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I still don't really understand how trade tariffs work. Also Gasaraki thread.
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>>21579430 (OP)
The idea behind tariffs is to tax imported goods more to increase their price, making domestic products cheaper and more appealing to buyers.
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>>21579443
I see.
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They're generally a net plus for workers (making local labor more valuable) but a wash or minor net negative for consumers. 

The prevailing attitude of the "free trade" lobby was that the harm to consumers was more than the benefit to workers, although in reality this may have been a lie to just undermine and destroy union labor.
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>>21579430 (OP)
What, did you not get your degree in grain macro-economics before watching?
Fucking scrub.
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>>21579430 (OP)
The Japanese-American struggle now and in the near future is an absolute fantasy, because the government in Tokyo is without exception the anal slaves of Washington.
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>>21585767
I still think it's pretty hilarious how the ultra Japanese nationalist's whole plan hinged on America deciding to be an asshole and then America decided to NOT be an asshole.
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>>21585815
It's a bit muddier than that. Grain harvest was ass all around for everyone, Japan found itself suddenly in the market for importing when anyone with even a passing familiarity with their rice industry knows how protective they are of that market especially. America is having it rough and if you were president at the time and decided that instead of keeping the bread costs low at home that you'd help an ally out by shipping what you've barely got and spreading the misery around collectively you'd pretty much be digging a one term sized grave for your political career here. It's the nice good guy thing to do, but people will absolutely start going all asshole over how instead of feeding American mouths you're giving it to *insert pejorative of choice here*

That said, the alternative was watching the economy shit itself, which yknow if you've seen the economy shit itself once in your lifetime you've already seen it shit itself one time too many.
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>>21586310
Miharu is rather quite cute indeed
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>>21579443
This except with the caveat that buyers are retarded and instead if buying domestic they just keep buying the same thing while complaining about how things cost more these days
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>>21585840
unironically what's happening now with the whole Ukraine-Russia stuff which are the two major countries when it comes to exporting grains for the global use.
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>>21585815
I think this anime was about how ridiculous it is to try putting accelerationism into an actual plan to execute.
>hurr durr the Japanese people are getting weaker in their identity, we have to make them suffer again cos of 'hard times create strong men' mentality
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Confession: I only watched Garasaki earlier this year because Hiyama voiced the main character.
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>>21587212
That bit kills me. 
>>21587215
Fine enough reason. Any reason really is so long as you're honest.
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>>21587215
Definitely not the kind of role you'd expect from a guy known for screaming about courage, right?
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>>21587225
Yeah though his other most popular role is Hiei, so I can kind of expect the stoic type from him.
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>>21586995
>>21586310
>>21579430 (OP)
her suit is quite sexy
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>>21587184
Yeah it kinda crossed my mind while typing it up.
It's fucking unsettling between that and what I can remember of the 80% or so of Red Storm Rising I've read through about a decade back.
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>>21587190
Not really. Watch more anime and less memes.
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>>21587190
Modern society doesn't breed weak men, it makes places where even weak men can be helpful.
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>>21587151
Almost like in such cases it's because the buyers go for quality products and the government's income from increased taxes isn't being spent to make domestic products better in quality and marketing or something
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>>21587788
Sentient microplastics swarm claws typed this post
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>>21587788
This. Hollistic development means everyone can contribute, shared pains, shared gains.
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>>21587190
I get what you're saying but that's not accelerationism
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>>21579443
however, you might live in a shithole 3rd world country like I do, that has taxes on imported goods that have no domestic equivalent, which means you just need to give the government 60%(price + shipping) Federal Tax+ 28%(60%(price + shipping) ) State tax because fuck you, why were you born in this shithole to begin with? You deserve it.
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DUST 2 DUST
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>>21586310
This is awful.
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>>21602164
Name the country and category of goods.
Just out of morbid curiosity.
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>>21602436
Argentina I bet.
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>>21602436
It's Brazil

there is NO CATEGORY OF GOODS.

It's ALL IMPORTED GOODS
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>>21587788
That should be the ideal of civilization and society, but unfortunately it often falls short of that ideal.
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>>21602172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWXBug4B8BA [Embed]
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>>21579430 (OP)
Its the most up-its-own-ass mecha anime I've seen so far, also boring.

