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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada (thebeaverton.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by GrymEdm to c/[email protected]

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The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

very naive perspective. bigger forces than "the people" are throwing everything they can at your democracy and this "oh well" attitude is handing your ass to them on a silver platter.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You think I have an oh well attitude because I don’t think I do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Fair I could be jumping to conclusions. I'm just saying that even if it were true that the majority of Americans chose Trump in a fair election where everyone had equal opportunity to vote, then even that wouldn't mean the people are getting what they wanted. Aggressive misinformation, decades of propaganda, capture of the media, these are all things that we can't blame individuals for that would cause this.

If the United States makes its way out of this, systemic change will be necessary. Capitalism is at the root of this all.