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[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

this looks truthy

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 3 hours ago

I posted a meme last week before the election about a lot of my fellow Americans being depressingly ignorant and a bunch of people got pissed off about it.

I'm just saying...

[-] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, a lot has been said about why the 'Democrats' failed; sure they were/are imperfect.

Where are the articles bemoaning our stupid and/or mean citizens who have no curiosity and think being obstinate will work like a time machine? I'm frustrated to hell with apathy of my countrymen.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago

Their ignorance is equally as valuable as your knowledge. To them, anyway.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Both sides-ism in a nutshell. Nailed it.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Just read estimates his tariffs would cost the average household 7600 annually. I told my folks and they didn't understand why I thought it was funny. I told them they wanted this.

[-] pinkystew@reddthat.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Does Trump not know what a tariff is? Or does he know, and he is deliberately misleading his followers?

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 45 points 4 hours ago

Maybe it's because I took economics as far back as high school, but even just from reading high school history books I knew what a Tariff was. How the FUCK did they not know that?

I am also willing to bet that they will eventually blame the democrats for breaking the system, as they always do.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

One thing that fascinates me is that Trump's definition of tariffs seems more like the definition of kickbacks.

As he was (is?) a landlord, he may also think of it as seeking rent, like how malls get rent from the stores inside.

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

As a foreign asset, I think Trump is just actively performing a proxy war to drain the US of money, power, and resources for Russia. If you think he's going to be doing anything else - lol.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It can be both. Lying is more convincing when it's felt as truth by the liar.

[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 hours ago

There’s a fair portion of people 21+ that have difficulty playing blackjack because they can’t add to 21. I got asked by a grown man last night what 9+1+3 is.

You’d be surprised how incompetent some people are.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 points 2 hours ago

I worked in customer service for 7 years. I am aware... so very aware...

To give you an idea, when I worked for Verizon mobile, it was a few times a week that I came across a client who did not know how to hang up their cellphone calls. No joke. It took such a while to get them off the hook it wasn't funny. And if you ask me why I wouldn't hang up on them, it was because Verizon had a strict no hang-up policy. You were not allowed to hang up on a client no matter what. It was grounds for immediate termination.

[-] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I'm honestly elated, let the leopards feast

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Hope you don't get bit too.

[-] b34k@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Oh, we’re all gonna get bit.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 31 points 4 hours ago

Some companies have already said they're going to pass the extra cost onto consumers, so while the companies will pay more, they'll make a lot of that back from the consumers that can still afford the products.

Electronics will probably be the hardest hit, with prices of cell phones, laptops, and game consoles increasing quite a bit.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 hours ago

Low inflation statistics have been helped significantly by cheaper electronics. So everybody who voted Trump to lower inflation is in for a surprise.

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago

especially seeing how trump intends to treat Taiwan, home to TSMC

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Medical devices too.

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

They'll find a way to blame everyone else when all the Chineseium junk on amazon suddenly isn't so cheap.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago

Good thing I got a new computer now. They'll just blame democrats (who do have a lot to blame for not countering the bullshit of the Republicans over the past 45 years) for it and insist that the tariffs would have brought prices down if they were done without democratic interference...

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Sometimes in order to learn something is bad you need to experience it.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 38 points 5 hours ago

This tells me the information pipe to voters is broken, and hacked.

People live in their own social media realities. There has always been ignorance, but it's never been so widely personalized. And Trump and the GoP played it like a fiddle.

And just watch, the Dems are going to learn precisely nothing from this and campaign like it's the 1950s again, thinking policy was their problem.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 16 points 4 hours ago

The sheer stupidity of the dems is kinda astonishing. The reason why Obama won is because he had a goddamn narrative. Yes we can! Change you can believe in! It's almost like they were onto something... then they did nothing.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Dems learned nothing and are all out of ideas!

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It’s like Brexit, but in America.

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago

It's sad to see that the people that do the most honest work are always being played by people doing the most dishonest one.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

We could be getting played by some random person on tiktok showing an unsubstantiated claim from another random person.

I'm not saying it's definitely fake but don't just blindly believe this when spreading stories without evidence is the EXACT sort of shit dishonest people do. They're eating the dogs, etc.

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