• lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Its also what the stores voted for. Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.

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          Source is all news from the last year? There are hundreds of stories on who contributed to his campaign and caved to his policies.

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            18 days ago

            If true, then parent should not have a problem providing a source supporting their broad claim. Parent claimed “Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.”

            EDIT: I’ll add that I think that there are probably pretty good reasons for this not to, in fact, be true. It would be quite unexpected for all industry to support one candidate; normally, there is a split, with donations from, say, the finance industry tending to benefit Democrats in recent years. Trump’s 2024 campaign, unlike his 2016 campaign, had quite poor financial support, falling far behind Harris in political donations; Trump’s weakness there was why Musk was in a position to bail Trump out with his colossal expenditure. In recent years, the number of major news outlets that are viewed by Republicans have been quite concentrated into a few sources, especially Fox; Democrats have consumed a broader range of news media; and one wouldn’t normally expect news media primarily consumed by Democrats to be supporting Trump.

            But, hey, I’m willing to see the parent’s source material if they have it.

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      Unfortunately, it seems this needs to happen to wake people the fuck up.

      Another article today about people literally having no concept of why the websites they’re shopping on is suddenly way more expensive (and explicitly showing the tariff costs).

      People are surprised by this, and many of them have literally never even heard the word “tariff” before.

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      18 days ago

      lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular

      Nah. We’ve already seen businesses implementing digital price tags for just this occurrence.

      Your stores will stay stocked. You’re just going to see merch doubling and tripling in price as inventory depletes.

      Eventually, you’ll walk into a store, see a single pair of jeans on the rack, and read a $1000 price tag on it because it’s the last pair of that style in 20 miles.

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      18 days ago

      i heard the shore employees are going to lose thier jobs the moment it stays empty.

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      And that’s just from the Tariff effects. When you count hoarders scalpers people stealing from trucks fromwarehouses and everything else it’s going to get really crazy. And people are going to start hoarding things that aren’t getting tariffed because they don’t want to find out the hard way

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