"Brilliant" reads of the day

'Buy American' Hurts Americans

The point? Those who say "buy national/local products" are hurting the very locality they claim to defend.

The evidence? There you go:

Trade among perfect strangers from all over the world is cooperation, trust, mutual benefit, and peace in action. Don't we need more of it? Injecting divisive nationalism into commerce, however innocently, violates the true liberal spirit, which has bestowed incalculable blessings on the human race.

As can clearly be seen from the dwindling inequality throughout the world. Except, of course, if we take a local look at the evolution of inequality. But, as the man says, don't do that.

EU Anti-tax evasion measures

How more ironic can you get than having the Dijsselbloem bloke crowing about the EU's measures against tax evasion? This line is particularly funny: “We’ve been [so] very busy competing with each other ... that big companies tend not to pay taxes.”

Indeed, I wonder how that happened. An oversight, I suppose. I mean, it's not as if this "competition" was deliberately created to attract funds to some member states, in detriment of others. That would most certainly never happen in an organization bearing the name "Union".

But, of course, at least some of our hard-working European buddies are more honest (about their motives, that is) than others:

Austria’s finance minister, Hans Jörg Schelling, said: “I think we should not overshoot in tackling these things out of the hysteria on Panama.”

Absolutely, let's no overshoot, lest we see the money taking off and going somewhere else, when it's so much better that it stays in a select group of European countries that can then perpetuate the "narrative" that they're "hard-working" and "responsible".

The reason for Trump's success

Judging by what I've been reading lately in the media, I've got it all wrong in my posts about Trump's success. The general opinion is that race issues, rather than economic issues, are the main driving force behind Trump's success.

The reason? Just look how well Trump is doing in upscale zones. And what do these well-off Trump supporters have in common with the not-so-well-off Trump supporters? Why, their whiteness, of course.

So, the anti-racist media took a look at a group of people whose only common characteristic is race and covered all of them with one single reason for supporting Trump. How non-racist of the anti-racist media.

After all, there's no way those people can have... I don't know... different reasons to support Trump. Sure, they live in different states. And they lead different lifestyles. And they have different levels of income. But don't let unimportant things like "details" bother you, they're all white, therefore... racism.

I suspect "who could've predicted that" is going to become even more popular.