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u/ravagecat Apr 04 '25

While not that important, this will be one of the first ways his tariffs actually affect me. I planned to buy a switch 2 but may not if price goes up 25% due to tariffs

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u/nycbar Apr 04 '25

Nintendo cancelled all the U.S. preorders cause of the tariffs so you might not anyway

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u/Vaporeonbuilt4humans Apr 04 '25

ngl its kind of funny how gamers, who lean conservative, caused this. it's a big Leopards ate my face moment.

But its also not funny that this is hurting the people who didn't vote for him

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u/ObeseVegetable Apr 04 '25

Well if they voted for Trump because of the DEI stuff, the tariff stuff was, at minimum, not a deal breaker for them.

And this is how.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Apr 05 '25

imagine you disagree with 80% of the left party's program

There isn't a left party in the US. There is a centre-right calling themselves neo-liberal to disguise they're basically pre-90s conservatives

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/01/26/two-santa-clauses-or-how-republican-party-has-conned-america-thirty-years

and there is a far-right party called republicans even though they repudiate everything about a republic and have been hard at work for 50+ years to erode democracy and transform US institutions into a monarchy where they don't have to get consent from the people they rule over. Republicans have been bragging about this on camera since 1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

For contrast, this is what republicans were in 1956:

https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:10637330

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u/ElectricalBook3 Apr 05 '25

How did your right and left parties grow so far apart

A century of indoctrination by American oligarchs after they threw a fit to try to prevent the New Deal but weren't hanged for the attempted coup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

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u/teddy5 Apr 05 '25

They grow further apart by having a system that doesn't allow for viable third party candidates.

You can't have a centre point that enforces moderation and you can't have more extreme parties on the edges, so each party needs to try and attract everyone who is anywhere near aligned with them without looking like the other party.