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639 points CTOSian | 9 comments | 26 Aug 25 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 1.571s | source | bottom
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InitialLastName ◴[26 Aug 25 17:49 UTC] No.45029930[source]▶
This whole tariff circus boils down to regulatory capture by manufacturers at the 10+-figure market cap scale. Olimex (and other small and medium businesses) can't reasonably be expected to calculate the exact material composition of their products (much less their suppliers' products); the only people who can are on the scale of Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and Google whose volumes can amortize the cost of doing so on a per-product basis (and who have probably already done that analysis as part of their process control).
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softwaredoug ◴[26 Aug 25 17:52 UTC] No.45029951[source]▶
We’re living through a political revolution centralizing state and economic power. It’s almost like the pendulum swung away from the Soviet system and now we’re swinging back.
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fooker ◴[26 Aug 25 18:12 UTC] No.45030198[source]▶
Yeah, seize the means of production, indeed.

Funny that this time this started from the right side of the political spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

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softwaredoug ◴[26 Aug 25 18:14 UTC] No.45030220[source]▶
I believe when you look at Germany, the Far Right party is much more popular in former Soviet strongholds (East Germany outside Berlin)
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1. fooker ◴[26 Aug 25 18:19 UTC] No.45030286[source]▶
If you overload right to mean authoritarian, for sure.

Good to remember that pretty much all leftist governments had to pivot toward authoritarianism 'for the greater good'.

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2. anthem2025 ◴[26 Aug 25 18:30 UTC] No.45030420[source]▶
I don’t understand what you’re even trying to say here.

AfD is objectively far more popular in the former east Germany. Look at a map of votes, it’s clear as day. The borders are exact. They are not a left wing party, not at all. They are a far right party.

It makes sense that the the economically struggling former communist areas would be both more drawn to extreme parties and have a distaste for the left.

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3. wqaatwt ◴[26 Aug 25 19:01 UTC] No.45030761[source]▶
> They are not a left wing party, not at all. They are a far right party.

They are a populist semi big tent party as well. They are not particularly coherent but there is some overlap between some of their policies and what some in the far-left might support (Euroscepticism, the Euro and such)

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4. adwn ◴[26 Aug 25 19:10 UTC] No.45030865[source]▶
> It makes sense that the the economically struggling former communist areas would be both more drawn to extreme parties and have a distaste for the left.

That: "have a distaste for the left" is extremely wrong, because before the AfD, the far-left parties which traced their history back to the SED (the socialist party of the GDR (East Germany)) were very popular there, much more so than in West Germany.

5. wqaatwt ◴[26 Aug 25 19:21 UTC] No.45031002{4}[source]▶
> erases their literal nazi ideologies

If you say so. Seems like a rather incoherent view though…

Fact is that there is a lot of overlap between far and far right voters in ex-socialist parts of Eastern Europe. Just compare the supporters of BSW and AFD in Germany..

If you want the most absurd example this was a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party

6. mamonster ◴[26 Aug 25 19:30 UTC] No.45031131{4}[source]▶
AfD is literally a shitty copy-paste of UDC/SVP (Switzerland). Shitty because they lack the one big advantage SVP had in the 90s: Big money backing it. If AfD had at least ONE German billionaire seriously backing it they would already be in power.
7. fooker ◴[26 Aug 25 19:51 UTC] No.45031475{4}[source]▶
> erases

No, hence horseshoe theory.

You are the one arguing for 'erases' here. Given the horseshoe theory is valid, it seems completely on point for these assholes to have some far left ideas. Doesn't make them not nazis.

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8. anthem2025 ◴[26 Aug 25 23:26 UTC] No.45033595{5}[source]▶
But horseshoe theory isn’t valid. It’s entirely nonsense. It’s mostly an excuse for centrists to feel morally superior as the results of their useless ideology lead inevitably to fascism.
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9. wqaatwt ◴[27 Aug 25 08:35 UTC] No.45036926{6}[source]▶
> But horseshoe theory isn’t valid

You keep repeating that yet on certain axis like authoritarianism, free speech etc. there is a massive overlap to the extent that there is based almost no difference in some of the policies supported by far left/right.