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Then mobilize armies and stop them. Y’all can’t be this fucking stupid. A sternly-worded letter does not stop a genocide.

As Steph Sterling has said multiple times, they’re making the games boring and grindy so they can sell you the convenience of skipping the boring and grindy parts. How fun.

Hope he suffers and dies from multiple organ failure in the most painful way humanly possible.

If you can’t speak Russian, you have no business in Russia. Very few of the people there can speak English at the level you would need to get by. And he actually believed he could join their military as a non-combatant foreigner during wartime? What a dumbass.

I’m not advocating for paying income tax being a requirement to vote, that’s ridiculous.

I’m arguing that people who are 16 are already afforded many of the rights and responsibilities (such as being able to work, join the military, get married with a parent’s permission, etc.) that come with the concept of “adulthood” and so they should also be allowed to vote.

You’re entirely missing the implicit reasoning behind my position with this comment. Hopefully you’ll understand it more now that I’ve spelled it out, but if you still disagree, honestly I don’t care and this is happening regardless.

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Okay, so keep looking elsewhere? Not sure what I’m supposed to do about it.

Try WOSONHJ or the Nexus/STC Telegram group. There’s also /r/scholar.

Sorry, I meant income tax. So little Billy will not be able to vote. My bad, Billy.

If you pay (edit: income) tax, you should have the right to vote. I’m not convinced by all of the catastrophizing about it. Turning 16 unlocks a lot of rights and privileges in the UK and I have faith that teenagers won’t be the reason that quality of life worsens.

Seems convenient that it’s happening now, under a conservative Labour PM, at the same time that data show that the generation currently around the age of 16 is generally more conservative than their parents.

But aside from that, this seems like a good thing.

First of all, supply and demand is not a concept bound by natural law, like physics or something. It’s a framework of understanding, not a hard and fast rule. For example, let’s say I’m selling something. It costs me $5 to produce each one and I sell them for $8 each.

A foreign producer comes along and sells the exact same item for $5 each because it costs them $2 to make. Now the market is flooded with this product, but mine cannot be sold for $5 or less (since it would be sold for either no profit or at a loss), so there is direct financial incentive to buy the foreign product.

By adding a tariff, the price of the foreign product becomes higher, artificially driving demand of the domestic product, the price of which generally cannot be lowered without damaging local industry. You can see this in retail markets as well with stores like Walmart and Dollarama, who price other stores out of the market due to their unbeatable prices, which are the result of Chinese manufacturing infrastructure and subsidies.

There is much less flexibility in pricing in heavy industries like steel manufacturing compared to retail, so it doesn’t really make sense for prices to fall significantly enough for Canadian companies to be able to compete with a manufacturing powerhouse like China.

Chinese steel is cheaper than Canadian steel, even in Canada. Since Canadian steel is being targeted by tariffs in America, we need to make sure that as many Canadian companies as possible are using Canadian steel in order to make up for lost revenue on orders that were cancelled or were expected but are now economically impractical.

The practice is called protectionism and is an important tool when two countries have vastly different trade circumstances, such as when one can cheaply manufacture and ship products globally and another cannot. A good external example of this is the protectionism of Ghanaian oranges in order to stimulate the local industry.

I was under the impression that this community is for news from around the world, not news that the entire world is affected by.

For reference, almost all manufacturing is done in Mexico. Final assembly is done in America and takes longer because the process still requires a lot of manual labour and quality assurance.

“The work” is highly variable depending on location so lumping it all together means that a decent amount of nuance is lost.