>>21602498
Thought it was gonna be Argentina.
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>>21607354
>up-its-own-ass
What does that even mean
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>>21607385
It means not enough boom boom vroom vroom with shitty mascot characters.
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I watched the show for the medieval mecha but sadly that was only for two episodes. The military plot was interesting but sadly the pacing of the show was simply atrocious. Zzzzzzz
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>>21579430 (OP)
The more important question is why did aliums like dancu so much?
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>>21616003
They can dance if they want to. They can leave their aliums behind. If the aliums don't dance and if they don't dance they ain't no aliums of mine.
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>>21616003
If you noh, you know. 
The noh knows.
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>>21616003
Noh one knows...
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>>21620964
the shadow nohs
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Mass production is our choice.
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>>21587151
>>21591287
A double cheeseburger at McDonalds costs $5 now (maybe $8-9 in big cities) and the meat is of shittier quality than it was 10 years ago.
>t.american
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>>21622735
That's not even with a meal either, you want to get the "value" meal you're looking at like 10 bucks a head.
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>>21622735
Well you can still get 2x McDouble w/ Cheese for $3.50 total from my experience if that counts. 

The meat quality is substantially better with the QP ever since they figured out how to support fresh patty logistics 5 years ago, but you're paying for that fresh meat. Also it's still McD's so bragging about quality feels like it's missing the point of fast food.

The real insidious thing McD's does these days though is get you onto their mobile app and then bombard you with deals to goad anyone on a shoestring budget to eat there because "app make number go down" marketing tactics. 

Anyway, the real fun doesn't start until you bring up the Big Mac Index.
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>>21622733
Good designs
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>>21579443
>>21587151
Tariffs don't make domestic products cheaper, at best they keep them the same price. Often they give domestic products more leeway to increase prices and drive up profit. Now this does increase investment and entry into the sectors targeted, which is sometimes a real benefit, but tariffs are always a negative for consumers in at very least the short term.
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>>21612793
>>21629118
>>21633119
Any more?
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The only thing that I didn't get about this show was the supernatural shit like the gold people in the other dimension an why they wanted to summon a Kugai when their modern mecha where clearly superior. Plus the whole kai thing was never really explain properly; are they immortal? Do they reincarnate? What exactly are they?
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>>21621437
the Nohs knows
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>>21622735
is that a city thing? They're still around $2 where I am
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>>21637866

>Plus the whole kai thing was never really explain properly; are they immortal? Do they reincarnate? What exactly are they?

I deemed it to be reincarnation. In Yushiro and Miharu's case, they simply remembered their past lives.
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>>21615955
Pretty much my feelings for the series
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>>21641951
But Yushiro wasn't actually a Gowa
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>>21579430 (OP)
One of the most underrated series imo, I wish more people I knew had watched it. Super beautiful series, interesting plot too.
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>>21646117

Yes, yes, but he has the memories of Yushiro from the Heian Period.
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>>21641980
sexy
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>>21579430 (OP)
Protectionism. See how, after Russia was sanctioned by the west, the chinks swooped in and set up shop. Sanctions worked like prohibitive tariffs, enabling both Russian and Chinese companies to compete in the Russian market. 

This is also why the sanctions failed their intended goal of crippling the economy.
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>>21653656
>imfuckingplying the small handful of rich slavs is the totality of the Russian economy
>imfuckingplying slavs would willingly breathe the same air as a chink

Bro your gopnik is showing.
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>>21653668
Your post doesn't make sense and was probably penned by a robot. 
It remains a documented fact that russian economy didn't shrink, but grew, as a result of inflation. It is also a documented fact that exports shifted from yurop to china without as much as a hiccup. 
Try again.
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Look at this autismo. What a failure of a soldier.
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>please rape me onii-san
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>>21602436
Flipland and computers, flipland doesn't have any computer industry

flipland gets computer parts/laptops 6~12 months from US and it costs 1.5x the US MSRP
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Being a kept man of your mighty family is so kawaisou and painful to watch.
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How does being treated with retard gloves at every turn not drive him crazy? Is he this autistic?
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>>21655851
Looks like Sayaka
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Is there any chance this will ever get a remaster since it's a Sunrise anime?
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>>21661466
It's probably not zero but I wouldn't expect it as a priority. Which is a shame.
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>>21655851
This cunt is so annoying.
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>>21661466
It will, someday. Even the far less kwnown Galient got a HD remaster.
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>>21661828
>>21661470
I wonder what dictates the priority of getting a remaster, because it's surely not profit.
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>>21662938
Merchandise. 
So maybe around the time Bandai remembers it started a Robot Spirits line for Gasaraki, they'll do a blu-ray release alongside announcing the release date of the Kugai Shuten.
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>>21662948
I'm surprised there is any merch for Gasaraki.
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>>21665425
There were the obligatory Bandai kits of the time.
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>>21661470
The sight of destroyed Yankee military equipment always cheers you up :)
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>>21665425
I'm sad there's not more.
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>>21587151
Tariffs also make it easier for domestic companies to get into production. You can lower the cost of a lot of things, but when you're competing with people who use forced labor and slavery, it's difficult to beat their cost.
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Just finished this show. What the hell was it about?
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Meme subs? In Gasaraki?
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>>21674282
It's a bit glib but I wouldn't call it meme tier, it's a fairly common expression.
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>>21673996
OLD MEN RUNNING JAPAN BAD
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Communism can totes work, you guys!
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I'm surprised this is not based on a book or a manga. Anime originals more often than not don't pay much attention to dialogue writing.
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>>21674296
ELECTRONIC OLD MEN
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>>21579443
Incorrect. Well, incomplete, let's say.

