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Western European here, I'm just happy Americans living here are finally getting off their high horse and realize maybe the USA isn't the best at everything.
We've never been the best, and some weird race to prove who is the best is a waste of time. I hate it here.
Exactly! There's no need for competition, but they (blanket statement) always made it about "oh it's like that here, but in the USA...".
I mean, speaking of your home experiences as a point of comparison isn’t inherently bad.
That's right, it can even be interesting to make comparisons and hear people's viewpoints. Unfortunately it was very often from an attitude of not knowing why we wouldn't do it like the USA does it, cuz that works so well. Those conversations get tiring after a while.
As a European/American, I know how fucked things are, that's why I'm here now, not there, and never moving back. Those Americans drank the cool aid.
cool aid
Already using the European spelling and everything. Truly assimilated.
Don't worry, we are also the best at blaming anyone else for our problem. This will be quickly forgotten and/or blamed on liberals, Chinese communists or the phase of the moon.
Logic didn't get us into this situation and it sure as hell isn't getting us out!
If it was, why would they live in western Europe? My country has its flaws, but out of all the places I've visited or even lived, it's the place I think is doing stuff the best. If it wasn't, I would move elsewhere. No way I would move away from what I percieve as the best country in the world. That's just dumb.
Don't get the started on the mental gymnastics of those Americans. They bitch and whine about how people don't treat them the same as the locals, even though after 5 years they speak know only the absolute basics of the local language.
I don't know how they justify it, but they seem to think being American puts them above other cultures by default.
Say it with me: Tariffs. Are. Taxes.
He's raising your taxes.
Worse, it's taxes on poor people. Rich people don't buy anything with their money, so they're spared, but poor people are spending the money on things, and things are imported.
Rich people buy things, but not at the rate that lower income people do. A CEO who makes 1000x as much as you isn't buying 1000x as many pairs of pants, for instance. This is why sales taxes are considered regressive.
A consumption tax. A tax that hits the pocketbooks of the poorer harder and the wealthy lighter.
Honestly? I'm just glad they are realizing and suffering from it. I'm really done with the US and all the bullshit they are giving the rest of the world. At this point I only wish the country went into a bankrupt and all these fuckers went ito misery. And don't start with the "but they are a minority, not all america is like that". Minority my ass. More than half of the country actively put that cunt in the white house, by actively voting for him or not voting at all because "both sides".
You imposed to the rest of the world a misery that nobody wanted so it's only fair if nobody gives a shit if now you get to taste what you voted.
Majority of voters, the majority of the population either didn't vote or voted for the other person.
I'm sorry to tell you this but not voting means you are ok with any of the alternatives that were voted. So yeah, not voting meant that you considered Harris and Trump to be both ok as your president.
The older I get the less I am able to make use of the concept of punishment or even (lasting) guilt. I mean what is even the point of punishing? It just adds more misery on top.
Don't get me wrong: It is necessary to reflect on the bad things one did. But I do not feel like guilt and shame create an environment that promotes this behaviour.
Buncha fucking idiots.
I don't get it... why don't they just make steel from scratch? Lazy manufacturers importing Chinese materials....
Canada is the largest source (just bumped to 35% tariff), followed closely by Brazil (50%). China doesn't ship much raw steel to the US to because it's terrible steel.
They should be smelting iron in their backyards!
Oh, and domestic industrial infrastructure spending is way, way down, because nobody knows when Trump's going to throw the next grenade into the economy, so nobody is committing to investments.
ON DAY ONE!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
...have the day you, wink, voted for...
Particularly one small orange dick, imported directly into his mouth
I'll just buy straight from the source using AliExpress. Thank you Americans. You have made my life cheaper.
They just turn around and complain more about how much we import as being the problem, not the fact that trump’s tariffs are costing them. Not that sweeping, knee-jerk tariffs with absolutely no plan to increase US industries to compensate for supply issues is the real problem.
Almost everything we do requires imports at some level. If it's not direct ingredients, the machines we use need parts, or them themselves come in.
If we wanted to solve it in a sustainable way, take all those fucking tax cuts for the rich, make them pay taxes and start grants for entrepreneurs to start manufacturing companies until we can make metal mesh and plastic shit here again for pennies.
Make sure grants are only issued to things that are in need and that they have buyers lined up.
Well, if it isn't the consequences of his actions. He should love America more and source those materials locally.
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but. the economy is BOOMING. 💪🇺🇸💪🇺🇸💪 🇺🇸 Talking head said so
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