manxu

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[–] manxu@piefed.social 94 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Please, consider donating to archive.org. They are under assault right now, and they are the only outfit that records everything that might get lost otherwise.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It certainly worked during COVID. Republicans said they'd rather die than give up their unmasked freedom. Hard to ask their graves if they regret that, though.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 12 points 5 days ago

Sort of. A unilateral tariff generates a trade imbalance in favor of the economy imposing the tariff. By applying commensurate tariffs in the other direction, you keep the trade balance you had before the tariff was imposed.