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DaveMcMartin | 11 months ago

TBH, while I feel like this is the way, I’m noticing more and more politicians using this as a way to simply gather more votes with a "cause US bad" angle.

Companies are eager to get your money, so they'll try to get an "EU made" label and use it as marketing as hard as they can, even if 90% of their operation happens outside the EU.

And the way they talk, it seems like decoupling from the US is something trivial done overnight. No, it is not, it’s a kind of a slow process in some areas, and pragmatic decisions must be made along the way.

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epistasis|11 months ago

More and more politicians will use this obvious own-goal by Trump to their advantage, and so will more and more competitors to US companies. Yes, it will be a long and slow process.

The Buy Canadian, Bye America campaign from the US's northern neighbors won't change things on a dime, and if the US administration gains some basic common sense the movement might be killed before it grows too large.

drpossum|11 months ago

> I’m noticing more and more politicians using this as a way to simply gather more votes with a "cause US bad"

You typed that like they're wrong