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Fuck The USA

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[โ€“] meathorse@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And yet despite this speech, it was Regan who implemented tarrifs on Japanese motorbikes - to protect Harley because they were butt-hurt about having to complete.

[โ€“] Alloi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

selective tariffs can sometimes be "nice"for maintaining domestic businesses, or keeping standards in local markers (ex, canadian dairy has a higher standard than american dairy, but less production capacity, if there were no tariffs on american dairy, our market would be flooded by low quality dairy, putting local farmers out of work, pulling money out of our economy, and overall lowering dairy drinking/eating populations overall quality of health over time). but swathing blanket tariffs are fucking dumb when you dont produce the shit you are putting tariffs on, all you end up doing is charging your citizens more for everything. for the sake of his ego, at this point hes just punishing the global economy, the american economy, and of course americans and would be americans more than anyone else.

(tariffs however are always about guiding and extracting more wealth from the working class by economic force.)

because hes dumb, egotistical, and a chaos agent for the elite to dismantle traditional power structures, and handing more power directly to oligarchs the world over.

youd think someone in their twilight years might want to leave behind a good legacy. but not this vapid geriatric twat. hes just wants to shit all over everything and everyone out of spite. even though hes been handed everything great in his entire life. and took everythings he didnt deserve by force, and cohersion.

at least he knows that if there is a hell, hes burning in it.