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  • Hot take: deontological ethics is a sad way to avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions.

    I don’t think the ends justify the means, and in equal measure I don’t think the means justify the ends.

    Then take a step back and think which is a better way to fight the vast and sprawling abuses of fascism.

    I’m all for hearing a better way of fighting fascism. Letting a death cult take control of all branches of government was definitely a method. I’m not going to stop listening but like… what the fuck are we doing?

    When we think of what a bright future is, its a system of laws that irons out basic unfairness and brutality. We all want this. We disagree on how to get there.

    Oh yeah, I want this, and I disagree very heavily with the death cult absolute power method. But I don’t have a choice now, it’s up to you now to prove that fighting alongside the death cult was the better choice.





  • Trump’s plan involves using tariffs to pressure foreign central banks to lower interest rates, thereby depreciating their currencies relative to the dollar. This would offset the price increases caused by tariffs on U.S. consumers.

    Nothing about this string of connections makes any sense. Why would they lower interest rates, why would their currency depreciate?

    Other countries are just going to form trade partnerships with each other and avoid the US. There will be a new strengthening global economy that skips the US entirely.

    It’s Brexit all over again, but instead of the UK suffering from leaving the EU, it’s the US suffering from leaving the global economy. At some point the US will have to come crawling back just for deals worse than it had in the first place.

    Varoufakis’ reasoning is fully consistent with the Trump/Musk world of drug-induced delusion.