Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption Under New Rules

Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by Spooky23 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @11:59AM (#43665515)

We're building a hybrid of Italian Fascist and a Argentinian Peronist like state.

The desire for transactional wins and power overshadows all. Trump will unironically ally himself with a turd like Elon, or a turd like the UAW dude who glazed him on "Liberation Day". The state control of business is missing... perhaps we'll see that develop with Tesla.

It's a weird movement, because the baseline assumption is that the country is ruined. So any marginal win is celebrated, any loss is "priced in" politically.

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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by grey-area on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:54PM (#43666054)

Well these tariffs are a great opportunity for state control and corruption, companies are bribing him already.

Every dictatorship is unhappy in its own way but they all involve:

Myth of the strong man dictator

Erosion of rule of law

Undermining independent judiciary

Arbitrary detention and arbitrary enforcement of laws

Separate paramilitary groups

There are signs of all of this in the US just now.

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