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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · Jan 27

> Trump suggests something catastrophically stupid
> everyone panics
> market dips a tiny bit
> motivated by the market panic, Trump rolls it back something stupider but less catastrophic
> Nothing eventually happens

Repeat twice per day, every day, until Jan 2029.

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 5h

That Stoller dunk would be an instant permanent log off for anyone with a little sensitivity to public humiliation lol

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 7h

The truly baffling part of the trade debate is how most people think that it’s actually cheaper to make *everything* here it’s just (((globalists))) suffer higher costs from foreign suppliers because they hate Real Americans that much.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 9h

They really don’t have any information we don’t have

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 9h

Tbh people say this but this more reads as a pivot to higher office lol

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 14h

“The free press holds powerful institutions to account” when was the last time they covered an economic issue

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 14h

I love how Caitlin’s main example of Bari Weiss speaking truth to power is a piece about NPR that just goes through the same right-wing tropes about liberal media that we’ve heard a thousand times before.

That she will somehow denigrate the storied
CBS News—it has been reported that some staff members have delivered minatory instructions to not "mess with the Golden Goose(s) of '60 Minutes' and 'CBS News Sunday Morning," as though West 57th Street were the O.K. Corral—is a complete misreading of her and her vision, which is to bring the traditional methods of American journalism back to the news, and also to build a culture of ideas. This is exactly what she's done at The Free Press, which covers a variety of stories, the most popular of which
—Uri Berliner's explanation of NPR's decline, for example—are those that hold powerful institutions to account.

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 16h

I mean it’s all about affording stuff that status conscious young men want in a world where status has become a lot more difficult to attain for them specifically lol.

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 16h

Makes sense for both I think lol. Most people under 50 don’t need any medication

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 16h

It is kinda funny that a lot of grindsetters in America are focused on nice durable goods (being able to afford a house, a sports car, etc) when like the reason to get rich in America is to have insurance that covers patented medications or sending your kids to a good school

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

How does the high tech sector rely on exploiting the low?

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering some interaction on Twitter in which Mike Bird was talking about how all the shiny new high tech manufacturing stuff is cool but doesn’t seem to be sufficient to actually reverse the post Covid slowdown and all the responses are “so you don’t think the high tech manufacturing is cool???”

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t get why it took this article to make me realize the insanity of trying to do high tech manufacturing driven growth in an upper middle income country with underdeveloped “soft” infrastructure.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

it's a good day to read about how the two stories of the Chinese economy - a booming tech sector and stagnant growth - are really the same story.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/c...

China’s Tech Obsession Is Weighing Down Its Economy

A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth.

foreignpolicy.com

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

At least lots of big tech companies sold lots of ads I guess

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

If there’s huge real growth from an AI boom that causes mass unemployment, that sucks but we now have all sorts of ways to deal with it. But labor market disruptions and sluggish growth is a real possibility, because it’s been the last 50 years of economic history.

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

Tbh acemoglu makes the same point I make a lot where the past 30 years of infotech has been characterized by sluggish productivity growth but rapid capital share of income growthy that is associated with bad employment outcomes and slow growth, and it would be bad if AI was trend continuation

Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 2d

Will AI Usher in an Economic Boom, or Just a Lot of Mediocre Automation? - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

Ngl in hindsight it’s very funny how much everyone read into the Mamdani primary and tried to generalize something national when it was literally an election where no one except large coastal city registered democrats could vote

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

People on here can be really blase about mens’ struggles on here but it is weird how people say there aren’t positive role models for men anymore.

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen universe merchandise

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

Of course, this is all very gendered lol. A girl who wants lots of dolls is selfish and materialistic and should get a good lesson on the true meaning of Christmas. But the gas being cheap so you can drive a car as big as you want is a human right

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

By far the most frustrating thing about trade policy discourse in an era of inflation is the disengenious flip flop between “we’re getting gouged on everyday essentials!” And “there’s more important things in life than cheap imported goods.”

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

Automating boring manufacturing jobs for comfortable knowledge industry work was an upgrade that didn’t really work. What happens when we change the direction and start making web designers change bedpans

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

This is true but also what is the social contract of a technology that refocuses automation away from what’s dirty/dull/dangerous and instead goes after clean/interesting/safe white collar jobs with high wages

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 2d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of progressives talk about the need for a church that satisfies people’s needs for connection to the spiritual and community, but purports liberal theology. But that exists, it’s called episcopalianism and it’s the fastest collapsing religion in the country lol

Ciggy Smoke Bringer @ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social · 2d

Dad's wife is an Episcopal Priest and it's been a trip seeing the greying of the congregations in different places and there being a kind of 'oh shit, what do we do then' thing about it with trying to be more family oriented, but also renting out the church for community services like treatment

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2d

Guys is it easy to remain competitive with Chinese manufacturers with .3% profit margins when you run a more capital intensive business and interest rates are at 4%, asking for a friend

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