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The rates were supposedly based on the US Trade Representative’s calculations of “tariffs imposed against US products”. But they didn’t come from any obvious rates that were actually imposed, as Paul Krugman pointed out.

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Here’s what the White House and its crack team of trade investigators seems to have done: Take the US’s goods trade deficit with any particular country, and divide it by the total amount of goods imported from that country. Cut that percentage in half, and there’s the US’s “reciprocal” tariff rate.

This is how they ended up doing things like imposing a tax on imports from uninhabited islands full of penguins.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago

Yes, though animal agriculture is big enough that we need to address it in addition to fossil fuels.

Took down the misleading comment.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

So long as people aren't all identical, they'll have plenty of ability to engage in needless hate

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Yes. They don't see an emphasis on it in the media they consume

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Try the short version of the gift link: https://share.inquirer.com/4ayTXy

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

Click the link to find out. It's a gift link, so anybody with JS turned on should be able to access the article.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

It's a gift link. Anybody with Javascript turned on has free access already

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 days ago

There's a third type: those who think that the President should be bound by law and constition.

This happens to be a nonprofit, which while funded by congress, has some level of independence. The President isn't supposed to be able to shut it down like this, and it took coercing the guards's boss and having cops break into their offices to get to this point.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 19 points 5 days ago

During Trump's first term there were still Republicans who cared about things like:

  • Constitution
  • Law
  • Good Governance

They've all been purged now.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago

In the US, unless the outcome is changed as a result of an appeal, yes.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's not a direct impact; it's that the ad buys get the oil folks access in a way that you and I don't have. The journalists end up at things like conference panels with oil folks, and not so much with activists or scientists, and the editors choose who to put on a given story.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The NYT takes huge ad payments from the oil industry. Industry reps get regular access to reporters in non-news contexts as a result, and this spills over into the background beliefs and attitudes a lot of them have

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