• blackbrook@mander.xyz
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      It’s a tax. We should have leaned into educating people about this simple fact when Trump first started raving about it.

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        Canada has been renting billboards all over the southern States in the hopes of educating people about this.

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      Glad he supported the guy who said he’d impose tariffs when he had no idea what tariffs were. 3 minutes of googling could have saved this guy 3000 bucks

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        It’s because people can’t help but find thst shit boring. The thing is we gotta do boring shit all the time. Politics and the things like that should be like breathing, brushing our teeth, sleeping, or wiping our ass…it’s all boring but needs to be done.

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      I was going to go with “well, you just learned what it is just now. Open wide, buttercup, this is what you wanted”.