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When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

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320 points goldenskye | 2 comments | 15 Nov 25 23:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.536s | source
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epolanski ◴[16 Nov 25 02:09 UTC] No.45942148[source]▶
As an European, I'm kinda pissed we don't retaliate the duties.

I'd rather take a financial hit than act so weak and passive.

I swear between chat control, selling out EU's privacy to US tech companies (you can check how many times Palantir & others met commission members, it's public), the insanity of the ICE ban and this tariffs passivity I'm very unhappy.

Also, it's too convenient to only focus on material goods when the biggest US exports are gazillions in financial and IT services.

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1. nutjob2 ◴[16 Nov 25 10:13 UTC] No.45943976[source]▶
> As an European, I'm kinda pissed we don't retaliate the duties.

"Someone is trying to shoot me so I'll shoot myself in the foot in retaliation"

Sometimes, doing nothing is the best move. Doing something self destructive to make yourself feel better makes no sense at all.

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2. DaSHacka ◴[17 Nov 25 14:06 UTC] No.45953654[source]▶
> Doing something self destructive to make yourself feel better makes no sense at all.

Yet arguably, perhaps the most European move of all