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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada (thebeaverton.com)
submitted 5 months ago by GrymEdm@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social
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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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[-] Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 73 points 5 months ago

Those who voted certainly did. Those who chose to not vote did also. I don't live in America but it was incredibly obvious this was coming. America chose to be represented by by this guy who said quite clearly what he was going to do.

[-] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago

Wait, I voted for Harris, but I chose this?

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee -4 points 5 months ago

Apparently we all did. Outside of individually storming the white house and getting shot in the process, turns out all of us might as well have been sitting on our thumbs. I mean really,how exactly were we supposed to counter some of the absolute dumbest people on the planet that might as well have marked a ballot with a crayon?

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

americans, as a whole group, did choose this… you specifically might not have and i applaud you for that decision

however the country that you live in DID choose this, and it wasn’t even like he lost the popular vote this time

americans chose this

and everyone globally has to live with it

and everyone globally will choose how to insulate ourselves from it - once is a joke; twice means it’s really what your country as a whole chooses with eyes wide open. this wasn’t a fluke: this is america

and then, i guess we will see what happens, but im going to be cheering on the australian government every time they pull away from the US from now on. i’m going to be cancelling US subscriptions and buying non-US product alternatives. i’m going to be pirating all US media

[-] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why would you still consume US media? It's a US made product?

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone -1 points 5 months ago

sure - there’s plenty of US-made things i enjoy… americans are some creative people. i’m not going to stop enjoying them as long as it doesn’t contribute to their economy

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