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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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fooker ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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fooker ◴[] 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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anthem2025 ◴[] 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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1. adwn ◴[] 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.