Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    6 hours ago

    Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs

    They already have. It takes 1.5 to 2 years for trade deals to be negotiated and then put into effect. In the coming years when these deals take effect, and trade is routing itself around the US as much as possible rather than through it, people in the US are going to learn a very difficult economic lesson.

    On the plus side, maybe the notion of American Exceptionalism will diminish a bit, which is long overdue.

    • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      50 minutes ago

      As an American, I can’t wait for the lessons learned and the death to American Exceptionalism. I look forward to reaping everything we’ve sowed due to our shitty actions (or complete lack of action).

      But also as an American I am bitter and don’t believe for a second that the 60-70% of people here that need to learn a lesson, will actually learn a lesson. I no longer believe things will change for the better within my lifetime. It sucks.

    • Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      In my honest opinion, American exceptionalism should be dead and buried 6 feet under. And American patriotism and the American Dream should be revisited and revised and reformed

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        In my honest opinion, American exceptionalism should be dead and buried

        Should be, but it’s such a deeply ingrained part of their national self image that it’ll take a few generations of consistent effort to make it fade away.

    • HailSeitan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      4 hours ago

      Kamala would have defended DMCA and Big Tech to the death. The only difference might have been a little less crypto grifting, but it’s nonsense to suggest there would have been a major difference on the issues this article is actually discussing.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        4 hours ago

        That’s a bit of a disingenuous question, no?

        What the hell do you think would not have happened?

        • Doge?

        • The unlawful deportations to random

        • Ice?

        • countries with torture prisons?

        • War crimes in the Carribean?

        • The multiple trade wars?

        • The absolute dumping of all US allies off a cliff?

        • Bombing Nigeria because reasons?

        • The entire Epstein thing and the US president being a pedophile for the entire world to see?

        And mind you, this is not a comprehensive list, I just gotta stop at some point or nobody will read it anymore.

        Take a pick?

      • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        6 hours ago

        For example, neither batshit tarrifs, nor insane dissolution of trust, if we’re talking purely about international economics.

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
          63·
          6 hours ago

          neither batshit tarrifs,

          That’s true. Harris, though, like Trump, wouldn’t be doing anything to regulate LLM’s or their financial fuckery, and that is going to be catastrophic when the game of financial musical chairs stops.

          insane dissolution of trust

          Also a good point. The American brand would be more or less intact, at least in the short-term, but I tend to think that all Harris would do is just maintain better PR, because her policies economically wouldn’t be different enough from Donald’s to keep the AI bubble from eventually popping. Democrats are just as in bed with billionaires as the Republicans, they just don’t seat them front-and-center at public events.