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Maybe if some orange turd wasn’t busy fucking up everything from board games to airplanes politics wouldn’t come up so much.

Hard to have a conversation without it when there’s a massive tariff on every single product related to work, hobbies, and even just living.

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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I was on a discussion board for anime figurines and people started posting screenshots of their order checkouts showing tariffs nearly doubling the cost of their order. That caused a conundrum because people started talking politics and that’s not allowed according to the board rules. But what are people supposed to do? Can they talk about increased prices or is that political? Do they just have to pretend prices have skyrocketed for no reason at all? Can they even mention prices are higher than before?

If you don’t restrict things then you’re allowing discussion of politics. If you do restrict things then you’re preventing normal discussion because of politics. It’s unavoidable.

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- tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Everything is political; how much you notice really is just a metric of how much a particular subject effects you.
  
  This is such a great example.
  
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- BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Even something as simple as suggesting “Hey, these figures are made in Vietnam instead of China, so they’re lower cost right now” is political. It is, as you said unavoidable.
  
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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s not like tariffs are going to disappear only if people talk about them 24/7.

Not expending all your mental energy in thinking about it and just enjoying life, hobbies and other topics is probably one of the best things you can do. Why do you think orange guy makes the statements he make. It’s not because he is stupid (even if you want to think he is stupid) is because he knows his opposition gets triggered by it. And if you are constantly thinking about it you’ll destroy your mental health and the mental health of those around you. Exhaustion is their goal.

Just live life.

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- BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The problem is that they’re actively impacting your ability to participate in many hobbies, or eating up funds on necessities that force you to forgo other things entirely. It’s not that we’re just repeating “tariffs bad” when talking about them, it’s that they’re actually factoring into decisions being made in order to live our life.
  
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  - daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, I know. I have my struggles in life. In my country disposable income and quality of life for the working class have been in constant decline for years (even with a socialist/communist government). But after so many years in politics, I found out that letting it consume me doesn’t change anything. I do what I can do to be better, but the rest of the time I focus in my life. It’s already hard enough to making it become harder by letting it consume all my mental focus.
    
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themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It really is tough to talk about anything else, and even when you do talk about it, it’s more of an exasperated sigh than a conversation.

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- InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Exactly this. Sure it is exhausting, but it is necessary. Even more so with this current administration.
  
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