sansampersamp
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sansampersamp
5mo ago
Australia is more urban and more educated than the US, with a generally high-skill immigration mix. If coalition wants to abandon previously safe wealthy inner-urban seats over cultural differences to the teals, they'll need to make them up elsewhere, and there's not enough rural or exurban seats to do that.
sansampersamp
5mo ago
They use the GTAP model.
They have some notes in the appendix of an earlier version
sansampersamp
5mo ago
I'm not sure why the US' dominating posture in trade IP keeps being cited as Marvel-branded underwear and not, like, biologics. Pharma is much pointier from a trade partner's perspective.
sansampersamp
5mo ago
Musk also is beginning to show some daylight between himself and the Trump admin on trade (in typical manner)
sansampersamp
5mo ago
China's pledge to stop respecting American IP
This is, as far as I can tell, made up
sansampersamp
5mo ago
I would reduce tariffs on imports to 0
whoever we get a bunch of non-American stuff from and increase tariffs on them
You may be qualified to work in this admin (or the very least, a plum job at American Compass)
sansampersamp
5mo ago
Other way round: your exports are more competitive if priced in a weaker currency. A weaker currency, i.e. a dollar buying less stuff, is definitionally inflation however if the only way you can get there via expansions in the money supply. Tariffs in the first order effect strengthen the dollar (lower imports, less demand for foreign currencies from the US), but the economic havoc will balance that in the second order by lowering interest rates lowering USD yields relative to other currencies and, well, risking inflation.
sansampersamp
6mo ago
The hilariously absurd thing is that now that congress has given the exec that power, they have to overcome a veto to get it back.
Same thing happened in 2019 when he couldn't get wall funding from congress, so instead raided DoD (proclamation 9844). Congress tried to reassert spending powers with house joint resolution 46. That passed both house and senate but Trump just vetoed it lmao
sansampersamp
11mo ago
Ah, ty
sansampersamp
11mo ago
What's the counterfactual here? Michael Bay still makes four-quadrant films. Top Gun: Maverick is a four-quadrant film. The original Star Wars trilogy were four-quadrant films. I can think of far fewer big films that tried to go hard on the two female quadrants (e.g. Twilight) than went hard on the two male ones, especially now that we're out of the romcom era. Joker is a two-quadrant film on the other axis because of its rating, not deliberate alienation of women, where it hit broadly the same 60-40 splits as the typical comic-book movie (e.g. Captain Marvel, Spider-man Homecoming).
sansampersamp
11mo ago
Yes, and it's ebbed since that decade as well. See swift/kelce, cringe-coding of 'sportsball', and the post-hipster, post-r-slash-atheism, cultural turn in general.
sansampersamp
11mo ago
Joker was a remake of Scorsese's The King of Comedy, more than it was referencing Taxi Driver.
As if they're taking a swipe at the audience themselves for liking someone they weren't supposed to.
You are 'supposed' to be sympathetic to Arthur. With scant exception, you are 'supposed' to be sympathetic to any protagonist, good or bad, but they spend considerable time rationalising him as a character in Joker. The text as written does center typical anti-capitalist grievances more than it does incel ones. The intended message is more proximate to "the Joker is a product of underfunded social services", than sexlessness. The closest analogue to the film's denouement isn't found in Taxi Driver or Fight Club, it's in the (insufferable, imo) Sorry to Bother You.
I find this assumed audience in the quote a bit odd, accordingly: is the media wrong about the movie being a paean to downtrodden inceldom or does the audience for the film in fact consist of power-fantacising incels. I'd assumed a degree of consensus around the former, though I've been seeing some partisan inversion lately on the idea of stochastic terrorism more generally, so who knows.
The DNC pursuing a perception of being a 'neutral leadership institution' is frequently at ends with its actual institutional purpose: getting democrats elected.
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