@Lydie@tech.lgbtThe US admin thinks the tariffs will force jobs back into the US. What is actually happening is that suppliers in the currently targeted countries are moving manufacturing......to other countries, not the US. #tariffs
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@cowman@nfld.me@Lydie Ya exactly. Meanwhile, targeted countries are responding both in kind (policy actions) and culturally (consumer actions), risking falling US exports while the world 'routes around the problem'.
@Lydie Tariffs were one of the major drivers of the great depression. A tariff is valid when a country is targeting the US for dumping products or otherwise unfairly gaming the system. Not willy-nilly as the felon is using them.
@Lydie the admin knows it won't being jobs to the US. The current administration is focused on breaking the middle class so that we're too weak and tired to fight back in 2028 when the orange man cancels national elections. He's been laying his plan out for years. Destroy the economy so the wealthy can buy the dip while the rest of us are forced into neo-fuedalism.
@Lydie@bebadefabo I agree with that synopsis. On the flip side, these people are morons and will probably fuck up their master plan in the end anyway. It's just going to be a really shitty few years
@Lydie They haven't accounted for how ready folks are for a real change. Boomer liberalism is dying and in it's place is a more radical resistance. They have not recalibrated for the age of Luigi. We know that peaceful protest gets us no where. It's fine for showing solidarity, it's great for organizing a larger movement. But the work that needs to be done requires getting our hands dirty. Very dirty. The current movement seems to understand this in ways the Boomer lead protests never did
@Lydie@bebadefabo time for Stonewall everywhere.
@Lydie it's coming. Wait to the weather warms up. The amount of winter momentum built up behind this movement is huge. It's gonna pop off once people get the itch to be outside.