Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions
SpitSalute@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We as leftists, must organize in ways that match the fascists. Subversion of their goals is our goal. The class and culture war is in full effect and we must not be complacent.
Is this satire? :)
This is a gaming community and judging by the most upvoted comment, there are many non-Americans on this community.
Apologies if I missed the satire, just in Lemmy you often see “leftist” rants about how USSR splitting up Europe with Nazi Germany was a good thing and how genocidal invasions should actually be supported.
Apologies, I’m not on Lemmy very much, nor the gaming community. I’m an American distraught by Trump right now. I’m no communist. Just an impassioned and anxious progressive American. Thank you for telling me.
All good. That’s a fair point.
I am getting too paranoid. :)
go on Counter Strike
constant n words
“your body my choice.”
…yeah, y’all got this. Lmao. Gamers unite! 😂
Omg, are you a professional comedian!!! You could make millions!!! 😂😂😂 thats some original humor right there!!! You genius you
Won’t the tariffs incentivise domestic production and give work to more regular folks? Sounds like a leftist idea to me.
If you gave it thirty years and the entire world paused and waited for us, sure,… but, we have a global economy and old people need medications, cars need chips and batteries. We all depend on each other. We can’t charge a toll and pretend everything won’t see any ill effects
If you proposed something else that would uplift lower classes sooner they’d probably vote for it. What Democrats were offering wasn’t credible enough because people have been deceived for too long.
We don’t have infrastructure to produce a lot of the components in the things we buy, and even if we did, it would inherently cost a lot more to produce than in the countries that are about to have tariffs placed on them. That the US ever was a manufacturing powerhouse was, in my understanding, a very “place and time” sort of deal after World War II. Not only were all of our competitors recovering from being bombed, but we also advanced to a services based economy very quickly, raising the standard of living beyond a point that manufacturing jobs can typically afford to support. I’m no economist though; I just watch one on YouTube, and “the middle income trap” is a frequent topic.
Tariffs can serve as a stimuli to build out local manufacturing capacity, which sounds pretty leftist to me. I understand arguments for laissez faire policies but at heart they are liberal and not left. It’s the refusal to accept it that led to far right being as popular as it is.
Anyone promising to return people to previously prosperous economic conditions will be popular, even if people don’t know that the promise can’t possibly be delivered. Coal isn’t coming back either, and there’s no “clean” version of it, but if all you’ve done in your life is coal, you’ll vote for the guy who says he’s bringing coal back.
Tell me you don’t know how the world works without telling me you don’t know how the world works.
Are you arguing that tariffs and other market restrictions are ineffective at incentivising moving of production sites?
Are you dancing around the fact that multiple industries have indicated they will pass on the cost of the tariffs to consumers?
I’m sorry you’re right, the Republicans have always wanted to tackle that ocean plastic problem. Trump, of course, cares about that. He’s always talked about how much he wants to help clean up the ocean, oh wait…
Half right half wrong, would benefit USA a lot more if they were a developing market, not the center of the modern world
Could be that US rejected modernity because it wasn’t working for them.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not at all sure you can assume gamers are leftists. An awful lot seem to be pretty hard right.
iheartneopets@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yeah, gamer gate was one of the things that lead to Trump being elected in the first place. Plus the outcry that still happens when BIPOC, LGBT, or women protagonists are used. Hell, just look at any steam discussion board sometime and you’ll see it.
As someone who games, gAmERs are the fucking worst
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I kinda missed the gamer gate thing, was distracted by other shit and wasn’t gaming at the time. Am I right in thinking it was some kind of misogynist incel bullshit? Like, girls aren’t allowed to play with the boys’ toys?
But yeah, I’ve seen enough stuff on discussion boards and heard enough anecdotes to see that there’s a lot of bigotry in gaming. The hard right are successfully using it as a recruitment platform for kids. Fuckin appalling, but they are well organised and fascists don’t have to worry so much about sectarianism.
I just don’t get how people can’t see that there’s strength in diversity. Like, in gaming you want a team with different skills, abilities, experiences, and characteristics. It’s the same IRL - a diverse community is a strong community.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a shame. Seeing the bullshit companies have done to games for the sake of profit ought to be a pretty easy on-ramp to anti-capitalism. But just like in the real world, racist shit distracts them from any of that.