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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada (thebeaverton.com)

submitted 3 days ago by GrymEdm@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.

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[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nearly 90 million voting eligible Americans chose to not vote at all with a confirmed white supremacist, rapist and convicted felon on the ballot.

Many of us warned that if he won, democracy would end forever.

[–] derGottesknecht@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some of them might have wanted to vote but their votes were suppressed

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

90 million weren't suppressed.

[–] derGottesknecht@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but enough to make a difference

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"It can't be as bad as they say it will"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna_principle

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Nailed it