• Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Say bye bye to Nintendo switch 2 pre-order. I wonder what the gamers will do? This is gonna end very bad!

    • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s mainly Vietnam tariffs that will hit the Switch 2 (Nintendo moved manufacturing their to minimise tariffs in the first place). But they are harsh enough in their own right.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      they’re already screaming for 400% tariffs on china because republicans don’t give a fuck about the american people and the hurt they cause.

  • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    About time for republicans to start voting with their wallets. In what universe does Trump think he can win waging trade war against the whole world? Plus the US economy is mostly driven by their service sector, so I think it is about time for the rest of the world to start tariffing their services and see how their economy collapses.

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What? I had a nap and Trump decided he liked tariffs and all but that he wasn’t tariffing hard enough so now he’s gonna double the price of all Chinese goods. Oh lawd. Guess I’m waiting a few years to build my next PC.

    • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      No way. You’ll totally be able to afford to get one tariff free from those new factories that are absolutely bigly being built right now in the great state of America.

      Everything should be up and running in a week or so. They just fast tracked all the tool and die makers needed to help develop the machines needed to build your next generation silicon and mother boards, and those ram chip thingies. To avoid all the tariffs from China they’re mining rare earth on mars and conveyor belted back on to America in the frunk of the swastitrucks.

      It’s everything computer.

      Believe in Trump, he believes in you. Or not.

      Most likely not. He doesn’t care about you. He only cares about charging the government insane amounts to his golf course so he can golf while messing up his presidential diapers and getting rich off your tax dollars while wearing pants pulled up to his orange cheetos nip nips.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know if americans themselves realise that their whole life revoles about shit they buy from china. But they will soon. When the garbage from temu is suddenly expensive garbage.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m expert level at reusing, recycling, repurposing. I could take someone on a 2-hour tour of my house or camp, either one, two hours without repeating myself, and show them all the shit I didn’t buy new.

        Some y’all about the learn how to scavenge. Or not.

        BuT VidEo gAmE prIceS!!

        While you’re at it, you’ll learn a whole new diet called, “Grow Your Own Calories.”

        “But I can’t do that in my dense city center!”

        I know. One of a hundred reasons I refused to live like that.

        And fuck me. Tomorrow is my last day off for a minute and I gotta build and farm. FML.

    • Sarie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      At this point I don’t think the Chinese need to retaliate. They could just say that they will and just wait for the US to put another bullet in their foot.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They’ll throw in a little Taiwan invasion for shits and giggles and fuck us on semiconductors too. And they’ll succeed, because Trump won’t lift a finger to defend Taiwan

      • baltakatei@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        At some point, prolonged US tariffs against Taiwan make rule by China and expulsion of US military assets there politically acceptable. Same argument applies to Japan and the Philippines.

      • madame_gaymes@programming.devdeleted by creatorEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Crazy, right? I mean, Xi is a massive piece of shit, but at least he has the ability to think and consider before acting.

        • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          One of the vanishingly few benefits of not being a democracy, is that the people just can’t just vote in an idiot. Of course, there are other avenues for an idiot to take over an authoritarian government (historically, usually by war or inheritance).

      • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I read today that one of his secretaries said that China had miscalculated, because China exports roughly four times as much to the U.S. as the U.S. imports to China, and he said that that makes the U.S. a lot stronger than China, that it would give the U.S. a better bargaining position.

        That’s like a wealthy family in a small town saying they can outlast the grocery store if the grocery store decides to stop selling food to you.

        I mean, good luck with that…

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The 4% is what really sends me. I understand it’s just coming from their new nonsensical 34% tariffs but just…you’re already doubling the cost wtf is the point of the extra 4%? Just go for a flashy round 100%, they can’t even be evil right!

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Nah, he’s run out of feet to shoot - next shot is aimed for the groin.

      I do wish we could fast forward to the part where he Hitlers himself in a bunker.