Good. Our lack of tariffs and our soft vulnerability in the Chinese trade wars enabled them to pull scams like Temu.
My mother became addicted to catalog shopping, and she flooded our home with cheap Chinese shit, even before website catalogs were a thing. Even our USPS mailbox was clogged with thick glossy catalogs full of useless trinkets that would cost us nearly nothing.
I regularly turn into Marie Kondo's disciple, and I get rid of the useless crap my Mom foists on me from those catalogs. They do not spark any joy! I try to destroy/break it really good before I toss it out. Sometimes, I capture the more dramatic destruction sessions on video. I've got to check into those new services where you go in and you put on armor and then you break stuff to release aggression. I would prefer to bring in my own items to destroy.
China has been buying US debt; they've been accepting metric fucktons of garbage and refuse from us; they've been selling us horrible stuff including worthless religious tchotchkes. Sometimes I imagine working-class Chinese in the factories being converted to Christ and seeking baptism, simply because they spend 100s of hours hand-painting Sacred Heart of Jesus and images of Our Lady of Fàtima!
Of course China has also sold us insanely useful things like a Windows 10 notebook from Lenovo in 2018. I purchased it with my FAFSA student aid funds and it was 100% configurable on the Lenovo's own website. It shipped to my place direct from Shenzhen in no-time-flat. It was a miracle of modern logistics, supply chain and engineering. That notebook lasted for over 6 years and 3 OS including Fedora Linux. I loved it. It was still 100% functional when I recycled it.
To all Chinese sellers: you need to eat the cost of the tariffs on your side. Ask your local government comrade official to subsidize your product more.
Xi said that American suppliers couldn’t even ask for discounts, so that’s the end that. China has been looking at dumping these smaller industries for a while, they don’t innovate much, and there are better things to invest the capital and workers on.
Good. Our lack of tariffs and our soft vulnerability in the Chinese trade wars enabled them to pull scams like Temu.
My mother became addicted to catalog shopping, and she flooded our home with cheap Chinese shit, even before website catalogs were a thing. Even our USPS mailbox was clogged with thick glossy catalogs full of useless trinkets that would cost us nearly nothing.
I regularly turn into Marie Kondo's disciple, and I get rid of the useless crap my Mom foists on me from those catalogs. They do not spark any joy! I try to destroy/break it really good before I toss it out. Sometimes, I capture the more dramatic destruction sessions on video. I've got to check into those new services where you go in and you put on armor and then you break stuff to release aggression. I would prefer to bring in my own items to destroy.
China has been buying US debt; they've been accepting metric fucktons of garbage and refuse from us; they've been selling us horrible stuff including worthless religious tchotchkes. Sometimes I imagine working-class Chinese in the factories being converted to Christ and seeking baptism, simply because they spend 100s of hours hand-painting Sacred Heart of Jesus and images of Our Lady of Fàtima!
Of course China has also sold us insanely useful things like a Windows 10 notebook from Lenovo in 2018. I purchased it with my FAFSA student aid funds and it was 100% configurable on the Lenovo's own website. It shipped to my place direct from Shenzhen in no-time-flat. It was a miracle of modern logistics, supply chain and engineering. That notebook lasted for over 6 years and 3 OS including Fedora Linux. I loved it. It was still 100% functional when I recycled it.
To all Chinese sellers: you need to eat the cost of the tariffs on your side. Ask your local government comrade official to subsidize your product more.
Xi said that American suppliers couldn’t even ask for discounts, so that’s the end that. China has been looking at dumping these smaller industries for a while, they don’t innovate much, and there are better things to invest the capital and workers on.
Doesn't stop them from asking discounts, though.
Walmart asked, and it’s suppliers said that the central government told them they weren’t allowed to cut prices.
I’m sorry, but this is absolutely delusional. It is simply not how things work.
Like, if you think this because minihands said it was what would happen, well, y’know, he’s a career conman, what do you expect?