• Mariemarion@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    And it’s sooo typical of their hyper-inflated personal and national egos:
    They didn’t wonder for one minute why on earth foreign companies would pay up. For the honor or doing business with the greatest country on earth tm? Because they’d have no choice of other buyers, since no other countries has car / computer / whatever manufacturers who’d buy their products instead?

    They. Are. So. Fucking. Insular.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      It’s simpler than that. They have literally no idea what tax incidence even is, and think the government just decides who the burden falls on.

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      4 hours ago

      Their

      They

      They

      They being Americans?

      There was another post about how Americans unfairly generalize Russians (or others) for the things their country does, and how hypocritical it is, implying we would get defensive. Well here I am, an American, reacting to my people being generalized:

      Nods

      Agrees

      We are like that, and did this to ourselves.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        It’s not just Americans, remember the Brexiteers realizing that due to Brexit, they need a visa for their Spanish holiday, and they have to stand in the “rest of the world” line?

        We will see a bunch of “this is not the Brexit I’ve voted for” to come.

        • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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          We will see a bunch of “this is not the Brexit I’ve voted for” to come.

          No, they’ll just continue to blame dems, immigrants, and anyone else under then sun except for their godemporer for the mess they voted themselves into.