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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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ronsor ◴[] No.45030265[source]
Horseshoe theory is real, but there's also the fact that politics has more than one axis.

Authoritarianism is the common denominator; only the details vary.

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1. uncircle ◴[] No.45036787[source]
Which is why it's so fun to see American leftists and rightists get at each other throats, while they share the common denominator of authoritarianism and are more similar than they would like to admit.