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by ericmay 2mo ago
Sure but don’t they quote BLS data? Or do you believe their interpretation of the data is incorrect?
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> His wife and child aren't citizens of his home country either, so it's not like they can move to be with him. Why doesn’t their home country have a welcoming immigration plan allowing his spouse and child to move with him? Wh
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by ericmay 2mo ago
But they can be repaired. The OP claimed: > Other administrations will not be able to repair the damage So if you disagree with them you should reply to them and let them know the damage can be repaired.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
What is there to cope with? I’m not in favor of a trade war or anything, but if someone is going to claim we are desperate or make other claims that I believe to be sensationalist, wrong, or misleading I’ll just call them out. “Do this or e
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Ok, and then the US can get everything it needs from non Canadian or EU sources, and then we can just get maybe lay a little more or find alternative sources where needed. > Also no, Canada and the EU do not generally do a lot of trade w
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by ericmay 2mo ago
That doesn’t make any sense. But happy to answer any questions you may have!
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> But "America is taxing Canada" makes even less sense I don’t disagree. I just wanted to point out the framing needs to be consistent, which I think you agree with. I also agree with you with respect to free trade. Every expor
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I strongly support buying local where possible, especially for agricultural and farming products. My general algorithm goes: buy in my local area -> city -> region -> state -> country -> western-aligned. I try to buy a lot of
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Sorry, I did. I thought you were accusing American companies (which they can be) of being oligarchies. You’ll have to forgive me, I’ve been doing the lord’s work defending the United States a bit here and trying to clear up confusion that o
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by ericmay 2mo ago
No the world isn’t turning against the US, just people in the internet who like to think it is. Canada is forming trade agreements, the US is forming its own as well as we routinely do, including I’m sure a future one with Canada, and we ca
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I don’t disagree with you at all. My point was this: > Ex - you will pay more because of US tariffs, and more again because of Canadian tariffs in response to US tariffs. Also applies to Canada for the exact same reasons you highlighted.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> It's not a representative democracy. It's a winner-takes-all one. In US the executive is one single individual representing only those who voted him. Sometimes it's even a minority vote like in Trump #1. The US is liter
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I’m dumb and misread the comment. Please ignore.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> That is a very black and white view of the world. > The USA has proven to be highly volatile, highly unreliable, and highly unreasonable. Right, black and white haha. Well if we are highly volatile, highly unreliable, and highly unr
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> "I'll just get it from somewhere else" means you do need it. This isn't complicated logic. Right, it’s not complicated logic, so follow along. I didn’t say that America didn’t need these things. I said we aren’t des
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Well, in that case I’d say our version of Democracy is just the better one and European democracies are just one step away from Russia/China and are very unstable and unrepresented in comparison to the US because of the EU. We have onl
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Yea but we can find other sources or just do with less if we had to just like any other country can. Remember when Russia invaded Ukraine? Did Europe figure out a way to do without Russian products? I'm not sure why folks seem to think
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> The news isn't threatening allies, offending/mocking them, charging tariffs, subverting the very institutions that have been built together. A human in charge is. No but they're getting you to click on every article wher
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Sorry to see that - I would have said thank you to you as well had I been able to see your comment. Thanks for trying anyway
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Well there's layers right. If you're going to claim that we're very desperate for such things we would of course have to act as a country of desperation and secure aluminum, oil, and critical minerals perhaps at all costs. I
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by ericmay 2mo ago
US automakers wouldn't collapse if Canadiens weren't buying American cars. Canada is too small of a market. On the other hand Canada would lose a lot of jobs. It also wouldn't apply to just American auto manufacturers. Japane
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by ericmay 2mo ago
They can be repaired - but if you think they can't be, then the US should act accordingly which would mean yea go ahead and take over Greenland, withdraw forces from Europe, &c. because as you say they can't be fixed so we mig
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Someone else shared this article [1] and I was reading a quote I thought was interesting: “[Canada] has a large dairy producing constituency that it wants to protect, so they put a cap on imports that can be accessed at a competitive ra
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> You've returned to this example twice now. And it's interesting. Did you know Canada imports and buys more vehicles from the US than we export to the US? So what? We could still enact a quota on imports regardless of exports.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Fair enough, I agree the truth is more nuanced. I regret even using dairy as that has caused a lot more of a discussion about the specific item being, idk, targeted? than I would have liked and detracted from a more broad point that I wante
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Yes I found that article (despite the white text at the top) to also be interesting! Thanks again to both of you.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Canada negotiated in a quota of dairy products the US could export to Canada tariff free. If the US exceeds this quota, there are tariffs. If it doesn't, there are none. It has never even come close to hitting the quota, much less
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Why would you hate that you're typing those words? Technology is useful and neutral, and if we have good uses for it like it seems so here, let's do it! :)
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Thank you (and thanks to tzs) - was genuinely curious and wanted to read about it.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> It isn't semantics when $0 in tariffs were applied. > There have been $0 in tariffs on US dairy. The tariffs only come into play when the US imports pass a certain volume So how do tariffs come in to play if there are no tariff

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