It's so funny that gamergate will lead to the American century of humiliation lmao
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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veryone in USA will pretty much experience firsthand what happens when nothing from China or made-in-China goes there.
145% tariffs is the same as 200% or 300% tariffs because at that absurd amount , shops and exporters will simply not even bother to sell to USA
Pretty weird of the US to sanction a right-wing regime (themselves), don't they usually prop them up?
Right-wing infighting
Importers have already started to just shut up shop for a while. Stock can take 1-2 months to make it's way from China to the US, they can't predict what the thing they've ordered is going to cost them when it arrives.
Or a middle-country with 10% tariff will buy from china and sell in to usa with some margin
All for some hope of "re-shoring" our production. Unfortunately all the machinery to do that comes primarily from other countries and some of the most cost effective options was China.
Not only machinery, but knowledge and experience too. If we were a sensible country we would be giving incentives for Chinese factory workers to come over and train our workforce, focusing one sector at a time with reasonable targeted tariffs paired with government investment, and so on.
Shitlibs think the Nintendo price hike is entirely Trump. Fascists think it's entirely Nintendo.
It's obviously both.
Trump was Wario all along
Fuck mutahar and roach man. Both are genocide defenders. I hope gaming goes to shit. Their audiences realize they are shit. And then their "career" or whatever the fuck pointless shit they do goes down the toilet. Gamers deserve nothing and even as someone that enjoys gaming watching the community cry is absolutely gold. What will I do after even gaming is out of my financial reach (eating out, movies ie the most basic social activities are already there)? I dunno. Probably stare the wall or meditate
What will I do after even gaming is out of my financial reach (eating out, movies ie the most basic social activities are already there)?
Piracy and/or emulation, probably.
itch indie games and a laptop are still within reach
Bring this wicked empire right to its fucking knees and we will put a bullet in its brain
Is there any meaningful difference between 100% tarrif and 145%? I imagine a small niche of people able to swing the 100 but get blown out by 145.
as hasanabi says it anything like above 50% is functionally a trade embargo. doesn't matter if it's 100% or one morbillion percent no meaningful amount of trade can happen between the two unless for critical or very rare items. mass produced gamer slop is unfortunately neither.
They were targeted by gamers.
Gamers.
"Gamers need to wake tf up" the only thing those worms would be good for is canon fodder. Fuck em.
I think they can hide behind copium right into complete destitution.
are pretending this has nothing to do with politics and is just "Nintendo greed".
I mean, Nintendo is also a greedy ass company.
We are much closer to the weed number than I ever thought possible, please do the funniest thing ever President Xi
Take away all gamer treats 
I definitely don't understand how these tariffs work, but couldn't the US' trade partners just.. import from China and sell to the US at a 10% markup?
IIRC it's based on country of origin so not really.
Import all the parts from China, slap em together. Now it's made in whatever other country.
gotta hire a whole factory to assemble the part into the box
That's not unusual
that's current working plan, allegedly
