• @rockettaco37@lemmy.world
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    316 days ago

    Everybody here in the US keeps telling me that I’m wrong when I say this stuff will destroy our economy.

    I sincerely hope the rest of the world proves them wrong.

    • @jacksilver@lemmy.world
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      86 days ago

      I mean look at the stock market, customer sentiment, etc. Everything is pointing down and we haven’t started to see the unemployment that’s going to be brought on from all the government layoffs and attempts to rescind grants/contracts.

      I think the next jobs report is going to be painful and we won’t see anything positive economically for a while after that.

      • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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        76 days ago

        I expect the Trump government will prioritize cuts that make it difficult to get accurate data about the effects of the cuts.

        • @jacksilver@lemmy.world
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          36 days ago

          You’d think, but they’re literally cutting like mad men. And it looks like people are already noticing, Wisconsin just went blue for the judge and Florida got surprisingly close to flipping (if you look at the numbers it seems that Republicans were turning out in numbers to vote blue).

        • @V7r_KfqL@midwest.social
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          66 days ago

          This is the entire point of the deferred resignation program being offered to Federal workers. It keeps people from being able to claim unemployment and pushes the true jobless numbers out into the next fiscal year (October) at the earliest. Now, why do you think they don’t want the real pain point for the American people to be until after they’ve raised the debt ceiling and cut taxes on billionaires?

    • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      The thing about seeing things coming and having that insight be rejected by people is that they will really get angry if you say I told you so. In fact they will try to make you not convincing them being the real problem.

      Edit: Whoops fixed it.

    • My order of operations is Canadian -> European -> Anywhere else on the planet -> Decide if I actually need the thing or not -> Chinese -> American.

      • As an American mine is Europe/Canada > the rest of the developed world OR blue states > Mexico > other countries > red states. It’s surprisingly easy to avoid food from red states. For tech/online services I prefer European over everywhere else.

  • @wirebeads@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    In other news: Boo Hoo.

    Fuck America under the current government. It’ll take decades to repair the damage the autistic Nazi and his cuck orange granddaddy have done not only to Canada but the world.

    • @ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      297 days ago

      It’ll take far longer to repair the damage they’re doing to America. I’m not even sure most of it can be repaired.

      Honestly, boycott us. Our capitalist classes need to be taken down a peg.

      • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        147 days ago

        Yeah, I never thought I’d say it, but I hope the entire world shuns America and fucks us over.

        I doubt even that will fix us, though. We are past some kind of disinformation event horizon, where most of us will never see much reality outside their local life, including leaders who are drinking the kool-aid. Even Idiocracy is kinda idyllic because at least Kamancho was relatively open minded.

        • @P1nkman@lemmy.world
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          26 days ago

          If you’d told me 6 months ago that I’d rather buy Chinese products than American, I would’ve put all my money on Trump. Or just not believed you, because it sounds insane.

          Well, here we are…

  • @CastorSulMush@lemmy.world
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    186 days ago

    Yup, been avoiding american products as much as I can at the grocery store. Fruits and veggies that can’t be grown in Canada I will get from Mexico or anywhere else in the world except the US.

    And not just about the attacks and threats. With the current US administration gutting regulations, there will be more risks of getting sick from eating contaminated food products.

    • See, that’s the thing that gets me. Our countries have had a great trade relationship for a long while now and some giant Cheeto needs to go and piss on everyone’s shoes.

      I wholeheartedly agree with you, produce Canadian items so the American market suffers. Make the people who voted for this situation realize what they’ve done to themselves.

  • JackFrostNCola
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    326 days ago

    Meanwhile: Canadian manufactutors pulling their hair out while reviewing their books “what are we going to do with all these profits?”

  • @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    146 days ago

    It’s going to be great once every American is jobless and has all the free time to pursue hobbies involving CEOs, and the orange and rodent cancers in the Federal government. Think of all the possibilities!

    • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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      46 days ago

      Bleed us dry. I approve. The ones who choose not to vote need the fell the pain before there is any hope of change.

  • Fingolfinz
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    527 days ago

    🙂 keep up the good work. As an American, I’m boycotting what I can but most our shit is just made in China anyway

  • @MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    177 days ago

    I don’t live too far from the Canadian border. I’m sensing an opportunity to make bank on black market tools and office supplies.