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Democrats have never completely gotten over the Civil War. This is why they want to push the "big party switch" lie so much. There was no "party switch". They've always been the party of slavery and the KKK.
"NOOOO! THE PARTY THAT LITERALLY FOUGHT TO END SLAVERY IS THE RACIST PARTY"

Yeah, whatever.
 
As someone living in Japan and having been to Germany alot as well, no the Germans do not have it in them, Japanese people do.

Japanese people punch annoying livestreamers and restaurants and landlords discriminate against foreigners. They even discriminate against Koreans who, in our eyes, all look same.

Germans get raped and killed by muzzies and not only do they nothing, they vote for more brown immigration.
 
Using Trump2.0 economic logic (my previous post has sources) here is how tariffs may not increase prices for US consumers. A mixture of these methods is expected.

Tariff offset by foreign currency exchange rate.
In the first Trump administration tarrifs increased 17.9% against China, and were offset by China's currency exchanging for 13.7% less USD.
America is able to pull this off because USD is the global reserve currency.

Importer eats cost.
Real world data shows middleman import companies pay the brunt of the cost increase.
Example:
America-made item $2 each.
$1 Chinese item sold at $1.90 each.
25% tariff makes Chinese item $1.25, but importer keeps selling at $1.90. Importer eats 25¢ increase.

American made products more affordable.
Reduce the cost of regulation compliance.
Reduce corporate income tax rate.
Reduce labor costs (no tax on overtime or tips)
Reduce energy prices ("drill baby drill")



There are more methods and details than this, but I tried to explain the most obvious and straightforward methods.

Nobody knows for certain if Trump's economic solutions will work. Tariffs haven't been used this heavily by America in 100 years.
 
just to continue to sperg about the impact of cheap asian crap flooding the market: something I think Americans rarely fully realize is that we got boned from both sides, other countries don't have our on steroids regulatory environment plus hypereffective enforcement plus extremely, extremely lawabiding populace

so you have stuff that's too cheap to fix plus the lady who used to run a dress shop where you could get stuff altered can't afford to be in business anymore because her landlord got hit with so much nonsense from the city that he sold the building

even when people are generally aware of the INSANE ANTIBUSINESS ANTIHUMAN regulatory crap they don't often have a good sense of how it interleaves - it's not as simple as the dressmaker lady got hit with dressmaker regulations, and so it's super hard to tell the story to people so they can get it and apply it to everything that's happening around them

we just feel the malaise, we feel the happiness and meaning sapping out the world, but if you try to explain to people that this is happening because of some regulations about sewage or bugs or earthquake retrofitting they can't hook that bureaucratic stuff up to seeing their entire world turn into a strip mall and a big box store.
 
Germans and Japanese are cut from a similar cloth, that obsession with rules and efficiency and order that makes them so polite gives way to extremism and brutality when it's part of the system they're devoted to, and they don't really try to steer the forces that cause these eruptions so they can happen in retarded ways
German and Japanese societies are two of the only groups that are more ordered than the Americans.
 
Democrats have never completely gotten over the Civil War. This is why they want to push the "big party switch" lie so much. There was no "party switch". They've always been the party of slavery and the KKK.
Its funny to think about because if the party switch happened, why do white democrats have so much guilt over slavery and the KKK? According to them, they're the ones who freed the slaves and were against the KKK so shouldn't they be proud of of their ancestors? Instead its "Were sorry for something our ancestors didn't do"
 
Germans and Japanese are cut from a similar cloth, that obsession with rules and efficiency and order that makes them so polite gives way to extremism and brutality when it's part of the system they're devoted to, and they don't really try to steer the forces that cause these eruptions so they can happen in retarded ways
The Germans are not efficient, at least not anymore as anyone who has spent anytime in Germany can attest. Obsessed with rules and procedure, yes, but not efficient. Case in point, their trains.
 
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