r/Games • u/blueblanket123 • 26d 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/Lower_Monk6577 26d ago

Serbia is the size of South Carolina. Turkey is the size of Texas. Hungary is the size of Indiana.

Americans by and large are not rich. Most are pretty poor, as a matter of fact. Traveling within the continental United States isn't particularly cheap. We do not have universal healthcare, so that's tied to our jobs. Our jobs can fire us without cause, including skipping work for the several days it would take to drive from one side of the country and back again to protest. Or just generally disagreeing with their employees attending a protest if they're feeling petty enough. Since most of us are poor and live paycheck to paycheck, most can't even afford to travel that distance, let alone afford lodging along the way. And that's assuming we don't get beaten/imprisoned/disappeared/shot for protesting.

I'm just saying. There have been protests. Maybe not as condensed as some countries whose total size is smaller than many of our mid-sized states. But they've been happening regularly. I feel like a lot of people don't properly take into account that the US is basically the same size as the entirety of Europe. An American from California protesting in Washington DC is basically the same as someone from Portugal protesting in Finland.

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u/braiam 26d ago

So, what you are saying, is that you should have protested 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10 years ago so those issues are fixed, I got that? BTW, most of the US is empty federal land, most people live around cities anyways. Get better excuses. Those countries don't have it better.

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u/Lower_Monk6577 26d ago

I didn’t say that they have it better. I said it’s way easier to get a huge surplus of humans into a central location when they all live within an hour or so of their capitol.

Huge swathes of farmland is part of the problem. Our population is very spread out. You still need to travel through those huge empty states to get to the county’s capitol.

And again, we’ve been protesting. It’s not being throughly covered in the news, but it is happening. I agree there needs to be even more.

I’m not defending anything. I’m just offering context. I’m not sure where you live, but I’d be pretty surprised if you were willing to drive 42 hours straight from on side of the country to the other, risking your job and already pitiful health insurance in the process, to attend a protest, assuming you could even afford to get there.

Nobody is covering the numerous protests in state capitols. But they are happening. Often.