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Donald Trump to slap additional 84% tariffs on Chinese imports, White House says (www.euronews.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The additional levies will mean all goods from China will be subject to a tariff of at least 104%.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have this little unofficial stupidity contest going in my head between U.S. politics and U.K. politics, usually I feel like the U.S. is wayyyy dumber but Brexit put some strong numbers on the board for the U.K.

Not sure how the U.K. is going to come back from this though, basically the U.K. did a giant faceplant onto pavement with Brexit thinking there was no way the U.S. could top that and then the U.S. just says hold my beer and exits the entire global economy in exchange for enshrining the 1% as the lamest gods imaginable within a desperately poor U.S. populace.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Polls are showing that Nigel Farage's far-right Reform party may win a majority government at the next election with as little as 28% of the vote. The UK can still come back and prove itself extremely stupid.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

True, every time I think the U.K. has dealt a decisive blow of self immolation in the struggle to reign supreme in stupidity over the U.S., the U.S. stages a miraculous comeback and jumps into the lead and vice versa, it is like a never ending Dragon Ball Z episode where the characters exclusively punch themselves in the face.

[–] PointyReality@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yeah, the only people winning this are the top 1%. The average Joe American will be suffering a lot. Tbh might do some good as it will wake alot of them up to their decisions regarding voting and hopefully those that have not been paying attention be cause they are too comfortable in their lives.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

So far I’ve just seen them trying to rationalize it and convince themselves it’s fine. They died for Covid, they all seem like lost causes

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah I think people in the U.S. and anyone who is either willingly or unwillingly paying attention to this dumpster fire need to notice the nature of what collapse looks like here. It is the very very very top of a society foreclosing an entire economic opportunity for the other 99% in exchange for having complete dominance of a much smaller, more pathetic pie.

Yes a lot of them are this dumb, and it won't work out for them, but also pay very close attention to the kinds of people who actually do longterm benefit from this. The ineffectual centrism that brought the U.S. to the brink of collapse will respond to this kind of thing with "look how stupid conservatives are!" which yes... conservatives are overwhelmingly either willingly stupid or shockingly hateful or some mixture of the two at least in the U.S.... but this is a distraction.

There is a class of people who benefit from collapse like this, it is a VERY small class that makes the former 1% under a more free and productive society look like a big club, but it is still enough people to destroy an entire nation's future. Take that lesson to heart.