Explain to me why I shouldn't be mad about Trump making my video games and computers stupidly more expensive for no reason
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>>387127
Dumbass, your favorite Jap corporation is the one doing it, not Trump.
>But muh tarriffs!
Are on pause. Only a 10% tariff is active right now, and in maybe less than one week's time even that might be eliminated when the negotiations are over, and a new trade deal is in effect.
Buy on Steam. There's no tariff for games on Steam as they are "services" that are not subject to it. Even foreign games that would otherwise be subject. Paradox is the superior game company. Play Paradox games on PC.
Dumbass, your favorite Jap corporation is the one doing it, not Trump.
>But muh tarriffs!
Are on pause. Only a 10% tariff is active right now, and in maybe less than one week's time even that might be eliminated when the negotiations are over, and a new trade deal is in effect.
Buy on Steam. There's no tariff for games on Steam as they are "services" that are not subject to it. Even foreign games that would otherwise be subject. Paradox is the superior game company. Play Paradox games on PC.
>>387130
>but muh tariffs
yes, muh tarrifs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_mSOS1Qts
multiple people in the industry all saying the insane instability of the tarrifs is making everything a nightmare
>but muh tariffs
yes, muh tarrifs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_mSOS1Qts
multiple people in the industry all saying the insane instability of the tarrifs is making everything a nightmare
>>387132
GOOD. Fuck these suits. They made even more money while the middle class gets screwed harder. They are having to assess their geopolitical strength of their supply chains. Business leaders are required to start developing American industry or get disgraced and fired. Fuck them.
One guy in that video talks about how China has factories that have been established for decades. The capacitor factory is a block from the MOSFET factory, which is a block from the motherboard factory.
It makes me wonder if America's urban ghettos were really industrial centers? Now they aren't because elites sold it overseas. It's all empty!
GOOD. Fuck these suits. They made even more money while the middle class gets screwed harder. They are having to assess their geopolitical strength of their supply chains. Business leaders are required to start developing American industry or get disgraced and fired. Fuck them.
One guy in that video talks about how China has factories that have been established for decades. The capacitor factory is a block from the MOSFET factory, which is a block from the motherboard factory.
It makes me wonder if America's urban ghettos were really industrial centers? Now they aren't because elites sold it overseas. It's all empty!
>>387137
but the point is that establishing that industry is effectively impossible now
tariffs do nothing but bend the consumer over and gangrape them for no reason other than kike bullshit
but the point is that establishing that industry is effectively impossible now
tariffs do nothing but bend the consumer over and gangrape them for no reason other than kike bullshit
>>387141
>but the point is that establishing that industry is effectively impossible now
Why? You think we can't build factories? Or reopen and retool old ones?
>for no reason other than kike bullshit
How is encouraging working class jobs rather than relying on international finance to pay for everything "kike" bullshit? Do you really believe that the economic system established in 1970 after Breton Woods is less kiked than the economic system of the late 1800s?
>>387132
These assholes look for any excuse to up charge you. Buy vintage video games and you sidestep tariffs, corporate bullshit, wokeness, and everything. And you'll get a better game, too.
>>387135
To play. Ever played Hearts of Iron 4 on steam from paradox interactive? Or any other game by the same studio?
>but the point is that establishing that industry is effectively impossible now
Why? You think we can't build factories? Or reopen and retool old ones?
>for no reason other than kike bullshit
How is encouraging working class jobs rather than relying on international finance to pay for everything "kike" bullshit? Do you really believe that the economic system established in 1970 after Breton Woods is less kiked than the economic system of the late 1800s?
>>387132
These assholes look for any excuse to up charge you. Buy vintage video games and you sidestep tariffs, corporate bullshit, wokeness, and everything. And you'll get a better game, too.
>>387135
To play. Ever played Hearts of Iron 4 on steam from paradox interactive? Or any other game by the same studio?
>>387141
>but the point is that establishing that industry is effectively impossible now
Let's say that 90% of the cost to make a chip is capital: factory + machines
That means that 10% is labor cost. So even if labour is 3 times as much compared to gookslavery, it would still be within competition especially if you consider tariff and shipping costs. I think trump is an orange nigger but he's wise to return manufacturing back to the US
>but the point is that establishing that industry is effectively impossible now
Let's say that 90% of the cost to make a chip is capital: factory + machines
That means that 10% is labor cost. So even if labour is 3 times as much compared to gookslavery, it would still be within competition especially if you consider tariff and shipping costs. I think trump is an orange nigger but he's wise to return manufacturing back to the US
>>387158
I always wondered this. If the US has the 90% of goodies in the world, why did they never tried to make those goodies themselves? Everything is "made in China", even before this era of "spook the gook".
