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I don’t think anyone here has yet come to the realization that ending rampant consumerism is the whole damn point of the tariffs.
by helloooooooo 1y ago
I don’t think anyone here has yet come to the realization that ending rampant consumerism is the whole damn point of the tariffs.
- shafyy 1y agoNo, that's surely not the point of tariffs. Maybe a silver lining, but for sure not the intention.
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- eagsalazar2 1y agoLol, are you serious? Can you elaborate on your thinking here? Are you suggesting Trump imposed tariffs out of some altruistic goal of reducing waste or the social impacts of consumerism?? That can't be right. What is the motivation in your mind?
- khuey 1y agoThe "point" of the tariffs is that Trump likes tariffs. There's nothing more to it than that.
- lolc 1y agoWhy cut off your thinking there? I can think of many reasons why he would like tariffs. Two off the bat: - Allows claiming various benefits like onshoring production, or reduced taxes. This is for the voters. - Allows threatening other countries' industries with tariffs unless they invest in his friends' enterprises. This is for him.
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- bagels 1y agoAccording to who? That's not the most common justification provided for them, the more common refrain a bag full of lies about what a tariff is and what a trade deficit is.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoMy brain just leaked out of my ear.
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- stouset 1y agoIt's absolutely insane. I know we don't want HN to devolve into political bickering, but this is a deeply important meta-observation about what's happening in our country right now. Trump's stochastically random decisions are so inscrutable, but his following is so cult-like, that his followers are forced to flail around to try and find any plausible justification for these actions. You'd think that at some point the sheer effort of this would trigger some sort of introspection, but it never seems to come. Someone, somewhere, latches onto an explanation that's catchy enough, vague enough, and impossible to disprove enough, that the tribe can take the explanation at face value and latch onto it, no matter how thin. This will be studied for a long, long time.
- ActorNightly 1y agoI hate that this is somehow is still viewed as political, when the topic has moved far past that to the point where you are arguing with conservatives that can't comprehend actual reality. Like this is philosophical more than political.
- hdgvhicv 1y agoYou can support some of trumps policies while thinking the insurrectionist peadophile should be behind bars You can also support tarrifs in principal but not support the way they have been implemented (club not calpol, used as a political weapon or to extract mafia style favours)
- ActorNightly 1y agoYes, but that is not what is happening here.
- Latty 1y agoThe post being replied to says "the tarrifs", clearly referring to the current set of tarrifs implemented by this admin, not the concept of tarrifs in general, otherwise they'd have just said "tarrifs".
- LastTrain 1y agoYeah gilding the Oval Office really drives the message home. “Trump calmly reminds nation that desire is the truth of all suffering” - Onion
- dudefeliciano 1y agoThis is a ridiculous attempt at sanewashing. When has Trump or anyone in the GOP EVER stated that they want to end consumerism?
- folsom 1y agohttps://apnews.com/article/trump-two-dolls-tariffs-toys-7b0e5d3a9035471317e6dc4ee1fbfbc1 https://apnews.com/article/trump-two-dolls-tariffs-toys-7b0e...
- dudefeliciano 1y agoPretty dishonest. There is nothing about curbing consumerism there. Just telling people that they will HAVE TO buy less if consumer prices increase, in order to hurt China.
- stouset 1y agoTrump effectively saying "deal with it, you'll live" is not even remotely evidence that the primary goal is ending rampant consumerism. Just… stop.