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    15 hours ago

    Don’t worry, everyone. He and Elon have made a real killing off all of this. They’re richer than ever!

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    You don’t need the arrow. Rocket launchers damaging things both ways from the propellant blast and the analogy works even better.

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      After observing what effect the back blast had on his target: “A dud launcher. See? Swedes don’t know how to make a rocket.”

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      I agree, and I thought the same thing. I wonder if the artist knew this too, because it seems like a better version of it, but I think most people don’t know that rocket launchers have backblast, so maybe it’s not as good for sending the message to average people.

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    Shitty comic.

    Not because of what it’s trying to say, but how it shows it.

    This mischaracterizes the intent behind the tariffs, as if they were “accidentally” hitting consumers and that wasn’t the whole, entire, point.

    • He’s literally following Hitler’s playbook. Which even if you liked Hitler should be apparent that it’s stupid because Hitler fucking lost. Why would you do exactly what a fucking loser would do expecting not to also lose?

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    It’s missing the vast majority of congress cheering him on, but otherwise seems accurate enough.

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    If only rocket launchers had a more diegetic way to indicate where the rocket comes out.

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    ngl I think if the tarrifs were implemented slowly and over time on specific goods, that wouldnt be that bad for the country and the world, but thats not whats happened at all. It like a few of trumps policies, the idea isnt necessarily that bad, but the execution is terrible

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        Tariffs are important to emerging markets as they allow for growth of domestic production. Generally they are a part of a phased liberalization strategy to promote local growth and then tariffs are eased to allow foreign corporations to enter the market so that there is adequate competition.

        Not much of a precedent for the richest country on earth to use them. America lost quite a bit of manufacturing to China so some degree of protectionism directed that way could be a reasonable strategy but a global tariff instituted by a wealthy nation is essentially pants on head stupid, which is what I believe you’re pointing out.

        America’s problems are largely internal inequality. Trying to punish the world won’t fix that.

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          In theory they can be good for emerging domestic markets, but ever since global trade has been established centuries ago, it has never actually resulting in a net gain for the country/region/kingdom/empire that imposes any sort of self-paying tax on imported goods.

          The self-paying tax part is the important part here.

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            Agree that it doesn’t exactly cause a net gain in these markets since it can be so hard to know when to let your foot off the brake but it certainly has been a tool for protecting certain markets from Western hegemony, which would be modern day colonialism by some standards.

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        Ad Hom by telling someone they’re mentally ill in a shitty passive aggressive way is not in any way an argument.

        You’re really telling on yourself being American.

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          Well duh. Since this isn’t debate club, I wasn’t trying to debate and can’t be fucked about logical fallacies.

          They were being childish so I was childish. Wasn’t hiding being American.

          But hey, defend the braindead take above.

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      Hell yeah bro lol, just like those stupid people in Venezuela and Bolivia and El Salvador who got what they paid for, fuck 'em all to death

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        Last I checked the USA had deployed an iron fist to those countries multiple times over.

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        Well, 75 million American adults didn’t deserve this, plus all the minors. Everyone else is either guilty or massively complicit.

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          Only time I’m proud to be a member of “millions of Americans” is in the context of voting against this hellscape the rest wanted and seem happy with.

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          Last I checked in the US the children pledge allegiance to the flag. Which means they’re confirmed to be involved even in a small way.

          It’s only USA logic applied back to itself.

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            Yeah fuck those kids for getting indoctrinated, they should die tbh

            You absolute psychopath

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              This is USA logic and how they treated the Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghans and more. I don’t understand how your own logic is upsetting you.

              You know I’m pretty sure something like that was said by US officials about the kids in Gaza. It’s literally your own logic.

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                Americans, like every demographic, are not a monolith. This is not my own logic.

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                  They sure treat everyone else as a monolith. It’s just their own logic applied back to them dude.

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          195 million or so of you do deserve it as that’s the approximate number of adults in your country.

          Edit sorry the 195 is the approximate amount of adult who didn’t vote Harris.

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              Sorry I did the calculations but didn’t type it correctly. 195 is the approx amount of adults once you take away the 74 or so million who voted Harris.

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                  God I wish I had this simplistic a view of the world. It seems so easy to form opinions when you’re incredibly fucking stupid

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            Oh, I don’t live in the US. But yeah, every eligible voter, minus those who actively voted against it.

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      Absolutely. Every single American has sat back and watched their entire lives as their country and corporations raped and pillaged them and the entire world. Fuck your egg prices, fuck your slavery constitution, fuck your 401K and FUCK YOU AMERICA.

      Americans deserve every pain imaginable.

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        They are people from the US. Americans are people from the continent of America.