Tariffs hit small importers harder. It is a great way to remove competition.

AGHHHH

Aaahh, the average reaction when you wake up and look at the first news headlines in the 2020's

Man, this decade sucks

Leyen wird das schon verkacken, mach dir da keine sorgen

Nie martw się, i tak mamy go w dupie

They just declared the new tariffs illegal https://lemmy.ca/post/64519783

But Leyen likes to sign shit

Tarrifs are paid for by the importer, so there isn't anything to do anyway. But what does then happen is consumers in the US will be conscious of the tarrifs and select cheaper products from non-tarrif'd countries. So there is an effect to be had on the EU whether they do anything or not.

That sounds delicious

Because if we stop working, we die.

Same reason Russia doesn't. Because it's real big...And the cops will kill you.

It's deadly to get organized right now, so even getting a million people together would likely be met with rico prosecutions for sharing lunch with someone who passed out fliers. There is no freedom to organize even nonviolent opposition to the administration. The state has so many ways to relieve pressure that it'd take mass starvation and unemployment for people to do anything.

The billionaires have completely captured almost the entire opposition party, freezing out anyone who actually opposes their interests. There are no more democratic mechanisms for significant change, and most of us don't accept that reality. So many people still think that what they've been taught to do to impact change will work, but our votes are only acceptable if the candidate is oligarch approved. Even the people who actually stand against them are only allowed to convince people that there is still a chance.

So you ask how we can let this go on? It's because we'd need to embrace violence to change things, and most believe nonstate violence is wrong no matter how fascist the state.