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Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes (arstechnica.com)
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Oh, to be able to justify spending $25 on this ... having a one-week window is rather cruel.

Cards Against Humanity, the often-vulgar card game, has launched a limited edition of its namesake product without any instructions and with a detailed explanation of each joke, "why it’s funny, and any relevant social, political, or historical context."

Why? Because, produced in this form, "Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke" is not a game at all, which would be subject to tariffs as the cards are produced overseas. Instead, the product is "information material" and thus not sanctionable under the law Trump has been using—and CAH says it has obtained a ruling to this effect from Customs and Border Patrol.

"What if DHS Secretary and Dog Murderer Kristi Noem gets mad and decides that Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke is not informational material?" the company asks in an FAQ about the new edition. (If you don't follow US politics, Noem really did kill her dog Cricket.) Answer: "She can fuck right off, because we got a binding ruling from Trump’s own government that confirms this product is informational and 100% exempt from his stupid tariffs."

Pre-orders for the $25 product end on October 15, and it will allegedly never be reprinted. All profits will be donated to the American Library Association "to fight censorship."

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Instead of trying to exploit loopholes, why not just produce them in the US? It's just cardstock.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 89 points 2 days ago

The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

I don't get it

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 49 points 2 days ago

Well that part was clear.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Ok this Fediverse experiment has been fun but it turns out you guys are assholes just like everywhere else. Byebye now.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

People dislike having to educate the same basic lessons over and over again, when it is very easy to search why tariffs are bad. It is not a community where people are going to spoonfeed you information that you didn't even directly ask for.

The simple answer is because we live in a global economy and you can't possible make everything that needs to be made in a single country. The more complex answer can be found by reading articles about it. Take this one, which was the first hit I found on a web search:

The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago

Comment: The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.

Your Reply: I don’t get it (as in, "I don't get the intent... I don't understand why tariffs are bad")

Me: Explaining why tariffs are bad.

Your Reply: Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.

Me: <not sure if stupid, asshole, troll, or all three>

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Please, I’m begging you to get just an ounce of reading comprehension.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Please, I'm begging you to just explain what you're trying to say instead of exclusively being a giant fucking asshole for no reason at all. They're the one who read my comments and somehow thought I was in need of an explanation of why tariffs are bad instead of an explanation of the joke.

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

Well that’s the point, it is not a joke, they want to highlight that tariffs are stupid. That was already the first answer you got.

Then you said you did not understand that, and you didn’t ask for an explanation, so you got a cheeky answer. Then you complained that nobody explained it to you. Now you got another explanation. And as a response you complained about it being not what you asked for.

Now here I am, explaining to you why you got the responses that you got. And let me guess, you will complain about it too.

[-] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 26 points 1 day ago

If someone is an asshole, then they probably are just an asshole. If everyone is an asshole, you should look at the common denominator of all those interactions.

[-] MoreZombies@quokk.au 27 points 2 days ago

Neither does Trump

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