• Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    You realize the takeaway form this is people know he’s a rapist and still support their king right?

    40% approval rating btw

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    It’s kind of annoying that 51 people lost their jobs to tariffs and they only write an article about the rich guy at the top of the family empire. But I’m sure that the 50 other families’ quests for food and shelter and medicine were pretty boring compared with the breakage of the boss’s money-generating machine he inherited.

    Granted, he is the one who most deserves the leopardsatemyface recognition.

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    14 hours ago
    he says his decision was knuckle-based. and he'd do it again

    “I voted for Trump all three times. Yep. I did,” he admits. “But I literally was in the voting booth. And I rapped my knuckles and the Trump one hurt more, and that was the one that I voted for. Because it was just, it was so disgusting and, and I hate to say that, but that’s literally how I made that choice.”

    Even after losing his business to Trump’s policies, he stands by his vote: “Given the two people running, regardless of what they said on the campaign trail, I would’ve voted for President Trump again.”

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      His bottom statement is more relevant. He gave zero shits about policy, party, or politics, he was just focused on the people running.
      One a black woman former prosecutor. One a corrupt white male felon.
      He said he was always going to vote for the latter.

      Serves the dumb cunt right.

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      Wild. That’s fucking wild. I’m out here putting thought into my vote and this cunt is rattling his knuckles. We are cooked as a species.

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        Bet that guy has a big family and is well on his way to having great grandchildren from at least one wife

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          Hungarian here, my mother’s boyfriend is still a Fidesz supporter after losing his business due to losing some tax exemptions. Long story short: it’s cheaper to run a single person LLC than to be self-employed, because our politicians in the nineties totally ate the propaganda, that “CEOs once were very hard working workers, just got promoted for their hard work to be CEOs”. He however did not had the money to save up for an LLC.

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        The biggest problem with voting is that each voter’s own choice has a huge externality relative to average personal consequences. So selfish people have an incentive to vote with their tribe and not put any further thought into it.

        You’re being “irrationally” altruistic by actually considering multiple candidates. As bad as losing his business is, this schmuck was more afraid of being ostracized by his fascist peers.

    • scintilla@crust.piefed.social
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      14 hours ago

      Maybe not everyone does deserve and equal vote in a democracy actually. Or in the case of America his is literally worth more than mine because of where he lives -_-.

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    Even after losing his business to Trump’s policies, he stands by his vote: “Given the two people running, regardless of what they said on the campaign trail, I would’ve voted for President Trump again.”

    His brother Stephen agrees: “I don’t think I had a choice to vote any other direction.”>

    This got me. I would put money on that he would vote for Trump again.

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      Yeah the logic always stuns me.

      “If I vote for a Democrat they’ll probably take some of my money through taxes and I’ll be poor”

      Trump wins and ruins their business, they lose all of their money.

      “At least I’m not poor because of evil Democrat taxes”

      They have truly been brainwashed. Whatever bad shit republicans do they still believe the Democrats must be worse, because the republicans told them so. Even though the republicans have provably been lying to them for years.

      • Anakin-Marc Zaeger@lemmy.world
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        Many Trump supporters would like to consider themselves to be “devoutly religious” (the way the treat others says otherwise, but that’s beside the point). People who are “devoutly religious” have a tendency to take things they are told as gospel (pun definitely intended), regardless of how utterly illogical and detached from reality it may be. If the “right” person comes along, 100% of what is said will be believed 100% of the time. It’s something that RepubliCons have taken advantage of for years, and it’s something that is second nature to con artists like Trump and that Nigerian prince that won’t stop sending me gods damned emails.

      • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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        Yeah the logic always stuns me.

        It shouldn’t. It’s very common on both sides of the aisle. Never heard “vote blue no matter who”? That term was coined and used by large swaths of non-Republicans who agreed to vote for someone they don’t agree with about everything. The fact is that it’s extremely rare for any voter to be 100% aligned with the views of the person they vote for.

        Actually, if you think about it, isn’t it more selfish to change who you vote for based on how you personally are affected by their policies?

