• NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    Once again. Companies do NOT pay tariffs. They pass on those costs of those tariffs to their customers. YOU are gonna pay that extra 25% not Apple.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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      how long is it going to take, before you realize its too late? if they didn’t realize by now, they aren’t going to

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        Trump will never ever admit he’s wrong, but I’m curious how the voters will react when everything costs 50% more all of a sudden.

        They’ll probably blame Biden somehow, but I’m curious still

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      that’s fine. iphones are so cheap, people can handle even 50% tariffs. apple is worth every penny /s.

      going to buy a cmf phone 2 now…

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        3 hours ago

        Yeah. I’m typing this on a $300 Chinese phone with 10600mAH battery, reverse wireless charging, a thermal imaging camera, and it’s waterproof and shock resistant.

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          51 minutes ago

          I have strongly considered the Armor line. Which is what I’m assuming you’re talking about

  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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    People are looking to much into his Tax Bill and Crypto Dinners. They can’t pass legislation secretly in the dead of night if the media and public aren’t distracted by bullshit.

    It hasn’t been half a year yet and the firehouse of chaos that is Trump is impossible to keep up with.

    CSJDIA.

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    4 hours ago

    This isn’t about making Apple make iPhones in the US. This is a 25% tax on everyday Americans that the fascists will blame on Apple for not making iPhones in the US and use to give tax breaks to the rich. Trump and his cabal are reverse Robin Hooding the American people and 70 million of them are lining up to lick his boots for it.

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      The US is turning into my games of stellaris a little bit more everyday. Oh boy you sure dont want to be in my games of stellaris guys.

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      You know that is somewhat true. What everyone could see when I was kid has come to pass. The people like trump and the actual billionaires in this country sold us out then. They sold us out by moving all the manufacturing offshore. Now these same greedy trash humans want all that back since they have realized that the ability to manufactures products was the United States real power. They delivered millions of my parents generation into poverty and wage slavery to make a buck by moving the job overseas. Now these horrible people and their followers are doing the same thing to try to get it back. They don’t understand nor do they care about the real people in this country. Only about themselves.

      Their followers who are not profiting from this must be really, really stupid.

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        The reason why manufacturing was moved offshore was because it cost more money to produce the goods in the states and they had to adhere to us regulation. Products are cheap because they’re build offshore. No one actually wants the factory jobs back in the states because they’ll be too expensive to produce, and a lot of the jobs will be done by bots anyway. If the iPhone was the be built in the states it would cost $3.5k. Billionaires want a peasant class. They’re envious of China - lots of low educated people earning nothing working long hours. Billionaires have low self esteem.

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        Their followers who are not profiting from this must be really, really stupid.

        And they’re the ‘good’ ones!

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    2 hours ago

    This perfectly sums up the shortfalls of Trumpian populism in the face of Late Stage Capitalism.

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    This past Monday, John Stewart of The Daily Show interviewed Patrick Mcgee who discussed the jaw-dropping amounts of money Apple spent building out Chinese electronics supply chains which had deep implications. -It made for an interesting case if true.

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    He still has absolutely no clue how tariffs work. Amazing for someone who throws them left and right without thinking. Although the latter might explain it.

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      The worst take from his opposition: “trumps such a dumb idiot”. And it’s why the left gets out-maneuvered; they imagine those on the right as only either 1. Imbeciles 2. Racists.

      The right sees the left as cunning, and strategizes how to outplay them.

      The left sees the right as backwards morons, and strategizes how to insult them. It seems to be the main play, and is doing him a favor by shutting down closer examination.

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        Trump is a demented moron who has no fucking idea what’s going on.

        His faceless staff, led by Stephen Miller, are very smart and know exactly what they’re doing.

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      It blows my mind when people say he has a reason for his tarriffs and it’s about enrichen his friends. He’s braindead and tarriffs is just the new word he learned. Tim Apple is gonna be mad.

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    11 hours ago

    I wonder if he knows apple simply can not comply with this. Apple doesn’t know how to make iPhones (at the scale and rate needed) and no one in the US does either.

    RIP

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    It’s coming true.

    And again “tariff must be paid by Apple” really shows that he still has no idea how they work.

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    Well, technically, any kind of tariff added to the import is always paid by Apple, who else would pay it? Some unrelated company? A foreign country?

    They will simply increase the price by an amount that will keep them making the same amount of money. The main problem is that because they like to do a round price worldwide, we European we’ll pay more too, so they can make more money. Assholes

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      And knowing the cult of Apple, they’ll pay it because it makes them look wealthy. That is the whole culture of Apple Customer base.

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        And if similar is on every phone? You can’t really do without a phone so at that point, it’s 25% inflation.

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        11 hours ago

        'What’s up, everybody? This is your boy Apple Lad, and I came through with one of those Tariff I Phones, just so I can unbox it for you!

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    14 hours ago

    This is what you get for bending down to the tyrant in inauguration day. You cant appease tyrants, you must fight them.