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[–] 82 points 2 years ago (12 children)

A poster in Twitter called this ideology "Treatlerism" which i think it gets the point across, they care not from whence the treats flow, only that it flows

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Wait, the treat meme gets used outside of Hexbear?

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    It originates with chapo trap house podcast iirc

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Really hoping that trump actually goes ahead with his stupid plan to destroy the entire american economy

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Intensely funny that Trump won because of rising prices, and his plan is to do the exact same thing, but on purpose and even worse.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    plushies

    amazing merch

    my sides

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago*

    Won't somebody think of the drop shippers?!?! boohoo

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago

    critical support. it's funkover

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How can I show my support to my favorite franchise if I have to pay $10 more for a pile of plastic?

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago

    First they came for the branded swag but I said nothing

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago

    Trump will tariff away funko pops

    heartbreaking I hate it when broken clocks are based

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago

    say goodbye to plushies

    ok

    Death to America

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Wouldn't this massively increase the value of people's collections? Trump might pick up liberal supporters because of this lol

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    We will likely see the cost of goods from China go up generally speaking because of rising labor costs in China. Additional tariffs will only be half the story for why everything will get more expensive in the next 4+ years.

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  • [+] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    MFW people who argue that we should not raise the minimum wage or else consumer prices will go up ironically argue for the Labor Theory of Value.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    Capitalist mystics, aka libertarians, will often argue that there is no discernable basis for price. It's just whatever a seller and purchaser agree it will be. There's nothing else to know and no need to consider how or why prices tend towards a predictable level. Where do wages and profit come from and why some people get more than others? That's just personal morality reflected as value. Value is absolutely not the product of work.

    They'll still also argue that increases in minimum wage necessarily result in corresponding price increases, completely forgetting that profits even exist. They'll also tell you that you don't understand basic economic ideas.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    indie artists

    600% profit

    I don't believe this is true.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You could just look up how cheap you can order shit like that on Alibaba and know for a fact that it's true but whatever.

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  • i think the part he doubts is that they're indie artists

    you can order shit that's already made on alibaba for cheap but if you want the factory to make your design, there is overhead, and actual indie artists usually cannot afford that / can barely profit

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I think there will be some serious import undervaluation if such tarrifs were implemented.

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Oh yeah, this crate of plushy animals totally cost 30 bucks quokka-wink

    china export will collapse (on paper)

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yea that's the problem with trade controls without capital controls. You can still pay China pretty easily.

    I guess Trump could expand the bureaucracy to catch mismatch between foreign currency transfers and trade but that will be "expensive" in that Government spending will go up.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    you don't have to do any fraud. Tariffs don't harm the exporter and if it is still cheaper to import with the tariff than to produce domestically the company can pass the full cost of the tariff on to the customer, or even additional to obscure the actual cost now that they have cover.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 years ago*

    I mean if demand is high enough one might make offshore companies to process payments in untraceable manner for 5 % (at least that's around legal rate i believe). I just pay shp2usa, they pay someone else, they convert money to euros and pay in singapore, and my stuff arrives with printed price 0.3 $ per pound, customs are a joke due to speed of process

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Yesterday, I was an "eccentric" for hording and repairing laptops instead of just buying New Chip every year. But when an i3 shitbox costs you $1000 dollars, who will be laughing then? WHO WILL BE LAUGHING THEN?!

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Fun-KOPE COPS

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    Imagine going to a convention and not being given post it note pads too small to write on and shirts that fall apart the first time you wash them. That’s Trumps America.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And nothing of value was lost

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago
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