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@TwraSun das gesammte Pressestatement von Robert #Habeck zu dem angekündigten umfassenden US-Zollpaket ist sehenswert:

phoenix.de/reaktion-auf-zoelle

Wichtige Punkte unter anderem:
- Wir sollten nicht die Grundannahme von #Trump teilen - die daraus resultierenden Diskussionen gehen in eine falsche Richtung
- Wenn #USA weniger importiert, kann das dazu führen, dass Waren z.B. aus #China günstiger werden. Das sind deflationäre Tendenzen die nicht nur positiv sein müssen

phoenixphoenix

A quotation from Orwell

A thing is funny when — in some way that is not actually offensive or frightening — it upsets the established order. Every joke is a tiny revolution. If you had to define humour in a single phrase, you might define it as dignity sitting on a tin-tack. Whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny. And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-07-28), “Funny, But Not Vulgar,” Leader Magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/11849/

"Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, Sullivan and Hickel show how during this period structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy, and other resources than they received in imports. The difference between the two, Sullivan and Hickel argue, represented a transfer of real tangible materials from Africa to the capitalist world economy, for free."

roape.net/2025/02/28/plunderin