Tariffs Catch-All
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Welp.
Glad I traded my car on Friday.downsized with improved tech and no car payment now thanks to expected spike in used car prices.
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Welp.
Glad I traded my car on Friday.
Yeah, my auto dealer emailed me last week with an unsolicited offer to buy back my wife's BMW for like $2K over the Kelly blue book or something like that.
I declined.
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I felt a bit ridiculous/paranoid this weekend. Today, less so.
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I get your point, and it's not wrong, but I'd like to offer a different analogy. Harakiri was an honorable act of self-sacrifice and thus the exact opposite of Trump.
I'd say this is more like Plaxico Burress carrying a gun in his sweatpants and then shooting himself in the leg
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My grandpa fought in WWII and sitting on his knee I learned otherwise about harakiri. Not saying he was right (he actually was a tank commander in the European theater), but I require convincing about what was honorable in that case. A bias if you will.
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He’s putting tariffs on things we don’t make. Beyond dumb.
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It was part of bushido, the samurai code of honor. In WWII, bushido was appropriated to terrible and dishonorable ends, but the code had existed for hundreds of years before that (it was actually outlawed for a while).
Generally speaking, bushido is often compared to chivalry. Seppuku (the more accurate name, from what I understand) was a part of it. The feudal lord could order seppuku, but often it was a way for a wrong doer to regain honor. Or for a disgraced warrior to regain a legacy.
For instance: seppuku would always require a second, the guy with a katana who slices off the head of the disemboweled person. That was for a failed seppuku, or to end the misery. But the second was expected to slice the head clean off, and if he failed on the first time, it was greatly dishonorable and the second was often expected to seppuku himself.
Here's the wikipedia entry for a prominent Japanese nationalist who did seppuku in 1970. Note that his "kaishakunin" -- i.e. the second referred to above -- failed in the slice and then did it himself (failing again, so the guy who had to step in the first time had to off his head as well).
Yukio Mishima - Wikipedia
There's a brilliant anti-Samurai film from the 60s called Harikiri. It's a remarkable film. Absolutely worth watching a couple of times.
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Also:
en.wikipedia.org
"It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour, but was also practised by other Japanese people during the Shōwa era (particularly officers near the end of World War II) to restore honour for themselves or for their families
Seppuku - Wikipedia
"It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour, but was also practised by other Japanese people during the Shōwa era (particularly officers near the end of World War II) to restore honour for themselves or for their families
Welp.
Glad I traded my car on Friday.
Why trade? You could have sold your old car next week at a higher markup.
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Had a purchase offer and a specific vehicle I wanted and opportunity to walk away owning outright without much effort. The time it would take me to sell it had time-value, too. But understand and debated your argument.