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          Legitimately the point of democracy. Vote for your best interests. If the turn out is good and the majority vote for their own best interests, you end up with more good being done for the majority rather than a small subset of the population (Billionares)

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        …And the Left does the same thing.

        Back in the day, a lot of folks couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Jimmy Carter because he wouldn’t take a strong stand on South African apartheid. We got ronald reagan who embraced embrace South Africa.

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          That’s not at all how that played out.

          One, John Anderson ran as an independent in 1980, after losing the Republican primary. He had been a Republican until then. Early in that primary, he was a viable candidate for the nomination. He was initially likely to take more votes from Reagan than Carter.

          Anderson supported the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), as well as an extension to the time for it to be ratified. The Republican party did not. Carter refused to debate Anderson; Reagan did not. On top of all that, at the time, the conventional wisdom was that Carter was a weak president, partially because of the still-imprisoned diplomats in Tehran, and a failed attempt to extricate them - which Carter took full responsibility for. This set of later circumstances probably took more votes from Carter. All that said, Reagan swept the popular vote by almost nine points, and took the electoral college handily.

          Source: I was there.

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      He would have voted for Trump again, even if HE KNEW his business would go under?! Wtf are these people thinking? That’s some royal hate

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        It’s just good old brainwashing. They believe that voting for democrats will ruin their life so they vote for republicans and if republicans ruin their life then it’s bad luck.

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        Republicans don’t know how to think. All they know is what daddy tells them. lol

        Idiots.

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      That’s the amazing part. No, not them saying they’d still vote for Trump. The fact that they can still talk with half their face gnawed off. I just wonder - was it because of the “any Democrat/leftist bad” mentality, was it because she was a woman, or what it because she was black? He said it wasn’t anything said on the campaign, so it wasn’t how badly they tanked her run. Maybe a combo?

      If you’re going to pull that dead end thinking, then how about trying to change the Republican party to help the American public? (I initially said “better”, but we’re starting at zero)

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      He committed member of the Pedophile Protection Team (PPT), aka, Guardians Of Pedophiles (GOP).

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        Some beautiful day, they’ll be able to record a video of it, so we can finally hear what they’re playing!

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          I imagine someone could do the math and figure out the range of possible notes that would come from a violin of that size.

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            Well well well.

            Suppose a normal violin has strings of ~33cm length. The E-string would have a frequency of ~660 Hz. Let’s shrink that down to tardigrade dimensions (according to Google, it’s about 400μm).

            I’m just going to assume the tardigrade violin has a string length of 60μm.

            The frequency of strings also depends on tensile stress and mass density - let’s just assume that these scale proportionally.

            So we can use the formula: f∝1/L (basically means, half the size means double the frequency).

            Let’s calculate the scale factor s for the frequency:

            L(real) = 330mm, f(real) = 660 Hz L(tardi) = 60μm.

            s = L(real) / L(tardi) = 0.33 / 6 * 10⁻⁵ = 5500.

            This means that the frequency of the tardigrade E-string would be:

            f(tardi) = f(real) * s = f(real) * 5500 = 660Hz * 5500 = 3,630,000Hz = 3.63 megahertz, which is 181.5 times above than the human limit of 20kHz.

            Difference in octaves… log2(3.63 Mhz / 660 Hz) = 15.7

            That means the tardigade E-string is almost 16 octaves above the human one.

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            Hopefully they’ll take into consideration that the poor water bear never received any formal training and is not playing the instrument properly.

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    If your business needed undocumented labor to crawl back into the black, maybe your business acumen isn’t as great as you think.

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    Don’t worry, your lumber mill will still be there, it will just be owned by someone else.

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      Nah. A lot of these mills don’t open back up because it’s not profitable enough to retrograde them to handle smaller and smaller trees that are harvested.

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        Usually a reopening also means inspections and addressing building and equipment safety concerns that could’ve been swept under the rug for decades

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        Usually a reopening also means inspections and addressing building and equipment safety concerns that could’ve been swept under the rug for decades

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        Exactly, there was a huge covid boom for lumber mills and the market got saturated. Now all those small shops that opened during the boom can’t survive on the post Covid margins and are shutting down.

        As much as Trump is a shitbag, this is probably more likely tied to changing mill economics post covid.