Apparently the new talking point is that everyone is shopping on Temu. I've seen this pop up a good few times in the past couple of days.

[u/daemon-electricity]

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[u/Mushroom_Tip]

More evidence that most of the conservatives on that sub are edgy 15 year olds who still have mommy and daddy buying everything for them.

[u/PublicFurryAccount → u/Mushroom_Tip]

It's definitely dominated by teenagers. The ban policy means heavy turnover in the userbase, which means getting more of their membership from children who, thanks to their fairly recent existence, have not yet been banned.

[u/diggumsbiggums]

I saw that pop up a few times too.  I wonder which podcaster gave them the rally point.

[u/krazykieffer → u/diggumsbiggums]

Probably one that sells supplements and clothing from China.

[u/OrangeInnards → u/krazykieffer]

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

[u/jhau01]

It seems that there are, at least, a few Arcons who actually understand that the Trump tariffs are totally made-up and based on lies:

I sure as hell hope you are right, but the calculated “reciprocal” tariff rate has nothing to do with what the other country actually imposes. It’s about the trade deficit, because Trump and Lutnick seem to be economically illiterate and think a trade deficit is inherently bad. WaPo had an article that these tariffs are Trumps new world order and are not for negotiating. He’s committing economic suicide and all of us will likely pay the price.

And the person who replied gets so, so close to understanding Trump and his administration:

This is the part I am having trouble understanding. Why is the rate trump was showing on his cards so different than the real case on the ground? In some cases, it doesn't make sense at all, like Madagascar .....

Meanwhile, of course, there are still a lot of people who think that, simply because you get downvoted when you say something idiotic, you must be right because only "globalists" and "leftist bots" could be downvoting:

Take heart. Your down votes are from idiots.

Naturally the bots, "fellow conservatives", and brigaders are downvoting you to get your comment to disappear. Truth hurts.

Meanwhile, someone actually dares to mention that Russia was a significant absence from the Trump administration's tariff list, only to have someone respond:

It’d be dumb to impose tariffs when trying to broker a peace deal.

However, that person doesn't see fit to mention that while the Trump administration didn't impose tariffs on Russia, it did impose 10% tariffs on Ukraine, the country that Russia invaded and is still at war with...

[u/myhydrogendioxide → u/jhau01]

The machine that the right wing handlers have built to spared thought terminating cliché's is low key impressive if it weren't so terrifying. I suppose liberals can't compete sadly.

[u/cpdk-nj → u/jhau01]

Copying from my other comment:

I will say that Russia is excluded because they already don’t have Most Favored Nation trade status—we already have broad 10%-50%+ tariffs on Russia. Same reason Canada and Mexico are excluded, they’re already covered by other tariffs.

This is also why Cuba, North Korea, and Belarus are excluded from the list

[u/dende5416 → u/cpdk-nj]

Some of our closest allies were hit with 30-45% tarrifs. If your ally is tarrifed at almost the same rate aa nation who started a war of agression is, then those tarrifs are hardly very punitive.

[u/cpdk-nj → u/dende5416]

Not saying it’s not, just giving the actual explanation for why Russia isn’t on the list

[u/celtic1888]

So let’s place a tariff on every country in the world (except Russia) and make it the single largest tax increase of all time !

That will stop Temu buyers while having the additional effect of killing the US economy and crashing the stock market

Big brains over there 

[u/cpdk-nj → u/celtic1888]

I will say that Russia is excluded because they already don’t have Most Favored Nation trade status—we already have broad 10%-50%+ tariffs on Russia. Same reason Canada and Mexico are excluded, they’re already covered by other tariffs.

This is also why Cuba, North Korea, and Belarus are excluded from the list

[u/defdrago]

This is the typical response before they get their NPC marching orders from Fox. They are trying "Americans just want to buy cheap crap from Temu" and "Democrats wanted higher corporate taxes and this is basically the same thing." We'll have to wait and see what Jesse Watters tells them is the company line.

[u/RamblinWreckGT]

I swear these people just know Temu from being the replacement for the "wish.com" memes. They'd be surprised at just how many of the listings are exactly the same as on Amazon, even down to the picture.

[u/spikey_wombat]

Ironically, this is one of the few things I think, if not the only good thing that will come from tariffs. Slowing down fast fashion. That stuff is so bad for the environment and feeds the throw away culture. Higher tariffs on this should push people to buy better quality items. My partner has some of this stuff from Shein and it's terrible quality. Like old navy is a 1,000 times more durable with better stitching than the crap from Shein. She stop buying that stuff a while ago, but so many people still buy. 

[u/dende5416 → u/spikey_wombat]

I love the optimism, but its just going to lead people to buy more expensive cheaply made fast fashion, pressuming they still have money to spend.

[u/spikey_wombat → u/dende5416]

Well it's only going to be more expensive on import fees, which should reduce how much people buy as they have less money to spend in general due to the trump recession and thus less to spend on fast fashion. It's not going to stop it, for sure, but it should slow it down

[u/Equivalent-Excuse-80]

They think that a young person who just graduated with an architecture degree is lamenting their inability to get a job working on a smart phone assembly line.

[u/HapticSloughton]

The OOP of that post was whining about the economy under Biden just two years ago:

Place your bets, place your bets! Q2 numbers will be coming out soon, the question is; are we going to be in a recession next quarter? Or are we already in a recession!

Inb4 WaPo and NYT write about “Stagflation and the myths of a bad economy”

Because the solution to those things that didn't happen is to burn everything down on the whims of a demented orange real estate con artist.

[u/Williamsarethebest]

Jesus people on that sub are so stupid

If all the people in that sub vanishes tomorrow, it'll be a massive gain for humanity truly

Need a Thanos snap

[u/brightheaded]

Lol yeah the temu fear is why the s&p is down

[u/Munnin41]

Wait do people actually use temu? So they want their identity stolen or something?