I mean, it sounds reasonable.
I always wondered this. If the US has the 90% of goodies in the world, why did they never tried to make those goodies themselves? Everything is "made in China", even before this era of "spook the gook".
I mean, it sounds reasonable.
1. Learn to DL and seed
2. Play good games, not modern slop
2. Play good games, not modern slop
>>387161
>why did they never tried to make those goodies themselves? Everything is "made in China"
Listen up kid:
🚨🚨 HOW THE US BECAME A CHINESE COLONY (AND WHY THE FED LOVES IT) 🚨🚨
> be USA
> post-WW2 absolute GIGACHAD
> factories pumping out REAL SHIT (cars, steel, TVs, you name it)
> middle class so jacked they could afford a house, 2 cars, and 5 kids on a single income
> wages go up, regulations pile on, (((environmentalists))) start screeching
> corpo brainrot set in: realize they can make the same slop in China for the cost of bowl of rice
> BOOM, offshoring wave begins
> not just cheap toys—EVERYTHING. MICROCHIPS. STEEL. FUCKING MATTRESSES
ENTER THE FED
> muh "free market" my ass
> Fed starts printing monopoly money like it's Weimar Germany 2.0
> artificially low rates let Wall Street loot Main Street
> why build factories when you can flip houses and buy back stocks?
> real wages flatline but GDP goes brrr (THANKS TO FAKE SERVICE ECONOMY)
> now the US "produces" ESG reports and diversity trainings instead of ACTUAL GOODS
THE SLAVE LOOP
> China makes everything
> USA pays with IOUs (T-bonds)
> Fed buys the debt to keep the scam going
> Americans drown in credit card debt buying Chinese crap
> wagecucks cope with "gig economy" (uber driving for $3/hr after gas)
> muh "strong dollar" just means we import inflation from Xi’s sweatshops
WHY NOBODY FIX IT?
> Politicians are owned by corporate donors
> Fed is a banking cartel that WANTS you poor and dependent
> Normies too busy fighting culture wars to notice their wallet’s empty
> Manufacturing? LOL, we "innovate" now (aka rent-seeking apps and CBDCs)
HOW THIS ENDS
Option 1: Keep printing → hyperinflation → Weimar but with TikTok
Option 2: Default → dollar collapses → Kissinger's wet dream: “The center of gravity of international affairs is importantly shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.”
Option 3: GREAT NATIONALIST RESET (tariffs, DOGE, bulldoze the Fed)
COPE HARDER, AVERAGE REDDITOR
> "But muh comparative advantage!"
Yeah, our advantage is now being debt serfs to Beijing.
> "But automation!"
Robots in China, not Ohio.
> "But GDP growth!"
GDP includes your OnlyFans and CBDC pilot programs. NOT REAL WEALTH.
🚨🚨 BOTTOM LINE 🚨🚨
The Fed turned America into a glorified hedge fund. Time to STOP CONSOOMING, START MAKING before Xi repo’s your house. Topkek
>why did they never tried to make those goodies themselves? Everything is "made in China"
Listen up kid:
🚨🚨 HOW THE US BECAME A CHINESE COLONY (AND WHY THE FED LOVES IT) 🚨🚨
> be USA
> post-WW2 absolute GIGACHAD
> factories pumping out REAL SHIT (cars, steel, TVs, you name it)
> middle class so jacked they could afford a house, 2 cars, and 5 kids on a single income
> wages go up, regulations pile on, (((environmentalists))) start screeching
> corpo brainrot set in: realize they can make the same slop in China for the cost of bowl of rice
> BOOM, offshoring wave begins
> not just cheap toys—EVERYTHING. MICROCHIPS. STEEL. FUCKING MATTRESSES
ENTER THE FED
> muh "free market" my ass
> Fed starts printing monopoly money like it's Weimar Germany 2.0
> artificially low rates let Wall Street loot Main Street
> why build factories when you can flip houses and buy back stocks?
> real wages flatline but GDP goes brrr (THANKS TO FAKE SERVICE ECONOMY)
> now the US "produces" ESG reports and diversity trainings instead of ACTUAL GOODS
THE SLAVE LOOP
> China makes everything
> USA pays with IOUs (T-bonds)
> Fed buys the debt to keep the scam going
> Americans drown in credit card debt buying Chinese crap
> wagecucks cope with "gig economy" (uber driving for $3/hr after gas)
> muh "strong dollar" just means we import inflation from Xi’s sweatshops
WHY NOBODY FIX IT?
