10,000 * 56,583 ~= 566 million < 600 million.

Bruh, he doesn’t even want to pay out the annual subsidy once

Yes, being one of the elites that doesn’t die in a nasty way was often a better deal.

The thing is, most people in a genocide-supporting time, place and group support genocide. So humans are mostly assholes, by that definition.

I don’t know if OP meant people who happen to be Jews or Netanyahu specifically, though.

Yeah, it’s a little known fact, but civilisation was unambiguously shit until at least 1880. It’s far better to be a starving hunter-gatherer than a starving peasant by just about every measure.

Or just the assumed lack of self-reflection of the target audience, since this is Netanyahu and not Trump.

Yeah, that’s the basic attitude I’m thinking of. Normalcy bias feed into it as well as what I mentioned about meritocracy.

I suspect it’s less common in the lower classes because if you’re poor, stability has never been guaranteed, or even reasonability. There’s no expectation that’s been set in the first place. Depending on their roots there might also be a cultural memory in there of previous times things went crazy.

Nobody likes being called an elite, don’t worry.

If only you could do reverse psychology with them. Historically they’ve said whatever’s convenient for if it is true just as much as if it’s not.

Wealth is a continuum; there’s no actual dividing line, like is commonly thought. But just personally, the posher people I know are less bearish, and it looks like the trend continues once you get even higher. Big fund managers tend to be in the picture. I don’t know off the top of my head how much movement is professionals and how much is retail investors.

I feel the need to disclose that I’m personally short on the US, relative to other markets.

Edit: And I should also mention the myth of meritocracy has a wide following, it’s just extra favoured by the people who would be implied to have merit by it. And there’s the fact that most people came up in a time where this sort of thing never happened, so there’s normalcy bias on top of it all.

The vibe I get is that most elites really don’t want to believe the president could be dumb, because that means they could be too. Elites own and/or work with a lot of stocks, and that extends to their investing decisions.

So they figure, sure, it must just be a 4D chess bluff.

Yep. All the funding they’ve already put into it will stay put. You can’t uncode FOSS.

You can also take an intermediate approach, actually. Usually I can tell from just the developer docs or whitepapers if something has a way of producing the guarantees it claims.

Look, you either check for yourself, or trust people who have. The only other option amounts to building your own parallel reality.

Go look at the code, then.

For 90 days, if he can resist changing it again that long.

I’m also pretty confused about how Canada and Mexico fit into this, because they said we’re included in the rollback to 10%, but we weren’t in the original “liberation day” tariffs in the first place.

Yeah, a lot about political discourse is fucking whack. It has been especially bad lately, although TBH there wasn’t a period in history where it was great.

I mean, there was never a question of if I’d prefer Trump-lite, regardless of how lite exactly. Thanks for giving the TL;DR, though!

In his debates and speeches he’s seemed neither like a pushover nor overconfident. His record makes it clear he’s not stupid. Some of his policy ideas are creative and interesting. I have no further negative information, and the worst his opponents can find is that he’s been involved with for-profit businesses that weren’t even particularly ruthless. I don’t know what he’s like away from the cameras, but that’s par for the course in politics until it leaks out.

That being said, I think there’s still an argument not to do proliferation even if it would be easier to.

He was governor of the BoE during Brexit… There really isn’t much you can do as a governor of the national bank in such stupidity.

It’s kind of interesting he hasn’t paid for that in any way, as far as I can tell. In a different election you might see people painting him as a supporter or at least an enabler of it.

Hey, happy cake day. Here’s hoping we get proportional rep eventually.