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

submitted 6 days 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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[–] morphballganon -3 points 6 days ago

Are you not aware of the massive disinformation campaign?

Twitter and Tiktok are compromised.

Fox News is framing the increased cost to American consumers from the tariffs as Canada's doing.

"i GuEsS aMeRiCaNs ArE oK wItH iT"

Most Americans don't even know that Musk, an unelected citizen who was once an illegal immigrant, just got access to the Treasury with full authority to stop payments to citizens/states/whoever he chooses.

Maybe try to not be an absolute douchebag? Doable, you think?