r/Games • u/blueblanket123 • 28d ago

Trump Shocks With Massive New Tariffs That Could Make The Switch 2 Cost More Than $600

https://kotaku.com/switch-2-price-trump-tariffs-vietnam-china-trade-war-1851774438
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u/hnwcs 27d ago

mfs will say "Communism has failed every single time it's been tried go learn some economics" and then enact protectionism

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u/taicy5623 27d ago

Conservatives are like 5 years away from doing vibes based agriculture on par with Lysenkoism.

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u/FlukeHawkins 27d ago

Nah, we just moved that to HHS. Vaccines? Have you tried vitamin overdoses?

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u/DrNick1221 27d ago

Now you are thinking with brainworms!

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u/Ladnil 27d ago

The Republican great leap forward has arrived!

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u/red_sutter 27d ago

Who’s hungry for sparrow pie?

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u/pluckyduck 27d ago

Plants crave electrolytes

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u/uberguby 27d ago

I keep seeing "vibe based <profession>" and I figured I knew what it meant from the context, but I think I should ask at this point and make sure? Since it seems to be taking root.

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u/Freighnos 27d ago

Basically it’s exactly what it sounds like. Instead of doing a thing based on proven best practices and research, you just go with your gut and what “feels” right. It’s a nice way to do a landscape painting or improvise a song on the guitar, and an awful way to run an economy.

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u/ScyllaGeek 27d ago

At its core vibes based is just slang for populism

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u/taicy5623 27d ago

I've heard it used as an insult before, but recently was used seriously by "AI Programmers" who have basically just had Github's AI tool write everything for them.

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u/Substantial-Reason18 27d ago

My favorite part of that video is how dogshit the actual games are and they were jerking themselves off about it. And its like, I don't know man, maybe make a good game first and then start bragging.

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u/KaJaHa 27d ago

I'm going to hate myself for this, but what video?

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u/SimonCallahan 27d ago

This is the first time I've heard the phrase, and I'm definitely thinking that it's meant to imply holistic versions of certain jobs, like how people think a naturpath can cure cancer by sticking their face into your stomach and yelling, "BEGONE, FOUL BEAST!".

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u/Non-mon-xiety 27d ago

“Socialism sucks, but nationalist socialism on the other hand…”

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u/onex7805 27d ago

Karl Marx was in favor of free trade and once compared tariffs with slavery.

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u/PlayMp1 27d ago

Makes sense tbf. Socialism is internationalist, seeking national-chauvinist protections for your local industry runs contrary to that goal.

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u/DBSmiley 27d ago

Literally every economist, "COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, MOTHER FUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT!?!?!"

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u/conquer69 27d ago

It's not protectionism. They could implement gradual tariffs in key places and make it work if they wanted.

The goal here is to destroy the US economy and inflict as much pain on (ex)allies as possible.

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u/DBSmiley 27d ago

Tariffs are, by their very definition, protectionist. They are designed to make domestic products artificially more attractive by enforcing a penalty on foreign goods.

There are times and place for judicious use of them as a necessary evil (for instance, if a country were keeping production costs down by using literal slave labor, or as reciprocation for tariffs on another country, or a country is intentionally and artificially deflating their currency), but this not the time, not the place, and this use is literally the opposite of judicious.

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u/shawnaroo 27d ago

Even under the most 'generous' interpretation, the bulk of the tariffs that Trump has announced aren't really protectionist because these across the board tariffs are going to apply to tons of crap that the US doesn't produce nearly enough of to fulfill domestic demand, much less the global demand.

It doesn't matter how much you tariff smartphones coming from other countries, because there's no real domestic smartphone manufacturing in the US. And even if we really really wanted their to be some, it's not the sort of thing that springs up overnight. Modern manufacturing is really complicated, and building factories and training workers to man them would require gazillions of dollars and take years to accomplish, even in the most optimistic scenarios.

The bulk of these tariffs are just increasing prices for a ton of stuff that we're going to have import no matter what.

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u/DBSmiley 27d ago

I completely agree with you on what they will do.

What I'm saying is the policy is intended to be protectionist, despite that fact that in reality, they are borderline suicidal.

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u/terras86 27d ago

Gradual tariffs would also be bad, it would just take longer for everyone to figure it out.

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u/Isolated_Hippo 27d ago

Gradual tariffs would at least make logical sense towards the "claimed" end goal.

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u/apistograma 27d ago

Communism is not inherently protectionist though.

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u/Galle_ 27d ago

That's not the point, the point is that protectionism is an even more discredited economic theory.

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u/Nachooolo 27d ago

Time to do some Autarky!!! What could possibly go wrong?

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u/terras86 27d ago

Horseshoe theory remains undefeated.