Re: really big physics

On 3/04/2025 10:31 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:14:46 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 4/2/2025 4:46 PM, john larkin wrote:
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The best thing for the West right now is a hefty dose of nationalistic
patriotism (but without the bellicose element which we can well do
without, of course). Globalism has impoverished us, and will continue
to do so until its proponents are crushed and sanity restored.

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Competition makes most everything better. In the USA, we have states
competing for people and businesses. Europe would be better off with
more (peaceful!) competition between countries and less globalist
bureaucracy.

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If the US shuts out the whole world, then the whole world will be all
alone without us. Checkmate, world!

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If the US shuts out the whole world, then theUS will be all
alone without the rest of the World. Checkmate,US!

 https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2025-04/GettyImages-2208184612.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=aHFHHcAS
 Open borders and wildly asymmetric tarriffs benefit the coastal elites
and hurt the flyover-territory working class, namely increase
inequality in the US. I think the working people feel this
intuitively, and voted suitably.

US inequality is remarkably high, and has been for years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)
was published in 2009, and documents a long established situation.
Trump is introducing asymmetric tariffs, and these will cost consumer's money. There's a real chance that they will trigger an international recession, much as the Smoot-Hawley Act did in 1930.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act
This isn't going to help the flyover-territory working class in the US, and if Trump's clown car knew what they were doing they'd know this.
You should too.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney