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nozzlegearyesterday at 7:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

Sure, this is the meme I was referencing: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/worst-person-you-know-made-a-...

In this case, Trump is the "worst person you know," but he's doing something that a lot of people across the left [¹] and right [²] political spectrums have wanted to do for years by repealing (edit: suspending) the Jones Act.

[¹] Free trade dems, Clintonite think tankers, third-way corporatists, the self-styled "neoliberal" dems, abundance dems, etc. Not all dems support doing away with it because in theory that hurts the maritime unions.

[²] Much broader support on the right because it maps onto the free market and anti-regulation ideologies.


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throawayontheyesterday at 9:00 PM

i'm confused by your footnotes, because in the first one you clarify you mean right-wingers and "free market" fanatics and then seemingly restating it in your second footnote while presenting it as a separate group haha

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SllXyesterday at 8:17 PM

*suspending

Not repealed.

But yes.

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