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[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In the US. I hope this hits a lot of business (leopard eating face).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's roughly 10% of our US steel supply (or around 40% of all of our steel imports)....meaning prices are going to start going up. This is going to hurt....

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good for them. As an American I fully support them fighting back against our bullshit

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks. Remember, it's nothing against you, or even against people who were lied to in order to get their vote.

At some point, some random billionaire will become slightly less billionaire-y and freak out about tariffs wrecking their bottom line. Until then, we've all got to grab on to our sanity and hodl like never before.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem is the billionaires are self radicalizing. They're believing the lies they tell the poor, and that's a dangerous feedback loop. Barry Goldwater was what they would've wanted had they been rational actors promoting fascism for their class interests. Even the "smart" ones like thiel are clearly losing it. They too were not immune to propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

and freak out about tariffs wrecking their bottom line.

Nooooooooo. You got it all wrong! (seriously)

The ruling class wants the tariffs because tariffs artificially increase the price of their competitors' products! The entire point is to literally block people from getting a better deal outside of the US, so those same people can get screwed over domestically.

Tariffs are not good for the working class.

They only exist to protect the profits of the rulers.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Things are escalating quickly. Good job, everyone. Maybe it can trigger a coup.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If they hold tight for a while, it's going to be wild... I fear international business lords won't let it happen.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Considering the fact we've been clapping "third world dictators" and installing others purely for profit or wouldn't at all be surprising but you can bet it'll be a weirdly confounding way. Ie. So unbelievably obvious and discrediting and yet so plausible no one can honestly tell if it's fact or bullshit, coincidental or intentional.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rest of the world understands solidarity better than U.S. voters

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It means I should have read the article before I posted that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I actually agree that Americans don’t understand solidarity, because they’re soaked in neoliberal, individualistic ideology. But even if they did understand, they’re so lacking in class consciousness that they wouldn’t know what to rally around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they’re so lacking in class consciousness that they wouldn’t know what to rally around.

If I have to read "it's not left vs right, it's top vs bottom" one more goddamn time

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Andrew has cracked the case… with ᴍᴀᴛʜ. /s

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good. Love to see it.

Starve the beast. Don't pay your taxes either. Go to HR and change your tax withholding to tax exempt.

You'll catch fines eventually. But in the meantime your check will be a little bigger and you'll be denying tax funds to a fascist government.

If we ever get a sane government I'll pay those fines happily.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fines? You'll end up in the Tesla tunnels working until you starve to death

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? Isn't The Boring Company the one that makes tunnels?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Boring Company tunnels just doesn't have the same alliterative ring to it

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Edit: this isn't about the article itself so much as an idea it gave me. Companies are refusing quotes for legal, not political, reasons. But they should be refusing for political reasons, something those of us in the US must start doing ourselves.

I'm obviously not happy it came to this. But, with the US being a genocidal, neofascist oligarchy, it's entirely necessary. This is real, we are the resistance, and we need to start acting like it before we get disappeared. It is absolutely the duty of every country that values equality, liberty, and solidarity to implement a total blockade on the United States and seek maximum sanctions until the genocide in Gaza ends, until threats of US expansionism end, and until the people reject neofascism, whether in the midterms, in a coup, or in a revolution.

For those living in the US and allied countries, it is our moral imperative to sabotage and destroy all machinery in the US that is being used or soon will be used by fascists. Just be careful who you target and be sure you know why you're targeting them. (Vandaling small Black businesses accomplished nothing. Targeting ICE will make you a hero.) Make evidence-based vandalism and sabotage your playbook to buy time for immigrants, trans people, Muslims, and Jews in your community by slowing the machinery of ethnic cleansing before it's too late. (I worry it may already be too late.) See:

Red Flag Alert for Genocide - United States

What the US is doing is based in an ideology of manifest destiny, liebensraum, expansionism, imperialism, and colonialism. See:

United States including Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone according to designs proposed by Donald Trump

P.S. If you do anything, don't tell me. Anyone can be a fed or a militant neofascist infiltrator.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

liebensraum

*Lebensraum. They don't have room for love.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

On the contrary, they'll even dedicate a whole ministry to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They don’t have room for love.

They need lubensraum.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Republicans are good for the economy. /s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Begun, the trade wars have.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“I’m a big boy. I bought Stelco knowing that Stelco is in Canada. And you know what? America first.”

South Park character irl

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah this reads like self soothing. Looking in the mirror in the morning "I am a big boy!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The video on that page is pretty interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“President Trump will do what President Trump wants to do. He has a plan, and I will play accordingly,” Goncalves said. “I’m a big boy. I bought Stelco knowing that Stelco is in Canada. And you know what? America first.” Lourenco Goncalves CEO of Stelco ...purchased last year.