trouble largely because of how everyone else behaves to begin with. So yes, i do entierly blame people for that one.