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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 143 points 3 months ago

The worst type of person is the person who is so allergic to being "wrong" that they'll constantly double down with new bullshit to try to convince people why it wasn't a mistake in the first place. It's fucking exhausting.

[-] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago

It's honestly so many people! How did admitting you are wrong become so painful for so much of society?

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This is the same generation that gave us ‘participation trophies’ so their feelings and their kids’ feelings didn’t ‘get hurt’.

I’m not quite sure where this plague of ‘treat my feelings with kid gloves, otherwise I might die’ got started, but we really need to do something about it.

[-] 2fm@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago
[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

I literally fired people for this in my IT career. Intolerable.

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 3 months ago
[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I think you're mistaking "conservatives and centrists" for "American government"

[-] SkyeStarfall 11 points 3 months ago

Who is controlling the American government right now?

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

the leopard seals.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 3 months ago

The problem with this is that the rationale they give isn't "wrong". The US has received imports through the islands and the article gives details on why that happens.

While all of this is dumb, those points will make sense to conservative voters.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 37 points 3 months ago

tl;dr: They're claiming that it was to "prevent countries with tariffs from shipping through there to avoid tariffs."

The United States alleged the islands exported more goods to the United States than they imported, an allegation that appeared to be calculated from incorrect trade data. An analysis of U.S. import data and shipping records by The Guardian indicated some shipments were incorrectly labeled as coming from the remote islands instead of their correct countries of origin. According to export data from the World Bank, the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m) of products from Heard Island and McDonald Islands in 2022, nearly all of which was "machinery and electrical" imports.[39]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

[-] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 months ago

Great, now they simply have to claim their shipments came from Russia and they'll be exempt.

Hope you know Russian!

[-] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

... Why were we allowing items into the country that were shipped through an uninhabited island to begin with? Like, that should be the red flag... They should treat it like losing your parking garage ticket, you pay the top rate.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

**... some shipments were incorrectly labeled as coming from the remote islands instead of their correct countries of origin. **

I even put it in bold.

[-] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah...I saw that. Hence my comment. Why would they allow that in? Even if it was labeled as that, they could do like I said in my comment and slap the highest tariff available on it - if that were the actual goal, and not an obvious lie to cover up their ineptitude.

[-] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I agree, it's insane that customs ever accepted a fictional port on uninhabited islands as a point of origin in the first place. That's the loophole they should close. It does appear that that's a thing that did actually happen though, so it's not a complete fabrication. I'd say customs should have been authorized to confiscate any such good until a non-fictional provinence was proven.

[-] nicky7 16 points 3 months ago

Wasn't Russia left off the list? hmmm

[-] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Those penguins know what they did

[-] aeternum 9 points 3 months ago

those damn penguins. Damn freeloaders.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Look, obviously Trump’s a moron. But don’t go pretending that corporate leeches wouldn’t route their funds through some penguins for tax avoidance. They would totally do that.

Do you believe all of those tech giants were actually based in Ireland?

[-] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but it would probably make more sense to just have like a universal 10 percent default rate for "other" as a category.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I feel like this is really just a distraction. When you have a base of 10%, then it gets applied to dumb stuff like this. That should be a given. Let's focus on the other wild shit that is happening.

[-] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

What's the tariff on something made in international waters?

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