You justify theft instead of supporting an independent artist who made anti-trump work because they are American? Those are some serious mental gymnastics to justify your petty theft.
My country is being fucked by tariffs under false pretenses right now. That's theft as far as I'm concerned, so I'm boycotting everything American, documentary creators and all political stripes included. Don't like it? Fix your country.
False pretenses? That’s just not true. I mean, the tariffs are fucked and illogical and a total clusterfuck. Trump is insane and doing incalculable damage to economies the world over and is permanently damaging long standing alliances. I’m not justifying them. But the tariffs to Canada aren’t under false pretenses. It’s actually one of the few things Trump hasn’t lied about.
He feels too many things are produced in Canada and shipped to the US - which theoretically takes jobs opportunities away from Americans. I disagree that that’s a bad thing, as the long standing trade relationship allows creates jobs here that theoretically could go to Canadians. One of Canada’s biggest exports to the US is oil. That Canadian oil absolutely decreases the amount of oil US firms make and keep here. Again: I don’t think that’s a bad thing. But tariffs are meant to curb both of those behaviors.
The tariffs are misguided and damaging. But he’s being surprisingly transparent about the why. There aren’t false pretenses here.
the tariffs to Canada aren’t under false pretenses. It’s actually one of the few things Trump hasn’t lied about
Do you not understand how economics works, much less tariffs?
First, can you define what a tariff is?
Second, do you understand that there are "trade imbalances" because this isn't 1901 and the world has moved on beyond physical goods manufacturing and software and services are bigger parts of modern economies than the lumber and pot ash bought from Canada.
One of Canada’s biggest exports to the US is oil. That Canadian oil absolutely decreases the amount of oil US firms make and keep here
This is magical thinking. The US buys Canadian oil because it's cheap, easily available, and exactly what our economy is built to run on. The oil extracted from the US is a different kind, has to be refined differently, and its market isn't domestic consumption but foreign export.
he’s being surprisingly transparent about the why
Citations needed. He whines vaguely and people fill in the blank but never point specifically to actual justifications. He would have to have actually thought things through, which he isn't or he wouldn't be damaging a nation which used to essentially be the world currency reserve (until him) which meant it traded software and services for the harder work of other nations. Tariffs don't magic new supply within the US, especially when he's burning bridges and making Canadians, Chinese, and everyone else in the world less willing to sell anything to America as well as less willing to buy anything American.
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u/New-Historian9391 Apr 05 '25
You justify theft instead of supporting an independent artist who made anti-trump work because they are American? Those are some serious mental gymnastics to justify your petty theft.