Turns out that “nothing for an hour or two and then a gentle nudge” was the answer. I’m such a pushover when it comes to The Fabulous Staredycat Sisters 😂

Fun fact: the existence of atrocity factories like CIA and the US military doesn’t mean that benevolent public agencies, institutions, and social programs don’t exist.

Just like you being against murdering innocents abroad and also against paying your fair share to help protect them domestically, the US government contains both good and evil parts.

Unlike you, though, millions of people would not be able to survive without the good that government does.

Guess I wasn’t clear enough: use brain constructively, INSTEAD of for stupidity.

Because taxes AREN’T only federal. There’s federal taxes, state taxes and local (AKA municipal) taxes.

Libertarianism is stupidity. Use brain.

I’m sorry, you seem to have misspelled “glorious”…

With that attitude, he’d be the WORST interior decorator!

🎵 Make space for WHAT?!

Because that would require ridiculously large computer monitors. Much larger than current technology permits.

Olden Times, Roman

Or added serifs to the bottom of them all 😁

Nope. The location of the factories was never the point.

The point is what the effects of tariffs would be: they would help the bottom line of Western competitors and nothing else at the expense of Chinese workers and German consumers. It wouldn’t help Chinese slaves in any way.

THAT’S the point. THAT’S what matters.

It seems whatever one says, no matter if evidence proofs otherwise

Dude. You haven’t presented any evidence. You have CLAIMED that there is a car factory in Xinjiang and, rather than waste a bunch of time and energy confirming or disproving your claim, which is irrelevant to tariffs, I reiterated the important part.

continuing with your false narrative and spreading your opinion

I’m not making any false claims (with the possible exception of mistakenly thinking that there’s no car factories in Xinjiang) and the fact that the ones paying for the tariffs would be Germans buying more expensive cars as well as Chinese workers losing their jobs as their employers lose market share is just that: a fact. NOT an opinion.

To quote yourself to yourself, your points in your statement above are false again.

🎵 Come on JB now it’s time to blow doors down!

Even so, tariffs on Chinese cars won’t do anything to lessen the problem of slavery and will hurt Chinese workers and people who want to wean themselves off fossil fuels IMMENSELY.

The two issues of tariffs and slavery aren’t related and that you’re using the former as a defense department the latter is a sign that you don’t have any real reasons not to oppose such destructive protectionism.

It’s like saying that there should be a tariff on American cars because number plates are being made via penal slavery.

🎵 The PIIICKLE of the opera is here! Inside your mind…

Fun* fact: the Spice Girls song Spice Up Your Life was originally called Spice Up Your Pickle and was about encouraging pickle-assisted stabbing.

*read: false

Guess what: Chinese cars aren’t even made in Xinjiang.

Politicians are just conflating two completely unrelated issues to drum up support for eliminating the supply of cheaper in demand products that consumers prefer over the overly expensive choices from the Western owner donors.

We agree that the ethnic cleansing and slavery in Xinjiang is absolutely abhorrent and that workers throughout China should have much better wages and conditions, but this would have no effect on the former and devastatingly negative consequences for the latter.

German companies support tariffs on Chinese products

Well, duh! It would be great for the bottom line of the German companies to have less competition.

Awful for the German consumers and the Chinese workers who’d be the ones actually bearing the burdens of the tariffs, though.

That’s decidedly unfun and headhurty for those of us less mathemstically inclined. Also so deep into the theoretical weeds that I’m not sure that “fact” applies…

Breakfast of champions!