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InitialLastName ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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pstuart ◴[] No.45030139[source]
It's a fascist coup, and they're tidying up the loose ends.
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newsclues[dead post] ◴[] No.45030246[source]
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1. TheOtherHobbes ◴[] No.45030317[source]
Fascism is the world's most evil people lying to the world's most stupid people about what fascism is.
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2. thrance ◴[] No.45030593[source]
Huh? Can you expand on that? Is fascism completely devoid of meaning then?
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3. miltonlost ◴[] No.45030736[source]
What he was doing is called a joke a la The Devil's Dictionary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Dictionary