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We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

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639 points CTOSian | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zaptheimpaler ◴[26 Aug 25 17:49 UTC] No.45029926[source]▶
> importers must declare the exact amount of steel, copper, and aluminum in products, with a 100% tariff applied to these materials. This makes little sense—PCBs, for instance, contain copper traces, but the quantity is nearly impossible to estimate.

Wow this administration is f**ing batshit insane. I thought the tariffs would be on raw metals, not anything at all that happens to contain them.

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Henchman21 ◴[26 Aug 25 19:36 UTC] No.45031243[source]▶
You expected this to make sense. The goal is to destroy the US economy. Full stop. There aren’t many lenses that make sense anymore but this one? This one has made sense for quite some time now. Reexamining the behavior of the people in power using this lens should assist you in understanding the world we find ourselves in.
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Levitz ◴[26 Aug 25 19:48 UTC] No.45031430[source]▶
Can you justify this kind of response after other explanations have already been given?
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immibis ◴[26 Aug 25 21:37 UTC] No.45032618[source]▶
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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Levitz ◴[27 Aug 25 14:50 UTC] No.45040513[source]▶
It very evidently is not, I don't know how this saying ever became popular, it's so reductionist and silly.

Is the purpose of the democratic system to get people like Trump in power? Apparently that's what it does, no?

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1. immibis ◴[28 Aug 25 01:28 UTC] No.45047287[source]▶
The purpose of this political system is to put people like Trump in power. We can infer this because it keeps putting people like Trump in power and yet nobody has changed it yet.

Look up the history of the phrase "the purpose of a system is what it does". It was adopted as a principle because it made more sense than every other possible alternative. It makes no sense to claim that the purpose of a system is to do something that it never has done and consistently fails to do, because the system would have been replaced in that case.