> Politicians are owned by corporate donors
> Fed is a banking cartel that WANTS you poor and dependent
> Normies too busy fighting culture wars to notice their wallet’s empty
> Manufacturing? LOL, we "innovate" now (aka rent-seeking apps and CBDCs)
HOW THIS ENDS
Option 1: Keep printing → hyperinflation → Weimar but with TikTok
Option 2: Default → dollar collapses → Kissinger's wet dream: “The center of gravity of international affairs is importantly shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.”
Option 3: GREAT NATIONALIST RESET (tariffs, DOGE, bulldoze the Fed)
COPE HARDER, AVERAGE REDDITOR
> "But muh comparative advantage!"
Yeah, our advantage is now being debt serfs to Beijing.
> "But automation!"
Robots in China, not Ohio.
> "But GDP growth!"
GDP includes your OnlyFans and CBDC pilot programs. NOT REAL WEALTH.
🚨🚨 BOTTOM LINE 🚨🚨
The Fed turned America into a glorified hedge fund. Time to STOP CONSOOMING, START MAKING before Xi repo’s your house. Topkek
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FUCK ORANGE RETARD
>>387130
>Are on pause. Only a 10% tariff is active right now,
So there are still tariffs. Nigger do you you read what you're writing before you post?
>Are on pause. Only a 10% tariff is active right now,
So there are still tariffs. Nigger do you you read what you're writing before you post?
>>387238
This lol
>increase taxes on physical goods (tariffs)
>decrease taxes on Uber rich tech companies
This lol
>increase taxes on physical goods (tariffs)
>decrease taxes on Uber rich tech companies
>>387273
Trannies really mindraped Republicans, didn't they.
Trump campaigned on two things
>I will tariff everyone for no reason lol
>no trannies in women's sports
Trannies really mindraped Republicans, didn't they.
Trump campaigned on two things
>I will tariff everyone for no reason lol
>no trannies in women's sports
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But what about the dank memes bro...
>>387168
HOLY BASED
I KNEEL
Also the service economy literally enriches the elites. Sales tax doesn't go away on $5,000 nigger shoes. Uber, only fans, etc only increases the proportional amount of taxes everyone is paying, enriching the elites and impoverishing the middle class.
Don't worry, the elites will use your tax dollars to pay their charity, which they take a salary from...
>>387276
YWNBAW. Go back to the donkey show and quit posting "orange man bad."
HOLY BASED
I KNEEL
Also the service economy literally enriches the elites. Sales tax doesn't go away on $5,000 nigger shoes. Uber, only fans, etc only increases the proportional amount of taxes everyone is paying, enriching the elites and impoverishing the middle class.
Don't worry, the elites will use your tax dollars to pay their charity, which they take a salary from...
>>387276
YWNBAW. Go back to the donkey show and quit posting "orange man bad."
>>387345
You are right anon. I was about to criticize one of Trump's policies, but then I realized, it made Trump look bad. And I would never want to say orange man bad. Everything Trump does is correct. He is perfect. I cannot come up with a single thing orange man has ever done that was bad.
You are right anon. I was about to criticize one of Trump's policies, but then I realized, it made Trump look bad. And I would never want to say orange man bad. Everything Trump does is correct. He is perfect. I cannot come up with a single thing orange man has ever done that was bad.
>>387276
>Trump campaigned on two things
Border security and mass deportations were a far bigger issue on the campaign trail. Also cutting wasteful, inflationary government spending.
>Trannies really mindraped Republicans
I could say the same thing about Democrats, tbh.
>Trump campaigned on two things
Border security and mass deportations were a far bigger issue on the campaign trail. Also cutting wasteful, inflationary government spending.
>Trannies really mindraped Republicans
I could say the same thing about Democrats, tbh.
>>387358
>open left wing news
>the tariffs today have this adverse effect on this business blah blah blah, these moves to consolidate power remind these panelists of fascism blah blah blah
>open right wing news
>THE LEFT WING WANTS TO TRANS YOUR KIDS. TRANNIES ARE IN SPORTS. TRANNIES ARE IN YOUR WALLS.
>open left wing news
>the tariffs today have this adverse effect on this business blah blah blah, these moves to consolidate power remind these panelists of fascism blah blah blah
>open right wing news
>THE LEFT WING WANTS TO TRANS YOUR KIDS. TRANNIES ARE IN SPORTS. TRANNIES ARE IN YOUR WALLS.
