mind you i’m pretty sure the CEO doubled as ruling monarch

y’all got it backwards. deltarune and undertale are just excuses toby fox found to make use of his tunes and beautiful voice

i feel like the representation was a bit too subtle

he’s a trickster deity of hearth and fire that mostly just fucks with people and falls off hills

the best part is that coffee and meat aren’t exempted so lmao

He exempted the import of coal briquettes. I didn’t even know the US imported that. From us of all countries.

I think that Brazil, being a poorer and more peripheric country, is just less exposed to US risk. It’s ironic, but in terms of agribusiness Brazil is either a competitor to the US or complements its needs well. In terms of industry, what little industry Brazil has is married to the hip to what little industry the US has relative to its economy. It just never made any sense to tax brazilian imports. Brazil does not even have a trade balance surplus with the United States.

Germany would probably flounder whereas taxing México would be mutually assured destruction. Taxing Brazil is kinda ‘eh why even’ (besides the insider trading and currency manipulation that is).

He exempted most of the things we sell them. Including critical industries. EMBRAER’s stock is up. Hell, he exempted steel! I think americans pay the blanket 10% tariffs for brazilian steel as opposed to the EU’s 15%. Unless that’s exempted too.

i support halloween’s expansionism as a counterpoint to the christmas pact

‘i never said i was jewish. i said i was jew-ish’ is one of the quotes of all time

This is what he should have done from the start. But he couldn’t help himself with the tariff game, and then issuing that ultimatum about Brazil’s agribusiness and national payments system. Had he just sanctioned the supreme court and the government’s officials, there’d would have been a much stronger ground for the far right to stand on. Now they only have their most brainwashed supporters to work with.

And if tariffs never even happen in the first place, all the talks about how ‘we must submit because this is basically a nuclear option’ just turns into reactionary defeatism.

the only correct argument for elective monarchy

like an anti-corruption campaign

I’d be careful there. You’re thinking of chinese style anti corruption campaigns, but merely asking ‘anti corruption’ is as immaterial and manipulative as anything can be.

every time i read stuff like this it makes me feel like an austrian journalist documenting ww1’s frontlines

i dunno, calling the irish potato famine one of history’s gravest horrors while kid starver has absolute power seems very brave to me

Big assumption on my part, but I’m guessing it’s got something to do with missionary work. I’ve seen videos in the past of american evangelicals having a less than positive reception to their attempts at ‘converting the jews’ (no shit right). The videos would then spread in right wing spaces online, being signal boosted by neo nazis.

I imagine the historical churches are more interested in their local communities and holdings, as well as pilgrims. I don’t expect the Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Armenians, Syriacs or Copts to genuinely care if the local muslims and jews will convert or not. If anything, they should be competing with each other and the Protestants instead.

It took this goober 5 hours after house arrest to say ‘well, I was gonna have lunch at an embassy, but i can’t any more innit’.

No because that would mean going to war with the United States. The turkish play is along the lines of ‘hey we did that thing you told us to in regards to Assad’ and hope the US likes the status quo enough they’ll tell Israel to chill out. Which was doomed from the start.

cute twink

i’m sold

thats already a god