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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by oulipo2 on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:59AM (#46681397)
So you're confirming that EVERYTHING about politics in the US is just... spectacle? a show?

Ideas and modeling no longer matters? What matters is that you're doing a TikTok eating a southern specialty?

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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by Muromec on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:08PM (#46681513)
It's not like the dems did either of those things.

Spectacles actually matter too. You need to know which one to perform and that requires certain understanding of your audience

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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by oulipo2 on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @10:07AM (#46692533)
It shouldn't. We should have a society where we treat politics with more deference. But for that, we would need to have long-form content, actual balanced debates on public television, and fight the "attention-span economy" of social networks...
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