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And then we get to hear the endless litany of “hey why is shipping 20x more expensive now here in Bumfuck Montana?” And blaming Biden for it
yea he wants dejoys company to takeover, hes been angling for it for years. Although its wierd that dejoy barely did anything under biden.
I think he just wanted to fly under the radar when Biden was in charge. Biden couldn't remove him personally, but I think there were mechanisms for his removal in there somewhere...
Biden stupidly appointed some corporate shit bags who sided with the Republicans on the board to keep DeJoy in the head position. If you're going to run to protect the country from that shitbag, you have to actually protect it once you win, not contitenabling his bullshit
That's what these assholes have been saying ever since they got on AOL in the mid-90s - "hey, email and FedEx can do everything USPS does, why don't we just get rid of it?"
USA will soon be Americas equivalent to North Korea...
Trump got 11 holes in one the last time he played golf.
This comment has me wondering: does the average NK citizen believe the bullshit their government says about the Kims, or do they know it's bullshit too?
Look at Christians; the idea of an invisible sky daddy is laughable but being taught that one exists since you were a child is a powerful drug.
My guess is that a good half of North Koreans would defend the regime regardless of how unbelievable it is just like in most other countries.
Look at Christians; the idea of an invisible sky daddy is laughable but being taught that one exists since you were a child is a powerful drug.
Exactly this - and these people are steeped in options, were they so to choose to make use of them to educate themselves, but they absolutely will not.
Same goes for conservatives in the West - they are surrounded by plenty of options if they have an Internet connection or a local library and a willingness to break the spell. But they sure as fuck won't; they'll listen to endless hours of hate radio and Faux News.
Imagine being somewhere where those options for truth are actively policed and shut down and punished quite harshly for...
24/7 propaganda not just fox, younger people wants more heavy drugs like OAN, NEWSMAX, and right wing podcasters.
Straight to jail
Do you think Trump supporters believe his bs?
Some of them, maybe not all, but some of them 100% believe everything coming from Trump and his administration. That's how cults and a lot of organized religion work, people are literally groomed into this style of belief where they must prove they have true, unwavering faith in it despite the contradictions and evidence otherwise.
YES, they voted for him 3 times. plus farmers voted for him, despite his tariffs had permantly ruined them in his first term , and its happening again.
There is generational brainwashing in North Korea. Those people have no access to other information and are punished for questioning any information the state provides. So most likely they do believe it, they have no other information.
The ruling elite has access to more information so they most likely know it;s bullshit but it's benefiting them so why say otherwise.
A generation is a very short time and it starts by meddling with education. Russia has done it and USA is seemingly well at it
They do have some access to external info, people smuggle media into the country from South Korea, of course there will be blind believers but there are probably a lot of them putting up an act so they don't get killed. If they were all brainwashed, none of them would risk their lives to cross their border and escape NK
Some. A good portion know it's bullshit, but play along lest they get sent for reeducation.
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Taco is so great he doesn't even defecate since he's a perfect being.
America has been closer to being north Korea for longer than most people think.
russia actually. texas is mostly there , and florida is closing in second.
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Hot take: ending Chinese drop-shipping for cheap junk from Temu, etc. might actually be a good thing.
Ending all parcels from 88 countries is not,
Yeah cheap temu crap is one thing. Localised products from other nations just won't happen on the individual level and will require a USA company to act as a middle man. In Australian news, we keep hearing about companies that are losing a large chunk of trade because of this. Most are small businesses with niche products; emu leather, kangaroo products, eucalyptus oil, etc. All things that are only made in Australia.
Even having a middle man won't help. The postal services are not engaging until there is a system in places and clarity.
Sure, mass shipping can work, but is cost prohibitive for all niche products, like you've mentioned unless they have a giant distribution deal.
They don't want to get the ultimate bill for the duties owed. They don't usually keep customer information, so it needs to be collected up front or not at all.
The thing is that not every idea they have is bad. No one wants an overflow of cheap junk from China, but the problem is obviously how they're going about it - basically halting trade in general rather than having a logical and pragmatic way of working; but then again their end goal isn't actually to improve USA or to help regular Americans in any way so it figures.
Millions of small retail or craft businesses now out of business: "haha so true bestie!"
Hot take almost everything you own was partially or fully made in China or other Asian countries
not everyone buys from temu, some chinese products for asian business owners need the other stuff especially around asian related foods ingredients.
We've thrown out the baby, but atleast we got rid of that awful bathwater.
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All part of their plan to gut and strip America and take whatever money they can before Donny and his friends die.
So what if they ruin America for the next 50 years? They will be dead and the people they hate will suffer. Remember to thank your GOP neighbor for this.
It's what 77 million wanted. So, fuck them.
My American GE dishwasher just broke and I ordered a part from their US based site. The 17$ part ships from China, I have no idea what’s going to happen. Guessing I’ll be handwashing dishes from here on.
To me, this is one of the largest issues. I don't know -- or historically have needed to know -- where my goods actually come from. I buy a thing for a price and it is delivered to me. When I buy common goods, I probably go to a store, but for anything that is uncommon, like a machine part, I'll find it online.
The internet and internet commerce has done wonders to allow us to buy a type 34 widget from ACME without having to spend hours finding a store that carries it or can custom-order it.
The de minimis exemption revocation does two things in the short term: increase the price of a type 34 widget due to tariffs, and add uncertainly as to whether it will come with unexpected overhead like a flat customs fee (sorry, reddit link), delays, or paperwork. People will choose to not buy items, from anywhere, when the rules are both constantly changing and unclear.
The rest applies to tariffs in general, and not the de minimis exemption.
In the long term, we're also fucked. Orange-D's policies have been struck down multiple times. In this case, I think he's asked the Supreme Court to rule on a tariff appeal in the last few days. Almost regardless of the outcome of that, our goods prices will rise, since the companies that sell them will never reduce the price just because the tariffs are removed.
This is the scam: If you are in on the timing, you can buy-low-sell-high when news hits about tariffs and make a ton of money off stocks. We don't have that info, so we can't act on it without guessing. Instead, the regular citizen just has to eat the added price of goods.
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Putin is doing a good job of destroying America from within.
What's interesting is I believe the postal service was losing money on Chinese Epackets.
Isn't it misleading to say they are losing money when they are funded by taxpayer dollars?
USPS is self funded, and only until a couple years ago now were we losing money. Once retirement prefunding was repealed we started making money again
USPS is self funded
Cool. It doesn't mean we start giving a shit about profit margins. It's a public service. Sometimes it's gonna cost us money.
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no wonder the gop was pissed, they had been planning for decades for it to cripple the USPS, and why dejoy probably wasnt doing much under biden.
The USPS has been self funded for quite some time
I thought the USPS was funded through usage fees/stamps.
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