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The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 88 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This doesn't even have to be The Onion, but just straight news. This is exactly how it is going to work.

I saw some of the dipshit commenters on a WSJ article giving examples of things affected and how their prices might change - lots of "Well, I don't need these things, and paying 5 cents more for making brown people suffer is worth it, anyway!"

Yeah, I guess we will see....

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

But the twist is that it still won't be portrayed as Trump's fault. Unfair Canada declares war for no reason or whatever.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Oh, without a doubt. I've already seen some of their ridiculous people try to prep their stupid base with "....but it will be worth it" kind of narratives. I bet you'll hear more than a few of the marks parrot this idiocy.

[-] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I’ve seen a lot of “Canada needs us more than we need them”. Going to be a big wake up call when gas, electricity, cars, groceries, and a dozen other things suddenly jump more than 25% (because we all know the corpos will take the excuse to extract more value).

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