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[-] piskertariot@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.

[-] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

remembers.

[-] spizzat2@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Whoah, even Ben Stein knows this was a bad idea!

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It is pretty hilarious that he said these lines, played a genius in TV and movies for decades, then became a conservative nut job.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

...you're still here?..it's over, go home!..

...go!..

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What the US needs is an exorcist

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Give it a few months and we can probably settle for a necromancer. And not because congress reminds me of a mausoleum. Although....

[-] arotrios@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think that's the problem. This new 20.25 patch is filled with Russian malware and is failing to integrate with our legacy free market democratic systems. I suggest we roll back to version 20.21 until they manage to provide a functional upgrade.

[-] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You mean firing everyone in power, repealing Citizens United and blocking corporate money from elections, and then electing young leaders who don't have an ulterior motive and actually want to drive progress and improve things?

I'd be down with that but good luck actually pulling that off.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

[-] Nikelui@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe a factory reset

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No taxation without representation? We can still throw the T into the ocean ... I'd feel bad if it was all those teslas: it'd be like a poison reef... so we'll have to settle for the "other one."

[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

We could just pull one specific plug and leave it on the floor.

[-] YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

They tried this with Texas. It didn't work, but it made Ted Cruz do away for a while.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I think most of us are trying to avoid a hard reset. That gets messy fast.

[-] Mio@feddit.nu 3 points 1 week ago

They are definitely disconnecting the USA.

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Some of us have certainly considered it.

At the rate we are going I'm not entirely sure if we are going for the perky happy beep when a PC posts or ... that other longer one you get when you unplug things...

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Someone did unplug it a few decades ago ........ no one has bothered to plug it in again .... I think they set fire to the plug to make sure no one plugs it in again ... ever