Someone explain the logic of tariffs to me.
https://lemmy.world/post/27959722
Someone explain the logic of tariffs to me. - Lemmy.World
Not Trump’s logic, he couldn’t pour piss out of boot if the instructions were
written on the heel, but the people who have pushed him to do this. They want to
bring good manufacturing jobs back to America? Where do they imagine those
factories get their parts and raw materials? How do they imagine the US, a
country that has had a significant trade imbalance for pretty much all of modern
history, acquires the things they turn into finished goods? And where will they
sell those goods once reciprocal tariffs kick in? How the hell does literally
any of this make sense to ostensibly intelligent people who stand to lose
billions of dollars from this? Make it make sense.
Reddit is so very confused.. - Lemmy.World
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5a8cad75-8689-4f21-a89e-92347086246a.png] So
yesterday I received a 7-day ban for ‘encouraging violence’, for saying that
Luigi Mangione did not deserve to go to jail. It was obviously bullshit,
somebody got a little hair-trigger on the new directive from Der Fuhrer spez or
something, so I appealed. That appeal was reviewed and the temp ban lifted and
the ‘offending’ comment restored, but 11 hours prior to that I got another
message that I had been perma-banned for violating Reddit’s rules with my ‘other
account(s)’. Well that’s also bullshit because I’ve had exactly one (1) account
in the 14 years I’ve been on reddit, so I appealed that too, and thus we get to
the cherry on top: I am no longer banned, I can post and such again, but they
sent me the above message saying that my appeal had been denied and that the
perma-ban was staying in place. But rather than linger in reddit limbo, I think
I’m gonna switch permanently to lemmy. 14 years worth of curating subs will suck
to redo, but oh well, life is change.