>>387365
>Yeah we want to groom your kids and cut their genitals off
>WHY DO YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT?
>RENT FREE!
>Yeah we want to groom your kids and cut their genitals off
>WHY DO YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT?
>RENT FREE!
>>387168
I was going to post this, but then Hans went and covered it in detail before I could even read the thread. We have a parasitic upper class that is relentlessly doing everything in their power to chase short term quarterly gains. If they can save a penny by replacing their staff with foreign bugmen on the other side of the planet, then they will. Everything to finance their twelfth luxury yacht so that they have one for every month of the year. Then they don't care when they finally cut enough corners that everything comes crumbling down because they got theirs. They've got their golden parachute to jump to their next host and a scapegoat setup to be the fall guy.
I'm sick and tired of people just accepting getting fucked in the ass like this as the natural order of things. Great civilizations are built by men who plant trees despite knowing that they'll never live long enough to enjoy their shade. Not weak cunts who sell the family farm for a quick buck. On some level the population knows this too. It plays out around the watercooler at work all of the time.
>I had to buy a new PRODUCT the other day. The old PRODUCT broke down. They sure don't make them like they used to. Back during Grandma's day PRODUCT was built to last with quality parts that could last a lifetime, and if it broke then it was easy to fix it
Back in the day the product was built in country by red blooded Americans and designed to last, not designed to fail and be repurchased moments after the warranty expired. I'm fucking tired of it.
>Not the TARIFFS. I NEED CHINKSLOP. I NEED CHEAP CHINKSLOP. I NEED TO KEEP REBUYING CHINKSLOP.
Fuck you, this is an intervention on chinkslop. As far as I'm concerned the only problem with these tariffs is that they probably won't persist longer than Trump's term, and we need more enduring efforts to encourage production to come back to the states. Once Trump is gone, the next round of trade agreements will probably return to
>You receive: The lifeblood of the american people. We reecive: Chinkslop that probably contains literal poison, BUT IT'S CHEAP.
I was going to post this, but then Hans went and covered it in detail before I could even read the thread. We have a parasitic upper class that is relentlessly doing everything in their power to chase short term quarterly gains. If they can save a penny by replacing their staff with foreign bugmen on the other side of the planet, then they will. Everything to finance their twelfth luxury yacht so that they have one for every month of the year. Then they don't care when they finally cut enough corners that everything comes crumbling down because they got theirs. They've got their golden parachute to jump to their next host and a scapegoat setup to be the fall guy.
I'm sick and tired of people just accepting getting fucked in the ass like this as the natural order of things. Great civilizations are built by men who plant trees despite knowing that they'll never live long enough to enjoy their shade. Not weak cunts who sell the family farm for a quick buck. On some level the population knows this too. It plays out around the watercooler at work all of the time.
>I had to buy a new PRODUCT the other day. The old PRODUCT broke down. They sure don't make them like they used to. Back during Grandma's day PRODUCT was built to last with quality parts that could last a lifetime, and if it broke then it was easy to fix it
Back in the day the product was built in country by red blooded Americans and designed to last, not designed to fail and be repurchased moments after the warranty expired. I'm fucking tired of it.
>Not the TARIFFS. I NEED CHINKSLOP. I NEED CHEAP CHINKSLOP. I NEED TO KEEP REBUYING CHINKSLOP.
Fuck you, this is an intervention on chinkslop. As far as I'm concerned the only problem with these tariffs is that they probably won't persist longer than Trump's term, and we need more enduring efforts to encourage production to come back to the states. Once Trump is gone, the next round of trade agreements will probably return to
>You receive: The lifeblood of the american people. We reecive: Chinkslop that probably contains literal poison, BUT IT'S CHEAP.
>>387279
It's really sad when you find out most "Americans" are complete fakes and they'd rather be jew slaves than free men
It's really sad when you find out most "Americans" are complete fakes and they'd rather be jew slaves than free men
>>387369
>Yeah we want to groom your kids and cut their genitals off
Source on this?
I'm pretty sure it's just a meme that goes around right wing circles
>inb4 EVERYONE knows this! Why would I need a source!
>Yeah we want to groom your kids and cut their genitals off
Source on this?
I'm pretty sure it's just a meme that goes around right wing circles
>inb4 EVERYONE knows this! Why would I need a source!
