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Wait. I just realized something. One of the significant reasons humans are such amazing creatures compared to the other species is our generational knowledge we can pass down. But we have a saturation point. We need consciousness information downloading. Not immortality. But a way to download Wikipedia to our brains. That’s the next step.
So basically ai chips.
???
Doritos.
economy collapsing and all we do is eat hot chip & lie
You can be bisexual too (until the camps for us filthy gays open)
The last tariff I personally remember was the 1983 motorcycle tariff signed by Reagan. The Yamaha Virago was seen as such a threat to Harley-Davidson that they pushed for and got a tariff imposed on imported motorcycles over 700ccs engine displacement. Yamaha’s answer was to reduce the engine displacement from 750 to 699cc. The 250cc Virago is still in production today, though they install a straighter handlebar on it and call it a “V-Star 250.”
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But this one is different… … … I just can’t remember how… but I know they said this one is different, so it must be… right?..
Edit: autocorrect
This is what happens when a populace isn’t properly educated.
Prepare for this country to be on a downward slope for the rest of our lives. That’s the most likely future for us.
The brain drain can already be seen, most have already moved abroad, or are waiting to.
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If I recall my history right, the 1929 stock market collapse precipitated the Great Depression, and the tariffs were a (misguided) attempt at trying to set the economy straight.
Dont let facts get in the way of a cheeky social media post.
Ferris bueller kinda called this one.
The bueller… bueller… bueller bit is preceded by ben stein explaining the Hadley snoot tariffs to a visibly bored and distracted classroom.
From Smoot-Hawley to Bueller-Trumpy.
The definition of stupidity is to try things that failed in the past again in the hope to get a better result.
Insanity actually
There’s in general no way this can work long-term. When nations cooperate, they both benefit. If you’re the only nation not cooperating with everyone else, then everyone else will surpass you until you’re North Korea levels of yesteryear.
My macroecon book, which was written by a guy from the Bush administration, hit us over the head with that concept.
It’s strange to thing that he’d be considered a pariah by his party’s leadership now.
Looking at this through the lens of “how can the oligarchs benefit”, it makes complete sense - Strip all government assistance, remove social nets, add tariffs that will basically kill most small businesses (think also farms, mom and pop shops, etc). Lead to depression, billionaires swoop in and buy up land/homes/business for pennies on the dollar (or just basically crush small businesses to get them out of the way). One couldn’t design a better way to fuck over everyone and enrich the oligarchs
Yup, a fire sale for oligarchs.
Third time’s the charm right? Right!?!?
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This one is going to work /s
There was also the McKinley Tariff of 1890 that is taxed foreign imports at almost 50% and caused increased prices and consumer backlash and lead to Democrats winning Congress in a landslide.
Aren’t you glad Trump promised you don’t have to vote ever again now?
Did anyone mention how the 1930 tariffs sparked a wave of retaliatory tariffs by other nations, greatly reducing international trade, pushing a natural resources poor Japan to conclude that in order to survive it needed an empire, so it invaded other countries, committing such atrocities that even Nazi Germany was like “whoa dude, chill”, which lead to their participation in WWII, Pearl Harbor and the deployment of nuclear bombs? No?
Japan was expanding long before 1930’s. Korea, Mongolia, and parts of China were already under Japan long before 1930.
Yeah that comment is wildly ignorant of Japan’s actions and aspirations pre1930. Fuck Trump and these tariffs, mind you.
But, the full scale invasion of China by happens around 1931, which then lead to the conflict that get China involved in WWII.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_incident
Yes, full scale. But they already occupied parts of China before 1930. It wasn’t tariffs for Japan. It was sanctions on oil to force them to stop invading. Their response was to speed up invasions to secure oil.
Which I suppose goes to the heart of why tariffs and export restrictions are bad. A country that is pushed into a corner where it will be deprived of an essential commodity is highly incentived to fight for it…
Edit: to be clear, not defending Japan at all. Just considering possible implications
While that sounds good, that’s a reason to not sanction Russia for agression. The alternative to is to not do anything with aggressors.
That’s quite the oversimplification, and I approve.
There’s a lot of oversimplification. But the US embargo on Japan in 1940 led directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The US embargoed all oil to Japan. Japan calculated it had less than 2 years worth of oil before it ran out, so it needed to capture the Dutch East Indies (modern day Indonesia, more or less) because they were a major source of oil. The American puppet state of the Philippines was between Japan and the Dutch East Indies, so they had to deal with that somehow. Their decision was to preemptively attack Pearl Harbor and hope that they could consolidate their gains in the Pacific by the time the US was able to counter-attack.
Japan’s actions in WWII weren’t directly about tariffs, but they were about spheres of influence, like the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
A lot of Trump’s posturing seems to be about bringing back these spheres of influence. The US wants to control North America, taking over Greenland and Canada, and leave Europe to become part of the Russian sphere.
Haha yeah, but I could do even better:
Tariffs bad because history
So you’re saying that Japan threw a shit fit because it wasn’t allowed to trade with other nations. Japan.
Fucking love it.
It’s also wrong on every account; Japan was already doing imperialist shit for decades and it wasn’t tariffs but oil sanctions to try to stymie their fuel supply that sent them raging.
It wasn’t American tariffs, we didn’t fucking matter nearly as much to the world before WWII as after
Thanks for the insight, stacy! By the way, why are you still posting on a nazi platform? Oh for internet points? Cool, cool.
Edit: Damn, there’s more nazis on Lemmy than I thought.
Because that’s the platform that needs to hear it
Circlejerk preaching to the choir is fun, but doesn’t reach the people who need to hear it
You’re right, we should send Bernie to CPAC. Bet he’ll win over lots of hearts and minds.
I mean… yes
I honestly want to see this.
That’s what Teamsters did at the RNC and people were far more angry at Teamsters than Republicans happy at hearing a working class message.
It’s better than sending him to a room full of people who already aggrees with him. It’s kind of the point
That is the goal in a functioning democracy. That description no longer applies to the US. Our country’s voter base is made up of political illiterates, our new voters get less educated every year, and our elected officials and their oligarch counterparts are running at full tilt in an attempt to normalize and formalize flagrant disregard for our constitution.
Only if you send him with a fucking machine gun. Although bless him, he would never be into that.
I so wish he hadn’t been prevented from being president by the corrupt democrats.
Yeah that’s bullshit rationalization. You don’t pay nazis to advertise anti-nazi sentiment.
Edit: Damn, there’s more nazis on Lemmy than I thought.
As a rule, Lemmings are steadfastly against any course of action that might make an actual difference. They’ll post about guillotines and green Mario until the cows come home, since no one actually expects them to act on that sort of thing, but whenever anyone suggests anything that a typical person could actually do it’s nothing but excuses.
It’s cause you’re over at lemmy.world
It’s the largest, and therefore has the most mainstream people, who tend to be some flavor of liberal
In theory, joining any server gets you the whole federation experience… In practice, your home server will greatly affect discovery and shape what kind of people you encounter most
It appears the extent of their participation is spewing vitriol and clicking downvote buttons. lol
Meanwhile, I’m going to a capital protest tomorrow. Those of you doing things, KEEP RESISTING THESE FUCKS.
Lemmingspeople in general
It’ll work this time… trust me bro!
