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Instead of trying to exploit loopholes, why not just produce them in the US? It's just cardstock.
There's currently not enough industrial capacity in the US to manufacture card games. Simple as that. Trying to do it would likely end up still being more expensive than the tariffs, and probably delay your product.
It seems very unlikely that no one in the entirety of the US has the capacity to make a card game. Do you have some evidence of this?
https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/552558/tabletop-panic-tariffs-on-china-layoffs-bankruptcy-gama/
This is not a tabletop game, it's a card game.
Card games are classed as tabletop games due to the top of the table being the place where they're played.
You should check the definition of tabletop... Also the link provided refers directly to the card games.
The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.
I don't get it
Well that part was clear.
Ok this Fediverse experiment has been fun but it turns out you guys are assholes just like everywhere else. Byebye now.
People dislike having to educate the same basic lessons over and over again, when it is very easy to search why tariffs are bad. It is not a community where people are going to spoonfeed you information that you didn't even directly ask for.
The simple answer is because we live in a global economy and you can't possible make everything that needs to be made in a single country. The more complex answer can be found by reading articles about it. Take this one, which was the first hit I found on a web search:
Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.
Comment: The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.
Your Reply: I don’t get it (as in, "I don't get the intent... I don't understand why tariffs are bad")
Me: Explaining why tariffs are bad.
Your Reply: Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.
Me: <not sure if stupid, asshole, troll, or all three>
Please, I’m begging you to get just an ounce of reading comprehension.
Please, I'm begging you to just explain what you're trying to say instead of exclusively being a giant fucking asshole for no reason at all. They're the one who read my comments and somehow thought I was in need of an explanation of why tariffs are bad instead of an explanation of the joke.
Well that’s the point, it is not a joke, they want to highlight that tariffs are stupid. That was already the first answer you got.
Then you said you did not understand that, and you didn’t ask for an explanation, so you got a cheeky answer. Then you complained that nobody explained it to you. Now you got another explanation. And as a response you complained about it being not what you asked for.
Now here I am, explaining to you why you got the responses that you got. And let me guess, you will complain about it too.
If someone is an asshole, then they probably are just an asshole. If everyone is an asshole, you should look at the common denominator of all those interactions.
Neither does Trump
Because US produced cardstock sucks ass. Maybe someone will change that in the future; it's more likely than things like die cast sheet metal, which is an industry that has to be rebuilt from almost scratch. The Game Crafter, the most popular board game prototyping service in the US, gets their cardstock from Germany, because they want it to not suck.
They raised money to dig a hole to then fill it in again, for similar reasons.
Touché .
Looks like the trolls are starting to emerge from other platforms.
Yeah they're everywhere today.
I promise I've been here longer than you.
Well then. Looks like this troll is embedded. I'm sure that account has been here longer than my current account. Congrats. You win the internet prize for useless metrics.
LOL the useless metrics that you brought up? Ok. Bye bye now.
This you?
You killed him man
Because its a meme
What? Which meme?
They’re just using the law to their advantage. They’re good businessmen.
Is this wit or a genuine request that one of us explainsthejoke.com?
Please?