Meanwhile those who actually run #Venezuela will continue their business.

Video via @dw_innovation / #DWnews {which really should establish a proper presence in the #Fediverse because relying on #bots in the age of rampant #DeepFakes isn't great, and many other institutions and organizations like @antidiskriminierung have left #Shitter for good!

#USpol #VEpol #US #commentary #sarcasm #War #WarCrime #CrimeOfAggression #Colonialism #Neocolonialism #DeepFake #Xitter #Twitter #Enshittification #DEpol

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Damage to American small (and medium) businesses. Not the megacorps.

The dude with the mall kiosk selling phone cases and chargers? He's getting reamed by this, and will likely go out of business, because he brings all his stock in from China in small shipments that have always fallen under the de minimis exemption (which is now toast). He can't compete with having to pay five times as much for shipping and tariffs all of a sudden.

The independent phone-and-laptop repair place? He and his 3 techs are probably twiddling their thumbs a lot soon. Most of the parts they buy to fix your broken screen or charge port come in just like the mall kiosk dude's. A replacement screen that used to cost him $30 plus $5 shipping now suddenly costs $30 plus $15 tariffs plus $20 shipping-and-tariff-collection-and-remittance-and-brokerage-clearance charges. He'll have to double what he charges to replace that screen in your Samsung.

Amazon? Walmart? Best Buy? All the other corporate behemoths? They're not importing in dribs and drabs by post. It won't affect them much at all, except they'll probably increase prices a bit to cover the extra paperwork to clear their shipments at the border, plus a lot more to cover the tariffs.

(Yes, you already knew this. I just wanted to say it.)

#tariff #business #ProBusiness #SmallBusiness #LittleGuy #screwed #shafted #MegaCorp #SMEs #import #duty

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The Bug - Shafted (Laws Of Attraction / Repulsion)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5AR2UaUBRo

Trump gets whacked again for copyright infringement against the estate of Isaac Hayes.

And now Celine Dion is b-slapping him AND making of fun of him with a remark at the end of her takedown message: "That song?"

LOL What morons.

#tfg #gop #shafted

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@GrapheneOS but they won't because integrating #Govware #Backdoors that are exploitable is what keeps them in business and allows for #Export & #Import in markets like #Russia, #SaudiArabia and others with #Cyberfacist rules.

  • And yes, #Google and #Apple both host the #KSA's "wife-stalking" movement trackibg #App which is #malware of the Govware kind - plain and simple!

The only way #GrapheneOS is not going to get #shafted (i.e. licensed #MacintoshClones like #PowerComputing did when #SteveJobs took over Apple) is by basically not being dependent on Google's "benevolence" and instead collaborate with other vendors.

-Maybe @frameworkcomputer would be interested in doing a secure #Abmndroid-based #Smartphone that is actually repairable?

IDK but this will require a longterm strategic decision, as "bitchin' about it" won't change anything...