The civilised world has always sneered at 'Murica
But now we look upon the disaster with great pity for those who have been unfortunately born there who deserve better
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I want better for us, and I'm fighting for it, but I have very limited personal power to enact change.
The way "we" looked at those "third-world" countries when I was a child feels like how everyone should be looking at us. Our squalor is not that of unclean water (but that is still true in places) or of systemic violence by the government (but that is still true in places) or of lack of reliable food (but that is still true in places). We have cellphones and internet, cars and roads, and air-conditioning, so we should be happy.
Our squalor is in the apathy and even antipathy a bulk of our fellow citizens have towards others.
The fix is education and awareness, but the means of enacting it have been hijacked. How do I reach someone on the west coast to be kind when I can't touch them from the east coast?
There was a post recently, and I'll link it if I can find it again, about Kevin and his truck, and how helping others builds community. Very wholesome. Community has been lost here outside of the uber-wealthy (they all know each other), or the "poor" who need it to survive. The "middle class" has lost the plot.
Don't buy anything not entirely necessary until this shit is done. As usual consumers hold the bag.
They are available to anyone who imported and paid a tariff. If you did that, you can get a refund. Being ‘a business’ or ‘a consumer’ is completely irrelevant.
The issue being that when these companies imported their goods they passed on the cost of tariffs to the consumer. And then they were reimbursed for the tariff by the government. So essentially this is the consumer giving those companies more money, but with extra steps to try to trick consumers into believing they didn’t.
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Just wondering how many more times in my life I'm going to watch dipshit Republicans make dipshit moves that require dipshit bailouts that aren't for the people paying for the dipshit bailouts.