• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      experts are trying to convince americans to respond, but we aren’t.

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        Like the French Revolution, it takes a lot for a revolt. Ultimately if faces aren’t seen, it forgotten. As for republicans, if they aren’t white faces; it’s forgotten in a day or two.

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        Lots of us are peacefully protesting and it’s pretty hard for most of us to do anything more than that

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          Well you guys gotta make an effort or you’ll find out first hand the difference between e.g. Ukraine and Russia. Or Taiwan and China

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      Tariffs have doubled the cost of red-lines, as they were sourced in S. E. Asia, processed in a small barely-know penguin island, and packaged in Denmark.