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I swear to sweet little 9lb 5 ounce Baby Jesus...

I have zero idea why China hasn't slapped a 1,000% tarrif on any MAGA goods or anything that supports American conservative movements.

China makes all that shit, it's a no brainer

But it's more than just that. The factories will never be built if industry leaders aren't sure the situation is stable.

No one will invest a billion dollars building factories and setting up supply lines if the tariffs could go away tomorrow. They would lose their investment. The only way they would commit all that money is if they know the tariffs are here to stay.

And if there's one thing we know about Donny it's that he's a fucking idiot. And it's there's two things we know about him it's that he's inconsistent and will bow to flattery. Only his most stubborn followers believe he'll actually stick to things as they are right now, meaning the desire to invest locally will never materialize.

Trump's stated reason for the tariffs (bringing industry back to the US) will never happen under his leadership. The only thing this will cause is pain and poverty for the American people.

Edit: And to prove this, mere hours after typing it the tariffs have been 'paused' for another 90 days. There's no stability. No one would invest that kind of money into building factories in the US only for this to happen... again.

Which is why, generally, taxing wealth and having the state invest it in supportive infrastructure and subsidising is the preferred option for developed economies that want manufacturing (back).

Sweeping, protectionist tariffs are usually a painful measure of necessity, if you have an economy without any developed industrial or service sectors, where initial investments are basically impossible due there being no taxable wealth and no market incentives, because of global players always being more profitable and cheaper, than any beginning industry that has to go through growth processes and learning experiences. (More selective tariffs or outright import/export bans of course also have their place for a multitude of political reasons, e.g. the EU not wanting a lot of artificially cheap and lower-health-standards US meat)

Playing the long game bro. Things gonna be so dope in the US in 50 years. We will be an isolated Arian labor economy breathing in pure sulfur and working in factories to produce goods for oligarchs on their yachts.

I work in a factory in the US, and the vast majority of my coworkers at least don't appear overweight. Granted, a pretty big percentage of them are immigrants, so maybe that skews the numbers compared to the general population.

It's not quite to this level, but yeah. Being a sedentary worker like this makes it easier to become overweight or obese. It's not just America, though, I've seen it in Mexico too, and I have no reason to believe Canada would be any different.

The 2nd half of the article also mentions an AI generated song released by China's state run media.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04-03/-Liberation-Day-or-a-price-to-pay--1CgrB0bz7by/index.html

YT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn5RamAEt3E

Your video is from a russian propagandist (I am assuming you didn't mean to link her).

The way capitalism works, the manufacturing won't return until the conditions are so monstrously cost-saving as to be as bad as China's.

The conditions will worsen until manufacturing returns.

I think people in China might have this attitude because to them, it usually is unsafe, miserable, and underpaid. There is no proper unionization in China, and no OSHA, so it's always bad.

Do you really think Trump won't be shipping union organizers off to CECOT? "Next they came for the trade unionists," after all.