omg us❕
i have a job interview in 2 minutes i’m gonna cry
this is what i saw immediately after leaving the interview. do you guys think it’s a good omen
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
there are way more slides btw!
here are some additional notes:
- the white house has clarified that the tariff on goods from china as listed here is in addition to an already existing 20% tariff, so their total tariff amount is 54%
- "tariffs charged to the USA" is a totally misleading/incorrect/dishonest title for the figures listed under that column. instead, they calculated the rate by taking the USA's trade deficit with the country and dividing it by the country's exports to us. an example posted by james surowiecki on twitter: the USA has a $17.9 billion trade deficit with indonesia, and they export $28 billion to the USA. that 17.9 figure divided by 28 = 64%, which they're claiming is the tariff rate indonesia charges the USA. (sorry for linking the new york post, they're a garbage right-wing rag, but i haven't found other articles for this bullet point yet. i've seen enough credible reports about the white house confirming it from journalists on social media to believe it though)
- trump also signed an executive order getting rid of the de minimis tax exemption, which allows shipments to the USA containing under $800 of goods (per person, per day) to enter duty and tax free. it's a big part of how the USA has been able to get such wide access to so many unethically cheap goods manufactured elsewhere
So many Americans seem to think that there is no society, and morality is literal magic. Like, people don't make choices based on a complex interlocking web of desires and institutions and material conditions. The world is good guys and bad guys. Deviance is a literal magical poison that disrupts the fabric of reality. If enough young women dye their hair blue, the crops will fail.
not to be a killjoy but it's still crazy to me that it's considered mean to be like "maybe you should read / play / watch the source material before creating fanworks and diving into the fandom" bc every time i see somebody going "i havent played disco elysium or know anything about it tbh but uwu here's harry and kim kissing" idk maybe you should engage with it. maybe you should play the anti-capitalist surrealist game where you investigate the murder of a mercenary who led the gang rape of a foreign girl and process that for a bit? and then you can do cutesy mlm or whatever idc. but like at the absolute bare minimum you should understand what the source material involves otherwise we get the phenomenon of people joining a dragon age server and wanting content warnings for like, mage racism. like it's fine to ship and transform the genre into whatever but if you arent comfortable with discussions of the actual source content itself then maybe the fandom isnt for you and a different one is. peace and love.