>>21629721
Better.

Tariffs exist to make it competitive for domestic production of the taxed goods. Let's say you want to import pineapples from Taiwan. Taiwan can make pineapples cheaper than your shithole country can, even after shipping costs are accounted for. If you tax Taiwanese pineapples at such a rate that your domestic pineapples are sold for the same price, you create local jobs and industry where otherwise there was none. This can make domestic products slightly cheaper, but there's no reason for prices to fall significantly below market value. The best case for the use of tariffs is for national security. What happens if your shithole country goes to war with Taiwan? No more pineapples. What happens if there's a shortage? No more pineapples.
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>>21675759
>communism
>not super austerity
Japanese Thatcher Alert.
Japanese. Thatcher. Alert.
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>>21580427
>a net plus for workers (making local labor more valuable)
only if you assume the total output of the economy is fixed, like a commie retard

in reality, comparative advantage benefits everybody in the long run.
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Just like that one time too! (wink wink, nudge nudge)
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>>21681143
The state of workers (which spoiler alert, most consumers are workers) in nations that embraced neoliberalism in the 70s onwards suggests otherwise.
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>>21680028
Post more Gasaraki webms
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>>21684128
Okay.
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Dust to dust
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WEEEEEEEE!
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Riots in immigrant districts flaring up just because grain prices increased worldwide doesn't make a lick of sense. 1) There is no fucking way the Japanese government would not absorb such a price shock if it doesn't want a spiralling recession; 2) since grain prices worldwide are affected, the poorfag (i.e. immigrant-sending) countries are affected to a greater extent, which means that illegal and legal immigrants in Japan would work twice as hard and keep their heads down to send money back home - their position is more vulnerable right now (rick of recession -> layoffs -> less work for illegals -> hardened policy on immigration/more deportations to keep Japanese workers appeased). 

Riots and political upheavals would only occur in poor countries and would be quickly quashed by their regimes. The only influence this would have on Japan is more illegal immigration over the medium term (over months, definitely not days).
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>>21685549
>>21685571
Thanks
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>>21686239
You're missing out on the cause of the price hike, and consequently the source of upheaval: poor rice harvest.
Rice is the cornerstone of the Asian diet, it's an industry so protectionist in Japan that it's almost unheard of for imported rice to ever be marketed, let alone bought.

...except for that one time in real life when Japanese rice harvests were bad enough that American rice was allowed into the market, and it was still bought reluctantly being perceived as a subpar substitute to the precious white stuff. 

Rice is fucking serious business, you don't fuck with a man's rice.
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>>21579430 (OP)
I dig this show's OP song so much, but the show itself is like so weird and not in a good way
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>>21673996
Actual literal Sadaam Hussein, reviving Japan, reconstituting the samurai ethos, ancient aliens.
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>>21687712
That's bullshit and no reason to do anything. Foreign rice is sold in Japan with no issues, aside from high import taxes and regulations:
>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Japan-s-price-conscious-consumers-turn-to-foreign-rice
Again, you don't see the farmers protesting, but some immigrant district....for what reasons exactly? It's just what them seamonkeys do? Because they have too much free time on their hands?
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Is the commander a retard? Why is he sitting staring/talking to an old man for the whole night? Why doesn't he go 'sorosoro jikan da. shitsurei' when he gets tired of his shit? Why is a soldier even having an existential crisis over SDF and his role in it, like some emo teenager? Is this hypnosis?
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>/m/
>sucking Tomino's absurdities and moecrap nonsense 24h a day
>bashing the two series per decade that are trying to tell something
>/m/
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>>21691717
Tomino threads always have the greatest count of shitposters and people routinely troll with Tomino show OPs (like 'Reccoa is the best written Zeta character' etc.).
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>>21694462
I always hate it when subs try to get fancy
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>>21694467
I love it. Brings me back to the old days.
Also
>EMRGENCY