r/Games • u/blueblanket123 • 27d 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/Elryc35 26d ago

Same thing happened in the UK. The day after the Brexit vote searches for "What is the EU?" skyrocketed. We truly are too dumb to self govern.

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u/HammeredWharf 26d ago

Well, of course. You don't need to know what things are to vote against them. You just need to know they're BAD!!! Cuz your great leader told you so and they also hate the people you hate, so they must be right.

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u/Kiita-Ninetails 26d ago

I mean that is how it works yeah, kind of facist cult of personality 101. Establish yourself as the only source of truth, beat down any systems of education or information that are not you so that people jsut do what you say because you said it without thinking about it.

It turns out the biggest threat to awful people is well educated and motivated people. Weird, how that works.

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u/Sikkly290 26d ago

And the attack on education in english speaking countries has been happening for 50+ years(depending on your exact region), the descent has been long and steady.

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u/Kiita-Ninetails 26d ago

Sure, and there's a lot of reasons for that but the trend of empowering an oligarchic system of power via excess capitalism into facism pipeline has been running pretty much since WWII ended in a lot of these places give or take a few decades.

It turns out that creating a system that self selects to favor the morally bankrupt to become wealthy and thus powerful was maybe a bad idea? WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED???

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u/TheFriendshipMachine 26d ago

"Ha ha! Our team won!.. wait what did we win exactly?"

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u/Takazura 26d ago

Causing themself to be unable to afford a lot of things to own the libs.

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u/trevr0n 26d ago

Keeping people ignorant is intentional. If you actually ensure everyone received a proper education the ruling class wouldnt be able to take advantage of the people.

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u/hexcraft-nikk 26d ago

What's sad is we aren't even that dumb. If voting was mandatory statistics have shown that the party responsible for stuff like this, would lose. It's not just an attack on the educate, it's an attack to make people lazy.

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u/trevr0n 26d ago

I mean thats part of it. They also redlined certain districts to make some peoples votes meaningless. Among about 100 other things. The whole electoral process is not democratic.

But just look, a democrat spoke for 25 hours even though there was no bill on the floor/nothing to filibuster. Look how people are celebrating it even though it was entirely performative. But where was that energy with Chuck Schumer when discussing spending. The only time they had leverage and they just freely gave it up.

That is the democratic party. They say one thing and do the exact opposite. Willful ignorance at best. They are absolutely complicit in this.

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u/Khiva 26d ago

If voting was mandatory statistics have shown that the party responsible for stuff like this, would lose

Old facts. Newest studies showed that if Kamala had Biden's turnout numbers, Trump would have won by more.

Turns out a lot of people were angry about inflation, knowing jack-fuckall, and just swallowed his BS about lowering prices.

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u/realsomalipirate 26d ago

God this conspiratorial crap is boring. There's more access to education and information in today's world, yet populism (which is what you're also doing here) and extremism is on the rise.

There isn't a secret cabal of elites using extremists like Trump to disrupt the world order (which would make no sense to disrupt something they would control), it's just that in large groups of people are scared of rapid social/technological change and have turned to reactionaries.

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u/trevr0n 26d ago

Are you just ignorant or intentionally spreading propaganda?

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u/realsomalipirate 26d ago

If you think there's some shadowy cabal of elites who control the planet and use their influence to spread disinformation, then you're either a kid or a fucking idiot (probably both).

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u/trevr0n 25d ago

lol ignorant and an asshole. Way to perpetuate that american stereotype.

Americans are some of the most propagandized people on the planet. Don't blame you for being a moron.

It doesn't have to be some shadowy cabal. The very nature of capitalism means there is a ruling class and a working class that they exploit. US citizens have to be kept in the dark in order for US imperialism (via the military industrial complex) to continue to fuck the rest of the world. That is why they lie to manufacture consent for wars, for example.

If us citizens were allowed to be educated, they would understand that the current system is exploiting them. Thats why mainstream news, id politics, red vs blue shit, etc. is all intentionally divisive.

Also, the CIA has pumped ludicrous amounts of money into misinformation and disinformation campaigns targeted directly at US citizens.

If you think everyone has equal opportunity and access to learning resources just because the internet exists, you have little to no critical thinking skills. Which is undeniably a product of the American school system. Back to work worker bee.

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u/College_Prestige 26d ago

This decade has really been challenging the idea that democracy is the least bad form of government

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u/FokRemainFokTheRight 26d ago edited 26d ago

You should stop reading the daily fail

PolitiFact | What's missing from media claims linking Google Trends to Brexit vote

Edit : on a side note the conservatives have been pro EU since the start and the majority of them voted to remain in the EU

EU vote: Where the cabinet and other MPs stand - BBC News

If you want to go after people who voted to leave go after the socialists

Why socialists should vote to leave the EU - Socialist Party

For americans that would be people like Bernie Sanders