It's been one year since the illegal Trump tariffs were put in place. Almost everything you buy is more expensive now. There are less manufacturing jobs in the US now than there were a year ago. There are less factories in the US now. You didn't get a Tariff rebate check. Other countries have started making trade deals between each other and avoiding US goods.
Feeling liberated yet?
27 Comments
mastertigurius@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 148d
Most of Europe is working hard to have as little to do as possible with the US going forward. It's like an embarrassing cousin who can't stop causing drama at family gatherings.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 148d
Even here in the UK who shot ourselves in the foot by voting to leave the EU with the hope of closer ties to the US has pretty universally seen the benefits of closer ties with Europe.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 148d
The UK is like Europe's super-depressed brother who said he's leaving and never coming back. We still love you, and the door will always be open if you want to come home.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 148d
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 148d
Apparently, many US people have been liberated from the shackles of their jobs.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 147d
Dat's me! Been liberated for the past year and I've never felt more hopeless!
Seriously though, been keeping myself busy with archiving documents my deceased parents had, and renovating my house. Playing video games and watching movies and anime helps with escapism.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 147d
Have you tried the videogame version of meth known are Rimworld? Might I suggest you do if you haven't?
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d
I just checked out the gameplay trailer. I can't say if I'm much of a management/sim kind of gamer, though I did enjoy what I've played of Stardew Valley and Core Keeper.
I'm more of a mapformer (Metroidvania), platformer, arcade beat-em-up, monster tamer, collectathon, visual novel, RPG, puzzle kind of gamer
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 147d
Which animes are you watching as of now?
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Jujutsu Kaisen: The Culling Game (just finished)
Digimon Beatbreak
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 148d
I think we all know what would liberate us from this shithole timeline.
C'mon clogged arteries! Go blod clot! Do your thing, heart attack! You are so close stroke!
i078@europe.pub · 23 pts · 148d
If this was the first time the US voted for him maybe, but this is a systemic problem not just Trump. We see that now.
DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
Killing in the name of god and self-gain is the systemic problem. the worst of our humanity is being exploited while our greatest potential is being suppressed. The world has let Palestine be slaughtered and Iran is just next. I keep hearing Trump has 'no exit strategy', when actually it's pretty simple: just leave and say sorry. But no, he cares for wealth more than he cares for the lives of disposable children, and he'll bomb anything that makes him richer.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 148d
As if whoever replaces him wouldn't be any less damaging for the world.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 147d
He has liberated us from our somewhat functional economy.
fisch@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 147d
Shitting on your allies, then asking them for help in the war you recklessly started. Exactly my kind of humor.
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 147d
I've never felt freeisher.
VinegarChunks@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 147d
The wildest and most frustrating thing is that absolutely no one (besides OP) is talking about this. The tariffs did not increase domestic manufacturing. They did not work. Yet that is among the least of concerns for the President or any national discourse.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
There was an easy way to know these tariffs weren't going to increase domestic manufacturing. These tariffs had no exceptions for manufacturing equipment. We can't make the things that make things anymore. It all comes from other countries. When there was no exception to get around that problem there was no way companies were going to invest in a 5 year plan to make a factory that cost more than it should.
Arancello@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 148d
unfortunately for the non political in murica, there is no end in sight for your misery. Directly or indirectly you voted for this. Every country around the world is doing their best efforts to reduce and eliminate your involvement and influence in their country. its likely that you will not be allowed to even set foot anywhere soon. But for those of us in other countries we will applaud your descent into poverty because you have gladly inflicted it on multiple other countries. GOOD TO RIDDENCE muricans.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 147d
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 148d
Trust the plan.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 148d
That would require the plan to be consistent and not always change.
FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 148d
May the Great Divestment from the Dis-United States Located In North America (DUSLINA) continue.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 148d
I've been calling it the United Mistakes of America since the Reagan era. It's never been more apt.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 147d
Gaddam he looks especially orange in this one. Actually terrifying to look at for more than 1 second. WTF.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 147d
This is apparently America Great Again. I'm failing to see how exactly, but I'm sure someone wiser than me can elucidate.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d
We checked with all the wiser people. They all said to ask someone wiser than them. We ran out of people before finding one that could eludicate.