When you let them define you, that is already control. This isn’t about “reality”, it’s about social control.

If they tell you that “only bad people demand higher wages” and you accept their definition of bad people, we have a problem.

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if we do it ourselves, they will accuse us of being what they say we are.

Stop being defined by fascists.

I know, but maybe it’s related to:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252145/youtube-premium-price-increase-europe-asia-middle-east-south-america

If you haven’t “accepted” the new prices, maybe you get this half-assed Premium.

Check if you still have premium?

You could try reading the article first.

We can’t use this emotionally inflammatory rhetoric, because it’s what the right thrives on.

The right will make up its own inflammatory fantasies if there are none, just like it makes up stories about immigrants eating pets. It happens either way. Stop letting them control your strategies, it’s EXTREMELY UNWISE.

Here’s a 30 minute introduction by hbomberguy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dfiDeJeDU

That’s how you do it.

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Extracting rent can be seen as private taxation. He’s not a “career politician”, so I’m trying to understand how he’d see it from the private realm.

An entry fee, a toll, a tax, a rent - whatever. In the end, the cost will be added to the products going in. It’s not a usual tariff, but the outcome is the same. Maybe he thinks that this trickery helps avoid problems with “free trade” conventions.

It can be both. Lying is more convincing when it’s felt as truth by the liar.

Usually somewhat ironic, but:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishhook_Theory

Fishhook Theory (or Fish Hook Theory) is an idea in left-right political science juxtaposed to Horseshoe Theory. Fishhook Theory asserts that the far-right and centrists are very similar, whereas the far-left is separate from them. Fishhook Theory takes its name from the fishhook shape it assumes the political spectrum to be, where the point of the hook is pictured to be the far-right, the eye is pictured to be the far-left, and the shank is pictured to be the centre.

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I don’t get why it’s hard to comprehend. By becoming (even) more conservative, more “R”, they betrayed (even more of) their base. Why would timid Republicans want to vote for traitors pandering to them?

One thing that fascinates me is that Trump’s definition of tariffs seems more like the definition of kickbacks.

As he was (is?) a landlord, he may also think of it as seeking rent, like how malls get rent from the stores inside.

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