• Geetnerd@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Just like stating COVID-19 wasn’t lethal, and was just the flu. An estimated 400,000 MAGA Cult Members, out of 1 Million US dead from the virus, believed a narcissist with the mind of child who didn’t want to embarrassed by not having a perfect, fawning, adulating audience to his magnificence. RFK Jr. literal stated recently that CVD-19 only killed “Old People.” Yeah, idiot, some of those old people were someone’s grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, friends, and some of them believed an idiot who told them to take horse dewormer, or fish aquarium chloride to cure it.

    This is the same thing. These people are psychopaths.

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    Temu, taobao, alibaba all openly show 150% tariffs in their ui.
    Go try checking out.

    Amazon might hide it but it sells all the same products so not gonna deceive many

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      I don’t think you understand how stupid the average person is. There is a decent chance this will all be biden inflation in their minds and not tariffs if there isn’t literally a thing that says “tariff charge” on it. Even then they will probably see that and think it’s just there to lie and hurt Trump

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        given how much tariffs have permeated the news and people’s bank accounts and retirement accounts I don’t think there’s much avoidance of the topic

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    It’s just another example of their incompetence.

    They ought to be proud of labeling the tariffed products, so that customers could easier choose the domestic brands, which supposedly is the point of having the tariffs in the first place.

    Attempting to hide it only shows that they realize how bad the tariffs really are.

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      Tariffs are advertised as helping domestic companies.

      In actuality, they directly hurt foreign companies and the hope is that the unhurt domestics will then flourish.

      If the tariffs collected were used to simulate domestic companies, this would actually be possibly beneficial to the economy.

      However those tariffs are being pocketed by the rich (through tax cuts and money laundering through contracts and crypto).

      These should not be listed as tariffs costs, they should be listed for what it is: “amount Trump’s administration decided to steal from you based on your spending habits”

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    “Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?” Leavitt asked during a press briefing.

    Because Biden didn’t start a trade war?

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      "See, what you don’t understand, is Biden instituted policies to fund “Social Programs” for “Those People” I don’t know, and don’t care about, and are barely “People.” Parasites.

      He was fucking with my money, which I have more than I can ever spend, BUT IT’S MINE! MY PRECIOUSSSSS…"

      /s

      • When confronted with this nonsense, I had started telling people that Biden had levers on his desk labeled inflation and gas prices. And nobody could get him to stop pulling them. Taking it to the absurd was surprisingly effective.

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        Oh, they understand perfectly. They’re just psychopaths who don’t care, and lie like the rest of us breathe.

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          Maybe a few of them are too stupid to understand, maybe a couple

          How dangerous to believe deeply resourced and corrupt individuals are entirely unaware

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            Exactly.

            99% know exactly what they’re doing, and they’re organized, and loyal.

            Dangerous.

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        25 days ago

        All these Republican banshees understand is bleach their hair, botox their faces, bleat buzzwords and not so slowly turn the US into a turbo capitalistic hellscape

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    Some great timing happened, my Prime membership auto renewal coincided with the inauguration and public display of facism - so I ceased all purchases and didn’t re-up for prime.

    I’m doing my part!

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    “The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson.

    Lmao some poor team gets thrown under the bus

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    Telling people how much the Trump Tax costs them is now considered “hostility”. Got it.