MRoofurd
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I mean, who wants to listen to history if it’s just going to repeat itself?
"How could slapping a 104 percent tariff on German imports possibly lead to anything bad? What’s the Weimar Republic gonna do? Rapidly militarize?"
I, Famously Good President Herbert Hoover, Am Imposing Tariffs to Bolster Domestic Manufacturing
“President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tarif...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I mean, who wants to listen to history if it’s just going to repeat itself?
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I always hated the "this is the greatest country in the world" refrain, but it is striking to me that the things they are killing in government — an unrivaled scientific research enterprise, incredible public lands, etc — are some of the only things that made such a statement vaguely defensible.
March 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I always hated the "this is the greatest country in the world" refrain, but it is striking to me that the things they are killing in government — an unrivaled scientific research enterprise, incredible public lands, etc — are some of the only things that made such a statement vaguely defensible.