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But in the case of the hefty tariffs that Trump put on China during his first term, economic studies found that most of those costs were passed on to American consumers.

Economists believe this could happen again. One study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, for example, calculated that Trump’s current tariff plans would increase costs for a typical American household by $2,600 a year.

Paying more for everything to own the libs! 🤡

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Yup. He does a great job “selling” ideas that simply aren’t grounded in reality.

Like that wall that Mexico was going to pay for. What an idiot. Did his base think the United States would just send Mexico a bill for work completed and expect them to pay it? You couldn’t make this buffoonery up!

Offer them a life that’s better than the one leading them down that path.

My dude, Democrats actually do offer a life that’s better for everyone, but that’s the problem.

These people don’t want other people to live better lives, they only want a better life for themselves. And the only way to get there is to quite literally either kill other people or make their lives unlivable.

Someone who’s willing to die or be put in jail “to stop the jews” or whatever bullshit they subscribe to, doesn’t give a damn about universal healthcare or a woman’s reproductive rights.

On the flip side, they aren’t voting for a guy who will improve their lives (not in the way you and I would view as an improved life). They are voting for a guy who will make OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES miserable. Because that’s how their world view works.

Unless you want Democrats to do the same, they are on completely different wavelengths.

I wish I was wrong.

This is probably what Trump thinks, too.

100%. If he isn’t reading it from a script that someone else wrote, he knows nothing about the topics he’s talking about.

He even boasts about “knowing more than anyone about XYZ”, yet, it can’t expand on the subject, can’t answer questions about it, is vague, and reminds me of how really bad LLMs answer questions.

It will.

Unfortunately, it will also hurt those who wanted nothing to do with Trump’s lies.

Everyone, except the rich, will suffer. Thanks for voting! /s

How do you “appeal” to future domestic terrorists when they believe it’s their calling to tear down everything good in society?

I’m not trying to be sarcastic or dramatic, but they are drawn to Trump because he embodies all the horrible things they aspire to become.

How can a political party that speaks of equality and justice even possibly make a connection with them? It sounds nice, but how would it happen without making your current base feel like you only want to help the worst behaved?

Didn’t Democrats raise a record amount of money this election cycle? And they were supposed to use it to get out the vote?

Harris only had months of campaigning, while Trump had over a year. That alone put her at a massive disadvantage, since much of the vote is often decided (in people’s minds) well before the elections.

But the reality is, as long as 50%+ are OK being in a cult run by an incoherent madman, they’ll ignore the self-harm and keep voting the same way.

I guess we can only hope that the leopards absolutely massacre those who gave him this power. Democracy will fall all over the world because of this, and his groupies won’t have a pot to piss in once his “concepts” are put into action.

I’ve been very happy with FreshRSS (docker install) running on my Synology NAS.

You can run this right from Windows: https://jan.ai/

You’ll need a lot of RAM, and processing is decently fast, even on a basic laptop.

edit: holy hell. Grammar.

It doesn’t matter what he says.

It really doesn’t. Just watch a rally, in full, and try to summarise one topic he addressed. Just one.

You can’t, because he babbles incoherently. He knows nothing about any of the topics that he stumbles into.

The only time his words can be understood, provided he doesn’t go off script, is when he’s reading what someone else wrote for him!

It makes me wonder how people can travel like one timezone over and not have crippling issues because of it.

It’s likely not the change with the DST that messes people, but the obsession with worrying about it that does.

The number one thing that most of these don’t do well for me is the connection with banks.

A bit of an anecdote, but i was a long-time user of Mint, which integrated with all my banks and credit cards, which was nice.

When I decided to selfhost, I was disappointed that bank syncing wasn’t a thing, or it had these roundabout ways of working, or they simply didn’t support the banks and credit cards i use.

So… I ended up wity Money Manager EX.

Once i did the initial importing of my records, everything since has been manually entered.

Now, this might seem tedious depending on how many transactions and accounts you manage, but it’s really not.

Depending on how often you update your records, you can do an easy export/import of your transactions from your bank (usually a csv export). Doing this once a month isn’t terrible.

I just manually enter all my transactions. Yes, more work, but also less frustration and it makes me feel more in touch with my spending.

Even not having to worry about the hassle of syncing not working, or having to fix things like that is a huge weight off my shoulders.

Anyway, just wanted to share my experience because bank syncing shouldn’t be a make-or-break thing.

Rich coming from the party of voter suppression…

Just wait until everyone is forced to wear screens on their faces 24/7, because that’s the way tech companies want us to live. I’m not being sarcastic, either.

There’s a reason why so many people consciously choose to “disconnect” when they want a mental break. If we are no longer able to, how healthy do you think our society will be?

This is not personal emissions of billionaires, its including their businesses.

The Oxfam report says that private planes and “superyachts” are contributing factors, as well as investments in polluting industries like oil and mining.

Nowhere does it mention that their businesses are what’s contributing to their carbon footprint. They are explicitly talking about their lifestyle choices.

So, I’m not sure where you got that info from, but if they are including businesses that these billionaires run, I’d be interested in seeing that data.

Mind you, the majority of these billionaires are in software… a business that’s very easy to convert over to a carbon-neutral model, especially with their resources.

This infuriates me.

I would actually love to do more to REDUCE my carbon footprint, but it’s prohibitively expensive to.

But billionaires (and millionaires) can literally greenify every aspect of their lives, even be carbon-neutral or carbon negative! But they choose not to.

I think taxing the rich just isn’t enough. We need to CAP the rich. There should be no billionaires.

Sounds like it’s time for a class action lawsuit. 🥰

That might be the difference! None of the houses on our street have them, so groceries get unloaded from the driveway, straight into the front door.