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>>387384
Their source is their Heritage Foundation contract. If they can get the right to ramble about whatever high-SEO unhinged nonsense they come up with, they can put people like Trump in charge of funding Israel while meeting these manufactured demands.
<Stop with all of these policies that are irrepairably fucking over the economy and every worker that depends on it.
>Nono, here's an anti-trans law, you hate trannies, right? Jingle jingle. [Gives israel another quintillion dollars] Go woke go broke [Gives big tech even more power] Shadily my kekkers.
Their source is their Heritage Foundation contract. If they can get the right to ramble about whatever high-SEO unhinged nonsense they come up with, they can put people like Trump in charge of funding Israel while meeting these manufactured demands.
<Stop with all of these policies that are irrepairably fucking over the economy and every worker that depends on it.
>Nono, here's an anti-trans law, you hate trannies, right? Jingle jingle. [Gives israel another quintillion dollars] Go woke go broke [Gives big tech even more power] Shadily my kekkers.
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>>387492
activates the magpie/crow part of my brain. I like shiny
+ I like pussy = I like when put shiny in pussy
activates the magpie/crow part of my brain. I like shiny
+ I like pussy = I like when put shiny in pussy
>>387494
>Why can't I be against trannies AND critical of Trump?
Are there no economic matters you consider more pressing than the current culture war thing that'll just get toggled back later?
>Why can't I be against trannies AND critical of Trump?
Are there no economic matters you consider more pressing than the current culture war thing that'll just get toggled back later?
>>387497
The culture war actually literally influences how I have to go about my day. It is a far more pressing matter to me than anything financial because at least personally I don't need to worry about money.
The culture war actually literally influences how I have to go about my day. It is a far more pressing matter to me than anything financial because at least personally I don't need to worry about money.
>>387369
Right wing politicians talk about it because it's easy: it's a winning issue for Republicans, and a wedge issue for Democrats. Establishment Democrat like Newsome have been trying to distance themselves from the troon cult, but they immediately get purity tested by more extreme Democrats who are even more troon-obsessed than Republicans.
Right wing politicians talk about it because it's easy: it's a winning issue for Republicans, and a wedge issue for Democrats. Establishment Democrat like Newsome have been trying to distance themselves from the troon cult, but they immediately get purity tested by more extreme Democrats who are even more troon-obsessed than Republicans.
>>387498
As in you could just not use twitter and you'd be in perfect bliss for the rest of your life? You have no fundamental qualms with how the government operates other than aethetics? You're just subjecting yourself to the 24/7 news cycle for fun and not any attempt at finding hope, because you have the means to live care free if you so chose while things go to complete shit for the rest of us?
As in you could just not use twitter and you'd be in perfect bliss for the rest of your life? You have no fundamental qualms with how the government operates other than aethetics? You're just subjecting yourself to the 24/7 news cycle for fun and not any attempt at finding hope, because you have the means to live care free if you so chose while things go to complete shit for the rest of us?
>>387507
>just live in complete blind ignorance bro and get taken advantage of literally everyone around you
>just live in complete blind ignorance bro and get taken advantage of literally everyone around you
>>387509
So you see that when you strip away the fake issues, there are unavoidable economic problems we should be focusing on.
That the culture war is, at present, a distraction from those issues.
That we should handle those first.
Right? Do you grasp that?
So you see that when you strip away the fake issues, there are unavoidable economic problems we should be focusing on.
That the culture war is, at present, a distraction from those issues.
That we should handle those first.
Right? Do you grasp that?
>>387168
The reason why system power has somewhat reversed course on letting Trump do these things(which they vehemently blocked in 2016), are likely threefold: The coming popping of the credit bubble(this absolutely fucks everything, no ifs, ands or buts), the war in Ukraine and Russia now outproducing NATO, and Israel being forced to the negotiating table by Iran and the Houthis.
It is quite sad that he isn't doing these things for America, but the tariffs in particular are absolutely necessary.
The reason why system power has somewhat reversed course on letting Trump do these things(which they vehemently blocked in 2016), are likely threefold: The coming popping of the credit bubble(this absolutely fucks everything, no ifs, ands or buts), the war in Ukraine and Russia now outproducing NATO, and Israel being forced to the negotiating table by Iran and the Houthis.
It is quite sad that he isn't doing these things for America, but the tariffs in particular are absolutely necessary.
>>387127
They don't make video games worth playing that can't run on near decade old hardware.
Anyone with taste looses nothing.
They don't make video games worth playing that can't run on near decade old hardware.
Anyone with taste looses nothing.