Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: really big physics Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 23:40:12 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <1haouj5ipicu2v8ot6ce2dmjtg5b46qo3g@4ax.com> <67ec3fab$0$1787$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <07rquj58bs6j2cotung74ha0v6bi8t0hph@4ax.com> <878ruj9l6n1i2o5uhs2446ikkpvu891644@4ax.com> <67ee21c4$0$2787$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <1ra7iyv.1jqcylh8s4hmoN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b5a68b4eb242e3a5d46b87e3f442f342"; logging-data="706795"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18DhCQsWF+sINdc/PsS3HGbWJnWEwVu4lM=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y9ENPMiVr/dOsWcAUaAkj61ko88= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250402-4, 2/4/2025), Outbound message In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US 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 wrote: >> >>> On 4/2/2025 4:46 PM, john larkin wrote: >>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> If the US shuts out the whole world, then the whole world will be all >>> alone without us. Checkmate, world! >> >> 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. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney