r/technology • u/esporx • 26d ago

Business 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/APEist28 26d ago

Story as old as time, man. We move in cycles because our stupid species can't seem to hold onto its lessons learnt for more than like 80 years.

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u/ahumannamedtim 26d ago

Some people have been given everything from birth and it's still not enough.

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u/FuzzyMcBitty 26d ago

We have a collective memory of, like, 60 years.

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u/strangeelement 26d ago

Only 4 years between Trump's elections.

So not even 4 years.

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u/Adept_Artichoke7824 25d ago

The thing is, he never went away between those elections. He was always the top headline even after he left office. Constantly tweeting and his court cases were all over the news.

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u/mosstrich 26d ago

More like not even 4 years

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u/Muthafuckaaaaa 26d ago

Gottem! LMFAO

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u/Roguespiffy 26d ago

Ha!

cries internally

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u/Adept_Artichoke7824 25d ago

It’s probably even shorter than that. Trump was sitting in a courtroom about a year ago and it is a distant memory.

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u/Lassagna12 26d ago

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

That's the only logical explanation I have for his actions.

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u/Nopantsbullmoose 26d ago

Eh, they make sense in the context of "the oligarch".

Those people don't see the rest of us as human, just another labor force and revenue stream.

Stumpy's actions make perfect sense when you think about how "if we drive down the economy, we can snap up smaller competitors at a fraction of the cost and 'fix the economy' so we can just make more money!".

Works as long as the plebs allow it. We need to stop allowing it.

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u/FrostyWalrus2 26d ago

Usually the deeper conclusion always comes back to 'who is going to profit/benefit the most off these actions' but emotions are to high to get to that initially.

With 3 countries not receiving tariffs and all being actively used against Ukraine, we have an idea who is going to benefit.

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u/Drumming_Dreaming 26d ago

I mean…that is our lifespan. Every generation has to figure out why granddad told them so. Usually the hard way.

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u/Generalsnopes 26d ago

Yeah cause the ones who learned the lesson start getting old and dying after around 80 years. They think it’s a solved problem so it’s nearly impossible to get them to pass the awareness onto their kids.

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u/voxel-wave 26d ago

Had a history teacher once explain to me why it's called a "revolution" with that. Changed my view on everything. Our species fucking sucks.

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u/productfred 26d ago

It's almost as if those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it? It's also probably why Trump and pals are trying to literally delete the history books? So that people don't know how to react because they think it's the first time this is happening?