• Gennadios@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    A hardcore leftist reposting a tweet with the user/source mysteriously cropped out? 'yall a bunch of deramged, crybaby tards.

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Not only do US companies pay the tariff but they pass it on to their customers and other countries or on counter tarrifs on US products.

  • ntma@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Liberals enjoy that schadenfreude a little too much. They’re the ones that are first to turn their minority neighbours to protect their own status in society. They’re the Reddit mods of society

  • TeamBrett@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    So I feel like I’m probably missing something or am not understanding how Tariffs work.

    Tariffs would increase the price of foreign goods and commodities and those increases would be passed on to consumers, but isn’t the goal not to get more tax money for the government but to disincentivize the purchase of those foreign goods at all thus fueling domestic manufacturing and economy?

    It seems like tariffs aren’t great short term but if we have the ability to manufacture domestically and are not doing so due to costs, then it may be good in the longer term. Especially because if we rely on those countries now, they have control over those goods and can end them whenever they want. At least this way we can ramp up US manufacturing without a disruption to the existing supply chain, it just costs more.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      You’re understanding tariffs correctly, but the conclusion is off. I’ll give an example driving tariffs to the extreme to explain:

      Imagine tariffs are so high, the US can’t economically import anymore. This is effectively the same as very tight sanctions, aka like North Korea.

      Everything in North Korea is manufactured locally, and it doesn’t scale. Doing things locally works great, but you focus on a couple things and trade for the rest.

      Can some tariffs help the economy? Definitely, it’s a bit of a catalyst. Will a lot of tariffs hurt the economy? Also definitely.

      Maybe Trump has mathed out the exact level of tariffs to boost the economy. If, however, that is the case, he hasn’t shown his work on it.

      Edit: I will caveat it is clear most people in this thread saying “even I know what a tariff is!” Are mostly wrong. So if that’s why you’re feeling crazy, it’s because you’re in a thread full of people who aren’t as smart as they think they are.

      • TeamBrett@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Thanks that seems reasonable and makes me feel a little less crazy. i can’t imagine Trump knows how Tariffs work or what they would actually be useful for, much less what the best levels are.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      This is definitely fake, but […] I choose to believe it’s real

      2024 election in a nutshell

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    fake story about how workers are dumb. Yeah.

    I mean regardless I think pulling back spending is a great idea for 2025. Make those purchases now while they’re still cheap. Buy your toilet paper etc

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Drawbacks of living in a country where half the people are dumbshits. It’s the new normal and we better get used to it. When you are out in public doing anything, look around. Roughly half the people you see are fucking idiots.

  • pinkystew@reddthat.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Does Trump not know what a tariff is? Or does he know, and he is deliberately misleading his followers?

    • Malfeasant@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      In general, I say why assume malevolence when ignorance explains it as well… Trump is an exception to that rule.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      He likely understands what a tariff is well enough. His problem is that he either doesn’t understand the implications or chooses not to communicate that part to voters.

      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        He understands tariffs in his terms - that “tariffs” is a useful word to trick people into doing what he wants. How tariffs work in the real world is irrelevant to him, the word gets him what he wants, and that’s all he needs from tariffs.

        • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          except he “renegotiated” nafta and is now threatening mexico with tariffs. He’s a childlike negotiator playing geopolitics backed by like 5 giant media conglomorates and silicon valley guys who reinvent busses and trains every 5 years.

          The reality is the crypto people are going to stash their crypto as the economy tanks intent on living like millionaires. Then the big money will cash out and crash that market leaving all the small holders in the dust.

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Trump understands tariffs, as far as they sound fancy and like a threat to foreigners, his followers understands it even less. Using fancy words make you sound authoritative. Trump’s followers like authoritarian leaders.

  • ATDA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Just read estimates his tariffs would cost the average household 7600 annually. I told my folks and they didn’t understand why I thought it was funny. I told them they wanted this.