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I wish there was simple three strike policy on any elected official. Three proven lies and they are remove from office for life. And these can be anything. And not knowing at time does not change it. Only silence or absolute truth should be accepted.
lol. just last week he posted that the Canadian ad showing the audio recording of nixon against tariffs was fake.
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100%. I'm excited to find somewhere not playing disco and skater boy, and instead supporting their local music. Hell, here in the UK I'm happy to hear Sheeran even though he's not really my style typically. I don't mention that because I like American cultural dominance, merely because it is so ubiquitous. I was in the middle of South Africa in the oughts and there were bootleg Britney Spears albums... Kind of shocki…
Avril Lavigne (singer of "Sk8er boi") is Canadian.
After looking it up, I found it was produced and recorded in California, by an American label.
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Like, seriously and not just Swatch. I wanted to buy myself a watch that would look good. Ended up with nothing because good looking watch dont seem to exist.
Are you disliking the big honking watches with like 3 subdials? I don't like those either. I lean to the minimal style, so I recently got one from Obaku. The one I got is technically in their women's line; women's watches tend to be simpler, and I have small wrists so women's watches tend to fit me better. Skagen also makes nice minimal stuff. I also sometimes dig around used watch forums like WatchUSeek. You can fin…
Thank you.
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Can you expand on what you mean exactly? I see these sentences like your littered throughout reddit, vague notions of violence/war?
It was a common argument that ultimately all of the constitutional protections, balance of powers and all that were protected by the Second Amendment - that in the face of losing their liberty, Americans would rise up against an authoritarian government. Within this administration, a lot of people feel that there has been an assault on constitutional protections, but the people who trumpeted the Second Amendment as b…
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I'm not sure it's all that new. During the Bush Jr. years America was not highly thought of. I'm an American traveling through Scandinavia and Northern continental Europe for the last three weeks, now in the UK. I haven't experienced a bit of grief. Their opinion of our politics is generally separate from how they treat me personally, and I do the same for people of other nationalities. American cultural dominance is…
> Their opinion of our politics is generally separate from how they treat me personally, and I do the same for people of other nationalities. That is such a sane thing to do. I was always astonished and sad how often strangers in foreign countries instantly link my origin to the actions of the people in power. As if this is completely under my control and with no doubt I support and approve whatever they do.
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This was a big worry initially when the tariffs were announced but it doesn’t actually seem to be happening. Most manufacturers are not adjusting their price structure because the effects are super hard to estimate (don’t forget that the US is still just 20% of worldwide demand)
This might have been true three months ago, but it isn't any more. Narrow margin business like independently owned coffee shops are already seeing consumables increase in price by up to 3x, which then leads them to have to add "tariff surcharges" that show up on their POS devices.
Operating costs for coffee shops mainly come from other things than the beans, such as rent, utilities, wages.
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What options do Canadians have? Deal with the wildly capricious economic policies of the US president, or go seeking other, more stable opportunities elsewhere? Almost all countertariffs we have in place are targeted as opposed to the sweeping tariffs Trump is implementing.
They could seek other opportunities elsewhere without adding tariff themselves: continue to import from the US and other countries like before. They may indeed export less to the US due to reduced demand from the US, but reciprocating the tariff won't help with that.
There are no winners in the trade war.
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To simplify: if the exporter lowers their price, the consumer pays the same, the exporter gets less, and the consumer pays the tariff to the government. If the exporter charges the same price, the consumer pays more, the exporter get the same as before, and the consumer pays the tariff to the government. The consumer always pays the tariff. The exporter never pays the tariff.
Please pretend that the exporter hypothetically pays the tariff. It just changes who is paying who. The end result is the same.
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Let's imagine, hypothetically speaking, that demand is perfectly inelastic. The price of a good is $10, and buyers will absolutely refuse to pay more than $10 under any circumstances. Before a tariff is imposed, the seller sells the good for $10 and keeps $10 in revenue. If a tariff of $1 is imposed under these hypothetical circumstances, does the buyer pay more? Does the exporter get paid the same as before? Clearly…
The other thing that happens is that a buyer doesn't buy anything at all. Deadweight loss.
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> In both cases the consumer is paying price + tariff. Consumers pay all of the operating costs and taxes of a company. That's not the debate. With tariffs, the cost of an imported product becomes higher than a domestically produced product, making consumers purchase the domestically produced product. This is the purpose. The long-term purpose is that foreign companies start making their products in your country to a…
> The long-term purpose is that foreign companies start making their products in your country to avoid tariffs and be able to compete. There is no long term in the US anymore. TACO flip flops every few days, based on who he spoke to last.