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Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less

161 points · 154 comments · burnt-resistor

  1. Arodex · · focus · HN ↗

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    1. gustavus · · focus · HN ↗
      What do you hope to accomplish by that statement?

      Do you think this will motivate people who may have voted for trump but been ok the fence by calling them stupid?

      Is it to help give a better alternative or actionable advice? Does it contribute anything to the discussion?

      It seems it primarily exist to give you a hit of self righteous dopamine while attempting to create further rifts between individuals.

      1. anonymars · · focus · HN ↗
        Far more useful would be to wonder for a moment why people voted that way, especially since I would wager no small part of the reason is because people are living in different realities stemming from hyper-targeted curated clickbait slop
        1. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
          And racism
          1. anonymars · · focus · HN ↗
            Oh, did racism in the US suddenly increase? More than the days of, say, Jim Crow or the Ku Klux Klan, or Operation Wetback, or..?
            1. Arodex · · focus · HN ↗
              Between "Kavanaugh stops" (aka police harassment of brown-skinned people) and racial gerrymandering being brought back (and Mississippi GOP immediately celebrating it in the old capitol associated with Jim Crow), what do you think?
              1. anonymars · · focus · HN ↗
                Given that those things existed in the past, I don't think they are sufficient to explain the more unique situation of the present, and thus also don't offer a compelling avenue to counteract it
                1. Arodex · · focus · HN ↗
                  Coddling the southern segregationist isn't what led to equal civil rights. It was a fight and it wasn't all nonviolent.
                  1. anonymars · · focus · HN ↗
                    If that fight were to happen again, but the surrounding media environment setup didn't much change, do you think the resulting changes would be long-lasting?
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