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Es que esta gente parece no entender que la política de aranceles en teoría puesta para joder la importación de productos extranjeros y así favorecer los productos locales podía tener sentido hace 150 años cuando tus bienes eran el algodón y el maíz, pero no ahora.

Por poner un ejemplo, algo tan genuinamente estadounidense y de proyección mundial como el iPhone:

El iPhone se diseña en Estados Unidos, en Silicon Valley, pero amigo, a la hora de fabricarse lleva componentes de: Congo, Ruanda, Chile, Brasil, Australia, Japón, Taiwán, China, Rusia, Vietnam, Corea del Sur, Noruega e Indonesia. Y, finalmente, se ensambla en China. Porque el coltán no viene de Kentucky, viene de Congo, y el tungsteno no viene de Oklahoma, viene de China, y el litio no sale de California, viene de Chile, y lo mismo con muchas otras materias primas. Y los componentes de la cámara Sony son japoneses, y la pantalla OLED te la hace Samsung que es coreana.

Y esto, obviamente, no pasa solo con el iPhone, ocurre con muchas más cosas. Lo que no entienden es que imponiendo aranceles a todo el planeta (menos a Rusia) para favorecer la producción local no sólo jodes la importación de productos extranjeros, también jodes la propia producción industrial local.

Sobre la excepción en los aranceles a los productos que tienen que ver con alta tecnología se ha hablado mucho de la comparación con los productos médicos y que se perdona a Apple pero no a los medicamentos básicos. Pero poco se ha hablado de que tu máximo objetivo como presidente es castigar a China y con esta excepción perdonas al 80 % de cosas que importas de China.

Porque es que, amigo, en un mundo de economía globalizada en el que los países y mercados están fuertemente interconectados, a diferencia de en el siglo XIX joder a otros países comercialmente es joderte a ti.

"The whole tariffs debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store."

The biggest criminal in American history wants his bribe.

"The tariff wars are based on an old fashioned protection racket. Trump is holding trade hostage until he gets his extortion payment from each country."

You put a criminal felon in the White House. The colossal stupidity!

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@muzicofiel Boycotts can do "something". But for ending fascism people in the country have to act. And we have another problem: In an interconnected world, a #tariffWar will be bad for *all* countries. Nobody can win such a situation.
The poorest countries and the poor people in rich countries will be impacted badly. A Musk can lose billions in a day and still remain the obscenely richest man in the world.
Well, it's complicated.

👀 😥 In Toronto Library contract negotiations "Key bargaining points were 'safety & security', 'harassment' & 'workplace violence.' … public libraries have been pressed into service as de facto homeless shelters & support service locations. They’ve become hotbeds of people in crisis.

It's #homelessness all the way down."

Trump is about to make the Toronto homelessness crisis worse:
#giftArticle #cdnPoli #cdnPolitics #onPoli
#housingCrisis #librarians #tariffWar
archive.is/JvWTC

My sister is visiting New Zealand with a tour group comprising mostly US citizens. One of the tour leaders asked “Is everyone here American?” My sister responded that she and her husband were Canadian, and some MAGA woman nearby snorted “Not for long!”

Earlier, my sister had met another couple on the trip who, upon learning she was Canadian, said that she must be so thrilled that Canada was getting the exciting opportunity to join the USA. They were sincere and happy for her. They were honestly shocked to discover that Canadians have no desire to lose their sovereignty. (Or their health care).

These examples (heartless callousness in the first, egocentric cluelessness in the second) really sum up MAGA.

To my many American friends and family — I can assure you that Canadians understand that it is the current administration and their cult-like supporters that have betrayed our long friendship, not Americans in general. But we are hella pissed right now.

Imagine taking a win-win situation like our long partnership, and turning it into a lose-lose situation like a tariff war. That takes a special kind of stupid.

Did you know there are no Canadian credit cards? Visa, MasterCard and American express are all owned by US companies. Canada has no credit cards from anywhere else available. Visa, etc. make their billions from interest and get a hidden fee every time we buy anything. If you want to reduce $ going out of #Canada, consider using your Canadian bank's debit card and cash for more of your purchases.

Brainstorming 🧠

Tariffs may be paused for 30 days, but we shouldn't sit back and wait. So, what are your ideas about how to effectively fight back as individuals? Do you have an idea that is...

specific,
measurable,
achievable,
relevant, &
time-bounded?

The most effective actions are specific and targeted so that we all combine our power. 💪