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Man, if it was that easy then China and the West would be having a much better time, and Israel a much worse time (since the Gulf countries are also rich).

He knows that he can’t really sustain tariffs because prices would really rise, and a massive recession would kick in, so he bluffs by delaying the dates.

Does he? Or does he just think the markets panic for no reason every time he tries?

People close to him have said tariffs being good for the economy is like a pathological fixed belief he has.

As I understand the headline, it could just as easily be someone in the prison that tampered with the data. That would be the simplest explanation, then.

After reading the article, it's not even clear it *was* tampering, as opposed to conversion and compilation of the original file formats. And apparently, if the footage is what it appears to be, he actually *did* kill himself.

Okay, I'll be a bit more direct. Go talk to the aliens about it, maybe they have time. I believe the hexbear way of saying that is "disengage".

From the article:

The plane’s fuel was tested and found to be of satisfactory quality,

I believe in conspiracies as a general concept, like the two guards, and I believe governments have classified programs. When it gets to a certain point where vast numbers of people are involved in covering up something huge perfectly, you run into the problem of everything being possible and nothing being falsifiable, though.

In practice, people don't believe in conspiracy theories because they honestly assess it's the neatest way to explain the world, it's because they get emotional satisfaction out of the community and the feeling that they know something which other people don't. There's psychology literature about it and everything.

What I said is my goto answer when I suspect I'm about to be arguing about melting steel beams or whatever, because that's just a waste of time.

Well, I don't see the government covering it up, and I don't believe in conspiracy theories.

For the Republicans, it's either this guy or a recently promoted conspiracy influencer with random frat bros as staff. The Democrats will still manage to lose.

(This is my impression as a Canadian)

I'm not surprised, and I'd still say it's not an unlikely grand conspiracy if some rich guy paid a couple guards to kill him.

We'd love to. You know we get it first and in higher concentration, right? Not to mention all our shit that burns down in the process.

And I mean, it's from the climate change that you helped make as well...

"Whoops, we pinky swear we'll investigate ourselves for that. Anyway, since they're all gone now, we can go back to normal relations with the rest of the world, right?"

Ah yes, you could say it's a camp where they can be nicely concentrated.

Yeah, if you're looking at food in China, there's a real argument to avoid anything artificial-seeming because of incidents like this. I'm told it's part of the reason why wet markets are so popular - there's no doubt if your meat is real and unadulterated when you just saw it running around.

It actually sounds like they were straight up using normal paint as food colouring.

Sometimes, or sometimes they get a pass based on connections. Those aren't mutually exclusive, either; scapegoats have long been a useful political tool.

Yeah, it's more like they're fueling sexism, and are gobsmacked that anyone dares to be bothered by that.

That was only after the eventual direct attack on Iranian soil, and I don't know if it's even double digit missiles that have managed to land in return. Some Israelis are still stunned, but only because of how deep in a bubble they are.

Iran also opted not to close the Strait of Hormuz, even now, although apparently they were making preparations.

I can't really confirm it's complete disinformation, but they always post stories that case Ukraine in a positive light and a lot of them are never confirmed or repeated elsewhere.

They are at war for their existence as a nation, so some of that is to be expected.

Yeah. What's their game here, basically? They're hella brutal in most (all?) other ways.

Oh, the second paragraph *of my comment*, not the article. Kyiv Independent is questionable as a source, basically.

Sorry for calling you a bot.