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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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thrance ◴[] No.45030788[source]
Read the "Academic studies and criticism" section of the very page you linked. Horseshoe theory is nothing but a bunch of baloney, that is actually harmful to understanding the current situation.

No, fascist consolidation of state and businesses has little to do with communism and "seizing the means of production".

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fooker ◴[] No.45030909[source]
> fascist consolidation of state and businesses has little to do with communism and "seizing the means of production".

Yeah sure they are very different except for the consolidation of state and business that every fascist and every communist state has attempted :)

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1. thrance ◴[] No.45031051[source]
What's your point? Why do you refuse to learn about the actual reasons we are in this mess? Do you not want to expand on your very surface level understanding of politics and ideology?

The mechanisms behind both ideologies are different, and the outcomes are different too.