Right? Just take the win and move on!

I should feel surprised

The US government sent astronauts to the literal moon 60+ years ago. This is the true failure of capitalism–the difference between people working on a project for the passion and the challenge of it… and a bunch of people working on a project because they want to scrounge up a paycheck to survive and benefit themselves. I’m sure the Space-X engineers are passionate, but the type of people you need to truly design next-gen tech will only be found at an institution like NASA where they will truly believe in the mission.

People can lie and put up whatever fascia they want, but I don’t think it’s possible to truly give 100% when you know your efforts are going primarily toward support some jackass billionaire instead of a nation of your beloved peers.

Minimizing America’s lead in the international sciences to own the libs. Letting other countries make and patent new technologies to own the libs.

Got 'em!

I’m cool with this. Let’s devalue the trades by having an over-abundance of blue collar workers while simultaneously increasing demand for white collar jobs by reducing the supply of educated workers.

I get my toilet unclogged for even cheaper, and I get more money ten years from now when demand has risen.

I’d prefer to just have educated workers instead of glorifying back-breaking manual labor that the employees hate, but ill take a win where I can lol

Not sure how anyone can look at this and believe these two things concurrently:

1.) This is acceptable, and… 2.) I’m not the bad guy

There is really no acceptable justification for any of this, tbh. If there are still “bad people” and “terrorists” in Gaza, why doesn’t Israel just man up and go get them instead of starving this random person to death?

Americans can afford 1 or 2 American products, but 30 American products? Out of the question.

Right? What else is left? The red police state just grows stronger.

This was literally my first thought. You’d basically have to go through every one of the millions of components across every square inch to verify there was nothing sketchy going on. Not to mention, you’d have to review all of the software and firmware to make sure it wasn’t modified or sabotaged in some way. It would take an excruciating amount of effort to make it “safe”.

I think Trump has Trump Derangement Syndrome

I don’t really care what you think, tbh

Tbh, I’m always smoking the house up to get the right crisp on my chicken. I might be using the wrong oil, and I know I’m probably not the only one lol

I had the same feeling. It was an elitist response that did nothing to educate or inform me or anybody else lol. I don’t even care about movies that much, and that guy is expecting me to trudge through the muddy valleys and icy peaks of uptight counter-culture cinema to seek out and pull “good” movies from the depths of the unknown?

That’s fine–ill just keep listening to my music and appreciating still art as I’ve been doing for the last 20+ years of my adult life.

No amount of tariffs will make me interested in watching the stuff that American companies have been putting out since 2020. I’m not even looped into the movie industry enough to care which ones were foreign in the first place. Movies are entirely optional and I am totally fine just sitting them out entirely lol.

If anything, this will simply push movie theaters even further from my realm of interest all together.

Yeah, and I think everyone has forgotten that even the cheap, easily broken stuff helps us save money. I’ll happily buy the cheap 100 dollar Chinese tool to fumble with for an extra couple hours on a one-time car repair that saves me 500 dollars compared to the only American option, or 900 dollars going to a shop instead.

Things are just going to end up broken and unfixable in the non-industrial world too.

I never see more cops than when I go to Texas. It’s insane

Gonna laugh when Trump does india next